An early version of a domain name association.
Don’t worry, this post about a “Domain Name Association” does not come in multiple chapters.
In fact, a domain name association is of little interest to domainers, because the activity of domaining has no official set of rules, regulations or ethics.
Domaining is the Wild West in digital form, where anything goes.
An association of domain investors would only materialize if the industry were well-defined, clean cut, and had a unified front to present, just like Real Estate.
Unlike Real Estate and Realtors, however, domainers use a variety of clashing resources, methods and tools that aren’t proven and are often destructive for one’s business plan.
A domain name association is nothing but a collective reference to a group willing to meet up at certain dates during the year, have dinner and drinks and talk about which domains they sold.
For the record, the definitive Domain Name Association domain is owned by Rick Schwartz, who registered DomainNameAssociation.org 10 years ago.
It points to WorkSmarter.com, so the Domain King put it to good use.
Waste of time, those groups offer nothing to the average domainer beyond some social interaction.
RHelm – I would not call it a waste of time, just hard to establish without an industry-wide approval. There is no clear definition of “domainer” even.