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•Making money Selling Domains

To sell a domain, obviously you need to advertise it somewhere. Sedo is a great way of marketing your domain name. Not only do they offer free parking for your domain, but they also offer to list your domain for sale for free! You will be able to input your own asking price for each domain your park, and also a short description of the domain. It is a fantastic tool to sell your domain fast and at the same time earn revenue from clicks while you wait for the perfect offer. Remember to always sell to an end-user, which is always a company or corporation that will use the domain to establish their business. Sometimes you will be faced in a situation where some guy will make an offer for a domain you own; what they’ll do is buy your domain for some nice amount in order to make you happy, then sell it to an end-user in a gazillion times more than the amount you sold it for. So my advice is, if you don’t really and desperately need the money, don’t sell it until you find the right buyer. But don’t let this fool you, sometimes you know you will not find any end-user for your ridiculous domain name and a wise decision will be selling it to the guy who made you the first offer.

- Always ask for an appraisal before making a sale. You can ask for appraisals in domain name-related forums like HHUUNameProsUUHH. You can open a new thread and ask around about your domain. But if you want to know an exact price of the name, simply look for a company whose business is domain appraisal. They will charge you X amount of cash and you will receive a professional domain name appraisal.

- If you consider your domain name to be a ridiculously important one. I recommend you add it to Sedo’s featured domain names, (of course this is not free), but for sure it will get the attention and the offer you want for your domain.

- Always make your final sale transaction through a domain escrow company like Sedo to ensure safety of the transaction.

• Making Money with domain Parking

One way to make money with domains is parking it with a domain parking company. Companies like HHUUwww.Sedo.comUUHH offer you to park your domain for free and providing their advertisements, so when someone visits your domain, they will see advertisements placed by your sponsor. Sedo also lists your name up for sale if you want to (also free). The only thing you have to do is forward your domain name to a specific address you will get when you register with Sedo. They provide all the ads you will display on your domain and no action on your behalf will need to be made except for forwarding your domain which is usually done at your registrar’s control panel. After setting up the domain forward the ads will be displayed automatically each time some one visits your domain. If the visitor clicks on any of the advertisements, you will get paid a commission (which is always like five cents average per click depending on the domain’s name topic). So imagine having 10,000 visitors a day, and say 3,000 click on any ad.. You’ll get £150 just for doing nothing. Sounds great huh? Well.. It’s not so easy. In order to get thousands of visitors daily to your domain, you need to work hard on SEO (Search engine optimization) and god knows what other things. 10k visits a day is a pretty decent number of visitors for a website. The point here is, if you get a pretty damn good name registered (good keyword) you should have little or no problem at all if you park your page with someone who pays for clicks; the most difficult task will be getting some traffic to the domain.

If you really want to make money with domain parking, you should register domains related to business. I’m talking about good names though. I personally own 6 business-related domains and have them parked with Sedo. In my experience with domain parking, business and banking domains pay around $0.35 - $1.20 per click! I have worked hard optimizing these domains; obviously those kinds of clicks are worth the hard work. I get around 400-500 visits per day on each domain and the click-through rate ranges from 18% to 25%, which is NOT bad at all. Talking in dollars and cents, that’s around $65 - $100 per day. It took me around 9 months of SEO to get this kind of traffic, but again, much of its weight stands on the quality of your domain name.

• The basics:

Domain names are prime virtual “Real Estate”. They are considered valuable property nowadays. To get an idea of what kind of “Real Estate” we are talking about, check out some of this decade’s Domain Name Sales:

• Business.com – $7.5 million

• AsSeenOnTV.com - $5.1 million

• Altavista.com – $3.3 million, then sold to Overture Services for $107 million!

• Wine.com - $2.9 million

• Autos.com - $2.2 million

• Commerce.com - $180,000

and the list goes on…
Now You know why it’s better to own your domain

As you can see, we are talking big money here. But the truth is that most of these domains were registered UUyearsUU before the dot com boom exploded. Those people who registered those names had a vision that someday those names will be worth something.

Nowadays finding a good .com name is VERY difficult. The .com extension is the most valuable of them all. There is a wide variety of tld’s such as:

•.net

•.org

•.tv

•.us

•.co.uk

•.de

•.ws

•.info

•.biz

and many more…

In order for a domain to be valuable, it should comply with some key elements altogether. First, it should be a high-demand keyword or key-phrase. Second, the name should fit the extension. i.e. – if you’re looking to register a hurricane information domain, hurricaneinfo.com is always a good option, but because you want to register a domain for information sharing, my advice is you register hurricane.info ; Another example is the domain name “coming soon”- which in most cases refers to the TV and movie industry, you should register comingsoon.com and comingsoon.tv in order for it to have a high market value. For a complete list of domain tld’s, visit HHUUIcannUUHH.

UU• Registering a Domain Name

You can register a domain in various websites such as HHUUGodaddyUUHH which is among the most popular domain registrars in the world. Simply enter the website and there should be a blank field where you type the domain name you are looking to register, then select from a variety of tld’s (.com, .net, .org, etc.) and the system will first check if the name is available. If it’s available, you’ll be able to register it to your name right away. Remember to never register any name that contains a trademark, as this could result in a pretty serious lawsuit. After your registration is placed, you should receive an email confirmation with some info on your account and some other stuff. Usually the domain name will be available for world-wide use in about one week. If you don’t set up any hosting account, your registrar will almost always put a parking page in it. Which means your domain will be parked-free (doing nothing).