Google Keywords with Domains.

Indeed.

Many of the people who post here on this subject have very little idea of what they're talking about, at all. (Some of them even seem barely aware that "domaining" is a totally different business model from selling websites! ).

The people here who know what they're talking about, whose posts are worth seeking, following and learning from, on this subject, include Gene Pimentel, Suzanne Bucciarelli, Steve Browne and Tom Addams.

I've excluded myself from that little list, not through false modesty. I've had a little sideline domaining business for 5 years, successfully enough now to employ one full-time person in it, but I'm not sure that the way I do it is necessarily representative of the "mainstream way" of doing it: I almost never pay more than reg-fee for a domain; I buy only what experience has taught me I’ll be able to sell pro-actively; I deal almost exclusively in .com domains; I play “hard-ball” in negotiations with people who have expressed any interest in buying anything; I’m willing to stick to my guns and be wrong, and risk turning down offers and end up letting a domain expire unsold (it seems to me that you have to be willing to make a proportion of mistakes, albeit hopefully a gradually reducing proportion, to do well in this business!); etc.


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Very wise decision Dave!