Today, global conglomerates throughout the world are making a concerted effort to understand the value of premium .com domains as well as their impact to their respective company and industry.

Long have corporate marketing departments focused their efforts on marketing, advertising, and branding their respective companies to become leading industry titans, spending millions or billions of dollars each year doing so.

From startups to tenured companies with hundreds of years of experience in the industry and business, most derive from the school of thought in finding a word or name that has not a meaning, and injecting a meaning also known as branding.

While this has worked well for years, seeing companies like Etsy, Efty, Pinterest, Instagram, Vine, Facebook, Yahoo, Google and others successfully thrive, businesses aiming to be the next in command of a dominating global conglomerate must differentiate itself amongst the approximately 800MM websites and counting.

As I type this and share today’s domain auctions, I’m realizing that yesterday was the 3 year anniversary of Kickstart Commerce.

It’s been quite a journey for me. This blog represents so much. My wife and I embarked upon parenthood with our first born 3 months prior to launching Kickstart Commerce.

Much like watching our son grow, we’ve done the same with the blog. There have been trying times where I almost wanted to quit because there was not traffic or I just felt I was making no progress at all.

Then, there are the bright spots of comments starting to roll in, re-tweets, backlinks, Facebook shares, and a very encouraging emails.

All in all, I started Kickstart Commerce to help and teach small businesses about how to gain more customers and cash using search engine optimization and other internet marketing strategies.