What a Ride. Shifting Gears for 2011.

Tobias Ratschiller
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It's that time of the year again. I love the time between Christmas and New Year's. Business is quiet and there is time to look back and plan for the next year (even if it usually comes down to the same Pinky And The Brain quote: "Gee, Brain, what do you want to do next year?" "The same thing we do every year, Pinky - try to take over the world!").

2010 was without big surprises in our business. I had said in the beginning of 2009 that crisis years are building years, and in 2010 we continued what we had begun in 2009. We bought over 50 developed sites this year on forums, Flippa, and via private deals. In addition, we started a promising cooperation with the Domain Developers Fund to develop some of their names in equal rights joint ventures, the first ones being TCM.org and Holland.net.


I hope we will be able to expand in 2011 both via natural growth, more acquisitions, and joint deals. It's certainly still a buyer's market out there, but maybe we will find the right buyers for some of our bigger sites, building on our first six-figure sale in 2010.

Some weird experiences from this year:
  • a hand registration, MisterEmpresa.com, outperformed all of our second market domains in terms of growth
  • we now have several PR6 and Alexa Top 10,000 sites for bragging rights
  • biggest fuck-up: sold a domain via GoDaddy and can't cash the cheque in Slovakia
PS: My 2010 predictions weren't off too far. Still holding on to my Apple shares too.

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