21 Must-Read Domain Industry Blogs

[wael]

I've put together a list of what I feel are 20 must-read blogs for domainers. (it was 21 but I removed my own so as not to violate the rule against advertising, so check my signature).

I did not include inactive blogs like DailyDomainer.com and DomainEditorial.com. I also did not include what I think of as domaining "magazines", though the distinction is blurry at times.

If I've missed any important domaining blogs, let me know. Here they are in roughly alphabetical order. Enjoy!

1. The Conceptualist - http://www.conceptualist.com/
   Sahar Sarid’s blog. Sahar is co-founder of Recall Media Group and self-made domain entrepreneur. I check this one every day.
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2. David Carter’s Blog - http://www.david-carter.com/blog/
   David is a domainer from Birmingham, U.K.
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3. Domain Name Journal - http://www.dnjournal.com/
   Ron Jackson's domain name magazine is not strictly a blog, but is an industry leader.
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4. Domain Name News - http://www.domainnamenews.com/
   Run by two domainers, this blog supplies domain industry news, particularly coverage of domain conferences.
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5. The Domainer’s Gazette - http://www.domainersgazette.com/
   Billed as ” Domainers Covering the Domaining Industry”, this is Peter Askew’s domaining blog. Peter started this blog in March 2007 and has posted much useful information.
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6. DomainTools Blog - http://blog.domaintools.com/
   Jay Westerdal’s blog is updated frequently and provides heavy coverage of domain name conferences and auctions. Jay is a frequent poster on NamePros.com as well.
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7. Domain Name Wire - http://www.domainnamewire.com/
   News source for the domain name industry written by industry experts and edited by Andrew Allemann.
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8. Dominik Mueller Domain Name Consulting - http://www.dmueller.com/
   Dominik, who has been in the domain business since 2003, specializes in the sale and acquisition of premium domain names.
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9. Elliot’s Blog -
   http://www.ElliotsBlog.com/
   Elliot is the owner of Top Notch Domains LLC, which owns a strong portfolio of generic domain names. Easy to read.
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10. Inside Domaining - http://www.insidedomaining.blogspot.com/
    Steve Granville-Smith’s blog.
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11. The Key - http://blogs.business2.com/sloan/
    Paul Sloan’s blog is a member of Business 2.0’s Blog Network, and is very domain industry oriented.
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12. Name Brief - http://www.namebrief.com/
    Bret Fausett is not a prolific poster, but his writing is interesting and relevant.
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13. The Rick Shwartz Domain and Traffic Blog - http://www.ricksblog.com/
    Rick Schwartz, the “Domain King,” says that he is “famous for ruffling feathers.” In any case, he is one of the leaders of the domain name industry and his blog is indispensable reading for any serious domainer.
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14. Seven Mile: the Official Frank Schilling Blog - http://frankschilling.typepad.com/my_weblog/
    Frank Schilling is one of the lords of the domain name industry. Any domainer can learn a lot from him.
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15. Tropical SEO - http://tropicalseo.com/
    Crude language but insightful posts on SEO (obviously), domaining and “competitive webmastering.”
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16. Whizzbangsblog.com - http://whizzbangsblog.com/ - Michael Gilmour’s domaining blog
    
    These last four are not specifically domaining blogs, but are superb resources nonetheless:
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17. Aaron Wall’s SEO Book.com - http://www.seobook.com/
    An important blog about online marketing and search engine optimization. Updated daily.
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18. doshdosh - http://www.doshdosh.com/
    Subtitled “helping you make money online”, doshdosh.com is an incredibly useful blog. Updated daily, there is a wealth of information here about blogging, website monetization and promotion strategies, and online entrepreneurship in general.
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19. Income.com - http://www.income.com/
    (click through to the blog page). John Reese’s Income.com blog contains a lot of useful information about marketing, traffic generation and SEO.
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20. StevePavlina.com: Personal Development for Smart People - http://www.stevepavlina.com/
    Steve Pavlina’s blog contains enough material on personal development to fill several books. He also writes about blogging and making money online, and he knows his stuff.

[jazzpetals]

Thanks wael...nice info

[DomainBELL]

thanks bunches for sharing the resources...

it took a fair amount of time to compile...
and it's quite GENEROUS of you to share it with us...

thanks...

~DomainBELL (Patricia)

[mlmleads]

Nice list. Thanks

[wael]

Thanks for your comments. I didn't mean to post it twice, by the way. I was having trouble with the post submission system (kept timing out) and I didn't realize it had already gone through.

[Luke4u]

very useful info wael

[DotComGod]

Very nice, now all I need to do is find the time to read them all,

Great job!

-=DCG=-

[DomainLobe]

Thanks very much for sharing Wael.
I have looked at several that were not on my own list - great and inspiring information.
Cheers

[groundctrl]

great info. i love Tropical SEO and Aaron Wall, and obviously Frank Schilling's blog... some of those are new to me, i'll check them out!

[EJS]

Thanks wael - I appreciate the compliment.

[GAMEFINEST]

Great valuable information, thank you sir

[BidNo]

Thanks wael, added several to my reading list.

[kingtut13]

I knew most of them already but I appreciate the effort. Cheers!

[Poker]

Nice list

found somthing valuable in my first 5 mins of reading conceptualist.

A guy responding to a womans personal ad asking for a guy that makes at least 500K for marriage:

"If my money were to go away, so would you, so when your beauty fades I need an out. It’s as simple as that. So a deal that makes sense is dating, not marriage."

[arpitgosai]

Great list. Thank you very much.

[b.a]

Great list, thank you.
And here is what I did.
1. Used Yahoo Pipes (http://pipes.yahoo.com) and remixed the RSS feeds of all these blogs
2. Used the list from 1 to 16 + DomainerPro.com, except dnjournal.com (no RSS feed) and Tropical Seo (this is not domain blog)
3. Used sorting the posts by publication date

The end result is new RSS feed that include all posts from these blogs ordered by publication date.

The feed URL is:

http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.run?_id=CpJIyEJG3BGtypf6nkartA&_render=rss

Use your feed reader to subscribe.

I've already added subscription to my Google Reader and at first run returned 200+ posts
Hope you enjoy it!

[URLtrader]

Great ! Fantastic ! Thanks for sharing .

URLtrader

[Thor King]

Quite Kind of you. Great List!

[intellect]

Very nice list. Minor update; Frank Schilling's blog is now at sevenmile.com