What Is A Domainer?

On a post of mine the other day Adam asked an interesting question, basically what is a domainer?

I think there are many people that even buy and sell domains that would have a hard time defining it. And I think even outside of that many people start to confuse domaining with development because in many cases people like to do both, like myself.

My quick answer to the question was:

1 A domainer is someone who buys domain names with the intent to sell them at a profit.

2 A collector is a person who buys domain names with no plan on selling for a profit.

3 A developer is a person who buys domain names with an intent to build a business on them.

It is ok to mix and match #1 and #3 but never #2.

I think this is about as simple a definition as could be said and I actually think there are multiple levels to number 1 and number 2 which I will go a bit deeper into in a later post.

But I thought I would post Adams question here, leave a comment with your thoughts on what you think the definition of domainer is.

Thanks For the Influential Domainer Of The Month Vote

Thanks to those who voted for me after I was nominated for the Most Influential Domainer Of The Month at Domainers.US.

It was an honor to see I was nominated in the first place but to actually win was even more surprising since Elliot Silver, Frank Schilling, Patrick Ruddell, and Morgan Linton were all nominated. What a crowd to go up against.

I really like the concept of what is being done on the site. Being able to nominate people on current events and voting on a monthly basis shows what is interesting at that time in the community. I plan to go back monthly to vote.

Now, I must say, it is a little intimidating showing up in a row of pictures on the front of the site with the likes of Ron Jackson, Owen Frager and Rick Schwartz.

Make sure you get your nominations in for next month and thanks again!