Having connections around the world helps with domain investing.
I always remember the kindness of an American friend who mailed me a $500 check when I was low in money while studying in the USA. Friendship is a treasure, and it is also helpful in business. If you invest in the international domain market, it helps to have friends around the world. I can remember at least two cases where friendship helped.
Quite a while ago, a domain investor asked me whether sales landers from a certain vendor were blocked in China. So, I contacted an entrepreneur/domain investor in Beijing and he sent me back screenshots of the sales landers taken from PCs and mobile phones at several locations within China. As a result, I was able to confirm on the same day to the investor that the sales landers were accessible from within China.
Recently, I talked to a friend working at a domain company in Shenzhen and I was alerted to the situation where the government is very strict in confirming the status of a non-profit organization in China. That tip led me to the discovery that domain registrar Aliyun actually has placed a warning on the registration page of .org domains. As a result, I was able to write the article “The problem with selling .org domains to Chinese entities“.
These two small examples illustrate how helpful it is if we have domain friends around the world when investing in the global domain market. How can we develop such friendship? LinkedIn is a good place to begin. As far as I know, it is the only social network from the west that is allowed in China. In a way, LinkedIn acts as a bridge between China and the rest of the world.
Domain name forums are where it all began for me to network and make friends. I’ve yet to ask for a $500 check, but time to find out which ones would cut me one…
…kidding, but that is great that you found someone supportive enough to help you through tough times. One thing I kind of felt from reading this here is that networking was uplifting to you and might have helped your state of mind. And if not, I think it surely can help some others that think this is zero-sum.
Agreed, Amplify. NP was where I began networking in the domain world.
LinkedIn is being used by the Communist Party of China to recruit highly skilled US citizens for their spy program.
They CPC prey on the US citizens who are in financial difficulties and bride them.
Of course it is ALWAYS a one way street… “bad” China, bad “Russia”, “bad” Iran, “bad” North Korea, “bad” Venezuela. etc etc are always targeting the “innocent” USA/Washington government.
But the “innocent” USA/Washington mafia never orchestrate/attempt coups and presidential assassinations in Belarus, Ukraine, Venezuela, etc, never invade and bomb countries for “democracy”, oil and resources (eg: Afghanistan = Lithium), nor to install Rothchild central banking, nor any other nefarious reason. Nor do they organize plandemics, cyber polygons, agenda 2030s, shootdown of airliners, false flag events/poisoning, etc etc etc etc etc etc.
No, the zionist criminal mob who control the world via Washington are nice friendly people. I know they love me but the bad CPC et al want to hurt me. And that Putin fella…he wants to blow up the world a hundred times and kill us all – my TV and gubbermint told me so and I know I can trust them…
Turn your mirror, hahahahahahahaha
btw….. Use your real name