What is the next “big thing” on the horizon? This often tends to be the never-ending question about many things in life, domains included, decade after decade, year after year.

There are many big moments in and throughout the history of tech, especially when considering domains and their role in the existence of the Internet.

One of the latest topics up for discussion admits a world of civil unrest and #CancelCulture is the birthing and formation of a decentralized internet — the web 3.0.

From the legacy domains in a centralized structure of management to the decentralized management of handshake domains, the Handshake domain ecosystem is steadily growing day after day.

Can legacy and Handshake domains coexist in a new web ecosystem?

There aren’t many domain investors today that can claim they sold a domain or had a domain purchased by the Domain King himself, Rick Schwartz, especially when in the infancy of their domain journey.

In addition, not many domain investors can claim to have made the finalist list for a Verisign .com domain contest, but today’s podcast guest realized both.

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

One likely thinks of book publishing as archaic or somewhat out of touch and date to the fast-paced nature of the ever-changing internet.

Now marry the inventions of various digital technology, smartphones, tablets, and more, to that of the book industry, and boom: a self-publishing revolution is born. It has never been easier for a person to communicate and dialogue in mass and across the globe thanks to self-publishing.

Now you may be thinking, “But Alvin, what does self-publishing have to do with domain investing?”

Well, I’m glad you asked because today’s guest has strategically married both self-publishing and domain investing industries to realize profitability — with bullish growth ahead based on key indicators.

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

• Assessing which niches and TLDs best align with 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?