Flippa published a lengthy report on the state of digital business owners. From their outlooks on recession, growth plans and kinds of assets owned, over 1,200 respondents were surveyed. Millennials: The Force Behind Digital Businesses Millennials, born 1981-1996, are dominating the digital world as our survey reveals 55% of digital business owners belong to this generation, with Gen X and … [Read more...]
Here is why you don’t lay out your plans for a new website to the whole world
I have always been of the mindset that you don't give away your gameplan for a new business to the general public. If you are looking to raise money to start it, sure put your presentation together for accredited investors. There is an interesting story about Knitting.com and the knitting community getting all riled up by the owner's comments about the industry and disrupting it. One of the … [Read more...]
How Matt Paulson Grew MarketBeat.com to $10 Million a Year
MarketBeat.com is a website I have stumbled upon a few times while searching Google. I was reading NichePursuits.com and came across a recent podcast interview with the founder. It's a pretty interesting story and a good listen for anyone looking to start an online business. The founder Matt Paulson was running a bunch of online sites and then honed in on one site, MarketBeat.com. He now … [Read more...]
“0.35% of name servers are responsible for 90% of all domain names”
Chris Duckett published an interesting article over at ZDNet on just how few name servers are responsible for the majority of domain names. The article illustrates the potential problems for outages as many opt for a convenient cloud based solution vs your own server. Sans Institute dean of research Johannes Ullrich looked into how many of the world's 2.7 million authoritative name servers it … [Read more...]
Streaming services see a surge in demand – what about streaming related domains?
Someone asked me if I thought the value of streaming related names would go up in value? Their thought was with everyone at home more and more new companies would look to provide a streaming service. Amazon owns the best streaming related .com, streaming.com, it points to PrimeVideo.com. I don't know you got You Tube, Instagram live, Facebook live, Twitch, Periscope, do we need more? Maybe … [Read more...]
NameKrea.com AI Domain Name Generator Will Find You The Perfect Domain Name
Ceyhun Derinbogaz detailed the step by step details he took to build out NameKrea.com an artificial intelligence domain name generator. On becominghuman.ai Ceyhun wrote the article, "How I Launched an AI Service in 60 Days, While Working Full-Time." This article is a great guide for those of you that are using this time in self isolation to launch a new or side project. You can read the … [Read more...]
Rat.com launches
A member on Namepros posted the launch of their new project on Rat.com. The service will charge users $2.99 a month for an ad free experience. Rat.com was conceived of by a group of developers who grew tired with the amount of trolls and fake profiles populating social media sites such as Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn today, themselves a broader extension of what many call "fake news". … [Read more...]