20 years ago was the best time to create an online business.  Today is the second best day.  If you’re spinning up a new website and need hosting, I personally recommend siteground.  What’s better is they’re offering 3 months Startup Hosting for only $0.99!  They offer free email, SSL certs, you can transfer in a wordpress website or create a new one with the press of a button.  They also offer auto-scaleable cloud hosting, wooCommerce hosting and more!  (you can even register domain names there).  They have an easy to use UI, secured through two-factor authentication (please set this up).  Their support staff is always helpful via liveChat when I use that.  Would you use my affiliate link? https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida

I haven’t made a podcast in nearly 3 months!

I recently read “Rich Dad Poor Dad” by Robert T. Kiyosaki, and this was a tough pill for me to swallow, but he made some good points.  Let me say that I don’t think the world rotates around money, but he argues it does, and he makes some valid points to this.  My biggest take away is how he defined the differences between the rich, middle class, and poor:

EPISODE 1.15 - THE 2020 DOMAIN REGISTRAR CHAMPIONSHIP BRACKET: ROAD TO THE FINAL FOUR 20 years ago was the best time to create an online business.  Today is the second best day.  If you’re spinning up a new website and need hosting, I personally recommend siteground.  What’s better is they’re offering 3 months Startup Hosting for only $0.99!  They offer free email, SSL certs, you can transfer in a wordpress website or create a new one with the press of a button.  They also offer auto-scaleable cloud hosting, wooCommerce hosting and more!  (you can even register domain names there).  They have an easy to use UI, secured through two-factor authentication (please set this up).  Their support staff is always helpful via liveChat when I use that.  Would you use my affiliate link? https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida     It’s been a while since I’ve provided an update, so here’s what’s happening Here’s my plan for the future: I break down the Sweet 16 and Elite 8 to get us down to the Final 4 Domain Registrars.  Here's a full break down of the bracket from the first game to the most recent. I’m not buying a lot of new domains these days, mostly because I’m pinched for time.  But I bou

20 years ago was the best time to create an online business.  Today is the second best day.  If you’re spinning up a new website and need hosting, I personally recommend siteground.  What’s better is they’re offering 3 months Startup Hosting for only $0.99!  They offer free email, SSL certs, you can transfer in a wordpress website or create a new one with the press of a button.  They also offer auto-scaleable cloud hosting, wooCommerce hosting and more!  (you can even register domain names there).  They have an easy to use UI, secured through two-factor authentication (please set this up).  Their support staff is always helpful via liveChat when I use that.  Would you use my affiliate link? https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida

Leading into the show I talk about how to cope better with the COVID-19 situation by using your time to accomplish tasks around the house, getting fit, buy domains and more.  Find new routines and emerge on the other side of this pandemic a better  you!

In this article I break down all 16 games in the first round of the West region.  You can view the updated bracket here.  I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community!  Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket!  I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home!

Here's a full break down of the first 32 games.  In future podcasts I discuss each bracket in detail.  Be sure to subscribe!

In this article I break down all 16 games in the first round of the East region.  You can view the updated bracket here.  I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community!  Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket!  I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home!

Here's a full break down of the first 32 games.  In future podcasts I discuss each bracket in detail.  Be sure to subscribe!

In this article I break down all 16 games in the first round of the midwest region.  You can view the updated bracket here.  I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community!  Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket!  I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home!

Here's a full break down of the first 32 games.  In future podcasts I discuss each bracket in detail.  Be sure to subscribe!

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In this article I break down all 16 games in the first round of the south region.  You can view the updated bracket here.  I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community!  Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket!  I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home!

Here's a full break down of the first 32 games.  In future podcasts I discuss each bracket in detail.  Be sure to subscribe!

Today’s episode is brought to you by my friends at siteground. Use my affiliate link: https://www.siteground.com/go/jasonofflorida

In this article I talk about how I derived the 2020 Domain Registrar bracket, including seeding all 64 registrars.

If you’d rather cut to the chase, you can view the bracket here.  I’d love to see this shared throughout the domainer community!  Please feel free to follow along in my next several podcasts as I choose winners from each bracket!  I think it’ll take me about 8 podcasts to crown a champion – so please fill your bracket out and follow along at home!

Here’s the poll at namepros.com that inspired this bracket challenge.  I wanted to find some real data and have some fun in making this bracket challenge – and crown a real champion, opinions aside.

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In this article I reviewed how the DNS system works, but I also reviewed all 5 types of TLDs:

Segment 2: Which of the “new” TLDs should domain investors buy?

HOT TLDs for the future

Just My Opinion (take this with a grain of salt) 

Any tld that operates primarily outside the US won’t be a money maker for a long time.  I’m going to focus investing in TLDs that US users will adopt, since US users are the people who spend money online, plain and simple.

Final word on new TLDs: for most of the “new” gTLDs, only buy ones that are one-word dictionary words, these will be the highest value sooner.  Also, there’s some luck in this – the next generation will dictate their usage, and much of that is unknown.

Segment 3: new TLDs to avoid

I can see a future where security is a big concern, and TLDs are locked down to “verified companies” (more like .bank).

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Segment 1: What is Domain Name Theft and How are Domain Names Stolen?

Most common way:

A few years ago, the dev shop I work at during the day did the dev work to allow users to opt-into two-factor authentication, so I have a strong working knowledge of how it works.  I’m going to share my knowledge today to help you keep your domain names from being compromised.

Online security is about setting up multiple lines of defense around all of your accounts.  It’s not a matter of IF one of your accounts will be compromised, but WHEN.  Because of that, it’s important to have layers of security.

Finally, I want to reiterate that you should NEVER use a website that doesn’t offer TOTP.

Segment 3: SOME OF MY LANDING PAGES HOSTED THROUGH EFTY.COM RECENTLY STOPPED WORKING

I wrote in this article how to setup email forwarding on your domains.  In it, I showed you how to setup your efty.com landers without pointing your DNS servers to efty.com.  It seems as though efty has closed this loophole.  Earlier this week, I notice my landers setup with domain forwarding with masking no longer worked, so I had to route my DNS through efty.com to get them to work again.  It’s a minor inconvenience, and since each registrar handles email forwarding differently (paid vs free) and sometimes it works or it doesn’t (I’m looking at you GoDaddy), then it’s even more difficult to bulk forward email sent to email addresses associated with your domain.  I’ll be writing an article on this soon (hopefully)