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Domain name monetization, also know as domain parking, is essentially the generation of revenue via the placement of advertisements on an auto-created website. This allows anyone to immediately profit from a quality domain name, while they plan and build their official website- which can often take extended amounts of time. If you are considering parking and monetizing a domain name, there are a few things you should consider first.

The Problem

Domain name monetization has recently come under the scrutiny of Google and other major search engines, due to the proliferation of these domain parked sites which are essentially void of content and full of sponsored links. Essentially such sites offer very little use to the visitor, and will sometimes be blacklisted as spam. Ultimately this could be a tragedy for a quality domain name- as it will take a great deal of time to recover from such a negative search engine placement. This will also effect the value of the domain name if you intend to sell it at some point.

The Solution

There are only a handful of genuine domain parking services which will create genuine SEO sites and return 100% of the revenue to the domain name owner. The most important thing to look for in a domain parking service is the ability to auto create content-rich websites which are optimized for search engine experience. This will allow the domain name to attract natural relevant traffic, which will serve to increase the PageRank and ultimately the value of the domain name.

Furthermore leading domain name monetization services will charge an upfront fee, but should guarantee 100% of the revenue to the domain name owner. This is crucial if you are seeking long term domain name monetization, as some questionable domain parking services will take up to 50% of your profits. Always request their conditions for forwarding revenue before parking a domain name.

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The activities of Domain Brokers have been on the increase in recent times.

There is no doubt that there are good domain brokers such as sedo, afternic and a host of others.

But there are times a domain owner would want to sell his domain directly without using a domain broker, most especially penny domains or if you receive a mail from a buyer for a domain not listed with a broker.

One ***** fact is that the activities of domain traffickers who would want to steal your domain is on the increase and so the following must be taken into consideration if a domain owner is going to sell his domain directly to a buyer.

1. Know the identity of who your buyer is: Knowing the identity of who you are selling to is important. Some emails from “prospective buyers” could be scam. You must therefore need to search for the existence of such names and their email on google and you will know if such is scam from your search.

2. Instant Payment System: You must try to use Instant payment systems such as paypal and egold. Do not authorise transfer of a domain if you have not receive payment. If you are receiving check or wire transfer payments, do not transfer untill you receive your payment.

3. Do not appraise domain from buyer’s link: Cases abound where “domain scammers” would send a link from a third party domain appraiser asking you to click there to appraise domain. This is just an old trick for them to get their affiliate payment from your appraisal fee as they are not interested in buying your domain. what you need to do here is to look for appraisal services yourself and appraise and send the certificate to your buyer.

Following the above simple strategies will give you your earnings if you want to sell your domain alone.

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Maybe you are thinking , “all the good domain names are taken already” ? Not so ! Sure, more the 72,000,000 domain names have already been registered, but this doesn’t mean it would be impossible to register a good domain name relevant to your business. Your success depends on: 1°) how you select your domain name; and 2°) how you promote your domain name. In this article I shall explain domain name selection.

Domain name selection can be done as follows:

a) Visit the following website: “http://labs.google.com/” and select “Google Suggest”. Say for example you need to register a domain name for your handbags selling website-store. Then type “handbags” in the
Google Suggest search box, and you see that 8,550,000 results are found. For “handbags retailers”
we find 156,000 results. These results give us an idea of the keyword popularity. It is important to use relevant and popular keywords in our new to register domain name.

b) Next visit the following website: ” https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordToolExternal”. Enter “handbags retailers”, and choose data to display: “Keyword popularity”. Then press “Get more keywords”, and next press “Additional keywords to consider”. Remember we are looking for keywords
high on search volume, but low on competition. So press “Advertiser competition”. As a result we see
two keywords are low on competition and high on search volume: “handbags store” and “handbags retail”.

c) Say for example your store name is “McFeeley Leather Goods and Travel Accessories”. Then you could decide to register: “http://www.handbags-store-mcfeeley.com” or “http://www.handbags-retail-mcfeeley.com”. These domain names are relevant for our example business, high on search volume, and low on competition. In order to get interested visitors to our website, we shall start to promote it via quality
links. The more external links a website has, the more visitors it shall get, the higher the rankings in the
search engines. Interested visitors, means customers ! I shall explain this in the article “Domain Name Promotion Tips”.

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I sell domains; I’ve got a few parked and a few others that anchor websites, but I never thought of myself as a domainer. I hadn’t given it much thought, but I always imagined domainers as people who owned hundreds and hundreds of domains. I decided recently it might be amusing to find out what made a domainer a domainer and if I was one. I needed a definition.

In an earlier article I used the word “domainer” in a sentence and immediately my Microsoft Word For Mac: 2008 started screaming at me (Ok, not screaming exactly, but you know what I mean). Since becoming a domain reseller I had seen the word used repeatedly in search results, but even the spelling checker in Google Docs refused to identify it when prompted. I checked Webster’s Online Dictionary: same result. I did, however, find it in the Online Urban Dictionary. It defined domainer as “A person who makes a living in the cyberterritory, making his fortune investing in the field of domain names, buying and selling the Internet’s most valuable virtual ‘real estate”‘.

Fond as I am of the Urban Dictionary, I found this definition more lyrical than descriptive. I tried googling the keywords “define domainer” and the first Wikipedia definition I found directed me to a “wiki” item on “Cybersquatting.” I’ve heard that some people consider all domainers to be cybersquatters, and I’ve heard that domainers consider it a dirty word so I looked no further in that area.

I finally found a definition I really liked on a blog (”blog,” oddly enough considering its popularity, is another word that gets red lined by Microsoft Word) that described a domainer as one who did “domaining,” i.e. selling, parking and developing domain names. I’m sure your high school English teacher told you to never define a word using the word itself or one of its derivatives; but hey, my high school English teacher taught a long time before Internet domains, domaining or domainers came along and I think I can get away with it. My one problem with this definition was, what did it mean by “developing domain names?” How did you develop a domain other than to anchor a website with it? Which, if you followed too far, would make every owner of a website a domainer, an answer I didn’t at all care for.

I searched again and came up with an answer that satisfied me. It’s really a matter of intent. Unlike the average website owner for whom the website is the end in itself, for a domainer the site is merely the means to the end; the end being the sale of the domain.

You’ll notice that in the definition above there is no mention of numbers. It is enough that you sell, park and develop them. I couldn’t find any authoritative sites on the web that used numbers–however arbitrary–to define a domainer.

I can’t speak for any of you reading this article, but while I’m not developing any sites with the intent to sell the domains, I do sell them and park them; and since numbers are beside the point I believe I can proudly say (with all due respect to John F. Kennedy) “Ich bin ein Domainer!”

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When you open a new Internet page and you type in your website address do you ever wonder what goes on to ensure that you are taken to your desired site? Every time you use the Internet or send an email you are using a domain name to do it and it is through what is known as a domain name server that the domain name and website appears on your screen.

A domain name is the address that people use in order to find you or your company online. It is this domain name that you type into the browser’s address bar to take you to a specific website. Domain names are easy for us to remember but they prove hard for a computer to read. A computer cannot read the words of a domain name; they read numbers instead. These numbers are known as an IP address. Computers use these IP addresses to locate a website, for example a website called domain.com would be known as a series of numbers such as 214.182.103.150. So how do these numbers get changed into a domain name to take you to your desired website? Basically every time you type in a domain name you are using what is known as a domain name server (DNS) to translate the websites IP address into a domain name.

A domain name server is a database and is like no other. This is because no other database gets this many requests sent to it and no other has millions of people continually changing it every day; it is aspects such as these that make this database unique.

Most of us are using domain name servers without even realising it, merely by just using a search engine or browsing through sites on the Internet you are sending requests to a domain name server in order for it to translate the IP address into a domain name. Domain name servers, or DNS, are an incredibly important but completely hidden part of the Internet, and many people often find domain name servers very fascinating. The DNS system forms one of the largest and most active distributed databases on the planet. We don’t actually realise how much we actually rely on domain name servers as without them the Internet would shut down very quickly.

The task of translating domain names to IP addresses sounds like a relatively simple task but you should remember:

• There are billions of IP addresses currently in use, and most machines have a human-readable name as well

• There are many billions of DNS requests made every day, even a single person can easily make a hundred or more DNS requests a day, and there are hundreds of millions of people and computers using the Internet daily

• Domain names and IP addresses change daily

• New domain names get created daily

• Millions of people do the work to change and add domain names and IP addresses every day

Domain name servers are highly important to the Internet and it serves as a phone book for the Internet.

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There are several sites on the internet claiming to offer the cheapest domain names. If you look hard enough, you can find domain names for as low as $1.99 or $2.99 per year. So, what’s the catch?

You have to realize that not all domain names are created equally. And, not all domain registrars include the same services in the price of your domain name. A good .com domain name will cost around $10 per year and should include at the very least,

free domain forwarding free personalized email addresses & alias forwarding free parking full DNS access free domain registration privacy
When you buy a cheap domain name for $1.99 you’re cutting out some of those services. Depending on your needs, that might be okay, but if you want to actually use your domain name for your website, make sure to read the fine print…

Here are some of the tricks that registrars use when they offer their “cheapest domain names” promotion. Even the big companies do it.

Bait and switch. GoDaddy offers domain names for as low as $2.99 but they’re for the .info domain name. Chances are you want a .com domain name which costs $9.99 per year. The special discount price only applies to the first year. Yahoo recently sold .com domain names in March for $1.99 but the special price was only for the first year and for new customers. It would switch to $9.95 per year after the first year. You only get the $1.99 domain name rate if you also buy a non-domain name product (Limit of 1 domain name). A non-domain name product usually means web hosting. Quite frankly, if you’re going to pay for web hosting, find a good registrar that will give you that domain name for absolutely free. Two sites look awfully familiar. It’s probably because one of the sites is a domain name reseller. Some entrepreneur buys domain names at wholesale cost from the big companies and then resells them to regular people like you or I.
Make sure you do your homework before registering a domain name because you can’t get a refund. As always, buyer beware!

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Who offers the cheapest.com domain name today? With so many registrars to choose from, how do you know if you’re really getting the cheapest deals?

We did some comparison shopping with over 20 of the top registrars according to Wikipedia. (Wikipedia’s list of top registrars is based on market share data collected from RegistrarStats – eNom’s statistic site.)

So, here are five things to know about some of the deals out there.

1. The largest registrar in the world by market share right now is GoDaddy. They’ve registered over 33 million domain names. (The second place registrar is eNom which controls 9 million domains.)

2. GoDaddy also currently has the cheapest sale price for a.com domain name which is $1.99 for one domain name (for the first year only and with the purchase of another non-domain product.) After that, the.com domain reverts back to $10.69 (per domain name per year.)

3. The best regular price for a new.com domain name goes to Wild West Domains (which is the reseller brand for GoDaddy). Website addresses go for $7.29 per.com domain name per year, but this price is only available if you have a Pro Reseller plan which costs $199.99 per year. (Making money online through reselling domain names isn’t for everybody.)

4. So, the best deal on a.com website address for the average person (people who just want their own website address for their site) is $7.99 per website address per year. This regular.com price is currently offered by Cheap-DomainNameRegistration (which is impressive because they’re really just a Wild West Domain reseller. You’ll see what we mean if you visit their site and then visit GoDaddy and WildWestDomains. Recognize the layout and branding? Their profit margin must be pretty slim on a.com domain.)

5. All of these registrars charge $8.99 per domain name per year if you want to protect your privacy when registering domain names. (Otherwise your personal information, address, phone number, email address is posted in the WHOIS database for spammers and other people to look up.)

(You might also be interested to know that the worst price for a.com domain name is a five-way tie between Network Solutions, eNom Central, PublicDomainRegistry (reseller), Register, and INWW (Melbourne IT) who all charge $35 per domain name per year. Although Yahoo isn’t in the top 20 registrars, they’re still charging the same regular price. To be fair, Network Solutions, Yahoo, and eNom all charge a few pennies less, but it still rounds up to $35 per domain name per year.)

There are, of course, a few really good deals that offer cheap domain names and free domain privacy, but they are far and few in between.

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Domain name registration is the most important step to take when setting up a website, although not actually the first step. The first step to take is to choose a good domain name!

Your domain name is the name of your online presence. Care must be put into choosing a good domain name, since it will live with you forever (while you are on the Internet!). Remember that a domain name is inextricably linked to your website. You cannot have the one without the other. I once had clients who registered a website in their company name and wanted me to change it after a couple of months to the shorter abbreviation of the company name. This cannot be done without harming your online presence! If you had put any effort at all into building your website and marketing it on the Internet so that it becomes visible; and if you have started to see those efforts pay off in the form of targeted visitors who came to your website looking for the specific products and/or services that you are offering, be prepared to lose some of that if you really want to take the radical step of changing your domain name after your website has already been established.

Sure, the technical boffins will talk to you about permanent redirects so that all traffic previously going to your old website will go to the new one, but there are other factors to keep in mind.

1. Your presence has been established through other websites linking to you and using your domain name in the link. Suddenly these links are now pointing to the old website and not the new one. Yes, setting up a permanent redirect will prevent the problem of visitors clicking through and not being able to find your website, but all those lovely links coming in to your website and voting for you will take a dip. The search engine gurus will tell you that Google knows about permanent redirects and all the good karma that you built up by having links pointing to the old site will now be transferred to the new…but why take the chance?

2. One of the factors that Google also takes into consideration when deciding where to rank your website in its results is the age of your site. If you suddenly decide after a couple of months or years to change your domain name, you are basically setting up a new website from scratch.

3. Any branding awareness that you might have built up around your website name will take a knock.

4. Setting up redirect commands so that they work correctly is a tedious and laborious task and errors can creep in. The site will have to be moved with all the file names and page names intact. Changing file names and page names at this point can be very detrimental to your rankings in the search engines.

5. Google has taken the lead with being able to understand redirect commands, but not all the search engines do. Traffic that you might have received from other search engines could therefore be negatively impacted.

6. You will have to maintain two hosting accounts, one for the old one and one for the new, in order to make sure that the traffic going to the old one keeps on being redirected to the new one. If you do not go through the trouble of contacting webmasters (possibly thousands of them) and asking them to change the URL in all their links on their websites, you will probably have to keep these two URLs running in parallel for ever. You never know how many people have bookmarked your site (or has kept your old email address in their contacts folder). You might get visitors trying to visit the old website or use the old email address for a long time after you have made the move.

The conclusion is that if you choose a domain name – put a lot of thought into it since changing your domain name after you have already been established on the Internet is frankly not worth the trouble.

If, however, you have to do it for legal reasons, such as a company name change or takeover, for example, you will need to understand that keeping the old name and using a permanent redirect using htaccess is the best way for keeping the continuity and traffic to your website.

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Have you ever wondered what it takes to have your own domain name? Would you like to have your own .com? Well I am here to tell you how you can make that happen.

The first step in domain name registration is figuring out what name you want to register. It can be difficult to find a name that you like and one that is still available for purchase. I like to use Dotster.com to help me come up with a name and to check the name’s availability. Simply go to Dotster.com and enter in your idea, for example petnames.com. As you will see petnames.com is taken, but there are other alternative extensions that are available besides .com. There are also additional domain name suggestions for you to consider in the tab on the left.

This process can take a while as you are really trying to find the best name possible. I like to keep a list of available names as I go along and then choose the best domain name from the list when I feel like I have enough good candidates. I tend to have between 20 and 50 good domain name candidates listed.

When you have selected a name, then I suggest you go to a site like GoDaddy.com to save yourself some money on the domain name registration. GoDaddy is currently charging $8.95 for domain names while Dotster is charging $14.95. There is nothing wrong with Dotster, but domain name registration is a commodity service and GoDaddy has a better price. If you want to go even lower, Yahoo! is currently offering domain name registration for $2.99.

Once you have chosen your registrar, then you enter your chosen name and follow the directions to complete the transaction. There will be several pieces of information that you will need to give, like your name, address, email address, and phone number. I suggest you use an email address that you do not ever plan on losing. That way you will always be able to receive contact messages related to your domain name registration. Complete your purchase and you are ready to go. Congratulations, you are now the proud owner of a new domain name!

So what is next? Well now you need to build your site, find a web host, and publish your site to your web host’s servers. Once you have that done, you need to update the DNS entries related to your domain name. Your website’s DNS records are kept with the company where you purchased your domain name registration. Now you are the proud owner of a published website. I have breezed through the whole build, host, and publish process because I plan on providing more details in a follow-up series of articles. Thanks for reading and have fun with your new domain name.

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Domain name is considered to be the identification of your website in the vast world of website. It is something similar to an address, like you have one that of your residence. After you have readied your site with all-sorts of content materials, design, coloring patterns etc you need to assign it with a domain name for the purpose of gaining from it both commercially and socially from a long term perspective. Many people think that this is a complicated matter. But practically in order to register domain names a person or a company has to follow few simple measures in a step by step process, and that’s all.

It is very significant that you choose your domain name that is unique. It should not match any other website’s e-address. After deciding on an original domain name, you need to do exhaustive research using reputed search engines for standard registrars on the net to meet your fundamental objectives. At this point it is crucial to do some investigation about the prices of the various companies and then undertaking a comparative study is important. In order to register domain names, you must also look into the aspects of the various features that the companies promise to provide to you. Also, you may look for some discount offers in this regards.

But you ought to take certain precautions at this context. You may be enticed to register your website under a web hosting service provider that offer free offers to get domain names. But if by chance this hosting company becomes broke or caught is fraud case then it will be very difficult, rather impossible for you to get back your website’s domain name. So in order to register domain names, it is advisable to purchase the required service from a fairly reputed company to avoid such kind of hassles.

There are other less serious yet important measures that must be taken. Getting domain name also involves giving full details about yourself to the service provider like mail id, contact number etc. This is done to keep a constant correspondence with the provider.

After paying for the fees of the service received or yet to be received, it is essential to get accustomed to the process by which your demanded work is performed. With an aim to register domain names, it is crucial to consult the experts in this field, or to close accomplices who have had some experience in this regard.

Post registration, it is possible to type the URL of your site in the address bar and directly visit the homepage of your dear site. But before this happens, you may have to wait for a day or two, as the processing takes a bit of time as the things are put and managed in the right places. After everything is set to order, you can smoothly work under the domain name as it has an automatic legal back up as per the country specific cyber laws. In order to register domain names, you just have to keep these simple points in your mind.

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One of the hardest things about getting a domain name is coming up with one. If you haven’t tried it, you will be amazed. So many names are already taken. This wasn’t always the case. In the early 1990s, people rushed to create websites and online ventures. And as they did, opportunists started buying up domain names. They were hoping that they could speculate in internet real estate. For many in those early days, their work paid off. Fast forward to the present. You will definitely see how good domain names are becoming ever more scarce. So, with that in mind, let’s take a look at some tools that may help you.

LoudSign (http://loudsign.com/) – LoudSign incorporates a domain name search tool on the front page. Type in the name that you want and click on search. Most likely, it will be taken. Now, on the second page you will see a small link under the search button labeled “Try Smart Search.” If you click this, it will bring up many more options. Some of those options are: add popular prefixes, add popular suffixes, view choices with dashes, and view choices with related keywords.

Random Words (http://unique-name.perceptus.ca/random-word.php) – Sometimes coming up a word is simply way too hard. When that’s the case, try this word to get your mental juices flowing.

WordConstructor (http://www.wordconstructor.com) – When you want to make a word from a common one, then this tool hits the spot.

RhymeZone (http://www.rhymezone.com/) – Rhyming a name makes for a memorable one. This little tool helps you find rhyming words for the one you input. It can also find antonyms and synonyms.

Noemata Name Generator (http://noemata.net/nbng/) – When you want a unique name that requires branding, this tool can help.

Random Domain Generator (http://blog.outer-court.com/domaingenerator/) – Here is another tool to help you generate away.

Dislexicon (http://www.robobunny.com/cgi-bin/dislexicon) – A nice tool that puts prefixes and suffixes on names to generate new ones.

If you are lucky, you will find a great name quick. Just remember, the shorter and more memorable the name, the better. Try to go after names that sound similar to something very familiar. And, if at all possible, go after names that contain keywords around your website. Happy searching.

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Why should you park a domain name? It’s a question I get asked from many internet marketers, and it has a simple answer. Parking domains allows the owner to instantly profit from the domain name upon purchase. There are various scenarios where it would be beneficial to park a domain a name permanently as well as temporarily – specifically with the recent developments of paid domain parking services.

If you are an online entrepreneur – or want to become one, you will know the value of a well chosen domain name. Buying a keyword based domain name for an untapped high traffic niche can generate infinite amounts of profit. It is however always a matter of getting in first. Currently I have in the vicinity of 150 domain names – of which approximately 90 are parked, and 60 are complete websites. It may take some time to develop the website they require, and for this reason domain parking is a fantastic solution.



The Benefits

By using a quality domain parking service, you will have the ability to auto generate fresh content rich websites which are optimised for the search engines, with advertisements imbedded in the content. This will serve to generate revenue through visitor’s clicking on the ad’s.

Hot Tip: Make sure you choose a domain parking service that creates fresh content – many will just offer a block listing of ad’s which will never receive much traffic and you will most likely only get paid a small percentage from the clicks received via your site.

Another benefit of domain parking is the ability for your website to increase in PR and Alexa rank, and hence increase in value. If your website achieves a high position on Google for the desired keywords, the value of your domain name will be very high.

A further benefit therefore of parking domains is the ability to manage the sale of your domain. Ideally there will be a form designed on the parked domain which can forward enquiries and bids on your name to your designated email address.

Conclusion

So in summary to answer the question why park a domain name? The answer is to profit from it while you design the site, and to also improve the value of it so that you will get the maximum return if you ever decide to ever sell it.

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Domain parking is the technical term for what you do between buying your domain name and getting round to doing something with that domain.

Chances are, you’ve got a number of domains that are parked, waiting for you to bring them to life.

There are various cheap domain parking services around. Some of these cheap domain parking services will help you to get some income out of your domain. Others will just help it to sit there, gathering virtual dust.

The cheapest domain parking service is your domain name registrar. In fact, if you didn’t complete any name server details when you purchased your domain, chances are that you are advertising your domain name registrar for free.

The next cheapest domain parking service is your web host. If all you’ve done is set up the domain with your web host and pointed the name servers at the host, chances are that you will get a page that says something really interesting like “This domain is reserved for one of our customers”. Gee!

If neither of those appeal, there are professional domain parking services like Sedo.com. They’re cheap to join – all it takes is a few minutes of your time – but in my experience the promised revenue turns into very little indeed. Maybe if you’ve got a domain with a high level of type in traffic then your mileage may vary. But for us mere mortals, I personally don’t rate sedo.com for parking domains.

Finally, there are some paid-for services that will actually do something with your parked domain. You can search your favorite search engine for these. Some of the ones I’ve found, like seguinhost.com, charge a monthly fee. Which is OK if you make a decent amount of money from the domains. The sites created won’t be exactly the best in the world – the samples I’ve looked definitely wouldn’t win a web beauty contest. But, that said, if all you’re looking for is cheap domain parking where you stand a chance of earning some money until you get round to doing something real with your domain name, then they’re well worth checking out.

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Earning money from parked domains can be one of the most lucrative automated business you can ever do. You simply buy domains, which cost pittance these days, redirect it to a parking company for free, and start counting cash.

Sounds easy? Well, it is, IF you know what you’re doing. Today, 99% of the people would make nothing with their parked domains, waiting months or years for their first penny to come. Think about it, if it were that simple, wouldn’t everyone be doing the same?

To make money parking domains, there are many essential factors:

1. The domain name that you register

2. The type of keyword and market you’re targeting

3. The parking company you choose to park your domain names

4. The amount you’re paid for each click on the advertisements on your domain (usually, this amount plain sucks, until you know how to get more)

5. The amount of traffic you get (from search engines or type-in traffic)

So what are the steps to get started?

1. Register a domain name

2. Sign up with a parking company for free

3. Follow their simple instructions to point your domain towards their servers

4. Start making money parking domains, by simply repeating the above steps!

Some of the good parking companies are NameDrive, Sedo etc. You can sign up for free there, without any domain quality requirements. Some parking companies might need you to have a specific amount of domain before you can sign up, or domains of specific type (eg. no dashes or numbers, dictionary word etc.)

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When you choose your domain name you must see to it that it carries the nature of the business. You need your domain name that will have that greatest recall with your possible customers. Your domain name must be short sticky and can be pronounced and spelled out properly. Good domains are not easily made. A lot of companies do buy domain names which serve also as their investment.

Domain names serve as the addresses that web surfers use to get the specific website that they are looking for. The correct domain name should be chosen. The correct domain name can be your tool for widening your business horizon. The possible customers can access the products you sell and the services you provide with the correct domain address that you will have. You need to understand the importance of domain names; you can get much profit through the use of your domain names.

Domain names must connect you with a niche market which will allow you to display your website in a more efficient way. Your domain name must assist you in creating traffic to your website.

Domain names can give you the best tool in marketing. A lot of people are using the internet everyday. They search and surf the net for anything possible. You can create catching domain names that will put you to the top. Your possible client can recall the name and if the person found several ample data to be useful there will be greater chances that your website can come upfront for search results in the internet. A lot of companies will invest in your website and eventually the bucks will be rolling in.

Coming up with the appropriate domain name for your website can attract greater number of views. A unique, attractive, and easy to remember domain name can take you to more earnings.

Choosing to have multiple domain names can also increase visitors of your web site. This is another option that can bring some good money to your doorstep.

A greater number of views can give you a better chance at getting clients. But it is not always the case. At times you get the visitors but you don’t get the customer. Therefore it is also important to make your website look more attractive, appealing, and professional. This will earn the trust and respect of the possible clients and eventually they will buy your product and recommend your site to other people.

Another enterprise that can also be lucrative is buying and selling domain names. There are a lot of people out there who are highly interested in purchasing appealing and easy to remember domain names. As domain names are a big factor in boosting your income, you should observe professionalism at all times in this field.

There are auction sites that specialize in domain names. An interesting option for this is to buy domain names and place them in these auction sites. With this undertaking, you can gain much profit especially if your domain names are interesting and easy to recall.

Domain names can cost higher with time. A good technique that can earn you some big money is to buy domain names, keep them for a certain period of time, and sell them at a higher price.

Helping other people create domain names for search engine optimization is also a lucrative source of income.

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The registration of a domain name is a simple process, even if you are doing it for the very first time. The process for the first-time domain buyer can be broken down into the following steps:

1. You decide on the name you want to buy.

2. You sign up with a domain registration service (this is free).

3. You buy the domain you want using your credit card (this takes a few minutes).

4. You leave the domain name parked with the registrar (as an investment for later, or until you decide what to do with it); or you develop a web site for the domain.


Let’s look at these steps in detail.

Deciding on your name

You may know the domain name you want already, and know it is still free – if you don’t, just type the name in a browser to see if it is already taken. If it isn’t taken, then you can buy it.

If you are not sure about the name you want, you need to do some brainstorming. Short, generic names are the most valuable, but they are in very short supply now. If you need ideas, go to a domain name registrar like Godaddy and use their tools to suggest a free (unregistered) name based on the theme or subject you have in mind.

Signing up with a domain registration service

Go to a service like Godaddy, and register yourself. This means you will have to enter your name and contact address, so that any domain names you buy are registered to you. You also have to enter your credit card details. There is no cost to you for signing up, and you can get an overview of the process of registering a domain and read a FAQ about it before going any further.

Buy the domain you want

After you have registered, you can buy any domain name you want, as long as it is still free. Note that the .com name extension is still the most popular one, though you could buy .net, .info, .org, .tv, or .biz versions of the name if the .com is taken. Expect to pay about $10 for the registration, and then the same every year you want to keep the name registered.

Park the name, or build a site

Services like Godaddy allow you to simply ‘park’ the domain with them. You own the domain, and no-one else can buy it, unless they make you an acceptable offer of course. Or, you can find a host and build a website for the domain, which is the next step in making the domain a valuable asset.

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Domain names are the first step in implementing your Internet marketing business plan. Domain name represents your brand. Many people know very well the importance of brand in the “offline” but even those can make mistakes in their Internet brand management. Domain name is the first step in successful Internet brand management.

Choosing a domain name

It is not easy to register a good domain name (especially dot com), these days. According to domain name statistics on the most popular web site for whois searches Whois Source there are more than 57 million active generic top level domains registered as of September, 2005. Majority of these domain names are .com names. You can view this statistics if you visit http://www.whois.sc/internet-statistics/

It is sure that you can’t register a classy one-word domain name but with a little knowledge and appropriate services you can find a decent one, especially if you are not interested only in .com names. Useful site for finding decent domains is above mentioned Whois Source – http://www.whois.sc There you will find a free service that will give you 20 domain suggestions based on your keyword. Also, on the Internet you can find software that focus on domain names. Using free software Domain Name Analyzer you can make a list of domain names and this software will check availability of all included domains so you won’t have to check one-by-one which is time-consuming. Also this program will give you useful suggestions.

Another useful thing in find decent domain names is using expired domain name or back-ordering services. Using the first service you will get the list of expired domain names where you can find some really nice names with a little luck. However, it is not easy because many people use those services and some companies have special infrastructure that check availability of certain domain names every second and register them. You will have better chance to get your desired domain using back-ordering services. These services will monitor for domains you want to register and once they expire they will make register them on your behalf. Popular services are SnapNames.com and Pool.com.

It is recommended that your domain name be short, catchy, brandable and most important – easy to remember! You can register a domain name that has no obvious connections with your business but that is cool. Then you will have to invest more money in branding. With good domain name you will save thousand and thousand dollars in advertising, especially in TV advertising. If you are an email marketer domains are also very important because getting email subscribers without well designed web site is not recommended. It is recommended that the name of your domain be the same like your email newsletter name. You can make “teaser” articles in your email newsletter so that your readers will have to visit your web site in order to read complete articles and vice-versa. You can put “teaser” articles on your web site and require that people subscribe to your email newsletter to read complete articles.

Also, in order to find out popularity of certain keyword combinations you can use keyword suggestion services. We can recommend you these services:

Google AdWords Keyword Tool

https://adwords.google.com/select/KeywordSandbox

Keyword Suggestion Tool

http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/

You can use Google, enter your keyword combination and see how much results you will get.

If you are in process of registering a domain name we can suggest you these two great companies:

Go Daddy – http://www.godaddy.com

Namecheap – http://www.namecheap.com

Internet brand management

We will take our company Infacta, Ltd. as an example. Infacta is Ireland-based company so it is logical that we registered http://www.infacta.ie. However, although we are Ireland-based company we focus globally. This can prove the fact that we have clients in more than 130 countries world-wide. So, it is also logical that we have a domain name in .com extension, too. Dot com domain name is considered as a global domain name for companies. Many people think that it is enough to have 2 domain names. For successful Internet brand management it is not enough. Beside, .ie and .com domains, Infacta owns domains in all major generic top level domain extensions (gtld) like .net, .org and .info. This is to prevent people or companies to use other Infacta name in other extensions that can confuse our customers and make harm to our brand. Beside that, we registered domain names for our products GroupMail and GroupMetrics in different domain extensions. Other famous companies have literally hundred and even thousand domains in their portfolio for each country where they have a presence and for their services. That is called a professional brand management.

There is also one more thing that can show how serious one company is regarding their domain names and Internet presence, in general. That is domain expiration date. Domain names expire. After that (preferably before that) date domain owners have to renew them. When you make whois inquiry about certain domain name, for example at http://www.whois.sc , beside registrant info you will see an expiration date. Imagine that you want to see an expiration date of your email marketing software company and you see that the expiration date is the next year or even this year. This doesn’t sound promising if you want a reliable business partner that will be in the business in the next 10 years, too, that you can count on. It is not only important because of whois searches and credibility, it is important because of search engines. Google gives better placement for companies that have domains registered for longer period. It is a sure indicator that it is a stable business and that they won’t go anywhere. Infacta domain name http://www.infacta.com expires in 2011.

There are some services that can help you in Internet brand management, to monitor that someone else is not using your trademarked names. One of those companies that offer brand monitoring services is NameProtect, Inc. at http://www.nameprotect.com Also, it is highly recommended that before you register your domain name to visit http://www.uspto.gov to check if your name that you want to register has been trademarked to avoid possible problem and law suits later. USPTO is official web site of the United States Government for patents and trademarks. Here you can also register your patent, trademark or service mark.

If your company’s name has a good, generic name and you want to register a domain, it is most likely that the .com domain will be taken. Sometimes, it is good choice to buy it from the actual owner. Also, you can buy domain names that are highly connected with your products and services and that will help you in Internet marketing.

The most popular web sites for buying/selling domain names are:

Sedo – http://www.sedo.com

Great Domains – [http://www.GreatDomains.com]

Afternic – http://www.afternic.com

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Domain companies would love each of us to by 10 domains but the reality is we are wasting our money buying more than one possibly two. Don’t get fooled; here are the facts.

Though the companies that sell domain names would have you believe that it is essential for you to own multiple domain names for your business it is likely to be a complete waste of your money.

The argument for buying multiple domains is to stop other companies from getting a name like your name. While this may have been an interesting idea, reality is that most people will type in the name that you advertise.

This being the case, if you advertise [http://www.yourcompanyname.com.au] it is unlikely to be any benefit to you owning http://www.yourcompanyname.info or [http://www.yourcompanyname.net.au]. After all why would people suddenly use that name.

If you have a product that you are marketing here in Australia, if at all possible secure the domain name with a .com.au ending. This is the most commonly recognised domain name within Australia. If someone was unsure of your domain name it is most likely the ending they will put after your name.

Having said that, they are increasingly difficult to achieve and that is why there are so many combinations of names. This includes .biz or .info and a number of other so combinations. If your primary marketing is via search engines then this is fine, however if it is traditional marketing means, then try to get the .com.au if gives people confidence in your business being an Australian company.

Many “junket” websites by the “alternative” ending domains simply because they save some money when purchasing them. Like most people, I am always cautious, even a little skeptical, of such domains and will always chose a .com.au where I know they have a registered Australian business name and ABN. I immediately know they have been through a checking process because you can’t buy a .com.au name within a registered business name and ABN.

The people who are selling domains names will tell you stories about how buying many domains protects you and is better for your business, reality is that it is better for their commissions and their business. I would suggest putting your money into where if can make you money – a good website.

Warning

Don’t work with or believe web development companies who try to sell you multiple domain names with the intention of setting them all up to point to your website. This is specifically stated by Google as one of the areas that they do not consider acceptable within the terms and conditions of using Google – in plain and simple English, you can end up getting your website banned from Google.

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There is no better feeling than earning money while you sleep. Some lucky people have money on deposit; others own buy-to-let property or equities. All very good investments, but you need to start with a lot of money to get a decent return. So what about the man with a thousand dollars? How does he earn money while he sleeps? Well there are plenty of opportunities on the Internet. What about considering Domain Parking? Buy a domain name with either a .com, .net or .co.uk ending and park it with a specialist online company who will give it it’s own page on the net filled with advertisements. If a web surfer opens the page and clicks on one of the ads, you earn – sometimes $5 or $10.

Good names are going fast, particularly those with the .com extension and, needless to say, there are “big boys” already controlling large portfolios of desirable names. But, with some hard work and patience you can still find words or combinations of words that will make good, profitable domain names. A friend recently registered oldmalt.com, oldsinglemalt.com, oldmaltwhiskey.com and oldmaltwhisky.com along with the .net and .co.uk extensions of the same names. Proper spelling is not always important – just think about text messaging – our children seem to communicate in a new foreign language using words like: txt, xchg, luv, biz etc. In fact bizetc.co.uk was available while I was writing this article. People often miss-key and may write googlw or foogle in error and don’t forget Americans spell many words differently to the Brits. Look for alternative spellings, slang or just common spelling mistakes; they could all be opportunities to make money while you sleep.

Checking for and buying domains could not be simpler. Go to a domain registration company like uk2.net or godaddy.com. You will usually find a domain search box on the home page. Enter a name and press search. You will be able to see your chosen name with all of the possible extensions and their availability. If the name and the extension you desire is available you will be able to buy it with a credit card there and then. Within a couple of hours you can return to the site and begin administering your domain. If you currently use an email account at Hotmail or Gmail you will now be able to change your email address from johndoe67004a @ hotmail.com to john @ oldmalt.com by simply redirecting your mail through your domain to Hotmail or Gmail, where you can view it as normal. You can even change the settings in Gmail to display john @ oldmalt.com as the return address, without changing your original user name.

Once you own a domain name you can begin to earn money while you sleep. Go to a domain-parking specialist, like sedo.com or namedrive.com and park your domain for free. They will give clear, simple, instructions explaining how to redirect you domain to their site and once you’ve done that everything runs on automatic.

The more adventurous domain entrepreneurs will realize there must be more money to be made somewhere, but they lack the computer skills to build a website. Why Park is a company offering you the opportunity to own a content rich website of your own, with automatically generated and constantly changing articles relevant to subjects and key words chosen by you and you don’t need any skills or computer knowledge to get started. You can even add affiliate links and sell other people’s products by signing up at clickbank.com where thousands of products are available. By signing up with Why Park you retain 100 percent of your earnings, rather than giving eighty percent to the parking site.

Serious domaineers (not available) are busy buying and selling in the secondary market. So while you earn from your visitors you can also be offering your site for sale or auction and some names have been sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars, even millions. You may spot a great name that is due to expire – all names must be renewed on or around their due dates – and purchase it. Some pros use domain-snatching software like Domain Software to buy expiring domains and avoid expensive auctions.

The Internet is getting larger every day and the pool of available names gets smaller, particularly if you want a .com, the most desirable extension. But there are still bargains to be had, if you are patient and creative. Good luck.

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Many people turn to internet for answers to questions and regularly look up various websites to fulfill different needs- from product purchase to fulfillment of entertainment needs. Inevitably, these resources have to be hosted on a computer server, and should be made easy to retrieve upon a simple search. If you intend to host this information online, you need to first understand that this is a paid service. You have to actually pay the host company to secure an internet address and they will provide the service of hosting that information on your behalf.

You’ll need to undergo domain name registration by choosing an available and specific address name. There are several websites offering such service, and you need to check with them to ensure that the desired domain name is still available. The names are highly personalized and as a general rule, no duplicates are allowed to prevent confusion of website addresses. Next up, proceed to make payment to the respective host company. Payment is usually in the form of a monthly or an annual fee and the fees vary, depending on the type and terms set by the host server. Internet address is often regarded as a form of intellectual property with indefinite value but can be freely traded. Therefore, domain name registration is required to enable your website be listed in an international domain name registry and for people to be able to look up your internet address.

Some countries have slightly stricter regulation regarding domain name approval. You may be required to present proof of document related to patent or trademark to secure certain addresses. You can also move your internet address from one host to another, and activation of the paid address usually takes place within a short period of time.

Generally, domain name registration is a hassle-free process and you can do so with minimal fee involved. However, locate a suitable host and choose an appropriate internet address name. One that’s easy to remember and unique will be advantageous.

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Not since Columbus discovered the New World in the 15th century have such vistas of real estate been opened to humanity. Now that we have exhausted the frontiers of our planet, we created a virtual “New World” in the 20th century. The Internet opened to commercial businesses in 1988 and our lives have never been the same. It is virtually impossible to market and promote your business in modern commerce without a commanding and increasing Internet presence. As with physical expansion, cyber real estate arises as the most basic and vital requirement to Internet marketing. Domain names are cyber real estate. While realtors understand their holy mantra to be “Location, location, location,” domain names have unique qualities which promote marketing value and increase business presence on the Web.

Simplification

Nobody would go to a Wal*Mart in the boondocks. Don’t make access to your website difficult because of a complex domain name – keep it simple. Technically, domain names may have up to 67 characters, but you should keep things simple and acquire a short domain name. Christopher Heng advises, “If you manage to get a short domain name though, the key is to make sure it’s a meaningful combination of characters.” [1] In other words, the random combination of “tk421.com” may be short but not simple!

Anyone trying to market their business on the web needs to have a memorable domain name. Of course, simple domains will be memorable. Avoid complexity or obscurity at any cost. Some companies choose abbreviations in their domain name. Unless your company is normally associated with abbreviations, these domains may be short but not easily remembered.

Much Internet traffic originates from people typing in a Web address or searching a given word in search engines. This human element involves the common mistake of misspellings and typos. The complexity of the domain name increases the risk of error on behalf of the average buyer. Dr. Ralph F. Wilson reports about Art-U-Frame.com who bought “art.com” and consequently doubled their sales. [2] Simple domain names are simply invaluable to Internet marketing.

Relation

Names represent specific objects. We all know Mickey is a mouse and Fido is a dog, so you don’t want to confuse potential customers by having a domain name that has nothing to do with your company or business. A strong relationship between the domain name and the business creates a strong marketing tool. Again Heng points out, “In the modern world of the Internet, where people automatically turn to the Web for information, it pays to have a domain name that reflects your site or business.” [3] Individuals who are looking to start a new business on the Internet have the opportunity to choose an identical business and domain name (e.g. Travelocity.com). For companies who have already worked hard to establish a company name, the challenge of finding a precise website address may be more challenging.

The debate over specific or general domains may be secondary to real Internet success, but it is central to a marketing strategy. If your company name is precise and adequately describes your business, then acquiring an identical domain name has proved to be a worthy investment. However, significant amount of traffic arises from buyers who generally search for a product or category. For example, people may broadly search “shoes” or “footwear” as opposed to “Ugg boots” or “Aasics Nimbus Crosstrainers.” Different strategies may encompass one or both of these approaches to draw in the most buyers. Generic domain names with keywords are another strategic element for marketing with a Web address. While hyphenated domains are typically stronger in keyword searches, you should be careful not to overdue it and sacrifice simplicity as in “p-a-t-t-e-r-n-s.net.” Essentially, a domain name needs to accurately reflect the business it represents and effectively relate it to the market.

Extension

All domain names have an extension. The domain extension is simply the letters which follow the dot. The most common extension is “.com,” but because the Internet has been established as an essential marketing tool, most of the good domain names with a “.com” extension have been taken. The availability of quality domain names as they have been defined has almost disappeared with the “.com” extension. This lack of real estate has generated the availability of several alternative extensions with different prospects and values.

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) was established in 1998 to assist the government in overseeing issues related to the Internet. ICANN has approved of several top-level domain extensions over the past decade to broaden the horizons and possibilities for quality domains as have been defined. (To view a complete list of TLD’s, visit http://www.icann.org). Top-level domains are defined by ICANN as, “The right-most label in a domain name.” [4]

Periodically, different companies will offer a new domain extension to the public for registry. Network Solutions has recently offered the extension “.us.com.” This extension is a country-specific alternative domain name. While not yet recognized with a top-level domain status, it is likely to be approved as such by ICANN in the future.

This extension provides unique possibilities in two ways. First, it is a country-specific domain name. Several countries around the globe have domain extensions that promote businesses from or for their particular country. This does not mean that people from other countries can not access this website or do business with these companies. Rather, web addresses with country-specific extensions are making a concerted marketing effort toward their particular countries.

Some country-specific extensions exclude the “.com” and might appear simply “.us” or “.uk.” However, because “.us.com” retains the familiar “.com” in its extension it is not as unusual to the average person. After all, “.com” will always be the most common domain extension, so a complete break with its popularity is not necessarily the best choice. The new .us.com domains will open up domain names long ago taken by the early-adopting .coms, and could be a windfall for many businesses.

Simplification, Relation, Extension – These three qualities define a good domain name. The realm of domain names is ever expanding with the demand for increased presence on the web. Companies should not settle for obscure domain names that don’t relate to their business and are difficult for the populace to remember. The value and relevance of alternative domain extensions are being recognized by ICANN and other businesses offering these new domains for registry. Any business concerned for effective and competitive Internet marketing should acquire and develop good domains with quality websites. Anything short of this will leave a business in the dust of its competitors.

Paul Galla, President

[1] http://www.thesitewizard.com/archive/domainname.shtml

[2] http://www.wilsonweb.com/wmta/domain-name.htm

[3,4] http://www.icann.org/tlds

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If you are getting started with your own website or Internet blog, you want to make sure that you understand what is an ISP. It is pretty simple. It stands for Internet service provider, which essentially is a company that collects either a monthly or yearly fee in exchange for you to have Internet access.

Your connection may be dial-up, cable, DSL, or some other type of online access. If you are getting started with your personal website, it is recommended that you invest in cable or DSL service, so that you can get the fastest and best Internet service. It just makes things simpler when trying to work online.

When learning about Internet service providers, you want to make sure that you purchase the connection that you can afford but that will also give you the speed that you need. Dial up is the slowest Internet connection, whereas DSL is generally the fastest. You can get service through your cable TV provider, which sometimes makes the overall package a little more affordable.

Every ISP provider is going to have some kind of Terms of Service that you want to read thoroughly and will have to agree to before you accept the contract. You want to make sure what the providing company is going to allow you to do. You want to make sure there is a stable and secrure privacy policy, and you want to make sure that your information will not be shared with other companies.

What to expect from your ISP? Well a good provider will give you rules toward hacking, protecting copyright materials, service attack, harassment, spam, and other compromising services. You want to check out the Terms of Services and the limitations before signing the contract and paying any money for services

When setting up a new personal or business website, it is important that you understand all of the basics about what an ISP actually is, and know how to handle yourself in different situations because you will quickly find out that you can get attacked by users, and it is important that you understand how to deal with such attacks and have good customer service when needed.

Before you settle into contracting any one ISP provider, do your research and decide which company will have the best prices and functions that you will need for your connection and web hosting needs. This will make for a smooth transition when you are ready to upload and maintain your web presence.

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The Internet is an endless spring of community, entertainment, commerce and information. Unlike traditional mediums (print, TV, radio, brick and mortar businesses), the web promotes interaction by enabling everyone with a computer and a connection to cautiously dip their toes or cannonball full force into the world’s biggest pool party. Encouraging that do-it-yourself spirit in each of us are an endless line of designers, programmers and hosts who are anxious to assist even the most technically timid to sprout wings with their own site. However, you’ll never make it out of the nest if you don’t have the perfect domain name for your site. And thus, the search begins.

Instead of wasting time by throwing darts at names on a wall, it’s best to maintain focus and recognize a few domain naming parameters. First off, it’s paramount that the domain name doesn’t confuse potential visitors. Strive for a site name that sounds exactly like it’s spelled so you don’t need a search engine to find it. A quick trip to Alexa’s Top 100 U.S. sites shows there are few exceptions to this rule. With most basic words already spoken for, be prepared to get creative, mixing words together or coming up with an appropriate onomatopoeia.

While it’s a good idea for a domain name to describe the site, it’s equally important to come up with an original name that is catchy enough to be passed along at the water cooler. Look no further than domain names Yahoo or Google. While these names really don’t reveal much about two of the web’s most visited sites, they’re easy to recall and short on syllables, making it simple for first-timers to find.

If you’re after serious traffic, commit to securing a .com name. It only takes a quick trip to Alexa to discourage any thoughts of settling for less popular .org, .net or .info. Of the Top 100 traffic-ranked sites in the United States, only 10 ended with something other than .com. At the end of the day, why argue with 90% of the country’s most-visited sites.

Now that you’re armed with these factors, head over to your favorite domain name registrar. Don’t get too discouraged when you discover the fabulous names you’ve painstakingly researched are already spoken for. This is your opportunity to recruit family and friends to get involved by emailing them your naming guidelines. Don’t be surprised if someone who isn’t invested in the project suggests the perfect, available name.

The company I work for recently survived the re-naming process and we still have the bruises to show for it. Originally named RadioFire.net, we’re a social music site that allows people to discover unsigned artists in their own communities and across the country. With a complete redesign underway to amplify a more community-oriented experience, our design firm said the .net name had to go. The .com version of our domain name wasn’t available, so we followed the steps above. After much brainstorming and research, we feel we’ve hit a home run that will elevate our site’s experience. The winning domain name: Echoboost.com. We feel the name conveys the positive experience bands and music fans alike can expect from our site while remaining easy to remember and spell.

Now it’s your turn, so dive into your own website with a great domain name.

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Dot Tel is a new top level domain which is also referred to as ‘dottel’, ‘dot-tel’, ‘.tel’, or just ‘tel’ in this article and elsewhere. The technology is designed to be, among other things, a communications hub for businesses targeted at mobile phone users. The Dot Tel domains reside in the Domain Name System (DNS) of the internet. The DNS is ideal for storing contact information. It is cost effective and can be mobile phone optimized. Each page of a dottel can be targeted for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) in multiple ways.

There are no ongoing hosting fees which can be expensive for a business web site. The annual registration is the only cost and this is nominal. It is an ideal web site presence for small and medium-sized businesses because often they do not want the expense of either a web site designer or hosting. Large companies will probably still wish to operate normal web sites. Their dottel can be integrated into their other web sites’ contact pages. Their dottel is also available for customers to use separately on their mobile phones.

Customers and business partners using mobile phones will find it especially useful because of its high loading speed. It has minimal data amounts per page. The business then gains a workable low cost-to-user mobile presence which is extremely important. Many business functions are now converging on the internet, such as merchandizing and sales.

For larger companies, switchboard staff time usage is reduced because the Dot Tel technology takes the user through a simple sub-domain directory to a particular department or business location. This is a cost saving.

All businesses have a changing set of contact information. Previously, businesses changed their contact data on their web site and emailed or phoned their business partners and customers. With a dottel that all changes. An update to a dottel updates all parties concerned in near real time. Everyone who uses the business’s dottel is updated with the new contact information. No more hours are spent emailing.

A benefit of a dot-tel domain for businesses is that they can use languages other than English in their keywords which are shown at the bottom of every dot-tel page. This draws search engine traffic of non-English speakers to the business dot-tel web site. This is another possible revenue stream for a business.

A further benefit of tel is that its data and information can be encrypted. Sensitive information is completely protected.

One negative point about Dot Tel is that its display is very Craiglist-like; bland with little colour. But this does make a Dot Tel faster to load than a normal web page.

There is little knowledge of dottel among the broad public, which is another negative point about dottel. Even in the domaining community it has hardly made a ripple of impact. So there is a definite need for a business to educate customers and business partners. There will be resistance to the idea. Perhaps in time, the resistance will be overcome.

Businesses need not worry that they will lose their non-mobile phone traffic with only a Dot Tel as a web presence. Dot Tel is accessible from any internet enabled device such as PCs anywhere in the world. It is just optimized for mobile phones.

Tels can also be used to set up certain types of micropayment or store front systems. The tel can offer downloads, products, and services from which payments can be collected.

In summary, Dot Tels are very useful, even important, for businesses today. If businesses do not have a mobile phone presence they will lose out in the marketplace. Dot Tel is ideally placed to meet the mobile phone need. The Dot Tel page displays however, fall far short of eye-candy quality. The Sponsor of this TLD must address the display issue. They must also try and develop public awareness of Dot Tel and do it quickly.

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So you just registered 20 names and don’t know what to do with them. Then you ask people at your favorite forum what they think about the names you just registed. Come to find out they are worth nothing. At this point you are thinking they don’t know what they are talking about. This guide will point out why some domains are worth nothing and why some are worth millions. This guide will also help you find great domains to buy and get them for a great deal.

Keywords

First things first lets talk about keywords. Keywords are very very important when looking for domains to register or buy. These keywords will determine ad competition, popularity, and also search volume. By looking at the keywords you can pretty much tell if they are good or not. Good way to find out if a keyword is popular or not check out Google Keyword tool this site will tell you if the keywords have search volume and ad competion. Very useful tool when determining the value of a domain. Lets take Games.com for instance if you do a search with this tool for “Games” you can see that the Ad Competition is very high and that search volume is high as well. Look for keyword rich domains. Also make sure that the keywords go good with each other. If you have 2 really good keywords but are not related to each other the domain may still be worth nothing.

Length

Length is also an important part in the value of a domain. Basically the shorter the domain the better. This does not mean that it will automatically be worth more if it is 7 characters in length. As stated before remember keywords are very very important.

Age

The age of a domain matters. Its not a big factor but a domain that is 10 years old is probably going to be a little better than a domain that was just registered. I can also add here that PR(Page Rank) is important also. If a domain has a good PR is will be worth more as well. This can also tell you if there was a site up on the domain as well. This is attractive for buyers because if a site was once up it could be still getting traffic. To see if a website was once up on a domain you own check this site out Way Back Machine it will show you the site that was once up on the domain if any.

Traffic & Revenue

Traffic is important because domainers are looking for domains that have built in traffic. If a domain is getting 15k Unique Visitors a month then it is probably going to be worth a lot more than if it has none. Traffic is what is going to drive revenue. Revenue can be collected from a number of different resources. The most popular ways are from parking the domain or putting adsense on a mini-site. Most people will pay for the price of a domain and 1 years revenue. For instance lets say Games.com was for sale. Lets say the price of the domain in the sellers eyes is $2,000 and is making $4 a day in revenue in parking. The domain would sell for $3460 ($2,000 for the domain and $1,460 for the revenue.)

Google

Google is the biggest search engine on the planet right now. So most people use google and want to get their pages ranked in their rankings. So when you see people say 2,000,000 results for Plastic Jugs or something to that affect it is probably not acurate. The acurate way to search the keywords in google is to put “” around the keywords. For example if you search for Movie Porch on google it comes up with 577,000. If you put the words in quotes(”") it only come up with 257 results. Google can be misleading if not used right. Google adds to the value because it shows how many times those key words pop up together in websites. The more the better.

Backlinks

Backlinks are a sign of a website being used at one point or there was some marketing for the domain done. These are good if you want some traffic that is existing for the domain. To see if you have backlinks on your domain check out Marketleap.com. It will tell you if there are back links on major search engines.

Bad Value

Things that can take away value from a domain name are “-”, Numbers, misspellings, and domains that just dont make sense.

Evaluation

Let me take you through a process of how i evaluate a domain.

MoviePorch.com is the domain i will evaluate.

Google: 257 Frequency:103 Backlinks:145 Ad Score for these 2 words together are zero. The search volume is pretty much non existant. Just over 2 months old. The 2 keywords do not fit together. There is a site up on it now but not bringing in much revenue. Length is kind of long for a domain like this. I would classify this domain as a Brandable. Which basically means for this domain to have any value it would have to be marketed and branded by a website. So as far as reseller value i would value this domain at Low $xx mark. For an end user it could be worth millions.

Another point i want to point out is that any domain can be worth anything. An end user might want an off the wall domain to brand themselves and buy that domain for $x,xxx. This guide is to show people what a domain “MIGHT” be worth to a domain RESELLER. If you don’t think your domains are worth anything then try developing mini-sites for them. Making a good website always adds value to the domain name. Also this guide is for .coms but can also be applied to ccTLDs and other extensions.

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How to register domain names is a process that many small
businesses are not aware of the steps required to complete.
Your domain name is a very significant factor in your
online success and is used to identify your website. Also
registering a domain is a vital part to actually owning the
domain name.

Find an official web site that registers domain names
preferably one that allows cheap registration for under ten
dollars. If you do a search on Google you will find many
cheap registrars like Godaddy.

A significant factor in determining your domain name is
that you need to use a domain name that reflects your
business. So for example if you have a beauty salon called
Perfect20 then your domain name would be
[http://www.perfect20.com]. Sometimes you may find that your
domain name is already taken and to prevent another
business taking advantage of your brand you may want to
contact the owner directly and make an offer to buy your
domain name from them.

Another important consideration to make is that you may
also want to register the .net and .org versions to
prevent a competitor from benefiting from your brand.
If you run a professional business you may want to consider
registering a .biz domain name as only businesses are
allowed to use this type. For information only sites
you will may consider to use the .info extension.

After paying for your domain you would have finalized the
process of registering your domain name. After your domain
name servers have been changed to point to your web host
your domain will propagate through all the domain name
servers on the internet. This process usually takes 24 to
72 hours and it will become live once this step has been
completed.

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The domain name registration process can be confusing to first time buyers. There are a number of terms to worry about. Hopefully, with the information below, you’ll be able to successfully register domain names while avoiding the pain that can sometimes come from the domain registration process.

What the heck is a nameserver anyway? Nameservers refer to a service that runs on servers belonging to a web hosting company that hosts the account that the domain name will point to. Every domain name on the internet must point to an IP address but each IP address can have multiple domain names on it thanks to shared hosting. Entering the nameservers of the hosting company you have for the domain name you are registering lets the big DNS nameservers on the internet know where to find the hosting account for the domain name in question. Without this service, it would be impossible for any computer to find any web page. This is all usually done very quickly – in a fraction of a second.

Whois information is another thing to get knowledgeable about. Whois refers to the owner of the domain name. This information is provided by you when you register a domain name. This information in turn is offered to anyone who cares to search for it. For this reason, it is important to consider privacy issues when entering your information for a domain name. It is not advisable to falsify domain name information. At the same time, you may use the most generic information you can when entering your domain. If you have a work address and home address, use the work address. If you have a post office box number and a street address, include the post office box number only.

How many years should you consider registering your domain name? I would argue that it depends what you are going to use the domain for. If it is your business name and you intend to be in business for at least the next five years, I would register it for five years. That way, you don’t have to worry about it for a long time. In fact, you can register domain names for up to ten years. If you register your domain for that long, you won’t have to worry about it for a decade. Maintenance and stress free.

Make sure you lock your domain. After you’ve registered your domain name, log into the control panel for your domain name and confirm that it is locked. What does locking do for you? It prevents anyone from transferring your domain name to another registrar without your authorization. Most registrars require you to approve the transfer by clicking on a link but some registrars may simply allow the transfer if you don’t expressly forbid it. Miss an email and you could lose your domain name. Don’t take a chance. Lock your domain name right away.

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It has been said that your domain name will determine your success and it is therefore wise to take time to come up with a domain name that will guarantee success. Domain name yahoo offers all the information that you need to guide you into having a good name and establishing your web site. The first place to begin is to define what exactly a domain name from yahoo is. A domain name is the name you give to a person in order for them to access your web site. In other words, it is the address to your site and it should come with various aspects. Some of the aspects are that it should be simple and easy to remember at the same time reflecting the heart of your business. When thinking of a domain name know that only letters, hyphens and numbers are allowed.

You can use different extensions if you find that the name you choose is already in use. A question that constantly comes up is whether once you have a domain name it can be changed. The Domain name yahoo yahoo offers cannot be changed and the only way is to register a new name and have the other one canceled or you can keep it. Some people have suggested that when you register a name with yahoo, that you do not own it. The fact is that yahoo plays only as an administrator to it but, you are the one who is going to determine whether to transfer it or cancel it. You usually pay an annual fee for a domain name and you can have many domain names. To cancel a domain name, you need to contact the registrar like Melbourne IT and have them cancel the name by deleting it. If you stop paying the domain name renewal fee, then it will be automatically deleted.

When you have many domain names, you can actually sell them. Even one single domain name can be auctioned online and you can get interested parties. There has been instances where a domain name has helped people make a fortune. One example of such a story is of a 43 year old man from Maryland who sold a domain he had maintained since 1994 at a whooping $2.6 million. The domain name was pizza.com and he had gotten the name to boost his consulting business which he later sold but, still maintained the domain. The man is called Chris Clark and he could only express his gratitude when he sold it online to an anonymous bidder. There are other domain names that have fetched so much including vodka.com which was sold at $3 million in 2006.

The domain name yahoo offers will definitely shed light to the world of good names that will make a huge impact. They will help cement your credibility with the customers as well as help strengthen your brand presence. Many businesses have expanded simply because they have emerged as strong forces in marketing their domains. Consequently, business people will associate with a business person who seem to be attracting a lot of clients. Details on how to conceal your personal information by registering with yahoo private domain registration, will be clearly shown to you. You therefore need to go to the yahoo site to know every detail which is guaranteed to guide you to the right direction.

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Now that you’ve decided to become an internet entrepreneur, there are score of things you have to consider. Your first job is to decide on a domain type and name. Because there are quite a few from which to choose, you’ll have to have in mind a) your budget and b) what’s going to get you optimal traffic flow.

The Trifecta: The most common, most marketable, and easiest to remember domain types are .com, .net, and .org. Any one of these three will invite investors to your site easier and certainly ensure maximum traffic flow.

Country-Specific: Of course, if the domain name you desire has already been taken you can register your name with a country-specific extension. These include .uk (for the United Kingdom, of course), .jp (Japan), .fr (France), etc. Any country you can think of has an extension that you can use to differentiate your site.

Accepted Sub-Domains: If the country-specific domain names have dried up, there are some alternative names that have been approved by ICANN: .aero, .biz, .info, .name, .edu, etc. Not only are they more unique, they’re extremely specific.

Not-so Great Sub-Domains: You could always get extremely unique and add a quirky sub-domain. For example, if the name “Food.com” is already in use, perhaps make your website more specific: “food.enteryoursmexydomainnamehere.com” – of course shy away from using a sub-domain even remotely resembling this one. However, because these are essentially imaginary domain extensions, the chances of anyone actually knowing where to search is very small.

Price: Now depending in with which domain name registrar you register your name, you’ll end up paying anywhere between $6.99 and $15.75 per year; however, there’s been a recent decrease in domain prices, so if you act quickly you could get your name for less than $10.

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Visitors will find your website by its domain name. The domain name has two parts: the name + the extension (.com, .org, .co.uk, etc.). A domain name which is meaningful and easy to remember is a great asset. With almost all “good” domain names taken nowadays it’s hard to find a good name.

As the title of this article suggests, the website name should be also the domain name of the site. When people think of your website, they think of it by its name. If your website name is also your domain name, they’ll automatically know where to go. What happens if your site is called “HostingProfs”, yet your domain name for it is myhosting.com? Your customers, recalling that they visited a site called HostingProfs, will type hostingprofs.com in the address bar of their browser and they’ll end up on another site and you’ll loose a sale.

There are a few tips to consider when choosing a website name (also known as the website address, URL or domain name):

1. Try and get a name that is related to your business, your products or your services. For example try to find a domain name which includes your company name or your product name, because that is the first thing that people will try in their browsers. This is also a good practice when it comes to search engine optimization (SEO). Having a popular or meaningful keyword in your website name, will help your website rank higher in the searches results for that keyword;

2. If you can’t get the domain name you want, consider alternative forms of the name you typed. For hosting.com for example, consider besthosting.com, myhosting.com, webhosting.com, thehosting.com and so on. But be careful here, as some alternate forms might chase away visitors. For example if you consider naming the site cheaphosting.com, some people might associate the site with only cheap and maybe non-professional hosting offers.

3. Very often you’ll find the .com domain taken but the .net, .org or country specific extension domain free. The .com extension is the most popular and most used domain extension so it’s preferable to get a .com domain name. But if you can’t get the .com domain name you want, then you might want to consider other extensions. It’s better to have for example, a meaningful and easy to remember .net domain than an obscure .com domain that is not related to your business, or it’s not easy to remember. Country specific domains (such as .co.au, .us) are also popular within individual countries. If you do business in the United States, getting a .us will create a local branding and attract more visitors from U.S, but in the meantime might restrict the flow of customers from other countries. The only draw back for a domain name ending in other extensions is that people are so used with websites ending in .com that you might loose some visitors to your “fellow” .com website.

4. If you found that .com domain name you were looking for, consider buying multiple domain names for the same website. The idea is to protect yourself against the competition. So, if you have a site about search engine optimization (SEO) called bestseo.com, you’d be interested in getting best-seo.com, bestseo.us, bestseo.net and perhaps other similar URLs containing the desired keywords. This way you can prevent other sites from popping near your name. The same idea goes with getting “typos URLs” for your site. What’s a URL typo? Here’s a simple example: what do you think is the most common typo for google.com? You’re right! It’s gooole.com. Try and type google.com and see where you’ll end up. Some SEO experts will say that this is not good practice but it’s ok to have multiple domains for your site as long as you redirect them to your main site using the 301 redirect code.

The conclusion is that you need to get your domain name before anything else! Even before starting the work on the website itself. To register your domain you need to do it with an ICANN accredited registrar.

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Your best friend calls to tell you about a really cool domain name she thought of for a website.

Your first question should be: so what?

While that question may damper your friend’s enthusiasm and potentially hurt your friendship, you would not be a friend if you didn’t ask that question. Cool ideas need substance and a cool domain name all by itself doesn’t mean much. While a domain name might be “cool”, consider you need to accomplish one of two tasks in order for that domain to create value.

First, is it a domain name other would want? Is there a market for it? If the answer is no, then you need to develop the site (which is task number two). If the answer is yes, then your friend may have truly been onto something.

Even cool domain names need to meet some criteria of quality:
length does not exceed 21 characters up to four meaningful words in contextt no hyphens no numbers uses generic term

If the domain name passes the quality test, then it very well maybe attractive to the domain name marketplace. There are no guarantees here. Understanding the domain name marketplace takes time and experience. Just because you own a quality domain name does not mean you can garner one hundred thousand dollars for that name.

Second, ideas for cool domain names are associated with an idea for website content. This content could be informational, a game, a service or an application. The bottom line is substance. All domains, whether you want to label them as cool names or lame names, are greatly increased in value when their is substantive content associated with them.

The next question after asking, so what? is to ask whether you are willing to do what it takes to make your cool idea succeed?

It is all well and good to register that cool domain, but it will take courage, patience and skill to make it work.

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Any internet marketer will tell you that getting hold of a domain name is the first step to setting up an online business. In reality, it is no longer as easy to find good domain names that have not been taken yet. It is definitely a whole lot less stressful to find domain names with hyphens. But is that recommended at all?

Here’s a quick recap of the qualities of a good domain name. A domain name should be directly related to your business, simple to remember, preferably contain one or two keywords and not be disputed. An ideal domain name should be a maximum of seven characters, the shorter the better. Given the scarcity of short domain names you may have to eventually settle for a domain name that is longer than seven characters.

Imagine you’ve just set up a new flower delivery business and you are looking for a domain name that fulfils all the criteria of being a good domain name. You realize that the domain name flowers.com is already taken. Should you settle for a hyphenated domain name such as flowers-delivery.com? Hyphenated domain names should definitely never be your first choice. There may be a few exceptions to this rule.

The main reason why you would opt for a hyphenated domain name in the first place would be if it is imperative for you to have certain words in your domain name and all such non-hyphenated domain names that contain these words have been taken.

In very rare cases, you may have words that are difficult to read unless they are broken up by hyphens. This is especially true when the domain name is made up of two words and the last letter of the first word and the first letter of the second word are the same. For instance, alpprojects.com becomes much clearer when you add hyphens to transform it into alp-projects.com. Keep in mind that this does not necessarily make the domain name into a good domain name.

Some people insist that search engines can read keywords with greater ease when the domain names contain hyphens. The argument here is that search engine rankings are perpetually fluctuating and are dynamic. This is because search engines are continuously modifying their search algorithms. Therefore, if the only reason that you are considering a hyphenated domain name is just to boost your search engine rankings, keep in mind that there is no sure shot chance that it will work.

Sometimes, you may need to use a hyphen if your domain name unintentionally seems to be a pun. To illustrate the point, take a look at the domain name therapistfinder.com. This is among the exceptional cases when a hyphen may actually add value.

As is evident, using a hyphen is definitely not the best option. For some reason if you do opt for a hyphenated domain name, keep in mind that most people will forget about the hyphen when they type in your domain name. As a result, you will lose out on type-in traffic which constitutes a large chunk of your total traffic. Secondly, your visitors will land up at the site that has the non-hyphenated version of your domain name at the expense of your money and effort.

Permanent Post

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Domain names expire. Registrars are allowed to provide a domain name registration with a duration period of between 1 and 10 years. After your domain name registration period elapses, your domain is set to expire. You are usually notified by your registrar of any pending domain expirations. If you opt against renewing that domain, the domain eventually expires and is dropped into the available domain pool.

Be aware that registrars provide the option to auto-renew your domain names. If you own a highly valuable domain, or if you do not wish to worry about your domain ever expiring, you can easily set your domain name to auto-renew via options that your registrar provides.

The domain name expiration process is defined by a set number of domain states. These states are concrete and are conformed to by every registrar, however the duration of each state might vary from one registrar to another.

Active status is the general status of a working / live domain name. Domains in the active status can be renewed or transferred at any time.

On-hold status is the status of a domain immediately after the expiration date. A domain in the on-hold status will cease functioning, and the site that uses this domain will appear to be down.

During the on-hold status, the domain can still be renewed at normal renewal rates by the owner. The on-hold status duration varies between registrars.

Redemption Period status is a recent addition by ICANN providing the original owner with a second chance at renewing their domain.

The redemption period lasts for 30 days at all registrars and renewal costs are larger then a general renewal rate. To renew a domain in the redemption period, the owner must pay fees extending up to and over $150, depending on the registrar.

Pending Delete status is the final status prior to release of a domain name. This status follows the redemption period and lasts up to 5 days.

There is no way for the original owner to renew their domain at this time, apart from waiting for the domain to be released and then attempting to re-register it.

It is important to note that nowadays almost no domains enter the pending delete period. If they are any good, they are placed into an auction by the registrar and only if there are no bids do they eventually drop. Almost all major registrars have an associated expiring domain auction. Godaddy have TDNAM, Enom/NetSol have NameJet etc.

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Have a good domain? Now a days, many people have domain names that are worth thousands of dollars, and gain thousands more every year. But when it comes to actually selling domains, brokerages take up a big part of the market. What does this mean? It means that many brokers will offer to sell domains to you in exchange for commission on the sale. But the best way to stay on top of the market and make the most money in selling domains is to sell domains on your own. It’s a statistical fact, those that sell domain names on their own usually make the most money.

The key to sell domain names for top dollar is your reputation as a domain seller. Get a good reputation, and people will be attracted to your sales. If you have cultivated a past record of providing quality domains without hassle, your sales will spread virally. Webmasters and domain buyers will be talking about how you sell domain names of high quality, and after awhile, everyone will know about you. Remember that buyers recommend buyers, and you can often use the same buyer many times for your sales.

If you have never sold a domain before, then I suggest you go to a place like Sedo and have them do it for you. However, the most experienced users sell domain names on their own. They might post on forums, post on their high traffic blog, or get other high traffic blogs to write about their domain name for sale. Make sure you put all of your facts out there, and try to never have any bad reputation. Even if some random guy tries to ruin your thread, deal with it professionally. Report him to a moderator and get the posts deleted. Sell domain names with class. Nobody wants to deal with someone who types like they are 13 years old and have no idea how to sell domain names. Besides, even if you are 13, present yourself as if you are 25.

Finally, when you sell domain names, offer some sort of protection to buyers, and let them know that you care about a good transaction. Never do anything that will get your name on the wall of shame. Sell domain names on your own and you will find that when you get to keep 100% of the sale, you made the most money possible. If you sell domain names anywhere that wants to take a fee, you will always make less money than you deserve.

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I’ve been thinking in recent times, about the rise in popularity of everything web based – welcome to the present some might say.

We have known from the 1990s that our future lies with the internet. But never before has it been so obvious that business are investing more and more in online advertising.

Seriously, every new business report indicates that more money is being poured into online advertising. I even read a recent article where the Times and Post both experienced a strong loss of income due to dwindling sales of hardcopy.

More and more news agencies are turning to blogging and other online media to capture their audience.

In 10 years time, the young generation will have matured and will most likely consider online media their one and only source of information and a complete necessity for daily life – it probably already is.

Anyways, with this growth in the online presence of ordinary folks and day to day companies, recent surveys have noted a growth in the Internet Marketer population. More and more people are trying their luck at earning an online buck, which brings me to my point: Do you think the present is our last chance to truly establish our presence in the online marketplace? As more and more companies realise that their future lies in the online marketplace – they will invest – and once they do, will there be room for the little guy to manouver? Or do you think that the nature of the internet will always allow the internet marketer to pick at the crumbs and make a good online living?

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There comes a time when you decide to either start a website or transfer a website from one host to another. On both occasions you need new hosting and you need to transfer your files to the new host. You also need to tell your domain name where to point to – you need to change your Domain Name Servers or DNS.

The Domain name system nameservers or DNS information is specified by your hosting provider. You can find it either in your account control panel or your webhosts’s faq page. If you are unable to find DNS information anywhere, contact your host.

By the way, if you have just bought your domain name, by default, your domain’s DNS point to your registrar’s parked page. If you are not using a domain, and you decide to not change the default DNS, your registrar is actually earning money from your domain’s visitors’ clicks.

The domain name server or DNS acts as the background of a domain name, helping domains resolve to IP addresses.

The following steps generally outline the process of changing your domain’s DNS:

1. Log into your registrar account
2. Access your domain’s administration interface.
3. Access the Change Name Server feature.
4. Enter new DNS information and save.

It is also important to note that some registrars might not provide an obvious way to enter both DNS name and DNS IP address for your domains. Check your registrar FAQ on how to use advanced DNS changing features, or contact your registrar directly.

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“The Revolution will not be televised…you will not be able to stay home …you will not be able to plug in, turn on and cop out…the revolution will be no re-run brothers…the revolution will be live.” … Gil Scott-Heron

I (along with fellow SEO´s John Andrews, Dustin Woodard, Aaron Wall, Chuck Price & Dave Bascom) attended the 2007 Domain Roundtable in Seattle . There has been a lot written about domaining recently by SEO´s…some of it complimentary, and some of it misinformed. I find domaining to be fascinating because I view it as an online extension of old-school business that just so also happens to reasonably immune from the shifting search engine algorithms. Even more compelling, the amount of money that successful domainers earn from their investments is downright scary.

Domain Names Are Assets

The parallels between Domain Names and Conventional Real Estate run deep. A domain name can be compared to “raw developable land” (which can either lay fallow or be developed). The domain name can be either “parked” for revenue or “developed” into a business.

Domain Parking

To park a domain, a domain owner forwards the Domain DNS to a parking company. He/she than tells the parking company what type of ads to show on the page (by category, by keyword or both). The domain owner can then “optimize” the parked page by choosing a user-friendly page design and advertising content for the page for ads that both map best to the topic of the website URL and also offers the domain owner the best EPC.

Typically, parked domains get visitors and earn revenue from “type-in traffic”, where a web-surfer types the search terms into the browser without spaces (followed by a .com or other extension). However, if the parked website has previous link popularity, it might also get traffic from people following those links.

Site Development

A domain owner might also do a cost-benefit analysis and decide to “develop” the domain name through site creation. Most domainers lack some if not all the skills for site development, so a true domainer will only do development with the strongest generic brands due to the cost involved.

The level of site development might somewhat depend on the intent of the domainer. Is he/she planning to hold the domain for the long-term or planning to sell? Either way, a developed site is all about “profit and loss”…that´s how a domainer evaluates the performance of his/her investment.

Some take site development one step further. For example, Mike “Zappy” Zapolin will, for some of his super-premium domains, form a corporation, hire a CEO, and build out a major business presence revolving around his generic name purchase.

Have you noticed on business shows recently that many of the interviewees are from “generickeyword.com”? Behind that business is likely a domainer trying to get maximum ROI from his/her premium domain investment.

Domain Values

Hopefully, most SEO´s now know that the intrinsic value of a domain name can far exceed the slight search engine benefit accrued from having the targeted keyword present in it. Each generic keyword dot com domain is unique and can have only one owner. Each will also control a consistent level of type-in traffic. Formerly, many domain owners believed domain value to be 5 to 10 times its yearly PPC revenue…however, this rule of thumb has been mostly discredited. A domain is worth what a willing buyer will pay for it and domain appraisal seems to be an inexact science.

The desire of many businesses to brand themselves with a generic dot com domain combined with the incredible scarcity of quality premium names is driving the value of them sky high…

…and yet, there is plenty of room for newbies to make money in the marketplace. Learn the ground rules, be perceptive, take a 5 year nap, and you might be able to cash out quite handsomely.

What´s A Domainer Conference Like?

Low-key. Mellow. Relaxed. Welcoming. The business and social acumen of everyone I met was extremely high. There aren´t any Jason Calcanises in the domaining world…everybody I spoke to was very interested in SEO and how it could help domainers earn more from their investments. Also, I could not possibly imagine a group of people who were friendlier to newbies and would answer the type of questions that would have gotten me the brush-off at an SEO conference. Even when I obviously approached booths just to pick up the goodies (thanks for the t-shirt Michelle), people would still offer themselves as resources to help a domain newbie learn the industry.

Also, having been to SEO conferences, it was hard to fathom that the stars of the industry seemed so “normal”. Just from observing Frank Schilling at the conference (his keynote was extraordinary…please watch or listen to it), I would never be able to guess how incredibly successful and influential he is. Even more surprising is the level of respect and deference that attendees gave the top domainers. Sure, people chatted with them but they didn´t attract mad throngs of people looking to network or for tidbits of advice. They were allowed to orchestrate their own maneuverings during the conference and conduct their business. Could Danny or Rand walk the conference floor without gathering a crowd? I don´t think so.

Conclusion #1

Domainers know that SEO´s can add value to their investment and our overall reputation in the domaining community seems to be quite good. Even Frank Schilling mentioned in his keynote that his “Fall Traffic Initiative” would likely include an SEO component. However, we need to learn their needs and talk their language. They want to hear about ROI and Profit/Loss…they don´t care about “SEO-Speak”. An SEO also needs to know that a premium domain name isn´t just the online presence of a business…it is the business. The first premium domain screwed up by an SEO firm will kill our reputation in the domaining community…let not have this happen.

Conclusion #2

The domaining industry now is like SEO back in 2000 when I started learning search. There is still plenty of opportunity to jump in, learn the ropes, and make spectacular profits. Domain name articles are hitting local newspapers, publicizing the industry and bringing conference attendees like Trader Wayne who perceive domaining as a natural extension of web entrepreneurship. Domain conferences will soon become as crowded as search conferences if not more so. SEO´s do have a built in advantage over other industry entrants if they are willing to adapt to the rules of a new game…the high levels of intuition and perception common to top search marketers will translate well to domaining.

Conclusion #3

SEO is an excellent vehicle to get to a destination, but is rarely a destination unto itself… don´t be afraid to leverage SEO knowledge for something bigger and better.

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If you think that you know all about domain buy and sell structure for making fast and easy money, then do read this.

Domain name business is one of the least known way of making easy money, and that too very quick. You want to be a millionaire, and you can’t wait, that’s the reason you are here. Let me help you out. First and foremost, forget everything you know about domain names business, and start from scratch.

The term given to this business is Domaining. It is business of buying and selling domain names for making money. The reselling of this type is actually comparable to real estate. You invest in the property, seek a potential buyer, and then sell it to him at a large price tag. Thereby making profit. The only difference is that “domain reselling” is much easier and much cheaper as it requires very less investment and normally gives great returns, if used accordingly. Many people even make there living by this. Beleive me, it means lots of money and that too easy.

The domaining often occupies building up of the domain name portfolios, or else accumulation of the domain names, in accordance to various criterias. This domain name portfolios frequently consist of profitable generic dictionary word domain names, or domains whose registrations have lapse but they still retain practical traffic. The more traffic, the more money you earn.

I will move step by step in helping you through the complete process.

1. Domain name

This is the first step in the process, you need to finalize on the domain name you want to invest in. Buying a domain name depends on various factors like:- What is your budget, Which market you are targetting, who is the potential customer. You should answer these questions before buying a domain name. Also some other points to keep in mind are:- The domain name should be short, as it is easier to remember and creates a greater possibility of the traffic to return again. The domain name must be easier to memorize, good for your business. The domain must be brandable, and must cater to the needs of some particular niche. Try and avoid domains which contain hyphens and numbers. Go for a .com extension for your registration.

2. Buy a Domain name Before buying a domain name, check out the traffic the niche receives, more traffic implies that your revenue generation will be more. So make sure you check out the quality of the name and the traffic the domain gets, before making an investment. The keyword here is “research”, and you need to do some of it before making an investment.

Try and look for a cheap domain, as they are the best buys. The cheap domain don’t cost you much, moreover if properly aimed at a niche then they produce good results. Make sure you go for a cheap domain, else you have a hefty bank balance.

Now here is point that you buy a domain name for reselling or you register a new domain name for reselling. If you don’t want to buy an existing domain, then you may try creating a new domain name, it norrmally comes free along with some web hosting packages. Web Hosting implies that you rent some space on a server to host your web site, and they provide you the domain name registration for free, though it may change from vendor to vendor.

3. Domain registration If you plan to create a new domain, then you need to register it, for registration of domain you need to find a registrar, that provides you the name. The second option is that you go for a web hosting domain package, where they provide you the space at some cost, but provides the domain name registration for free. Make sure that you register your domain with a “com” extension as it is higly valued in the market. If you really want to make money then this point counts much.

4. Sell the Domain name Now that you have got a good domain name targeted at a particular niche, you may seek the help of various sites for finding a potential buyer for you. Sites like DMOZ.org is a great source for this. Just prove to your customer that he is getting the best buy and you are the winner. Make cash from your resell and go ahead for a next buy.

The stuff till now was for getting you started, now regarding the strategy part of the business, most domainers try and make a long term investment. They buy and own names, they park on web sites… Oh I forgot to tell you about Website Parking. Website Parking is the way of making money when your domain is sitting idle. I will clarify this, Now that you looked for a cheap domain, if unable to find then you register domain preferably with a “com” extension. Then you buy domain using a seller or via web hosting domain packages. Now that you have got all but not a profitable client, in that case you can park your website. Website Parking implies that the site on which your domain is parked, will use your domain for putting up ads, some people type the name of the thing they required, without knowing that it exists or not. Like if a person needs a plumber, then he may type plumber.com without knowing that the site exists or not. Website Parking makes use of this benefit and earns from the normal domain name traffic that may occur. And if a person clicks on an add then you earn. Isn’t that great, you earn money without doing anything.

Some more points to consider while buying a domin name includes, if you think that some technology is going to take off, then get a domain name that pertains to it. The more relevant the name, the more money you will make. I will close this article with an example, Schwartz sold Men.com for $1.3 million in 2003, and he had bought the domain at $15,000 in 1997. Mind Blowing isn’t it.

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You should know how to build a website if you own domain names. Parking domains can be profitable but you’ll need a whole boatload to pay the bills and it can take some time to build traffic. Getting high rankings in the search engines can be difficult because of generic ‘parked’ content and you’re forced to ’share’ your advertising revenue with the parking company. On the other hand, if you build a website you have control over the custom content and the revenue stream. It’s easy to build a website even if you have no programming experience and you can be up and running in a few hours with a little work.

Most people who decide not to build a website for their premium domain names believe that you have to be fancy and flashy to be competitive in today’s market. That simply isn’t true. In fact, search engines can’t even see flashy graphics or even javascript applications. You should build a website on quality and original content. If you can use a simple word processor then you can build a website. Most word processors even have the ability to ’save as’ HTML… a web page. Keep it simple at first and with a little studying you’ll find that adding links, pictures and even forms isn’t that hard at all.

There are 3 basic choices when developing a website for profit. You can build a website for adsense and share click-through revenue with Google or a similar advertising broker. You can build a website as an affiliate site. With this type of website you will promote another 3d party website and encourage your visitors to buy from that site. You’ll usually get paid a set commission for every sale or referral. Lastly, you can build a website to sell your own service or product. This type of website is more of a business and requires more time. On the other hand you get to keep all the profit yourself!

The choice to build a website and what type of website to build depends largely on your expertise in the subject matter. If you have a domain name ‘rocketscience.com’ you’ll probably want to sell adsense or possibly an affiliate program if you can write on the subject. Of course, if you really are a rocket scientist you may want to open a consulting business or sell some cool technology you’ve invented. The more you put into it, the more you’ll get out of it! No matter what choice you make, the most expensive choice is to not build a website at all. Parking profits are easy… but websites are where the money is.

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Long time Internet users can remember a time when domain registration didn’t offer a whole lot of choice – there was only one domain name provider, and it wasn’t very affordable.

Times have changed. There are now a seemingly endless number of domain providers, and with greater choice and drastically lower pricing, the registration of new domain names has seen a continual rise. Verisign reports that in 2007, more than 33 million new domain names were registered, bringing the overall total to an estimated 153 million. That’s a lot of domain names! In 2008, that number is expected to grow, as more and more people start their own online business in order to supplement their income.

In the old days, free website communities like Angelfire were home to most personal and many small business websites. Now, it is almost just as easy (and inexpensive) to have your own domain. Appropriate, professional domain names are especially important for companies wishing to establish branding and credibility on the Web.

If you’re ready to purchase a personal or small business domain name and want to compare domain registrars, you may not know where to start. Fortunately, as the domain registry business has grown, sites have been established that help you compare their quality. Most of these services that offer you the ability to compare domain registrars will offer side by side comparisons of the big names in table format. They can help you determine the cost of the domain, features, promotional offers, and more.

Some registrars will charge an additional fee for private registration, which prevents the public from viewing your domain ownership information in the WHOIS database. Some also charge a small monthly fee for managed DNS.

Many of the domain registrars are actually resellers for the larger registries. That said, you may purchase a domain from John Doe’s Domain Registry, and it may actually be registered through Godaddy, one of the Internet’s largest domain name providers. This explains the varying fluctuation in registration cost, and is why it pays to look for the best deal. Small business domains are frequently purchased from these types of resellers, since they often register for years at a time, and a better rate can make a more pronounced difference..

A popular misconception is that you “own” a domain name when you “buy” it from a registrar or domain broker. The truth is that you only “own” it as long as you continue to pay the required registration fee to your domain name provider.

Because of steep competition among the major providers, domains are typically being sold at fairly similar prices. So rather than look only at pricing, be sure to consider the service and features provided by the registrar. Charging more doesn’t make a provider the best, and charging less doesn’t mean they’re the worst.

If you plan on registering multiple domains, you should definitely take the time to check out some of the registrar review sites. These sites often contain tips and promotional codes that can save you both time and money.

In summary, most domain pricing will be similar, but there are things that will set one registrar apart from the others. Look at the features offered with your registration – things like private registration, managed DNS, easy account access, and more – before you make a decision.

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It seems there is not a week that goes by that the headlines in some major news publications are announcing the heralding in, of some new internet based technology that will change the playing field forever! We are all witnessing an era of heightened creativity.

The internet has acted as a powerful catalyst, in opening up “an avenue for expressing creativity” for the masses. So much so, that the world’s One BILLIONTH website was announced today. It took 36 years to reach this watermark! Amazingly enough this number is expected to double again in the next 10 years to Two BILLION !

The world’s major corporations are feverishly positioning themselves to master this thing they call e-Biz !. It’s no wonder that as a result of all this expansion, and the desire for well-branded, easy to spell and remember domain names, there has been an exponential increase in the values of good Domain Names.

For all these reasons and more, some Domain Names are commanding six- and seven- figure price tags that are attracting these Big Money Players! Now more than ever – the visionary leaders who keep their focus on investing in Domain Names will be a part of the future’s most profitable businesses!

It’s a well known fact, that the visionaries who discover the “Holy Grail” of marketing to the masses will undoubtedly be the worlds leading mass marketers! To be a part of this bright future, it is crucial to have vision, planning, and an understanding of the past. Keep in mind, that in the past, the lion’s share of revenue dollars generated by the e-Biz phenomenon has been generated by the Online Ad Market.

These revenues generated by the Online Advertising Market are huge {6-8 $ Billion} and increasing at a dramatic pace. Also keep in mind that the Online ad market revenues “pale” in comparison to total retail Sales Revenues, which are in the Trillions $ !.

Another powerful engine for growth that bodes well for Domain Name owners, is the barely tapped, B2C {Business to Consumer} Market Place. The B2C sector holds so much future potential, that savvy Investors are raiding their war chests to procure names that will help them in their quest to master this nascent market place.

For example: A name such as Business.com sold for {$ 7,500,000}. A visionary investor by the name of Jake Winebaum bought it from the original owner for {$ 100,000} as an investment. Then came along another savvy visionary named Marc Ostrofsky who bought and then turned around and sold it for the {$7,500,000} figure!

I, myself have experienced dramatic increases in the value of some of my own personal Domain Names. For instance, I bought the name USeBiz.com in 1998 for {$102.00}. Over the years I have owned it, I have been offered as much as {$ 800,000} for the name. I have turned down each and every offer, because I know, if and when, I eventually do sell the domain name, USeBiz.com will sell for far more to some other visionary investor.

There has never been a time in history, to my knowledge, when you could own and control letters of the alphabet! Some of the savviest investors on the net have figured this out, and are making millions from their URL portfolios. So… Do you think it’s too late to invest in the Domain Name Industry?

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Everyone’s heard of domain names. If you’re reading this then you’ve certainly heard of them: you’ve typed one in your browser or clicked on one to get here! Domain names are the universal means by which you and everyone else navigates the internet; that little string of text (usually starting with www) that takes us everywhere from checking e-mail to surfing for the latest Missy Elliot video. That said, its easy to see why domain names have contributed to the astronomical success and ‘coolness’ of the internet. Yup, that’s right, the internet started as a small network of college geeks connecting their computers together so they could become even nerdier. The only reason cool folk like you and me started using the internet is because it became so easy to navigate and the internet became easy to navigate all because of domain names. If they did’nt exist we’d all be typing in long strings of numbers like 64.233.183.104 instead of google.com or 209.191.93.52 instead of yahoo.com etc…sounds like fun huh?

So that’s what we know about domain names. However, far more important is what you may not know about domains and the industry that’s mushroomed around them. There are big bucks to be made in the domain biz and we’re going to tell you all about it.

What makes A Domain Name Valuable?

Over 400 million domain names have been registered as of January 2006 and it is estimated that 20,000 names are being reserved or registered everyday. So what separates a domain name worth millions from one that’s not even worth the cost to register it? Here are a few factors which contribute greatly to the value of any domain name.

The Top Level Domain (TLD) extension of the Domain Name.

.com and .net TLD extensions currently have the most popularity because these were the first extensions to be registered back in the early 90’s. Domain names on the internet have come to be defined by these two TLD’s. This does’nt mean that this will always be the case. ICANN (Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ) who overseas the Domain Name System (DNS) file, approves new TLD’s every year and these gain increasing popularity over time. Regional TLD’s additionally help in identifying domains relating to a particular geographical area .US and .EU being prime examples.

Domain Name Contains popular keywords

What makes buyonline.com worth six figures and aquireonline.com practically worthless? Both are great sounding domain names but ‘buy online’ is more likely to form part of a specific search term that someone would enter into a search engine. Search engines read the text of your domain name and are more likely to display your website in search results for matching keywords. If your business sells a new product, lets call it a zigtag, you can get far more visitors to your website by registering the domain name [http://www.buyzigtags.com] rather than [http://www.myzigtagstore.com] . Its all about the ‘trafficability’ of your domain name and not just any traffic but targeted traffic. Targeted traffic means visitors who arrive at your website because you’ve got content that they were searching for on a search engine for example. Great keyword domain names have the ability to automatically drive targeted traffic from search engines.

Domain Name is Generic, Short and Pronounceable.

Keyword domains can drive traffic from search engines but an even more elusive and coveted source of traffic is from direct type-in’s (i.e persons typing the domain name directly into a browser). It usually takes many months of online marketing and promotion for a domain name to build high levels of consistent type in traffic, but the right domain name can get it naturally. Music.com, Weather.com, buydvds.com or sellcarsonline.net are all examples of domain names with great natural type-in traffic. People simply expect that when they type-in Music.com they’ll see something that grabs their attention regarding popular recording artistes or downloading music files. Also, making your domain name as short as possible and as pronounceable as possible can drastically increase its value. Domains that are short and pronounceable are more easily remembered by web surfers (some of who have memories no longer than a mouse ‘double click’) and thus more likely to get targeted type-in traffic.

The Domain Name is Registered for 10 years or more in advance.

Remember earlier we said that 20,000 domain names get registered everyday? Well an equal number of domains expire everyday. Yup, about 20,000 domains fall by the wayside having been registered only for a year or maybe two. This means that thousands of links on thousands of pages will go dead (if the domains hosted developed websites this is a big inconvenience to many internet users) or it means that the domain name did’nt meet any of the previous criteria to make it a valuable domain name in the first place. Search engines like Google are now beginning to pick up on this and will automatically assign a higher Page Rank (PR) to websites hosted on domains registered 10 years or more in advance. Even if your domain does not host a developed website, having it registered for a few years in advance will make it more attractive to buyers who wont have to pay to renew the name a year or two after getting it from you.

Typo Domains

You may be surprised by the number internet-users who can’t spell. For the record, we’re not. Literally millions of domain name typos are registered everyday. Domain names that are close enough to the spelling of another domain that receives good type-in traffic are likely to get many accidental type-ins per month. While this will increase the typo domain’s traffic, people usually smarten up once they see that the wrong page has loaded. Developing a website on a typo domain that has similar content as the correctly spelt domain is the best method of utilising typos. The traffic these domains receive is less targeted than those fitting the above-mentioned criteria for a valuable domain name. Even so, a big chunk of the domain name aftermarket’s earnings comes from typo domains.

These are the basic tenets that one should look for in a domain name that is at the very least worth registering.

How do I Turn My Domain Name Into Real Cash?

Now that you’ve got the .com/.net domain name that’s got great keywords and is easy to remember you’re probably thinking ‘oh so I’ll just sit here and wait for Bill Gates to offer me 7 figures, right?’. The simple answer is that any valuable item if under utilised becomes a dud (yes, that’s a technical term).

Here are just a few ways of making your great domain name work for you:

1. Develop a Website

Develop a content-rich website that’s relevant to the keywords that may be in your domain name. This method has unlimited potential for traffic and earnings. We don’t have to tell you of the millions that are being earned everyday by the top websites on the internet. These websites utilise a combination of having keywords in their domain name and website content that is relevant to those keywords. If you cant find they right keyword rich domain name for your area of interest don’t despair. Some of the top websites on the internet simply made words up or acronyms which could mean anything, Yahoo and Google being prime examples. Its all about business development and the more your promote your website and domain name the more you’ll earn for your products or services (or get advertising) over time.

2.Get involved in the Domain Aftermarket.

Millions are traded daily on the internet buying and selling domain names within the domain aftermarket. If you’ve registered a name that someone else really wants, they maybe willing to pay you much more than the registration price to get it from you. Sometimes, a lot more. Business.com sold for $7.5 Million while website.com sold recently for a luke-warm $700,000 and Blogster.com sold for $100,000. You may have a great domain name but you’ll miss out on figures like those if you don’t get involved.

Here are our top picks of domain name aftermarket website:

http://www.Namepros.com : Buy, Sell, and discuss domain names.

http://www.dnforum.com : Trade domain name online, Pay a one-time membership fee for full access to the forum.

http://www.websitebroker.com : Have a great domain name with a fully developed website that you want to sell? This is the place for it.

http://www.sedo.com : Perhaps the most comprehensive and international domain trading service. Uses Escrow to ensure that you get what you’ve paid for.

[http://www.Great] Domians.com : The trusted marketplace for domain names.

2. Park your domain name to earn cash

Many website now offer domain name parking services. With this service you can park your domain name by allowing a parking service such as sedo.com to use your domain to display their advertisements. They do all the work. All you do is set your domains nameservers to theirs and with a little promotion of your domain name ( on your part) you’ll earn money. You’ll get paid for every person that clicks on the ads displayed on your parked page. Some parked domains make up to $100 per day but the really great names can make upwards of $1000 per day. Most parking services let you park as many pages as you want so the potential revenue is boundless.

Getting started in domain name parking is easy and few in any parking services will charge you to park your domain. Here are a few of our top rated parking services :

http://www.sedo.com : along with domain selling and trading, sedo has emerged as the leader in parking programs. With hundreds of thousands of dollars paid out daily.

http://www.parked.com : One of the highest revenue paying parking services in the business

http://www.activeaudience.com : Another high paying parking service. Tens of thousands of domains already parked.

http://www.freeparking.co.uk : Great service out of the UK. Expect medium sized payments

http://www.webcom.com : Not as big as the other guys but they’re easy to use and pay on-time.

With all the great opportunities to make easy money in the domain name biz theres no sane reason not to get involved. But don’t be fooled. This is’nt some get rich quick scheme. You’ll need patience and insight from the experts, but rest assured that in reading this article you’ve already done half the work. Now that you know exactly what makes a domain name valuable and how to earn cash from it you’ll surely avoid the most common ‘newbie’ mistakes and will be well on your way to earning some serious money quickly.

Ready to get started but don’t want to spend a whole lot? Here is our top pick for one of the ABSOLUTE cheapest domain name registrars on the internet:

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How to Secure Your Preferred Domain Name

Whilst most of the words in the dictionary have been registered as dotcom names by speculators hoping to sell them at a profit in the
future, there are still many domain name options and combinations available with various extensions.

Choosing a Domain Name

It is important to consider the following when choosing your domain name…

Choose a memorable name

The right domain name allows your prospective customers an easy way to remember and find you.
It’s your location on the web and also your email address.

Your Domain Name is your Brand

Secure the domain name that best represents your business name and keep it out of the hands of your competitors.

Domains are valuable online real estate and securing more than one helps protect your brand and increase your reach.

You can easily direct as many domains as you want to a single website.

Build Credibility

Having an appropriate domain name and using it to personalize your business cards and email addresses helps establish credibility and
professionalism.

For instance, an email address such as john@ebusiness.com is more professional than
john112@freeemail.com

Therefore, do not use a freebie domain name – it is short sighted and gives your prospective
client the perception that you are “out to get a quick buck” type of business.

Your Domain Name is an Investment

Domain names, like real estate, appreciate in value as time goes by.

Furthermore, as a domain name ages not only does it become more valuable, it importantly gains more credibility & integrity with the search engines.

Therefore it is extremely important to secure as many appropriate domains as possible as soon as you can.

Not only can they all be directed to one website but it keeps them out of the clutches of your competition as well as adding to your business’ online presence and credibility.

If your preferred name has already been registered…?

The chances are that your preferred domain name has already been snapped up and that you’ll have to settle for a name that isn’t totally ideal.

Whilst you should always go for a top level domain (TLD) such as a dotcom extension if you’re a business, as people continue to assume that dotcom equals a business and professionalism, there are some good alternatives.

Other top level domains such as .net .org .biz are good choices for the appropriate type of business, eg. a computer network business should have a .net extension & a non-profit organization shouyld have a .org extension.

However if your business is country specific, you should consider using a country-specific top level domains (TLDs) like .de, .nu, .sg, etc.

However, if your name has been taken you can always consider adding a search engine friendly term or area to the name. For instance if your preferred name is internetbusiness you could choose internetbusiness-startup or internetbusiness-texas or internetbusiness123 etc.

Also always once your domain is registered, remember to make sure your domain record remains locked. This feature ensures that your domain remains secure and untouchable.

So if you want to transfer your domain name to a different registrar you have to unlock it before the new registrar can actually transfer it from your current registrar.

To start your Domain Name Search click the links below to see with what extensions (TLD’s) your preferred domain name is available and register as many appropriate domains as you can get – it’s an investment in your business’ future!

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