Making money with domain parking takes some time
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.
Domaining: A Field Guide
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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More Than Just Squatting (on Domain Names)
–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.
Chaning subdomain
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?
How To Search for Domain Names For Sale Wish List or Thrift Shop
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.