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What Is A Domainer?

November 27, 2009 by bruce · 7 Comments
Filed under: Domain News 

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.