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Domain Investing with Jason Of Florida
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Domain Investing with Jason Of Florida shares real life experiences, give tips and tools to help domainers achieve a better level of success with your domain names. Topics will include how to buy, market, advertise, and sell domain names. We will also discuss topics like top-level domains, domain valuation, how to buy domain names at auction, expired domains, aftermarket tools - and more!
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Episode 1.17 - Is Your Domain Name an Asset or Liability?
Jun 18, 202000:32:40Tap to summarizeThis Episode I haven’t made a podcast in nearly 3 months! What’s going on? Are you buying assets or liabilities? I accidentally transferred 20 domain names to NameSilo.com 20 years ago was the best time to create an online business. Today is the second best day. If you’re spinning up a new website and need hosting, I personally recommend siteground. What’s better is they’re offering 3 months Startup Hosting for only $0.99! They offer free email, SSL certs, you can transfer in a wordpress website or create a new one with the press of a button. They also offer auto-scaleable cloud hosting, wooCommerce hosting and more! (you can even register domain names there). They have an easy to use UI, secured through two-factor authentication (please set this up). Their support staff is always helpful via liveChat when I use that. Would you use my affiliate link? https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida Where has Jason been? I haven’t made a podcast in nearly 3 months! I’m moving to Kentucky – relocation is taking a lot of time. I’ve had to step up my game at work as FIVE of the developers on my team left the company. I’m trying to read more, and listen to less “opinions” on podcasts/articles and generally adjusting to a post-COVID19 world. Are your Domains Assets or Liabilities I recently read “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosaki, and this was a tough pill for me to swallow, but he made some good points. Let me say that I don’t think the world rotates around money, but he argues it does, and he makes some valid points to this. My biggest take away is how he defined the differences between the rich, middle class, and poor: Rich buy assets, Middle Class buy liabilities they think are assets, and the poor only have expenses. This is why, he states, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Definitions Asset – something that generates income Liability – something that costs you money Based on that definition, are your domains assets or liabilities? How do domain names generate revenue? Parking Websites Is it possible to have a good enough volume of sales to generate enough revenue to cover expenses consistently? I think yes, but I think this is hard to do. Only buy .com domain names Only buy 1 or 2 word .com domain names (firstnamelastname domain names, domains with numbers, hand registered “made up names” STOP buying lottery tickets! Think like an investor I’m a NameSilo Customer Now (by accident) Meant to transfer to NamePal, but through a series of unfortunate events, I transferred names to Namesilo.
Transcribe →Episode 1.16 - The 2020 Domain Registrar Championship Bracket: Final Four
Apr 23, 202000:43:57Tap to summarizeThis Episode 16 Episodes into podcasting! Breakdown the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 in the Best Domain Registrar Challenge Talk about a few new domain acquisitions A coping strategy I implemented to help me deal with kids during COVID-19 20 years ago was the best time to create an online business. Today is the second best day. If you’re spinning up a new website and need hosting, I personally recommend siteground. What’s better is they’re offering 3 months Startup Hosting for only $0.99! They offer free email, SSL certs, you can transfer in a wordpress website or create a new one with the press of a button. They also offer auto-scaleable cloud hosting, wooCommerce hosting and more! (you can even register domain names there). They have an easy to use UI, secured through two-factor authentication (please set this up). Their support staff is always helpful via liveChat when I use that. Would you use my affiliate link? https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida Intro – migrated my blog/domain name challenge being a time suck/still working for less-than-free. Coronavirus, kids out for the year, economic outlook. The wholesale market is ridiculous still – who buys all number domains (b/c I don’t know of a single end user who has them or uses it for a website). “Domain investors” are judgy-jerks still. 16 episodes into podcasting Good things Initial goals of 1 podcast per month (starting in August). I’m a bit ahead of goal – which was modest to be fair. I’ve learned to quickly record/upload/update podcasts I feel like I’ve gotten better at speaking People are listening – it’s a fairly small number, but even looking at the data that indicates where people stop listening is encouraging. Thanks to everyone for that. Bad things I’m a little too formal in my approach – and I don’t think I’m being “myself” enough. So I want to get smoother at just talking w/o all of the organization. Guests – I haven’t had any. That’s mainly b/c I’m convinced I’m working through the kinks. But I need to make that leap and soon. Lots of room to get better. Intro/music/talking points, less stuttering, being myself, being more consistent. Most importantly, delivering information my listeners really want and deliver it in my own way (with my personality). Future Plans Guests Maybe some better music or sound effects A video on youtube (do people really want this?) Road to the Final Four I break down the Final 4 and Deliver the 2020 Domain Registrar Champion. Here's a full break down of the bracket from the first game to the most recent. Article stating how I set the seeds for the tournament East Bracket Midwest Bracket South Bracket West Bracket Sweet 16 <a href="https://jasono
Transcribe →Episode 1.15 - The 2020 Domain Registrar Championship Bracket: Road to The Final Four
Apr 18, 202001:04:27Tap to summarizeEPISODE 1.15 - THE 2020 DOMAIN REGISTRAR CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET: ROAD TO THE FINAL FOUR 20 years ago was the best time to create an online business. Today is the second best day. If you’re spinning up a new website and need hosting, I personally recommend siteground. What’s better is they’re offering 3 months Startup Hosting for only $0.99! They offer free email, SSL certs, you can transfer in a wordpress website or create a new one with the press of a button. They also offer auto-scaleable cloud hosting, wooCommerce hosting and more! (you can even register domain names there). They have an easy to use UI, secured through two-factor authentication (please set this up). Their support staff is always helpful via liveChat when I use that. Would you use my affiliate link? https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida It’s been a while since I’ve provided an update, so here’s what’s happening Here’s my plan for the future: I break down the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 to get us down to the Final 4 Domain Registrars. Here's a full break down of the bracket from the first game to the most recent. I’m not buying a lot of new domains these days, mostly because I’m pinched for time. But I bou THIS EPISODE Update on my Amazon Affiliate Website Breakdown the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 in the Best Domain Registrar Challenge Talk about a few new domain acquisitions A coping strategy I implemented to help me deal with kids during COVID-19 ROAD TO THE FINAL FOUR Article stating how I set the seeds for the tournament East Bracket Midwest Bracket South Bracket West Bracket Sweet 16 Elite 8 Updated Bracket
Transcribe →Episode 1.14 - The 2020 Domain Registrar Championship Bracket: First Round of the West Region
Apr 4, 202000:35:49Tap to summarize20 years ago was the best time to create an online business. Today is the second best day. If you’re spinning up a new website and need hosting, I personally recommend siteground. What’s better is they’re offering 3 months Startup Hosting for only $0.99! They offer free email, SSL certs, you can transfer in a wordpress website or create a new one with the press of a button. They also offer auto-scaleable cloud hosting, wooCommerce hosting and more! (you can even register domain names there). They have an easy to use UI, secured through two-factor authentication (please set this up). Their support staff is always helpful via liveChat when I use that. Would you use my affiliate link? https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida Leading into the show I talk about how to cope better with the COVID-19 situation by using your time to accomplish tasks around the house, getting fit, buy domains and more. Find new routines and emerge on the other side of this pandemic a better you! Breaking down the first round of the West Regional In this article I break down all 16 games in the first round of the West region. You can view the updated bracket here. I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community! Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket! I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home! Here's a full break down of the first 32 games. In future podcasts I discuss each bracket in detail. Be sure to subscribe! Article stating how I set the seeds for the tournament Article breaking-down the East Bracket Article breaking down the Midwest Bracket Article breaking down the South Bracket Article breaking down the West Bracket
Transcribe →Episode 1.13 - The 2020 Domain Registrar Championship Bracket: First Round of the East Region
Mar 31, 202000:22:08Tap to summarizeBreaking down the first round of the East Regional In this article I break down all 16 games in the first round of the East region. You can view the updated bracket here. I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community! Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket! I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home! Here's a full break down of the first 32 games. In future podcasts I discuss each bracket in detail. Be sure to subscribe! Article stating how I set the seeds for the tournament Article breaking-down the East Bracket Article breaking down the Midwest Bracket Article breaking down the South Bracket Article breaking down the West Bracket
Transcribe →Episode 1.12 - The 2020 Domain Registrar Championship Bracket: First Round of the Midwest Region
Mar 26, 202000:28:16Tap to summarizeToday’s episode is brought to you by my friends at siteground. Use my affiliate link: https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida Before I get into the regional breakdown, I want talk about the new Domain Name Wholesale Exchange by Josh Reason DNWE.com Domain Name Wholesale Exchange (DNWE.com) is a wholesale market which excludes endusers. Founded by Josh Reason in 2020, with a recent addition of partner Joshua Schoen. Here’s some more details: When you register, it must be approved – unsure of the vetting process, but when you sign up you must list 2 domains that you own. Listings are 100% private Commissions lower than 15% You can buy/sell domains. It doesn’t look like there’s a limit on TLDs, right now there are .com, .net, .io, .co, .org, .in (1), .tv (2), and .vc (1) All listed domains must be approved. Once you list, your listing is good for 30 days. The highest listing price is $20k, but lots are listed between $299 and $999. $299 is the minimum. Great filters by alpha-numeric, price, category and TLD As a user, I wish it had an information page – how much commissions are, an “About” page would be a nice addition. I’ll be posting a new article about where I interview Josh Reason about DNWE soon. Breaking down the first round of the Midwest Regional In this article I break down all 16 games in the first round of the midwest region. You can view the updated bracket here. I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community! Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket! I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home! Here's a full break down of the first 32 games. In future podcasts I discuss each bracket in detail. Be sure to subscribe! Article stating how I set the seeds for the tournament Article breaking-down the East Bracket Article breaking down the Midwest Bracket Article breaking down the South Bracket Article breaking down the West Bracket
Transcribe →Episode 1.11 - The 2020 Domain Registrar Championship Bracket: First Round of the South Region
Mar 22, 202000:56:41Tap to summarizeToday’s episode is brought to you by my friends at siteground. Use my affiliate link: https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida Before I get into the regional breakdown, I want to talk about current events Coronavirus is changing the world, how I’m coping, things locally (beach closings, Stores are out of everything (dishwasher tabs), I’ve got about 6 rolls of TP if anyone wants to send me some. Registering domains with Coronavirus Don’t do Coronavirus Domain Outbound Marketing by Elliot Silver at com Breaking down the first round of the South Regional In this article I break down all 16 games in the first round of the south region. You can view the updated bracket here. I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community! Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket! I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home! Here's a full break down of the first 32 games. In future podcasts I discuss each bracket in detail. Be sure to subscribe! Article stating how I set the seeds for the tournament Article breaking-down the East Bracket Article breaking down the Midwest Bracket Article breaking down the South Bracket Article breaking down the West Bracket
Transcribe →1.10 - Previewing the 2020 Domain Registrar Championship Bracket
Mar 12, 202000:30:29Tap to summarizeToday’s episode is brought to you by my friends at siteground. Use my affiliate link: https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida SEGMENT 1: Previewing the Domain Registrar Championship Bracket In this article I talk about how I derived the 2020 Domain Registrar bracket, including seeding all 64 registrars. If you’d rather cut to the chase, you can view the bracket here. I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community! Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket! I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home! Here’s the poll at namepros.com that inspired this bracket challenge. I wanted to find some real data and have some fun in making this bracket challenge – and crown a real champion, opinions aside.
Transcribe →1.9: What Domain Investors Must Know About TLDs. Which you should buy (and should avoid)
Feb 17, 202000:34:40Tap to summarizeToday’s episode is brought to you by my friends at siteground. Use my affiliate link: https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida Segment 1: The different types of Top Level Domains In this article I reviewed how the DNS system works, but I also reviewed all 5 types of TLDs: Generic TLD (gTLD) - .com, .org, .net, .gov, .mil, .edu AND all the new gTLDs like .web, .online Country Code TLD (ccTLD) - .io, .co Internationalized (IDN) ccTLD – .co.uk, .com.au Infrastructure TLD - .arpa, all reserved Historical TLDs – no longer exists, such as .yu for former soviet block country Yugoslavia. Segment 2: Which of the “new” TLDs should domain investors buy? Country codes – outside of the U.S., the ccTLD is often the primary TLD. Great examples are .de, .ca (which doesn’t charge sales tax to purchases from the US) Startups: .co (Columbia), .io (Indian Ocean), .ai (Anguilla) – Artificial Intelligence HOT TLDs for the future So brand new you haven’t heard of them: Alvin Brown interviewed Morgan Linton who educated me about .gg TLDs. You can listen to his podcast and interview here. Here's Alvin's interview with Peter Askew that I mentioned was really good! Just My Opinion (take this with a grain of salt) I think the geo TLDs (.boston, .ny, .miami, .la) are going to be huge in the future for local businesses and government entities. Like .com, this is about real estate – there’s only one in each local. .club – many private uses for .club, and I think there is great leadership behind this TLD. HOAs, other public and private clubs. .tech – great for tech-only companies, who’s end user’s are primarily technical people in nature. .global – notice these catching on for international companies a bit (namescon.global) .org – with the recent shakeup of Public Interest Registry, I think this we need to monitor the TLD – it certainly could go down (but it’s already little brother to .com) – so I see a big upside for investors right now. Any tld that operates primarily outside the US won’t be a money maker for a long time. I’m going to focus investing in TLDs that US users will adopt, since US users are the people who spend money online, plain and simple. Final word on new TLDs: for most of the “new” gTLDs, only buy ones that are one-word dictionary words, these will be the highest value sooner. Also, there’s some luck in this – the next generation will dictate their usage, and much of that is unknown. Segment 3: new TLDs to avoid Any TLDs that have plural/singular like .auto and .autos Any TLD with “special requirements” like “must live in (insert country here, unless you live there)” or .bank (where you must be a bank) .biz, .info, .tv – I know there’s been some buzz around .tv – but in a generation, people won’t even know what broadcast television is, and the use of “cable tv” is declining world wide. Industry is being redefined, seems to me like it’s on the way out. I can see a future where security is a big concern, and TLDs are locked down to “verified companies” (more like .bank).
Transcribe →1.8: How to Protect Your Domain Names From Being Stolen
Feb 9, 202000:29:29Tap to summarizeToday’s episode is brought to you by my friends at siteground. Use my affiliate link: https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida Segment 1: What is Domain Name Theft and How are Domain Names Stolen? Most common way: Hacker finds out what your login to your domain registrar by doing a whois lookup for your domain name. If it’s an email that can be logged into online (such as gmail or outlook or some other hosted email account), hackers will try to break into your email account. Once they have access they will change your email password, locking you out. Once they gain access to your email, they can use “forget password” on your domain registrar login and have access to your domain registrar. They will now change the password to your registrar account, effectively locking you out. Now all they have to do is transfer your domains to another account. Segment 2: how to prevent your domain names from being stolen A few years ago, the dev shop I work at during the day did the dev work to allow users to opt-into two-factor authentication, so I have a strong working knowledge of how it works. I’m going to share my knowledge today to help you keep your domain names from being compromised. Online security is about setting up multiple lines of defense around all of your accounts. It’s not a matter of IF one of your accounts will be compromised, but WHEN. Because of that, it’s important to have layers of security. Length is truly the only thing that matters. Use a password manager, like LastPass, to generate and store your passwords. Use UNIQUE passwords everywhere you login. Never reuse a password you use! Always Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) Use different email addresses as your contacts for than you use to login with your registrar account. Lock your domain names. Your registrar allows you to set a “lock” on your domain – this means they will have to contact you via your contact info to unlock your domain to enable a transfer. Finally, I want to reiterate that you should NEVER use a website that doesn’t offer TOTP. Segment 3: SOME OF MY LANDING PAGES HOSTED THROUGH EFTY.COM RECENTLY STOPPED WORKING I wrote in this article how to setup email forwarding on your domains. In it, I showed you how to setup your efty.com landers without pointing your DNS servers to efty.com. It seems as though efty has closed this loophole. Earlier this week, I notice my landers setup with domain forwarding with masking no longer worked, so I had to route my DNS through efty.com to get them to work again. It’s a minor inconvenience, and since each registrar handles email forwarding differently (paid vs free) and sometimes it works or it doesn’t (I’m looking at you GoDaddy), then it’s even more difficult to bulk forward email sent to email addresses associated with your domain. I’ll be writing an article on this soon (hopefully)
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