Several years ago, I asked people who visit my blog if they work for themselves and are involved in the domain industry full time. I am pretty sure that number has gone down over the past few years with lower PPC payouts and I would guess a decline in domain sales for some.

I know of someone making the transition from part time domain investor to full time, and we were discussing what percentage of people are involved in the industry as their main source of income vs. those who invest in domain names to supplement their income. My guess is that the far majority of people who invest in domain names do it more as a hobby than their primary source of income.

I’d be interested in knowing whether your domain business is a full time profession for you or if you are doing it part-time. Feel free to comment and let me know if you want to make it a full time profession (if you do it part time). Do you think someone can make the transition to full time domain investor right now?

I spend a fair amount of time during the day visiting domain name related websites. Some of the sites I visit offer valuable domain related tools, while others offer news and commentary. There are also auction websites and aftermarket platforms that I visit multiple times per day.

Listed below are the ten domain industry websites I visit the most. Some of these sites are almost constantly opened in a browser tab at all times, while others are visited whenever I see an update is made.

10 Most Frequently Visited Domain Websites (in alphabetical order):

Last week, I asked for nominations for the best domain forum moderator. I received a number of nominations, and the moderators are listed in the poll below. The person who receives the most votes by Thursday, July 19 at 5pm EDT will receive $200 from me (check or Paypal).

The five nominees are:

I was curious to see what the most expensive men’s watch listed for sale on Ebay, so I searched for “watch” and had the results listed by highest price first. I was surprised to see that the highest priced auction for the “watch” keyword was actually a domain name.

I wanted to see what other keywords had domain names as the highest result, so I checked out a bunch of keywords. Sort of surprisingly (and no wonder people don’t like domain investors), there were a lot of domain names listed as the highest price auction for a variety of keywords.

Here are a bunch of keywords I searched where a domain name was the highest priced item:

I want to share a neat infographic created by Mike Mann’s Domain Market. The infographic contains a brief history of domain names, and it includes information about registrations, usage around the world, and significant domain sales. It’s a pretty cool infographic.