I got this from his old hostglobal forum days. Yes, i know i have been posting like a mofo in here and hopefully this helps.
This is how Kevin ham approached domaining from the old days of 2002 and made his way up to the hitfarm days today.
Most of you who follow DNSindex.com know that we have provided expired domain lists in the past and occasionally when NSI unloads a lot of domains.
Since the boom of domains, there have been many "copycat" expired domain lists. The value of this? I guess if you are able to register one or two good domains, it may be worth a few dollars, but for the most part, it takes a lot of time going through these lists week after week and you are competing with hundreds of others. It is essential that you search and find a good service for this.
As you might know, NSI is now selling some domains that are due to drop on Great Domains for $70. That might be a better way to go. Furthermore, you can use the Whois.net deleted domain database as well for some expired and now available domains. A useful resource. Some people sell this information for $15 believe it or not. It all depends on what you want to do with the domain ... resell, develop, or use it for email, ftp or some other purpose.
The reseller market is in a slump and unless you have a good domain or one that is in demand, three letter dot coms, it will be very hard to sell your domains. I often get requests to help sell domains which I see have no resale value and would not even register for $10-$15 if it were available.
Be realistic when it comes to domains because you can spend a fortune and be left with a lot of worthless domains and when it comes time to renew them, what will happen?
Whenever you register a domain, ask yourselves these questions :
Will I develop, resell, or use for personal purposes?
Would I renew this domain if the domain makes nothing and gets no traffic at renewal time?
Is it a dot com?
Is it brandable and does the name make sense?
People talk about domains getting traffic without advertising. Yes these are valuable but a domain that is branded and also has this inherent traffic is much more valuable.
For example, how much would you pay for the domain hostglobal.com? $100, $200?
Now if it was developed and started making $1,000, $5,000 etc per month, how much would you pay for the domain and the company? If it was getting 90,000 visitors a month and was generating a good income with little effort, then what would you pay?
The domain name is the first step to an online presence and a very important one but branding and developing it increases the value of that domain many more times.
Now take the domain Business.com - The Business Search Engine® and Business Directory for Business Information. Sold for $7.5 million. If that company was making another $1 million on top of that annually, how much would that company be worth or just the domain alone?
Now fast forward two years to 2003 when the Internet traffic increases 100 fold.
Just wanted to give you some perspective as the forum was getting these ads for expired lists.
Kevin Ham
Enough said.
:rasta:
This is how Kevin ham approached domaining from the old days of 2002 and made his way up to the hitfarm days today.
Most of you who follow DNSindex.com know that we have provided expired domain lists in the past and occasionally when NSI unloads a lot of domains.
Since the boom of domains, there have been many "copycat" expired domain lists. The value of this? I guess if you are able to register one or two good domains, it may be worth a few dollars, but for the most part, it takes a lot of time going through these lists week after week and you are competing with hundreds of others. It is essential that you search and find a good service for this.
As you might know, NSI is now selling some domains that are due to drop on Great Domains for $70. That might be a better way to go. Furthermore, you can use the Whois.net deleted domain database as well for some expired and now available domains. A useful resource. Some people sell this information for $15 believe it or not. It all depends on what you want to do with the domain ... resell, develop, or use it for email, ftp or some other purpose.
The reseller market is in a slump and unless you have a good domain or one that is in demand, three letter dot coms, it will be very hard to sell your domains. I often get requests to help sell domains which I see have no resale value and would not even register for $10-$15 if it were available.
Be realistic when it comes to domains because you can spend a fortune and be left with a lot of worthless domains and when it comes time to renew them, what will happen?
Whenever you register a domain, ask yourselves these questions :
Will I develop, resell, or use for personal purposes?
Would I renew this domain if the domain makes nothing and gets no traffic at renewal time?
Is it a dot com?
Is it brandable and does the name make sense?
People talk about domains getting traffic without advertising. Yes these are valuable but a domain that is branded and also has this inherent traffic is much more valuable.
For example, how much would you pay for the domain hostglobal.com? $100, $200?
Now if it was developed and started making $1,000, $5,000 etc per month, how much would you pay for the domain and the company? If it was getting 90,000 visitors a month and was generating a good income with little effort, then what would you pay?
The domain name is the first step to an online presence and a very important one but branding and developing it increases the value of that domain many more times.
Now take the domain Business.com - The Business Search Engine® and Business Directory for Business Information. Sold for $7.5 million. If that company was making another $1 million on top of that annually, how much would that company be worth or just the domain alone?
Now fast forward two years to 2003 when the Internet traffic increases 100 fold.
Just wanted to give you some perspective as the forum was getting these ads for expired lists.
Kevin Ham
Enough said.
:rasta: