Domain Parking Make Money » Domain business http://domainparkingmakemoney.com A Blog on making money from domain names Thu, 20 Oct 2011 17:44:29 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 5 Ways to Get a Lucrative Domain Name That is still Free http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/domain-names/5-ways-to-get-a-lucrative-domain-name-that-is-still-free/ http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/domain-names/5-ways-to-get-a-lucrative-domain-name-that-is-still-free/#comments Mon, 01 Mar 2010 19:28:43 +0000 admin http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/?p=34 No matter how competitive your industry is, you can always come up with a keyword rich, appealing domain name for your businesses by employing naming strategy, which rather few people use. Here are the main principles:

1. Stay focused on the outcome. What is the ultimate goal that people look to achieve when buying a [...]]]>

No matter how competitive your industry is, you can always come up with a keyword rich, appealing domain name for your businesses by employing naming strategy, which rather few people use. Here are the main principles:

1. Stay focused on the outcome. What is the ultimate goal that people look to achieve when buying a particular service or product? How do they feel when they have made the purchase? Quite a few company names may fall into this category.

2. Search for puns. Compile a list of appropriate keywords, say each one out loud and tinker with the sounds. Puns are much more unlikely than other types of domain names to have been registered as their constituents are not real words. For example, the name Sitesfaction, chosen for a web design firm, became a finalist in a famous naming contest and turned out to be available at that time in spite of a huge number of web design companies in the English-speaking Internet.

3. Use slang. Let your creative imagination and mind soar around for ear-pleasing phrases. As of now, there are tons of ear catching domain names still unregistered, waiting to be snatched up and used for a lucrative online business.

4. Get symbolic. Suppose you’re an expert on soccer and look to set up a paid web community for soccer fans. Such obvious names as soccertoday.com or soccerfans.com are already taken, whereas less apparent names involving soccer symbolism like, e.g., soccerandbear.com, are still free.

5. Modify actual words. For example, did you know that the name Google of the most successful search engine of today was accidentally suggested by the 9-year old nephew of mathematician Edward Kasner, providing you with a creative hint for anew possibly successful domain name: “consultakid.com”.

Happy Domain Hunting!

]]> http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/domain-names/5-ways-to-get-a-lucrative-domain-name-that-is-still-free/feed/ 2 Make Money with Domain Parking and Resale http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/domain-parking/make-money-with-domain-parking-and-resale/ http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/domain-parking/make-money-with-domain-parking-and-resale/#comments Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:06:04 +0000 admin http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/?p=29 The domain name business is one of the most thriving industries online. The industry makes money on buying and/or selling domain names as a product. These days more and more people and firms are getting involved in domain name industry.

In essence the domain industry is the business of selling, buying, developing as well as monetizing [...]]]>

The domain name business is one of the most thriving industries online. The industry makes money on buying and/or selling domain names as a product. These days more and more people and firms are getting involved in domain name industry.

In essence the domain industry is the business of selling, buying, developing as well as monetizing Web domain names. The professionals involved in domain name operations are referred to as domainers. Domainers sell, buy, build websites using the domain names and develop them. In domain business, revenue is generated from domain parking, its development and subsequent resale. Some professionals engaged in the domain business prefer the name domain investing to domaining, and domain investor to the domainer.

One can park a domain name with so-called domain parking services. These companies pay the domain owner a certain percentage of the advertising income derived from the ads placed on a webpage displayed to people who visit the domain. The majority of those parking services also feature a sales listing facility that enables you to easily perform a marketing campaign for reselling the domain.

Another option is to create your own parking webpage; you only need a small website to fill it with ads and then reap the 100% of the revenue. However, it may be not as lucrative as using the parking services, as those can usually get a higher traffic flow.

In order to succeed, the website you create should be content-rich. Typically, those small websites are populated with keyword-rich articles and contextual ads the Google Adsense, and are frequently referred to as Adsense Sites. You can develop a fully featured website that would sell products or/and services, as well as paid links and advertisement space.

While going through the stage of site development and promotion, you may also use an opportunity to derive revenue by simply reselling the domain name and/or the website for a price higher than the purchase price. Bear in mind the following factors that add value to the domain/site:

•     Keyword richness and brand-ability of the domain name

•     The volume of natural (unpaid) traffic to the site

•     Current return on investment from the site

•     Existing demand for similar domain names

•     Present search engine ranking

•     The number of backlinks, i.e. sites linking to your website

•     The interest of the specific buyer for the domain

Be aware that there are also numerous ways to lose money on the domains. Among those are

  • registering a trademarked as (the whole or even a part of) the domain name
  • paying an excessive price for the domain name
  • getting scammed via email and
  • various kinds of fraud.

While taking those things into account, you can surely make a sound income with domains by thoughtfully creating income streams or maximising the domains resale value.

]]> http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/domain-parking/make-money-with-domain-parking-and-resale/feed/ 2 Domain Name Transfer – How To Do It the Right Way http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/domain-transfer/domain-name-transfer-%e2%80%93-how-to-do-it-the-right-way/ http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/domain-transfer/domain-name-transfer-%e2%80%93-how-to-do-it-the-right-way/#comments Sun, 24 Jan 2010 15:28:47 +0000 admin http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/?p=21 What exactly is a domain name transfer? Is this simply a procedure of transferring similar to those usual transfer processes? This is merely a couple of questions out of those many surrounding the domain name transfer. If you are keen to know the answer, read on!

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What exactly is a domain name transfer? Is this simply a procedure of transferring similar to those usual transfer processes? This is merely a couple of questions out of those many surrounding the domain name transfer. If you are keen to know the answer, read on!

In actual fact, a transfer of domain name can be accomplished when the present domain name holder (also called as registrant) is looking to make certain adjustments on the domain name registrars, which provide him with the domain name services. Thus, a domain name transfer is a procedure that can only be set forth with the initiative of the domain name owner or with his administrative contact who is listed on the recent registration record of the domain name.

A domain name transfer can in effect refer to two unique and distinguished  domain name operations. The first one is transfer of a domain name registrant, and the second one is transfer of the domain name registrar.

With regard to the registrant domain name transfer, this kind of domain name transaction is considered to happen when the existing registrant of a domain name wishes to transfer all rights for the domain name in question to a third party. In practise, it’s either the domain name registrant or the administrative contact only who are endowed with rights to carry out the registrant transfer process for a domain name.

To perform the registrant domain name transfer, the majority of the domain registrars only ask for a login and password for the process to get started. However, there are also certain registrars that require a notarized application form or similar formal recognition documents, but whether this applies or not depends solely on the country of residence of the registrants.

Usually a registrar requires that kind of documents for the domain name transfer to assure that the registrant is the genuine holder of the domain name. Thus in all circumstances, the owners should contact their present registrars and file in a request for the domain name transfer to a third party.

As far as the other type of domain name transaction is concerned, namely the registrar domain name transfer, this procedure is usually initiated in case when the present domain name holder wants to change the domain name registrar. This kind of domain name transfer may be desirable by the holder if the registrant is unsatisfied with the quality of customer service that the registrar provides or due to any other personal reason.

If that is the case, then the domain holder or the administrative contact should first file in the request to the new registrar. When that is done, registrants or the administrative contacts have to contact their existing registrar company asking them to authenticate the registrar transfer of the domain name. Thus upon the conclusion of the domain name holder transfer, the registrars should be able to log in to their account at the new registrar website and regain the full control over the domain name in question.

]]> http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/domain-transfer/domain-name-transfer-%e2%80%93-how-to-do-it-the-right-way/feed/ 0 Expired Domain Names – How to Deal with Them? http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/expired-domains/expired-domain-names-how-to-deal-with-them/ http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/expired-domains/expired-domain-names-how-to-deal-with-them/#comments Thu, 14 Jan 2010 19:04:51 +0000 admin http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/?p=15 Expired domain name is simply a general status of certain domain names. This particular status of the domain name is acquired when the domain name owner failed to remember renewing the registered domain name, and thus when a domain name is assigned “expired domain name” status, it means that the expired domain name is going [...]]]>

Expired domain name is simply a general status of certain domain names. This particular status of the domain name is acquired when the domain name owner failed to remember renewing the registered domain name, and thus when a domain name is assigned “expired domain name” status, it means that the expired domain name is going to be deleted from the domain name registry.

Therefore when you are notified by the domain name registrar that a domain name you own is an expire domain name and you still want to keep and use it, then you should find out all the stages, which the domain names noted as “expired domain names” go through on their way to removal from the registry.

On the first stage a domain name before becoming an “expired domain name”, you should go through the domain name registration. Usually one may register a domain name for a maximum of ten years. Even when being renewed, the domain name can’t be extended beyond a ten year period, and the domain name registrars have no right to prolong a domain name registration for more than ten years. Nevertheless, we should note that top level domain names, similar to the .com or .net, cannot be registered for over 2 years at a time.

After the above period, when a domain name turns into an “expired domain name” or soon after the domain name passes its expiration date, the process of the expired domain name deactivation takes place. After deactivation, such services as a website or mail associated with the domain name will no longer operate. Nevertheless, you can still renew the expired domain name during a certain period after the expiry date, however, this will usually take from 24 to 72 hours before the services for the domain name may be reactivated.

In case if the expired domain name reached the so-called “domain name grace period”, which is roughly 40 days after it’s labelled as “expired”, the domain name will no longer be active and may be renewed without incurring any extra costs. And after the above mentioned period, there comes the next stage of the domain name expiration which is referred to as the “domain name redemption period”.

This is a 30 days period, within which the domain name can be redeemed. During this stage, the WHOIS personal information such as the owner name, address, telephones and other information will be deleted, while the domain name still remains inactive. During this period the domain can still be renewed by its original owner by paying $105 on top of its regular renewal fee. And because this is now a manual process to add the name, address and all relevant contact information of the holder back to the domain registry, the process will usually take much longer time.

At last, after the “domain name redemption period” there is a final period termed as the “domain name deletion period”. In five days after the redemption period for the expired domain name is finished, the domain name will be permanently removed from the registry and will then be become available for anyone who wants to register it as a new domain name.

]]> http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/expired-domains/expired-domain-names-how-to-deal-with-them/feed/ 2 How to Make Money With Domain Names http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/domain-names/how-to-make-money-with-domain-names/ http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/domain-names/how-to-make-money-with-domain-names/#comments Tue, 15 Dec 2009 19:03:59 +0000 admin http://domainparkingmakemoney.com/?p=5 As more and more people and companies are investing in domain names these days, it has become obvious that not all of those names will enjoy their full profit making potential. Being a domain reseller and investor with a sensibly sized portfolio, I have frequently been asked what is the best way to making money [...]]]>

As more and more people and companies are investing in domain names these days, it has become obvious that not all of those names will enjoy their full profit making potential. Being a domain reseller and investor with a sensibly sized portfolio, I have frequently been asked what is the best way to making money from those investment domains. What follows are the most general ways to make an income flow or make the most of their resale value.

1. Park the name at a parking service provider
These services pay you a percentage of the revenue they derive from ads placed on a dedicated page displayed when people visit your domain. Also the majority of those parking services also feature a sales listing service to facilitate easy resale marketing of your parked domain.

2. Make your own park page
Similar to the aforementioned, only you create a small Website yourself with ads and receive 100% of the profits. This though will not be as lucrative since the parking services get a much higher traffic flow.

3. Develop a content rich mini-site
These little mini-sites are typically filled with articles interspersed with contextual ads from Adsense. Also often referred to as Adsense Niche Sites

4. Develop a fully-fledged website
Selling products or services and also placing some ads and offering paid links. These can either be offering products of your own or as affiliate links for existing websites.

5. Factors that increase value
During any of the above mentioned steps of value adding and development, you can make profit by reselling the Domain or the Site for a bigger value above the purchase price.

6.  Keywords and brand potential of the name
For example, Make-money.org is a keyword rich domain and has a higher value than CrappyNames.com

7.  Volume of Traffic
In simple words More visitors = More Revenue = Higher Value

8. Return on Investment from the site
(Income for Ads, Sales or Paid Links) . Higher Income earned ,Higher value for the site

9. Present Demand for similar domain names
If a certain kind of domain name is hot property, then all similar names get boost in value due to the existing demand.

10. Present Search Engine Ranking
If the name of domain does not show up in the major search engines or is listed on page 400, than its value is low; on the contrary, if the name shows up at the first page of SERPs than its value will be greater.

11. Number of sites that link to your website
This is related to Traffic and search engine ranking: More quality (!) links = bigger traffic + higher rankings

12. How eager is the buyer for the name
A buyer may want the name for a specific purpose and will pay a premium to ensure they get it.

Things to be wary of in Domain Business


1.  Register domain with a trademarked name
Avoid buying names such as, e.g., “GoogleRanks.com” due to the risk of Legal issues. Most large companies can afford a costly legal fight, can you?

2. Paying too much for a Domain Name
Just because http://ReallyGreat.com sold for $Big-bucks , doesn’t mean paying $bigBucks for any old name will mean reselling it for an even higher price.

3.  Getting scammed by Email and other kinds of spam
Domain investors are usually targeted by a fair share of all sorts of scammers. A typical one is an email from somebody who claims they wish to buy your domain, and all you have to do is use their chosen assessment service to confirm the price they offered. In reality, however, this is merely a trick to get you to pay a high price for this appraisal service.

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