General Domain Information

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

Braden Pollock is one of the most successful entrepreneurs I personally know. He has a killer portfolio of DUI and other legal domain names, which support his lead generation and monetization business.  He’s a Board member and investor in Epik and has founded a couple of other companies (like  Smart Start of California), which operate online and offline.

As one might expect, Braden’s fiancee, Lisa Bloom, is equally (if not more) successful as an attorney, legal commentator, and writer. Lisa’s recently released book, “Think: Straight Talk for Women to Stay Smart in a Dumbed-Down World,” continues to climb on several of Amazon’s popular book lists, including in the top 10,000 of Amazon’s 4 million+ books (#9,130 today). The book is also in the top 100 of four Amazon categories. You can read more about the book on Think.TV.

Lisa is the CBS and CNN/HLN legal analyst, opining on hot legal topics and can be seen on virtually every other news and talk show as she does daily tv appearances.  This afternoon, Lisa is a featured guest on the Dr. Phil show. In the audience and mic’d up is Braden Pollock who is on camera speaking a couple of times. Although I don’t think he will be talking business, it will be neat to watch him on television.

In addition, Lisa will be at a book signing and speaking session at the Barnes and Noble on Manhattan’s Upper West Side tomorrow evening at 7pm. If you’re in the area, you should drop by and check it out.