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Domain investors often neglect the fundamental basics of transacting with domains: trademarks and prior litigation. If you’re about to bid on a domain name in an aftermarket auction, there are a couple of things to do. First and foremost, check f...
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April 22, 2022 DomainGang
Domain Law, Stories & Manuals, trademark search, UDRP search
If you got a domain sale windfall, congratulations. Now it’s the time to kick back and enjoy life: take a trip to the Bahamas, treat your friends to a luxury dinner, or jump off a cliff doing paragliding. Odds are that you are not going to do any...
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July 20, 2020 DomainGang
domain windfall, safeguard your money, Stories & Manuals
This is an almost true story, by Dale G. Joe Backlink, a seasoned domainer and SEO specialist from Seattle, took a gamble and purchased AutonomousZone.com. The following day, the protesters renamed the area to Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone. Joe was out ...
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June 18, 2020 DomainGang
autonomous zone, autonomouszone.com, Capitol Hill, Stories & Manuals
Domain investors come together from a variety of cultural, social and economical backgrounds. Thousands, if not millions of domainers around the world, share a common passion: the registration, development and sale of domain names. Big or small, rich o...
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September 14, 2018 DomainGang
domain investing, seven dirty words, Stories & Manuals
Selling domain names to other investors directly, is part of the industry’s mechanics, and we’ve all done it at some point. From early on, domain flippers intend to present and sell their “merchandise” to their peers. Even later...
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August 24, 2018 DomainGang
how not to sell domains, Stories & Manuals
There are many ways to respond to a lowball offer, when it arrives in the form of single or double digits. Even higher price ranges are considered lowball, when the amount offered in no way matches the quality of the domain, such as LLL .com domains or...
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July 7, 2018 DomainGang
international offers, lowball offers, Stories & Manuals
If you WHOIS domains using the domain industry’s standard tool, DomainTools, you will notice that many domains are linked for sale to external marketplaces. Checking that green link to see where the domain is listed, and for how much, can be simp...
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March 29, 2018 DomainGang
Stories & Manuals
It was early in the morning of January 1st, 2018, when the Uniregistry app dinged. Still basking in the afterglow of a night full of amazing meals, heavy drinking and assorted debauchery, I checked my phone. There was an offer sitting there, for $20,00...
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January 1, 2018 DomainGang
Happy New Year, Happy New Year 2018, lowball offer, Pakistani domainer, Stories & Manuals
An ominous, frozen wind was blowing down hard on the small town of Boca, making even the 45ft yachts at the bay sway like marionettes; their bells chiming in a random pattern with religious overtones. Awaken by the commotion, Rick Schwartz sat up in hi...
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December 25, 2017 DomainGang
BTC, Christmas Story, Rick Schwartz crypto, Stories & Manuals
If you have a dream domain, the odds of it been taken already, are quite high. Most .com domains that are words existing in a formal English dictionary are long gone, and so are two word .com composites with a positive, brandable meaning. That leaves non-domainers, often known as “end users,” with a difficult task […]
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August 2, 2017 DomainGang
domain brands, domain rebranding, dream domains, Stories & Manuals