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This is a shout out to my mate Morgan Linton from MorganLinton.com

Morgan is one of the most prolific bloggers in the domain space and his blog/s are always great to read and very very informative.

Like myself, Morgan is a lover of WordPress and its power & ease of use. I have close to 100 sites being developed in WordPress at the moment, this scale of development was cost prohibitive even less than ten years ago. Back then before WordPress or other Open Source Content Management Systems became the norm, you had to get pretty much everything done by a web developer which limited most people from developing larger number of websites.

So for those of you who are interested in developing a WordPress website but have not put your toe into the WordPress pool yet, Morgan has put together a great FREE tutorial series for beginners on how to setup a WordPress blog. You can read it here at http://morganlinton.com/ready-to-learn-wordpress-new-resource-added-to-my-blog/

Great job Morgan!

Cheers

Ed

 

This episode of Domain Names Podcast I speak with Marc Ostrofsky the author of Get Rich Click The Ultimate Guide to Making Money on the Internet.

Here is a piece about Marc from his website -

Happy New Year to all my readers / listeners.

I think we are in for an amazing year where domain names will reach a whole new audience of end users.

To help with that process, I hope that the interviews I have done in the past and my future podcasts will help to educate the general public and domain investors alike.

Some of my upcoming confirmed podcast guests will be -

Adrian Kinderis, CEO of AusRegistry

Adam Dicker, CEO of DNForum.com

Page Howe, CEO of  SiteHQ.com

Frank Schilling, (Second follow up interview from our first last year)

Also on my list but not spoken to or confirmed -

Michael Berkens, CEO of MostWantedDomains.com & Author of TheDomains.com

Rob Grant, CEO of RealEstateDirectory.com

Michael & David Castello of CCIN Castello Cities Internet Network
This will be a follow up interview with the Castello Brothers from my first podcast interview with them back in 2008

I have many more on my list that I will add at a later date. If you have anyone in particular you would like me to have on my podcast, please drop me a line through the comment section and I will see what I can do to get them on the show.

Have a great day!

Hi all,

It is not very often that I have been this excited about an online product or service, but Kajabi is a different beast completely.

If you have no idea what Kajabi is and what the heck I am talking about then you can check it out here www.Kajabi.com.au

If you have already watched the first video then the latest video with a look behind Kajabi and what powers it, to its pricing structure are all revealed on the latest video. Just click on the “Get Kajabi” tab at the top of the page.

I have decided that I will be going for the Ultimate package as it just seemed to be the best value for my business model, but there is an option for everyone.

There is a 14 Day Free trial with no strings attached but it is for a very limited time.

Disclaimer: Ed Keay-Smith & OzDomainer.com are affiliates of Kajabi and will make affiliate commissions on products or services purchased through these links.

I have recently discovered heaven on earth, The Book Depository.

On average their prices are 20% – 50% cheaper than what we pay in Australia and they offer Free Book Delivery Worldwide which is a huge saving alone for us in Oz as the shipping prices we can pay from sites like Amazon are sometimes more than the cost of the books themselves.

I think they are also fairly competitive with Amazon on pricing for customers in the US so check them out.

I have ordered 7 books so far and have saved approx $45.00 and have told many of our friends who have also found it to be a much better deal.

In terms of a well developed website I think they have done a great job and have won some awards for the business in the UK as well.

Morgan Linton from DomainVestors.tv and I caught up in Perth Australia (my home city) last Thursday when he was here on business. He had a few stops on the east coast of Australia in Melbourne & Sydney as well before arriving in Perth.

This was the first time we met in person but we have conversed on the internet many times and he was a guest on my Domain Names Podcast several months back. Here is the link to that podcast for those of you who have not listened to it yet. Morgan Linton Podcast.

We went out for a nice meal and talked about (you guest it) Domain Names! in particular ccTLD domains as we both have a strong interest in that market place. We also talked about the Apple iPhone (doesn’t everyone???) as we both have the latest 3GS which IMHO is just brilliant and a complete game changer in the Smart Phone game!

Morgan is a very switched on young man and has some great plans for his website DomainVestors.tv and will be conducting a series of video interviews with various domain name investors next year so watch out for those!

Thanks for your visit to Perth Morgan, it was great to finally meet you in person. I hope you enjoyed your trip down south to Margaret River and did lots of wine tasting. It is Gods country down there, one of my favorite places on earth.

I just finished reading the great story about fellow Aussie Domainer Gregg McNair at DnJournal.com When you read this artice you could be forgiven for thinking that it is about 10 different people as Gregg has lived the life of at least 10 guys he has done so much! and he is just a young bloke!!

I met Gregg at the Traffic ccTLD conference this year in Amsterdam but did not get to spend any time with him which would of been great but he was very busy and hard to get a hold of, maybe we can have a talk on a podcast at some stage as I am sure it would be great listening.

Well done again by Ron Jackson, he truly is the master of interviews! I especially love the bit with the cow giving birth (thats where Gregg gets his hands dirty)

OK, I have had a gut full of people using the phrase “Premium Domain/s” to describe their piece of crap domain names!

Every time I look in forums or on domain blogs there seems to be some dickhead trying to flog their worthless domains to some poor unsuspecting domain newbie that gets sucked into the who “Premium Domain” bullshit. Excuse my French but this reeeeeeally pisses me off.

Trust me on this one, www.i-bloody-great-bullshit-domain-name.biz does not class as a “Premium Domain” in my books.

People who are new to domains and reading this blog, please please please!!! DO YOU RESEARCH before you hand over your cash for these rubbish domains.

I could go and register 100 new hand registered names that are better than 80% of the crap that I see being bought and sold in the domain aftermarket. STOP and THINK! before you buy a name, ask yourself, Is this a generic word or phrase that is being searched on in Google or the other Search Engines or is it just some made up crap that someone thinks is a great idea and is sure to catch on one day or be “Brandable”.

Sorry to rant on guys & girls but this has just gotten beyond a joke and I had to say something.

PS. My above Premium Domain i-bloody-great-bullshit-domain-name.biz is for sale for a limited time only for the bargain basement price of just US$10,000!

Any takers???

Regards

Ed

Knowing the laws regarding the ownership and purchase of your domain names is something that is often neglected or overlooked by domain owners.

It can be a mine field of information to follow and process and if you have tens of thousands of dollars invested then you had better start paying attention.

You could be in for a rude awakening one day when the law or a company that thinks it has the rights to ownership of one of your names comes a knockin!

My mate Erhan Karabardak from Cooper Mills Lawyers based in Melbourne Australia is a global authority in the areas of Domain, ISP & Telco law.

Erhan was a guest speaker at the recent Traffic Down Under Seminar held in Queensland Australia (check out Erhan’s talk on video here)