There’s a great post consisting of 28 tips covering how to get started as a domainer up. What they mean is how you get started making money on buying and selling domains, and of course making a bundle while you own them as well. The post provides links, tips on how the not so tech-savvy can get into the game, things to consider and so on. It’s a good read even for people not really interested in getting into this kind of business.
I’ve been touching it actually, the shady side of it at least. I had a brand, very close to an actual keyword, back in pre-dotcom where there were no trademark typo laws backing me up. It all ended fairly well, but it cost me visitors, time and a little bit of money sorting the problems out. Needless to say, when given the opportunity to further define and secure my brand with style and domain names, I took it.
I wish I had read that post before my domain problems, but since it didn’t exist, and I was probably a bit naive, that would have been hard…
Originally posted on March 20, 2007 @ 1:13 pm
There’s a lot of hot air about domain names. Darren Rowse runs his hugely successful digital photography blog off an old church domain : livingroom.org/photography… etc. I can’t even remember the full url. But as it’s right at the top in Google search, it simply doesn’t matter.
I set up a small business site a few days ago on an old domain with PR, vaguely related. It’s already selling text link ads with only four posts on it.