The Domain Social Survey 2022 – The Domain Social

Part 1 – Location and Availability
(Extremely important to help me schedule)

Where on Earth do you live?
(Specify planet if not currently on Earth)

What time-zone are you in?

What time of day can you to attend online live sessions?
(In your local time zone if you put your location or timezone above)
(Use use Eastern Time if you didn’t enter your location or timezone)

Early Morning (6am to 9am) – Yawwwwn

Late Morning (9am to noon)

Early Afternoon (noon to 3pm)

Late Afternoon (3pm to 6pm)

Evening (6pm to 9pm) – So you can watch while eating dinner

Night (9pm to midnight) – After the kids go to bed

Late Night (midnight to 3am) – After the spouse goes to bed

Stupid-O-Clock (3am to 6am) – Because humans are most productive during sleep

What time of day is BEST for you to attend online live sessions?
(In your local time zone if you put your location or timezone above)
(Use use Eastern Time if you didn’t enter your location or timezone)

Early Morning (6am to 9am)

Late Morning (9am to noon)

Early Afternoon (noon to 3pm)

Late Afternoon (3pm to 6pm)

Evening (6pm to 9pm)

Night (9pm to midnight)

Late Night (midnight to 3am)

Stupid-O-Clock (3am to 6am)

What days of the week can you attend online live sessions?
(Checkmark all that apply)

Mondays – So you can stop hating Mondays

Tuesday – But I can’t promise free tacos (just kidding free Tacos for everyone)

Wednesday – To help get over the mid-week hump

Thursday – So you can still justify attending as “a work thing”

Friday – Friday Funday because alliteration domains are good

Saturday – So you can network and learn while relaxing

Sunday – Sunday Funday because rhyming domains are also good

What day is BEST for you to attend online live sessions?

How often would you attend domain related online (live) events?

Daily (Since you’re already on Clubhouse 24/7 anyways)

2-3 times a week (You really want to get as much domain info as possible while still pretending to have a life outside of domains)

Once a week

1-2 times a month

General Availability Feedback
Use this if you want to leave more details such as letting me know you’re available at different specific times during the week vs the week-end

Part 2 – Content You Want
(Extremely important so I can be sure nobody gets bored)

What sort of online (live) sessions do you like?
(Check all that apply)

Socials / Group Networking

Interviews

“How-To” Technical / Information Sessions

Domain Reviews / Valuations

Live Domain Auctions

Domain Education (in lesson format with an expert)

THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTIONS. PLEASE TAKE A MOMENT TO LIST A FEW! 🙂
What specific topics and sub-topics you’d like to see discussed at future sessions?
(Please list as many as you can think of, one per line)

Who would you like to see interviews with?
(Please list as many as you want, one per line)

What sort of educational or technical panels would interest you?
(Please list as many as you want, one per line)

What registrars do you want information on or to know more about?
(Please list as many as you want, one per line, in order of preference)

What domain tools / services do you want information on or to know more about?
(Please list as many as you want, one per line)

What industries are you interested in the domains of?
(Please list as many as you want, one per line)

Please check what are you interested in …
(Check all that apply)

What value(s) of domains are you interested in discussing and learning about?
(Based on wholesale / purchase prices, check all that apply)

What categories of domains are you interested in?
(Click all that apply)

Keyword / Exact Match

Made-Up Brandables (Fanciful)

Brandables Based on Words (Not fanciful)

Phrases / Slogans (Multi-Word)

Short (4 characters or less)

One-Word

Two-Words (Typical bread & butter domains like “NameCult.com”)

Span The Dot (ha.ck)

Numerics / Alphanum3rics

What domain extensions are you interested in?
(Please list as many as you want, one per line, in order of preference)
(Or just give a general class description)

What other areas of domaining are you interested in not already mentioned above?

Part 3 – About You As a Domainer
(Important so I can get a general sense of the audience)

How many domains do you own?

How long have you been domaining?

Haven’t started yet (Good to see you learning before diving in and going broke 🙂

Less Than a Year (Domain Padawan)

1 to 2 Years (Starting to drop the garbage domains you bought when you started)

3 to 5 Years (Spending 25 hours a day going through lists)

6 to 10 Years (Have enough domains you don’t bother with lists anymore)

11 to 15 Years (You’ve succeeded where 99.9% of others have not)

15 to 37 Years (You’re a domain dinosaur … rrwwaaarrrgh)

Over 38 Years (You were a domainer before domains even existed)

What level of domainer do you consider yourself?

What’s a domain?

New / Just starting

Intermediate

Expert

Are you a member of the ICA (Internet Commerce Association Domainer Advocate Group)

Yes

Not Yet

About how many domains have you sold as a domainer at RETAIL?

What aftermarkets do you have domains listed on?
(One per line)

Do you have your own domain marketplace?

No

Yes

Do you sell domains at wholesale?

No

Rarely

Often

Have you ever submitted domains to auction with other domainers? (Wholesale)

Yes

No

Would you be interested in submitting domains for live auctions with other domainers?

Yes

No

Not Sure

Do you do outbound sales/marketing on your domains?

No

Rarely

Often

Full-Time

Do you broker other people’s domains?

No

Yes – Inbound Mainly

Yes – Outbound Mainly

Yes – Inbound and Outbound

How do you acquire domains?
(Checkmark all that apply)

What domain extensions do you own?
(One per line, most to least, or just give a general description)
(Don’t bother listing any that are under 1 or 2% of your portfolio)

What domain tools and services do you currently use?
(One per line, or just give general description)

What registrars do you currently have domains at?
(Most to least, one per line)

What platforms do you use?

What domainer groups are you a part of and/or forums you use ?
(Most to least, one per line)

What are your favorite sources of domain related news / information?
(One per line)

Are you employed or do you work in the domain industry?

Yes

No (… but always dreamed of working for Frank Schilling down under the sun in the Cayman Islands)

What is your general feeling on the current state of domains?

What is your general feeling on the future state of domains?

Awesome! To the Moon .. then to Mars .. then to Andromeda!

Everything is Going To Be Good and Groovy!

Average

*Shrug*

It’s going to stink worse than Pepe Le Pew driving a garbage truck!

Part 4 – Participation in Live Sessions (Socials, Panels, etc)
(Quite important so I know to avoid wasting time on things people won’t participate in)

Have you previously attended any sessions of The Domain Social?

Yes

No – I wanted to, but was never available

No – I wanted to, but didn’t know how to join

No – It didn’t interest me enough

No – I’m too shy (Just so you know. You can keep your camera and microphone off if you’re feeling shy)

How do you know me? (Arif / Ategy)
(Click all that apply)

Which of the following would you be interested in participating in live sessions on?
(Checkmark all that apply)

Would you be interested in attending an in-person domain meet-up in Montreal (Canada) in Late June or Early July 2023?

No

Yes

Maybe (Yes, but depends on the details of the meet-up itself)

Would you submit domains for auction during The Domain Social or other special live auctions?
(If there were good buyers prepared to pay fair wholesale prices)

Yes

No

Not Sure

If you would submit domains for auction, what range would they be in?
(If there were serious buyers prepared to pay fair wholesale prices in that range)

HandReg, DropCaught, Closeout, Domains you got super cheap at auction, etc

Mid-Tier Auction (3 figures $xxx)

4 Figures ($x,xxx)

5 Figures and above ($xx,xxx)

Would you buy domains at auction during The Domain Social or other special live auctions?

No

Yes

Not Sure (You probably would if there were the types of domains you like at fair wholesale prices)

If you bought domains for auction at The Domain Social, what price range would you be prepared to pay?
(If the domain or group of domains were good enough .. and not PigeonPoop.com)

Would you submit domains for review at a domain valuation session with expert domainers?

Yes

No

Not sure

Would you want to be on a domain review panel member during a domain valuation session?

No

Yes

Not Sure

Would you be interested in helping in any of the following ways?

Zoom Chat Moderator

Topic Co-Host (Take the lead during discussions on specific topics / segments)

Interviewer

Interviewee / Speaker / Teacher

Taking Session Notes / Minutes

Moderating ClubHouse Side-Stream (and occasionally letting listeners know they can join on Zoom)

Data / Research (That person who Googles for more information on things we wonder about during socials)

Zoom Co-Host (Someone always around to keep things on topic and help let people into the Zoom session if ever I have to go take Steamie out for a walk/pee)

You’d like to volunteer to help in any way needed. (Chief cookie baker?)

Is there any other way you can or would like to help not mentioned above?
(Maybe also mention any technical skills you have that could help behind the scenes)

Part 5 – Contact
I will be respecting everyone’s privacy on personal information and will not be sharing any of it.
Those who want to remain anonymous can by not completing the section below.
However, if spam becomes an issue I might dismiss suspect submissions.
It would be great if you answer the first two questions (name and email), in case I want/need to follow up on anything you mentioned in the survey.

Name

First

Last

Email

Do you want me to manually add you to the TheDomainSocial.com mailing list if you aren’t already?
(or double-check that your info is correct if you’re already subscribed)

Yes

No

Twitter (If you’d like me to add you)
(Please follow @TheDomainSocial if you aren’t already)

LinkedIn (If you’d like me to add you)

Domain Marketplace Website/URL (Optional, if you have one)

Website/URL (Personal or Business if different from your marketplace, Optional)

Online/Forum Nicknames / Aliases (if applicable)

Company / Job (If applicable, like if you or someone in your company wants to discuss your related products or services during a live session)

Anybody cool in the industry that you know who you would be willing and comfortable enough to connect me to who would make for a good interview.

Text / SMS (Optional, if you’re not comfortable sharing online, please leave it blank)

Any other contact info or things you’d like me to know about you?

THANK YOU SO MUCH for taking time to fill this out. It will go a long way in helping me create cool and useful things for all domain investors! 🙂
If you have any final thoughts, ideas, feedback, suggestions, questions, or simply want to say something to me in general, please use the box below.
Otherwise never hesitate to contact via email or any other contact info you have for me.