I gave a presentation at WordCamp Victoria 2009 on Domain Name Acquisition. I rambled a bit, but people seemed to find it useful. If you love .BIZ domain names, I apologize in advance (I don’t).
Thanks to Robin Heppell for recording and sending the video!
One major correction, SEDO doesn’t have 100,000 domain names for sale, they have 11.5 million. Whoops, sorry SEDO!
Here are some of the websites I refer to in the video:
Our Canadian Web Hosting and domain name registration company, dotcanuck Web Services.
Pick up an expired .CA domain name at our BulkDomain.ca website.
ICANN is the agency that essentially runs the Internet, at least controlling the assignment of all the names and numbers.
Remember: Registrants pay registrars to put their domain names in the registry.
As mentioned, SEDO has domain name auctions and sales.
SnapNames is another expired domain name and auction website.
CircleID is a fabulous domain industry resource; some very prominent contributors from within the industry, more often from the “registrar” side.
Sphinn is a “digg-style” site for Internet marketing that has a lot of current and informative information on domain names, mostly from the “domainer” point of view (people who register multiple domain names, most often for the purpose of reselling them later, are commonly called “domainers”).
