Vote: Two Domain Name Polls

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Happy new year! 2017 promises to be an interesting year in the domain name business.

I am going to start the new year with two polls. The first deals with the new gTLD domain name extensions and the second deals with .com domain names.

Poll one: By January 1, 2018, will there be more or less registered new gTLD domain names? According to nTLDStats.com, there are slightly more than 27.5 million registered new gTLD domain names.

Poll two: By January 1, 2018, will there be more or less registered .com  domain names? According to RegistrarStats.com, there are just under 126.2 million registered .com domain names.

You are welcome to discuss in the comment section about why you think there will be more or less registered domain names.

POLL ONE:

POLL TWO:

Some of My 2016 Domain Acquisitions

Elliot Silver
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I like  Shane’s idea of sharing his domain name acquisitions from the past year, and I thought I would share some of mine as well. By sharing an assortment of the domain names I bought this year, readers can get a bit of a perspective on my business.

Although this is not nearly a full list, I think it gives a good idea of what I bought and continue to buy: good to great .com domain names. These domain names were bought via several channels: private acquisitions, NameJet and GoDaddy Auctions, and Sedo marketplace purchases. I did not acquire any non .com domain names this year in the aftermarket, and I don’t recall registering any non .com domain names either.

You are welcome to share your acquisitions, and by all means, if you have well priced one word .com domain names (real words, not made up things) for sale, feel free to send them my way  for a potential deal.

Some of my 2016 domain name acquisitions in random order (including some sold domain names):

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In 2017, I will ____________. Go!

Elliot Silver
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Jeffrey Reynolds from AmericanFlags.com shared this call to action on Facebook yesterday, and I thought it would be interesting to share here. I invite you to share what you have planned for the new year. You are welcome to share your business plans and or something personal.

This is a fairly open ended question, and I think it’s a great way to see what others have planned to grow their businesses or improve their personal life.

In 2017, I will travel more with my family and spend more quality time with my wife and kids.

So… what are you planning for 2017?

Domain Industry Recruiters Need to be Discreet

Elliot Silver
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The domain name business is small, and the business of domain investing is even smaller. It seems that most people involved in the domain space  know each other or know of each other. This can pose challenges for people who work  in the business and need to be discreet. One such example is job recruiters / head hunters.

Enough time has passed that I am comfortable sharing this story. A while back, a recruiter reached out to me about a job opening at a domain industry company. I am pretty sure she found my information on LinkedIn, although I am not sure why she felt I was qualified for the position. The strangest aspect of her recruiting email was that the position was currently  filled by someone I know. This person apparently didn’t know the company had engaged a recruiter to find a replacement.

Generally speaking, recruiters need to be discreet because most people aren’t comfortable discussing other job opportunities over their work email or while in their offices. The onus is typically on the job applicant to be discreet when communicating with a recruiter, although a good recruiter should also be discreet.

When it comes to hiring within the domain industry,

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My Business Goals for 2017

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With  the year drawing to a close, now is when I spend time making sure I have things in order before the new year begins. Goal setting is something I do, although I am not really hard on myself if I don’t achieve my goals.

I thought I would share 10 business goals I am going to  set for myself for 2017. Some goals will be easier to accomplish than others, but I will try to accomplish all without compromising my family life.

The ultimate goal for me is to achieve a good life/work balance. I want to earn enough money so that finances are not a concern, but I don’t want to spend too much time away from my family in order to accomplish my goals.

I invite you to share your goals in the comment section. These are ten goals I have set for my business (not in any particular order and some may not be mutually exclusive):

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Google Announces Waymo; Recently Acquired Waymo.com + @waymo

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google-waymo-logoAccording to an article in TechCrunch and a variety of other tech industry publications, Google is/has spun out its self-driving car unit into a new brand called Waymo. The company is part of Google’s parent company, Alphabet.

I was curious to see if the company acquired the exact match .com domain name, Waymo.com, and it looks like they did. According to Whois records, the current registrant of Waymo.com is Google, Inc. Using DomainTools Whois History Tool, I was able to see that the domain name was owned for a short period by DNStination Inc., a domain management company (among other things). Prior to this, Waymo.com appears to have been owned by a Colorado-based company called Waymo.

My guess is that Google used DNStination to stealthily acquire this domain name. If this is the case, this was a

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