Continue reading »]]> Drones are extremely hot right now. When there is a gigantic thread with over 3,000 replies in one of the biggest domain forums online about a certain keyword, don’t expect to be able to hand reg that many great domains containing that term. In fact, if you are lucky to find anything decent, jump on it as soon as possible.

Call it a frenzy or mania, but drones are red hot right now and still have a great future as they are just getting started. In fact, don’t be shocked if drones are eventually THE biggest growth industry eventually. The reason is the humungous number of uses for drones and overall technology increases. These little machines can do everything from plant seeds to photography to launch air attacks to even deliver pizza! Name something else with that many and varied uses. Can’t do it? Well, that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to drones.

Here are a few Drone Domains that are available as of this writing.  They aren’t pretty, but they are available to be bought now:

DroneRiggers.com

DroneMoviez.com

DronePhonez.com

Continue reading »]]> After being around domains for over 12 years and having over 500 domains for most of that time, more domains than were ever intended to managed to slip through the cracks. At first, it was a case of selling great domains too low  but more recently it has been about letting domains come too close to expiration. This can be a very bad habit if you hold a lot of domains and leave the industry for the most part for an extended period of time. Eventually, a few start to drop into redemption and then it continues unless you develop a sound renewing plan and stick to it. Nothing is more frustrating than losing a domain that you liked only because you got distracted and forgot to renew it in time.

What about auto-renewing you might ask? Well, auto-renewing brings with it its own set of problems. The first being that you may just change your mind on a domain and not want to renew it. Barring setting a standard evaluation policy, auto renewals can be more expensive and wasteful depending on the registrar. For example, if a company uses coupons like Godaddy the renewals will be at full price and may even rise as some extensions normally do. I remember buying .us domains for just $5 when they first came out, but had to renew them at $15 to 20 each years later. Yes, most of those ended up getting way.

That said, develop a schedule where you manually renew the domains you want to keep in a set period before each one expires each year. For instance, you can renew two weeks before the domain expires. That way you have a cushion before a domain slips through the cracks.