The Domain Game

by David Kesmodel

Book Overview

Almost everyone has heard a tale of someone getting rich by selling an Internet domain name for a staggering price. But few understand the secretive world of domain investing, a game that a growing... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1436332281
• ISBN13: 9781436332286
• Release Date: May 2008
• Publisher: Xlibris
• Length: 212 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Modern Gold Rush?

If you like reading about and imagining yourself living in the "gold rush" days of the 1800s, you might also enjoy reading about a modern-day gold rush in the book "The Domain Game" by David Kesmodel. The difference here is that there may still be some gold to be had - since a hundred years from now, the current time period will be regarded as the infancy of the Internet. I enjoyed reading David Kesmodel's behind-the-scenes stories - and kicked myself even more for not registering www.realestate.com back in the day as I thought to myself, "I bet that might be a good domain name to have . . . ."

Captivating, Mesmering, and Incredible

A well written book on domainers and their passion-Domaining. The book is surely Captivating, Mesmerizing, and Mind-Blowing. The book details about how these domainers BELIEVED in themselves and more importantly BELIEVED in their PASSION. Incredible stories of some very ordinary folks...The book details a great description about how these domainers risked every thing they literally owned like Frank Schilling....An incredible book....I surely Highly recommend this book to anyone who truly believes in his or her Passion...Dreams do come True.... Salman

Fascinating

This is an amazing history of the cut-throat world of domain portfolio management. Reading the book as an outsider to the industry, I was surprised to learn the actual revenue generating power of parked domains. Kesmodel weaves a gripping story of the players who evolved the domain industry.

"The Domain Game" Has The Potential To Influence And Ignite The Next Generation Of Leaders...

Many of us have a valid excuse why we missed an early wave of opportunity to invest - or invest more heavily - in Internet domain names. We may have had no idea what was happening and what we were missing out on, or we may have had a clue but could not quite grasp how to get a handle on it. With David Kesmodel's "The Domain Game" now available, though, there are few excuses to sit on the sidelines anymore! Some books focus on one industry but are really about so much more. They are about people, about business, about life. They are about how one's perspective, creative thinking, actions, and persistence can make a difference in his or her success. "The Domain Game" is one such book, and I highly recommend it both as an insightful view into the world of domaining and as an interesting and enlightening story that is worth reading whether you know what a domain name is or not. Kesmodel, a staff reporter for the Wall Street Journal's Chicago bureau who formerly worked as technology reporter for the Journal's online edition, expertly weaves Internet domain name industry facts and history into the context of events, sharing the true stories of successful domainers. He tells how individuals of varied educational and work backgrounds found success through foresight, smart thinking, and/or aggressive pursuit of domain names that they acquired for prices as low as under $10 to many thousands of dollars. But Kesmodel doesn't stop there - he offers insights into opportunities that exist in domaining today, and he introduces readers to many key players and domain industry resources. Readers who know nothing about Internet domain names beforehand will sooner or later realize that they could have hand-registered a couple of ".com" domain names for the price of the book... and know that buying the book first was a good investment because it can help them make smarter decisions. That is not to say that you cannot have success in the world of domaining without reading Kesmodel's insightful historical look at the evolution of the domain name industry - far from it, because readers will see that many successful domainers over the past 15 years or so have done phenomenally well without Kesmodel's near 20-20 hindsight. With over 500 Internet domain names in my own "portfolio", I am by no means a newbie to the world of Internet domain names and have had some modest successes as a domain buyer, developer, and seller... From personal experience, I can attest to the fact that names purchased for tens or hundreds of dollars can sell for thousands if you find the right buyer... I am aware enough about the domain industry to have become a geo domainer, a domain developer, a domain name reseller, the author of a blog about Fractional Domaining, and an active participant in domain industry social networks. Looking back, though, I sure wish I had the knowledge contained within "The Domain Game" years ago when I and so many others were learning on our own and guessing what