I think Francois has created real value to the industry with domaining.com, and I check domaining.com daily, it’s a great site to get an instant idea of what’s hot in the industry by just spending a few minutes to look at the titles. It actually saves time. I usually end up reading 0-1 posts per day. This is the only post I actually read today.

To summarize, I think many people would do well to read your post here and pay attention. Daydreaming (=blog reading) gets you nowhere, and the signal/noise ratio of blogs is generally dismal.

Great post, and I love the irony of a blog post that says stop reading blog posts=).

This industry is going to change, it is going to change in a massive way when domainers stop looking at themselves as a “domainer” but instead as “businessmen” and “businesswomen”.

It seems like the unwritten code of “domaining” is to scream that a domain is basically the only thing that you need for a successful business but how many domainers have actually built a successful business at any time in their lives?

There are many things that need to be focused on when building a business and while a domain is one of those things my point is that it is only one of those things. In addition to the domain other importiant things are SEO and monetizing the domain and business.

So, at the basis there are three things that make a successful online business, a good domain, good SEO and a good monitization stratagy.

Some people only talk about a good domain (most domainers), some only talk about good SEO (SEO’s) and some only talk about a good monitazation strategy, but the people that will make the real money from now on are the people that understand all three and know how to put it all together.

The days of Rick Schwartz style of riches are going away, he was smart and made good money off of domains all by themselves but in the future it will not be enough to only have 1 leg of the three legged stool that is internet success.

Troy
FreeDomainNewsletter.com (FreeDomainNewsletter.com is currently down, I accidently erased it all 2 days ago while uploading some stuff… Argh!)

Thanks for the insight – probably the best post I’ve read all week!

As a somewhat new member of the domain community, I generally read blogs that are newsworthy & offer fresh ideas that I can use in order to advance my knowledge in this business.

But for many who WANT to make a living online probably a good idea to put entertainment on hold for a while and really learn.

If you were making $1,000 online a month last year and now 12 months later still making $1,000 not much value in entertainment now is there.

Appreciate the point as you are right – for some it is a hobby to read but for many they are actually looking for information … just in the wrong places.