DOMAINING BASICS

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What is Domaining?

Domaining is the term given to domain name investing (and speculation) with the aim to resell the domains for a profit. Domaining requires a lot of fore-thought and expertise to know what sets one domain name above another. Since it takes months to years to hone your ability to pick the right names to sell, Domaining is a marginally risky enterprise and has a considerable learning curve. On the other hand Domaining is very easy to get into as it doesn’t require a huge investment to start with. …

Domaining in general is composed of hobby domain investors who own a handful to a few dozen domains, and professional domain investors who own hundreds to thousands of domains. Those who consider themselves domainers can be categorized in the following 7 categories IMHO. New to Domaining? Read Who is a Domainer.

Player

The Players — Newbies who just flirt with domaining without ever becoming serious about it. They usually have a love hate relationship with domaining and don’t really go beyond the superficial level of “collecting” a few dozen domain names. They might have even got their hands burned. …

Broadly speaking anyone into domain investment is a domainer, but they can be further divided into two groups of domainers, the hobby domain investor (pseudo-domainer) and the professional domain investor (domainer). The thing is that until you become a true domainer you will always feel like a pseudo-domainer. I for one have felt like that for many years until recently even though my domaining journey started in 2012.

The True Domainer

Here is what I feel makes a true domainer. True Domainers are people who are ASSETS in domaining.

1. Attitude
2. Size
3. Sales
4. Earnings
5. Time Invested
6. Sharing

Attitude

Someone who does not look at domaining…

The word Binod has taken the internet by storm in the past few days. No longer is it a derogatory term originally used to make fun of a senseless but harmless troll who just repeated his own name everywhere. It has now become uber cool to know and use Binod! I thought I should help define it as many try to make sense of it.

What is Binod

ORIGINAL SIN

The craze about Binod started when a Youtube Channel by the name SlayyPoint brought attention to it via its video on the Garbage in Indian Comments section. A user named Binod Tharu had…

Cheating is something that hurts everyone involved, yet it happens all the time. The choice to cheat is made by many while knowing it is a bad one.

The wounds we give ourselves are the ones that hurt the most.

I wrote this quote and article in response to another article on Medium. The author, Hollie, wrote about her experience with a cheating man who doesn’t change even after a decade. She though had changed, and did not repeat her mistake. Kudos to her for that. However, in the article, she failed to write in-depth about the mindset of the…

It had snowed all night. A happy 7-year-old child refused to wear a thick coat to play outside because the temperature inside was hot. Though his mom insisted he wear it, before disappearing into the kitchen with her phone, he took off his coat and mittens as soon as he went outside. He gleefully played in the thick snow to his heart’s content. Till he fainted and lay there turning red and blue… How this plays out from there is left to your imagination.

The child had a privileged upbringing and was treated like an adult, who can make the…

About Me and how I’m coping with our Upside Down World

About Me

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I am Anita Walker, an entrepreneur with 20 years of experience developing corporate and small business websites — via SmartWebby.com which I founded in Dec 2000 at 22. I have my hands in a couple of dozen pies so will never have ‘nothing to say’ ;) On the work front I do: startup consulting, domaining, design, coding [javascript, python, PHP, ASP.net, AMP, PWA, Google Apps Script, flutter, etc.], content writing, databases, SEO, online marketing, GCP, data science, machine learning and more. Like all entrepreneurs, I chase my ideas…