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Mike Mann:
So I’m with my great friend Paul Lowery: here. I’m going to introduce him in one second. I’m just checking like my video and my mic and my ears and everything. I’m really bad at this video stuff, but I think I’m getting a little better every week.
Mike Mann:
Okay, close enough. What are you going to do? Okay, thank you guys so much for joining. I hope more people join, tell your friends and come on and join our live stream. We’re going to talk to my buddy Paul Lowry for a few minutes or for a little while actually.
Mike Mann:
And then if you guys want, we’re going to do some domain name appraising when we’re done. And we can talk about a few other things. There’s all sorts of stuff going on in the world. You guys are welcome to ask questions to me and Paul after we have our little chat and our little conversation.
Mike Mann:
And let me just check Facebook, make sure that’s working right. Yeah, we’re here on Facebook. Looks like we have eight viewers. So that’s a good enough good start. 10 viewers. We’re picking up steam here.
Mike Mann:
Cool. So again, you guys know me, Mike Mann:. I’m the troublemaker at the moment. And I have my best buddy here, Paul Lowery:. How you doing? I’m doing good.
Paul Lowery:
I’m doing well. Like it’s good in Florida.
Mike Mann:
Awesome. So you’re out in Wellington and how’s the weather out there today? Like about a half hour away from me.
Paul Lowery:
Yes, it’s about 12 miles from the beach.
Mike Mann:
I’m getting a little bit of feedback though. I don’t know if you can maybe turn down the volume of your speakers.
Paul Lowery:
Okay. How about Matt?
Mike Mann:
I hear you. I think I’m gonna talk for a few minutes. I think it might be some with your speaker like feeding back through a loop into the microphone or something. So in any case, we’ll all talk in the ask questions and we’ll see, we’ll mess with the sound if we need to.
Mike Mann:
Okay. So Paul and I both live in Palm Beach, but we live on opposite corners of Palm Beach. And Paul and I have known each other for a super long time. I’m gonna actually tell the story in a couple minutes or at least some stories.
Mike Mann:
I’ve posted on my wall that Paul and I have lived in three different places near each other by accident. We both lived in Washington, DC where we met each other near there. And we both lived in Santa Cruz, California at different times, but we lived in California at the same time.
Mike Mann:
And we both now live in Palm Beach. So we’ve kind of accidentally been following each other around the country. So it’s pretty funny. And so Paul, do you remember the story of how we met? The actual very first time we met, did I remind you of the years?
Paul Lowery:
Tell me what you remember. Yes, you have. And it’s, I remember, some place where you go after you got in trouble. That was a long time ago. I think we were both early teens. Yeah. And James since that time, but we’re still friends.
Paul Lowery:
That’s great.
Mike Mann:
I mean, I was 14, you were probably 15, I was 14. The Alfred D noise, both of them. Do you want me to tell the story? Cause it’s actually kind of the more outrageous of the stories of how I met any of my guests.
Mike Mann:
You go ahead. Sorry, your sound’s cutting in and out a little on me.
Paul Lowery:
Let me take my cell phone.
Mike Mann:
Okay, well, I’ll tell the story and this is gonna be online for the rest of our lives, so I’m sorry about that. But the story is, is actually, when I was 14, my friends and I sort of stole a car and went to the beach with the car and proceeded to get arrested upon the return.
Mike Mann:
And we ended up in juvenile court. And then Paul and his friends apparently burned down a construction house and he ended up in juvenile court. No way.
Paul Lowery:
We blew it up. It actually blew up. It was like a Hollywood movie. So amazing.
Mike Mann:
years ago.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah.
Paul Lowery:
And it was a model how I did it.
Mike Mann:
Yeah, no people got hurt. But the point about the story that we actually met is the weirdest story though. The point is, is I literally met Paul, my best buddy here, about 40 years ago, in the hallway at juvenile court.
Mike Mann:
That’s where we met. I remember, I don’t know if you remember, what happened is my crew, I had a crew from one school and he had a crew from another school, both in big trouble of course. And my friend Todd Palmer knew them.
Mike Mann:
So he said, oh, there’s my buddies, blah, blah, blah. So that’s actually literally the day I met Paul. And then of course I knew him ever since the time.
Paul Lowery:
14.
Mike Mann:
I was 14. That was like one of the first times I got arrested. Thank you very much. But I haven’t been arrested since I was 18 for the record, so I’m doing a pretty good job. I’ve been working for charity every day since.
Mike Mann:
So anyway, that’s how we met. What else do you remember? Do you remember me from when we were kids at all?
Paul Lowery:
Well, I remember we grew up in a really great place, almost a better community of affluence and a lot of opportunity. So I really loved my great parents, great schools, great friends that I still have in contact to this day, 40, 50 years later, my best friends, I’ve known since elementary school.
Paul Lowery:
So, and like you, I mean, junior high school. It’s like maintaining relationships is as easy as making a phone call. Yeah, exactly. Hey, how you doing? You know, even if you’re totally just by, you know, you’re separate, it’s so easy to make a phone call.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah. Just to check in. Hey, I love you, man, thinking about you. What did I do? And I’ve so far, you know, I’m 55 now, as to hold on to probably 20 friends from elementary school. Cool.
Mike Mann:
Yeah, it’s amazing.
Mike Mann:
at your house.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah, my code actually.
Paul Lowery:
God, there’s an…
Mike Mann:
We had a lot of crazy friends and I know some of the other some of the dudes in Santa Cruz used to live in DC also.
Paul Lowery:
using Andy Routledge, all those people.
Mike Mann:
Yeah.
Paul Lowery:
We’re still living the same. It was 102 degrees there on Saturday.
Mike Mann:
Good Lord. Yeah, I know I saw on TV there was a heatwave out there. That’s crazy. It was like the world.
Paul Lowery:
was sitting in water at Sunny Cove. Say that again. Family were sitting in beach chairs in the water at Sunny Cove.
Mike Mann:
Nice, yeah. For those of you who don’t know, it’s usually really cold in the water in California. It has a Pacific current, so it’s much warmer here in Florida.
Paul Lowery:
Dude, I’d wear a four millimeter wetsuit to serve alcohol. Yeah, exactly.
Mike Mann:
as brutally cold. I used to live in California when I was young. It’s actually hot and nice outside so you’re thinking, hey, it’s time to go into the ocean. But no, it’s really freezing cold there. But now there’s a heat -saving…
Paul Lowery:
Yeah, they were 100 -per -moment -er.
Mike Mann:
I was like, wow. So yeah, we had a lot of good times. And then you were, how many grateful dead shows have you seen?
Paul Lowery:
at least 100, probably more like, now 90 or 100. That’s right. Every time they were within two hours drive. When I moved to California, they played all the work field for a while with Larry Sykes. And Jerry was in time.
Paul Lowery:
He had a security at the film work. He got free shows all the time. Yeah. So we were playing. I would drive up from Santa Cruz, 70 miles. So I missed Jerry. I miss his energy. And the way it was about life.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah, I missed that. Cause moving on these days.
Mike Mann:
Yeah, just watched a huge documentary about Jerry. Like a week ago, I saw a huge documentary about Jerry. It was awesome. It was like personal interviews with him, which, and like just the whole story, even though I’ve seen it before, but sort of a refresher and a lot of clips I hadn’t seen before.
Mike Mann:
It was super cool.
Paul Lowery:
I can’t believe it’s been 25 years.
Mike Mann:
I saw the cramps play in San Francisco. I see Michael Dunerson. I saw the cramps play with the Butthole surfers in San Francisco. I can look up the show. We’re getting crazy. And the Pixies, they played with the Pixies, the Cramps.
Mike Mann:
The Pixies was like the coolest thing ever. Like Frank Black in San Francisco.
Mike Mann:
There was a game I… Crazy Punk Band, Corn Fed Dames, if you ever remember that song, Corn Fed Dames? That’s the cramp. Oh man, they were like the craziest ass live show ever.
Paul Lowery:
That’s where the drumming going.
Mike Mann:
My drum ring is going slowly just because I’ve been so busy, but I’ve been enjoying playing around a tiny bit with a, I’ve been collecting some really nice pieces here and there. So just been playing some hand drums.
Mike Mann:
You know, we were in Delaware for the summer, so I played, I have one collection of drums in Delaware and one collection of drums in Florida. So I haven’t played much in Florida this summer, but I played a medium amount in Delaware.
Mike Mann:
I have super cool Native American drum collection. Actually here and there, but the ones I have there are like these huge Navajo and Seminole drums. So I guess that leads me into my next question for you is, Paul is actually Native American for those who didn’t read the blurb.
Mike Mann:
And so like, what’s the earliest memories you have about, you know, like being at your tribe and like, where’d your dad, like what’s your dad’s background with regard to the tribe? I know a tiny bit, but the audience doesn’t know anything.
Paul Lowery:
Okay, I’m a junior. The name of my tribe is Chickahominy and the other tribe is Pamunkey. That’s where I’m from. My father’s mother is from Chickahominy. So I am a Chickahmonkey as a anyway. Those tribes were headed by Chief Powhatan, Pocahontas’s dad.
Paul Lowery:
Pocahontas was a…
Mike Mann:
Elizabeth Warren’s dad? Elizabeth Warren’s dad?
Paul Lowery:
No, she’s Cherokee.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah, zero percent.
Paul Lowery:
when they went when asked. But anyway, Pocahontas was actually a Po -Monkey and that is the tribe where my grandfather’s from. So, the Po -Po tribes in the Virginia area, there’s like Chickahominy, Powhatan, and Po -Monkey, and Upper Monahan, Upper Rampahanix.
Paul Lowery:
So, the entire area of Virginia between Charlottesville and Williamsburg is the James, that is where my tribe is based from. I go up there every year for the Powhatan huge. It’s like the biggest Powhatans in Virginia.
Paul Lowery:
Last year, there was 10 ,000 people here, which is pretty huge for, I mean, I remember I turned around, there was a bus full of taking pictures. They bust in a bunch of Japanese tourists. They could take pictures.
Paul Lowery:
I was like, it’s 30 miles from Richmond, or Charlottesville. So, it’s not like it’s around the corner. So, they bust in a giant Greyhound bus full of Japanese tourists. They’re taking pictures and everybody was totally welcome.
Paul Lowery:
Of course. Great. So, they were up there every year. Here, and we have a traditional powwow. There’s dancers, jingle dresses, the veterans. My uncle is the assistant chief of the tribe, and my other aunt.
Mike Mann:
I mean, I’ve met him before. Yeah, you met him. Five years ago, your 50th birthday.
Paul Lowery:
50th person.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah, Don came down here with his girlfriend. But then I say girlfriend, the guy’s.
Mike Mann:
There was like five year relatives that came down one time when I met them, if you remember.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah, they were out, they were all the Ken and a few of my nephews that are, you know, they just came for the ride. Ken was coming to visit, he’s my cousin. This is where we drive the motor home to his house and every time we go up there.
Paul Lowery:
So he’s got like, you know, they all, it’s great because they all live, you can see them. There’s grandma, there’s mom, there’s dad, there’s, you know, it’s awesome that is still alive in Virginia.
Mike Mann:
That’s cool.
Paul Lowery:
Without the family unit, things are lost.
Mike Mann:
So your dad was born, your dad and mom were both born in that, they were born in neighboring tribes in central Virginia.
Paul Lowery:
My mom was from New York. I threw an unparted Chinese from New York. And Chinese, her mom’s name was Choykee. And my great grandfather was the general in the Chinese army back then. But he was an ambassador who went to Trinidad and met my grandmother.
Paul Lowery:
In Trinidad. Really? Trinidad. So my mom and her brother in Trinidad, or no, in the United States. So that’s where, all my family still lives in Manhattan, Long Island, up there. Yeah, I know. I know.
Paul Lowery:
You met my cousin, Darman. My mom and dad moved down to Wellington.
Mike Mann:
say again. The one cousin who has like horses in Wellington.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah, Lake Worth is in Wellington.
Mike Mann:
your cousin who has done, she have a horse in Wellington.
Paul Lowery:
Oh yeah, yeah, she lives down the road from us. That’s my cousin, Jalan. Right. She heard Bathroom to the United States years ago. Any own off -coast on that note. So she’s back with her new son. Well, she’s had a baby eight, nine months old by now.
Paul Lowery:
She moved back to Del Ray, I think. Cool. Cool. So yeah, we have dinner once a week.
Mike Mann:
Just her and the little guy.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah, but I like to talk to him really good. That is diagnosing people’s vehicle problems. Fathers me when people go to a dealership and they just get totally screwed, they don’t know. I have been in the auto industry since I was 12.
Paul Lowery:
I’ve owned a shop for 10 years. I had several employees. So my love automobiles is incredible. If any of your followers, people that are walking you car in, have them shoot me an email with what their problem is.
Paul Lowery:
And I’ll tell them what to expect. Don’t get totally screwed at the auto repair place. Because you know, a lot of these shops that are like Midas, Pep Boys, places like that, they have employee reports.
Paul Lowery:
Which means that each employee has to justify his job on paid boss. So that means that they are upselling the customer unnecessarily. That’s what, I mean, the set of breaks, all of a sudden it’s a $2 ,000 estimate.
Paul Lowery:
And for what you knew a guy in California, he had 22 Midas’s. All right, Midas, the shops. There was a lot of reports to the BAR, which is the Bureau of Automotive Repair, which were from the state in order to be a shop.
Paul Lowery:
They were getting a lot of reports of lies, ripoffs, that kind of stuff. So what they did, the BAR did, what they put was perfect. They had a little old lady in it, who drove it into a Midas, this guy’s Midas’s, and collected the estimate, put him out of business, took away his BAR number.
Paul Lowery:
Without that BAR number, you’re not in business. And you act that thing. So he had people, this woman was going into it, was coming out with $1,800 estimates, 22, 25, under 3 ,000, and there was nothing wrong with the car.
Paul Lowery:
A bunch of the BAR mechanics certified now. And all of a sudden it needs all this stuff. That’s crazy. That’s what, if you guys have something wrong with your cars and you’re concerned about being moved off, shoot me an email.
Paul Lowery:
I’ll tell you if we’re on the right track, because I tell my vibrations, what the car is doing, I can narrow down where the problem is pretty much. Called me the other night, he had a radiator leaking problem, and it turned out he’s on the side of the jurist talking to me on his cell phone.
Paul Lowery:
I said, go out and pop the hood. Where do you see the water leaking from? That’s your water pump. He goes into the shop, yeah, it’s the water pump. Don’t expect it to cost $100 for it. Yeah, exactly.
Paul Lowery:
They’ll probably try to close it to 900, but reality, so they first came in back with a $900 estimate. He was like, no, did you remember? How much it cost at the auto parts store? How much radiator fluid is gonna cost a fillet due to the labor rate industry standard guide of how much they can legally charge you for labor?
Paul Lowery:
And he was on the side of the road and had to have the car towed in for trying to screw him. Like, it’s gonna be like $1100, $7500. Yeah, it’s like every time.
Mike Mann:
It’s like every time somebody scratches me at my kids school parking lot or in the Walmart parking lot It’s like $500 fix at the paint company It’s actually my friend Courtney who I think is might be watching our screen her family owns the shop But I haven’t been there recently.
Mike Mann:
Oh, is it a paint shop? It’s like a paint repair shop. It’s like called. I think West Del Ray
Paul Lowery:
I need to talk to her because I’ve got a 70 to 240 mint and I need to have the windshield thing. So I’d like to talk to her. I need to find I need to find someone that’s qualified.
Mike Mann:
and body shop. Well, first thing or thing right here. Courtney’s family and body shop. So why don’t you, your sound is kind of crappy. So I’m not gonna, we’re gonna talk for a few more minutes and then I’m gonna do some domain name stuff.
Mike Mann:
And we’re gonna, for next time, we’re gonna work on your microphone because it’s annoying, but you’re doing a great job. But we should have practiced the audio. Mine isn’t very good either, but between the two of us, it’s like that.
Paul Lowery:
I don’t know what it is.
Mike Mann:
Maybe it’s the app itself and not either of us. I really don’t know. I’m gonna keep making this thing better every week because I still barely know what I’m doing and I don’t have anybody helping me.
Mike Mann:
So it’s impromptu, but I think we’re doing relatively well. Let me get.
Paul Lowery:
email address so you can give it to people if they want to contact me about their car. You can put, you can type whatever you want right on my wall.
Mike Mann:
I mean, I can put whatever you want, but regardless of, even though that sounds bad, I still want you to try to tell me a little bit about how you and Michelle travel, what it’s like, where you guys have gone, where your favorite place is, because Paul and Michelle have traveled around the country at least three or four times.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah, we bought a 36 foot motorhome class and we tow a minivan because I’m gonna I got into a wheelchair due to an I used to be an open ocean sailing racer and during a huge storm I took out my C3 disc so now I ride a wheelchair I don’t say I’m going to storm to 36 foot Z not the breeze like that and we were 2000 miles from California so I bought this motorhome and we’ve traveled the country comes in it it’s awesome we’ve been we’ve picked it up in California I had as my I sent my technician out to pick it up in Sacramento he drove it back to them and then for the next eight weeks they were pimping my ride you know that show so they were coming doing all around to make it awesome and we took off from there and it took us six months to get we just zigzagged hold on the camera we just zigzagged across country to maybe we went to Utah Grand Canyon Badlands I river down to yeah all over the place my me and the family’s pow wow in Virginia that was the end game was to make it back to Virginia power in a month there hung out for the power which is actually two days so there I got to do family stuff which is great and then we came back to Florida and then we split again out of Florida the next year and we did another truce we just basically zigzag the country wherever we wanted to go pick up up home we want to go there and we drive there and the best thing was that place is to park like campgrounds of America and you can even park at a Walmart safe the super centers they’ve got full cameras they got security park fire up the generator eat wake up at seven or eight in the morning hit the road bow gone no hassles no probably stopped in Walmart’s a lot because if we were just in transit because you just park slight and go but with like a KOA we would if we were going to spend we would go pull into a KOA and they’ve got electricity water soup and it’s like 30 bucks a night
Mike Mann:
Yeah, I know.
Paul Lowery:
Can’t beat it. You know, all these people are giving out. Go ahead.
Mike Mann:
I was just gonna say, if you’re at Walmart, they want you to be there because you’re there late at night when they have no customers mostly, and then they’re a customer, you come buy supplies for your trip from Walmart.
Paul Lowery:
thing in the morning you’re going in there buy some stuff.
Mike Mann:
You need some dog food in your case. I love it. Eat my love.
Paul Lowery:
toothpaste whatever you know They know you’re going And they don’t care. I think it’s great that you know there was very available to us everywhere And I talk an apple my phone wall
Mike Mann:
So like if you have to, where is your favorite place that you’re just gonna pick one spot?
Paul Lowery:
I would have to say Utah, Monument Valley.
Mike Mann:
Yeah, so nice there.
Paul Lowery:
Unbelievable. Unbelievable. Just beautiful people we met really. It was really nice. Yeah, I don’t know if you remember.
Mike Mann:
I have a company in Utah, SEO .com. I don’t know if you remember that. In any case, I have a company.
Paul Lowery:
you
Mike Mann:
I haven’t been there recently, but I used to go visit once in a while. I love Utah. It’s so pretty there.
Paul Lowery:
So where and you
Mike Mann:
I’m sorry, I didn’t hear in Salt Lake City. It’s a, you know, one of the cleanest cities in the country. No riding as far as I know. The Mormons aren’t the best riders.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah, they’re not busting them in. It’s beautiful there.
Mike Mann:
Yeah, it’s so nice. And then I think it’s called Park City is the ski slope near there, which of course I can’t ski, but I’ve driven it. Yeah, I’ve driven around up there. It’s like the prettiest neighborhood ever.
Mike Mann:
It’s so nice up there. Utah’s done an awesome place.
Paul Lowery:
I just love the fact that the air is so clean.
Mike Mann:
Yeah, exactly. It’s a beautiful, clean city. It’s really nice there. I would live there. The Salt Lake Beach isn’t exactly my idea of a beach. If it had an ocean there, if they cut off a third of the country and left me a nice ocean.
Mike Mann:
It’s a cool place, though. So what else was I going to ask you about? Just, is there any particular, like while you’re stuck home at COVID, is there any particular like music, movies, food or anything in particular you’ve been getting into that you want to tell?
Paul Lowery:
Michelle, when we start we cook these shmores the other day. Yeah, bring Michelle in here. The typical, but these are like wraps and like an egg roll kind of thing. Yeah. Like crack, it’s some smore crack.
Paul Lowery:
I don’t know what it is. It’s unbelievable.
Mike Mann:
Brian for a minute. She can tell us about her time at COVID and then we’ll let you guys go or listen we’re going to talk about domains in a couple minutes. Let’s bring Michelle on for a second. Okay.
Mike Mann:
She didn’t get her cameo is it yet?
Paul Lowery:
Hey sweetheart, he wants to say hi.
Mike Mann:
She’s all dressed up. We made it pretty facey between the two of us.
Paul Lowery:
This is my beautiful wife, Michelle.
Mike Mann:
and my wonderful friend. So Michelle, how’s COVID treating you? You look well even though I can barely see you. There you are.
Michelle
Thank you.
Mike Mann:
You’re doing pretty well during your COVID.
Michelle
Yeah. Paul’s been getting into the pool, so that’s been nice. Some op -ed therapy for him. Other than that, you know, just trying to keep busy. And I got more…
Mike Mann:
It doesn’t do online stuff.
Michelle
that.
Mike Mann:
Your nursery school.
Michelle
Well, listen, enrollment, I mean, people are either homeschooling or waiting to see what happens. If you’re under six, it’s really hard for the little ones to be virtual because parents have to work.
Michelle
And you know, you can’t keep there. It’s less than half hour Zoom meeting. So, we were doing that from March and you know, and then they’re right now, they’re gonna open up come September 8th and it’s gonna be small pods.
Michelle
I’m just, I’m kind of on call. I’m waiting, I can’t bring any more germs home to my wonderful husband than he already gets. No germs. Yeah, no cooties. No more cooties in the house. Nope, no you guys.
Mike Mann:
You guys both look like you’re doing pretty well under the conditions. Yeah, like we pulled Victor out of school and then like they said Victor school, his temple had sent a message saying like how incredibly strict everything was.
Mike Mann:
And so then I pulled him out of the school and then. But then they loosen the restrictions again. So now he’s back in the school. So now he starts school on Monday. This the temple school. There’s still a lot of restrictions.
Michelle
Oh, bro. Yeah, it’s going to be really challenging, I think. But a little one asks, they’re going to be really sad at separation. It’s, you know, both educators, you know, I’m used to being the nurturing one, right?
Michelle
They cry and I’m there at them. And I wasn’t sure. I didn’t want to be that stressed out person. Yeah, I hear that. And ready, very stressful. So, you know, that’s, you know, those decisions for themselves.
Michelle
And I feel really bad about educators having to make those decisions. Now, it’s not only the kids, it’s also those of us or, you know, you coming home, you know, your spouse sick or your extended family.
Michelle
So it just wasn’t worth it for me. Plus, we don’t mention that’s, you’re not getting hazard pay. I already don’t have insurance through this.
Mike Mann:
I don’t think you should go. I was just curious what’s up on the line. Yeah, I mean. Worth it. I don’t want. No, I totally agree with you. I mean, you know, I’m not going in there. I’m not going. They won’t even let the parents in the school.
Mike Mann:
You can only you have to drop them off. No, you’re not. They’re just going to be like, oh, no.
Mike Mann:
Bye.
Mike Mann:
Yes, so I don’t have to worry about me getting infected. And in any case, um. Yeah, I hear you.
Michelle
We all have our issues, especially, you know, it’s just too much of a gamble. Yeah, I’m not a gambling gambler.
Mike Mann:
Yeah, I’ve been stupid.
Michelle
No money I have. But reckless. I know.
Mike Mann:
Well, I’m going to gamble that it’s going to go away soon, but until then I’m going to be super safe. You know, I’m hoping that hopefully in a month or two we’re going to hear that there’s no new cases, but we have to wait and see.
Mike Mann:
We can’t be certain until we get there.
Michelle
That’s why we haven’t seen you in a while. It’s good to see your face right now. I haven’t seen.
Mike Mann:
I know.
Michelle
We haven’t
Paul Lowery:
Well, I’ve been in this house.
Mike Mann:
I’ve been out of town anyway, so it doesn’t matter. I’ve been in Delaware the whole time.
Michelle
We were in middleware, but even before you left, I mean, we were seeing each other every other week or so. And then, you know, it’s so, it’s nice to see you and letting us see a Svetlana and Victor this morning.
Michelle
That was nice. Yeah, you guys too.
Mike Mann:
Well, you know, again, I’m assuming that we’re not going to be in isolation till the end of time. So hopefully we’ll see you soon. Hopefully not. Back to Crazy Uncle Nice.
Paul Lowery:
I don’t think man.
Mike Mann:
Eventually we’ll see some deadhead music and some vegetarian food for me. Woo, some sushi. Cool guys. Okay, well, you’re welcome to stay on if you want or drop off. I’m gonna do like my domain appraising stuff.
Mike Mann:
But thank you so much for joining and come back again soon and keep us abreast. Thanks guys.
Paul Lowery:
I think I’m gonna drop off because we got to go to the store
Mike Mann:
Okay, buddy, I’ll talk to you soon. Thank you so much.
Paul Lowery:
Yeah, Mike, I’ll put on my email if any of your friends need a biased, no BS opinion about their car.
Mike Mann:
I definitely yeah, it’s a very mental wall there and they can add you to Facebook also for that matter
Paul Lowery:
I’m so tired of people being ripped off.
Paul Lowery:
I know. Cool, buddy. Thanks so much. I’ll talk to you soon. It’s wrong.
Paul Lowery:
I’m the guy that can tell you what’s happening with your car.
Mike Mann:
You’re the…
Mike Mann:
you. You’re a reporter. The consumers. I’ll just say you know what
Paul Lowery:
I was like, just so you know, guy. I was the guy. I was like.
Mike Mann:
Thank you.
Paul Lowery:
I got tired of being ripped at all myself. So I can’t be ripped off.
Mike Mann:
hear that. Cool buddy. Well, please take that advice.
Paul Lowery:
I will put my email up there, info about fixing their car, help them out.
Mike Mann:
Thank you so much. I’ll talk to you soon. Take care, bro. Goodbye. All right, thanks, Michelle. Okay, I think I’m still here. So that was my best buddy, Paul Lowry, who’s an awesome dude. I didn’t get into all the stories.
Mike Mann:
I actually wanted to get into more, but his microphone sounded a little messed up, so I didn’t want to frustrate anybody. I can see, yeah, there’s definitely a problem with his audio, but I’m not, I don’t even barely know how to do my own, so I don’t know how to fix his.
Mike Mann:
So hopefully you guys can still see me here. And if anybody wants to do some domain name appraising with me, you can ask me some questions. Like, do you have domains you wanna appraise? You can, okay, I have one right here, except for I don’t usually do .org, but this is so weird.
Mike Mann:
Okay, so I have from Steven Oroz, lunches .org. You guys put some good .coms on there. I have a list of my own that I can do if you don’t have some good ones on there. Here I have one from the vendor, Paul.
Mike Mann:
Okay, so I’m gonna do one at a time here, and I need to share my screen, so I’m gonna figure all that out. I’m gonna share my screen and do some domain name appraising, hopefully. I can figure out what I’m doing.
Mike Mann:
Let’s see, share screen, okay.
Paul Lowery:
Chrome tab.
Mike Mann:
Okay, so here we are. Hopefully I’m sharing my screen. And what was that? What are these names again? Whoa, you guys jammed them out here. Okay, first we have lunches .org. I don’t usually appraise .org because it’s too hard to come up with a good price.
Mike Mann:
But in any event, if you see my screen here, everything goes in quotes. And we kind of know what lunches means and you could almost just pick a price and guess because it’s a standard word, but this is a plural.
Mike Mann:
It’s a .org. .org is really for charities. Conceptually, you could free lunch, lunches .org. Maybe it could be done for a soup kitchen or something. Soup kitchen has no money though. And most orgs have no money, which is one reason why, you know, .orgs aren’t always great, but I personally have the world’s best .org collection.
Mike Mann:
Those are the ones that have value, only the very best ones. The rest of the .orgs have no commercial resale value. But lunches .org is worth something. I just don’t know what. And Google didn’t give me any results for some reason.
Mike Mann:
So I don’t know if I’m having a bad internet day or what’s going on here. Lunches isn’t pulling anything up at all for me. Is something wrong with my Google? You guys can see my screen, so I’m not crazy here.
Mike Mann:
Yeah, you see my Google screen isn’t working. That’s not fair. So there it is. No, I took so long. So anyway, lunches, lunches, lunches .org. You know, again, it’s just, I don’t want to spend too much time on this because there’s just not a good answer.
Mike Mann:
Lunches .org is worth a couple thousand bucks. So who the heck knows? Lunches .org. Okay.
Paul Lowery:
Okay, I’m gonna do the next one.
Mike Mann:
If you can see on my Facebook, I just put lunches .org2k, then I’m gonna go back to my StreamYard. I don’t know why I post in StreamYard. Some things show up on StreamYard chat and some show up in Facebook, so I can’t figure out why.
Mike Mann:
So I keep switching back and forth. Okay, the vendor Paul has forexbusiness .com. So we’re gonna go back into Google and we’re gonna put forexbusiness in quotes and see what’s going on here. Forex is a huge idea, foreign exchange, billions of dollars trading per day.
Mike Mann:
It’s important not to forget the domain you’re working on, though, while you’re in the middle of it, forexbusiness .com. Okay, so here we are, forexbusiness. So it’s sort of a vague term. It means something, but it’s a business that’s in the foreign exchange trade.
Mike Mann:
These are foreign exchange business. So good news is Google actually has a blurb on it, which implies it’s a clean expression. But it’s not the most popular expression and it’s not a proper name. Like there’s no actual company we can see here named Forexbusiness.
Mike Mann:
It’s not like McDonald’s. And but it’s an expression. It means something, forex is a huge thing, but it’s just kind of a really bland, non -specific expression. We can’t see any companies that need that terribly.
Mike Mann:
So we’re doing three things here. First, we’re disambiguating the word, putting it in quotes, breaking it up, figuring out what it means. So we’ve done that, we know what it means. Then we’re looking at the breadth, how many businesses require this name and how many would like it isn’t that important because nobody’s gonna give you thousands of dollars just for the heck of it.
Mike Mann:
We’ll go get a domain registration that’s similar to this for $10. The question is, do they actually need this? Not do they sort of want it? Do they actually have to have it and need it? And the answer is no, it has no breadth.
Mike Mann:
And if you were to pick one person that needed it, you’d say, how much depth does it have? It has no breadth and it has no depth. It has been disambiguated and it is worth something, which is another $2 ,000.
Mike Mann:
Basically, it’s just a token. It’s an okay name that doesn’t have a lot of use. So it has a token value, another 2K. 4xbusiness .com 2K. We’re gonna do the next one in case anybody has any issues so far, has any questions that I might have missed.
Mike Mann:
Gonna look at my little question here. So we did 4xbusiness, we have human taxonomy. Well, that’s interesting. I have no idea what that means or what that’s worth. So we’re gonna find out. I mean, I sort of know what it means, but I didn’t know you could taxonomize humans.
Mike Mann:
Human taxonomy, 18 ,000. 18 ,000 is a low medium result for a two word expression. If it was over 100 ,000, it would be a good number of results. If it was under 3 ,000 or 4 ,000, it would be a bad number of results.
Mike Mann:
So this is on the low decent numbers. So this is a real expression. Google has a blurb on it. Pretty easy to say and spell, but it’s not clear necessarily what it means unless you’re some kind of scientist.
Mike Mann:
It’s the classification of human species within zoological taxonomy. That’s how you treat humans like zoo animals and study them, I guess. I don’t know. It’s kind of confusing, but it is kind of cool and it does make sense.
Mike Mann:
And presumably there are scientists that need this name. It’s a specific name. So again, first we’re gonna do the disambiguation. We sort of disambiguated it. We basically know what it means. The genus Homo is placed in the tribe hominity alongside panchampanzis.
Mike Mann:
Oh, that’s really freaking exciting. Let me tell you about that. So that’s human taxonomy. So human taxonomy is a cool expression. We’re just trying to figure out the price of it, the value of it. It’s really weird actually.
Mike Mann:
This is actually the good part of the job is when you get an interesting expression and you can actually potentially learn something instead of just studying weird random words. So human taxonomy, we still need to appraise it and come up with a good price.
Mike Mann:
So given that a picture is worth a thousand words, so anyway, we’ve disambiguated it. We need to find out the breadth, how many companies need this thing and the depth of any one given company, how badly they need it.
Mike Mann:
So again, disambiguation, depth and breadth, and here we are, human taxonomy. It actually looks like a cool expression, but it’s not the name of a company. So it’s just a scientific idea and it’s not the most popular scientific idea I’ve ever seen in my life.
Mike Mann:
So although it’s cool and it’s a very cool niche idea, it is probably worth $10 ,000, which means you should probably sell it for a $5 ,000 offer.
Paul Lowery:
Okay, that’s human text on it.
Mike Mann:
me worth 10k take 5k offer
Mike Mann:
uh -uh -uh -uh.
Mike Mann:
I wouldn’t. I don’t take that low of an offer, but you might want the money. So best visual…
Paul Lowery:
So effects .com, I think is long, long, long, long. And…
Mike Mann:
It doesn’t sound like the name of a company. It’s just some random words sort of, but we’re gonna look it up nonetheless. As long as I memorize it, hey, hey, we lost here. Best visual effects. Okay, we’ll do best visual effects.
Paul Lowery:
test is you.
Mike Mann:
wall effects. First of all, you can see this pull down. And so that’s actually pretty cool. It looks like it’s a, you know, they have nominations in the Grammy Awards for Best Visual Effects. So that’s something I hadn’t, I had no idea.
Mike Mann:
I don’t have any idea of anything. I’m not presuming anything. I look everything up. I’m guessing stuff with you guys out loud. But during the appraisal, the guessing is pointless. I just get through till the end.
Mike Mann:
And the end points, the only thing that matters, the actual price we come up with. But here, I’m just trying to break down the process with you guys, figure out how to do appraisals. So we see best visual effects, that software that has movies, nominees.
Mike Mann:
Pretty cool. Not that cool, though. Academy Award. Well, Academy Award. So it could be the name of a movie. It’s sort of a double on, I mean, a company, it’s a double entendre, best visual effects. You’re making a double entendre related to the Oscars.
Mike Mann:
And at the same time saying your corporation builds the best visual effects of whatever they do. But it’s still long and abstract. And it’s hard to sell a great perfect domain. So therefore, this one would be very hard, because it’s not perfect.
Mike Mann:
But again, we’re doing three things here, we’re disambiguating it. We’ve already done that, we know what it means. It means sort of two things. It means literally what it says. And it also is an Academy Award.
Mike Mann:
So it means two things. It’s been disambiguated. The breadth and the depth, the breadth is not that many people have to have it, a couple people might like it. And the people that might like it might have a medium amount of depth to it, because it’s pretty cool.
Mike Mann:
But having said all that, it’s worth 3000 bucks. And we are done with it.
Paul Lowery:
visual effects. Thank you very much.
Mike Mann:
And so now we’re going to the next one unless somebody needs to stop me for any reason.
Mike Mann:
Thank you. Thank you.
Paul Lowery:
Let’s see here.
Mike Mann:
Human taxonomy, we already did that. Leaf wallet, okay. I have no idea what that means, Krista. Krista is my guest next week, one of my guests. I’m probably gonna have two guests every week for now on because I overbooked like crazy on purpose.
Mike Mann:
I could open up two different days, but I don’t know if I’m up for that. So most likely I’m just gonna put two people every Wednesday at 11 o ‘clock. So leaf wallet.
Paul Lowery:
I have no idea what that’s about. Some kind of Bitcoin scam.
Mike Mann:
Here we go. Well, what did I tell you? Bitcoin scam. It’s a new cryptocurrency based on Ethereum blockchain will be distributed. I’ll bet anything that it’s not gonna be distributed, but it does have a brand name.
Mike Mann:
And maybe somebody got into it. Let’s see the date on these things. No date. Let’s see if there’s a date at the bottom of the screen. 2020, well, that’s a good sign. Leaf wallet easy to use, data security.
Mike Mann:
I mean, there’s a company with the name. That’s the good news. I mean, what kind of company is this? It’s a startup that’s probably full of crap. Doesn’t look like a very serious company. I could dig deeper, but that would take a lot of time.
Mike Mann:
So leaf wallet is this guy. Leaf wallet, so it has several meanings. The main meaning is it’s this cryptocurrency that can most likely is just some scam or something stupid. Maybe not, I don’t wanna disrespect the people, but 99% of anything related to crypto is just BS.
Mike Mann:
And then there’s the 1% of people who actually write software that you can use. So leaf wallet is a type of a wallet, a type of an actual wallet. Apparently they all have weed leaves on them. If you actually look, leaf wallet, like people really need wallets with a weed leaf on it.
Mike Mann:
So it is not very valuable. We seem to be getting trapped in the same area of one, two, $3 ,000. I mean, this one’s the same thing, leaf wallet. It’s like $2 ,000 because, and as far as the disambiguation goes, we know what it means.
Mike Mann:
It’s an actual wallet and it’s a little cryptocurrency .io. We’ve disambiguated it. The breadth is zero. Well, the breadth is maybe somebody who sells wallets unlikely, but the breadth of one person, leaf wallet .io, they could also potentially make a trademark claim if they had a trademark.
Mike Mann:
But the depth is very deep actually, to one person. The one top buyer has an extreme depth, but with that depth, again, you have a trademark issue and you have no breadth. They’re the only buyer, so if they don’t buy it, nobody will want it.
Mike Mann:
I don’t think anybody’s gonna buy it to sell wallets. I mean, for one thing, you could buy leaf wallets, plural, or 1 ,000 other terms that you wouldn’t have to pay very much money for. So in any case,
Paul Lowery:
And there is default 2000 bucks. Everything’s 2000 bucks today.
Mike Mann:
better demands. Okay guys, thank you very much so far. Let’s keep on rolling through here. What are my thoughts on uGro? I think I look it up. UGro carbon neutrality. Well carbon neutrality is good. Actually both of those are probably good.
Mike Mann:
Let’s check out uGro.
Paul Lowery:
You grow, bro.
Mike Mann:
Oh, there you have it.
Mike Mann:
Tim left
Mike Mann:
We have a Twitter account here. Okay, so we’re disambiguating doing depth and breadth. So first of all, you know, you grow as just a cute expression. Could mean food, could mean business, could mean anything.
Mike Mann:
The depth is, wait, the breadth. How many different people trade in that expression? I would have never even thought of it, but an image is worth a thousand words. You have a thousand words here telling you that these people like this name.
Mike Mann:
But again, if you look at who it is, it’s like the police youth department. So they have no money. But there’s a bunch of things. You grow systems that we could look up and see how popular they are. You grow medium.
Mike Mann:
You know, there’s these Facebook accounts. There’s you grow media here. You grow gathering on Facebook. You grow media. You grow call me. I mean, there’s a lot of you grow. So the breadth is very broad.
Mike Mann:
And the depth issue is the top buyer. How badly do they need this name? And this is the top people, most likely based on Google search. You grow media. They have a trademark, conceptually sue you. But I doubt it.
Mike Mann:
First of all, they have TM means it’s a pending trademark, which they could be lying about anyway, but they put an R there. That means a registered trademark that they could potentially take issue to.
Mike Mann:
But every trademark has its own category. So, you know, we’d have to cover the category of domain names, because we’re, we just sell domain names. We don’t have a product on top of it. So they can’t say we’re interfering in, they can’t say we’re confusing potential buyers about what our product is that we’re trying to pretend we have their product.
Mike Mann:
Because obviously we just sell domains and we don’t have their product. So in any case, this is a great name. Is the correct answer. It’s six letters. The negative side is it’ll get confused with you grow with a W, which is also a match.
Mike Mann:
So when we’re trying to figure out the depth in the breadth, we can look at this one also to figure out who the potential buyers are. And it’s a long shot, but we’re just trying to add them all up. And you grow with a W at the end is very, very valuable.
Mike Mann:
And the one without the W is worth less, but it’s worth something. We’re just looking at every possibility. You’re like, you can see again, the breadth on this is extreme. So you grow as an awesome name.
Mike Mann:
And I’m still thinking about it a little bit. You grow as a W.
Paul Lowery:
is worth
Mike Mann:
Think for a second. It’s extremely short, extremely pertinent, has breadth and depth. It has sound X matches. Do you grow with the W? Short 25 ,000. Very nice. Next one is carbon neutrality. That’s a big expression for the hippie liberals.
Mike Mann:
Nothing against hippies.
Paul Lowery:
So where did I get it? Car. Our bones.
Mike Mann:
So you can see here on the pull down, first of all, you can see infographic goals icon logo meaning. So it is another case where It’s not the actual name of any existing companies, most likely it’s an idea.
Mike Mann:
It’s a big idea in science.
Mike Mann:
Thank you.
Mike Mann:
ecology, carbon neutrality. It’s a little bit long. It’s a little bit awkward to spell. There’s potential mixups with carbon neutral instead of carbon neutrality. So we’re gonna dig in a little deeper and see what else is up here.
Mike Mann:
So there’s a ton of these infographics here about carbon neutrality. Now I’ll have the word carbon neutral or carbon neutrality. Carbon neutral is not an exact match. It’s spelled differently. Carbon neutrality is total carbon neutrality ventures.
Mike Mann:
So again, these guys would be $400 million global venture fund. This is just one person. So again, they would be very smart to buy carbon neutrality. They probably won’t do it, but there might be 10 companies that are as cool as this company added all 10 up.
Mike Mann:
One of them might buy it. So we’re doing disambiguation. We know exactly what this means. It’s this ecological concept where you’re not, you don’t have extra greenhouse gases going out. You’ve captured so much greenhouse gases and carbon dioxide, whatever, that you’re now carbon neutral.
Mike Mann:
I actually think that word is dated. I mean, it’s from 10 years ago. People still use it, but I don’t think Trump’s ever gonna say it and he’s in office. So it’s an awesome expression. It’s long, it’s awkward, but it might come back to life.
Mike Mann:
And it might be a big idea, even bigger than it is now. It might be on TV, that exact expression. You might see politicians and newspaper people talking about that. They already are, but it might keep increasing and increasing.
Mike Mann:
So we’ve disambiguated it, we know what it means. The breadth is pretty broad. There’s a lot of companies that could get into this, a lot of charities that could get into this, governments. And the depth isn’t terribly deep because there’s not a lot of buyers and it’s sort of an abstract long expression, a tiny bit hard to spell.
Mike Mann:
So what is it worth? And since it’s a big idea in science, it’s maybe not that easy to sell and it doesn’t have perfect branding for a business, but it is a really big area of science. So I would list it at 30 ,000 is the answer.
Mike Mann:
Also, there’s two ends in a row, which is actually bad. I just figured out when I was typing it. Two of any letter in a row is bad.
Mike Mann:
I love you.
Paul Lowery:
30 ,000.
Mike Mann:
Let me see what’s next. Hopefully you guys are hanging in there with me and following what’s going on here. I got some more things here. You did that one. Ask, R -E, Askery Airline.
Paul Lowery:
I do what that is and have to skip that one because it’s worth it.
Mike Mann:
zero. If it’s a name of somebody’s airline, they would probably sue for it. So, okay, I have invest accurate. Well, you guys are cranking them out here. Elias, you’re welcome. You have the best names of the day.
Mike Mann:
Whoever gives me the best names of the day wins. More fun looking up more expensive names. So, getting confused here, where am I? Vegetarian .com. Michael, you don’t own vegetarian .com, but it’s a cool million.
Mike Mann:
Okay, so I’m doing invest accurate for Piyush here. So, back here in quotes, invest accurate. Right off the bat, it’s bad grammar. It should be invest accurately. There’s no exact matches. So, again, we know what it means theoretically, as far as disambiguating it, the Brett is one company here, LaCon Patel’s company invest accurate financial solutions.
Mike Mann:
And these are people are very unsophisticated, because again, if you look here, this is your breadth or your depth. Well, first of all, there’s no breadth. It’s just one person. And what’s the depth of this one person?
Mike Mann:
They’re not very deep because they can’t spell financial properly. And they have nothing going on. They have one like, you know, whatever, it’s just, it’s unimpressive. You can see that this domain has been listed for a long time.
Mike Mann:
There’s no company listed here. It says this domain is listed for rent. So, again, that depresses the value by having a domain listing. It means this name is just sitting around. It’s used goods that people aren’t that excited about it or else it wouldn’t.
Mike Mann:
If it was an exciting name, like you would never see Facebook .com. This domain, Facebook .com is available for rent. It’s available for rent that implies nobody wants it. So, again, we’ve disambiguated it.
Mike Mann:
The depth is of one, I’m sorry, the breadth is of one and the depth is of very shallow. So, again, we’re doing invest accurate.
Paul Lowery:
is worth $100.
Mike Mann:
Um
Mike Mann:
So, you know, these are all just personal opinions and guesses. I don’t have a lot of the data. I don’t know about the traffic to these domain names. I don’t know about previous offers. I don’t know what people paid for them.
Mike Mann:
So there’s a lot to consider there. you So I’m going to look at the next one on the list here. DomesticRepair .com I have on here somewhere. Here I am. Domestic repair. Again, we can see this pull down.
Mike Mann:
There’s domestic repair is plural. It’s listed several places, but not repair singular. I mean, presumably what it means is something like handyman services. So we’re going to disambiguate it and see what it means.
Mike Mann:
Then we’re going to look at the breadth, how many companies might want it, and the depth, how badly one company might need it. So domestic repair center. There’s domestic repair near me. Not so clear what it means yet, but we’re going to try to figure that out.
Mike Mann:
I think they’re talking about domestic car repair and not handyman services. So, like brakes and things. That makes sense. Domestic car repair. So again, disambiguating it, we know what it means. It means domestic car repair.
Mike Mann:
Domestic repair. The problem with that is there’s a lot of other ways of saying it. We have disambiguated it, but it’s not like a super sharp expression. It does mean something, but how often do people ever say that to you?
Mike Mann:
I’m going to get a domestic repair. I’m going to get my car fixed. Carfix .com would be very valuable, for example. Fixmycar .com. Domestic repair. It means something. There are companies that trade with this expression, whether it’s their description or the actual company name, we can’t tell yet, but we can tell it’s uppercase.
Mike Mann:
So it’s a proper noun, essentially. So it has a lot of activity in Google, and we’ll look at the images. Mario’s domestic auto repair. So again, it’s not an exact match at all. There’s two extra words, and one in between the keywords, domestic repair, it has auto in the middle.
Mike Mann:
That’s my point is if there’s a lot of alternatives for the domain, the domain’s less valuable. It’s only perfect ones that are not easy to replace or easy to find alternatives. We have domestic repair’s plural here.
Mike Mann:
So again, disambiguate it. We know what it means. The breadth is that there’s actually a lot of companies that provide this service. There’s a ton of companies. So it means something. It has a very wide breadth, but it doesn’t have any depth because nobody really needs it that badly.
Mike Mann:
A lot of breadth, no depth. Still really cool. Again, car services are extraordinarily profitable, or the amount of revenue that car repair places bring in is tremendous for the economy. So that’s a good sign.
Mike Mann:
So having said all that, I would charge $10 ,000 for it. If you have to take a discount on it, I would take a little discount, but probably worth every cent of $10 ,000. So I’m going to type that in and we’ll be done.
Mike Mann:
with that one.
Mike Mann:
I’m going to check back on the notes here and see what you guys have. You have charcoal illustration from Syed. I’ll check out charcoal illustration. I actually know what that means, so it’s easy to disambiguate.
Mike Mann:
It’s actually extremely clear what it means, so that’s the good part about it.
Paul Lowery:
So far.
Mike Mann:
Next thing is to figure out the breadth. How many companies, or in this case, artists trade in that? How many artists trade in charcoal illustration? You can see there’s charcoal illustrations, children’s books, artists, techniques, charcoal fashion illustration.
Mike Mann:
We’re gonna dig a little deeper. It says 92 results, but that’s actually not right. So if you go down to the bottom, you’ll see this little tiny thing that they’re hiding from you. It says you can repeat the search with omitted results included.
Mike Mann:
So this will actually tell you the right number of results. 52 ,000. So again, page one says there’s 92 results. And then if you click that other link that I should, see look, this is page one of the results, 92 results, that is incorrect.
Mike Mann:
And you need to know that because if you thought it was correct, then you would think this domain didn’t have any value. In fact, this domain has 52 ,000 results. And it’s gotta be in quotes, and you gotta get it past the first page of BS, which they seem to give you half the time.
Mike Mann:
So charcoal illustration, 52 ,000 hits in Google. Y ‘all know what it means. There are alternatives, charcoal drawing, charcoal drawings, et cetera. Pencil drawings. So we know what this means for sure.
Mike Mann:
The breadth is pretty good actually. There’s a lot of people that seem to be trading in charcoal illustration. But again, it’s singular. It might sound better if it was charcoal illustration, plural.
Mike Mann:
Those have a lot of matches in Google.
Mike Mann:
So the issue is what should I charge for it? Well,
Mike Mann:
What should I appraise it for? Charcoal illustration is worth 10 ,000 bucks. Is your answer, you’re welcome. Now keep in mind the way I’m doing my appraisals right now is not the same way I always do it.
Mike Mann:
I usually am using a back end system full of tools and data and information, but it’s proprietary so I can’t even show it to you. And even if I could, you wouldn’t have access to it, to do it on your own.
Mike Mann:
So it wouldn’t help you learn how to appraise domains. And it’s really complex to use. So it really just wouldn’t help you any. So not doing it the exact same way I normally do it. So I’m not getting quite as clear and accurate of a result.
Mike Mann:
But I think these are fair results. Keeping in mind this is an abstract art. There’s no exact factual price for a domain name. It’s just a matter of somebody’s opinion. And since I’ve bought and sold more domains than probably anybody on earth, my opinion holds a lot of weight.
Mike Mann:
So I’m giving you my opinion here. It’s subjective based on my own understanding of the words and based on what I see in Google. And it’s not a scientifically perfect appraisal. So keep that in mind, of course, when you’re out battling people about your domain appraisal.
Mike Mann:
So the next one on our list.
Mike Mann:
is going to be…
Paul Lowery:
Bum bum bum bum
Mike Mann:
At i
Mike Mann:
to find out where the rest of the questions are.
Mike Mann:
Footwear stock, that’s no good. I’m gonna go for zero on that one before I bother with it. Barley, let me just see if there’s some better ones because there’s so much stuff going on here. Okay, so there’s Michael Doner has alcoholoffers .com.
Mike Mann:
So I’m gonna check that out real quick. I don’t think anybody makes offers on alcohol though. It’s not like something that goes on auction. But they might mean alcohol bargains or alcohol, you know, special offers, discounts.
Mike Mann:
Yeah, I guess offers would be special offers. Yeah, so again, disambiguating it, you know, it means a special offer for beer drinking alcohol. It’s not talking about rubbing alcohol for your skin. And I’m just trying to see if people make a lot of special offers on alcohol like they do for ordinary food products.
Mike Mann:
So, yeah.
Mike Mann:
advertising it, advertising it.
Mike Mann:
But none of it, so again what it means, you know, it means a special offer if you’re buying alcohol, but it’s not worded exactly perfectly. So I think that alcohol offers based on what I see here, it’s worth about 4 ,000 bucks.
Mike Mann:
So there you have it, alcohol offers 4 ,000 bucks. We’re gonna do a few more of these and then do some more next week. And you guys can ask some other questions other than domain names. But alcohol offers is okay.
Mike Mann:
Just doesn’t have a lot of depth. It has a lot of breadth where there’s a lot of companies that sell alcohol, they could offer it, but the word itself isn’t super powerful. It’s, there’s other ways of saying it.
Mike Mann:
So I think $4 ,000 is, you know, if you own Budweiser, it’d be a good investment for you. You could put your ads on there. Oh, I put it at the wrong place. Sorry, alcohol offers 4 ,000. Now you guys can see what I do all day for a living is exactly this, all day, all night, every day.
Mike Mann:
Not always that fun, but it pays the bills. Okay, alcoholoffers .com, 4 ,000 bucks, very nice. I’m gonna do a couple more of these and then let you guys go so I can have a lot of tea. Okay, getting a little lost here.
Mike Mann:
I did, okay. Shover wants to know if I would buy human taxonomy for 5 ,000. I mean, if that’s what it’s worth, but, you know, there’s millions and millions of domains that I could put an appraisal on and tell you what they’re worth.
Mike Mann:
That doesn’t mean I’m gonna buy millions of domains at retail value. I personally buy it for pennies on the dollar. I get the lowest prices of anybody. I buy in bulk and I have the best data and the best partnerships.
Mike Mann:
So you wouldn’t want to sell it to me. You want to sell things to the general public. And we talk about the breadth. That’s how many potential buyers there are. But I’m not a potential buyer for any of these.
Mike Mann:
I would buy them all for 10 bucks and hold them for 10 years, but, you know, I would never pay retail for anything. So, you know, I’m jumping around here. Gonna try student loan debt and vanity soup and execution phase and then I’m gonna be done.
Mike Mann:
So I have three more and then I’m done. So don’t post anymore. I have enough here. So Lisa, thank you for joining us. I’m gonna look up vanitysoup .com. I’m not sure what that means, but I can tell you that I own thesoup .com, which is kinda cool.
Mike Mann:
I can tell you what that’s worth. It’s worth 194 ,000 bucks. There’s a reason for that. But I don’t know if you guys can actually see that screen. Actually, I have to go back. Oh yeah, you can see the screen.
Mike Mann:
Okay, I’m sorry. So again, I’m gonna do vanity soup .com.
Paul Lowery:
I’ll see you next year sometime in yacht .com in number 1 on crashing video stream.
Mike Mann:
So again, this is another case where that 72 results is probably bad, but it’s likely when I scroll to the bottom it’s going to say, if you want more results, click here. Repeat the search with omitted results included.
Mike Mann:
So it’s admitting to omitting results. So vanity soup in 7 ,000 approximately results, that’s not a lot. First we need to figure out what it means. And then we’re trying to figure out the breadth and the depth.
Mike Mann:
So what does it mean? It is a Versace thing by Rosenthal Vanity Soup Terrain. Well, that’s a very, very abstract and rare, which isn’t a good sign because people don’t pay for abstract, rare expressions on the internet.
Mike Mann:
Thank you.
Mike Mann:
So as far as what it means, it’s the name of this bowl, Vanity Soup Turing. So it’s sort of cool. And I think the bigger point is it says Versace. So if it’s actually Versace brand, that’s really cool.
Mike Mann:
And you can actually see what the cost of these things are. They’re a hundred bucks each, approximately. So again, Vanity Soup, we know what it means. It’s this fancy soup bowl. And again, it’s not really spelled out all the way.
Mike Mann:
It doesn’t say Vanity Soup Bowl or Versace Vanity Soup or whatever, which would be a trademark violation. So the breadth is that most people have never heard of a Vanity Soup Bowl. The depth is that there’s one buyer with Versace’s question as Versace’s really rich, but the name isn’t cool enough.
Mike Mann:
So it actually has some depth because of the one potential buyer, so rich. So the correct answer is $1 ,000. $1 ,000. I mean, it sounds cute. That’s what it has going for it. And you couldn’t make a case that it means something, but it’s just too abstract, not enough buyers.
Mike Mann:
So, we have student loan debt. So I’ll double check that one.
Mike Mann:
student loan debt, so we’re going to go into
Mike Mann:
Can you see me here? Okay.
Mike Mann:
Student loan debt, now we’re talking. It’s a long name, but 5 .7 million results is the point here. So these are exact matches in Google. Three words all in a row. We know what it means. It’s the only form of consumer debt that has grown since the peak of consumer debt in 2008.
Mike Mann:
Balances of student loans have eclipsed both auto and whatever loans. So student loan debt. I think that refers to the aggregate debt of all the students put together. It’s not just one student loan.
Mike Mann:
It’s like the same thing.
Mike Mann:
student loan debt of the nation.
Mike Mann:
it would, and they’re talking about debt cancellation would be part of a grand bargain that would abolish the current federal student loan program. So this is actually interesting because maybe that’s why it’s trending right now.
Mike Mann:
Maybe I was asked because this is a hot item because Trump’s trying to decide what to do with the, you know, financing bailouts and student loan debt is a big chunk of the potential either debt or potential bail forgiveness bailout.
Mike Mann:
So it’s actually pretty good. So again, we know what it means. The breadth is pretty good. And the depth is pretty good. Just because it’s a financial item that’s spelled properly. And if you were to total off the student loan debt in the world, which I of course have no idea, you know, again, it’d be $1 .56 trillion, you would be canceling.
Mike Mann:
So therefore, this expression has a major conceptual financial impact, but meaning. It’s very meaningful in the current news cycle and the current economy. It’s a little bit long, but it’s not that long.
Mike Mann:
It’s easy to spell and say they’ll always have value. The plural means something, I guess, student loan debts. So student loan debt, the debts are the actual individual one at a time. Student loan debt is the aggregate of all of those debts.
Mike Mann:
So studentloandebt .com. We’re going to pick a price.
Paul Lowery:
Do you guys have any idea?
Mike Mann:
It’s just long.
Mike Mann:
And it’s easy to get around and use a different name and not use that one, which means people wouldn’t pay a high price for it.
Mike Mann:
for it. So,
Mike Mann:
Sorry to say, I’m going to say 3 ,000 bucks.
Mike Mann:
Okay, one more.
Mike Mann:
3D Genome Mapping. Sounds a little bit like one we did before last week, but not the exact same. Okay, 3D Genome Mapping. It’s really long, but it means something. 3D Genome Mapping. Genome Mapping means something, and then obviously 3D would be a better way, a more modern way, the crisper type of a,
Mike Mann:
genetic modeling.
Mike Mann:
So I messed up my quotes, which gave me the wrong number. You got to put it in quotes. And the first result probably isn’t right, because Google’s messing with us. They’re trying to see if we’re a robot and if we know what we’re doing.
Mike Mann:
So again, we need to click this tiny little link at the bottom that they hid here. Repeat results with omitted included. Ba -ba. So we have 3 ,000 hits now within Google.
Mike Mann:
And I’m just trying to decide. So we have…
Mike Mann:
I’m trying to decide how many alternative ways one could say or spell this concept to get around paying for this domain. 3D Genome Map, 3D Genome Maps, 3D Genomics. There’s a lot of ways. The longer and more abstract the term is, the more there is ways of managing around it and getting similar names for a lower price.
Mike Mann:
So that makes your appraisal here lower. So this is long, it’s awkward, but conversely, it’s in the medicine field. It’s an emerging idea. It’s spelled relatively easily. Although you could ask how to spell 3D, somebody could actually spell out the words.
Mike Mann:
So again, it’s sort of a guessing game. There’s no correct answer here, but this is not a very popular expression. A buyer could easily do without it. It doesn’t have a lot of depth through a buyer. It has a relatively low to medium breadth as far as number of buyers that could conceptually like it.
Mike Mann:
So it’s just not that great. So 3D Genome Mapping, 2 ,000 bucks. It’s the story of our life.
Mike Mann:
and have things to come.
Paul Lowery:
I think that’s about it.
Mike Mann:
about it for domain names. Do you guys have anything?
Mike Mann:
I’m sorry, I’m trying to type this. Edgenomemapping .com, other 2000. That’s what I said.
Mike Mann:
You guys have anything else to ask about other than domain names before we end for the day? Because we’re already a half an hour over. But it’s awesome. I appreciate everybody’s interest. And the time just flies.
Mike Mann:
I could have talked to Paul forever about a lot of stuff from our life, but he had a bad sound connection. And we were taking up too much time. But the point is, there’s no trouble filling up time here.
Mike Mann:
Because the other week, I’m going to have two guests. And we’re going to have better audio and video potentially. And we’re going to ask about different subjects and do these domain appraisals. I’m really not trying to do your domain appraisals for you.
Mike Mann:
I’m trying to teach you how to do domain appraising for yourself.
Mike Mann:
So.
Mike Mann:
I’m gonna go back to my list here and see if you guys had any other questions. The other domains you guys can bring me next week and I’ll appraise them if I missed any. Okay, cool. Well, I think I did it then.
Mike Mann:
Well, you guys, thank you so much for joining. I hope you’ll join again next week. We have Krista Renee Gable, that’s gonna be awesome and we probably have one or two other guests next week. And I really want everybody to join and keep improving every week.
Mike Mann:
As far as the quality of the content and keeping the clarity of the sound and the guests and keeping everybody enthusiastic, good shows. So I’m just learning here, I barely know what I’m doing. Hopefully we’re adding a tiny bit of value and each week we’re gonna do more and better.
Mike Mann:
And so I really appreciate everybody’s help and I hope you’ll join next week. Tell your friends to join. You can go back and I’m gonna save a copy of this on YouTube so you’ll be able to watch the YouTube version with the other ones.
Mike Mann:
You can see the last two weeks on YouTube currently. So thank you all so much for everything. I hope you have a fabulous week and do well. Peace to you.
