My First Editor’s Pick On Medium.com I have been writing on Medium.com, a new platform launched by Twitter co-founder Evan Williams for a few months now. Medium describes themselves as: Medium is a new place on the Internet where people share ideas and stories that are longer than 140 characters and not just for friends. It’s designed for little stories that
MorganLinton.com - Thursday, May 9, 2013 - 15:10
Two Quick Tips For Selling Your Domains Through Afternic, Aftermarket or Sedo Someone was recently asking me for some tips and tricks for selling domains on marketplaces like Afternic or Sedo. They also asked me which I recommended. After spending almost six years using both I can tell you that I personally prefer Afternic. Don’t want to start a war here but from customer service to quality
MorganLinton.com - Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 19:55
Why You Should Keep Your WHOIS Information Public If You Want To Sell A Domain Name Over the last two years my focus has been on helping startups acquire domain names. We’ve done deals as small as $5,000 and as large as $500,000 and everything in between. One of the topics that comes up over and over again and causes a lot of confusion is domain names with privacy protected WHOIS
MorganLinton.com - Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 9:23
Sedo and Afternic Weekly Sales Reports Led by Moms.com Moms.com led the way this week selling for $252,000. Registered in 1996 the domain is currently parked on Sedo. Fotograph.de came in second this week, selling for 89,250 Euros. There were some nice 3 character.com sales along with a few good numeric domain sales. Sedo sold $1.46 million in domains this week. Afternic sold just
MorganLinton.com - Wednesday, May 8, 2013 - 1:50
Growth Hacking 101 The entire concept of “Growth Hacking” has grown like wildfire over the last couple of years and it’s now almost as commonly discussed in the startup world as Pivots, okay not that much but it’s getting there. I have been talking to a lot of people about growth hacking lately and learning from others while
MorganLinton.com - Tuesday, May 7, 2013 - 21:32
Domaining MBA Monday: 3 Quick Portfolio Management Tips So you have a domain portfolio, and it’s growing. While it can be easy to see this as a good thing, that isn’t always the case. One of the biggest mistakes new Domainers make is buying tons of domains “assuming” that they are all assets. Not all domain names are assets, in fact most domains
MorganLinton.com - Monday, May 6, 2013 - 12:38
Overnight Successes Are Rarely An Overnight Success You’ve heard of overnight successes, companies like Pandora, brands like Fab, authors like J.K. Rowling, but what you often don’t hear about is the years it took them to become an overnight success. Pandora for example spent 11 years to get to where they are today and almost failed in the early years of their
MorganLinton.com - Friday, May 3, 2013 - 15:25
Fashion Friday: Virtusize Disrupts The Virtual Fitting Room Virtual Fitting rooms have been a hot spot in the Fashion Tech world. The idea behind a virtual fitting room is to get as close to the experience of trying on clothes in-person, online. There have been a number of players in this space like Fits.me, Meality, and Metail all of which have been working
MorganLinton.com - Friday, May 3, 2013 - 12:59
Value Your Time When I first started Linton Investments my goal was to make $500/month. I was able to reach this goal, but it was taking 10+ hours/week to do it. At that time I was making over $100/hour at my day job so spending 40 hours a month to make $500 meant I was making $12.50/hour Domaining
MorganLinton.com - Thursday, May 2, 2013 - 15:27
Should a Startup Spend VC Funding on a Domain Name? Forbes is out today with an article about whether Start Up companies should spend some of their funding on a domain name ? One of the first interesting parts about the article was this quote, “Domain names are less important than they were in the first Internet wave, because so many people will access your
MorganLinton.com - Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 11:48
Top 10 Reasons To Go To TRAFFIC Vegas 2013 It’s May 1st which means that TRAFFIC Vegas 2013 is now less than one month away! As someone that makes 100% of their income with domain names I can tell you that TRAFFIC is a must-attend conference for me. If you have never attended a TRAFFIC conference I highly recommend you come to TRAFFIC Vegas
MorganLinton.com - Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 10:54
Sedo and Afternic Weekly Sales Led by Yinhang.com at $300,000 Yinhang.com led all sales this week selling for $300,000. The domain was registered in 1999. Kbra.com was the number two sale, selling for $40,000 on Sedo. Seeq.com was the top sale at Afternic at $33,000, I remember seeing that pop up for years when hitting certain parked pages. Dating.co was the top cctld sale for
MorganLinton.com - Wednesday, May 1, 2013 - 2:27
ClickMillions Review A couple of weeks ago a did a post about a $329 click on a parked page that got a lot of attention. The story was inspired by a couple of screenshots sent to me by the creators of the ClickMillions educational platform. I told them that I would be happy to post this data,
MorganLinton.com - Tuesday, April 30, 2013 - 12:57
Domaining MBA Monday: 3 Ways To Blow A Domain Sale Over the last year I’ve been working more and more with startups and venture-funded companies to help them acquire the domain name of their choice. Usually budgets range from $25,000 on the low end to $500,000 on the high end. One thing all these companies have in common is that most of them have never
MorganLinton.com - Monday, April 29, 2013 - 14:8
Weekend Musings It has been one heck of a busy weekend with AngelHack LA in town this weekend along with a handful of other events. This is the first time I’ve been in one place for more than one hour and it has been an absolute blast! It all kicked-off yesterday morning with Daina speaking at AngelHack
MorganLinton.com - Sunday, April 28, 2013 - 22:44
Daina Linton Speaking At LA Startup Event Today We are up early on a Saturday and for a good reason, this morning Daina will be speaking at AngelHack LA, one of the cities in the 32-city hackathon now the largest hackathon in the world. If you don’t know what a hackathon is it’s important to know this has nothing to do with computer
MorganLinton.com - Saturday, April 27, 2013 - 10:32
This One Is For The Ladies, Women in Business Very interesting infographic that gives a look into what women are doing with their advanced degrees. One interesting point about this study was that women are paid equal until they hit age 30, which coincides with the average age for having a baby. Another interesting facts was that within 3 to 5 years of getting
MorganLinton.com - Friday, April 26, 2013 - 19:59
Fashion Friday – Every Guy Needs A Good Pair Of Dark Blue Jeans I recently read an awesome style guide by Men’s Fashion blogger Effortless Gent called the Lean Wardrobe. It’s a good read and covers some great topics for anyone that has a closet bursting with clothes that they rarely wear. In the book he covered the importance and versatility of owning a good pair of dark
MorganLinton.com - Friday, April 26, 2013 - 12:55
The Art Of Valuing Domain Names Aftermarket.com recently created one of the best infographics I’ve ever seen about the art of valuing a domain name. You can view the inforgraphic below and if you haven’t checked-out Aftermarket.com I highly recommend you take a look, great platform to list your domains for sale with an amazing team behind-the-scenes doi...
MorganLinton.com - Thursday, April 25, 2013 - 14:23
