Category Archives: Advice

Don’t Shoot for the Moon

Rob Monster of Epik recently started an interesting discussion over at NamePros about “shooting the moon” when selling your domains. Basically the premise was that you don’t know how much the buyer would be willing to pay, so you might as well ask for an astronomical number and see what happens.

After all, you can’t get a high price if you don’t ask… right? Plus you can always offer a lease as a cheaper alternative, or you can walk your price back down.

For 99.99% of you this is terrible advice. Why? Continue reading

All Your Domains Are Belong to Us

How secure are your domain names? Not very. I’m going to start off with an open letter to Afternic and Sedo on the threats facing their fast transfer system. Then I’ll move on to some practical steps that readers can take to secure their domain portfolios. Continue reading