Domain Name Business

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?

Hi, I’m new to this domain stuff and I would really appreciate some helpI wish to purchase 2 domains I put my eye on, both com. One of them is word-word.com and the other is wordword.com and both have personal sites on them, nothing to big thou to my eyes.How can I evaluate the domains’ worth? So I can offer the domain’s owners an offer for it (I know I don’t have may chances here, but I really want to get one of these domains) How should I approach them?

The one without the hyphen is more valuable, unless you are primarily interested in SEO. The first mistake that you made was to reveal the domain names on this forum. Posts here are searchable by the engines and the domain owners may be able to discover from this fact that you are interested in their domain. This is not a biggie if you act quickly before the post shows up in search results.
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Just wondering how to effectively sell your domains? Do you just post them on sites or have a list of contacts in higher places?Also do you think the leap from free appraisal is useless in determining value? Anyone use it?

1. List the domains for sale on domain marketplaces.

You can sign up at Sedo.com and Afternic.com in order to list your domains for sale on their site. People can then find your domains and submit offers through their system.
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Ok,I’m asking this question for all the noobies out there including myself. I got into domaining about a month ago and have been slowing accumulating my portfolio of domains. So far, I got one lucky domain that has 1500+ typeins per month. I say I’m lucky cause I haven’t hit that type of traffic for the rest of my domains…and I’ve been buying quite alot. In the last month, I now have around 1000+ domains.

My question is, how come so many weird domains are being sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars. I see the list of dnjournal of names like
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A great discussion about if is late to join the game of domains:

It seems to me that all the good names have already been taken, and all the good aftermarket names are taken by established players.

So is it totally worthless coming into domaining now?

I don’t hope to make huge bucks. I just hope to do this thing on the side, not like the big players (dn forum has a lot of those). Heck, I’d be happy with just 500 bucks a month (being a college student, even that much is great).

But it seems that I’m already too late in the game. I’ve spent a decent amount on domains already (which I don’t think are that bad), but don’t seem to be recouping any of it.

Is it hopeless?

Every point is an answer from other domainers:

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