How to Buy and Sell Website Domain Names

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By Stevie Stevenson
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Buy and Sell Website Domain Names

How to buy and sell internet or website domain names is a very profitable adventure for many internet entrepreneurs and freelance bloggers.

You have all heard about the guy who registered a popular domain name before the website evolution exploded, Nike.com. He turned around and resold that registered domain name to the Nike corporation for 50k $ 50,000.00
With todays copy right laws and trademark violations some might argue he was not legally able to own the name. The bottom of this article will discuss 4 separate domain names I know of, the guy who registered it was the legal owner as long as he was not using the domain names for profit reasons, or misleading the visitors to his site. More on that later.

Difficulty: Easy

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

registered domainnames
auction site

Step 1

First find a good quality domain name you might like to register. Google domain names and you will see a list of available websites that offer you a place to register at. Go daddy is one of the top resellers in the domain name after market and allows it's users to post their selected names up for auction.
Step 2

Some domains sell for as low as 1.99. Yahoo even offers odmain name registration.. Don't just look to register .com, or .net you have .org,.us and so many others to choose from. You'll be amazed at what's floating around the web. .TV for video related websites and .mobi for business who want viewers to visit them using a cell phone.
Step 3

All domain names you registered are kept on file with ICANN the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
It's like the place that holds your mortgage deed.
Step 4

Once you become the legal domain name registrar you are entitled to auction, sell or use that domain name. Most domain name power houses like godaddy offers you a free 5 page website hosting and email with each name you buy. Not bad for under 10.00 a year
Step 5

If you really want to turn that unused domain name into a profit list it for sale either on the domain name after market, ebay, or even your own personal website or blog.
Enter domain names in any search engine.
Step 6

I owned several domain names that had capital one, ebay and a few other well known names in the title. I also owned godaddydomains (dot) com at one time that I bought from godaddy. They turned around and bought that same name back from me 24 hours later for 400.00 . Not saying you will all have that same luck.
Owning over 100 domain names and making a nice side business for myself buying than reselling for profit domains names I did get a few letters.

In the end I was in my legal right to do as I wish with the owned names as long I was not misleading or using for profit. I could however forward them if I chose. Most of the companies I mentioned just made me offers and of course anything that doubled my profit or more I took.
Step 7

Just so you can see the value behind owning several different domain names and how you can forward them anyplace you want. Type any of these into your browser bar and see were you are redirect. Notice I did not use masking to hide the new landing page.

googleradioblogs.com
googlemenews.com
googleplexmedia.com
blogtalkradionews.com
blogtvads.com

These names especially the google titled ones do very well in google search ranks and pings.
These names can than be used to add to the search engines and blog ping sites.
Step 8

Select high ranked keywords for your domain names like green, eco, weight loss, technology names to name a few and you will sure find a winner. Buying a name for 10.00 than selling it for 100 is a great investment in my opinion.
Use the link below under the resource tab and pay just 7.49 to register any domain name.