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Originally Posted by nameadvertising.com  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. |
There are two reasons why a domain bible won't work.
First, and most important, the industry is constantly changing. What is valuable today is dirt tomorrow and most of the people doing comfortably well with it either got in early enough to be able to get many great generics and short domains.
Even the industry itself changes. At first it was simple buy and sell to end users. Wow. Imagine if it was that easy now? Then, parking came along. Wow, how great is that? Someone else develops the site with ads and you get paid for it! Well, even parking is starting to shy away and more and more people are going towards development (which is easier than ever today).
By the time the bible is created it will be out of date - even if it is an online Wiki.
Second - the domaining industry, for the lack of a better term, is like a confederacy. How many domainers are willing to REALLY help out new domains? No, I'm not talking about those eBooks for $50 that tell you how to go to a registrar (with their own affiliate code) and register a domain, then go to a parking company (again, with their own affiliate code) and park the domain with dreams of seeing parking revenue fly up. IN order to get any real lessons in it someone will have to shell out a bit of cash (yes, time is money, I know).
Sure, they say that there are still many "great" domains out there but I think this is just hype. IMO - great domains are like computers.com, travel.com, mortgages.com, insurance.com - most of these were snagged years ago (and the same with NN, LL, NNN, LLL .com domains).
To be able to get a start today you either need to find a niche which not many domainers are in (hard to find) or quickly jump on a trend (refinance.com, bailouts.com, swineflu.com etc..) - you need to be at your registrar and registering the domain the millisecond you hear about the news, there are thousands of others doing the same thing.
Not only that, the industry is full of greedy backstabbers - why would anyone want to risk having an apprentice only to have them come around and back stab them with a WIPO? We see people hand registering domains today just to file WIPO in an attempt to reverse-hijack high value domains. We all see scams every day and most of us can spot them a mile away but even a highly respectable person can have their account hacked and then take advantage of many people.
Hell, we've already seen people take posts out of this forum and try to sell them as a domaining eBook (anyone remember that one??).
Honestly, I find these points very sad. You don't see this is many other industries. This industry could easily be so much more if it wasn't for the bad element and the majority of the god element being afraid of being taken advantage of by the bad element.