Random Domaining Thoughts On A Saturday

As I sit here and watch Top Gear on BBCA with my son on a Saturday morning I had several different blog post ideas rolling around my head but none of them were quite worthy of a full post, what does that mean. Well that means it is time for a random thoughts post:

First up, last night while hanging out with my family for a bit on my birthday (am I really 36....) we decided to have a bit of a quiz on what they learned while attending the beginning parts of my presentation at our company sales meeting a couple nights back. Something very fun happened, my lovely little daughter who is 8 was actually able to rattle off what SEO stood for and then defined it!!! Such a proud father! She did use domain name for the answer to every other quiz question thought. How many other 3rd graders can define SEO:)

Although most of my time these days goes towards growing the Localtek/Missouri.me business I am also actively working to hire a person focused purely on selling my domain names to end users. It is a concept I have wanted to try for some time but finding the right person has always been a bit interesting. One of the people I am speaking to is someone who has sold commercial real estate for years successfully. When I sent him over some research information to dig into our little domain industry a bit it was great to hear him talk about how once he started reading he was amazed at the industry and how each article/blog/site lead him even deeper into the rabbit hole. Always interesting to get an outsiders perspective.

I am back in the drop game after taking a  month or two away from acquiring many names that were not specifically for my primary company I have managed to fit in some time to research domain drops again. Had a couple nice pick ups this week and one that will likely turn into a developed site rather rapidly.

After my post about dropping domain names and canceling domain names rather than keeping them around I actually GAVE AWAY around 50 names to a couple of  the employees here  who have interest in the domain space. To me it was less work to just do a couple big pushes to people that I know than sell them for a low cost and have to deal with all the work around that . They got some good names out of the deal and I get to focus on my core set.

For you .TV lovers, this morning I was looking at Google Trends and noticed something, out of the top 100 top search trends there were (3) .TV names, now when I say this consider that that search trends are for keywords being searched for so this means there are people typing the .TV full name into their search box which is a good indication there are a lot of people visiting these .TV sites, this is the first time in all the times I have checked Google Trends that I have noticed 3 of anything other than .COM in the top search trends, normally you do not see more than 1 or 2 full domain names in the search trends. Good stuff for the .TV crowd.

Look for some big changes on my blog over the next week, good stuff coming!