Domaining and monetization sites and strategies have shown, as an industry, to hold a great deal of promise for those individuals creative and savvy enough to capitalize on trends and patterns of the past several years and the future in general. I’ve waded through the many domaining forums and looked at many of the blogs and monetization sites that abound these days. I, like many others, wasn’t immersed in the industry in the early days, thereby securing an early retirement for myself by grabbing thousands of one word generics and insuring a highly successful future. However, I do believe that opportunity exists and we’re all hoping to find it.

One thing that has struck me as particularly hilarious are the number of people with delusions of grandeur and aspirations of riches. These are the ham and eggers who blindly stumbled into domaining after hearing stories about PORN.com going for however many millions of dollars and similar sales like TANDBERG.com (something like 1.5 million). They’ve shrewdly purchased such winners as “jims-coolest-dating-site.com” and have channeled this brilliance on to the rest of us by asking the “one time only price of 55,000 for this and similar premium domains.” Any industry jammed to the hilt with champs like this has to be one worth writing about. So the idea struck me that these folks, and others like them, should really be the ones with the microphone, so to speak. I think an area that is ripe for countless hours of entertainment would be these Rockefellers of tomorrow, kings of industry. Don’t get me wrong, there certainly are many domain sales that defy logic and leave us all scratching our heads and maybe these sales are the seeds for the aforementioned brazenness. Maybe our champions of tomorrow are just capitalizing on a market with too much money and they will be the ones laughing in the end when the owner “Jim’s Coolest Dating Inc.” buys this goldmine for 12 million. Somehow I doubt it but there’s no accounting for taste in this industry.

Similarly, the many folks pawning other services should have their say as well and I fully intend to give them their due. In the days to come I would like to do some research into the always entertaining and often hilarious world of domains and internet monetization sites and strategies and see what I come up with. I’m interested in hearing about other people’s observations and any areas that I may not be touching on and welcome such comments and stories.

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