Domain parking has long been dead, especially when parking subpar domains.

I own a handful of domains, redirecting to GoDaddy’s CashParking service, that has managed to pay for themselves as a handful of domains within the portfolio annually.

Yup, it’s the second week of the month and you know what time it is, right?  That’s right!  It’s time for Verisign’s Top Trending Keywords Report.

Moments ago, Verisign published to its blog May’s trending keywords registered for .com and .net domains.

It’s the $64,000 — perhaps a million dollar — question most domain investors ask or ponder from time to time when purchasing and renewing domains.

If you’re a domain investor, and this question hasn’t crossed your mind, then you’re likely wasting money, time, and effort calling yourself domain investing.

With almost a decade of domain investing under my belt now, I’ve learned the importance of answering this question and operating my domain investing business with strict adherence to a strategic timeline for every investment.

And just like that… it’s the second week of the month and you know what time it is, right?  That’s right!  It’s time for Verisign’s Top Trending Keywords Report.

It’s always interesting to travel back through time, and examine the lifecycle and events of a trending topic, especially when it relates to domains.

Having been entrenched or involved with domains for the last 7-8 years, I find that the domain industry is no exception.

There have been a number of trends — blockchain, crypto, bitcoin, 4L .coms, numeric, and emoji domains, to name a few — that have come, gone, returned, and left once more.

Out of the aforementioned topics, emoji domains are the most intriguing for a number of reasons.

Naming a product, service, company, or project can be very time-consuming, to say the least. In fact, sometimes, selecting a name can be more challenging than actually executing the idea.

Nothing kills the mood like checking the domain availability only to find out that someone else had your same thought and beat you to it first. Now what?

I awakened this morning to discover a video from longtime domain investor and pioneer, Rick Schwartz, in my Twitter feed. From the looks and sounds of it, Rick Schwartz is launching his next venture: vlogging.