How Websites Make Money – 8 Common Ways
Blogs, Vlogs, Instagram, Advertising. These days, there are many more ways to make money online than simply flogging goods for cash. In fact, there are a whole host of ways people monetize their websites, from advertising to donations. If you are looking to buy or start an online business, it is important to get to […]
$173,035.90 RPM
$173,035.90 RPM – meaning $173K for 1000 visitors, how would you like that? 😮 1 visitor and 173.04 USD , probably the highest “per click” you’ll see with any parking program. This interesting case was recently reported in dnforum by a fellow domainer. Apperantly Domain Sponsor pay also for CPA – cost per action – […]
Possible First Reported $xxx,xxx idn Sale
According to this thread on dnf and this one in idnforums there might have been a $xxx,xxx sale for an idn domain. The domain was not publicly disclosed, however it is a Russian term. Alexa is 0, so there is probably not much traffic. Other posts indicate that there were other previous $xxx,xxx sales and […]
My Domaining Strategy + A little Test
How do I make money domaining? Well by most part it comes to: know the market well buy low sell high Domaining is a strange market. There are the end user prices and the market/reseller prices for any domain – both can vary a lot and there is a lot of money to be made […]
Civa.com For Sale – Top CVCV.com domain With Revenue, from 1996
Update: domain was sold Civa.com GODADDY.COM Expiration Date: 2009-02-20 Creation Date: 1996-02-19 Made 4.53 € = $7.04 in 32 days on sedo. Average 34 visitors per day. Screenshot here Rather high ctr, but very low clicks, so with some optimization and maybe at another parking service it can do much more. Over 1,5 Million results […]
Domain Magnate reports: $50K in July Revenues
Despite the recession in US economy and a certain amount of uncertainty in the domaining market July 08 have been pretty good for me. I had around $50k in sales, with over 2/3 of it being profit. While most sales were private and the buyers preferred to keep them confidential, couple of the top sales […]
NY Times: How to Make $170K Flipping Sites
NyTimes has an interesting story on a guy who flipped a site for an awesome $173K, after buying it for $1800 and doing some changes. According to compete.com traffic estimates the site bird-cage.com only has 5-6k monthly visitors from US, so it’s strange that just 200 visits per day can provide such nice income. Besides […]
Adsense Pays Well on GEO
Since I’ve started developing my US city domains I’ve been positively surprised by the adsense clicks. In general my average adsense clicks are between $0.20-0.30 through out my sites, but the US city names had many clicks in the $0.5-$1 range. The traffic is as targeted as you can get and it’s easy to understand […]
TRAFFIC will have 5 Auction Providers
Nice to see the industry leaders working together, TRAFFIC in NY will have domains from all the major players: Moniker Aftermarket.com / DomainTools Rick Latona Bido.com Sedo
My Development Projects
I’m finally getting more into developing my domains and at first I’m planning to build a few small adsense sites on the city names and generics. Here is one I did this week BethelPark.com – Bethel Park is a city of 33.5k people in Pennsylvania. This one is a small site with 10 content pages. […]