I recently came upon a blog post on another domain blog in which domain parking-alternative company WhyPark (a Parked.com company) was recommended as a mechanism for monetizing domain names.  A year and a half ago, this may have seemed like good advice.  However, as someone who has been a client of WhyPark since shortly after [...]

Covington, Louisiana, USA – Home to Fat Lester’s Annual Post-Christmas Bonfire and Oyster Extravaganza Every year, on the day after Christmas (December 26, for those of you in Rio Linda), I host an all-day and all-night gathering (read: “party”) way out in rural unincorporated St. Tammany Parish, Louisiana. By day, we eat several sacks of [...]

Premium Domain Sales:  TheMedicalSupplyStore.com FatLester.com is pleased to announce that the premium domain name TheMedicalSupplyStore.com has sold! Some of you veteran domainers may be questioning my use of the term “premium” to describe TheMedicalSupplyStore.com. The standard argument is that because the domain contains four words (nor four letters), and is preceded by the word “the”, [...]

The following originated as a portion of a conversation between myself and a representative from Parked.com, the domain parking firm that recently acquired domain development company WhyPark (WhyPark.com). The representative had contacted me roughly a week before news of the sale broke, in an effort to persuade me to give Parked.com’s domain parking service a [...]

While there are many things a new entrant into the domain industry should know before investing a lot of money into buying domain names, I will refrain from reiterating the common 101-level advice found within most blog posts on the topic and instead focus on two domaining tips that I have had to learn the [...]