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Originally Posted by nameadvertising.com  Hey Biggie,
DNF has been online since when? They should have printed the domain bible a long time ago to avoid the constant monotonous rifts that goes on over here over which names are valuable and which are not. The forum has been quiet on this for long as I know or perhaps DCG never considered an educational material for newbies and all domainers alike worth its time.
Why is this important? This matters because I have to go extra lengths to educate prospective buyers, who have the cash but little knowledge on domain value other than the noise they hear on forums, industry newsletters and trade shows. And that would be fine by me, but not the rejection they deliver based on what they have heard and read from a few, (Who I won't name) who use the media to solidify their self interests.
Makes me sick to the bone.
If a majority in the domain name industry were knowledgeable, there would be no hyperbole, which we see and hear of those who control the domain media. Case in point - The ever growing hype on CCTLD's. This is done by design to inflate its values artificially within the industry. Whatever happened to the LLLL and L-L-L hype that persisted here for God knows how long?
It is time, domainers get educated on the true merits of domaining instead of running after dreams and especially artificial TRENDS manufactured by the few who simply happened to make some big sales and acquire title of an expert. Privately, I make some big sales too, but that does not qualify me to guide the next generation of domainers into a frenzy to fill my greedy coffers.
You raised an important issue. But where is this headed and what will be its outcome?
I find this topic too important to end up as another mud slinging thread. |
Thanks for your imput
if someone did write a dn bible, could they do it without putting their own spin on it?
most people like to talk about the good parts...the big sales, revenues etc
and leaving the other points for you find out on your own.
those points you mentioned about what ever happened to "L-L-L.com" hype and other cctld media marketing frenzies are some of the scenerios i had in mind for starting this thread..
these are all designed to rotate the money from one pocket to another.
they can also serve to divert you from your current path of success.
you could be doing your thing in your own niche', then you start seeing "L-L-L.com" countdown threads and "only 657 NNNNN.com domains available to reg" threads.
so you go and invest some money in those markets.
next thing you know...the publicity dies and you're stuck with some very "hard to move" domains.
sure the lucky few who got in first and helped "blow-up" the "perceived demand" will always make some profits.
the "johnnie come lately's" again will be stuck holding the bag.
i personally don't read ALL of the dn news sites and newsletters, simply because there is too much distraction there.
everybody seems to have a blog, newsletter or dn news reporting website.
those who read and post links to them, help to persuade others to read the same articles.
nothing wrong with that, as it's good that individual domainers strike out on their own and develop these entities.
many of them can be quite influential with the predictions and observations, and some people hang on every word that some of these publications write about.
though when you've been doing what you do for a while with some success, the news stories about what name sold for what price, become more of an expectation than a news item.
i do concede that there is too much info for a newbie to soak in, no matter how fast or motivated they are to learn or experience it.
they just have to resist the urge or tendency to put all their faith in one source or a few sources of information.
imo...