Back in the day, all you needed was a good domain and you were pretty sure on making a sale. If you had a nice niche, or even just an idea with a vague business plan, you could pretty much count on finding a buyer.
Today it’s a little different. There are a whole bunch more domainers in the world, all working feverishly. Often in the same niches with domain name variations. Making things just that much harder. (more…)
I don’t know about you, but I spend a lot of time looking at different forums and advertising websites that sell domain names. I’m looking for bargains and ideas mostly, but I’m also looking at what is selling, and what is not.
What I find interesting these days is that a lot of domainers are really pimping how brandable their domain name is. Many times, it’s simply because a domain is phonetic. In other words, it doesn’t actually have to be a word, it just has to be pronounceable. (more…)
Yup, it happens. You put a lot of time and money into a project and it didn’t pan out the way you wanted to. In some cases, this means letting a web property go for a loss. (more…)
As domain name investors, we are always looking for new domain name opportunities. So whenever a new ccTLD is made available to the public, many of us start to drool.
Because it seems too good to be true. I mean, you can actually get one word and two word domain names, right? Making it sound like heaven to us. But is investing in ccTLD’s all that great? Or is it just really well done hype by the companies behind them? I’m going to jump right out there and say it’s a little bit of both. (more…)
Yup, it’s one of the million dollar questions domain name investors ask frequently.
Can I get away with registering this domain?
Let’s be honest here, okay? Because ethics aren’t really a hard thing to understand, or is it difficult to do business ethically. We all have that still, small voice inside us that tells us what is right, and what is wrong. In this case, we also have laws that tell us exactly what is allowed and what isn’t. (more…)
Let’s face it. As domain investors, it’s all about the money. So of course you want to consider income generation outside of just buying and selling when it comes to your portfolio. For many, this is where domain parking comes into play.
For the newbies, domain parking is a system where you point your domain names to a company that in turn puts up a landing page for anyone visiting that domain. That landing page contains advertisements in the form of relevant text links. When the user clicks an advertisement, you and the parking website company get paid. If you are familiar with Google Adsense, it’s a very similar setup. However, with domain parking you don’t have to worry about building a website yourself. The parking company does that automatically for you. All you really have to do is change your domain’s nameservers to point to the parking system. (more…)
Everywhere you turn these days, the hot button seems to be centering around “flipping.” From houses to websites, businesses to blogs, flipping is the hot trend right now. Domains are included in this, and domain flipping is hotter than ever.
The reason domain name flipping is hot is because it can make you a lot of money. If you know what you are doing.
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