Millions of users took to social media — specifically Facebook, Instagram, and Messenger — today to wish friends and family a Happy Thanksgiving and share Thanksgiving photos only to be met with a Thanksgiving Day outage.

Discovering both #Facebook and #Instagram hashtags trending like no tomorrow via Twitter — Twitter not missing a beat and likely capitalizing on such a colossal outage, I couldn’t help but think of the many personal and business brands that solely use Facebook and/or Instagram as their digital presence.

While everyone gorges themselves with turkey drenched in gravy, dressing or stuffing, cranberry sauce, many domain investors and developers are quietly crafting their cyber weekend plans to save gobs of money for the upcoming year.

I personally use Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday to reduce my overall domain investing and development expenses by purchasing and renewing a number of products and services.

Timing is everything, especially when aiming for profitable domain investing and domain development. Now imagine being a stay-at-home dad that stumbled upon search marketing circa 2002.

Since the birth of the Internet, millions have long taken to the web to promote personal and company brands with their own websites.

Almost three decades later, many more millions have launched profitable brands exclusively using social media networks.

While many take to social media networks because of ease of use, and the opportunity to reach and serve customers, social media networks often expose your brand to a costly dark side.

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

There’s been much talk in the last few weeks about parking revenue and its impact on the domain industry in its entirety.

While it’s safe to say that domain parking revenue may not ever return to the “good old days”, I found what Mike Berkens had to say about parking revenue and the role it vital role it plays to be interesting, to say the least.

The domain industry is long littered with stories of domain investors entering and quickly flipping their way to profitable success.

Domain investing, specifically quick flipping, to profitable success in short order shouldn’t be dismissed. However, the more puzzling and challenging feat to achieve and sustain is multi-million dollar domain development.