This Episode 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 websi...
Jun 18, 2020•33 min•Season 1Ep. 17
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 f...
Apr 23, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 16
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 clou...
Apr 18, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Season 1Ep. 15
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). T...
Apr 04, 2020•36 min•Season 1Ep. 14
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...
Mar 31, 2020•22 min•Season 1Ep. 13
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 ...
Mar 26, 2020•28 min•Season 1Ep. 12
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 to talk about current events Coronavirus is changing the world, how I’m coping, things locally (beach closings, Stores are out of everything (dishwasher tabs), I’ve got about 6 rolls of TP if anyone wants to send me some. Registering domains with Coronavirus Don’t do Coronavirus Domain Outbound Marketing by Elliot Sil...
Mar 22, 2020•57 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Today’s episode is brought to you by my friends at siteground . Use my affiliate link: https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida SEGMENT 1: Previewing the Domain Registrar Championship Bracket In this article I talk about how I derived the 2020 Domain Registrar bracket, including seeding all 64 registrars. If you’d rather cut to the chase, you can view the bracket here. I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community! Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts ...
Mar 12, 2020•30 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Today’s episode is brought to you by my friends at siteground . Use my affiliate link: https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida Segment 1: The different types of Top Level Domains In this article I reviewed how the DNS system works, but I also reviewed all 5 types of TLDs: Generic TLD (gTLD) - .com, .org, .net, .gov, .mil, .edu AND all the new gTLDs like .web, .online Country Code TLD (ccTLD) - .io, .co Internationalized (IDN) ccTLD – .co.uk, .com.au Infrastructure TLD - .arpa, all reserved ...
Feb 17, 2020•35 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Today’s episode is brought to you by my friends at siteground . Use my affiliate link: https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida Segment 1: What is Domain Name Theft and How are Domain Names Stolen? Most common way: Hacker finds out what your login to your domain registrar by doing a whois lookup for your domain name. If it’s an email that can be logged into online (such as gmail or outlook or some other hosted email account), hackers will try to break into your email account. Once they have ...
Feb 09, 2020•29 min•Season 1Ep. 8
This episode brought to you by SiteGround . Check out this amazing hosting platform that I highly recommend based upon experience. The offer free and easy SSL certificates, easy wordpress website setup, and free hosted email. Segment 1: general observations from NamesCon I wrote a quick recap of my first ever NamesCon . I don’t like spending money, and for me, this trip was a luxury. Was awesome to bring my son, Jackson (15) with me and spend some quality time with him. THE BEST: GoDaddy CEO Ama...
Feb 06, 2020•39 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Episode 6 is sponsored by SiteGround, you can visit my affiliate link at https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida Segment 1: What I've Been Into Recently Launched my first amazon affiliate site. It’s a brand new domain that I think last podcast I was working on launching. A quick overview It’s a wordpress website on a geodomain. One of the first ones I hand-registered as a DI (but realized pretty quickly it wasn’t a great domain for reselling it) Amazon affiliate, which was actually very eas...
Jan 05, 2020•44 min•Season 1Ep. 6
In today's episode I veer off the normal template and freestyle a bit where I talk about being consumed by my latest domain investing project, building an Amazon Affiliate niche site and writing an ebook that I'll sell in pdf form on the same website. This falls within the realm of domain investing since domainers do 3 things to make money on domains: 1. buy domains and sell them for profit 2. buy domains and park them for pay-per-click ads 3. develop them to monetize and build value In segment ...
Dec 17, 2019•41 min•Season 1Ep. 5
In this episode I discuss a recent tweet by the Domain King Rick Schwartz and why it really caught my eye. His knowledge and experience as a domain investor and marketer is something you should pay attention to because you could could learn. But more, you could also find some great domains listed at great prices. A short disclaimer, I do not know the domain king, nor have I ever met him, and this podcast surely isn't sponsored by him. As a new domain investor, it's good to look to the women and ...
Nov 19, 2019•49 min•Season 1Ep. 4
In this episode I will discuss the hidden costs the domain investor incurs. These costs are outside the scope of the registration fee or purchase price, renewal fees and the basic cost of time. These costs include leveraging domain name management tool Efty.com as well as social media manager hootsuite. As part of the discussion, I talk briefly about recently leveraging my teenage son to be my social media manager. I also talk about the Domain King Rick Schwartz recent blog post where he stated ...
Oct 28, 2019•37 min•Season 1Ep. 3
In this episode I discuss a new page of my website where I added links to tools and resources for domain investors and web entrepreneurs, you can find that page here: https://jasonofflorida.com/domain-investing/tools/ I also discussed how to buy expired domain names from auctions.GoDaddy.com and Dynadot.com. I discussed some of the positives and negatives from each from a user experience point of view. I also discussed viewing, filtering and sorting expired domains via expireddomains.net. Lastly...
Oct 06, 2019•47 min•Season 1Ep. 2
I recently wrote a standard operating procedure so that I could easily list my domains on the registrar, afternic.com, sedo.com, dan.com and where I also discuss using efty.com for my forsale landing pages. I discuss 3 recent domain name acquisitions excontraining.com, huxul.com and redbarrier.com
Sep 16, 2019•27 min•Season 1Ep. 1
