Would it be appropriate for experienced domainers to criticize heavily?
August 7, 2010 by Domain News
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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.
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Some experienced domainers perhaps are harsh in their tone but often offer advice worth listening to. Most anyone entering domaining today with limited capital is not going to acquire the caliber of domains of those who started twelve to fifteen years ago. Consequently one’s approach to domain investing and monetization is going to have to vary. On the other hand one cannot register meaningless domains with no commercial value and zero search volume and expect results similar to those with premium .COM domains.
Personally i have no interest in what people like the ego maniac Rick S and his arse kisser buddy Owen Fragger have to say, i have been domaining for 5 years and have done ok dealing in mainly non dot com names,it makes me laugh those that hang on the words of these people.
Make your own way, make your own mistakes and learn from them.
And don’t waste your time reading tripe from people calling themselves “DomainKing” or “webfather” or those that tell us why we should worship at the table of them.
I think that this is a field where it is easy to talk big, so I take most of the advice and criticism with a grain of salt. And it is a field where every idiot can get into it — unlike your medical profession — you just need some extra time and extra money.
So, unless a person has made over $100,000 for 3 years in a row (from domains only, not domains plus their day job), I’ll listen to what they say but I won’t really care if they say I’m doing it wrong. Oh, and that $100,000 needs to be profit, not gross. That should knock out 99.9% of us!