Facebook: Social Domaining
Aside from connecting with and snooping around profiles of my old high school and college friends, my time on Facebook is spent networking with other web professionals, namely domainers and domaining organizations, events and groups.
Facebook and other social networks will play a large role in the ever increasing exposure of the domaining industry in the next couple years. The closer we work together and learn from each other the better and more profitable our businesses will become.
If you would like to connect with me on Facebook, visit my profile.
Also, please show your support by joining the DotSauce Fan Page.
Facebook can offer you a direct line of communication with brilliant minds in the domain name and development industry. Facebook messaging is less-intrusive than direct email. Sometimes you can get behind the scenes access to what is going on in the lives and projects of those people, promising new websites that might not be released yet, ideas and business plans.
It’s pretty sweet that I am Facebook friends with people like Jay Westerdal (DomainTools), Seth Coman (Modern Domainer), Frank Michlick (DomainNameNews), Ryan Stout (Bust-A-Name), Nate Whitehill (Unique Blog Designs) and many more.
Groups on Facebook related to the Domain Industry
- Domaining - 60 Members
- Domainer - 111 Members
- LinkedICANN - 51 Members
- ICANN (Official) - 108 Members
- Facebook Domain Name Network - 180 Members
- DOMAINFest - 197 Members
- NamePros.com Group - 25 Members
- GrassRoots.org Group - 32 Members
Useful Facebook Applications
- Mixx on Facebook - Social news, photo and video sharing.
- Stumbleupon - Discover new websites and promote your own.
- Sphinn: Hot Topics - See what’s new in Search Marketing and SEO.
- Business Cards - Design and share virtual business cards with friends.
- LinkedIn Contacts - Get friends to connect with you on LinkedIn.
- Blog RSS Reader - Share updates from your own blog posts instantly.
Late last year I beta tested a Facebook application which was essentially a fully featured marketplace for buying and selling domain names. It was extremely well made, I am honestly not sure why it is not live and active right now. Maybe we’ll here more from the developer after he reads this article.
Facebook Instant Messaging: Coming Soon!
Facebook recently announced at a press conference that they will be releasing a built in instant messaging application to allow friends to chat with each other. While web based chat is nothing new, it will bring social ties between friends that much closer.
Here is a short video preview of the yet-to-be-released Facebook IM.
Look forward to seeing you all on Facebook!
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March 21st, 2008 at 10:12 am
Great post - if you own domain names you do have to market your domain names.
Create your videos / mp3 files / free ebooks and other marketing materials and join websites like FaceBook, youtube, myspace and others then upload your media files on there, create your own community, teach others how to find domain names and you will also share the victory (make friends and sell your domains).
To YOUR SUCCESS
March 21st, 2008 at 12:46 pm
Nice article, though I do think some people may disagree with this:
“Facebook messaging is less-intrusive than direct email.”
Personally, I’d rather get emails from strangers than have people who don’t know me well direct-message me on Facebook. But maybe that’s just me.
March 22nd, 2008 at 8:20 pm
Domaining is something that has interested me for a while now and I’m slowly getting into it myself.
Thanks for the interesting post.
March 23rd, 2008 at 9:05 am
I agree with Sundress. Add to that the fact that social networking sites like Facebook, and especially Myspace, have an increasing problem of spam. I just can’t imagine Facebook as a place for business.
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