Research

Interviews, books, articles, blog posts, documentation, podcasts, and talks that form the foundation of dot com et al.

If you have resources to share, email hello@dotcom.press.

Books

• The Domain Game: How People Get Rich From Internet Domain Names, David Kesmodel
• Weaving the Web: The Original Design and Ultimate Destiny of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee
• How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone, Brian McCullough
• How DNS Works, Julia Evans

Books include Bookshop.org affiliate links, so if you buy one I'll earn a 10% commission on the profit. Regardless of my affiliation, Bookshop.org is a terrific Amazon alternative and way to support independent bookstores.

Articles, blog posts

• The Disappearance of an Internet Domain, Gareth Edwards
• Buying a domain for $85K, Justin Duke
• If you use a domain for something popular, it will get squatted if you don't renew it, Tom MacWright

Podcasts

• The Taliban Stole My Domain, syntax.fm
• Where to Register a Domain, syntax.fm
• Buying and Selling Domain Names, syntax.fm
• Domain Management, syntax.fm
• The Domain Name Game, syntax.fm
• The TLD Game, syntax.fm

Interviews

Coming soon.

Publishing resources

I also read and listened to a stack of resources on publishing. If you are a first time author, Jane Friedman's book is the place to start.

• The Business of Being a Writer, Jane Friedman
• Crafting "Crafting Interpreters", Bob Nystrom
• 640 Pages in 15 Months, Bob Nystrom
• How My Book Launch Went, Bob Nystrom
• Zero to 353 Pages: Bringing My Web Book to Print and E-book, Bob Nystrom
• The publishing world is changing. Jane Friedman tells us how, Grammar Girl
• Blog Your Way to a Book Deal of Bestseller with Jane Friedman, Published
• Be A Non-Fiction Author with Jane Friedman, UFJ Podcast
• Is Print-on-Demand a Class Issue? with Jane Friedman, A People's Guide to Publishing