I blogged about this around 6 months ago on a different blog I had at the time, however it’s something I’ve seen too many newcomers asking about lately, so hopefully I can reach a few of them here through this post…

Why do domaining ebooks fail to deliver beyond the basics? In my opinion, it comes down to a few things:

1) Nobody is going to share their “best domaining secrets” for $29, 49.95, $99.97, etc.

2) The domain name industry is still relatively small. A good ebook would take months to write and a likely best case scenario would maybe be selling 1000 copies (and you’d likely have to spend serious money advertising to achieve that even). It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out that no domainer who’s actually “making it” in the business is going to sit down and write one — there’s just no money in it.

3) Domainers are inherently lazy — and yes, this is true of me as well. I for the longest time have had trouble posting 1 (one) post on my blogs per week. Pathetic? Yes. A reality for most domainers? I’m afraid so. I’m getting better thankfully.

Do you really expect a lazy domainer to sit down and compile a 150-200 page ebook? I think not.
Don’t let anyone BS you — anything under 150 pages of Times New Roman size 12 isn’t going to even scratch the surface of what domaining is other than introduce you to the very basics. Matter of fact, a book of infinite size won’t turn you into a domain name expert. Why? Because much in the domaining world is about experience, not about reading. You can read all day about generics and what domains have gone for in the past — how do you apply what’s happened in the past to the rapidly changing recessionary economy of today? You can’t. You need to live it, breathe it, experience it. No ebook is going to do that for you.

It takes most domainers years to accurately grasp even a small segment of the domaining world — and that’s not because they didn’t have ebooks back when they started, it’s because there’s just that much which needs to be learnt.

Self proclaimed domain name experts will throw in some past sales, often a few big sales, pretending all their sales are like that. Look, just a few of the sales I completed this year through Escrow.com:

It means nothing. Without knowing what the domains in question were both bought and sold for, we have no way of even knowing whether the domainer is writing an ebook to “Share his knowledge” or writing an ebook to “Recoup what he’s lost domaining”. These might even be sales a friend of his made or Photoshopped sales with digits added.

If you want a good inspirational book, buy David Kesmodel’s The Domain Game and read about people that actually have made it in the domain world. Read the blogs on Domaining.com — all are 100% free content from real domainers who actually know what they’re talking about. Sign up on domain name forums (Namepros and DN Forum) if you haven’t done so already and ask any questions you have, visiting DNJournal.com, DN Sale Price, and Namebio.com to keep yourself up to date on domain prices.

A real domain name expert shares what secrets he wants to share because he wants to share them, not because there’s $19.95 in it for him if he does — think about that.

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