So, it seems that Godaddy has taken sides in the SOPA battle and it looks like I might have to start moving my domain names away from the worlds largest registrar. I think SOPA is a really bad idea and anything that can hurt the future development and freedom of the internet must be stopped.

I don’t really understand the logic of a web company supporting something that is so bad for the web but it seems that folks over at Reddit are going to do something about all of this it appears. I caught wind of this just this morning but it seems the watchful eye of Reddit users caught on to this some time back and a big stink is being raised.

Reddit users have come out in force against SOPA and all companies that support the legislative effort to regulate the internet. I have about 400 domains with Godaddy and my clients have another 500 plus domains there. Now, before I authorize a $10,000 expenditure on moving our domains to a new registrar I will watch how things progress to see if Godaddy makes any changes or if they sit on thier position.

If Godaddy continues their support for SOPA then I will be forced to move our portfolio over to a new registrar for the first time in almost a decade now. What do you think? Are for or against SOPA? Do you think that transferring domains away will make a difference to GoDaddy?

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I bought my first domain back in 1999 and I have been continually buying and selling them since about 2003 when I finally realized how lucrative they could be. Had I seen the light a few years earlier it might have been a different story, I may have been able to snag some of those million dollar domains but I still managed to do well enough.

I have been buying dropped domains for more than 5 years now but that market has seen a steady increase in the competition for dropped names and things are more active now on the auction market where great domains can still be had at cheap prices. I monitor dropped domains using a custom application but I do buy domains from other sources online including some of the large webmaster communities online and the domain auction websites and newsletters. I receive the weekly dropped domains list from Justdropped.com which has some great deals on premium domains for sale. I monitor the forums at namepros.com and forums.digitalpoint.com for deals but those are harder to come by in those competitive markets.

I have had decent luck monitoring tdnam.com for discount domain auctions with quite a few names, and keyword domains coming up for sale. I have had the best luck there picking up single word ccTLD domains like .ws or .mobi domains that have been dropped recently but sold in the domain aftermarket by GoDaddy. You have to watch theses auction sites for days on end before you will find some true gems but there is lots of value and great domains for sale right now.

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I have a lot of domains and to be honest many of them have never been used. I used to think it was crap to buy a domain and not at least build a page on it so I had a lot of single page website pointing to some program or maybe just linking back to one of my primary sites.

These domains are nice premium keyword domains with long term value which I am just holding on to and not interested in building some big business under at the moment. I went through a phase there for a while where I was building some splogs or spammy style blogs and using content pulled from various rss feeds to populate articles in WordPress but those got old fast. I came out with a few DMCA notices and very little revenue from the large amounts of useless traffic generated.

Maybe I was using the wrong revenue programs or maybe I wasn’t building enough links but whatever the case splogs were not big money maker for me. Of the domains with no content I actually had a few dozen that were dead sites and pointed to either empty directories on the server because I never got around to building a site or even worse they still pointed at some silly template at the registrar because I never even updated the DNS after purchasing the domains. Some of these go back to 2004 when I bought a load of domains and never built them up.

Every once in awhile someone makes an offer to buy one of my domains and I’ll sell it but to be honest I was looking for an easy revenue program that required nothing on my part. Over the years I had heard about paid parking programs for domains but many of them required you to make a payment to join the program or you had to pay them some huge percentage of revenue that seemed ludicrous to me. I just did not agree that I should have to pay my own money in order to promote my domains with your program. The real value is in the keywords of my domains and if they are generating clicks with no content why should I pay you a portion of that?

I steered clear of paid parking programs and focused instead on content development and revenue programs related to the domain niche when possible. Recently I decided to boost my usage of Google Adsense after ripping the ads out of most of my sites two years ago. I felt the conversions on Google ads was weak and I tried some other niche specific programs but these required to much maintenance and the difference in revenue was negligible. I was making more money but it took me more effort which sucks when you’re lazy like me.

While creating ads for my sites I was reminded that Google offers their Adsense for Domains now and I figured it was time to start better using some of these domains. I moved over just over 100 domains that have been dad or unused in the last two years. None of these was developed or promoted beyond possibly a single page with one external banner and no more than a paragraph of static content that was as stale as any content you have seen. Many of them were still shtml pages designed before I got into PHP and database driven sites.

It was actually pretty simple to move them over and Google of course offers detailed instructions on how to transfer DNS and Hosts records settings based on your registrar so you can be up and running in under 24 hours. It’s Google so we have no issue with trust or payments and they take care of serving up the best ads based on keywords you use and of course the domain name.

In the last week my earnings from the domains has averaged just below $10 per day which covers the registration fees on one domain. If it maintains the same pace for a full year I’ll be able to pay off two years of registration for the whole lot of domains each year until I either sell them or have time to build a new site. It’s not making me huge bucks but it’s not costing me anything as some of those domains were.

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The Microsoft Zune mp3 player has had limited success in gaining market share from the Apple iPod but they have done well enough to secure the #2 position in the portable music player market and future growth seems assured by the fact Zune software will now be included in all Windows Mobile devices beginning with the upcoming release of version 6.5 of the Microsoft Mobile Operating System.

The Zune blogs and websites have carved themselves a market in the entertainment niche by providing relevant content related to music, movies and gaming. The Zune project has a 3 to 5 year business plan with Microsoft hoping to integrate the Zune service into their existing Xbox Live service in an effort to link the two together via the power of music and video games.

The convergence of music, movies and video games in personal handheld devices seems the goal of most tech companies including Apple and Sony but Microsoft has a distinct edge with their ever popular Xbox gaming consoles and the ubiquitous Windows Operating System. The Microsoft user base is so huge that by shifting just a percentage of their desktop users over to their mobile platform it creates a viable business model.

The Zune line of devices and software are assured continued growth for years to come with Microsoft continuing to build upon their new brand in hopes of gaining an edge on the numerous competitors in the market.

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We are purging some moving company domains in our portfolio to focus on current tech related projects. Many of these movers domains were registered in 2003 when we were working in the moving and relocation services industry. These domains may or may not have had a website built on them at one point but we are selling domains alone.

The moving company business is a lucrative market and we have done very well over time in selling moving company domains and movers websites. Our relocation services related to the trucking and freight industry are having some hard times like much of the country due to the economic recession and now is a great time for stable business owners to capitalize on new markets by building their business on top of those that have failed.

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I have done just about everything there is to make money online but the best money maker I have are my premium domains. I bought up a whole slew of domains back in 2003 and I have sold of a limited number of them over time. The sites is sold I made good money on and I considered each sale the best deal I could get at the time.

My m ost recent sale was for more moving company and auto transport domains that I had. I sold 2 keyword .org domains for $6500 when I paid less than $10 per year for the last 5 years on each. I don’t know how much more I could have gotten for them and to be honest I have my doubts that domains will increase in value more than they have already.

I think we’ll see that other domains will start to make an impression and soon enough no one will care what your domain extension is for most websites. The premium dotcoms will go commercial and we’ll see those grow intro powerhouse businesses that explode with the internet as Web 3.0 approaches.

I have been looking to invest some of my domain profits back into my business and I have been buying dropped names and other domain auctions for undervalued domain bargains. I just bought ZuneHacks.com and Schweppes.org for a steal at low $XX each. The ZuneHacks domain is worth more to me just to tie in with my other Zune projects and should make a nice addition to my collection.

I found that one of the major domain auction sites actually has some deals if you know how to search it and its worth the time to search the bargain bins for domains.

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I’m tired of having some domains that have been parked for over 2 years now as I was never able to get them all developed and now I want to go back and build out the rest of my domain portfolio. I need to hire a web savvy person locally to train to manage some of this work load for me because with over 500 domains and 350+ sites to manage I’m overwhelmed already.

I have been partial to building blogs lately and I guess I’ll probably keep doing the same thing with lots of new blogs for my keyword targeted domains. I’ll need some content writers to spin up some new articles for these blogs because I can’t write much more than I am already. I think I’m burned out and I have found many of my articles are starting to sound the same.

Anyone want to write a few thousand articles for me?

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I own and manage a portfolio of over 500 domains many of which I have owned since 2002 or before. I bought my first domain in 1999 and over those years I have lost, traded or sold quite a few. If someone asked me what my business was I would say I am a domain investor first and site developer second. I began building websites just to pay for the domains I wanted to buy.

At one point in 2003 I discovered lots of traffic in domains with trademarks. I bought some domains like uhaulrental.com and rydermovingtrucks.com and built some websites on them. I scored big on the traffic but lost it all when the domains were taken from me by the trademark owners. I was wrong and I never even bothered to answer the complaint because I knew I was wrong.

Since then I no longer purchase domains with obvious trademarks in them but that has not stopped me from running into people that claim I am infringing on their trademarks with the use of my domains. In the 5 cases I can think of specifically each and every time someone cried to me about using their trademark in my domain I politely reminded them that having a trademark on a word doesn’t mean they own the word. I still have the rights to use any word I wish in any business class I wish so long as I don’t infringe on their actual trademark claims. You’ll be surprised at how many trademark holders are unaware of just what their trademark is and what it means.

Of these five cases each made the right choice and negotiated a price by which I would transfer the domain to them. The last two cases I dealth with the trademark holders legal team and it made things easier actually. There is now a new case related to a health domain I own and I’m dealing with the owner direct. The trademark holder owns KeywordDomainUSA.com where I own the KeywordDomain.com minus the USA. Why someone would bother to trademark the USA version without at least trying to buy the KeywordDomain alone makes little sense to me but so do most people with stupid trademarks and no idea how or why to enforce them.

I’m trying to get this guy to realize his best move is to make me an offer and that by fighting me all he does is risk losing any chances at the domain and more likely he will cost his company $1500 or more in fees to the WIPO and his lawyers. Any suggestions on how to convince them to just pay up and not fight it?

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I’ve had a few directories online for quite some time now and I have always appreciated the geo specific capabilities of a directory. Recently I was approached to assist in marketing a large scale project and targeting a range of geo based keywords was a goal. IN order to achieve our best success I suggested we build an industry directory using my favorite directory script WSN links.

Since building the directory is so darn easy I actually bought a domain and put the site up as a demo to the client as an example of what I could do with a new site as opposed to trying to reinvent an old one. The idea proved so popular they bought the domain and the site and I am now responsible for promoting it and securing even better traffic than we have already seen.

Thats right the site was online for less than 2 weeks and never submitted in any location but it has already begun to naturally secure traffic on the keyword combinations I built into the directory categories. In just a few short weeks the site was already bringing in a few clicks each day for combinations such as “nj keyword” “kansas city keyword” “keywords in miami” and so forth. The primary corporate site is based in Georgia but the company provides an internationally viable service. Building a directory on the corporate domain was not the right idea for liability reasons and by having the new site driving traffic to the corporate site we actually now end up with more than one chance in the top ten.

If you’re trying to target geo specific keyword combinations consider a niche directory and the right categories for your next project.

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I have always found it funny how many people have domains with no content and what I find even funnier are the number of domainers willing to share their domain revenues with registrars and parked pages programs. I see most of the traffic from a parked domain as coming from the type in value of the domain primarily and the idea of buying a domain and parking someones affiliate page on it so I can split the revenues on it just seems stupid on my opinion. I’m not a professional web designer but I can manage to slap a website up on any domain and push traffic to a custom tailored program.

Ihad about 50 domains that I recently purchased and had yet to build. They have been sitting for a few months and I was not looking to spend any money or much time in building them at all. I needed an idea and it came to me while looking over the collection of domains. I realized that many of them were products or ecommerce related so I thought about some simple shops to build. Full blown ecommerce sites are pretty easy to get up but loading quality content into them and delaying with customers this time of year had me rethink things. I knew I wanted to put something up fast so I jumped on Amazon and configured a bunch of Astore campaigns for the domains. I was able to build a store in just a minute or two for each domain.

I built a simple PHP page with an iframe including the Amazon storefront. I also added a couple of related rss feeds for some fresh updating content from some of my own wordpress blogs so I syndicated some of my content on parked domains and I’m using my own affiliate programs which give me 100% of my own revenue and no additional work to do but link build or add content.

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