Most domain investors enter into domain investing having to hard work learning the ropes of the following:

• Assessing which niches and TLDs best align to their personal and professional experiences
• How to identify undervalued domains of the aforementioned option
• When and where to buy and sell domains
• How best to prices domains competitively and profitably
• Why and how best to assess which domains to renew

This barely scratches the surface of all the varying factors at play to becoming an astute domain investor with a legitimate business and not a labor-of-love hobby.

Many have tried their hand at buying and selling domains only to realize it isn’t as sexy as it appears or is made out to be. It’s a craps shoot, or is it?

There are more than 500 million blogs out of 1.7 billion websites in the world. Now try to imagine how many links are in the world? Exactly, there are likely just as many web links as there are stars in the universe.

With over 200+ factors to rank websites in search engines, primarily Google, a healthy backlink profile carries substantial weight in whether or not a site ranks well or ever finds the light of day on Google’s page one search results.

Many bloggers, myself included, are so focused on producing content in hopes of increasing visibility and search ranking, that we often forget about the simple things in operating a blog.

Simple things like ensuring there are no to only a handful of all sorts of links that are not broken. The longer one blogs or the older the website, the greater the percentage for there to exist broken text and image links.

The most critical challenge of any business is prudent cash flow management, especially when the business is buying and selling domain names.

Domain renewal fees are every domain investor’s nemesis. Why? 

Here’s a look at the top 5 podcasts for Kickstart Commerce in December, ranked by the total number of monthly downloads:

In-person conferences (yeah, remember those pre-COVID) can sometimes feel like hundreds or thousands of people descending upon a single space with a common cause, yet as different as the east is from the west.

What a difference 12 months can make when considering relationships. One minute you casually pass by a stranger and neither one of you ever give a first or second thought to one another.

Then with a simple introduction, a meal, phone call, or email exchange, and you soon forget about what life was life before you both entered into one another’s story and life journey.

What a wild ride 2020 was, and for a multitude of reasons. The good, the bad, and ugly, to say the least.

There are many defining moments that touched us all — global pandemic, quarantining, masks, colossal loss, the movements, an election, and a long list of others.

As for the domain industry in general, 2020 will be remembered as the year of digital transformation and revolution. It’s the year of businesses making a mandatory pivot to digital empowerment online, or shutting their doors for good.

Many sales, purchases, and great memories were made domaining in 2020, with many more on the way in 2021.

As we move forward into the great unknown of 2021, take a moment to listen to the most downloaded Kickstart.fm podcasts recapping 2020 from some of the most innovative voices in the domain industry.

Wishing you a Happy New Year, and a year filled with health, wealth, and safe living! 🍾🎉🥳

It’s that time of the year to look back to see how those lofty predictions actually turned out. After all, we’re only hours away from 2020 literally being hindsight.

For 2020, I made 9 predictions pertaining to domain sales, domain extensions, registrars and services, conferences, and the overall economics of the domain industry in general.