Today is all about domaining off the cuff.
We cover the principals of domaining and the cold hard fact that you need to be in this game for the long haul.
No overnight success here, but HideTheSausage.com did sell for $350
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Mike Mann and the cycles of success
Domenic has been involved in many online business ventures over the years and was (and now is again) the owner of www.MP3.com.au and has a very interesting story based around that domain which he talks about in the podcast.
It was refreshing to speak with someone in the Australian business community that has such a strong understanding of the value of generic keyword domain names and is do great things with them.
I hope you enjoy the podcast.
I have been using this app for a few weeks now and love it, it just makes my life that much easier due to the speed and simplicity of how it checks for sales history.
This is a free tool so go to iTunes or the DomainSalesApp.com website and give it a try, I don’t think you will be disappointed.
Ed posses the question “Will / How mobiles & smart phones effect domain names & websites usage & values over time.”
Danny is trying to figure out what the question actually means, but they both get there in the end.
Maybe the question you should be asking is “How can I add app trading to my domaining business?”
This episode is really all about knowing your market and how dot com might not be the king in every realm.
Yes, Danny has been watching ‘game of thrones’
The following is a guest post by Mike Cohen of WannaDevelop.com.
When Frank Schilling quietly soft-launched InternetTraffic.com last year and made the service available to a few select fellow domainers and professional type-in traffic operators, not too many could predict that the move would forever change the domain parking industry. So to get a better idea of what’s going on and more importantly what is still to come in the near future we reached out for a quick update from the founder of the popular domain monetization platform as we near the one year anniversary.
Below are some interesting insights and data which we were provided with:
Frank Schilling went on to explain in detail about what happens behind the scenes of his operation…
“The most important thing to take-away is that all the changes… Everything we do internally, is designed to maximize the revenue on our owned and operated portfolio of domain names… We are trying to swing for the fences and maximize revenues in that department (on name-sales and on traffic sales) so we can make more money of our own names… If those things we do work, then we roll out the changes to our customers on the InternetTraffic / DomainNameSales platforms.
We work a Costco model: Very low margins… Big volume! Again, our core focus and time is really spent on our own stuff and then we marginally mark up services on our clients who get a free ride on our learning’s. We don’t play favorites or game payouts or shave tops or repackage revenues… It’s surprisingly untouched and ungamed. The brokerage services and sales-site we’ve developed is free but delivers significant revenue opportunity.”
Frank Schilling tells us that they’ve barely scratched the surface so far and that much more is still to come. Although almost a year old, the domain monetization service still remains very exclusive and not easy to get into for the average domainer.
“We hate to be clubby and would love to include all domainers that want to participate but not all domain names are created equal and its impossible to create a healthy market with all operators. There are administrative reasons, there are practical and competitive reasons.. But it’s not possible for us to work with everyone at this point.
The changes we’re roiling out will allow our clients to work less hard, to field more quality sales inquiries, to reply faster and to close sales and facilitate transfers quicker and more easily… With less charges than they are presently paying. It’s really remarkable stuff that the team is building. Again this is all for me, but the partners will get it shortly after we’re sure it makes more money and lives up to its high ideals.
DomainNameSales.com will be providing much much more revenue in the years ahead than CPC parking. Domain sales are maturing and we have designed a platform that can sell more names at higher dollars than other platforms can. Anyone can sell $2k names… Very few can sell $10k+ domains in volume. We want to chase that market and are one of the only platforms that do volume there. It is our intention to offer this machine to our partners, for free. We have some very big (revolutionary iPad / iPhone like) changes coming to this platform which will result in the ability to close more sales, faster.”
Frank Schilling wrapped things up with the following bold statement… “There will be a lot of shock and awe this year. But in the end if you own quality names with traffic, it’s all good. Brandables and punchy generics with very-low or little traffic are all good too ;)”.
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It really is a no brainer
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Lots of news too…
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Today is all about looking for opportunity, everywhere and we mean everywhere!
Yes, even the yellow pages!
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