Domain Name Business

Today I am going to give you a few more tips on how to pick domain names for domain parking.  But first I want to dispel a few doubts about the technique of putting a “www” before the domain name and without the “.” (for example registering wwwauctionads.com).  The process will only work if the underlying site is popular and has lots of visits (check the Alexa ranking of the site).  In my example auctionads.com has a ranking of 2632, which would be a good rank for this technique.  Also, when using this system, it is of no use to register “www.wwwauctionads.org”, since the original site is a “.com”.

Another tip to pick up good domain names is to pay close attention to what is happening in the country where you live with sites that have a country ending, like .de, .at, .br, .es.  Here is what I mean.  I was searching Alexa ranking for “.at” sites (.at is for Austria), and I registered a few of the top “.at” sites as “.com” and they have done really well for me.  This works especially well because the “.com” is where your browser will take you by default if you just type in a name on the browser.  Like if you type “adbux” on your browser you probably wanted to go to adbux.org, but your browser will take you to the parked page of adbux.com.  Which is actually kind of funny since I just noticed that adbux.com is a parked domain on NameDrive (I recognize the template).  This is even better since all things being equal, the “.com” domain name is more valuable that any other one.

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I am going to start this blog today by repeating something I have have already said before. It is not possible to start making a lot of money on the internet in a short period of time. If you are looking for get rich quick schemes than you are wasting your time, and eventually your money, since the internet is full of “gurus” trying to sell you these schemes.

I have also read somewhere, not exactly sure where, that 99% of all domain currently registers are then canceled. Yes, thats 99%! By this I am trying to tell you that if you registered one, two, or three domains, and haven´t had any luck, that is not a reason for you to quit. For me to get to the $1500 I made from domain parking last month took me about 9 months, and I have done it gradually. I have also purchased about $1000 worth of domains over the last few months that bring is about $120-$150 dollars a month. It will be very hard, especially at the beginning, for you to find domains that will give you a lot of money per month, so its really a question of giving this activity some continuity.

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By Saul Hansell

Here then is an updated field guide to some of the activities of “domainers,” as they call themselves, with references, mainly from Wikipedia.

Cybersquatting: Buying domain names that include names of existing companies or brands in hopes of reselling them to the companies that use those names.

Typosquatting: Buying domain names that are misspellings of the names of frequently visited sites, hoping to profit by showing ads to people who visit the site by accident.

Domain name speculation: Buying generic domain names in hopes of selling them to some company that wants to use them.
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–Saul Hansell, Bits Editor

One of the less reputable sectors of the Internet economy that has been growing rapidly is domain name parking. Entrepreneurs register names that are either misspellings of common domains, like amazo.com or generic titles like www.chicagodoctors.com. They fill these sites with ads from Google or Yahoo, getting paid for every click. This game has morphed into what is know as Google arbitrage, filling the page also with just enough content that it will actually be found by search engines, and in turn attract users who simply see ads and click again to get somewhere useful.

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I’m with a US university, and I’ll soon be getting approval to change the subdomain we use for one of our divisions, and I want to make durned sure I know all the ins and outs of the process- and what might get hosed by the change. Beyond registering the new subdomain through Uni administration and getting our DNS’s pointing traffic to our IP, I wanted to make sure the change wouldn’t break any of our web applications, sites, or services. I’ve gone through our pages fine-toothed, and weeded out all absolute URL’s referencing the old subdomain, making them all relative.

I’ve ID’d the redirects in Apache which will need to be changed, and I’ve marked down the ServerName for change as well. As far as I can ascertain, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, and php itself all deal with LocalHost or the box’s IP rather than its name or the domain name, so they should be fine regardless of the changeover.

The box itself is an IBM iSeries running i5/OS with PHP via Zend Core for i5/OS. We have IBMs’s native HTTP server (based on Apache) as our front-end, and it ProxyPasses to our application server which runs in IBM’s PASE environment within the i5/OS operating system (it basically behaves like AIX).

Am I missing anything here?

I’ve never done a subdomain change, and I’m sweating it a little bit… if the sites go down, if outside links break, or if users can’t google out to the pages like they normally do, then someone is going to hide an ill-tempered gilamonster under my desk, and laugh mockingly as I writhe around in pain when it savages my toes. I honestly, I have gorgeous toes. Toes that should be preserved .

Little help?

Thanks

From your question, is the existing subdomain all set up and running and all you want to do is change the name of the subdomain?…

example.example.com to example2.example.com?

If this is the case then you may get away with simply updating the servers httpd.conf file to reflect the name that is beign pointed to the htdocs folder.

As you mentioned php mysql ect do not rely on specific host locations, they simply refer to the box and it’s localhost or ip address. Also what control panel if any do you have access to on the server?