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The big question with Domains...

Haven't checked them out yet But thought it might be interesting. :)

If we had only invested in and bought some of those Domains on Sedo etc. that have Sold for some Huge Profits... ;)

Exactly why you Must take Action on stuff before it's too late...

Gotta keep a very close Eye on Trends and Go with those Premonitions...

Do you own garbage or Premium Domains?
http://www.premiumdomain.com/

Phil

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I know some people have been more successful pointing a domain to a blogger.com page and selling a focused product or clickbank product than waiting on adsense revenue ( or in addition to adsense revenue).

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Ah true - but that requires work.

Domain parking requires no work at all - except maybe 5 minutes in setting the name servers.

So its a good idea to chase if you have a lot of domains but not enough time to develop them all.

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Hi Ankesh,

Do you mind letting me know who your webhost and domain provider is. It seems like a good price.

Thanks

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Thanks for asking Sam.

For domain names, I use godaddy.com - $9.20 per domain per year.

If you use the domain parking idea to make money - you don't need a web host. You can park your domains with sedo.com or activeaudience.com for free. And they will show the pages with ads automatically.

Other than domain parking, I host most of my other domains with dreamhost.com - you just need one a/c with them to host multiple domains - and they cost about $10 a month. They are not the fastest in customer support - but their services are damn good and the best I've found.

Other good hosts I've heard good things about and are in the same price range are: servage.net and midphase.com

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Thanks Ankesh, I've bookmarked that webhost a multiple domain host at $10 a month great value! One thing, do you have to register the domains through them in order to be able to host your sites there? Because I have found $4.95 domains so I may well give this ago bearing in mind I don't have to have a webhost if I'm going to use seedo.

Then my break-even is 0.0135c a day or 0.4125c per month. You said you were making 60c a day for 3 accounts 0c for 2 for an average of 0.36c a day per account (did I get this correct?). So you are 26 times over break even (using $4.95) or 13 with godaddy.com.

This seems to good to be true are my figures accurate?

Also do you have any tips on what domain names to pick. I might go the bmeyers route and use misspelled domain names, I'll have to go through his videos on this, you've set a spark alight.

Thank you.

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I have re-read your post and I think you mean you made 60c a day for all 5 domains? 3 make a profit and 2 have not yet so an average would be 0.12c a day per site.

Using $4.95:
0.0135c a day or 0.4125c per month

0.12/0.0135 ~ 9 times break even or 4-5 with godaddy

Still good %'s though!

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That is correct.

I'm not looking to register 500-1000 domain names and turn this into a full fledged revenue stream - at least not yet. May do so after some time...

But here are some ideas for domain names:

1. mis-spelled domains

2. future trend domains (many new words are coined every day - keep an eye out for ones you think are getting famous)

3. minor celebrity names (one of my domain names is the name of an upcoming celebrity - not famous now - but I think has potential - I get 2-3 clicks on that everyday. If the person gets more famous - I'm betting I'll get way way more traffic)

4. phrases with city or region in it - for eg: and this is just an example - nydentist.com or something

5. popular phrases people search for (try spyfu.com to find them)

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No - you don't have to register the domains through them to host with them.

Just to clarify: You don't need a web host if you are just looking into domain parking - sedo.com takes care of that and is free.

Also - you can search for "dreamhost coupon" on google and find a coupon code that will give you $97 off for the first year. That way, it'll just cost you $23 or so for first year of hosting. After that, it'll be back to $10 a month.

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It would be great if you could share your $4.95 domain registrar with us.

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Sure thing its www.netfirms.com just signed up my first domain. I got the link from about.com so I presume their reasonably adequate. They also give you 25mb free web hosting, which is enough if you want to create a very basic landing website. To find my domain name I used a misspelling of betfair.com (a UK betting exchange that generates good traffic). I found my variation through a misspelled domain generator this gave me my domain (betfakr.com) that obviously exchanges the i to a mistyped k, quite a nice tool. Although I did have to search through about 20 misspellings to find an available misspelling (just shows you people must be doing this). I created a sedo account. I then used my netfirm control panel to forward this domain to my new sedo.com parking account. I have also changed the keyword to optimize my advertisements, although this can take up to 48 hrs. I don't really care if I lose money it's a very interesting concept. For $5 I couldn't resist.

Keep you posted.. oh yeah thanks for the coupon tip!

PS: Might have to register, haven't been around sowpub since the forum changed to this version. Looks nice