If you’re like most domain investors, especially those driven by emotion, the participating in expiring domain auctions is likely a rollercoaster experience, to say the least.

It’s the thrill of watching seconds tick off only to be outbid at the last moment and clock reset. Or maybe it’s the back-and-forth nature of auctions that brings you an adrenaline rush and not the given name.

Whatever the case may be, if you are the emotion-driven or emotionless data-driven domain investor, I would like to share a simple tool with you to help gauge and value a domain name based on the number of registered extensions.

It really is becoming Christmas in July, somewhat. The good news is GoDaddy recently released a long needed and awaited updated to its search and buy domains in bulk functionality.

The bad news is that our economy continues playing a deadly game of red-light, green-light with a pandemic of a lifetime: COVID-19. But for now, let’s focus on the good.

A few years ago, I released a WordPress tutorial aimed at helping individuals and small businesses automate emailing their latest blog post to their Mailchimp email distribution list.

If you’re like most individuals or small businesses, especially mom and pop shops, then IT is likely to be perceived a luxury rather than necessity.

Most people launching into their dream of a business — side hustles, part-time, full-time and all things in between — are solely focused on doing the actions to bring value and serve their customers while making cash register ring! Ka-ching!

Nevertheless, one of the hidden secrets to growing a business or project is harnessing the power of automation to reach, connect, and serve more people with a value-add experience.

While my aforementioned tutorial provides instructional steps integrating WordPress and Mailchimp, this tutorial really applies to any blog platform with RSS capability.

It was brought to my attention that Mailchimp was unable to send email using excerpts or short descriptions from Blogger, a popular blogging platform used as a starter for a number of bloggers and influencers, and its RSS feed.

Attempting to locate an owner of a domain name you desire to purchase, or connect with for whatever the reason, this task can be as challenging as finding a need in a haystack — to say the least.

Gone are the days you could easily use Whois to enter desired domain name and be shown registrant contact information such as phone, email, and address.

Having landed here on this website, this page specifically, you’re likely about to pull your hair out as to why you’re unable to export or share a 1080p or 4K file, right?

When a personal or business brand ceases to exist, whatever the case may be, one of the most overlooked items is the very domain name in which the brand developed its digital presence.

Investing in domain names for more than a decade now, I, as well as other domain investors, often find one person’s or business’ domain trash to be quite the domain treasure. Why?

A few years ago, I was inundated by customer call, email, and web inquiries on a daily basis. Most inquiries centered around solving a number of technical challenges and dreams pertaining to WordPress.

From dynamic sidebars to popups and modals to integrating with MailChimp and many more, I often found myself in search of sent emails and previous digital notes I shared with customers containing solutions or possible avenues of functionality to consider.

This approach works well when you’re a one-man shop with a handful of inquiries in a given week.  Not so much when you go with 2 or more employees and a growing customer base.  This type of hunt-and-find-an-answer approach simply doesn’t scale.

Operating multiple WordPress sites for a variety of different businesses and disciplines, I finally hit my limit and was forced to address the inefficiency of fielding a snowballing number of inquiries.