How to Profit From Domain Names

The marketability of a domain name can be one of the greatest financial assets in e-commerce, but there's more to domain names than simply choosing one for your site--they can mean big business. Individuals and organizations are looking for easily memorable domain names every day, and they'll pay big bucks for the best ones. Learn how to capitalize on this market as you profit from domain names.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

1. Use a domain name to promote your affiliate program. You can simply redirect the user from your domain name to the affiliate site or write a review on your site and link to the other site.

2. Post original content at your own website and make money from it by using Google AdSense or a similar source of advertising revenue.

3. Use alternate domain names to redirect to your own site. You could generate traffic by purchasing generic domain names related to your field or industry, knowing that sometimes users simply guess at a domain name that relates to what they're looking for (for example, flowers.com or cars.com).

4. Purchase domain names that would be appropriate for marketing others' businesses, and get them to buy the domain names from you.

5. Park your original domain names. Maybe a domain name you've created has a potentially high resale value. Certain companies let you park your domain on their servers, advertise the name for sale--and split the revenue with you.

6. Generate traffic to your domain name. When you decide to sell it, the name will be more marketable, since others already know it exists.

Tips & Warnings

• Redirection from generic domains can be helpful when you want to keep your competitors from benefiting from searches on a generic name.

[essie2006]

on 10/17/2009 great article