How to make money in domaining starting with zero cash.

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1. First off you need to have some skills. Whether it be design or programming or simply knowing how to use a gui program like front page or dreamweaver. If you have the skills already you can be domaining in no time. If not simply start at google.com and take some time every day to learn something new. It won't take long to find the information and start domaining.

2. Find people who can use your skills. Many of us that domain everyday are always looking for cheap design or someone to gather information for us. If it saves us time and money to allow someone else to do it we will hire them. Make sure your price is right and you give the paying customer everything he paid for. If you want repeat business you may do a little extra so that we remember who you are.

3. From using the guidelines in number 2 you should have a few bucks in your account now. Now's the time to start looking for a domain. If you are only buying the domain to turn around to another domainer for a few bucks then you could go with almost any domain. However if you're looking to make good money in this then time and patience is the key.

Below are some tips on how to go from a domain name to a good paycheck:

1. Make sure you have a business plan for your domain. Also make sure the domain fits your business plan. Example: pokerchips.com is not a good domain if you are planning a recipe site. That example may be far fetched but I'm sure you get my meaning.

2. Make sure your business plan has income as part of the plan. Even if it's selling books of amazon or using google adwords any plan for income is needed. You will have expenses at this point and the domain will need an income to support it.

3. Hosting is not needed right away. Most domainers go right out and buy hosting as soon as they buy their domain. To me this is a mistake. Build the site first, then get hosting. This way if it takes you a month to build the site you have saved the first months hosting fees.

4. Traffic: how are you going to get visitors to your new website? In the beginning you should look for free ways to do this. I have always used newsgroups. I get involved with the discussions first and then people get to know me and they know I am knowledgable about the subject. After you build a repore with others in the newsgroup you can start letting them know about your site. This can make for good targeted visitors to your site and help in the growth and success of your new site.

5. Updates: Every successful website has updates. New content all the time for their visitors to view. This is what keeps your visitors coming back. The more you know on the subject your building about the better.


It takes time to follow all the steps above. But if you work at it and do this everyday your site will grow and flourish in no time. If you keep building your site then google rankings and members will follow. When your site obtains an inome any kind of income if you built it with the intentions of selling it then nows the time to do it. Make sure you get a price thats fair for the amount of time you have into it and the amount of income it's bringing you.


In poker there's a saying that goes like this: A chip and a chair. Meaning if you have one chip left and a chair then you have a chance to win the game.

In domaining the saying is: A domain and an Idea. If you have a domain and an idea you can win in this game. Big money is not needed to succeed in this business.
 
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Very nice article, also informative.

+ Rep to you.
 
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nice. REPS!
 
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thanks guys hope this article helps the newbie coming into the business
 
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nice.
 
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very good article. Contains alot of good information :)
 
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I would like to comment that this is pretty much the way I am starting on this business now. I owned some .com domains in the past, but I just let them expire as I didn't see any value on them (no regret, they still wouldn't hold much value now).

Some years ago I regged a few .com.ar domains, which are free. That's the extension for Argentina, my country. In some spare time I developed some adult sites on those domains, using free content the sponsors gave me, free hosting, free tools, and building traffic by posting my sites on every adult index I found. I started getting some traffic and being paid by the sponsors for my traffic. I made some money. Then the situation in my coutry changed and traffic from Argentina wasn't worth much so I dropped the sites.

2 years passed in the middle. PPC boomed.

Then last December I start reading about domaining again, and decide to park my names at sedo. It turns out that between 3 of them I'm still getting about 2500 uniques per month. The CTR is also quite good, and with the help of some other .com.ar domains I regged which get type in traffic (never been developed before), I'm now waiting for my first payment from Sedo.

Now I can buy some .com games, and really start in this business. As you can see, all I put in was time. I guess time really is money here :)

My strategy now is to develop many of my domains as minisites, and build traffic for them (I think I have a few tricks, and none of them black hat :hehe: ). Wish me luck!

(sorry for the hijacking, and rep added for great post!)
 
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REP your way! Nice post!
 
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nice rep+
 
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6. If you were smart enough, register hundreds of .be names and park them for money. Use that parking money or sales from the .bes to start your own domain empire.
 
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Waooooooo ! MAN That was Really INformative ..ONE ...Cool Stuff....and will be Help Full for me ...and ..like me people new in This biz ///
 
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are we not nall just here for the money ??

Shame on uS !
ShamE !

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I sort of look at domaining & seling developed websites a bit different.
 
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Nice article, unixbro. Rep updated.
 
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Nice guide you have there thanks for sharing.
 
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Very nice, glad to see this was sticky'd ;) rep given!
 
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Olney said:
I sort of look at domaining & seling developed websites a bit different.

Me too.

Domaining, to me, means that you make money off of buying and selling and parking undeveloped domains because they have worth (for whatever reason) without a site.

Developing a site just to give a domain worth is a whole diofferent story. In this instance, generally speaking, you could use any domain - within reason. It's not the #1 focus because the bulk of the value (if not ALL of the value) is derived from the site, not the domain. So if the domain is not the #1 focus, then how is that considered "domaining"?
 
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EbookLover said:
Me too.

Domaining, to me, means that you make money off of buying and selling and parking undeveloped domains because they have worth (for whatever reason) without a site.

Developing a site just to give a domain worth is a whole diofferent story. In this instance, generally speaking, you could use any domain - within reason. It's not the #1 focus because the bulk of the value (if not ALL of the value) is derived from the site, not the domain. So if the domain is not the #1 focus, then how is that considered "domaining"?


Like anything people veiw their businesses differently and run their businesses differently if parking domains works for you then great.

However the guide I wrote and what I go by works for me a lot better.

By developing domains I have a broader area of buyers because on developed names people can more likely see the idea behind the name. Also many people don't know how to design websites and names that they would ordinarily buy they don't because they don't know how to develop them.

This to me brings in more business because not only do I make one time domain sales but I have a constant flow of hosting and development money also.
 
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unixbro
Good Article! REP added!
 
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Nice!
 
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