
Michael Cyger
@MichaelCyger
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Media entrepreneur. "Governor" of @BainbridgeIsl. Exited: @DNAcademy → @GoDaddy, @DomainSherpa, @iSixSigma. Building @Nerveio.
BainbridgeIsland.com
Joined October 2009
🚨 BREAKING: My company just closed a massive round of... absolutely nothing. Isn't automated outbound business development awesome?
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I'm thinking about building a platform where domain investors compete to see who can buy and sell the most names in 3 months. How do I stop cheating, like selling to friends or self-dealing, so the stats show real investor or end-user sales? What rules or tech would solve this?
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New ☕️ supporter! Thanks @shipitplz 🙏 ∞ Unlimited access to https://t.co/XI3Zj0HEzN for checking renewal costs 😱 Avoid shock of $100–$10K+ annual renewals on domain auctions 🛡️ Private searches not shown in "Recent Renewal Cost Lookups"
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One of these renewal prices is definitely not like the others 👀 Really makes the ones that are in the $1k+ range look reasonable 🤣
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Big thanks to my newest coffee supporter: @DomainGaffer ∞ Unlimited access to https://t.co/XI3Zj0HEzN for checking renewal costs. 😱 Avoid shock of $100–$10K+ annual renewals on auction domains. 🛡️ Private searches not shown in "Recent Renewal Cost Lookups"
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Congrats to @AmmarKubba and AskWisdom․ai on the sale/purchase of Wisdom․ai. $750,000 sale tops the public sales charts at @DNJournal for .ai sales, beating out you․ai and cloud․ai. Check out the options they had to choose from, which clearly aren't as good as Wisdom․ai.
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@dotdB I found another one I own: Prompt․im is taken in 531 TLDs
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Which domain in your portfolio racks up the most exact-match SLDs on @DotDB across all extensions? Mine’s https://t.co/QC7A5WvFWL with 418. What’s yours?
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@RDAOToken @ecorp @OnRallyRd @domoracom My apology for the mistype in the original post, it's @DOMAProtocol by @D3Inc
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"The proof is in the pudding." I’m excited to see real success stories emerge as the financialization of domain names develops, with hopefully less hype and more proof. The players: @RDAOToken (by @ECorp, since 2020) @onRallyRd (not blockchain, domains since 2024) @Domoracom
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Domain name investors drive early sales in every new TLD launch. Without investors, how far would registry revenue fall?
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I have 99 problems and almost all of them all related to buying and not selling domain names.
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Great domain names require no explanation. Good domain names sometimes do because we don't know everything. I'm always amazed how many massive niches exist in the world.
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I don't usually scan closeouts and low-priced auctions, but for the @DNAcademy Investor Challenge it's a daily habit. Yesterday, I spent 12 minutes searching. In 6 months, I turned $500 into $3,475 (after commissions), just by spending ~10 min a day hunting deals on @GoDaddy.
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Performance Matters. Precision Matters. Predictability Matters. Introducing OptiBLOCK mini
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Some people collect rare art, vintage wine, or luxury handbags. I'd much rather collect a powerful domain name. To each their own. Celebrate what you love.
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My 2025 domain name investing skill levels (out of 5 🧠): Research: 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠 Valuation: 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠 Patience: 🧠🧠🧠🧠🧠 Management: 🧠🧠🧠🧠 Cold outreach: 🧠🧠🧠🧠 Auctions watching: 🧠🧠🧠 Trend watching: 🧠🧠 Patience is the most difficult. Outreach effectiveness is
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Here's an update: 2 LTO sales in 2025 One is 12 months One is 60 months Both are .io That's from a portfolio of 90 domains Hoping for one more sale or LTO in 2025 🤞 https://t.co/MCeqLoaZYJ
Here's my domain investing strategy shift for 2025: Moving to 5-year lease terms on all domains under $250k. Keeping domains while collecting steady payments will be my model. Failed businesses return domains, but payments stay with me. Switching from one-time sales to
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Issue #23 of the @CygerSelects email newsletter goes out on Monday. Really useful insights I curated from: @Aaron_Sanders
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I cut through the noise and curate only the most useful domain name updates and insights you need to stay ahead – all in a concise, easy-to-digest format – delivered every Monday morning at 5AM...
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There’s a great satisfaction in writing a well-thought out and clear functional specification to code to.
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