Domain Name Information

How to Profit with Domain Name Speculation


Domain Name speculation has become big business. According to recent study, the average domain name bought and sold by domain name speculators realized a 377% profit. In addition, the average domain name was sold in 12.5 months.

Domain name speculation involves finding domain names that appear valuable, and waiting with the domain in hopes that someone will want to purchase it in the future. With a great domain name like business.com, this can yield huge returns. Business.com was sold for over $7 million!

When domain name speculators buy a domain name, they generally put up a page indicating that the domain is for sale. This becomes a sort of free advertising, whereby someone interested in that domain name will naturally check out the site to see if it is a competitor, or if the domain can be purchased.

But selling the domain is not the only way domain name speculators make money. In addition to advertising that the page is for sale, most domain speculators park their domains with a domain parking service. These services store a simple website for free, and place content sensitive advertising on the parking pages. They share advertising revenue with the owner of the domain. In this way, domain name speculators get free website hosting for their domains, along with occasional advertising revenue.

There are important considerations that must be taken into account before embarking on a domain name speculation career. While it is always advisable to purchase any really high quality domain name available, actually making a stable income from domain name speculation can require significant resources. It will cost a considerable amount to purchase the domain names necessary to make a stable income, and it is certainly no get-rich-quick opportunity.

As a domain name speculator, you should carefully analyze the domain name registrars and communicate with them about bulk purchasing opportunities. A domain name speculator will be buying many - perhaps even hundreds - of domain names daily, and should therefore find the best discounts on domain names. Many registrars will allow for domain names to be purchased in bulk at substantial discounts. Taking advantage of these opportunities will likely be the difference between success and failure at this type of enterprise.

Deciding which domain names to purchase can be challenging. It is very difficult to find high quality .com names. But don't rule out country-specific extensions. As countries get their own extensions, a new world of high quality available domain names is opened up to speculators. New top level domains are being created all the time, and most recently a .jobs domain name was created. A name like computer.jobs could prove very valuable in the long term.

While a lot has been mentioned of purchasing names like Mcdonalads.com, this practice is not particularly productive. Trademark laws allow corporations with trademarked names to take domain names that violate their trademarks. So rather than getting a big paycheck for registering a company's trademarked name, you're likely to be served with a lawsuit demanding you forfeit the name to them.

Domain name speculation should be viewed for what it is: an investment opportunity. Like all investments, the returns will be predicated on the wisdom and decision making skills of the investor.

Rex Ryan maitains the website:

http://www.domainnamesnews.info


MORE RESOURCES:

USA TODAY

Internet domain names changing
WRGB
".com", ".net" and ".edu" - those exchanges are part of the domain names we've typed in for years to get where we want to go on line but soon companies, organizations, schools, and other groups will be able to decide what word or letters they want on ...
Group looks for help in evaluating new domain namesThe Hill (blog)
Letters: Internet domain names can confuse consumersUSA TODAY
ICANN Opens Comment Period To Hear About Defensive New gTLD ExtensionsTheDomains.com
Lexology (registration) -BtoB Magazine -Pro Bono Australia
all 26 news articles »


Hawaii Reporter

One .XXX Registration May Lead Hawaii To Pass New Law On The “Fraudulent Use ...
TheDomains.com
Now “UH wants lawmakers to consider amending a bill on unauthorized computer use to include fraudulent use of Internet domain names.” “We believe that individuals who willfully and purposely attempt to profit through misleading the public by ...
Hawaii Could Make It a Felony to CybersquatXBIZ
University of Hawaii Wants Porn Website Shut DownHawaii Reporter
Officials want to stop X-rated Web site from tarnishing UH's imageHonolulu Star-Advertiser

all 7 news articles »


UC Berkeley buys XXX domain names
Bizjournals.com
The University of California, Berkeley, spent $1300 to buy domain names ending in .xxx which might be associated with the school. The University of California, Berkeley , spent $1300 to buy domain names ending in .xxx which might be associated with the ...
Berkeley gobbles up .xxx domainsSan Francisco Chronicle (blog)
UC Berkeley Purchases XXX DomainsNBC Bay Area
Live 12th ManTexas A&M The Battalion

all 9 news articles »


Apparently I'm Moses & All Of You Are Mindless Robots Following Me
TheDomains.com
by Michael H. Berkens A post about selling domain names on Noobworld.com, was brought to my attention today entitled “How to sell domain names to clueless end-users?” “The owner of the domain blog runs MostWantedDomains.com and WWMI.com.



U. buys .xxx domain names in preventative move
The Brown Daily Herald
By Meia Geddes The University bought two domain names to avoid association with adult content, but brownuniversity.xxx had already been purchased. Students surfing the Internet for adult content will not find it on brownu.xxx or brownuniv.xxx — the ...

and more »


Very Rare Portfolio Of Gaming Domain Names First Time Available At e21.com
PR Web (press release)
Gaming companies have a big challenge to find suitable available high quality dot com gaming domain names in an aftermarket saturated with low quality domain names. "In a competitive industry, companies need impressive domain names.



Businesses 'should aim for simple domain names'
Global Gold Internet Services
All domain names chosen for business websites should be simple to remember, spell and communicate, he added. "A complicated domain name with alternative spellings, for example cars4u, will make it harder for prospective customers to remember and find ...



Brazilian Government Ordering Web Hosting Firms To Kill Domain Names They Don ...
Techdirt
The Brazilian request was apparently a rather large request hitting on a bunch of different domain names, many of which were not .br domains, but some of which implied activity that was illegal -- and so Sedo had no problem taking those down.



You'd Be Better Off Igniting a Pile of Your Own Money (Just About)
DailyFinance
By Brian Richards, The Motley Fool Posted 10:54AM 02/10/12 Investing Up until last autumn, Toron (OTC: TRON) was in the business of "marketing, sales, and resales via the Internet of Web Domain Names or URL's and related services.

and more »


Hawaii Reporter

University of Hawaii urges state lawmakers to deter fraudulent use of domain names
The Republic
Greenwood's written testimony asks the committee to consider amending the bill to include fraudulent use of Internet domain names. She explains that UH has been victimized by unknown attackers who have been maliciously using the domain name to ...
University of Hawaii Threatens Lawsuit Over .XXX Porn SiteAVN News (press release)

all 5 news articles »

Google News

home | site map
© 2006