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Check Out The Domainer’s Toolbar

Posted by Kyle Eslick on February 17th, 2008 | Category and Tags | 0 comments

Whether you are an active domainer or just someone who likes to research and monitor current trends in the niche of buying and selling domains, there are a few tools out there that can make your life a little easier.

One of these tools is the Domainer’s Toolbar. This toolbar provides a feed for many of the top domainers blogs, provides the latest domaining news, provides easy access to many domain marketplaces, as well as tracking various domaining forums.

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not huge into toolbars. In fact, traditionally, the only one I usually use is the StumbleUpon toolbar, but I’ve found this toolbar very useful in getting around. I like to see previews of the headlines in each forum, so this toolbar saves me a lot of time.

Which toolbars do you rely on for your day-to-day web browsing?

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List of GoDaddy Coupon Codes Good for 2008

Posted by Kyle Eslick on January 25th, 2008 | Category and Tags | 0 comments

I’ve mentioned before that I prefer to register most of my domains with GoDaddy. They are the biggest and most popular domain registrar and I’ve found that most people have an account with them, so it makes flipping domains much easier than if they are with another registrar.

GoDaddy normally charges $9.95 for each domain, which isn’t exactly very competitive with the prices of other registrars. However, if you use something like PCNames to find your domains and click over through their referral link, you can register dot com domains for only $7.15 each. In addition to this option, there are also a number of GoDaddy Coupon Codes available that anyone can use to get discounts on their domain purchases. Here is a collection I’ve put together of coupons that you can use:

BLAUGH - 10% off
BTPS7 - 20% any order of $50 or more
BTPS4 - 10% off anything
CHILL1 - 10% off
CHILL2 - $5 off a $30 purchase
CHILL3 - $7.15 per .com registration
HASH1 - 10% off
HASH2 - $5 off a $30 purchase
HASH3 - $7.15 per .com registration
OYH1 - 10% off
OYH2 - $5 off a $30 purchase
OYH3 - $7.15 per .com registration (confirmed works on renewals also)

As you can see, there are some duplicate offers there, and some coupon codes are situational. If you are spending more than $30.00, you may use a different one than if you are just registering a couple domains.

Any coupon codes you know of that I missed? Sound off in the comments!

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Domaining Resources and Glossary

Posted by Kyle Eslick on January 25th, 2008 | Category and Tags | 0 comments

Domaining Resources

If you are going to be domaining, you first need to spend some time bookmarking several websites.

Domaining Forums

Some of my best message board experiences have come from spending time on domaining message boards. The community is very close and (for the most part) everyone is helpful and treats others with respect.

Selling Your Domains

You can use any combination of the above 5 to shop your domains, then use Escrow.com to complete the transaction (they hold the money, then you send the domain, then they turn over the money).

Back Ordering Domains

These three services get first dibs on back ordered domains due to their contracts with registrars, so I recommend you use them over a GoDaddy or similar type of company for back ordering domains. If you really want the domain, it is best to backorder using all 3 companies so you don’t lose it to someone else back ordering it.

Domaining Glossary

I said above that one of the best communities you’ll find online is the domaining community. I’ve found that everyone is extremely helpful and there are some great discussions. If you are going to start reading domaining message boards, however, there are a few terms/abbreviations you will run across. Here are a few that immediately pop into my head (I will update this post as I think of more):

You’ll see letter/number abbreviations such as LLN.com or LLLLL.com. The “L” is for letter and the “N” is for number. an example of an LLLL.com domain is KXNO.com. It has four letters. An example of LLN.com would be like FF9.com. CCCC.com is a four character domain (includes letters, numbers, hyphens, etc.). You get the idea!

Reg = Register a domain

TLD (or uTLD) = Top Level Domain (such as .com, .net, .org, .info, .name, .biz, etc.). These do not place any restrictions on you.

sTLD = Domain name extensions that are sponsored by independent organization that impose restrictions on you. (Examples are .mobi and .asia)

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How Does Domaining Work?

Posted by Kyle Eslick on January 21st, 2008 | Category and Tags | 0 comments

Over the coming week, I’ve written a series of posts that are designed to introduce you to the world of domaining. Because I’ve devoted a little time to discussing it on this website over the past month, I’ve been getting a lot of questions from my contact form asking for various tips, ideas, and even suggestions regarding domaining and existing domaining portfolios. These questions are welcome, but I figured it would be beneficial to write up a major overview and hopefully answer a lot of these questions in posts. If you have domaining questions, please hold off until after the series is over before sending them, as many will hopefully be answered throughout the posts scheduled throughout the rest of the week. After this week is done, feel free to then send your questions if I didn’t provide an answer. Good? Lets get started!

What is domaining?

If you are interested in domaining for a living, or more likely, as a serious hobby, the first thing you need to do is change how you view domains. There is only one of every domain out there, meaning that once it is gone, you are at the mercy of the person that now owns it. They may not want to sell it, or they may only sell it for $10,000.00+. Either way, you no longer have the power to own your own brand in many cases (unless you are entitled to it via trademark). This is the mentality that many domainers have when buying/selling domains and helps generate income. You will also need to learn to look at a domain as more than just a home for a website. Domainers also generate income with cash parking or flipping them for profit.

In future posts we’ll talk more about how to find a domain, but once you have them, what do you do with them?

The first thing you can do is attempt to monetize them by purchasing domains that receive a lot of natural traffic from web browsers. Natural traffic means that people type the URL into their web browser to visit the website directly, rather than relying on search engines to find them. If you have a lot of domains that receive traffic this way, you can make money by placing ads on these domains that are relevant to what the person may be looking for. This is commonly referred to as cash parking. Most domain registrars, including GoDaddy, offer this service to anyone for an annual fee. Parked.com has another alternative. You will then keep a large portion of the ad revenue. How much you keep depends upon which registrar you have your domains with. Some domainers that do a lot of cash parking will specialize in buying misspelled domains. Some examples of misspelled domain names include gogle.com, google.cm, google.co, yaho.com, etc.

The second method is called domain flipping. If you are familiar with property flippers, then you probably have the general idea of what a domain flipper is/does. Someone who flips properties will buy a number of houses at a discount rate (usually at a foreclosure or estate sale) and then fix them up and resell them for a huge profit. A domain flipper used to be a person that registered domain names that would later have value and then sold them at a hiked up price. In today’s world, pretty much all domains are already registered, so a domain flipper is now someone who purchases domains from people that don’t know their true value and then either lets them mature over months/years and sells them, or turns around and sells them at a much higher price. Domain flippers also scour the dropped/expiring domain lists and back order valuable domains, or some will even go as far as to purchase them from companies going through bankruptcy.

Now that you have the basic idea of what domaining is and how it works, tomorrow we’ll move on to putting it in to practice. In the meantime, I recommend you check out this post about the State of the Domaining Industry. You may also enjoy this recent news video talking about how significant the world of domaining has gotten:

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(Feed Readers May Need to Click Through)

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A Few Good Domains For Sale

Posted by Kyle Eslick on January 8th, 2008 | Category and Tags | 0 comments

In the past I’ve spent some talking about the value of a good domain name and about how all this valuable real estate is quickly disappearing. Over the last 15 years most all one word and two word domains are gone, with a majority of the good three word domains disappearing very fast as well. It has become increasingly difficult to find a keyword-rich domain via a domain registry and many people are being forced to buy/sell/trade domain before launching a blog or website.

While digging through my domain registrar account, I realized I’ve got some pretty good domains in there that are just parked or redirected to one of my existing sites and not really being used. Most of these domains were purchased with a plan for using them, but I’ve been kind of stretched thin lately with my existing sites and so I decided to see if I could find a better home for them.

Prices are included as a reference point, but some of the domains are negotiable on the price.

WebBrowserWars.com ($10.00) - Great domain for blogging about the competition between the different web browsers.
GetOnlineDeals.com ($10.00) - Great place to blog about the latest deals around the internet. Also includes many possibilities for monetization, such as Amazon and Google AdSense.
GetYourOnlineCoupons.com ($10.00) - This is a keyword-rich domain for promoting online coupons. There is a good market for online coupons, and advertisements tend to convert well.
UltimateResourcesOnline.com ($10.00) - Great domain for cheat sheets, resources, etc.
WebBrowserWorld.com ($10.00) - Great domain for blogging about the competition between the different web browsers.
UltimateCheatSheet.com ($20.00) - Great domain for cheat sheets, resources, etc. The term “Ultimate Cheat Sheet” gets tons of searches on Google every day.
GetWordpressThemes.com ($20.00) - Great domain for hosting a bunch of themes (both paid and premium themes).
FacebookProducts.com ($20.00) - With the success of Facebook and high click through rate of Facebook users, this is a great domain to write about Facebook, Facebook applications, etc.
PremiumSEOTips.com ($50.00) - Great keyword-rich SEO domain. Trying to find a good domain with SEO in it is like trying to find a needle in a haystack these days.
WordPressBits.com ($70.00) - Incredible domain for a WordPress niche site.
PremiumWordpressPlugins ($300.00) - This is probably the best domain you could possibly want for a premium WordPress plugins website. As WordPress continues to grow and evolve, many plugin authors will start charging for some of their plugins. This is a great domain to host and sell these plugins.
WordpressConsulting.com ($600.00) - There are tons of WordPress consultants that make a living doing work with WordPress. Here is an optimal URL for a business name.

You can find additional domains for sale on my domain page, Domaining Online. Please contact me if you are interested in any of the above domains and we’ll try to work something out. As they are sold, this post will be updated removing those domanis. Good luck!

P.S. I often run across good domain names that I don’t end up purchasing. I certainly don’t like to see them go to waste, so I’ve been considering throwing them into a post and publishing it here for my readers to purchase them. If that would interest you, let me know in the comments below! Also, if you’ve got any domains for sale, feel free to leave them in the comments below for other readers.

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