Domain Investing with Jason Of Florida jason morris

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I haven’t made a podcast in nearly 3 months! What’s going on? 
Are you buying assets or liabilities?
I accidentally transferred 20 domain names to NameSilo.com

20 years ago was the best time to create an online business.  Today is the second best day.  If you’re spinning up a new website and need hosting, I personally recommend siteground.  What’s better is they’re offering 3 months Startup Hosting for only $0.99!  They offer free email, SSL certs, you can transfer in a wordpress website or create a new one with the press of a button.  They also offer auto-scaleable cloud hosting, wooCommerce hosting and more!  (you can even register domain names there).  They have an easy to use UI, secured through two-factor authentication (please set this up).  Their support staff is always helpful via liveChat when I use that.  Would you use my affiliate link? https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida

Where has Jason been?
I haven’t made a podcast in nearly 3 months!


I’m moving to Kentucky – relocation is taking a lot of time.
I’ve had to step up my game at work as FIVE of the developers on my team left the company.
I’m trying to read more, and listen to less “opinions” on podcasts/articles and generally adjusting to a post-COVID19 world.

Are your Domains Assets or Liabilities
I recently read “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosaki, and this was a tough pill for me to swallow, but he made some good points.  Let me say that I don’t think the world rotates around money, but he argues it does, and he makes some valid points to this.  My biggest take away is how he defined the differences between the rich, middle class, and poor:


Rich buy assets, Middle Class buy liabilities they think are assets, and the poor only have expenses. This is why, he states, the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.
Definitions
Asset – something that generates income
Liability – something that costs you money

Based on that definition, are your domains assets or liabilities?
How do domain names generate revenue?
Parking
Websites

Is it possible to have a good enough volume of sales to generate enough revenue to cover expenses consistently? I think yes, but I think this is hard to do.
Only buy .com domain names
Only buy 1 or 2 word .com domain names (firstnamelastname domain names, domains with numbers, hand registered “made up names”
STOP buying lottery tickets!
Think like an investor


I’m a NameSilo Customer Now (by accident)

Meant to transfer to NamePal, but through a series of unfortunate events, I transferred names to Namesilo.

This Episode

16 Episodes into podcasting!
Breakdown the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 in the Best Domain Registrar Challenge
Talk about a few new domain acquisitions
A coping strategy I implemented to help me deal with kids during COVID-19

20 years ago was the best time to create an online business.  Today is the second best day.  If you’re spinning up a new website and need hosting, I personally recommend siteground.  What’s better is they’re offering 3 months Startup Hosting for only $0.99!  They offer free email, SSL certs, you can transfer in a wordpress website or create a new one with the press of a button.  They also offer auto-scaleable cloud hosting, wooCommerce hosting and more!  (you can even register domain names there).  They have an easy to use UI, secured through two-factor authentication (please set this up).  Their support staff is always helpful via liveChat when I use that.  Would you use my affiliate link? https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida

 

 

Intro – migrated my blog/domain name challenge being a time suck/still working for less-than-free. Coronavirus, kids out for the year, economic outlook. The wholesale market is ridiculous still – who buys all number domains (b/c I don’t know of a single end user who has them or uses it for a website).  “Domain investors” are judgy-jerks still.
16 episodes into podcasting
Good things

Initial goals of 1 podcast per month (starting in August).  I’m a bit ahead of goal – which was modest to be fair.
I’ve learned to quickly record/upload/update podcasts
I feel like I’ve gotten better at speaking
People are listening – it’s a fairly small number, but even looking at the data that indicates where people stop listening is encouraging.  Thanks to everyone for that.

Bad things

I’m a little too formal in my approach – and I don’t think I’m being “myself” enough.  So I want to get smoother at just talking w/o all of the organization.
Guests – I haven’t had any.  That’s mainly b/c I’m convinced I’m working through the kinks.  But I need to make that leap and soon.
Lots of room to get better. Intro/music/talking points, less stuttering, being myself, being more consistent.  Most importantly, delivering information my listeners really want and deliver it in my own way (with my personality).

Future Plans

Guests
Maybe some better music or sound effects
A video on youtube (do people really want this?)

Road to the Final Four
I break down the Final 4 and Deliver the 2020 Domain Registrar Champion.  Here's a full break down of the bracket from the first game to the most recent.

Article stating how I set the seeds for the tournament
East Bracket
Midwest Bracket
South Bracket
West Bracket
Sweet 16
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EPISODE 1.15 - THE 2020 DOMAIN REGISTRAR CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET: ROAD TO THE FINAL FOUR 20 years ago was the best time to create an online business.  Today is the second best day.  If you’re spinning up a new website and need hosting, I personally recommend siteground.  What’s better is they’re offering 3 months Startup Hosting for only $0.99!  They offer free email, SSL certs, you can transfer in a wordpress website or create a new one with the press of a button.  They also offer auto-scaleable cloud hosting, wooCommerce hosting and more!  (you can even register domain names there).  They have an easy to use UI, secured through two-factor authentication (please set this up).  Their support staff is always helpful via liveChat when I use that.  Would you use my affiliate link? https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida     It’s been a while since I’ve provided an update, so here’s what’s happening Here’s my plan for the future: I break down the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 to get us down to the Final 4 Domain Registrars.  Here's a full break down of the bracket from the first game to the most recent. I’m not buying a lot of new domains these days, mostly because I’m pinched for time.  But I bou

THIS EPISODE

Update on my Amazon Affiliate Website
Breakdown the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 in the Best Domain Registrar Challenge
Talk about a few new domain acquisitions
A coping strategy I implemented to help me deal with kids during COVID-19

ROAD TO THE FINAL FOUR

Article stating how I set the seeds for the tournament
East Bracket
Midwest Bracket
South Bracket
West Bracket
Sweet 16
Elite 8
Updated Bracket

20 years ago was the best time to create an online business.  Today is the second best day.  If you’re spinning up a new website and need hosting, I personally recommend siteground.  What’s better is they’re offering 3 months Startup Hosting for only $0.99!  They offer free email, SSL certs, you can transfer in a wordpress website or create a new one with the press of a button.  They also offer auto-scaleable cloud hosting, wooCommerce hosting and more!  (you can even register domain names there).  They have an easy to use UI, secured through two-factor authentication (please set this up).  Their support staff is always helpful via liveChat when I use that.  Would you use my affiliate link? https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida

Leading into the show I talk about how to cope better with the COVID-19 situation by using your time to accomplish tasks around the house, getting fit, buy domains and more.  Find new routines and emerge on the other side of this pandemic a better  you!

Breaking down the first round of the West Regional
In this article I break down all 16 games in the first round of the West region.  You can view the updated bracket here.  I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community!  Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket!  I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home!

Here's a full break down of the first 32 games.  In future podcasts I discuss each bracket in detail.  Be sure to subscribe!


Article stating how I set the seeds for the tournament
Article breaking-down the East Bracket
Article breaking down the Midwest Bracket
Article breaking down the South Bracket
Article breaking down the West Bracket

Breaking down the first round of the East Regional
In this article I break down all 16 games in the first round of the East region.  You can view the updated bracket here.  I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community!  Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket!  I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home!

Here's a full break down of the first 32 games.  In future podcasts I discuss each bracket in detail.  Be sure to subscribe!


Article stating how I set the seeds for the tournament
Article breaking-down the East Bracket
Article breaking down the Midwest Bracket
Article breaking down the South Bracket
Article breaking down the West Bracket

Today’s episode is brought to you by my friends at siteground. Use my affiliate link: https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida
Before I get into the regional breakdown, I want talk about the new Domain Name Wholesale Exchange by Josh Reason

DNWE.com Domain Name Wholesale Exchange (DNWE.com) is a wholesale market which excludes endusers.  Founded by Josh Reason in 2020, with a recent addition of partner Joshua Schoen.  Here’s some more details:
When you register, it must be approved – unsure of the vetting process, but when you sign up you must list 2 domains that you own.
Listings are 100% private
Commissions lower than 15%
You can buy/sell domains.  It doesn’t look like there’s a limit on TLDs, right now there are .com, .net, .io, .co, .org, .in (1), .tv (2), and .vc (1)
All listed domains must be approved.
Once you list, your listing is good for 30 days.
The highest listing price is $20k, but lots are listed between $299 and $999.  $299 is the minimum.
Great filters by alpha-numeric, price, category and TLD

As a user, I wish it had an information page – how much commissions are, an “About” page would be a nice addition.
I’ll be posting a new article about where I interview Josh Reason about DNWE soon.

Breaking down the first round of the Midwest Regional
In this article I break down all 16 games in the first round of the midwest region.  You can view the updated bracket here.  I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community!  Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket!  I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home!

Here's a full break down of the first 32 games.  In future podcasts I discuss each bracket in detail.  Be sure to subscribe!


Article stating how I set the seeds for the tournament
Article breaking-down the East Bracket
Article breaking down the Midwest Bracket
Article breaking down the South Bracket
Article breaking down the West Bracket