Domain Name Investing

Aside from the obvious way of not redirecting them to a site that has some sort of advertising where you get a piece of the action there’s also another way to make sure you don’t make money from domain names. It’s called “Forgetting to renew your domain names!” That’s right, I had a domain name …

In my recent series about buying and selling domain names I talked a lot about the basics of where to look for an easy revenue earning domain name. The thing I didn’t really talk about was what are optimal click through rates (CTR) or how to optimize domain names that might not have optimal click through rates. I again …

Buying and selling domain names for profit is a rather new mainstream phenomenon. One that has been written about widely ever since the major story in Business 2.0 titled “Master of their Domains”. Although the act of buying and selling domain names for profit has been around. Tons of people, like anything that makes you …

OK, so I’m going to let a little bit of the cat out of the bag with this one. My method isn’t rocket science and it isn’t like I’m getting crazy go nuts lucky. Even without the big sale in December that I mentioned in Part II, I would have still made a 76% ROI this …

Make sure you check out the first two articles in this series: Part I – How to make Money Buying and Selling Domain Names Part II – My 65% ROI Buying and Selling Domain Names  Getting started in domaining or domain name investing can be as easy as going over to your favorite registrar and …

You can read Part 1 in Buying and Selling Domain Names for Profit or continue on.  I’m not going to divulge my actual investment dollar amounts right now, I may in the future, but for now I’d like to keep them secret. I can say that it’s not small potatoes so these numbers aren’t skewed by one large return. I’m …

Back in May of this year I talked about wanting to take the plunge into domain name investing and the world of domaining. I finally did and for the last six months I’ve been tracking how I’ve been buying, and recently selling domain names. I’ve done decent at it, making a 65% return on investment, and …

When I purchase domain names, they tend to be on a whim and I’m unsure how long I’ll want the domain name. Therefor, I usually only opt to register them for a year, and uncheck the auto-renew box. I don’t want to be stuck with a name a year from now that I bought because …

Are you a computer programmer in need of a senior thesis for the upcomming year? I know most people probably already picked theirs long ago and are going to write some great program for a Palm Pilot to control your Tivo from zimbabwe. What use is that? Maybe to Britney Spears of Angelina Jolie, but …

Domain State is the next big thing. Based on a business 2.0 article I have begun my venture into acquiring profitable domain names.