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A while back I wrote an article about the top three Registrars at that time. Since then, many things have changed. New players, new features and lower pricing to name a few.

Let’s recap what the Registrar does:

1. They hold the master ‘database’ of domain names on the Internet.

2. They allow anyone to reserve a domain name.

3. The registration record holds the basic information about your website. (IP address, email server, etc..)

The biggest names in Registrars right now are:

* Godaddy.com

* Yahoo.com

* Register.com

* NetworkSolutions.com

We’ll take a quick look at each service and compare the features.

Godaddy.com
They are the low-cost leader. For about $10/yr. you can reserve a single domain name. For a few dollars more, you can get private registration or additional domain uses (.info, .tv, .net, etc…). Navigating the site can be a bit challenging since it’s very cluttered. However, they do provide the best value and features for domain management.

Yahoo.com
They have raised their prices over the past two years. 1 year domain registration is now $15/yr. (used to be $10). The user interface is fairly simple to navigate, but you need a Yahoo email to login to the domain manager.

Register.com
Not sure why they charge $34.99/yr. for domain reservations. However, they have a very clean user interface and all the same features as godaddy.

NetworkSolutions.com
They are the original Registrar. It all started with them. However, they have not innovated past their beginnings and must be feeling the pain. Their email servers have constant issues and they are difficult to deal with if you need to call them.

Our recommendation for 2009 is godaddy.com.

If you think that you know all about domain buy and sell structure for making fast and easy money, then do read this.

Domain name business is one of the least known way of making easy money, and that too very quick. You want to be a millionaire, and you can’t wait, that’s the reason you are here. Let me help you out. First and foremost, forget everything you know about domain names business, and start from scratch.

The term given to this business is Domaining. It is business of buying and selling domain names for making money. The reselling of this type is actually comparable to real estate. You invest in the property, seek a potential buyer, and then sell it to him at a large price tag. Thereby making profit. The only difference is that “domain reselling” is much easier and much cheaper as it requires very less investment and normally gives great returns, if used accordingly. Many people even make there living by this. Beleive me, it means lots of money and that too easy.

The domaining often occupies building up of the domain name portfolios, or else accumulation of the domain names, in accordance to various criterias. This domain name portfolios frequently consist of profitable generic dictionary word domain names, or domains whose registrations have lapse but they still retain practical traffic. The more traffic, the more money you earn.

I will move step by step in helping you through the complete process.

1. Domain name

This is the first step in the process, you need to finalize on the domain name you want to invest in. Buying a domain name depends on various factors like:- What is your budget, Which market you are targetting, who is the potential customer. You should answer these questions before buying a domain name. Also some other points to keep in mind are:- The domain name should be short, as it is easier to remember and creates a greater possibility of the traffic to return again. The domain name must be easier to memorize, good for your business. The domain must be brandable, and must cater to the needs of some particular niche. Try and avoid domains which contain hyphens and numbers. Go for a .com extension for your registration.

2. Buy a Domain name Before buying a domain name, check out the traffic the niche receives, more traffic implies that your revenue generation will be more. So make sure you check out the quality of the name and the traffic the domain gets, before making an investment. The keyword here is “research”, and you need to do some of it before making an investment.

Try and look for a cheap domain, as they are the best buys. The cheap domain don’t cost you much, moreover if properly aimed at a niche then they produce good results. Make sure you go for a cheap domain, else you have a hefty bank balance.

Now here is point that you buy a domain name for reselling or you register a new domain name for reselling. If you don’t want to buy an existing domain, then you may try creating a new domain name, it norrmally comes free along with some web hosting packages. Web Hosting implies that you rent some space on a server to host your web site, and they provide you the domain name registration for free, though it may change from vendor to vendor.

3. Domain registration If you plan to create a new domain, then you need to register it, for registration of domain you need to find a registrar, that provides you the name. The second option is that you go for a web hosting domain package, where they provide you the space at some cost, but provides the domain name registration for free. Make sure that you register your domain with a “com” extension as it is higly valued in the market. If you really want to make money then this point counts much.

4. Sell the Domain name Now that you have got a good domain name targeted at a particular niche, you may seek the help of various sites for finding a potential buyer for you. Sites like DMOZ.org is a great source for this. Just prove to your customer that he is getting the best buy and you are the winner. Make cash from your resell and go ahead for a next buy.

The stuff till now was for getting you started, now regarding the strategy part of the business, most domainers try and make a long term investment. They buy and own names, they park on web sites… Oh I forgot to tell you about Website Parking. Website Parking is the way of making money when your domain is sitting idle. I will clarify this, Now that you looked for a cheap domain, if unable to find then you register domain preferably with a “com” extension. Then you buy domain using a seller or via web hosting domain packages. Now that you have got all but not a profitable client, in that case you can park your website. Website Parking implies that the site on which your domain is parked, will use your domain for putting up ads, some people type the name of the thing they required, without knowing that it exists or not. Like if a person needs a plumber, then he may type plumber.com without knowing that the site exists or not. Website Parking makes use of this benefit and earns from the normal domain name traffic that may occur. And if a person clicks on an add then you earn. Isn’t that great, you earn money without doing anything.

Some more points to consider while buying a domin name includes, if you think that some technology is going to take off, then get a domain name that pertains to it. The more relevant the name, the more money you will make. I will close this article with an example, Schwartz sold Men.com for $1.3 million in 2003, and he had bought the domain at $15,000 in 1997. Mind Blowing isn’t it.

Finding a killer domain for your website can be the difference between a highly successful business and a failed on. Depending on the direction you go with your domain, you can make or break your business. A domain that is short, catchy, and memorable can bring you tons of free traffic and help you attract new customers and retain your existing ones.

Registering a killer domain is not rocket science but there are a few small details that you need to pay attention to. Here are a few tips that will help you find the killer domain that you have been searching for.

1. Choose a short domain: don’t you just hate long domains? They are not easy to type and hard to remember. Add hyphens to your domain, and you are going to make it very difficult for folks to remember your domain names. As far as number, you can use numbers but as long as they make sense. iphone20.com makes sense, but myblog373.com does not. Your domain should be easy to spell too. Avoiding hyphens makes it easy to type out domains.

2. Catchy names matter: think about it. Amazon, eBay, Yahoo!, and Google all have catchy domains. Finding a catchy domain is not that easy, but something you should think about if you plan to expand your business and build a real brand.

3. Beware of trademarks: there is always a temptation among folks to start a site about another popular site or service. Let’s say you are planning to start a site about “wordpress.” You should keep in mind that you can’t use the word “wordpress” in your domain name.

4. Only .com matters: this might be an exaggeration, but you should always register a domain in its .com format. You should also register .net, .org, and .us TLDs if you prefer, but having the .com version of your domain is a must.

5. Include top keyword phrase: this is often hard to do, but if you are creating a site about credit cards, you should try to fit your main phrase in your domain name. Keep in mind that you don’t want to have a very long domain name, so don’t go overboard with this.

At the end of the day, you want to choose a domain that represents what your business stands for. It should be “brandable,” short, and easy to remember. You don’t have go overboard and spend months to find the right domain, but you should put enough effort behind it to find a killer domain for the long run.

If you are in the market for a new website, then one of the things you could consider is finding a company that gives out absolutely free domain names. But be forewarned. Some of these places will give you a free domain name, but will get you in the long run with a huge annual price. So, read the fine print before you sign up with someone.

A way most people get domain names is by getting website hosting with someone. Domain names are relatively cheap anyway, so it is nothing for the hosting company to offer a free domain name when you buy their hosting services.

If you do this, just make sure you can take the domain name with you if you leave. I have heard of cases where the hosting company registers the domain name in their name, but basically allows you to “lease” it. This is a very bad deal, and basically of a shady host, and you not reading the fine print.

Another way they will get you is by having a pricey annual fee, but waving it for the first year. I would never pay over $10 per year for a domain name. So, if someone is offering you a domain name absolutely free, then see how long it is free, and how much the annual fees are going to be.

One last thing to consider when getting the domain name is to ensure you get your keywords in the domain. This will definitely help in the search engine optimization. And think about this, too. Because once you choose the domain, there is no going back and changing it. You are stuck with it.

Above all, just please be sure you read all of the information the domain registrar is giving you with regards to the free domain name. It would really be a shame for you to lose the domain, or to get charged a large amount for it.

As you are all likely aware the US economy is in a major slowdown, if not a recession officially? Bank failures, Government bailouts, and talk of another Great depression has caused stocks to plummet, interest rates to fall, and spending to dry up. Being a domainer myself, I have found that this is the perfect time to pick up those valuable domain names at deep discounts. Whether you are looking to shop for 3 letter dot com domains, or generic word domains, the next several months promise to be prime time for buyers. It is a buyers market for the first time in the domain industry since I have been investing. If you have the cash available, you might as well invest it wisely in what seems to the be future of business, domain names.

Rather then allowing your money to sit in the bank making 1-3% annually in interest, while inflation is over 4%, or investing your money in what is currently the most volatile stock market since the mid 1980’s, put your money to work for you by purchasing traffic domains which will earn you daily interest via parking revenue, while also appreciating in value greatly, especially after we come out of this current economic disaster we are in. Here are 2 things to look for while investing in the current domain name market.

#1 Untrademarked typo’s with traffic

Look for domains which are getting type in typo traffic. For example, domains with the word recession spelled recession (with 1 “s”). or anything that’s getting traffic currently. These domains can be picked up dirt cheap compared to the yearly earnings you may be making in a Bank CD.

#2 Three and Four Letter dot com domains

Without a doubt these short domain names are the future. There are only about 17,000 3-letter dot coms in existence, and over 50% of these are developed websites. The great thing about short dot com domains is that as people register the dot orgs, dot nets, and dot whatever other extensions their are of those letters, you will benefit from their traffic. Also note that even 3 and 4 letter dot coms with bad letters such as “z”, “x”, “q” can be goldmines 5 years down the road. China and India will have huge markets for these 3 and 4 letter domains.

In conclusion I would recommend that if you have extra cash sitting around, then jump into the domain marketplace.

Ok you go to thesaurus.com, and search using adjectives, verbs, nouns, with your main keyword in mind. Your about to buy a killer domain and you need to do the research into the niche and find cool words to bind with your keyword.

After you jot down a few dozen ideas, take your efforts over to your domain registrar and search to see which ones are available.
You need a “money making” domain so don’t have the word ‘free” or other restricting words like “downloads” or “recipes” in it.
You buy a domain, it cost you $8.00.

Once the registration goes through, go into your domain hosting and point that sucker’s name servers towards your file hosting.

Create a little webpage with adsense ads on it and then submit your URL to bookmarking sites and write some articles with EzineArticles pointing towards your site. (In other words, make your url profitable.)

If you want to make some quick cash, sell it now. This one should go for $50. Go onto ebay or sitepoint.com and sell the domain. Explain why you are selling it, what they get with it and how the income is generated. The income is the reason why this thing is worth something more than the $8.00

If you want the bigger money, don’t sell it yet. Keep creating links back to your page, post on forums with your link, create a list with an aweber.com account and make an “advertising page” where people will pay you to advertise for a month. (Start up a separate aweber for that.)

Get the income up. Keep an eye out where it is on the search engines and try to get it higher in the search engines. The idea is to get into niches where you can get to the top10 of google, that’s when your adsense account will start making a couple hundred a week and you can sell the domain for 2 years of projected earnings.

Don’t bother with high traffic, high competition niches, unless you buy the domain, and it has to be a one word domain like pizza.com to be worth something.

You can also buy domains that people need for their business. For instance, if you bought pizza.com and then contact a pizza company, they will probably be interested in talking to you, see what I mean?

1. Choose a keyword rich domain name. Such as europemaps.com or exoticcheeses.com to reflect your products or service

2. Buy an existing / expired domain name. Google ranks old domains higher so look for domains that are at least 1 year old. Use Checkpageranking.com to check the domain - including checking for a forged page rank.

3. Choose a TLD (top level domain name) - examples: .com or .net or .org or .info Alternatively, the country specific TLD is also good - so for United Kingdom: .co.uk

4. Check to see if all the TLDs are available for purchase. Use a service such as godaddy.com The extra cost will prevent issues further down the road.

5. Purchase the main Domain name for 10 years - Google ranks higher domains which are purchased for extended periods!

6. Short and memorable is better for return visitors: easier to remember.

7. Choose a domain name ideally with no hyphens - so chateauxproperty.com is better than chateaux-property.com. If there is no suitable alternative, choose a domain name with NO more than one hyphen. It will look spammy and there is evidence that Google is penalising NEW sites with lots of hyphens.

8. Do not choose an existing Brand / Trademarked name - you will not win!

9. You can only use letters, numbers and hyphens. No spaces! We think numbers are spammy - so 1product.com or product1.com are not good choices.

10. Use one registrar for purchasing / parking your domain names. It is much easier when you have to update contact information, re-new domains, etc. Use a trusted provider such as godaddy.com or 123-reg.com. Keep your contact information up to date on the Registrar site especially the contact email address. Who wants to lose a valuable domain because you never received the renewal information?