Disclosures, Advertising, and Author Relationships

Last updated: August 1, 2026

SullysBlog publishes educational content about domain names, domain investing, online businesses, digital assets, websites, marketing, negotiation, and related tools and services. This page explains the site’s commercial relationships, author interests, and important limitations.

Educational Content, Not Professional Advice

The articles, books, downloads, calculators, checklists, examples, and other materials on SullysBlog are provided for educational and informational purposes.

They are not legal, tax, accounting, financial, investment, cybersecurity, search-engine, or business advice. Reading the site, purchasing a product, downloading a worksheet, subscribing to a newsletter, or contacting SullysBlog does not create an attorney-client, accountant-client, adviser-client, fiduciary, broker-client, partnership, or agency relationship.

Domain transactions can involve legal and financial risk. Laws, policies, taxes, contracts, transfer rules, and marketing requirements differ by jurisdiction and provider. Obtain qualified professional advice when the facts justify it.

No Guarantee of Results

Domain names are speculative assets. A domain may receive no inquiries, no offers, and no sale at any price.

Nothing on SullysBlog guarantees that a domain will sell, appreciate, rank in search results, generate traffic, produce advertising revenue, attract a buyer, receive funding, or become a successful business.

Past sales, public case studies, reported results, automated appraisals, comparable sales, traffic estimates, search volume, backlinks, and the author’s experience do not predict another reader’s outcome.

Examples and calculations may be simplified or hypothetical. They are intended to explain a process, not promise a result.

Current Information and Third-Party Services

SullysBlog may mention registrars, registries, marketplaces, brokers, escrow providers, payment processors, hosting companies, research tools, auction platforms, drop-catching services, conferences, publications, and other third parties.

Features, prices, commissions, payouts, ownership, policies, supported extensions, event dates, and service availability can change without notice.

A listing, link, interview, article, or mention does not guarantee that a third-party service is appropriate for a particular reader or transaction. Verify current terms, fees, security practices, policies, and availability directly with the provider.

Company names, trademarks, and service names belong to their respective owners. Mention does not imply endorsement, approval, sponsorship, or affiliation unless specifically stated.

Sponsored Content, Paid Placements, and Affiliate Links

SullysBlog may receive compensation for advertisements, sponsored content, featured placements, directory listings, newsletter placements, affiliate referrals, product sales, consulting, or other commercial relationships.

Sponsored, featured, paid, or affiliate relationships should be identified in or near the relevant content.

Compensation does not guarantee a positive review or recommendation. A paid listing does not mean a service is appropriate for every reader. Readers should apply their own judgment and due diligence.

When an affiliate link is used, SullysBlog may receive compensation if a reader clicks, registers, or makes a purchase. The reader’s price may or may not be affected, depending on the provider.

Author and Business Interests

Michael K. Sullivan is the founder and operator of SullysBlog.com. He may financially benefit from the sale of books, downloads, training materials, advertising, sponsored placements, affiliate referrals, consulting, brokerage, and other products or services offered through the site.

Michael K. Sullivan is also the founder and operator of NotRenewing.com, a marketplace for domain owners who have decided not to renew certain domains.

References to NotRenewing.com are not independent third-party endorsements. Michael may financially benefit when readers list, purchase, subscribe, advertise, or otherwise use NotRenewing.com.

Michael may also own, acquire, sell, develop, promote, or monetize domain names and related businesses discussed in general terms on SullysBlog.

Automated Appraisals and Artificial Intelligence

Automated appraisals, scoring systems, research tools, and artificial-intelligence systems can be incomplete, outdated, biased, overconfident, or wrong.

AI-generated information may invent a sale, case, company, quotation, statistic, citation, buyer, feature, policy, or legal precedent. A polished answer can still be false.

Verify automated and AI-generated output against reliable sources before using it to buy, renew, price, market, transfer, develop, or sell a domain.

Downloadable Tools and Workbooks

SullysBlog worksheets, checklists, trackers, calculators, templates, and workbooks are educational planning tools. They do not provide legal, tax, accounting, financial, trademark, cybersecurity, or investment advice.

Valuation ranges, forecasts, expected-value calculations, renewal analyses, and other estimates do not guarantee a sale or profit.

Do not enter passwords, authorization codes, recovery codes, payment information, private keys, identity documents, or other sensitive information into a public or unsecured worksheet.

Corrections and Updates

SullysBlog attempts to distinguish fact from opinion, identify paid relationships, and keep time-sensitive resources current. Errors can remain, and policies or services can change after publication.

Readers may report a factual error, broken link, outdated policy, or missing disclosure through the SullysBlog contact page.

SullysBlog may correct, update, reorganize, or remove website content and downloadable materials without changing the original publication date. When a substantial historical article is updated, the page should display an updated date or editor’s note.

Contact

Questions about these disclosures may be submitted through the SullysBlog contact page.

This page summarizes website disclosures. The second edition of Beginner’s Guide to Making Money With Domain Names contains more detailed legal, tax, financial, AI, third-party, and author disclosures in Appendix D.