namewise. blog.

Sure! It is a misspelling. It is a typo. The discussion was put up @ thedomains.com … and i want to also give my two cent. Out of the 29 comments 28 do NOT GET the IDEA of TRAFFIC.

The typo domain realsestate.com gets nearly 200 visitor a month who wish to buy a real estate. If you would habe to buy google - each visitor would be round about $2,50. So make the math. You would have to pay google $500 a month. The domain is in the auction for $ 3k … it pays itself within 6 month.

And these “domainer” ask themeself why someone would pay SO MUCH??

Cheers,

Namewise

Right now, you may sit - most likely - in front of your computer in your office. This morning you headed there, maybe consciously or consciously. What I am interested in is … What was the question you where asking yourself today, what to do? Maybe again, this question was really conscious, like ‘Where can I find the next great bargain domain to buy?’ and then you where looking through the boards and posts to find your new muse. Maybe the question that is leading your day today was more unconscious … it was leading you to finishing the paper for your tax consultant and the underlying question was ‘What is necessary to maintain the system?’.

Why do I ask you all this?

It is simple as this: Because, the question you ask yourself leads your train of thought. And your train of thought leads you to your actions. Needless to say that your actions lead you to results. Maybe you asked yourself ‘Whats the biggest fun today?’, which lead you to a task that made you happy and so … Fun is your aim!

Sometimes it is security, sometimes profit, sometimes fun and sometimes we do not even have a clue what it is we are heading to, cause we are lost in thought or in the engagement we are in.

For a domainer blog this post seems to you still to unspecific. Right! There are dozens of blogs out there that have great advice for the specific task. Finding great domains, SEO, SEM, etc.

Sometimes it is a great idea to simply step back and look from a wider or just a different perspective, which may lead to new insights.

Thats all. Hope to hear a lot of questions from you! Let me know and thanks for sharing!

Greetings from Namewise

Jungs,

wie geil war das denn? Die Seo Campixx war der Hit. Ganz herzlichen Dank an den Seonauten für die Organisation dieser wirklich aussergewöhnlichen Veranstaltung! An den drei Tagen hat man immer gemerkt: Da hat jemand genauesten mitgedacht und weis was SEOs wollen. Alles hat gepasst! Twitterwall, Spam Drinks und sogar PrintTwitter auf der Toilette!

Es war einfach genial sich in dieser Location mit allen alten und neuen Bekannten drei Tage über Tipps, Tricks und Trends auszutauschen.

Highlights waren für mich die super interessanten Vorträge und die ganzen netten und spannenden Gespräche unter anderem mit WOW Bagger, Boeser Seo, Mediadonis, Hendrik aka TwitterKing von vonunterwegsgesendet, uwe tippmann, seodeluxe, codersx, seokratie.de.

Servus sagt der Namewise

Good Morning fellow Domainers and friends!

Some weeks ago i already planned to post about one of my favorite books “The 4 hour work week” from Tim Ferris. I really love this book. It has hundreds small advices and practical tips. It made me think what I could simplify in my daily routines. The best about Tims books is that he lifes what talks about.

He produced BrainQuicken and sells it over the internet. BrainQuicken can help to become smarter and as Tim explains in his book - through to huge margins - helped him to become one of the new rich and totally independent of time and place.

Today I found a post on his blog about domains ‘How to buy domain names like a pro‘ and take this as a chance to finally post about Tim. Even as I consider myself a domain pro, I found in this post some great NEW possibilities to tune the process to aquire a domain.

Especially in times like that, domain buying me be on one or the other fellows agenda. I hope you find this post interesting!

Greetings from Namewise

This market is fucking hot! Wow! When you have Forex related Traffic, you know that this traffic pays really good. For all of you that do not know much about Forex: It is simply said currency trading. Big advantage is, that lately Forex Broker came to this huge market with unbelievable 3 Billion Euro volume each day - and made it total easy for everybody to trade currencies.

Big advantage is, that you can use - if you are skilled and have enough experience - a huge leverage up to 400 times the deposited money. That means if you deposit 5.000 USD you can bet with 2 Million USD for example on a falling Pound. Lets assume further that the pound dives and looses 2% that day. As you have bet on the falling pound you are a lucky winner! You just made 40.000 USD out of 5.000 USD in one day!

The great thing is, that when you have potent traffic, the forex broker pays up to 300 USD CPA and 25% lifetime on their fees. Go see here the best Forex Affiliate Programm Etoro, a Forex Broker that is especially for Starters really easy to trade and is the succesfullst affiliate programm in the industry!

I wish you a lot of success as a Forex Affiliate!

Cheers,

Namewise

Since friends, business partner and familiy know that I am a so called domainer, I got the hear this question a lot. How is the domain market?

Bad thing, that we do not have something like the Dow in the domain industry. So I can tell my from my personal perspective and I can cite market reports. So how is the market?

What I can tell from my own perspective, the domain market ist rock solid. We just finished a five figure sale of a .de domain for a client. I cannot tell you that domain, but I can tell you that you would be more than surprised to hear that such a domain sold for mid five figure. I think that people tend to realize that the internet is a great tool to create extra revenue streams especially since their workplace in the crisis may is maybe unsecure.

An other aspect, why i see the market rock solid, is the domain report from sedo.

It shows that especially the .de zone is quite healthy and strong. There have been some undisclosed seven figure deals in the .de zone. Really nice! And the average domain sales price rose.
Have a great day!

Greetings from Namewise

Oyster Lee, Chief Name Designer at Namer.ca, came up with a question in the commentaries to my last post:

Who in your opinion are the top ten most successful people in the world? 

Good question! Think about it! For sure it depends on what one considers to be success. If one considers net worth the criteria, then its really easy: just go to the various forbes lists and see the richest people on the face of the earth. If one considers extraordinary skills or habits as a success, just go to guinnessworldrecords.com and pick some of your taste.

Which people do I pick than as the most successful people in this world?

Here comes my personal Top 10 “The most (living) successful people in the world”:

1. My Fiancé … the most successful person in living with me

2. My Mom and Dad … the most successful persons in educating me

3. Richard Bandler … the most succesful person in changing people

4. Arnold Schwarzenegger … the most underestimated person in the world (i bet 500 bugs he will be US president 2012)

5. Sergy Brin and Larry Page … the most influential persons on the face of the earth

6. Madonna … the woman that changed most in her life

7. Michael Jackson … the man that changed most in his life

8. My Coach … the person that helped me change most in my life

9. Dr. Leo Kirch … the person that tricked out most people

10. John Paulson … the most succesful contrarian on the face of the earth

Hmm … 12 not 10 but in the end of the day … its 5 billion

So … who are your 10 most successful people in this world?

Greetings from Namewise

This moring i stumbled upon Sahars post in his Blog, where he put up the question: What is the secret of my success? I really love Sahars posts, because in some way they make me think and often I disagree with him.

But lets see, what is the secret in Sahars eyes! It is the faith in yourself, having a library of pictures of your past where you succeeded and as a consequence, believe in yourself when no one believes in yourself. If you do not believe in yourself, if you do not try and if you do not push, you get no reward. Sahar says he never met someone who excelled at anything without hardwork.

Ok, you might say. This is common believe. So do i. Righty, right. Now comes the contrarian Namewise and simply answers: that is bullshit!

What is the secret then? This is the secret! Everything there is is this. This moment! There is nothing else. All the rest, are stories, concepts and theories. A waste of time and simply an illusion. All this crap with ‘You need goals in your life’ and ‘You need a vision’. All this crap with purpose and sense.

The secret is so obvious, that most of the people cannot see it.

What has the library of the past to do with the right now. Nothing! These are images your brain produces in absence of something else to do. Everything in life happens. Try it out! Try to have no thoughts!

Take some of the most brilliant brains and take your life. I bet that you did not plan what you are doing right now. That simply happend and that is great! Take Markus who created Plenty of Fish in one week and ‘works’ 10 minutes a day. It happend! And others go to work 40 hours a week and … that is also great!

It is simply us that labels a lot of stuff with sticker, that say: bad or good. See the current crisis. See people like Bernie Mad-Off. lol. They start to get greedy and they do not stop. Why? Cause they think, that when they have an extra 10 billion, an extra jet, an extra yacht, they might be more happy. This is simply an illusion. There will never be something else than this.

Concepts are like candy for your rational mind - like doing a crossword puzzle. And for sure they give you a feeling of security. It can be fun to think about them and this is also a part of it but an illusion.

Just my two cent and more food for thought!

Greetings from Namewise

Bonna Serra Amigos!

Ich wünsche euch allen ein gutes neues Jahr mit richtig viel Spass, bester Gesundheit und guten Geschäften!

War recht angenehm zwischen den Jahren die Füsse mal still zu halten. Wie Ihr sehen könnt hatten wir fetten Schnee! Konnte natürlich nicht ganz abstinent sein und hab an ein paar Ideen gefeilt, bald mehr dazu.

Freu mich jetzt so richtig auf die kommenden Events und neuen Projekte.

Servus sagt der Namewise

Weihnachten und Silvester sind immer auch mit persönlichen Traditionen verbunden. Irgendwann fand ich die Weihnachtszeit mit Geschenkekauf, Weihnachtsvorbereitung, klassischem Jahresendgeschäft der IT Branche einfach nur noch hektisch. Ich bin seither immer eine Woche vor Weihnachten zum Langlaufen abgehauen. Grad vor Weihnachten sind da auch die Hotels und Spuren nicht so überfüllt. Weil so eine Tradition immer auch einen neuen Aspekt braucht, kam der Gedanke, dieses Jahr mal früher zu beginnen mit der Weihnachts Downtime. Und was bietet sich mehr an als der heutige Nikolaustag! Seht selbst: http://family.go.com/santas-list/video/24340-namewise/ …

 Danke an den Mediadonis für die Inspiration. 

Am Ende dieses Blogjahres und am Anfang meiner geplanten mehrwöchigen Downtime noch ein paar Takte zu dem Jahr. Lest selbst …

Für mich persönlich, war dieses Jahr privat und auch geschäftlich recht turbulent im Vergleich zum Jahr zuvor. War ja auch nicht wirklich schwer, da hab ich ja in 2007 mehr oder minder ein komplettes Sabbatjahr hingelegt habe. Wenn ich jetzt so zurückblicke und die Bilder dieses Jahres so anschau, sehe ich als Event des Jahres den HH Domainstammtisch, das neu eröffnete Domainers Pub, neue Domainkäufe, ein recht grosses Wackeln der Finanzmärkte, neue Kollegen und viel neue Projekte.

Viele Sachen die ich in diesem Jahr ausprobiert  hab, waren für die Tonne. Wie es halt so ist. Einige wenige der neuen Sachen rocken recht. In diesem Jahr ist zum Beispiel ein neues Social Network für einen Kunden entstanden, mit dem wir richtig viel Spass haben.

Und die Krise? Ich war in den letzten zwei Monaten recht pessimistisch was den Ausblick in der Weltwirtschaft betrifft. Doch ich sehe mittlerweile, dass es eine doch recht gute Wendung nehmen kann. Dass es mehr ein Krebsgeschwür war, was man in einer Notoperation entfernt hat und nun der Patient langsam gesund wird, bevor er wieder richtig Gas gibt.

Für das neue Jahr nehme ich mir eins vor: noch weniger zu planen und noch mehr zu schauen. Aber vielleicht kommt es ja auch anders.

Euch allen wünsche ich eine schöne Vorweihnachtszeit, frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch ins neue Jahr!

Viele Grüsse vom Namewise