The Domain Game: How People Get Rich From Internet Domain Names |  | Author: David Kesmodel
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
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Pages: 210
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ISBN: 1436332273
Dewey Decimal Number: 004
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Publication Date: May 20, 2008
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Almost everyone has heard a tale of someone getting rich by selling an Internet domain name for a staggering price. But few understand the secretive world of domain investing, a game that a growing number of people are playing around the globe. The Domain Game chronicles the exploits of leading domain investors and explains how this mysterious market works. Learn how an Oklahoma watermelon farmer wound up owning some of the world's most valuable Web addresses, from recipes.com to chairs.com, and how a college dropout became a multimillionaire by scooping up domains that others abandoned amid the dot-com bust. Find out how the rise of Google and Yahoo has helped boost the fortunes of domain investors. And explore the shenanigans of investors who snag names associated with corporate trademarks. Finally, read how you can jump into this exciting market with a relatively small initial investment. It's a market with high risk, but huge potential reward.
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 "The Domain Game" Has The Potential To Influence And Ignite The Next Generation Of Leaders... June 27, 2008
Neal R. Voron
10 out of 12 found this review helpful
Many of us have a valid excuse why we missed an early wave of opportunity to invest - or invest more heavily - in Internet domain names. We may have had no idea what was happening and what we were missing out on, or we may have had a clue but could not quite grasp how to get a handle on it. With David Kesmodel's "The Domain Game" now available, though, there are few excuses to sit on the sidelines anymore!
Some books focus on one industry but are really about so much more. They are about people, about business, about life. They are about how one's perspective, creative thinking, actions, and persistence can make a difference in his or her success. "The Domain Game" is one such book, and I highly recommend it both as an insightful view into the world of domaining and as an interesting and enlightening story that is worth reading whether you know what a domain name is or not.
Kesmodel, a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal's Chicago bureau who formerly worked as technology reporter for the Journal's online edition, expertly weaves Internet domain name industry facts and history into the context of events, sharing the true stories of successful domainers. He tells how individuals of varied educational and work backgrounds found success through foresight, smart thinking, and/or aggressive pursuit of domain names that they acquired for prices as low as under $10 to many thousands of dollars.
But Kesmodel doesn't stop there - he offers insights into opportunities that exist in domaining today, and he introduces readers to many key players and domain industry resources.
Readers who know nothing about Internet domain names beforehand will sooner or later realize that they could have hand-registered a couple of ".com" domain names for the price of the book... and know that buying the book first was a good investment because it can help them make smarter decisions.
That is not to say that you cannot have success in the world of domaining without reading Kesmodel's insightful historical look at the evolution of the domain name industry - far from it, because readers will see that many successful domainers over the past 15 years or so have done phenomenally well without Kesmodel's near 20-20 hindsight.
With over 500 Internet domain names in my own "portfolio", I am by no means a newbie to the world of Internet domain names and have had some modest successes as a domain buyer, developer, and seller... From personal experience, I can attest to the fact that names purchased for tens or hundreds of dollars can sell for thousands if you find the right buyer... I am aware enough about the domain industry to have become a geo domainer, a domain developer, a domain name reseller, the author of a blog about Fractional Domaining, and an active participant in domain industry social networks. Looking back, though, I sure wish I had the knowledge contained within "The Domain Game" years ago when I and so many others were learning on our own and guessing what we should do when opportunities were great and the very best ways to success were not always as clear as they could have been.
The good news is opportunities in domaining still abound, and Kesmodel provides insight, perspective, and direction that can benefit newbies through experienced domainers.
The knowledge you will gain from "The Domain Game" will be invaluable in framing your approach and mindset about domain names and domain name investing. Warning: You may catch yourself beginning to think of concepts, places, and things in terms of domain names! (But that could be a good thing!)
If reading "The Domain Game" generates one idea for you or gets you thinking differently about how you approach things or what you are currently doing, then its value far exceeds the price of the book.
Also, because of the relatively low price of domain names, it is easy to apply the knowledge gained from "The Domain Game" in your personal life. And while it may be possible, you do not have to achieve the astronomical successes of some of the individuals mentioned in "The Domain Game" to have success as a domain name investor yourself.
Are there risks involved with investing in domain names? Absolutely! And to his credit, in Chapter Nine when Kesmodel talks about "The Future", he is upfront about what some of those risks are. He is also clear in stating that the domain market has changed over the years and some opportunities are different now than they were previously.
"The Domain Game" has the potential to influence and ignite the next generation of Internet and business leaders. Every self-learner and every business school should make "The Domain Game" required reading because it chronicles one of the most important business evolutions of our time and tells how readers can get involved.
The sequel to "The Domain Game" will be played out in real life whether Kesmodel pens its history or not (and I hope he does)... What will the topics be next time? Geo Domaining? Fractional Domaining? Cluster Domaining? Domain Exchanges? Something else?... Who will the main players be? Will YOU be one of the players? That's a question only you can decide by your actions!
But that's jumping ahead... Read this book, and enjoy the story!
My recommendation... Buy the book. You'll want to keep "The Domain Game" handy as a reference that you can read and refer to again and again.
Domains Step Into The Spotlight! September 1, 2008
Tsufit, Author, Step Into The Spotlight!
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
On page 83 of Step Into The Spotlight!, I admitted that I have 503 domain names. My friends are ready to send me to "Domain Names Anonymous", but I stand my ground. They're not making any more lakefront and they're not making any more .coms. But in the past few months, I let a couple of hundred of them go, scrutinizing each one and really asking myself if I was going to use 'em to market my business. That's what domain names are for...aren't they?
I wish I'd had a copy of David Kesmodel's new book "The Domain Game" at the time. It's a fascinating history of the high stakes game of buying and selling domain names for fun and profit, mostly profit. The characters are as colorful as Damon Runyon's gamblers (brought to life in Guys and Dolls) from a watermelon farmer to a young reclusive guy who's near impossible to contact. There's intrigue, drama--all the elements necessary for a Hollywood blockbuster.
Those looking for a detailed "how to" on how to get rich from domain names may walk away disappointed and I must admit at a certain point, I did "cut to the chase" by skipping straight to the last chapter, ie the what can be done today portion of the show. But the narrative was gripping enough that I did go back and read what I missed. And I learned a lot. I gotta congratulate this guy, Kesmodel. He's a journalist and he got people to spill their secrets, big time. And I did put the book down several times to run to the computer and renew some of my almost-expired names. Well worth the read.
Captivating, Mesmering, and Incredible August 9, 2008
Salman Habibullah (orem, utah United States)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A well written book on domainers and their passion-Domaining. The book is surely Captivating, Mesmerizing, and Mind-Blowing. The book details about how these domainers BELIEVED in themselves and more importantly BELIEVED in their PASSION. Incredible stories of some very ordinary folks...The book details a great description about how these domainers risked every thing they literally owned like Frank Schilling....An incredible book....I surely Highly recommend this book to anyone who truly believes in his or her Passion...Dreams do come True....
Salman
Modern Gold Rush? December 5, 2008
Sheree Parris Nudd (Brookeville, MD USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you like reading about and imagining yourself living in the "gold rush" days of the 1800s, you might also enjoy reading about a modern-day gold rush in the book "The Domain Game" by David Kesmodel.
The difference here is that there may still be some gold to be had - since a hundred years from now, the current time period will be regarded as the infancy of the Internet.
I enjoyed reading David Kesmodel's behind-the-scenes stories - and kicked myself even more for not registering www.realestate.com back in the day as I thought to myself, "I bet that might be a good domain name to have . . . ."
Fascinating August 4, 2008
Bill Jelen (Akron, Ohio USA)
This is an amazing history of the cut-throat world of domain portfolio management. Reading the book as an outsider to the industry, I was surprised to learn the actual revenue generating power of parked domains. Kesmodel weaves a gripping story of the players who evolved the domain industry.
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