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It is past noon for me here in the beautiful State of South Carolina.  The weather is just spectacular today. All eyes are currently on the upcoming TRAFFIC auction. A lot of excitement. Regretfully I will not be biding. Expecting a baby in a couple of weeks so I have to be real prudent with my resources. 

About a year ago, I was fortunate to score a sale at the TRAFFIC auction. I had 6 names listed. This time around I opted not to submit any names for reasons best known to me. (Not particularly a wise decision) 

Anyway I wish everyone good luck. The excitement usually lingers for a week or two after the auction as all forums and blogs gets flooded with ” see what I bought, what do you think it is worth”  or I cannot believe sosoandso.com went for x amount of dollars.

Hey I just realized I may not have any baby themed domains and I am expecting a baby. The closest I have is ChildElectronics.com and ChildIdentityProtection.com
Very unlike me. I usually acquire domains from my life experiences.

I just came back from the grocery store after today’s Sunday service. No matter how tough the economy is, people are still buying food and some are even trying to eat healthy despite the increased cost of a healthier choice. This post is not about the price of sliced bread but whether in tough times, you should just fold up and quit? Actually this is a good season for domaining, this economic hard times presents brilliant opportunities. More people are reading about Hybrids, Solar, Organic, and Eco  just to mention a few of tomorrow’s pacesetters. These  hard times could present a better tomorrow for you domain enterprise. It is Robert Schuller who said “Tough times don’t last but tough people do” Guess what, he is as right as night and day. 

The words of the preacher in  Ecclesiastes 11:6

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
Sow your seed in the morning and do not be idle in the evening, for you do not know whether morning or evening sowing will succeed, or whether both of them alike will be good.

I think the book of Ecclesiastes is one of the literal masterpiece of one of the wisest men ever. His name was King Solomon. He never bought a .com or dot anything but he bought and built domains of his days. He is also credited with building the biggest and most beautiful Temple for the Lord here on earth in his time. Now that is a domain! .This quote from his work is also a call to diversification.  Develop some of your sites to mini-sites or full sites. Do something don’t just fold your hands and wait for tomorrow to come. Those that will rule tomorrow are those laying foundations now.

One final tip. Do not ignore the drop list, more and more domains are being dropped and once in a while you could turn up a gem

Frankie

 What will tomorrow’s domain trend be? I remember three weeks after I bought my first domain, Forsalebyowner.com sold for 750K. That to me was the best domain sale ever at the time. Firstly because the owner owned this domain for less than 3 months or so prior to the sale. I kept asking myself, would I have registered this name? The answer at the time was “No” because I would have considered it too long, that was grossly against the trend then and it is still against the trend now.

I can go on and on and how .nets was generally ignored. It was almost always .com or nothing. But again the .nets has grown to be competent members of any portfolio.

Ask yourself, what are you passing on now?

Are you shunning the .us ?

What if a new search engine becomes popular because It brings search back to home and favors .us over any other extension when a search is from the USA ?.

It pays to sit back and ponder.

(.US makes  up about 3% of my portfolio)