Domainers’ Top 10
Worst Practices
* Bret Fausett * Eytan Elbaz
* Mike Rodenbaugh * Jothan Frakes
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
10. Manage your domains
with dozens of different
registrars.
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
9. “CYBER SQUISHING” =
CYBERSQUATTING +
PHISHING*
*Concept courtesy J Berryhill
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
8. Passing On A Good
Opportunity
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
8. Passing on a Good Opportunity
Don't miss your market window
Re: SmokinAces.com
“This domain is for sale. In an effort to get a fair
market value for the domain, I allow you to make me
one offer for the domain. If I accept your offer,
great, we will proceed with the transaction. If I do
not accept your offer, I will not entertain another
offer for 1 month.
Thanks,
XXX”
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
8. Passing on a Good Opportunity
Don't ignore a potential opportunity
From: XXX <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: I'm interested in buying your
lipper.com domain.
Just yesterday, we were offered $9,000,000 from a
multibillion dollar company who shares our
domain name.
We rejected it.
How much more than $10,000,000 are you willing
to offer?
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
7. People Skills . . .
GET THEM AND USE THEM
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
6. Watch the business news for new
product launches,
Register corresponding domain names,
Offer them back to poor foresight
corporations for big bucks,
Wonder why sued.
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
5. Don’t write copy?
Use RSS feeds so you don’t have to
create your own content. Suck down
and repurpose them, nobody will
mind….. right?
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
4. Build traffic to your sites
by adding links in
comments and trackbacks
all over the Internet.
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
3. Brand your company with
a .net
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
2. Appraisals “on Crack”
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
2. Appraisals “on Crack”
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“Dear XXXWe are very interested in selling the domain. Our current
asking price is $300,000,000,000,000.00 US
(three hundred trillion U.S. dollars) for 1% ownership for
a period of one year. Of course we would not allow a 1%
owner to have any say on site content, but we would allow a
1% owner to have a small text-only link at the bottom of
our main page pointing to you or your customer as a valued
contributor. The text-only link should not exceed 10 words
or 50 standard ASCII characters of text description, is
limited to 5 words or 20 standard ASCII characters for the
link title, and is subject to our approval of link content.
The linked site is also subject to the terms and conditions
of our terms of service for website content...”
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
2. Appraisals “on Crack”
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From: <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: I am interested in buying
colombianfashion.net domain
“Dear thank por your interest in our domain,
in this moment we are not selling the
domain.
But could be if you pay us the price
US 2,500,000”
Note: ColumbianFashion.com available for
$600 with Fabulous.com
Top Ten Domainers’ Worst Practices
1. Don’t Drink and Register