Today Americans are celebrating their 4th July Independence Day. Happy birthday America.

The top 3 domain sales that were reported this week are:
Talk.com – $500,000
TimeManagement.com – $100,000
Descargas.net (“downloads” in Spanish) €33,000 = $46,200
Source: DN Journal

Talk.com is the 6th biggest reported domain sale for 2009 so far. Keep them coming!

This weekend is the last weekend before I go on my summer vacation. I should be sitting on the beach this time next week in beautiful Barbados.

I will write a ten-part series of blog posts along with other postings to be auto published on each of the days I will be away. The ten-part series should be of interest to everyone.

I won’t say what I will be writing about, as there are some that just love to sit around andf then “jump on the band wagon”.

I am not sure if I will get the chance or will be in the mood to write any blog posts while I’m out there. I think I want a clean break.

I will try to finalise the domain deals that are already on the table. The rest will be dealt with on my return, or handled my team where possible.

I am exciting as there are quite a few new technologies that will be left running in the background for the next 3 weeks. We are experimenting with a lot of things, and quite a few of them are now in the testing phase.

Soon, we will be sending top quality domains on a daily basis to auction here are eBusinessDomains.com, with either zero or low reserves.

I am really confused about some domain auctions. People seem to be more focused on winning bids, rather than picking up domains that are assets. Registering a crappy domain is sinful enough. Why should people go a step further to buy a crappy domain on the domain aftermarket?

It would appear as if some people think that if a domain name is at auction at certain marketplaces then it means that the domain is certified premium.

How hard can it be to realise that some domain names are just simply useless?

Can anyone be a full time domainer? Well depends on what you do. Personally, I don’t like referring to myself as a domainer.

In a nutshell, it is like an accountant feeling insulted when you refer to him as a bookkeeper, or a surgeon being referred to as a doctor, or a barrister being referred to as a lawyer.

Call me an entrepreneur. Domains are not the end result. It is good that one can park and flip domains for a living, but there are much bigger fishes to fry with domains.

It was always my ambition to create and build brands. Not just sit on domains like a hen sitting on eggs to hatch chickens.

Don’t aim to be a full time domainer. Aim to be a full time entrepreneur. Be the next Internet tycoon. CNN does not cover people who make money with domain parking. They cover people who take a domain name like YouTube.com, develop it into a brand and then sell to the likes of Google for hundreds of millions.

Anyway the sun is shining outside…