Their advice were great.

Go with your guts and if you have the buzz with the name then you know its right. look at the development potential of the name as thats where it is at the moment forget parking its dead.

use pool and snapnames for those $ 60.00 drops you would be suprised what you can pick up and flip for 10 to 20 times the cost.

picked up many $60.00 drops then sold them for $12.000 to $18.000 one mans junk is another mans goldmine.

This has been most informative, so thanks a lot to you and the other gentlemen have been very helpful.
Unfortunately I got into this game a little late but I am not giving up.
I am definitely going into development trying to find names with traffic is like looking for a needle in a haystack.
As I said I am going into development but pretty much starting from scratch.

Keep up the good work,
Dick St Cyr

Paul

There are a lot of people I didn’t email or forgot to email. This was sort of a spur of the moment idea that I had last Saturday and figured, what the heck, I will send a bunch of emails and see if anyone is interested in giving advice. I used the auto fill on my Mac mail and started going through the alphabet and sent emails to a bunch of people I know.

I was blown away by the quality of most responses – and just the fact that so many people were willing to share.

There are a lot of successful domain owners who I didn’t email either because I don’t know them or simply forgot to email them when I was sending them out. If I forgot to include you, my sincere apologies.

For a different perspective, don’t just settle for the biggest and most-read blogs as you indicated, read the blogs of EVERY domainer you have ever heard of. Read what they have to say. WHY?

Because I remember when Elliot, Mikey Berkens, and Dub-A first started their blogs/newsites, and I actively promoted them to my clients and associates in this business. I was a member of Domainnamewire.com when Dub-A only had about 30 readers, if that. I liked his writing style, his dedication, and I decided to support his efforts because he was obviously someone who was going to rise to the top. If would be at the top if someone could post a photo of him blitzed out of his mind at a conference.

El-Sliver, I noticed him a few years ago (he’s already a star and he started back in 2005!) and started advising him, also asking him for a link, but the genius of Domaining Startups seemed scared to be involved with the madman of domaining… Rick Schw…. I mean… Stephen Douglas (me). Finally, he asked around, I paid him $100k, and it added my blog link to his site.

Berkens, he just exploded and rose quickly because he had hot news, and hotter domains.

Francois (dominaing.com) is a character, and when he really learns English, WE’RE ALL IN TROUBLE!!!) How many of us domain bloggers depend on Francois? Admit it, all of us do.

ATOM and The FRANK – Domainnamnews.com – the best of the best inside news… a must read. If only to get ATOM riled up, make sure your comments call him to the mat, where he usually will pin you. Frank will outwit you in kindness and logic… somehow.

Ron-Jack — still the king. DNjournal.com is THE place to go every week.

But there are 15 other domain blogs, the two Jamies, the Chef, the Wanna guy, Gilmour, and lots of others. This one site, run by a guy some say is outta control… has some decent stuff now and then.. they call him the Viking. I don’t recommend that the weakminded read his blog, because they could become “tainted”.

Great article and idea, El…