Domain Name Resources

Namedrive are useful for parking, I find the control panel and reporting is better than Sedo as are revenues.

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Thanks for the info. You should also buy long-tail-keyword domains, they help rank your site in the search engines.

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I find it difficult to stop looking at/buying domain names too!

For buying and selling take a look at snapnames tdnam and namejet.

For pure inspiration read Frank Schillings sevenmile.com - unfortunately Frank isn’t blogging much right now but last year he posted some great info.

i am officially addicted to buying domain names, its getting beyond a joke now!

Dan - thanks for the Namedrive suggestion. I’ve got a bunch of names at Sedo at the moment so I might try a few at Namedrive.

I created an account at iMODO yesterday and it looks quite good too.

John - thanks for the suggested links. I used to read Frank Schillings blog but had to give up as I couldn’t keep up with the number of posts. If he’s slowed down a bit I might try again!

Ralph & John - if we are all buying loads of domains it always amazes me that there are many left. Do you buy & sell or are you just buying to hold & develop?

fraser i generally buy domain names to develop but i have been known to sell the odd one or two if someone make a stupid offer! (well, it would be rude not to!)

LOL - stupid offers are hard to find so it seems only fair to take them.

I don’t think I’ve sold a single domain yet though, any offers I’ve had have been far too sensible! I’m quite happy to keep them all for a couple of years though and then see what happens.

@Fraser: Selling on a domain name …that’d be good! Occasionally I’ll develop a name with wordpress. Recently chefuniforms.com was traded for approx $65K - I was able to reg chefuniforms.co.uk for less than £6 and I’ve plonked some content on it. The site is 1st page in google uk for that phrase and gets some traffic so that’s not too bad - although I won’t be retiring just yet!

I see that top domainer Sahar Sarid (conceptualist.com) is soon to launch a new domain trading platform called bido.com

Finally, if you’re interested in geo (place name) related domains take a look at simplygeo.com and elliotsblog.com

Cheers

John

Fraser,

Do you develop any of these domains in any way, simply buy and hold?

Also do you see this as another revenue stream at some point or are you moving away from affiliate marketing?

….Must re-read before posting…

Should have put
Also do you see this as another revenue stream in addition to affiliate marketing or are you moving away from affiliate marketing?

John - thanks for your comment and a few more links for me to look at.

Nigel - I’m definitely not planning a move out of affiliate marketing but I see it as being pretty closely linked. All the domains I’ve bought are names that I could see myself developing at some point so that’s always a possibility and when I have spare time I’ll pick another name from the list and see what I can do with it.

Long term I think decent quality generic domains could be a good revenue source though.

Here is a really nice list of 100 domain name blog articles from Virtual Hosting Blog. Find them here
http://www.virtualhosting.com/blog/2007/domainer-required-reading-100-great-blog-posts/ One of my blog articles on valuing domain names can be found at number 27 on the list My domaining blog can be found on domaining.org.uk

Thanks for the resource… its great to have marketers helping each other…

thanks for these resources. some of them are quite good, thanks.