Tuesday, December 11, 2007

New Domainer Tool

I found a new domainer tool this evening!

I played around with it for a while and it some pretty nice ways of spinning keywords with pre-sorted dictionaries.

http://www.makewords.com/

Check it out if you get a chance and let me know what you think. A lot of these tools are really nice for prospecting. hmmm I think people will be searching for "Christmas" what are some ways I could spin that?

dancechristmas.com
filmchristmas.com
groovechristmas.com
hallchristmas.com
humourchristmas.com
movieschristmas.com
scenechristmas.com
salechristmas.com
christmasdigital.com


Granted, these are not the greatest domains that I have ever seen, but they get better with slightly more specific phrases or words. I had good luck with computer and internet related phrases.

Give it a shot.

Monday, December 10, 2007

Where Does The Time Go?

Where does the time go? It seems like I posted on here just a few days ago! and it has been nearly two weeks.

I originally set out to work on this blog 3 times per week, but that doesn't seem like it is happening. I just need to get in the habit of putting some of the thoughts from my Moleskine in a digital format.

Monday, November 26, 2007

There is only one boss

There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.
Sam Walton

I have been reading Sam Walton's autobiography recently and it is pretty fascinating. He was much more than a manager of a Wal-Mart. He was a visionary businessman and brought many of the practices that we consider essential to corporate America into existence.


Monday, November 19, 2007

Being Successful

“The trick (Key) to being successful is doing the things that unsuccessful people will not do.”

John Paul Dejoria – Founder of Paul Mitchell Systems and Patron Tequila

Carnegie Steel

I have changed the focus of this blog slightly. I had three blogs last week, and I combined two of those to form Carnegie Steel. Why you may ask would I pick the name Carnegie Steel, well, I happen to own the domain CarnegieSteel.com (it will be redirected shortly) and I am in the process of reading another Carnegie bio. While he may not have been perfect (only one man has ever been) he did have an astronomical rise in the world.


The purpose of this blog is to look at a number of different areas. While I am knowledgeable and passionate about business, the stock market, domain investing, general aviation, and life in general - I am not the most knowledgeable person in the field. Those distinctions are probably held by an old, grizzled aviator with an old Cessna and a grass strip in the Alaska wilderness, some finance professor at Texas A&M, or a crafty kid in the U.K. with a smoking computer and a case of Diet Coke.

While I may not be the most knowledgeable person with regards to every aspect of business, the stock market, domain investing, general aviation, and life in general, I am very resourceful and not afraid to knock on a few doors in an attempt to get the correct answer for you. Please feel free to send in your questions and comments and we’ll take an adventure together to get the answers.

Friday, October 12, 2007

One of the Reasons I started this Blog

This is by Jim Rohn and it is one of the reasons that I started blogging.

The Key to Making Life Unique and Worthwhile by Jim Rohn

Now the key to make life really unique and worthwhile is to share. Sharing has a certain unique magic of its own. Here's what I learned in sharing ideas.

If you share an idea with ten different people, they get to hear it once, and you get to hear it ten times. So here's part of self-interest for yourself, getting you even better prepared for the future. Share ideas. Share with your family, share with the people around you, share with other employees, share with your colleagues.

Because by sharing, two things happen. Here's what we call it. I don't know how to explain it, but I do know it happens. And I don't know all about how it happens or why it happens, it just happens.

When one person shares with another, two things happen. The audience could be transformed, and so could the speaker. If you share with someone else, they could be transformed. You may have dropped in at the right time. This may be their moment. They've got three numbers dialed into the lock already, and if you say it well and say it right you'll be the fourth number that they can dial into the lock of their personal experience and the door will come open and there's opportunity they never saw before. The person who hears could be transformed.

But here's what else is exciting. The person who speaks could be transformed. Guess what we're all looking for…transformation for our new life. The new life tomorrow, the new life this month, the new life next year, the new life this year.

The caterpillar one day says, "I think I was made for more than this crawling on the ground." So the caterpillar climbs the tree, attaches himself to a leaf and spins the cocoon. Who knows what disciplined effort it takes to spin a cocoon. But something inside the caterpillar says, "I was designed for something more than being just a caterpillar."

And then when the cocoon is ready and it opens up, out comes a butterfly that flies away, maybe singing, "I believe I can fly! I believe I can touch the sky! I used to be a caterpillar on the ground, now I fly."

I'm asking you to go through such a metamorphosis. I'm asking you often to go through a period where you say, "New skills, new things are waiting for me," and part of this will come if you'll translate for other people what you feel in your heart and in your soul. As awkward as your language might be at first, don't hesitate to do it.

Here's what sharing does…makes room for more. Key question, if this glass is full of water can it hold any more? If the glass is full of water, can it hold any more? And the answer is yes, yes, if you pour some out. So jot that down. If you want more, you've got to pour out what you've got, then you have the opportunity to receive more.

Now, unlike the glass that remains the same size when you pour some out; not so in consciousness human beings. Your capacity will increase the more you share. You'll get bigger and bigger and bigger.

Now why the self-interest wish to be bigger? Here´s why… to hold more of the next experience. Some people can't hold much happiness because they're too small, their thinking is too small, their activity is too small, they're too small in their ability to share, they're just too small. Can't hold much, they're too small.

But the bigger you get, the more you will receive. When happiness is poured out, you'll get more. When joy is poured out on the nation, you'll get more. When bounty is poured out from the economy, you will get more, if you share what you've got and become bigger and bigger and bigger.

Now some people are not only small, they have their glass turned upside down. Hard to get anything in. But here's what you've done in coming here this weekend. You've come with an open mind, an open consciousness, ready to receive, and I promise you we´re going to pour everything we possibly can into every ounce of time we've got here to make it beneficial for you, give you not just your money's worth but your time's worth.

Wednesday, October 10, 2007

worlds largest registrars


Here is a list showing the relative size (by numbers of domains registered) of the the worlds largest registrars.

1 GO DADDY United States 22.272% 20,056,910
2 ENOM United States 8.630% 7,771,268
3 NETWORK SOLUTIONS United States 7.418% 6,680,296
4 TUCOWS Canada 6.588% 5,932,438
5 MELBOURNE IT Australia 5.259% 4,736,181
6 SCHLUND+PARTNER Germany 4.090% 3,683,104
7 WILD WEST DOMAINS United States 2.840% 2,557,350
8 REGISTER.COM United States 2.779% 2,502,627
9 MONIKER United States 2.650% 2,386,180
10 PUBLIC DOMAIN REGISTRY India 1.957% 1,762,617
11 KEY-SYSTEMS Germany 1.432% 1,289,654
12 DIRECTNIC United States 1.396% 1,257,294
13 DOTSTER United States 1.255% 1,130,579
14 35.COM China 1.173% 1,056,156
15 DOMAINDISCOVER


Domain Mish Mash

The world of domaining can often be a strange and confusing place to operate. When I first started domaining (technically in 1997) but not really until a few years ago, I had a number of people lend me a hand and show me around. I now often read the blogs of industry veterans/titans like Frank Schilling and Sahar Sarid.

So, the purpose of this blog is to help people in the industry whether just starting out or a multi-year veteran expand their knowledge base and share ideas.

Short and sweet, that is the first post - I will try to post back more often. Please feel free to send me a comment and I will be happy to help out as much as I can.