Mission Impossible: My night at the ICANN TAS strategy room
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on May 5, 2012 · 1 Comment
Boredom was killing my gray matter slowly, having scanned the usual news on Domaining.com for the fourth time. Nothing but blogger repetitions of Google alerts for “domains” and results from National Arbitration Forum newsletters. I needed some hot action and I knew where to find it. I dialed the number of a good friend of [...]
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Quick and dirty guide: How to become an instant domainer!
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on May 1, 2012 · 4 Comments
A lot of computer geeks aspire to become domainers, particularly after uber-domainer, Mike Mann, broke the world record of single day domain registrations. How does one become a domainer overnight? What are the steps to follow in order to become a domainer and reap the fruit of domain success? First, you need a domain as [...]
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10 Things Domainers dread that might happen!
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on April 18, 2012 · 7 Comments
The world of domaining is fluid and ever-changing. Prices go up and down, faster than an Essex girl’s knickers. On a daily basis, rules change, and ICANN comes up with new ways to frustrate us! What are the top 10 things that domainers dread that might happen? ICANN charging for raising our concerns by posting [...]
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Rick Schwartz – Blogging is cathartic
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on April 9, 2012 · Leave a Comment
Catharsis or katharsis is a Greek word meaning “cleansing” or “purging“; the idea is that through outputting one’s thoughts and ideas where they can be re-read and shared, one achieves peace of mind. Blogging is the modern, electronic and often online only version of journal-keeping, and to those that blog on a regular basis it’s [...]
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DomainTools story: A Domain Thief’s miserable ending
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on March 22, 2012 · 4 Comments
At 5:30am I got a distress call from a dame that oozed fear, and a clear longing for an experienced domain investigator. “Help me please, Lucius. My domain has been stolen!” Naturally, I’m not one that’d trust anyone’s words. Especially those of a pretty young dame with curly, blonde hair. We met in the early [...]
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Appraiso: Morgan Linton’s big fat Greek Domain App
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on March 7, 2012 · 4 Comments
Morgan Linton reached for a chocolate mint cookie and a glass of skim milk. As he munched on the fabulous cookie his beloved fiancée had baked earlier, the cuckoo clock chimed 10:00pm. “Gosh darn it, “he mumbled, rubbing his eyes that had turned red from too much research on the computer. “Is it really 10 [...]
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Registrations gone wild: Long tail domains of famous movie lines
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on March 5, 2012 · 3 Comments
While it’s the plot and the visuals that characterize a movie, often times a single line or exchange between actors defines that film in its entirety. We researched several top movies and their respective most popular lines and came up with the following dot .com list for your enjoyment, courtesy of top WHOIS tool, DomainTools [...]
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Christmas Story: Rick Schwartz and the 2012 Mayan Calendar
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on December 21, 2011 · 7 Comments
It was December 1st, 2011 – a lunar month before the beginning of the End. Rick Schwartz paced up and down in his lounge, an aged document laying open on his mahogany desk, lit by the fluorescent light of the Dell computer screen. “It can’t be, it can’t be”, he muttered. “Everything I worked so [...]
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Fun! The World of Domaining according to Urban Dictionary
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on December 18, 2011 · 5 Comments
Urban Dictionary is a Web-based dictionary of slang words and phrases, which contained over 6 million definitions as of October 2011. While the definitions are not always humorous, the examples most often are. Searching for domain-related definitions, we found the following jewels which we’d like to share with you for your Sunday enjoyment. Domainer: A [...]
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Guide to avoiding scammers selling domains on Flippa or Domain Lists
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on November 14, 2011 · Leave a Comment
Fellow domainer Makis who operates the web site Makis.tv has put together a comprehensive guide about researching domains for sale on Flippa.com or other domain lists, such as that on Latonas.com Domains with dubious revenue and traffic appear on such venues quite often. Some are known to have sold for thousands of dollars, which means [...]
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Affiliate Marketing 4 of 4: How to Write Product Reviews
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on November 7, 2011 · 1 Comment
In the fourth and final part in a four part series about Affiliate Marketing exclusive to DomainGang, we talk about: How to Write Product Reviews Product reviews are very important when it comes to affiliate marketing. It is true that affiliate marketers should be well trained in writing product reviews themselves. As a growing affiliate [...]
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Affiliate Marketing 3 of 4: How to Create Campaigns in PPC Advertising
Posted by Lucius "Gunz" Fabrice on November 6, 2011 · Leave a Comment
In the third part in a four part series about Affiliate Marketing exclusive to DomainGang, we talk about: How to Create Campaigns in PPC Advertising Pay per click or PPC advertising is a very powerful method of advertising for a growing affiliate marketer. This is due to the fact that PPC method of advertising delivers [...]
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