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A Great Domain Name Is a “Signal of Quality”

Thursday, December 10, 2009

Again from ThisWeekInStartups.com, the Jason Calacanis ustream.tv show. It’s a great show, and the experience of watching it live has turned out to be a little bit addictive. Check out #TWIST on Twitter. Jason is simply Twitter.com/Jason. In this audio clip from ‘Jason’s Shark Tank’, Jason tells caller/developer Kevin, of pikk.com what he likes about [...]

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You’re Going To Wind Up With A Dot Com

Wednesday, December 9, 2009

But don’t take my word for it. Here’s another Jason Calacanis audio clip from This Week In Startups, episode 29. Jason on ‘Dot Com’ The context is a domain/brand a caller mentioned in a previous ‘Ask Jason’ segment. Jason Calacanis: Isn’t it amazing though Tyler? The people with the naming. Tyler Crowley: I just found [...]

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Domains Are Brands – Square Squareup.com Fever Feedafever.com

Saturday, December 5, 2009

I wasn’t the only one scratching his head when I read the TechCrunch story announcing Twitter founder Jack Dorsey’s new, very cool, credit card reading startup. It’s called ‘Square’. But the domain is squareup.com. Here’s Elliot Silver’s take (links to full post) TechCrunch reported today that Jack Dorsey, founder of Twitter, has launched a mobile [...]

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Domaining Like It’s 1999 (GoDaddy Glitch)

Sunday, November 15, 2009

This has only happened once before, at the .ME launch, when I was able to register through GoDaddy great names like Portland.Me, Camden.Me, Hire.Me, Tag.Me, and RSVP.Me.  I was right there on opening day so for about an hour I thought I actually owned those domains. I had put them in my Shopping Cart and [...]

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Entrepreneurship 101 – Name Your Company The Same As Your Domain Name

Wednesday, October 14, 2009

From Jason Calacanis of Mahalo and ThisWeekInStartups.com TWIST Episode 16. Listen to the clip Jason Calacanis –   … Number one, the name is terrible… If the name of the company is Aardvark you should own Aardvark dot com. They only own Vark dot com. I mean this is like 101 entrepreneurship stuff like name [...]

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“…and they will cycle in a boulevard of broken dreams to come.”

Monday, August 31, 2009

That’s a quote from a recent Frank Schilling interview at PlayingTheAngles.com. The context is: FRANK: Well, the sellers aren’t going around now and saying the metrics don’t work, I’ll just lower my price. That’s just not happening. We’ve gone from 10X to 100X on the sell side. There are no big buyers anymore. But it [...]

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Ebay Domain Sales Experiment

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

“Try selling a few domain names early on.” Words of advice for Noob domainers. Not sure exactly where I read it but earlier this year I realized I had to get out of my comfort zone and try selling some domain names. Sure I had my domains at Sedo. I had received a lowball offer [...]

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I Did A Lot Of Reading

Wednesday, September 3, 2008

This will be a lightly posted blog where from time to time I’ll attempt to document one of my domain experiments. “Fail Fast!”. they say. Well I’m three years into an OCD relationship with domains and domaining and the only reason I may even yet be breaking even is because of what got me started [...]

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