Here you will find information on selecting, purchasing, managing and profiting from domain names. Good News. The exciting world of domainers lies ahead.

Below is a list of domain names along with the date of registration. A few domains are interesting, many were inherited. Most of these domain names are parked at Fabulous for now.

Miscellaneous

www.CORONASINGLES.COM 26-Nov-2004
www.CUSTOMPIZZABOX.COM 19-Sep-2006
www.DRYCLOTHES.COM 22-Sep-2006
www.ALLAMERICANHOMEIMPROVEMENT.COM 6-Apr-2005
www.LOSANGELESFITNESSTRAINER.COM 27-May-2005

Mattresses

www.MATTRESSINABOX.COM 2-Jun-2004
www.DANNASMATTRESS.COM 20-Jan-2005

Golf Cart / Exotic Car

www.EMERALDCARCLUB.COM 19-Sep-2006
www.GOLFCLUBCAR.COM 19-Sep-2006
www.PRESTIGEGOLFCARTS.COM 20-Jun-2005

Short Company Names

www.ATWCO.COM 26-Sep-2006
www.HANGCO.COM 26-Sep-2006
www.LDDZ.COM 26-Sep-2006
www.RDFCO.COM 22-Sep-2006
www.RTRCO.COM 26-Sep-2006
www.SSKCO.COM 26-Sep-2006
www.UMERCO.COM 26-Sep-2006
www.ZYRCO.COM 19-Sep-2006

Design Industry

www.COWGIRLCREATIONS.COM 21-Nov-2000
www.VALDESIGNS.NET 7-Nov-2003
www.VALDEZIGNS.NET 7-Nov-2003
www.VALSTENNISWEAR.NET 7-Nov-2003
www.VALSTENNISWEAR.COM 22-Sep-2006

Bridal industry

www.VICTORIANBRIDALHATS.COM 25-Oct-2003
www.WESTERNBRIDAL.COM 25-Oct-2003
www.WESTERNBRIDALHATS.COM 25-Oct-2003

Web Site Design

www.1800BUSINESSWEBSITES.COM 27-May-2003
www.BUSINESSWEBDESIGNPROS.COM 18-Sep-2003
www.BUSINESS-WEBSITE-DESIGNS.COM 23-Oct-2004
www.GRAPHICWEBDESIGNER.COM 6-Feb-2002
www.JOHNSWEBDESIGNS.COM 7-Feb-2002

Web Site Sales

www.HOWTOSELLWEBSITES.COM 18-Jun-2004
www.WEBSITESALESPRO.COM 20-Apr-2004
www.WHYINEEDAWEBSITE.COM 20-Apr-2004
www.BUILDYOUROWNDOTCOM.COM 13-Feb-2003

E-Commerce
www.SHOPPINGCARTWEBDESIGN.COM 18-Sep-2003
www.MERCHANT-ACCOUNT-ACCEPT-CREDIT-CARDS.COM 23-Oct-2004

Auto Responder
www.ADVANCEDAUTORESPONDER.COM 10-Jun-2004
www.AUTORESPONDERDOWNLOAD.COM 10-Jun-2004
www.AUTORESPONDERUNLIMITED2.COM 10-Jun-2004

Web Site Miscellaneous

www.DSNAMES.COM 26-Sep-2006
www.AUTOMATEDLINKPRO.COM 1-Jul-2005
www.BUSINESS-WEBSITE-HOST.COM 23-Oct-2004
www.OFFICIALKEYWORDREPORT.COM 24-Jun-2005
www.ONEADMINSUITE.COM 29-Jun-2005

A domain name can be…

1. Registered for 1 to 10 years
2. Renewed for 1 to 10 years
3. Purchased from a private party for big bucks
4. Parked on a MFA page and maybe earn a few bucks
5. Privately registered. Makes it hard to answer the question, “Who is the owner?”
6. Pointed to your domain name server
7. Parked on an existing domain name
8. Rented or Leased
9. Retired. Just let it expire naturally.

Domain names can cost you money or make you money.

Renew

A couple of years ago I inherited about 80 domain names. I did not register them, however, to keep them, I would need to renew them each year at a total cost of over $500 each year or else they would expire. Many were not worth keeping. What a liability!

Domain Name purchased from a Private Pary for thousands of dollars

About a year later a client called and asked me to obtain a few of domain names that were already registered by someone else. I went into Boston to meet with one of the champs at Sedo and learned a whole lot about the domain name market place. We eventually purchased the domain names we wanted for four figures. My client was ecstatic to obtain the domain names of his business name for significantly less than expected.

Domain Name Parking

During this time, I learned of domain name parking and immediately parked all of my domains at Sedo. The pennies started rolling in most days. This was not enough to support the lame domain names in my portfolio, but it definitely eased the financial burden while I figured out which I would sell, develop, park or retire.

Private Domain Name Registration

My client elected to register his newly acquired domain names privately. This keeps his contact information out of the public whois directory of domain name owners. Many of my domain name clients elect to do this. There are spammers and scammers that search the database to populate their spam email lists. Private registration keeps their prying eyes away.

Point to your Domain Name Server (DNS)

Once we had control of the domain name accounts, we pointed the domain name servers to our hosting server. This information tells all DNS queries that our DNS is authoritative and then provides the directions to the web site.

Park your Domain Names

My client also registered a number of additional domain names for future use. So, rather then letting them sit idly by, he elected to park these names on his primary web site. This redirects all traffic for these parked domains to his primary web site.

Renting?

Renting allows you to keep ownership of a valuable name. The renter has the opportunity to build a business without the expense of purchasing a valuable domain name. Make sense?

Retiring - focus your investment elsewhere

I am now down to about 60 domain names after letting those with no value expire. These are typically domain names comprised of three or more words and in industries that hold no interest for me, or anyone else likely. These domain names are now available for someone else to register and develop.

Two last points of advice.

1) Register your domain name for as many years as you can afford.
2) Do whatever it takes to make sure that your domain name does not expire. I have seen business owners lose their domain names and that really hurts.

Resources

Registration, Private registration or Renewal of your domain name www.jbspartnersdomains.com

Private party purchase and Parking www.fabulous.com, www.sedo.com

Major factors in choosing your domain name;

1. Your company name
2. First choice is always a .com. Second choice is the ccTLD. In the US that would be .us. In Britain, .co.uk
3. Keep it short. You will only find a three character domain name in the after-market for a premium price, so start looking for domain names with four or more characters
4. Best if it is memorable
5. Can most people spell it correctly?
6. If you tell me the domain name over the phone, how many times will you have to repeat? Will I have it right?
7. Does the domain name tell people what you do? Or are you going to create a brand, as Yahoo and Google did?
8. Key Words. It is a great idea to have a word in the domain name that relates to the site content. This shows relevancy.
9. Does it sound legitimate? xyy-lz.com does not sound trustworthy.
10. Don’t use hyphens.
11. Try not to be swayed too far a field by what “people” say the search engines like in a domain name. What they like changes over time as they improve. Make your selection from a marketing, branding, sales point of view instead of what folks say the search engines “like”.

Hopefully you can find the domain name that you want and purchase it directly from a domain name registrar. If you can’t, you can purchase a domain name in the after-market where domains cost hundreds, thousands and even millions of dollars. But that is story for another post on another day.

What do you look for in a domain name?