A Biker's Domain

Well, now something new has started in the alternative secondary market. It's kindof a secret for now, but people will start to learn about it one way or the other. Just depends on what end of the gun they're facing. Think strong arm Capiche?

I've had a signature line on my forum posts for some time now that said "Some day Domainers will have a voice in their Industry". Well will wonders never cease, it has begun. Of course the current powers that be (ICANN, The Registries, and The Registrars) have no clue. Domainers have long suffered at the hands of these profit takers, but now, things are slowly turning around.

Of course it eventually had to happen. It was clear that if the Domainers could ever stop competing with each other and form some kind of union or coop, they would at least have their voice. Since they are the source of funding for the industry, they would eventually wield the choice.

All I can say for now is watchout you registrar pigs, lest ye be boycott.

Can you say "Anti-Pool" or "Cartel"?

I don't think the 2 (or more) word CityState names work in any extension except the .com. Domainers seem brainwashed into thinking that hyphens are bad in all extensions just because they usually mess up any url bar type-ins that a choice of the .com would otherwise receive. That is the opposite case in the alternative extensions, where you aren't looking for url bar type-in traffic anyways. Instead, you're looking for search bar type-ins for traffic. In that case, the use of hyphens is actually a benefit. It helps with SEO in a few ways. Sometimes it helps save a click by avoiding the "did you mean" response by Google, it's many times easier to read by the readers, several search engines handle the parsing of the two (or more) words much easier, and backward links using the url carry more impact on page rank etc.

The main motivator, if you're not Bill Gates, the keywords are usually less scarce and cheaper to boot.
Doc

Maybe a new occupation like air conditioning installation? Had to try the name out on the truck.
It just represents my current desires to avoid the Domain Drop Catching biz for a while and get into something more constructive like the air conditioning biz. Nah! I will shift my focus to website development though. Not that I couldn't be successful chasing names. After looking at the numbers from last year, I was one of the most active in the game. Maybe I'm burnt out? The thing is that it takes a ton of work, what with monitoring the zones and watching the drop services and keeping up the maintenance on backorders, and competing in auctions. What a pain huh? Well, my back took it better than my chair. The thing broke down on me and I had to exchange it for another new one. The old one wasn't but a few months old and warrantied for 10 years. lol That should tell you something about the intensity of sitting in front of a screen for 18 hours a day, over and over and over again.
OK that's it, nap time.
Doc