Comments on: Expounding on Development

By: Davud Mete

Davud Mete — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 17:49:03 +0000

Hi;
Great post as always Elliot. I was informed about your blog about a month ago, and since then it became one of the most valuable sources of information and great ideas about domaining for me. I follow your thoughts about developing mini sites instead of only parking them. Especially for people like me who don't have got the financial power or guts to buy premium domains which could get a lot of type-in traffic without any content and search-engine indexing developing mini sites would be an reasonable strategy.
In the post you explained why you got tropicalbirds instead of cooltropicalbirds or some name like that. I really liked the way you think and i think its the most important lesson a mini-site developer can get from your post. From now on I'll try to get some premium names following your lesson.
I have a question related to this issue. I got informationalsites(com) and want to use it as an umbrella site for the informational sites I'm going to develop on my domains topnotchbeaches(com) organiccertificated(com) and another ones ill register or acquire. I'm just wondering if these domains are worth something suppose that my plans for developing will fail.

***UPDATED BY ELLIOT*** Thanks for the compliments! I think InformationalSites.com is worth something, but I think the value in TopNotchBeaches.com is in development. IMO, CertifiedOrganic.com would be a much better name. Certificated isn't really a commonly used word, so I wouldn't develop that one.

By: Eric

Eric — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:58:26 +0000

Great site Elliot!

I have two questions regarding TropicalBirds.com

1) What made you decide to go for TropicalBirds.com rather than TropicalBird.com? Did you do a search that found the plural form was more popular?

2) For the Disclaimer located at the bottom of the frontpage, did you hire a lawyer to write that up or did you make it yourself? Do you recommend anyone in particular?

Thanks

By: Seyi

Seyi — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 01:17:04 +0000

“Sometimes we get so advanced in what we are achieving that we leave the person who is new out of the picture.”

Well said, Michael; that is very kind of you, and Eliot is very generous for sharing his secret for success. Some folks aren’t that nice. You guys are the real “domainers’ role-models.” More grease to your elbows.

By: Michael Castello

Michael Castello — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 05:39:23 +0000

Great article Elliot. Very helpful to newcomers and veterans and there will be plenty more looking for this type of information. Sometimes we get so advanced in what we are achieving that we leave the person who is new out of the picture. I see this in the advancement of many blogs. Same problem we deal with at the conferences we speak at. You want to communicate with everyone in the audience but you know you are not connecting to the newbies OR the veterans have already heard it all before. Maybe you could have a sidebar section that always has this type of informative article in the Developers 101 section and have other progressive articles in the Advanced Domainers section. Almost like a school of articles from your written work. Just a thought.

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:05:15 +0000

Hi Elliot:

First, just want to thank you for being generous with info. I am not sure if you hear this enough but there are many of us that greatly appreciate the candid info that you provide. Your blog bleeds integrity and that deserves thanks. So thanks!

Second, just curious if you could provide some detail on your process of buying a name privately. I am not seeking specifics like prices you paid, etc. But more general stuff like, do you use an attorney to write up a sales contract and liability release, do you use escrow, etc.

Thanks mucho,
Mark

***UPDATED BY ELLIOT***

Hi Mark,

Thanks

Regarding my private purchases:

I wrote a few paragraphs, but I am going to make this a full blog post in a few mins – thanks for the inspiration!