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Besides the comic strip, make sure to sign up on the top left of the site to receive our newsletter and deleting domain name list. I have been sending this out now for a couple weeks and my readers are picking up some real gems. I personally picked up a dozen or so domains names like LowerPortland.com, PalmettoContractors.com, MediaJerk.com & PlasticFlatware.com.

I had a brief discussion about this topic on one of the domainer forums just the other day.  I believe it to be an important subject and a possible education opportunity for other domainers new and old.

What lead to the conversation was this.  I purchased a domain name for $150 and was willing to sell it for $180.  The comments that followed were, that’s not a high enough return on investment (ROI) for me or I wouldn’t sell it unless I could double my money.

Take that same domain name in two scenarios…

Example.com purchased for $150 and sold for $300, but say twelve months after initial purchase giving it a profit of $150 minus any fees.  It may have taken twelve months because they were looking for an end buyer, making several calls, sending many emails and maybe some regular mail trying to reach the right buyer.  Using this method you turn a 100% ROI over the course of one year.

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Many domainers (myself included) are seeing PPC drop down to nothing. But this post is not to complain about parking revenues. It is to (hopefully) motivate domainers to start developing mini-sites.

For me, mini-sites have been 1000% more profitable than parking, with some names. One of my favorites is SalviaFacts.com. Salvia is a new drug that teens are getting into. As you can see, setting up that site didn’t take much time, or work. But from parking, I made a total of $.02. Over the past week and a half, adsense has earned me a little less than $2. Of course, that is not a lot of money, but it is a major improvement on the 2 cents from parking. Traffic to that site has been steadily increasing, mostly from longtail searches.

The beauty of mini-sites is how fast and easy they are to set up. You can literally set up a mini-site in 10 minutes.
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Whois NameMedia Inc? NameMedia owns one of the largest domain portfolios on the net. They are the central nervous system and the brains behind BuyDomains.com a domain sales platform, Afternic.com a huge domain auction house and brokerage (DLS) as well as ActiveAudience.com a domain monetization platform.

NameMedia Inc. AKA “BuyDomains.com” is on the prowl for domains, lots of them. In recent months they have been posting to the masses on forums such as NamePros and DNF in search of domain portfolios to acquire. I first noticed their calling to buy domains in a thread at NamePros forum two months ago. I responded via email as they requested with a short list of a several four letter .coms and four letter .nets. and a couple nice one word domains just to see what kind of interest they may have. Now, before I sent off this email I already had a preconception of NameMedia’s buying strategies. A fellow domainer friend of mine once referred to them as the “low ball kings”. Hearing this I was not expecting a positive response. Read the rest of this entry →

Wednesday, time for your weekly domainer comic strip.

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Submit a suggestion for my next comic strip to win a GoDaddy gift card for $7.49.

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On another note, make sure to sign up on the top left of the site to receive our newsletter and deleting domain name list.