Making, trading and selling domains

So you are thinking about this business? Well this business isn’t always profitable, but it’s always worth giving a try. First of all good advertising often costs, plus you have to pay for your domains hosting. You can avid paying for hosting if you choose free hosting, but free hosting always have it’s minuses. Hosting’s quality can affect your domains price. But if you decide to start this business keep reading.

In my previous article I have told you “many domains are taken only because of their value to be sold”. If you have some imagination and experience with hosting you could try this business. After all it’s so easy all you need to do is just make sure that you are advertising your self well and wait for someone to offer you a deal.
                      Known company’s name in your domain will always increase your domain’s popularity. You can easily create a valuable domain by taking some famous international companies domain and changing domain’s end from “com” to any other ending for example “co.uk”. Sometimes even companies buys this kind of domains like Skype bought few domains for enormous price when they decided to expand to other countries. Probably this is the best example of making money from domains.

If you see that known company is planning on releasing a new gadget, create a domain with gadget name. For example gadgetnamenew.com or gadgetdealer.com

                      Another good idea for your domain is creating fan pages domains for example bmwfanpage.com or bmwusa.com. Famous companies name will attract you big traffics.

                      Creating domains with famous company’s name, but with mistake will attract you some traffic to for example yaho.com or gogle.com but this kind of domains won’t be very expensive. 

You will always earn more money if you create a new domain and then sell it compared to buying domain and reselling it, but if don’t have enough imagination look for domain on auctions. If you connect domain trader for specifically one of his domains he will think that you need his domain badly and won’t sell it cheap.

If you advertise your domain on forums probably only other domain traders are going to connect you, best way to find buyer for you domain is to create small website and offer your domains on it.

You might need to wait for good buyer very long for this reason I would recommend you to have many domains and never sell them cheap. If you waited one year and no one was interested in one of your domains that doesn’t mean that your domain is worthless that means that you have to wait more for a good buyer. Domain trading business is all about waiting for a good buyer.
                      So you can always remember this: best buyer is someone who wants to create a website with your domain, domain traders will want to resell your domain so they will pay way less.

First impression, choosing your domain

If your website is solid you should represent it in your domain. If it’s childish you should try to represent childishness in your domain.

Perfect domain is perfect only then if it fits the website perfectly, if it doesn’t it’s not perfect.

Probably you are expecting your page to live more then a year so you should choose targeted domain. Domain should represent your website what are you offering, what it’s about, what are your politics.

Choosing your domain at first comes to decision what kind of page views you want more. You can choose a domain which is very universal and then you will get some accident page views. And at the beginning of your website accident page views could be more then a half of your page views especially if you have high Google page rank. Choosing something targeted will give you more real readers who would be interested in reading your website. That would help you to grow your often readers audience. And in future targeted domain would be way more useful then universal one.

Choosing domain is very important because changing it later can cost you a lot of page views. Be creative choosing your domain isn’t something you do everyday to your website, so you have to think of something really special!

Know your readers screaming and impolite domain can attract you rebelling teens, but you should avid this kind of domain if your website is targeted to solid and mature people.

Often good domains are already taken, but if you are planning on unique website your domain should be unique too. And unique domains usually are free. Why? Many domains are taken only because of their value to be sold. And usually these kinds of domains aren’t unique.

Your domain and logo is the first impression of your website, maybe your website is great, but first impression can ruin costumer’s opinion, however good first impression can help you very much. Match your domain with your logo. When you type in website’s address on your left you see a small logo. Not all browsers show you that logo but most do. So creating a logo which would mach with your domain is also one of things you must do. For example when you create a website with Joomla, Joomla gives you its logo next to your domain.  So if your website has a Joomla’s logo this is a sign of ignorance.

Choosing end of hosting domain some times can help you to make your domain more targeted. For example domain.com vs domain.co.uk domain.com is more universal domain and domain.co.uk is way more targeted to English readers.

Sometimes longer or composed domains works to target your audience better for example: domain.info.com, domain.web.com

If you already have a domain which sounds good and is popular, but doesn’t fit your website perfectly think about selling it. Of course you will have to start everything form beginning but new beginning sometimes means good luck!