Many of you know that i’ve been getting into domaining. I like playing around with domain names because it’s somewhat similar to what i do as my day job. Domain names are the virtual real estate of the web. Like real estate, they go up in value. Some domain names are listed for millions of dollars. I also like playing with domains because it reminds me of my youth. When i was a young kid, i used to collect baseball cards. I would buy Becket magazine and check to see if my cards went up or not. I had a pretty valuable collection of trading cards. When you’re buying domains, you have to be careful to not buy useless names. Don’t buy names that are too long and stay away from unpronounceable names. Lastly, if you want to make money online, you should only buy dot com domains. Read More to Make Money Online »

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Is it worth buying domain names with Google PR? I’ve done a few experiments with this in the past 6 months. I purchased some domains that already had PR on them. I wanted to see if i would lose the PR when the next update occured. I first bought my PR domain for around $40. I was such a noob. I now realize that i overpaid for that domain. If you are thinking about buying dropped or expired domains with PR, don’t pay too much for them. Buy them if you like the name, but don’t buy it for the PR. Cause you’re going to lose the PR. Making money online is about learning from you experiences. If you experiement often, then you’ll gain more understanding of how you can make money online. Read More to Make Money Online »

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I try to gobble up all relevant “make money online” news. Wendy from wendy’s reel wrote a response post about ICANN’s decision to allow any type of domain extension. So, in a couple of year, companies and individuals can register a whatever.whatever domain. This is big news for domainers and webmasters. The newer extensions (.info,.biz) haven’t caught up to dot coms, and they never will. But, having your own extension could mean gold to people who invest in some key extensions. There have been talks that a .sex extension or a .money could start bidding wars. They are thinking about pricing the extensions at around $100,000 a pop. Do i think that this will change the value of .coms? Not really! Did .info or .biz change the game much? Nope! I think web surfers are used to punching in .com to get to a site. Heck, iphones and blackberries already have a .com button on their keypad. Dot coms and country extensions will continue being the norm, but these extensions are making it pretty exciting. Read More to Make Money Online »

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I recently bought bloggernoob dot info. I was too cheap to pick up the other TLDs. Who knows, maybe one of you guys will pick up the dot org or dot net. If my blog blows up and i make it big, maybe i’ll have to buy those domains from one of you. Probably not. Anyway, i wanted to write up a quick little opinion piece for yall. Have you ever punched in a domain and be forwarded to another site? A lot of corporate sites do this with a lot of different domains. For example, I forwarded bloggernoob dot info to bloggernoob dot com, so when u punch in bloggernoob dot info, you’ll be sent to bloggernoob’s make money online blog. (that was a mouthful) Read More to Make Money Online »

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Some of you already know that i am getting into domain investing. I now have way to many domain names in my portfolio. I now have too many to admin. I don’t want them to remain parked until it expires. Some of these domains are pretty good. I just don’t have the time to work on them. If you want some free domains, leave me a comment below and you can win a free domain name. I will be giving away multiple domain names. I’m always saying that the best way to make money online is by setting up multiple sites. If you’re lucky, you might win more then one free domain name. Read More to Make Money Online »

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I usually don’t like to co mingle my various business interests. I’m the type of guy that likes to compartmentalize my investments. I like keeping separate books of all of my investments. So when it comes to real estate, i have a bank account and a group of lenders who help me deal with those investments. I’ve recently been getting into the buying and selling of domain names. I haven’t purchases anything big yet, but i’ve talked with a few of my friends about possibly purchases a premium domain name. I don’t want to risk too much money by going in all by myself. I really believe that investing in premium domain names is a good way to make money online. The ROI (return on investment) is better then a lot of the tech stocks. It’s a lot better then real estate and i want to get in on all that action. Read More to Make Money Online »

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Attention blogspot bloggers! Let me ask you a question. Are you guys blogging for fun, or blogging to add some supplemental income? Most of you will answer with “fun”. That’s great guys. I think it’s cool that you are blogging. Even if it’s on a free hosted site, it’s cool that you’re writing. But those of you who are thinking about making money online, you shouldn’t bother with blogspot. It’s true that there are a few blogspot blogs that make some nice cash. But most blogspot blogs are hard to monetize. First off, it’s difficult to project a professional image with a blank.blogspot blog. Secondly, if you’re going to invest hours upon hours into your blog, wouldn’t your rather host it yourself? Wouldn’t you rather have it on your own unique domain name and brand? Moving away from blogspot is the obvious option if you are serious about making money online with you blog. Read More to Make Money Online »

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The domain name game is filled with a bunch of dorks. “Domainers” talk in a different language. The language used to be like Klingon to me, but i think i’m becoming one of those guys. Blogging is dorky, but domainers might be dorkier. I don’t know what it is, but i feel myself falling in love with domain names. I think the whole idea of it is amazing. Maybe it’s because my background is in real estate. Investing in domain names is like investing in real estate. It’s like flipping houses, except you don’t have to invest large sums of money, or put your credit on the line. I think investing in and developing domain names is a great way to make money online. You have to be careful tho, cause it’s hard for a noob in the domain kingdom. You could end up buying a bunch of useless domain names. Read More to Make Money Online »

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I was doing some Sedo browsing and i came across some really cool domains. It turns out that you can buy America. Yup, if you have a couple million at your disposal, you can bid on America dot com. The domain is a uber premium domain and well worth the price for some one with the right development skills. Business dot com was sold for over 7 million dollars back in the late 90s. The owner developed it and then resold the developed site for over $300,000,000. Yup, thats one zero shy of billion. So in that regard, a couple million dollars is nothing right? Any of you want to go 90-10 with me and purchase this domain?

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Four letter domains have all been registered. In the domaining industry, those domain names are referred to as LLLL.com. Of course there are still a lot of four letter dot org, dot info, and dot whatever left. The great thing about four letter domains is that they are in high demand. It’s in high demand because they are rare to find. For most of you, buying a “premium domain” is not practical. It’s better to spend that precious money on something else. Read More to Make Money Online »

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