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How to start making money with Domaining

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How to Make Money From Your Domain Name

While everyone wants to earn money (yes, everyone), we always keep looking for legit ways of making money.

A rule of thumb that I follow is when I purchase a domain name I have to believe that I can flip it for a 100% profit.

So if I spend $200 on a domain I need to feel like I can sell it for no less than $400. This way, even if I’m wrong in my estimation I still have some room to still turn a profit.

Honestly, domain flipping is one of my most successful channels of income when it comes to the internet marketing world. It’s also one of the easiest in my opinion.

Buying a good domain name and selling it over time is a common way for domain investors to turn a profit. Most good domain names are already registered and the ones that aren’t have to be developed from the ground up.

If you are looking into domains that are currently registered, you have a few options to consider: Continue Reading →

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How to effectively use namebio.com

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How to effectively use namebio.com

One of the most effective tool I use for my investments into the Domain Names is NameBio.com

As per their Twitter handle, Namebio.com claims “Search our database of more than $1.5 billion in domain name sales!”

So how useful is Namebio.com – Whenever you are buying or selling a domain name and looking for comparable sales data, you may use NameBio for comparable past sales and history.

Their Search is quite effective, I personally use – Pattern Search and Keyword/Position Search Continue Reading →

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Why we love Domaining

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Why we love Domaining

1. Extremely cheap barrier to entry

With registration fees at approximately $9 per domain name not many can say they cannot afford to get in the domain game. Back in 2000 we stumbled on an expired domain, one that no one really wanted. It sounded OK to us and as we bought many, we decided to spend $15 back then and purchase it as well. Since then this one domain has made over 1 millions US$ in PPC revenues, and is still going strong.

2. Residual income

Unlike traditional jobs where one gets paid by the hour, our work lasts longer. If you found a domain that gets type-in traffic you are most likely to reap the rewards for as long as it receives traffic.

3. We can do our work from anywhere

All that is required is a computer and an internet connection. Hack, you don’t really need your own computer, many cybercafes/public libraries will do.

4. Knowledge is everywhere, and mostly, for free

Lot of Free websites to learn from – NamePros, Facebook Domain Name Network, blogs such as The Domains, Dot Weekly, Namebio.com, DN Journal, and of course Domaining.com.

5. We’re open for business 24/7

Self explanatory. In addition, we have very little overhead as most of the work, once a domain has been acquired and set correctly is automatic and falls on parking providers or affiliate partners, rather than us. Continue Reading →

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To Drop or Not to Drop?

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To Drop Domain Name or Not to Drop?

Every Domain Investor lands up in a common situation at one time of the Year – To Drop or Not to Drop!

Yes its the time for your Domain Name Renewals and you have to make a decision by seeing its performance in terms of parking (if you are using Domain Parking) or the number of Inquiries or page visits you received within the last whole year.

Well the formula says Renew the Decent ones and Drop the ones that are Crappy. Because you always have new ideas and new terms popping up in mind and in Daily News, so you need to make a wise decision – to Renew the old ones Or Invest the same money on new Domains and give them a chance for a complete new year.

But the bigger problem is that many people can’t distinguish whether a domain name is decent or crappy. The great ones are obvious to most, but some people have problems where they believe a domain name is Great and has value, when in fact, nearly everyone else would say it sucks.

Its always better to own Few domain names that are really worth the investment, than to register a thousand average and below average domain names. At least if you need liquidity, it will be easier to get cash by selling ONE name than by trying to sell your thousand domain names! Continue Reading →

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Domain Parking Pays (Really ?)

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Domain Parking Pays

Most in the domain industry know the trickle-down effect has been definitely felt as domain name parking revenues have fallen since last year by about the same percentage, if not more. Talking to parking companies lately there are good indications we’ve hit bottom and things will now start to get better. This is to be seen.

Analytics data indicate that the share of search traffic coming from paid listings is decreasing at the expense of organic traffic. In the four weeks to May 9, 2018, 7.25% of search engine traffic to All Categories of websites was from paid clicks. This compares to 9.84% in the same four week period in 2018 – representing a 26% decline in the share of paid clicks. Continue Reading →

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How to Make Money – being a Domainer or Webmaster

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How to Make Money From Your Domain Name

About a decade ago a term dominated the internet: Webmaster. To be a webmaster was to be the master of your domain. Most webmasters were not domainers and most domainers were not webmasters. Most webmasters owned a domain or two and most domainers owned many. Each character was almost unaware of each other. This continued for many years until we reach our current destination of today and the topic of development regurgitation.

So who exactly are you – a Domainer or a Webmaster ?

Whenever I feel like moving forward on new concepts, I always look back, try to find the similarities, and make sure I have all I need to take on this new challenge. It is so easy to give up. All you have to do is stop trying and you are back to just as things were before you started. In order to succeed you have to believe in yourself when no one else does. You have to believe that the time, effort, investment will work out even though it at times look like it won’t. The alternative to having no faith in yourself, to not walking the extra mile, to not trying, to not pushing, to not believing, is always the same – No Reward. I know very well that if I try, if I dedicate to anything the same amount of time and energy as I have with other areas in my life I will make it to the greatest levels. Over the years I did hear the “talent” argument, that is, that some people were “born with it”. I must disagree. While talent is somewhat important and of course can help I have never met anyone who excelled at anything without hard work. Continue Reading →

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My experiences from DomainX 2017, New Delhi

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Myself with Manmeet Pal Singh (left) and Gaurav Kohli (right) at DomainX 2017

The DomainX 2017, held at New Delhi on August 05, 2017 featured plenty of standard fare, from keynotes by industry leaders and deep dives into hot topics, to interactive panels with professionals from both inside and outside the domain industry.

For me it was a very engaging experience because of these 3 facts:

1. This was the first time ever that I attended an Exclusive Domaining event that happened in India.

2. Since 1999, I had been doing this all alone – Searching Domains, Registering Domains, Putting them on Sale, Checking Sales of others, reading Blogs and Tips from fellow domainers (mostly based out of India). This was first time I had a first hand interaction with Domainers from India and I bet their experience and knowledge is No Less than any other Domainers based out of India.

3. Well, this one came as a complete surprise to me when they announced my name on the stage – I won an award for the “DomainX .in evangelist of the year 2016-2017“. Its an awesome feeling, to get recognized for your hard work. As for me, I am working and will keep working for the betterment of community.

We all know that Buying domains is easy but selling the right domain at the right price to the perfect buyer is an art. This year’s DomainX was focused upon Selling of Domains, adhering with the copyright/trademark issues, developing domains into great web properties and many more interesting and productive topics. Continue Reading →

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Are .net domains still any good ?

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Are .net domains still any good ?

We all know .net TLD stands for Network.

We also know that when we learn about Domain Names and TLDs in particular, the second TLD that comes right after the .com is, .net followed by the .org.

.com stands for Commercial or Company to some, so when you try to brand your business is that really the full form of these Extensions that matter to you or other factors like price, availability, etc.

There are certainly some instances where .net as an extension makes more sense but where the .com extension is still a better branding decision.

Choosing .com as an extension offers the advantage of being the default assumption for web surfers. If someone tells their friend about this awesome service called “Facebook,” they are more likely to try facebook.com rather than facebook.net.

Having said that, there are still many brands using .net as their choice of company identity rather than a .com (Yes, even if the .com is available!).

According to market research by VeriSign, .net is still considered the most “trustworthy” of all domain endings. Continue Reading →

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What is better – Domain Expiry or Domain Auctions ?

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What is better - Domain Expiry or Domain Auctions ?

Domainers only care about what happens to expired domains when they want to buy them.

But we don’t think about What the Registrar will do with our domain name if we don’t renew it.

Perhaps expired domains should be the spoils for a registrar’s hard work getting customers to register domains in the first place.

If they let it simply expire, the expired domains would go to whoever has the best drop catching technology.

But most expired domains are auctioned off through exclusive relationships, sending money back to the domain registrar.

Is one of these more fair than the other? In the first model the registrars get nothing, in the second they get a cut. Someone has to have an advantage getting expired domains. Who should it be?

We also have some registrars that keep domains for themselves. But that creates a conflict of interest with customers. Continue Reading →

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Why some Domain Name Auctions are Under-Sold

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Why some Domain Name Auctions are Under-Sold

Sometimes we hear news about a Domain Name being sold in an online auction, for what we consider is less than its minimum deserving price. Is it really a Fixed/Fake Auction or there could be any other genuine reason for it too…?

I would like to make case-study of a domain sale here, which happened in 2009.

The Domain was – Toys.com

Toys.com earlier sold for $1,250,000 in 2009, as part of a bankruptcy court proceeding, and again sold for $5,100,000 after a re-auction was ordered by the bankruptcy court.

So, what does that say about the value of domains or domain auctions?

How does a domain at auction sell one week for $1.25 million and the next week for over $5 Million ?

Simple.

The first auction only a few people knew about or participated in, causing the end price to be below market value.

The re-auction had other participants who did not have knowledge of the first auction, like National A-1 and Toys R Us.

Domain values and auction selling prices depend on how well publicized the auction is, who is involved in the auction, and how desirable the domain is.

I would like to quote Owen Frager here, who once said – The irony is that the domain business is all about advertising yet no one wants to invest in advertising their domains.

We all know one thing – If you have the right domain and the right bidders you will have a sale.

But if you have bidders but not the right kind of bidders you will have a sale, but the sale will be at a fraction of the price it could be if you had the right kind of bidders.

I had also read somewhere that Frank Schilling was in until $2.9million.

It is all about reaching out to the right buyers. In this case, it was just two who bidded up and went at it for over an hour from $3m – $5m.

Many were confident that Toys R Us would pick up this domain in the re-auction because they already have toys.co.uk and just bought the other week eToys.com which they were already including in press releases.

But End user perception, need and valuation are having very little to do with metrics.

For example, Pizza.com would have gone higher if Pizza Hut, Dominos, Papa Johns knew about the sale.

Educating and informing end users go hand in hand. It is our responsibility as domainers to do our part if we want to see this industry move forward.

There has been enough constructive advice written for years to work with, and we can now add the power of social networking to reach our goals.

We need to think creatively and find ways to come out of semi-closed circles.

Awareness and Exposure, not only by the Seller But by all of us who know about the auctions happening is essential. If we all work together we can boost up domain prices and exposure.