Should I Keep Like & Dislike Buttons?

I asked this a while back and the answer was a fairly resounding “yes,” but in response to a few emails and comments lately, I will ask again if I should keep the “like” and “dislike” button found on each comment.

Personally, I like the buttons because it allows people to chime in without having to actually write something. It’s an easy way to participate. On the other hand, there are plenty of negative people out there who seem to enjoy hitting the dislike button for some reason. Maybe they’re messing around or perhaps they find some sort of strange pleasure in putting someone else down anonymously.

It seems the most complaints come from

Starting a Mail Column

I get quite a bit of email from people asking me questions about domain names. I don’t offer domain consulting services, and I thought that if I am going to spend personal time answering these questions, I might as well share the answers publicly for the benefit of others. I also figured that I could sell advertising to be compensated for the time I spend helping others instead of working on my own business. DomainQuestions.com was born.

Aside from a couple of ads from my blog advertisers when DomainQuestions.com launched, I never really got around to selling advertising on the website. I didn’t feel comfortable

Funny Domain Names By Removing a Letter

There’s a funny thread on Reddit asking, “Can you come up with funny film titles by removing one letter from existing film titles?” I thought it would be fun to do something like that with domain names. Of course, it would be easy to do something like that with any domain name, so to make it a bit more “real” I invite you to do this with one of your domain names.

Here are a few of my domain names that would be funny if a letter is removed:

Brian Null and Mike Sullivan Launch DomainNameAdvice.com

DomainNameAdvice.comYou may have noticed a new website feed on Domaining.com last week. DomainNameAdvice.com (DNA) provides domain name advice to Startups, SMB’s, and Corporations from people who are experienced with domain names. The website was founded by two people with domain investing experience – Brian Null and Mike Sullivan.

The Founders interact with entrepreneurs, founders, and CEOs on a daily basis through their other business-related publications such as BusinessInterviews.com (formerly MO.com, a domain name that sold earlier this year for

A Few Website Updates

I want to share a few important DomainInvesting.com updates with you.

I decided I will write a series of articles discussing all of the changes and thoughts that went into it as I transitioned from ElliotsBlog.com to DomainInvesting.com. My hope is to begin posting the series later on this week, and new articles in the series will be posted subsequent to the first post.

There are still some things being worked out and here are a few updates:

Who Do You Want to Hear From?

One of the advantages of having the DomainInvesting.com brand instead of my personal blog brand is that I can easily allow expert contributors post articles offering their insight. I have plans to do this, and I have begun to compile a list of experts I believe could offer valuable information to people who read my blog. If I ask a contributors post articles, it will be related to domain investing and won’t be too tangential.

There are many areas of domain investing I don’t know much about. For instance, I don’t really know all that much about the ccTLD market, nor do I know much about ICANN governance. There are many experts out there who would be able to offer interesting anecdotes, news articles, and other information that would help all of us. Some of these people would be happy to contribute and share.

I am going to