Over the last few weeks, Rick Schwartz has fallen beyond head over heels in love with Twitter.

While his blog has long been silent without new posts, there is no commentary shortage via his @DomainKing Twitter account.

Of course, I follow Rick’s antics, thoughts, spats, and other rare dispositions relating to business and domaining. The following tweet captured my attention and spawned this very post.

As I delve into the commentary of replies and rebuttals from Rick’s statement, I come across an intriguing back-and-forth between Rick and Elliot Silver (@DInvesting / DomainInvesting.com).

@DomainKing @thedomains In the last 10 years, how many times have you bought a $2,500 domain name and turned down or sold for $100k+ cash?

— Elliot Silver (@DInvesting) March 27, 2017

Elliot’s question got me thinking about what it would be like to have no domain investing experience and start from ground zero today.

After all, all the good domains are taken, right? I mean, is it possible to purchase domains at hand-registration fee or up to $2,500 and sell the domains for $100K+?

The short answers are “No” and “Yes” respectively.

It is possible to purchase domains at hand-registration fee or up to $2,500 TODAY and sell the domains for $100K+ DECADES later.

But how and how can you make such a claim?  Well, that’s what we’re here to debate.

About 5-6 years ago, I agreed to work with a gentleman here in Austin to develop a website. For my time in developing the website and since he owned the domain, we agreed to split the advertising revenue.

At the end of our 2-year agreement, the same gentleman had a fallen out with mutual business partners about another website we operated. It was a pretty bad fallen out too, involving legal and lawsuits.

Allegedly, this gentleman had possession of a domain that was personally not his. He forced the company to purchase another domain name because he held the old name ransom.

Well, some time passed and cooler heads prevailed. The old domain was transferred to the company after some tough negotiations.

Not too long after this, I approached the gentleman with an offer about buying the domain that I had developed a website for years prior.

The domain was no longer being used, so I thought I had a decent shot at getting the domain at a reasonable price.

There are investing lessons to be had with no shortage in the number to go around.

This statement can be broadly and precisely applied when speaking in terms of domain investing with credit cards.

For those of us with our eyes on the domaining prize of fame, fortune, and success in short order, one can’t help but ask the question:

Can I profit windfalls of cash via credit card domain investing?

A simple question to ask at surface level, yet quite often multifaceted in how one chooses to answer and respond based on life experience.

I’m often amazed by the number of business owners that don’t grasp the concept of domain names and their inherent value.

Of course, it’s been over 20 years since the initial .com goldrush and now supposedly the second coming arrived with new gTLDs.

But again, I’m amazed at how most business owners that operate business websites don’t get or scratch the surface on the importance of a domain name to their business.

Having parallels to physical real estate, domain names are very much a lucrative investment.  And why?

As a local Austinian, I tend to shy away from venturing downtown throughout the month of March due to South By Southwest (SXSW).

As most know, or come visit and you’ll soon find out, Austin’s traffic is mostly at a standstill without events such as ACL, SXSW, Urban Music Fest and more…

With SXSW, there are nearly 500,000 people trying to navigate their way throughout downtown for unofficial and official events.

Fortunately, most of the traffic and SXSW attendees weren’t out last night as my wife and I ventured out into the late evening downtown scene.

And so the question goes…

Is redirecting expired domains really worth my time and money?

Okay, so you’ve successfully completed your expired domains homework, checking off the following boxes:

• Found niched expiring domains in an auction ending soon.
• Performed monthly search and CPC check of domains.
• Ensured Google did not ban expired domains.
• Researched expired domains using the WayBack Machine.
• Identified active backlink profiles using Ahrefs, SEMRush, Google, Majestic, or ExpiredDomains.net.

Now that your thorough research is complete, bids placed, expired domain auctions won, and successfully transferred to your account, I’m certain you’re wondering what to do next, right?

Can you really boost traffic and search rankings using, more specifically, redirecting expired domains?

What if I told you that you could increase your web traffic by double redirecting expired domains?

Before I answer that question with a YES, hopefully, you thought about how you could use expired domains long before you got starry-eyed and in love with your precious newfound gems of domains.

You have given much thought and consideration and drafted a plan before bidding on expired domains in the auction, right?

Over the weekend, I had an opportunity to catch up on a few articles pertaining to SEO.

One of the articles isn’t an article as much as a tutorial video. I’m not certain it’s a tutorial video either, as much as it is a knowledge share.

Nevertheless, the knowledge share is by Rand Fishkin. If you’re unfamiliar with Rand, his background, and his expertise as owner and founder of Moz.com, then you’re missing out on value-add content applicable to growing your business.

Rand randomly chooses a topic to share and expound upon each Friday for the search marketing and business world to gain greater insight. He shares by way of a video called Whiteboard Friday.

If you don’t subscribe, then you ought to go forward. You’re missing out on a lot by not subscribing.

In this edition of Whiteboard Friday, Rand talks about one of the most imperative a decision a business makes about its digital presence: selecting a domain name.

Whether good, bad, or plain Jane ugly results, you’ll live with the consequences of the selected domain name for your business.