If you’ve been to a domain conference or have been involved in the domain industry for a while, you probably know Brian and Charlotte (Charlie) Gilbert. Brian works with Innovation HQ and Charlie is a web developer.

Brian and Charlie (who were both in the US Air Force) decided to do something very cool. They’re renting out their home in Tennessee and  traveling throughout the US for the next two years in their camper.

The Gilberts set up a website for their friends and family to follow along with their travels. You can visit TraileRVania.com to see a map of where they’ve been and where they are currently spending time. They will also be sharing stories of their travels.

Safe travels to the Gilberts!

I think one thing is pretty universal when it comes to domain investors… we are all proud to own a few specific domain names. Without a doubt, I have a few favorite domain names among the 500 +/- domain names that I own.

Here are my top five domain names (you can see more on my website):

• EventManagement.com (would sell it)
• Torah.com  (not for sale)
• Burbank.com  (not for sale)
• SHS.com (not for sale)
• DogWalker.com (not for sale)

What are your top five domain names, and are they for sale?

Glassdoor is a career website that gives current, past, and prospective employees an inside look at employers and jobs within many companies, and there are a number of companies in the domain industry listed on the website.

One of the most interesting features of Glassdoor are company reviews from former employees, and I was alerted to this when someone posted a review of a domain industry company. It’s pretty interesting to read about some of the larger companies in the domain industry from the perspective of a former employee.

Check out the employee ratings below for some domain industry companies, and click the link to read some of the reviews. Some of them seem pretty nice, but others are brutal. Keep in mind that some of the companies don’t have  many reviews, and of course, not all former employees are happy when they lose their jobs or when they go to work elsewhere.

Domain Industry Ex-employee Reviews:

It was just announced that Doma.com was recently acquired by Francois Carrillo, and it is being used as a URL shortener of sorts for Domaining.com. Instead of typing in Domaining.com, you can simply visit Doma.com and end up in the same spot.

In Russian, Doma means “at home,” and it wasn’t cheap.  In January of this year, Sedo reported the $7,500 sale of Doma.com. According to Carrillo, the domain name was acquired by his company via domain swap (using Carrillo’s eCop website), although I don’t know what was traded to get this particular domain name.

Francois owns a number of domain industry serving domain names and websites including the aforementioned Domaining.com, Cax.com, NumericDomains.com, DomainHacks.com, eCop.com, and others.

Congratulations on the acquisition.

One of the hottest songs being played and parodied right now is PSY’s Gangnam Style. You can’t really turn on the radio to a hits station or go to a night club/bar and not hear this song played at least once. There’s no doubt that it’s catchy and it’s fun.

The owner of the GangnamStyle.com domain name hope this means a big payday, just like the owner of CallMeMaybe.com who put the domain name up for sale on Ebay about a month ago. There is a “for sale” landing page currently on GangnamStyle.com.

The domain name is owned by someone who appears to be from Seoul, South Korea, and it was originally registered July 21, 2012. The video was uploaded to YouTube on July 15. I asked for a price quote and was told the price is over $10,000,000.

I am sure the owner has received plenty of inquiries, but I think is pricing is a bit aggressive, sort of like the Gangnam Style dance.