Top 100 Domaining Blogs: Fully Sortable by Alexa, Compete, Twitter Followers, etc.
One of the sweetest things about our new list of the Top 100 Domaining Blogs is that the list is fully sortable by all of the column headers. This means that although the default list is sorted by Alexa rank you can also click on different columns to see which domain name blog has the most backlinks, the highest PageRank, the most Twitter followers, etc. Check it out now and see where you stack up!
Also, if your domain name blog made it on to the list then don’t forget to grab the free widget to put on your site that will update in real time and let you show off your rankings for the world to see!
NEW!!! Top 100 Domaining Blogs: Where Do You Stack Up?
Are you one of the top 100 domaining bloggers? Do you want to see where you stack up against your fellow domain name bloggers in terms of Alexa rank, Compete rank, # of Twitter followers, PR, # of backlinks, and more? Maybe you just want an easy place to scour the rankings and find interesting new domaining blogs to read – click here to visit our fully sortable list of the Top 100 Domaining Blogs!
If you are a domaining blogger and want to set some goals for yourself and get the competitive juices flowing then be sure to check back often to see if you can move up in the rankings because the list is updated at least once a day (except for the most recent post column which is updated much more often).
If you made it on to the list of the Top 100 Domain Name Bloggers then be sure to check out our widget award that allows you to show off your award and real time ranking on your site – all you have to do is copy and paste and the widget shows off your ranking in real time every time your blog page loads. Click here to check out the widget award.
How Much Money Can You Make With $5 and 2 Hours?
I will be the first to tell you that I rarely take the time to watch video posts but I just took 6 minutes and 11 seconds to watch the following video and I am extremely glad that I did.
Check out this video from the entrepreneur boot camp of Tina Seelig during the Stanford Technology Venture Program. Tina recounts a classroom experiment that she did that involved her dividing the class up into teams who were given the goal of making as much money as they could in 2 hours and only having $5 to start out with. This video is just chock full of awesomeness on so many levels and I could blather on for a few thousand words about different applications to domaining, building an online business, etc. etc. ad nauseum but rather than do that I would challenge you to stop watching puppies play the piano or whatever on YouTube for just a moment and devote the next 6 minutes and 11 seconds to watching THIS VIDEO.
When you are done watching the video then leave a comment below and see if you could beat any of the money making ideas that some of the students had using the $5 startup capital and 2 hour time limit constraints…. (or if you are really brave then leave a comment below BEFORE watching the video and then watch the video to see if your idea was better than any of their ideas….) 
Business Owner to SEO to Domainer vs Domainer to SEO to Business Owner
“Business Owner to SEO to Domainer vs Domainer to SEO to Business Owner” Wow, if this title doesn’t confuse you then please immediately submit a guest post so that I can replace your post with this one… Just kidding!
Alan Dunn had written a post earlier about Ad.ly that had a great little statement in it:
“The first step to success is to quit reading domain blogs – even this one – and focus on SEO, online marketing and viral marketing blogs.”
I love that statement and I was about to type out a long comment to compliment him but I decided that the comment was getting too long so I would just give him a quick compliment via his comment form and steal the meat of my comment for this post (Sorry Alan ).
The reason I love that statement is because it seems that the time line of my “career” as an entrepreneur seems to be exactly the opposite career path of many domainers (although I could be wrong as this is just what I have seen first hand). I was first a small business owner then an “SEO” and then lastly a domainer. I owned (and still own) a Florida health insurance agency and so of course being the nerd that I am I wanted to put up a website to help people compare health insurance plans online.
Once the website was up and running I quickly realized that I actually needed to get people to visit the site in order to make any money
This caused me to learn as much as I could about SEO and about all of the various factors that went into building a quality website that would give the search engines and most importantly the website visitors exactly what they were looking for. Once I started ranking the website high for its target keywords and working hard to provide a ton of high quality content on the site and a great user experience I naturally wanted to duplicate the process on other websites.
The more I learned about SEO the more I came to appreciate the importance of keyword domain names. An exact match keyword domain name is the one key element of a winning online strategy that cannot be duplicated. Let me say that again: your domain name cannot be duplicated.
If we can agree that domain names have inherent value (because of keywords, length, TLD, and any other combination of these 25 rules for choosing a domain name) and that domain names are unique (fact) then it’s easy to see why having the best domain name for a given market niche online is a HUGE sustainable competitive advantage that even the deepest pocketed competitors cannot copy (unless they buy your domain name from you for $$$ and then well, that is OK too )
If you are the owner of say DogFood.com then you have a significant competitive advantage in building a business online in the “Dog Food” niche that even huge Fortune 500 companies cannot duplicate no matter how hard they try. Purina.com and Iams.com and other very large dog food companies can pay out the wazoo for the very best web developers and the very best SEO company and they can hire a professional writing service to churn out hundreds of pages of dog food related articles every day (and you thought that sorting through lists of dropped domains was boring… that is if you are not saving yourself time and red eyes by using our dropped domain alerts instead… ) BUT they can do all of these things but if you are the proud owner of DogFood.com then you have a very real and very sustainable competitive advantage that they cannot copy
(Note, I chose the domain name “DogFood.com” randomly just because my Bull Mastiff Caesar and my Pit/Lab mix Mercedes both just got done chowing down and they now need some more dog food. Also, I just noticed that if you type in DogFood.com it redirects to PetsMart.com so it appears that at least PetsMart.com recognizes the value of this domain).
All of that to say that if you are a domainer then its time for you to branch out and learn as much as you can about SEO, online marketing, and general business skills. If you are a business owner then you need to learn as much as you can about the value of domain names and about bringing your business online. If you are an SEO professional then you need to quickly appreciate the impact that domain names can have on your search engine optimization efforts.
What about you? What is your story?
What is the Best Way to do .org Bulk Domain Availability Checking?
Some of you may have noticed that many of our tools that do bulk domain availability lookups (like our Type In Traffic Finder) don’t support .org domains. The reason for this is because the .org WHOIS servers have very tight quotas for checking .ORG domains (essentially, one search on our Type-In Traffic Finder would put us over since putting in just 1 keyword into the tool can return up to 200 related exact match keyword domains that all need to be bulk checked to see if they are available to register).
Recently, we’ve had a lot of requests from subscribers and visitors to add the capability to find .org domains with the TITF, so we’ve been looking around to find a good API or method that would allow us to bulk check .org domains.
We’ve found some options but so far all of them are either prohibitively expensive or black hat, so we thought we’d put the question to our readers. Do any of you know of any API’s or legit methods for bulk checking .org domains? If anyone gives a suggestion that we end up using, we’ll give you a free subscription to our Domain Superstar premium membership. The contest is on! What solution do you propose?
