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Category Archives: Domaining

More GoDaddy Upsell Marketing Shenanigans

Saturday, May 4, 2013

In the continuing saga of the GoDaddy Marketing vs. GoDaddy Customer Experience wars, I bring you the ‘endless checkout‘. When I tweeted to @GoDaddy that there is no way to log out from the Order Confirmation page after making a purchase (Mac, Firefox), they either didn’t believe me, or did not have access to the tools [...]

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Skin In The Game – Don’t Cheap Out On Your Company Name

Thursday, April 11, 2013

Are you seriously about to spend the next 5 years of your life working on a project, the name of which you’re only prepared to spend $10 on? I have literally thousands of hours invested in acquiring a few hundred domains I feel add value to your business for the advantage they will give you [...]

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Douchebag Awards!

Tuesday, April 9, 2013

Wouldn’t this be awesome! Problem is most of the media sites that would qualify as arbiters have a douché quality of their own. DouchebagAwards.com

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Psyching Out a Domain Owner, and What Kevin Paid for Oink

Monday, May 7, 2012

Jason Goldberg is the founder and CEO of FAB. In this excerpt from an interview with Kevin Rose, Jason tells us how he was able to get Fab.com for a ‘low six figures’ and Kevin tells us what he paid for Oink.com. Click arrow to play audio. Psyching Out a Domain Horder

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Branding With Available Domains – An Incubator

Monday, January 16, 2012

I recently reached out to a popular podcaster (Brandon from Automate My Small Business, awesome podcast!) when I discovered a valuable keyword domain dropping in his niche. We were able to acquire the domain in auction. I hope to blog in the future about our experiments to discover how best to put it to work. [...]

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How To Find A Killer Available Domain Name – Code School

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Coding is being called ‘the new literacy’. If you love to code, think you can teach it, and have a twist on how to do it better, let’s get started. First, you’ll need a name.

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Brandable Domain Names – There’s A Domain For That!

Saturday, November 26, 2011

For more information or to make an offer please email me.     Most of these domains are priced low to mid 4 figures. But if that’s still too high, I can work on lease-to-own type deals. Need a domain to run a market test? I’ll point the DNS to your test if you’ll share [...]

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Jack Dorsey on Naming Twitter & Square

Monday, October 17, 2011

Jack Dorsey talks with All Things D’s Kara Swisher about inventing Twitter and later, Square

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Re-Branding Walk-Through, Sean Harper of FeeFighters Mixergy Interview

Wednesday, September 14, 2011

I love Mixergy and Andrew Warner’s interviews. Over the last few years I’ve listened to Andrew interview hundreds of startup entrepreneurs. I’m sharing this particular interview because it’s covers my favorite territory – domains and naming your company. You can find this interview, a transcript, and an audio version at Mixergy. Sean Harper kept hearing [...]

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Kevin Rose on Naming Websites

Sunday, August 28, 2011

Update 12/12/11 Hey @KevinRose & @OinkApp people. My social media experiment doesn’t seem to be working. I noticed Oinck.com in the GoDaddy drop a few weeks ago and picked it up for you. I tweeted you a couple times but, well, either you didn’t notice, or you didn’t care. From Glenn McElhose’s  Random Episode 15 [...]

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