Cash Parking

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

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).

[Ankesh]

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.

Originally Posted by Ankesh

My cost is $46 per year for all the 5 domains.

Hi Ankesh,

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

Thanks

[Ankesh]

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

Originally Posted by Ankesh

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

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.

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!

[Ankesh]

Originally Posted by Sam

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.

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)

[Ankesh]

Originally Posted by Sam

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

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.

Originally Posted by Ankesh

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

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