Non-Domain Related

You may have noticed the donate button that is located next to the Twitter and Facebook buttons in the box below the article. When you click the donate button, you’re taken to my fundraising page on the Ronald McDonald House website.

As you may already know, RMH helps children with cancer and their families, and it is one of my favorite non-profit organizations. This past year, colleagues, friends, and family helped my wife and me raise about $8,500 for the Ronald McDonald House. In 2012, I want to raise even more.

Although I no longer offer private domain consulting, there have been times when people have read an article and asked if they could send me something to say thanks. There have also been times I’ve informally advised people on various transactions and situations, and they’ve asked to compensate me. I can’t recall ever taking money for helping people, and think I’ve always asked people to either donate to RMH or to a non-profit of their choice.

This year, I am going to make it very easy for people to help support an organization that is near to my heart. If you are so inclined, feel free to click the donate button and help me raise $10,000 for the Ronald McDonald House during the year.

If you’re from the US or celebrating Thanksgiving, I hope you’re having a great day with friends and family. Happy Thanksgiving from New York City.

Here are two photos from the Thanksgiving Day parade… one of the perks of living in NYC on the parade route… It’s also one of the downsides, as our car was towed at 4:00am. Luckily, they just moved it and didn’t give a citation.

I spend a lot of time during the week online. While much of my day is spent doing research on domain names and working on opening and closing deals, I do spend quite a bit of time reading non-domain name related websites and blogs to help with my business.

Some of the sites I read daily are sports and news related, while others are technology and marketing. I am curious about what non-domain name related blogs and websites you visit every day to help with your business. I’ve posted a short list of sites I visit and hope to learn about some others that you post.

Websites and Blogs I read daily to help my business (non-domain related):

• TechCrunch
• AdAge
• Mashable
• NY Times
• Wall Street Journal
• Forbes
• Uncrunched
• Yahoo Finance
• Hacker News

Happy Friday! I want to take a minute to say thanks for visiting. I checked in with my Google Analytics account and saw that there have been over 500,000 visits to this blog in the past year from almost 300,000 unique visitors… very cool!

It’s been fun sharing what I am doing while learning new things from your comments and submissions. Thank you for visiting my blog and for helping to make it a resource for others who want to learn about the domain industry.

Hope you have a great weekend!

It’s Veterans Day here in the United States (11/11/11), and I know there are a number of domain investors who have served (and currently serve) in different branches of the military. These men and women, along with their families), make sacrifices on behalf of their country.

I want to take a moment to say “thank you” to them and let them know that I and others appreciate their selfless service.

I read Aaron’s post yesterday, and that inspired me to look through Google Analytics to see where people who read my blog are reading it. I was pretty surprised that there are over 200 countries represented on the list, despite the fact that the US State Department only recognizes 195 independent states.

As always, I appreciate your taking the time to visit my blog.

Here are the locations of people who read my blog, in order of # of visits:

1. United States
2. Canada
3. United Kingdom
4. India
5. Australia
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