I'm New...But,

[ThatNameGuy]

I could use some help determining how best to monetize the 450+ .com domains I've accumulated over the last 12 months. 80-90% of the .com domains I own were purchased to compliment the business brands I'm developing. I have three Brands that will become registered trademarks, one is completed, and the other two are works in progress.

Somewhere along the way, I started buying names that didn't compliment my brands, but were just available for the bargain price of 8.49 per domain. So many ideas were going through my head that I registered the domain, "BrainOnOverdrive".com. I'd hear someone say something on TV, I'd hear something on the radio, or I'd even hear a sports announcer, ore even a friend say something that had me running to GoDaddy to see if what I heard, or a variation of what I heard was available?

If someone told me a year ago that I'd own 450 .coms today, I would have said "your crazy". I have a pretty simple business model on how to monetize my Brands, and a I'm meeting with a local University next week to see if I'm able to work with their Entrepreneurial and Enterprise Innovation schools to best monetize my Brands. I'm also aware that many of the domains I purchased were solely for the purpose of being able to place the "TM" symbol after the name, if it were to be screen printed or embroidered on at t-shirt or hat, or maybe a coffee or beer mug. This said, I could probably either sell or lease the domains as long as the buyer has a different use?

Now to cut to the chase, I'm interested in partnering (in some capacity) with someone who can help me to manage and monetize my domains. Does anyone know of a company or individual who might be interested? I don't have a lot of skin in the game...maybe about 5K plus my time. In full disclosure, my background and experience in business would certainly be able to weed out any frauds or scammers that this industry seems to have. And I would expect anyone interested to check me out as thoroughly as I would check them out.

Thanks in advance for you thoughts.

Bulloney aka Rich Morris, or Google my Linkedin bio Richard B Morris, Virginia Beach, Va.
cell or text 757 439-9902

 

[ThatNameGuy]

After choosing carefully, I would develop some of those 450 domains on multiple VPS's.

Thanks..I'm just learning about Virtual Private Servers, and I like your suggestion. Any particular VPS you might recommend? Thanks

 

[poweredbyme]

Thanks..I'm just learning about Virtual Private Servers, and I like your suggestion. Any particular VPS you might recommend? Thanks

I rented cheap dedicated servers from wholesaleinternet before. Their prices are still low but you need to know server management. One of the cheapest unmanaged VPS/dedicated service is ovh & kimsufi. But they might require id and address documents. It's always better not to send those sensitive documents to anywhere to protect your online privacy. It's better to buy from ovh resellers. I can recommend Lunanode as a good unmanaged vps or cloud server.

Managed VPS or managed dedicated server options are more expensive and you aren't given "root" access as the server is managed by someone else instead of you. I can recommend knownhost as a reliable managed vps.

lowendbox and webhostingtalk are good sources to know new hosting services.

Try to buy SSD hosting. The difference is big. For unmanaged servers, use debian+apache. ispconfig is a free open source control panel. Cpanel and directadmin are paid. You need minimum 20gb disk space and 4 gb ram. Because the OS itself and ongoing log files will eat 10gb space. Don't use the same IP for more than 50 sites. It may affect SEO negatively.

4 gb ram, 100mbps dedicated connection, 2 x 2+ghz cpu core will be enough for 100 medium sized wordpress sites. For 400 wordpress sites, 8-10 gb ram, 4-5 cpu cores should be enough depending on traffic and content size. When your sites grow you can rent another server or can upgrade if it's cloud server.

Lastly, choose KVM virtualization for VPS. If you are offered extra ram or disk space as "swap" it's not KVM.

If I was about to develop 450 sites I would seriously consider to buy an auto-blogging software like wp robot. Also try to learn about wordpress multisite if you don't know. WP multisite will allow you to manage hundreds of wordpress sites easily.