Conceptualist.com, By Sahar Sarid

39 Responses to “Send Tips”

1. 1 Marketing Drome
   May 21st, 2007 at 10:36 am

   Sahar–

   I have a great proof-of-concept story that I’d love to blog on my own site but really don’t have a place for it. Perhaps you can use it? If you’d care to contact me I’d be happy to sum it up for you, I really think you’ll enjoy it.

   Love the blog!
   R.

   —-ANSWER—-

   Email on the way..
   Sahar

2. 2 Jorge
   May 21st, 2007 at 4:58 pm

   I believe the single most important thing someone new to the business can do is put their credit card away for at least a week and go to a site like http://www.namebio.com or DNJournal.com to look through past sales. Look for trends and determine a niche you would like to explore, and then whip out that plastic. I’m not saying you shouldn’t take risks (most successful people got that way by taking chances), I’m saying you should at least attempt to make an educated decision so you have more of a foundation to build on.

   (Sorry, kind of a vague tip, but I thought I’d get things started.)

   —-ANSWER—-

   Thanks. It is not a bad tip for beginners. Reearching/analyzing is more important then buying blindly.

3. 3 crinu iliescu
   May 23rd, 2007 at 1:38 pm

   The Domainerism Manifesto

   or

   The Domainerism vs. Trademarkism, Round 1

   by Crinu Iliescu of crinux.com

   The Domainerism is a movement and the ideology of the Domainers. The Domainers are the product of the Internet, forward thinkers, visionaries and doers. They employ Domains, the backbone employees of the ever expanding Internet (Worldbeam ?).

   The Domainers are becoming the largest indirect employers in the history of mankind and their goal is to accelerate the progress of the Internet towards the first truly global society that can reach and enrich everyone everywhere on this planet.

   Currently the Domains are employees of the Domainers the same way football players belong to the team owner under a contract. They can be kept and used, transferred for a fee or just dropped. Once dropped they may resurface in another team, or just hibernate, hoping sometime they will resurrect and be put to work”� they are not really dead. Some domains play an active role, some sit on the bench. The Domains are the perfect employees, they can be programmed with contents and reprogrammed again and again to better suit the demands of this new emerging global society.

   The Internet is the mirror of our current societies, there is good and bad, useful and crap, pleasant and distasteful, funny and offensive “� an all you can eat buffet, but this is the best achievement in thousands of years of human evolution. Our children will be born genetically-internet-enabled and they will carry on our mission.

   Over time, the world experienced the battles of the ideologies: Democracy vs. Tyranny, Capitalism vs. Communism etc. Now the Domainers have reached the critical mass to embrace the Domainerism in the fight against the Trademarkism.

   The Trademarkism is the old ideology of the bricks that served well (?!) in the past, but nowadays its grip on power is diminishing, or better said overwhelmed by the Domainers drive to expand the Internet galaxy.

   The Domainerism can influence the consumer purchasing behaviour and social opinion to effect overall drastic changes that the Trademarkism fights to preserve and enslave. There will be a time when all the bricks will be forced to operate from remote warehouses and the malls and big store buildings will be transformed in botanical greenhouses or butterfly sanctuaries for all the consumers to enjoy daily, freed up from the on-foot shopping chores, and the bricks and us will live in harmony happily ever after.

   Same can be found at http://Domainerism.com & http://Trademarkism.com

4. 4 matias de tezanos
   May 26th, 2007 at 2:14 pm

   Sahar-

   Congratulations on your blog and your success!

   I would like to comment privately on the post related to chena / marchex acquisition. Please send me an email.

   Thanks!
   Matias.

   —-ANSWER—-

   Hi Matias,
   Thanks for the kind words my friend..long time no talk, good to hear from you.
   Email on the way.
   Cheers
   Sahar

5. 5 al
   May 27th, 2007 at 3:36 am

   Hi Sahar,

   Check your link to DN JOURNAL in the right column

   al

   —-ANSWER—-

   Thank you.. fixed.

6. 6 Seb
   Jun 4th, 2007 at 9:59 am

   Hi Sahar,

   After discovering your blog today, I can’t help reading all your great posts one by one, page after page!

   Looks like your migration to WordPress made pics disappear from posts published before April 6th.

   Seb

   —-ANSWER—-

   Thanks for the note, I’m aware of it. Not going to go back and fix all but if there’s something specific you are interesting in I will do my best to update it.
   Cheers
   Sahar

7. 7 Javier Marti
   Jun 29th, 2007 at 4:06 pm

   Hi Sahar,
   One particular part of the article from the lawyer that you sent to Frank Shilling inspired me, and here is the result:
   “”What’s better for your brand: a good domain name, or a celebrity?”"
   http://trendinews.com/?p=63
   You may want to check it up or leave a comment, as I may have forgotten something, by writing in a hurry!

   Regards

   Javier
   Trendirama.com

8. 8 Seb
   Jul 20th, 2007 at 3:54 am

   Hi Sahar,

   This post might be of interest for you : http://gigaom.com/2007/07/19/satisfaction/

   “GetSatisfaction will help hone in on common questions and make the answers easily findable”

   Regards
   Seb

   —-ANSWER—-

   Thanks for the link..
   Sahar

9. 9 Pete
   Jul 24th, 2007 at 1:09 pm

   Hollywood, DUI’s, and domain names! TMZ.com has a good story on Hollywood domain names - link: http://www.tmz.com/2007/07/24/lohan-bust-equals-web-windfall/

10. 10 Scooby47
    Jul 25th, 2007 at 6:07 am

    Hiya Sahar

    Found this site

    http://cadna.org/index.html

    http://cadna.org/press-release-july-24.html

    Could do with some balance being added to the argument. Sure blatent TM infringement is always going to be emotive but the very clear inference here is that all PPC monetization and domain holding is erring on criminality should we all be tarred with this brush???

    ” They cause incalculable harm to consumers through the practices they enable such as phishing, deposit of spyware, and peddling of counterfeit goods. So what is being done to stop tasting and to slow the growth of cybersquatting? ” from their join us section

    “Furthermore, lawmakers have overlooked their oversight responsibilities pertaining to the link between cybersquatting and other Internet crimes such as spam, spyware, and phishing and have done little to curb brand abuses in all forms on the Internet,”

    This coalition could have a major impact on us all.

    Could you have a look at it and if you find time blog and spread the word I think someone needs to counter this and state that domain name investment and monetization of portfolios is legitimate there is a very clear demarcation between that and the true definition of “cybersquatting” the term is just being bandied around and tied into legimate domain name investment - causing yet further consumer confusion

    Thanks

    Thanks

11. 11 Ellen O'Brien
    Jul 25th, 2007 at 9:53 pm

    NameMedia Announces Stategic Partnership with China’s Leading Registrars

    July 24, 2007 Waltham, MA - NameMedia today announced a strategic marketing partnership with HiChina, a leading domain name registering and web hosting services provider in China.

    HiChina provides domain and online services to China’s rapidly growing small- to mid-sized business (SMB) community as well as multinational corporations such as China Telecom, DaimlerChrysler, and Toyota.

    Long recognized for its award-winning e-commerce services, HiChina will provide its business-focused client base with access to more than 2,000,000 high-performance domain names via NameMedia’s AfternicDLS domain sales platform, driven off of the company’s Afternic.com sales channel.

    Under the terms of the agreement HiChina will list AfternicDLS domain names on its two leading brands, Domains.cn and Net.cn.

    *******

    NameMedia today announced a strategic marketing partnership with Beijing-based Xin Net.

    Xin Net, one of the largest registrars in the world with more than 1,000,000 domains under management, provides domain-related services to China’s rapidly growing small- to mid-sized business (SMB) community.

    The partnership agreement provides Xin Net’s business-focused customer base with access to more than two million premium domain names via NameMedia’s Afternic Domain Listing Service (AfternicDLS).

    Read the Full Releases at: http://www.namemedia.com/about/news.html

12. 12 Tomball TX
    Aug 1st, 2007 at 6:04 pm

    http://www.inc.com/magazine/20070801/can-you-spot-the-real-utube.html

    youtube vs utube… isn’t that just amazing though - over 100,000 users hit each day on utube’s landing page… wow.. they can’t do anything with it but still pretty neat/impressive.

    bon appetite… thought it was interesting…
    Tomball

    —-ANSWER—-

    Thanks for the link.

13. 13 jt
    Aug 14th, 2007 at 2:57 pm

    Hi Sahar,

    I wanted your opinion on this company:

    http://www.pickydomains.com/

    They get paid $50 for picking a domain name for you. Are they spiting themselves? Wouldn’t it be better to buy all the good names yourself and sell them in the aftermarket rather than what they are doing? Maybe they are doing both.

    Here is the story.

    http://uncommonbusiness.blogspot.com/2007/01/how-to-make-money-naming-domains.html

    —-ANSWER—-

    Thanks for the link. After reading I really have no opinion. Too new, no traction yet. If and when it gains traction I’ll spend more time to learn of them.
    Cheers
    Sahar

14. 14 jon lindstrand
    Aug 23rd, 2007 at 8:12 pm

    I just wanted to pass along a time sensitive tip. NameDrive.com is under a very large DDOS attack.

    News via http://www.macfanboy.com

    It has a link to the DN forum that is talking about it with people from namedrive.com

    Very interesting article.

    Jon

    —-ANSWER—-

    Things like that happen from time to time.

15. 15 David chelly
    Sep 13th, 2007 at 5:15 am

    Hello,
    I’ve compiled a list of tips to succeed in domaining:
    http://www.domainpredator.com/advices/introduction.html
    thanks
    david

16. 16 Shuhaib Shariff
    Sep 17th, 2007 at 5:34 am

    Hi Sahar,

    Review request for:
    http://www.metafusion.com

    Thanks.
    Shuhaib.

17. 17 Dominik Mueller
    Sep 28th, 2007 at 7:39 am

    Hi Sahar,

    Sometimes people ask me how they should start in the domain business now that generic domains have become too expensive for most new domainers to buy.

    Therefore, I posted a beginner’s guide with some tips and methods on my blog at http://www.dmueller.com/2007/09/28/domain-names-domains/how-to-become-a-successful-domain-investor-today/

    Best regards,
    Dominik

18. 18 J.P.
    Oct 9th, 2007 at 1:03 am

    Sahar,
    I have been reading your blog for quite some time now and love your story on how you got started in this industry. I read it for a motivator on making in this industry. What pointers would you give someone trying to start up from scratch? Again thank you for your wonderful example.

    J.P

    —-ANSWER—-

    Hi J.P.
    I wrote few posts about it, here are two..
    http://www.conceptualist.com/?p=466
    http://www.conceptualist.com/?p=201
    Cheers
    Sahar

19. 19 Jason
    Oct 25th, 2007 at 5:39 pm

    Here’s a domain-parking related post on Mashable I found interesting… how parked pages are perceived by non domainers:

    Three Clicks to Spam: Google’s Hypocritical Link Selling Policy
    http://mashable.com/2007/10/24/google-page-rank/

    Thanks!

    —-ANSWER—-

    Thanks for the tip, it is an arbitrage play. I’ll send the link to Franky as he likes this sort of topics.
    Thanks
    Sahar

20. 20 Logistik Labs
    Nov 8th, 2007 at 4:39 pm

    [ARTICLE] You Might Be A Domainer If…

21. 21 John Motson
    Nov 16th, 2007 at 1:29 pm

    Hi Sahar,

    Thanx for adding my blog dnxpert.com to your related readings list. I have gone ahead and added you to my blogroll too.

    Are you related to Ben Sahar ( he plays for Chelsea FC and the Israel national team ), he is still quite young but quite a good prospect for the future.

    I have a professional question but I would rather ask it over email if possible.

    Cheers

    John Motson

    —-Answer—-

    Hi John,
    Unrelated to this fellow but I like his name
    As for a question, send to Sahar AT Recall Media Group Dot Com
    Cheers
    Sahar

22. 22 John Cronin
    Nov 23rd, 2007 at 10:22 am

    Hi Sahar

    I was browsing my ex-employers website last night when I spotted that their American sister company has put their domain name up for sale on sedo.

    via.com …strikes me as a strong LLL.com domain with various uses in travel/mapping sectors. Worth as much as UI.com perhaps?

    Any thoughts?

    Kind regards

    John C

    —-answer—-

    Very strong and you are right, I would say 300k+ easy. If it was mine a buyer would be looking at mid seven figures at least. It was recently (last week or two) purchased by a friend.
    Cheers
    Sahar

23. 23 Rob Sequin
    Nov 28th, 2007 at 1:40 pm

    I read your blog everyday and really enjoy the deep thoughts and insight.

    I wanted to ask about the Cowboys.com contract. I have a couple of potential investors interested in my country-specific domain portfolio and I have presented them with a fractional ownership type of opportunity but they have lots of questions about structuring the deal.

    Would it be possible to see a template of your fractional ownership contract? I would be willing to pay or donate money to a cause unless you plan to release the structure of the deal in a blog post or news article.

    Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thank you.

    —-Answer—-

    Hi Rob,
    The cowboys.com deal is really a business. We put an LLC before the auction was done and now tweaking final points in an operating agreement to guide us through the business. Ideally, you would want to have an operating agreement before the purchase, not after.
    As for right now the group’s operating agreement isn’t ready so ibviously it cannot be shared. Not sure if the group will allow to release the OA publicly later either.
    Cheers
    Sahar

24. 24 Rob Sequin
    Nov 28th, 2007 at 3:41 pm

    Thank you. Good luck structuring that operating agreement. The problem my guys have is the definition of ownership and exit strategy.

    The cowboys.com deal was done amoung friends and Players who already knew each other so the “marriage” was probably done on a handshake so that’s great.

    Perhaps a blog post about the concept of fractional ownership along with the benefits and drawbacks would be helpful to the community?

    Either way, I appreciate the reply.

    —-answer—-

    I have some things in mind about it I cannot yet discuss, maybe in a couple of months.
    Good luck with your deal,
    Sahar

25. 25 Jeff
    Nov 30th, 2007 at 5:20 pm

    Hi Sahar,

    I tried to reach you at Sahar at RecallMediaGroup dot Com but for some reason, the email bounced back. Sorry to contact you this way.

    I’m doing a blog post on how to get started as a domainer. As part of the post, I am asking several leaders in domaining what their top tip is for someone just starting out in the field. I’d really appreciate if you could take a moment and email me a brief reply outlining this. Thanks in advance for your consideration.

    Jeff

    —-answer—-

    Email on the way, thanks for letting me know.
    Cheers
    Sahar

26. 26 DomainerPro
    Dec 4th, 2007 at 12:46 pm

    There’s an interesting new domaining blog that I’ve been following. It’s http://www.DNBizBlog.com. I don’t know the author personally or have any connection with him, but he’s apparently an old-time domainer who’s been around for a while, under the radar. He has some great ideas. I thought you might like to check it out.

27. 27 Dave Zan
    Dec 5th, 2007 at 11:23 pm

    Hey Sahar,

    Since I can’t seem to find a way to contact you through here, I figured I’d post this as a comment for you instead:

    http://logistiklabs.blogspot.com/2007/12/20-most-influential-people-in-domain.html

    Have a looksie, then feel free to delete this if you feel like it. Thanks.

    —-answer—-

    Hi Dave,
    My email is on the ‘about’ page, should be easy to contact if needed. Nice list you put together, I can think of you who should be there but if I start naming names, it will never end. A side not about Assista, it is not powered by asking questions as you described but by using traditional keyword search to find questions. More on it here.
    Cheers
    Sahar

28. 28 Kev
    Dec 6th, 2007 at 2:52 pm

    http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=122432&search_phrase=cincymoms

    The gathered companies’ stated tactics for getting there — such as focusing on local advertisers in print and online, offering new editorial and advertising products in print and online, partnering with digital powers, and BUYING ONLINE PROPERTIES — gave Gary Pruitt, McClatchy’s chairman and president-CEO, enough confidence about next year to get a little philosophical.

    Gannett said one of the greatest opportunities is DEVELOPING NICHE SITES with social-networking capabilities, citing its recently introduced CINCYMOMS.com and INDYMOMS.com. Its metro papers also are adding “robust” community sections to act like small papers, accompanied by microsite companions, said Sue Clark-Johnson, president of the newspaper division.

29. 29 Carlos Blanco
    Dec 10th, 2007 at 9:43 am

    Hi Sahar

    I send a news about Sedo problems

    http://www.carlosblanco.com/2007/12/10/los-problemas-de-sedo/
    (Spanish)

    http://64.233.179.104/translate_c?hl=en&langpair=es|en&u=http://www.carlosblanco.com/2007/12/10/los-problemas-de-sedo/

    (Automatic translation)

    Best Regards

    Carlos Blanco
    http://www.CarlosBlanco.com

30. 30 Rob Sequin
    Dec 17th, 2007 at 6:30 pm

    Sorry to use this public format but wanted to tell you about my new domain consulting services that might help you with some grunt work.

    See http://RegistrantServices.com where I offer:

    - Revenue and Sales Channel Research
    - Drop Scanning, Acquisitions and Management
    - Domain Picker
    - Domain Portfolio Management
    - Niche Content
    - Inquiry Maintenance
    - Project Management
    - Product and Service Naming

    Let me know if you think I can help you with some tasks.

    Thanks for the “ink”

31. 31 Ed
    Dec 19th, 2007 at 5:03 pm

    Sahir,

    I have an interesting item you may be interested to blog about regarding the value evaluation on a high traffic/profile website.

    If you’re interested to know more shoot me an email any time, i was thinking of posting a link here but then you don’t have the scoop
    I don’t have it seen on other domaining related blogs though and doing a search on the title doesn’t yield many results.
    You can send an email to the email i used to post this comment.

    Have a good one!

32. 32 Mark Fulton
    Dec 26th, 2007 at 1:03 am

    Hey Sahar! Sorry for posting here as it is not quite relevant, but I couldn’t find a better way to get in touch.

    I would be honored if you would include DotSauce in your required reading section. I have had you in my blogroll for quite some time. Thank you for your consideration.

    Regards,

    Mark Fulton

    —-answer—-
    Hi Mark, just added.
    Cheers
    Sahar

33. 33 Amateur Domainer
    Dec 28th, 2007 at 12:44 am

    Hi Sahar, I have been writing a domaining blog for amateurs for a while with a more negative slant mixed with some humor … I chronicle how things are not so easy for us little people. If you would check it out or include me on your blogroll, I’d be grateful. I really enjoy your blog — keep up the great work. My site is AmateurDomainer.

    Thanks.

    —-answer—-

    Added…
    Cheers
    Sahar

34. 34 Rian Visser
    Jan 3rd, 2008 at 9:51 am

    Hi Sahar

    I would like to recommend the website, http://www.tradedomains.org to all newcomers interested in the domaining industry.

    The websites consists of tons of useful information on domaining, free domaining software, deleted domain lists, a free downloadable guide to domaining and much, much more!

    This is truly a great website and a must to any newbie domainer!

35. 35 Eliot
    Jan 10th, 2008 at 3:48 am

    Hi Sahar,

    I recommend making Assista available in the firefox search field. Its real quick to do - I imagine one of your technicians could knock it up easily, see more here:

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:4

    Cheers,
    Eliot

36. 36 Ed S
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 8:25 pm

    Hi Sahar,

    IS there really no other way to contact you?

    Anyway, I recently completed the registration on Bido, but it is odd that there is no confirmation of any kind. The page does not change, and no conf email is received.

    Thank you,
    Ed

    —-answer—-

    Thanks for the note. Further look into it, notification works on our side. Once information submitted there is a message indicating so.
    Cheers
    Sahar

37. 37 Dominic
    Feb 4th, 2008 at 11:32 pm

    Hi Sahar,

    Been reading with interest your comments about Ask.com losing its google feed. I’ve been hearing that IAC is close to buying a third-tier search property (one that has its own advertising/bidding platform). What do you think? What alternatives does IAC have? Will they just go to YPN? Or buy somebody?

    Thanks,

    Dominic

38. 38 John Hardworth
    Apr 27th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    Hi Sahir

    Here is a great resource I wish to introduce to domainers. This is an automated deleting domains database.

    http://www.deletingdomainlist.com

    Hope you will find it useful enough to include into your resource list.

39. 39 Phoenix Window Cleaner
    Sep 2nd, 2008 at 1:59 pm

    Ive been looking for a place to buy bulk domains for extremely cheap. Possibly someone out there could point me in the right direction?

    thanks

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