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.

To end this post I would just like to post a screen shot of two parked domains I have on NameDrive, that yesterday on 4 clicks gave me about $10, and one of the clicks was worth more than $4.  Since I get about 150 to 200 clicks a day wouldn´t it be nice if they were all worth this much

I would also like to remind everyone of the challenge I put out to try out domain testing for free.  I was expecting to shell out $1000 for this exercise but I have only had two takers so far.

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.

Like in any other business new to us, in the beginning it usually requires a bit more time, but after a while it becomes more automatic and it almost seems we “see” names to domain test everywhere. Today I do not spend more than half an hour a week on domain names, and I can still register a hand full every month. Here is a list of some of the names that I registered over the last month or so and that are profitable. I am not including domains I opted to use for mini-sites.

derStandrd.at, edscho.at, CurvadoraValenciana.com, riffeisen.at, TotalRewords.com, wbesingles.at, StndVirtual.com, freenet-homepage.at, disenyrewards.com, telefonoya.com

Actually, since I have already talked about StumbleUpon as a good tool to get visitors to your sites, let me tell you that I also use StumbleUpon to find domain names.  First you have to download this plug-in for Firefox, which is almost a must to find domain names for domain parking.  Once installed, the plug-in, called SearchStatus, displays on our toolbar the PageRank and Alexa ranking of the site we are currently on.  If you put the mouse pointer over the toolbar we get the exact Alexa rank for the site we are visiting, in this case it says my blogs rank is 432200.  This way, when I visit any site, be it from using StumbleUpon, or any other reason, I immediately know if the site is a candidate for domain parking.  We don´t even need to search for domains, they come to us

This plug-in only works for Firefox, so you can use my link to download the faster, and safer browser today

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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.

Search arbitrage: Attracting traffic to your Web pages by buying advertising on search engines, in hopes of profiting by displaying ads, often sold by Yahoo or Google.

Made for AdSense sites: Sites with little or no original content that are designed to rank highly for certain terms in search engines, generating profit from text ads such as those sold by Google’s AdSense service.

Domain parking: Buying domain names that describe common things people may be looking for, hoping to profit from ads related to that topic.

Direct navigation: This is not properly a business in itself. Rather it refers to the behavior of some (probably ill-informed) users who type what is in effect a search query directly into the address box of their browsers. Those in the domain parking business often profit by buying domains that are common terms typed into browsers.

It is this domain parking business that Marchex and others are trying to build upon by adding content and features to accompany the ads on their pages.

These practices vary on a number of dimensions. Cybersquatting can be illegal, for example.

But I’d suggest that there is at least one question that should be asked about all of them: Would users want to go to these pages if they understood in advance what was on them?

If the answer is no - and in many cases I suspect it is - how sustainable a business is this sort of domaining?

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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.

As often happens with questionable but profitable businesses, a different class of entrepreneurs is now coming in trying to clean up domain parking and conduct it on a larger scale. They have also come up with a more respectable sounding name for their industry: direct navigation.

One attempt unveiled today is by Marchex, a Seattle-based company that owns 200,000 domain names. Until now these pages have been filled only with ads. Now for 110,000 of the sites, it will add listings of local merchants it has found by crawling and copying information from other Web sites. Someone looking for a veterinarian in San Francisco, for example, can find copious information focused solely on that topic at Marchex’s site www.sanfranciscoveterinarians.com. The niche sites summarize their findings from around the Web and link to those other sites.

Ads appear on the right and sometimes top, sold by Yahoo, AT&T’s Yellowpages.com unit, and Marchex itself.

“We see search technology as publishing, as creating new kinds of content that didn’t exist before,” said Matthew Berk, lead search architect for Marchex, which runs the sites through a subsidiary called Open List.

But much of the content on Marchex sites is actually not new to the Web. On www.newyorkdoctors.com, for example, lots of the consumer reviews are pulled from Citysearch, a local online search company owned by IAG/InterActiveCorp. Marchex’s site does link to Citysearch, and Marchex executives said their use of Web content provides brand exposure and links to other sites and is no different from that of larger search engines like Google and Yahoo. The sites also invite users to contribute their own ratings.

“What we do is well within the norms of the industry and analogous to how Google and other search engines crawl,” Mr. Berk said.

It is no accident that Marchex owns so many niche domain names. Two years ago, the company negotiated a deal with Name Development, a company run by Yun Ye, a software developer in California who had collected hundreds of thousands of domain names. Marchex paid Mr. Ye a reported $164 million for 100,000 sites. Meanwhile, Marchex bought up the rest on its own, including sites associated with most zip codes in the country, like 10003.com.

Marchex says that about 30 million unique visitors per month land on one of its sites simply by typing in the domain name. Those Web users guess that there is a site out there that fits their particular needs, and they type in the most obvious Web addresses. Marchex now hopes that more people will return to the sites on a regular basis because of the new content.

Other entrepreneurs are interested in creating vertical content on sites with obvious domain names. Richard Rosenblatt, the former chief executive of Intermix, is running a new company called Demand Media that will use user generated content to fill such sites.

Peter Christothoulou, Marchex’s chief strategy officer, acknowledged that his company’s approach is a bit backwards. Most media companies put content up first and then add the advertisements.

“We have a business, and now we’re building a product around it,” Mr. Christothoulou said.

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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?

The wish list method can also be used for arbitrary or suggestive
dictionary words. Go though a dictionary or thesaurus and develop a
list.
It is advisable to keep a written list to avoid rechecking domains that
were previously ruled out. After looking at a few dozen names, it’s easy
to forget especially if the naming project is done intermittently in
between other work.
The other way is to see what domains are for sale cheap. I call this the
thrift-shop method. You will find great bargains but your
choice will be limited. You will also end up looking at a lot of junk
domain names for sale.
One can use both the thrift shop and wish list method to search, but
the best method largely depends on what you are looking for.
If you are looking for something specific, such as a painting by a
specific painter, you would have to be rather lucky to find it in a thrift
shop. On the other hand, if you just want any painting of an ocean,
you are more likely to find one in a thrift shop. And if you are willing to
take any great looking painting to fill up an empty wall, you can always
find something bargain-priced.

1. Dueling Trademarks. Many of the high prices paid for domain
names in the past were paid because trademark owners wanted the
domains. Trademark infringement, now known as cybersquatting, is
illegal, but if one legitimate trademark owner, such as Gateway
Computers, wanted a domain name (Gateway.com) from another
legitimate trademark owner (Gateway Consulting), they often had to
pay six figures. These high-priced sales reflect the value of the
preexisting brand and not the value of similar domain names.
2. Fake Auctions. Many of the reported sales and auctions are
fraudulent. In the 1970s, unique historic cars were auctioned off
several times to fake buyers, creating the impression that the cars were
worth many times their true value and obtaining publicity. Eventually a
victim became interested and purchased at an inflated price. Today, it’s
the same scam with domain names. Since scammers can bid on their
own auctions with multiple online names, it’s even easier online. It has
been my observation that over half of today’s domain name auctions
have fake bids by the seller or his friends.
3. The Top 100 Names and Sales for Stock. There are a very few
domain names that are worth six figures. There have been a few dozen
high-profile sales, but most of these were for stock, not cash. I might
even pay “$1 million” for Sex.com if they took near-worthless stock in
my private company.
4. Outright Hoaxes. Then there are outright hoaxes done just get in
the paper.
In short, the perceptions of many domain name speculators are warped
by some examples that don’t apply to them.

Does the average 15-year-old make $10,000 a week selling drugs in the
ghetto? Does the average domain name sell for $10,000?
There are two ways to look at this. One way would be with statistics.
It would be rather easy to show that nurses don’t earn $10,000 a week
with statistics. However, drug dealer don’t report their income.
Likewise, there is a dearth of statistical information on domain name
sales.
There are examples, but no comprehensive statistics. It may be
possible to point to a few true cases where teenage drug dealers
actually earned $10,000 in a week. Likewise, it is possible to point to
the many cases of teenage drug dealers earning only $100 per week.
But without comprehensive data or some knowledge of the distribution,
it’s difficult to determine the average from small biased samples.
Likewise, it’s possible to point to examples of similar domain names
selling for $100 (a fire sale at an auction), $1,000 (the most common
price), $10,000 (one out of a thousand) and $100,000 (one out of a
million).
The other way is to look at the supply and demand. Is $10,000/week
an equilibrium price for teenage drug dealers? The supply of teenage
drug dealer – at any high school in the country – is so large that no toplevel
dealer would pay them $10,000 per week. In economics terms,
it’s not an equilibrium at $10,000 per week. Likewise, the high prices
reported for domain names are not equilibrium prices.

Of course, if your business is a success, your investment, say $3,000, is
tied up in the domain name.
The cost of investing in a domain name is one of the few marketing
costs that can be recovered in the case of failure.
Still, many businesses don’t want to invest the cost of one
advertisement in their name. A quality domain name is one of the
bargains in marketing.

1) Trademark problems.
2) Choosing a fad name.
3) Choosing a non-serious name for a small company.
4) Outgrowing a generic or descriptive name – such as expanding
beyond computers or cheap.
5) Choosing an inferior domain name.
If one becomes involved in an expensive trademark legal dispute, the
cost can rise. But punitive damages are rare except in cases of
intentional or willful infringement. Usually having to change the name
is the only legal penalty (and pay your lawyers).
Going from a good domain name to a great domain name may
be worth only 1% of sales. But choosing a terrible domain
name may cost you over 5% of sales. The downside risk is
more than the upside.