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Domain Picks for Sep 26th 2014 and a HUGE .TV Sale
Unfortunately most of my recent .tv related posts have just been negative, well not today, today I am very happy to report some great positive .tv news, my friend and ...
Domain Picks Dropping on Sep 20th 2014
Some thoughts on DNS and .website. I am not really crazy about the .website extension but I did consider getting a few to go along with some matching .com's I ...
Domain Picks Dropping on Aug 22nd 2014
Completely non-domain related and I am sure this is the wrong venue for this but so what, after 15 years I am finally putting some of my old band videos ...
Domain Picks for June 11th 2014 and the ICA
One of the subjects at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West conference was how important the ICA (Internet Commerce Association) is and how much behind the scenes work they do for our industry, ...
My T.R.A.F.F.I.C. West 2014 Experience
I really had a great time at T.R.A.F.F.I.C West, it was my first time going to a domain conference and it is obvious to see the benefits of going to ...
Domain Picks for June 4th 2014 and Another Pitch
Not alot of .com's in today's list but golfdestinations.com makes it all worthwhile, good name, I love a good .com like this, I see golfdestinations.xyz is still available? I didn't ...
Domain Picks Dropping on May 10th 2014
When it comes to making money on domains I thank the good lord everyday that I have all these .com's I got years ago, they can really take the edge ...
Domain Picks for New Years Day 2014 and a 2013 Thank You
I can't believe the year is over, it went so quick, they say time flies when you're having fun and I had a blast last year so it's no wonder ...
Domain Picks for Dec 30th 2013 and No More Premium .TV’s?
Are Premium Dot TV domains a thing of the past? Here is the scoop: In my last post I wrote about "Premium" Dot TV domains, these are domains that the ...
Domain Picks Dropping on Dec 28th 2013 and a .TV Rant
Do you invest in Dot TV domains? Then read on. Dynadot will be changing their pricing structure for the New Year, at the moment they offer a first year registration ...
Domain Picks for Dec 22nd 2013 and a Video from Mark
I made a video to dispel the rumors about me being some scraggly old unshaven long haired hippie rockstar that shouldn't be seen in public, nothing could be further from ...
The Sherpa Domain Challenge
The DomainSherpa, Michael Cyger, gave me a domain investment challenge, I had one day and a budget of $180 to try and get the best domain or domains I could ...
Show.Me The.Money on Dec 15th 2013
Show.Me The.Money. It's on, the new gTLD's are here, Berkens registered his first three .horse domains, Minds & Machines are running a "Dot Com is Dead" ad campaign on a ...
Domain Picks for Dec 10th 2013 and RIP Dot Com
I am the last domain blog to post the sad news reported yesterday, "Dot Com is Dead", RIP Dot Com, you have always been my favorite TLD and you will ...
How I aready lost money on a new gTLD lol
I can't stop thinking about the new gTLD's, I suppose most domain investors are these days, so I am going to ramble on about them. I read Shane's post about ...
Domain Picks for Nov 30th 2013 and Black Friday
It's Black Friday, the top shopping day of the year, I won't be going to Walmart today, too crazy for me, I will wait and buy something online on Cyber ...
Domain Picks for Nov 1st 2013 and Trick Or Treat
Trick or treat? I just watched Pt.1 of the Schwartz vs Schilling debate again, it was a little frightening watching it on Halloween but I braved it, lol, one thing ...
Domain Picks Dropping on Oct 7th 2013 and New TLD’s
I'm a gambler, not a casino gambler, I gamble on domain names, in the early days I was pretty sure of my investments, getting generic .com domains like SwampCoolers.com, Purrs.com, ...
A History Of The Backorder, Then and Now
All this talk about backorders has me reminiscing about the days of old, I remember when the first companies and registrars started grabbing expiring domains and offering backorder services and ...
An Epik Backorder on An Epic Domain
The other day I posted here that a happy person got CNM.com with an Epik.com backorder, I had not seen Epik pick up any names of this caliber before so ...
Domain Picks for Sep 25th 2013 and a Thank You
Big LLL .com in todays picks and I am finally getting around to thanking Adam Dicker, Page Howe, and Rick Schwartz for the DomainSherpa portfolio review they did on my ...
Domain Picks for Sep 13th 2013 and Saints and Sinners
Domaining.com updated the list of the top domain sales ever today, 5 out of the top 10 sales are related to sex, gambling, and drinking, 3 of my favorite things, ...
Domain Picks Dropping on Sep 10th 2013
It's a sad day for me, I am having to put my old Smokey dog down, he's the best dog I ever had, it's hard. When I was a kid ...
Domain Picks for Sep 9th 2013 and the Hall of Shame
Did anybody else notice that Mike Berkens did not post anything at TheDomains.com for almost two days? I did, it was a shocker. I thought maybe Rick's HallOfShame.com was such ...
Domain Picks for Sep 1st 2013 and a Critique
I watched the DomainSherpa.com Domain Portfolio Review Thursday and I really liked it, great idea Michael Cyger, that is why you are the Domain Sherpa, but it did have some ...
ChromeCast, Google, TV, Domains, and Squatters
Michael Berkens posted an interesting article at TheDomains.com on July 24th titled "Google Announces ChromeCast Without Owning ChromeCast.com But Did Just Register Chromecast.Tv". I must say as a .tv investor I ...
Domain Picks Dropping on Aug 7th 2013
Today is my baby girls birthday, she turns 25, her name is Lauren and she is my Pride and Joy, the best thing I ever made, and I couldn't have ...
Sell me your name cheap or I will UDRP aka RDNH
Here is a good one. I registered the domain Leggies.com in 2001. I received an offer through DNS recently, the buyer did not like my asking price so he said ...
Domain Picks for July 31st 2013 and Watching .tv
With all the talk about investing in new gTLD's at Elliot's and elsewhere I thought I'd write a little something about my .tv investing experience and thoughts, .tv and .me ...
Domain Picks for July 11th 2013 and Pre-Release
Here is a little something about pre-release vs pending delete domains, this is all to the best of my knowledge. Many great expiring names are never deleted, they get picked ...
Domain Picks Dropping on July 6th 2013
I really love domaining, I love the passion of domainers when discussing the potential value of a domain, domain values are intangible, it is not like real real estate where ...
Domain Picks Dropping on June 22nd 2013 and GoDaddy
Here is a crazy domain sales story. In april I sold a domain at GoDaddy. In early may the funds cleared and I sent the buyer an email: The domain is ...
Domain Picks for June 17th 2013 and Happy Dad’s Day
Short list today and I am spending the time with my family. Happy Father's Day to all you great Dad's out there. Thanks to my beautiful wife and daughter for ...
Domain Picks for June 9th 2013 and a Plan
I get asked why I list .me and .tv and not other extension like .co, .info, .biz, .us, .cc, etc. It's because I am looking through and listing the extensions ...
To .me or not to .me, that is the question
I really like .me, I am pretty sure it will not make .com moot, so we can get that out of the way, and I am not in a .me ...
Domain Picks for June 2nd 2013, Tune In
In early 2000 I hand registered a couple of domains for a project I was working on, these were not expiring domains they were just available. I was really into ...
Domain Picks for May 30th 2013 and Vegas Baby
I will not be making it to T.R.A.F.F.I.C Vegas unfortunately, I did want to show up but I am still a bit uncomfortable traveling since my wreck. And I get ...
Domain Picks for May 26th 2013 and a $100k Click
Morgan Linton had an good post a while back titled "A $329 Click On A Parked Page?" I have been investing in domains long enough to have seen just about ...
Domain Picks for May 25th 2013 and NameWinner
I think I've made it to the big time, why do I think this? Because The Frager Factor blogged about me today, and as he was writing about me, my ...
Domain Picks for May 24th 2013 and eNameSales.com
I am pretty sure I am just going to embarrass myself with this one but I'll post it anyway. I get lots of people that send me their list of ...
Domain Picks for May 19th 2013 and My Accident
When I read Rick's posts about people selling domains too cheap I felt guilty, like he is talking about me. Why do I feel this way? Because he is talking ...
Domain Picks Dropping on May 16th 2013
I am going to expand on yesterday's post. When Rick bought Properties.com most new domain investors didn't have $60k to buy one domain, I certainly didn't. So most whinned about ...
Domain Picks for May 3rd 2013 and Internet TV
I often wonder what watching tv will look like in 10 years? As slowly but surely the line between internet and tv blurs it should get really interesting. I imagine ...
I have some domains for sale and I’d like to leverage your experience
I read Elliot's post yesterday about not appraising domains when people ask him to and it motivated me to post this. I get lots of domain opinion requests also, I ...
Please Help a Fellow Domain Investor
Please help the Barrier family in their time of need. I received this email from Toby Clements and it broke my heart. I do not know the Barrier Family but ...
Domain Picks for Apr 12th 2013 and Rock and Roll
I missed a few days posts because I am living the rock and roll lifestyle! Just kidding, lol. I wish, I used to, now I am doing spring cleaning around ...
My domains have been “Frozen”
I woke up this morning to an email that said "We have received a Temporary Restraining Order relating to domains in your account. We have disabled the domains." Apparently domain ...
Doman Picks Dropping on Jan 26th 2015
It's been about a year since I got my first new G's so renewals are coming up, unfortunately I have not sold any and have not received many inquiries, I ... Read More
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Domain Picks Dropping on Jan 25th 2015
Published By Mark On January 25th 2015. Under Expired Domains
I must be rusty from not posting for a few weeks because I was sure I published this yesterday but I didn't, so it's late...
Here are the domain picks dropping ... Read More
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Domain Picks Dropping on Jan 8th 2015
Published By Mark On January 7th 2015. Under Expired Domains
Here are the domain picks dropping on January 8th 2015:
AOLT.com - Estibot values it at 0, lots of NameJet bidders disagree
BookTools.com - For me Book Tools are reading glasses
Ecuadorian.com - ... Read More
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Domain Picks Dropping on Jan 5th 2015
Published By Mark On January 4th 2015. Under Expired Domains
Here are the domain picks dropping on January 5th 2015:
BigDirt.com - Selling dirt is actually a big biz if you didn't know
BirthTherapy.com - Decent name for a Prenatal Birth Therapy ... Read More
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Domain Picks Dropping on Jan 4th 2015
Published By Mark On January 3rd 2015. Under Expired Domains
I keep getting visited by neighbors and friends, nothing wrong with that but it doesn't leave me much time to talk about domains so I will just post the picks ... Read More
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Domain Picks Dropping on Jan 2nd 2015
Published By Mark On January 1st 2015. Under Expired Domains
Happy New Year everybody, I can't believe it's 2015 already, time flies when your paying renewals doesn't it? And speaking of renewals and flies, I am trying to figure out ... Read More
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Domain Picks Dropping on New Years Day 2015
Published By Mark On December 31st 2014. Under Expired Domains
It's the last day of the year, you might have noticed I took the last month off, or maybe not. I had to take care of some other biz and ... Read More
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Domain Picks Dropping on Dec 14th 2014
Published By Mark On December 13th 2014. Under Expired Domains
I have received lots of weird threats and offers on my domains over the years, sometimes people get really irritated when they want a domain I have had for 10-15 ... Read More
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Domain Picks Dropping on Dec 13th 2014
I didn't post the picks yesterday but if I had I would have included Sitcom.tv in the list of dropping domains because it showed up in my pending deletes list, ... Read More
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Domain Picks Dropping on Dec 10th 2014
Published By Mark On December 9th 2014. Under Expired Domains
I've noticed that the quality of domain name spams I have been receiving lately has really gone downhill, it used to be Alex and a few other spammers would send ... Read More
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