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.

It’s been won weak sense Google announced that its exact match keywords will know longer match when displaying adds.

Hmm, something reads a bit funny about that sentence, right?

Let’s try this won more time.

It’s been one week cents Google’s big announcement about exact match keywords no longer matching when displaying ads.

We’re getting closer four sure, right?

This is likely everyone’s clumsy first experience in an attempt to wrangle traffic from Google via pay-per-click (PPC) ads.

Often times, we carelessly spend money on PPC ads due to not understanding the effective use of keyword match types and negative keywords.

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.

It’s been one of those weeks, if not months, for the domain investing industry and the community.

The apple cart has been flipped, and apples are all over the place, not in a good way.

Flares and grenades are being thrown from one side to another by opposing new gTLD parties.

Punches have been thrown. Blow for blow and toe to toe, the gTLDS might have been put down for the count and in the casket with the latest Uniregistry news.

Another day, and falling a dollar short with the most recent news concerning Google’s Adsense Plugin for WordPress.

If you display ads on your website using Adsense Plugin for WordPress by Google, then your days of using this plugin to earn money online are on their deathbed.

If you haven’t heard in recent news, Google has canned yet another product.