Would it be appropriate for experienced domainers to criticize heavily?

I have reguarly read the blogs and posts from experienced domainers and I find them quite insightful. But some experienced domainers criticize domain newbies heavily and I found it a bit strange. In every field, there are newbies and we couldn’t expect them to know all the things in a very short period of time. I am a medical professional and I got medical students and junior doctors all the time under myself. I couldn’t expect them to know all the things and it takes a few years to learn skills to be more and more competent. We have to guide them in a supportive manner and it would be unfair to criticize our junior colleagues for not having confidence to handle difficult cases.

I really think this also applies to domaining. I believe I have read that even Frank Schilling registered very crappy domains during his initial few years. In our medical field, there is established textbooks, medical schools, training institutes etc… and it takes usually 7 years to finish medical training and another 7 to 10 years to  become a consultant. In domaining world, many experienced domainers usually keep their ways of success to themselves and it makes more difficult for domain newbies to learn from their mistakes and so on. But over the years, if any newbie is persistant enough to pursue his or her interest, the skills & knowledge would improve over time assuming that there isn’t anything wrong with the newbie mentally.

Bido to Shutter Domain Ramp

Popular upstart Bido.com is announcing a May 5 cutoff. The newfangled auction house snared many happening domainers with its enthusiastic style and upbeat marketing tempo. Many domainers grew comfortable vending their names at Bido.com and are now scratching their heads. While it may be the case that the Bido profit model couldn’t sustain the business enterprise in an extended downturn economy, the fact remains that customers are disappointed the  site/auction portal is going away.

Bido has been a popular portal for domains and many domainers new to the industry. The $1 reserve cut into Pool.com and other resellers of droplists and auctions due to high premiums for participation and domain wins in such auctions elsewhere. “Bido is ceasing operation as of May 5, 2010. All transactions and accounts will be gracefully finalized and closed.” The abrupt cutoff will lead new droplist traffic to existing Bido offers in the hopper, domainers start your droplist search scripts engines now.

Signing the New Domain Language Trend?

The education of sign language interpreters has boomed due to the proliferation of careers and degrees, as well as the online education possibilities of physically handicapped people using sign language as their primary language for learning and reading. Could .-sign be the new portal tld for sign language enabled content and websites?

The age of the Internet and its real estate land grab for geographic and primary purpose business and concept TLDs has come and is still evolving. It stands to reason that with language development happening in online hegemony areas like Asia and Russia, other alphabets and keyboards to assist might not be far behind. Videos and short translated abstracts of text and web content might be a valuable niche for domainers to invest in.

With video, audio, and text content sites streaming content of every kind in every format all over the web, how long until a massive movement to the online delivery of sign language translations and translated sign language content is here? Physically challenged users the world over using sign language speak one universal language. That’s a demographic no domainer can ignore.

Likely codes and letter series for signing and sign language sites are the American Sign Language (ASL), Pidgin Sign Language (PSE), and Sign Exact English (SEE) terms. Translated materials, services, and websites could prove intriguing and sticky to many global SEO enabled data researchers. For web entrepreneurs, selling directories of sign language enabled sites, as well as directories for products and materials to utilize signing could pay off downstream.

Blogging is a Job Skill

Managing a blog is like managing a business. For many bloggers, blogging is a business. Authoring content, designing the site, administering ads and dealing with Google ad search engines, as well as other site enhancement products, all these are the dynamics of the modern online business. The attributes and skills that come from editing a blog and managing a blog domain website can be very welcome additions to any resume.

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Translation Pages Hot

The big news in domain development these days is converting active native language pages to another language for a given country code or demographic. Witness a certain expert domainer branching out into translation services for exiting websites to coordinate dual language site releases.  This new service offered by WhiteBark Innovations for website translations can serve up those country code websites domainers are now looking to build.

Green Names Sustain Themselves

Green names and green name websites have been springing from everywhere from Poland to Australia. Domain green names with hybrids or eco friendly keywords in the domain names are created every day. Career domainers are holding onto their names.

Missing from the drop lists are key names because domain name pros are watching the auctions. Even Toyotahybrids.com sold big, a clear TM violation. China stands to have the forefront of green energy and eco-friendly technological standards at some point, while domainers stand poised to reap the benefit from the enthusiasm sustainable living mavens have.

ICANN Security Czar Swirls Waters

The ongoing analysis of Rod Beckstrom as the incoming ICANN security chief has voices from all over the domaining industry chiming in. The pivotal window for operational change within ICANN has been a watched-for event by many in the domain industry.

Domain name Industry senior Page Howe, of Sitehq.com comments “They’ ve evolved into a better organization every year”. Howe, who specializes in domaining resales and development, has had experience with ICANN splitting hairs over security issues and tld management possibilities. 

Says one top flight domainer: “All in all, this Icann is better than no Icann or whatever the rest of the world will try to put in place”. International TLDs for global locations will challenge ICANN in coming years. Prepping for a tld application is almost an Olympic domaining sport. Howe’s story of his sub-TLD application to ICANN is told here.