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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There are two ways to search for domain names for sale. One way is to
make of list of desired domains names – a wish list. Then working from
the list, you research the names. Is someone using the domain name?
Does the name have trademark problems? Is the domain name for
sale? Most owners are willing to sell for the right, high price.
The wish-list method is necessary when there is a short list of
domains that you are interested in. If a first-class generic domain
name is desired, the wish list may contain only a half-dozen generic
terms. If a generic-plus domain name is desired, a wish list may
contain a hundred names.

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