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For anyone interested, or likes looking at recently deleted/expired domains, Pool.com has an interface to find these: https://www.pool.com/deletingdomains.aspx?ia=DomainsDeleting... I'm not in the business, but occasionally browse to see if any "local" domains pique my interest. You'd be surprised how many people "let" their domains expire - if I was a less than ethical hacker, I'd be able to hold many local organiza…
Totally agree with this, back in print days great typography featuring ample white-space was a signal to the consumer of a high end / luxury brand. Perhaps the unstated logic is we make so much money that we can spend much of it on empty space ina fancy magazine. That is a kind of gravitas in design which implies success which implies authority / social confirmation. A more desirable domain name can be seen in the same light, "ohh they must have spent a lot for that name well can't be some fly-by night operation." Cost limits creating exclusions serve as signals of authority / reliability / success etc. all over the place, think of the country club, it's got a very high membership fee, if you're there you must be wealthy and important, and imagine the networking. That is the logic anyway.
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That's the worst advice ever. Domain parking is a business and if you specualte randomly you are probably going to lose money.
typical HN comment. meanwhile the author is doing pretty well for himself doing just that.
He's an expert domain reseller. Novices would get burned.
I actually trust less descriptive domain names. When I see biketours.com, I more often expect blog spam and ads. When I see GoSojourn.com, I expect an actual business providing bike tours. It’s also peculiar to me when I see local contractors with domains like MyCityElectrician.com putting “Denver Electrician” in big text and hiding their brand name. I recommend a branded domain name and relying on good page titles and descriptions for ads and SEO.
To this point: My name is Josh and I'm from Minnesota (abbreviated MN in the states), and I have josh.mn. People seem to think I'm a big deal.
I'm not.
I tried this with a domain. It's related to used beer kegs. The reason is because I was volunteering at a brewery, and one of the hottest commodities for small breweries is used kegs from bigger breweries that are replacing them. Most of the major breweries use keg management services and rent the kegs, which is overkill for smaller breweries, so owning kegs is important starting out. Kegs are also sought after for t…
I’d have thought if you had to be “in the loop” to know if something’s for sale, it means there’s a possible market for that knowledge, which a website can step in to provide.
Edit: Well, thinking about it, it’s not always true, but at the very least I check out the other options too.
My mind works exactly the opposite way. If I see a domain like BikeTours.com, I immediately assume that the business is built primarily on the domain name, and the quality of the product or service is inferior. Hence I don’t click it. But I assume the majority of internet users don’t think this way, so it can be a profitable strategy. Edit: Well, thinking about it, it’s not always true, but at the very least I check…