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 Michael Gilmour: It’s that time of year where it’s necessary to spend a few hours searching through my domains for those I’m looking to sell. Let me say at first that it’s been a rare event when I’ve sold any domains with only one or maybe two transactions completed each year. Given this is the case I’ve decided that it was about time I got off my ba…

 Michael Gilmour: What is it about alarm clocks? The whole concept of an alarm clock is to shock your body out of the wonderful stupor associated with sleep and kick start the heart so that it immediately pumps blood around the body thereby forcing your happily sedated brain from a state of sleep to wakefulness.
When you really think about it there is…

 Michael Gilmour: I recently received an email from Simon Johnson regarding the fact that he was applying to be on the board of the Australian Domain Name Administrator (AUDA). Simon is a domainer and is putting his efforts where his mouth is when it comes to trying to bring positive change to the com.au namespace for domain owners.
I gave him a call …

 Michael Gilmour: Many of my friends believe that domainers are boring. According to them, given their experience with me this is not a statement up for conjecture and discussion but one of fact. I of course beg to differ.
For example, the other day I was at a party and everyone was having a great time except me. I was bored. I couldn’t help thinking …

 Michael Gilmour: What happens when you’re away! I’ve been away in Thailand on holidays with my family for a couple of weeks and it looks like it’s all going down for Dark Blue Sea (DBS) which Photon officially announcing a takeover.
Photon Group announced yesterday its intentions to takeover DBS and made an offer of 30 cents a share for 50.1% of the …

 Michael Gilmour: Endeavour is an interesting word and one that until recently many domain owners may have forgotten exactly what an endeavour actually is. Why do I say this? For the past few years the domain industry has been awash in a bath of cash that has been largely generated from traffic and topped up with a few sales.
The GFC (Global Financial…

 Michael Gilmour: Endeavour is an interesting word and one that until recently many domain owners may have forgotten exactly what an endeavour actually is. Why do I say this? For the past few years the domain industry has been awash in a bath of cash that has been largely generated from traffic and topped up with a few sales.
The GFC (Global Financial…

 Michael Gilmour: In the past I’ve typically always been a hoarder of domains rather than a seller and I thought that it was about time that I went through my portfolio of brandable domains and prepared some of them for sale.
The first thing that I wrestled with was the whole concept of what does it mean to “prepare a domain for sale”. I scratched my …

 Michael Gilmour: So what have I been up to lately? As normal I’ve been up to my neck in a myriad of domain name activities…..although lately it has been a little more frenetic than usual.
I’ve been having a lot of fun with my pet development project Downwind.com.au. The userbase is continuing to expand to the point where we have about 35% of the Au…

 Michael Gilmour: Over the past couple of months I’ve been approached by a number of buyers to help them source traffic domain portfolios for them. They have considerable amounts of money to spend (mid- to high $XXX,XXX) on domain portfolios that meet their criteria.
This caused me to work away on the “Domain Portfolios For Sale” system on Whizzbangsb…