General Domain Information

I get a few emails a month from people asking me to review their new product or service. I generally have a quick look, but unless it’s something I know will help or improve my business, I can’t spend the time going through it, let alone reviewing it for others. It takes time away from my work, and it wouldn’t be beneficial to anyone for me to post a half-assed review.

That being said, I do want others to know about new domain name related products and services that are out there and available for domain investors to use. Something that might not be necessary for my business may be very helpful to someone else.

In the comment section of this post, I welcome you to post information about your new domain name related product or service. To make this as beneficial as possible, please let us know the following about it:

• Name of your product/service and where it can be found
• Summary of what you are offering
• Reason why it’s different than what’s already out there
• Price of the service and special discount or offer to ElliotsBlog.com readers (ie first month free, 10% off…etc)
• Who manages/operates the product or service

As I mentioned a week ago, I am on vacation until the end of July and comments may take a bit of time to be published.

The domain industry as a whole may seem fairly small, but in reality, there are quite a number of people working within it. Not all of these people actually work with domain names, but the industry employs a significant number of people.

At domain registrars, there are account managers, programmers/technicians, designers, executives, and other positions. At domain brokerages, there are brokers, marketing managers, financial managers, and more. Parking companies have account mangers, programmers, technicians, and other employees. There are independent domain brokers and consultants as well, and I am sure I am missing some jobs as well.

Even domain forums have employees. In my opinion, the worst possible job in the domain business has to be a forum moderator. These people probably don’t get paid much, but they have to deal with annoying, whining, screaming (well, written screaming), and general nastiness that goes their way. Some likely have to be on the forum more than they ever would want if they weren’t a moderator. I can’t imagine the pay is good either.

If you are an active participant on a domain forum, you should do your best to be nice to these people. They don’t get much compensation for doing a job that most people would despise, and they can be helpful to you if need something (like a sales thread deleted).

I read that Google updated the Page Rank of websites on a rolling basis a few days ago, and I did some analysis to see how several domain related websites fared. For me personally, most of my sites remained the same and a couple of them had PR increases. I don’t know how much (if any) weight Google gives to PageRank these days, but the results are below:

Domain Blogs:

• ElliotsBlog.com – 5
• TheDomains.com – 5
• DomainNameWire.com – 5
• DNJournal.com – 5
• DomainNameNews.com – 5
• RicksBlog.com – 4
• DomainShane.com – 4
• MorganLinton.com – 4
• DotWeekly.com – 4
• TeenDomainer.com – 4
• Fusible.com – 4
• DomainIncite.com – 4
• DomainGang.com – 3
• FragerFactor.com – 3
• ChefPatrick.com – 5
• TiaWood.com – 4
• DomainSherpa.com – 2
• NameTalent.com – 4

Domain Forums:

• DNForum.com – 5
• Namepros.com – 4
• DomainBoardroom.com – 4
• DomainState.com – 5

Domain Aftermarkets:

• Afternic.com – 5
• Sedo.com – 7
• Aftermarket.com – 5
• Namejet.com – 7
• Snapnames.com – 7

Domain Registrars:

• Godaddy.com – 7
• Moniker.com – 5
• Name.com – 6
• EuroDNS.com – 6
• Dynadot.com – 5
• Enom.com – 7
• Fabulous.com – 5

Various Sites:

• Freshdrop.net – 4
• DomainQuestions.com – 4
• DomainTools.com – 6
• Parked.com – 6
• Trafficz.com – 6
• Domaining.com – 6
• DomainNameSales.com – 3
• DomainConsultant.com – 4