Monetizing your domain name portfolio
 

While the ultimate goal for a domain name investor is likely to be a high-ticket sale or lucrative leasing agreement, the downside is that domains cost real money to maintain. Each additional domain in an investor's portfolio adds $10-12 to the total maintenance bill due each year.

At face value, a $10 annual fee is hardly going to trouble a serious investor - but for a domain portfolio consisting of several hundred domains, the total fixed costs balloon to mid-$4 figures a year.

This hefty fee creates a significant "renewal hole" that has to be bridged for an investor to even maintain parity, let alone make any kind of profit from their domain portfolio. For example, the portfolio of a domain investor with 250 domains must generate $2,500 a year (assuming renewals at $10 each) every year just to pay the renewal fee for all those domains. This is beginning to sound like the Red Queen in Alice in Wonderland... you have to run as fast as you can just to keep up!

It therefore pays to squeeze every drop of revenue out of a domain portfolio, even while hanging on and waiting for that big sale.

There are 2 main ways to derive an income from a portfolio of domain names, assuming that they get at least a minimum of traffic. This traffic might be in the form of typeins - people typing www.DOMAIN.com into their browsers to see what's there - or from old links, in the case of domains that used to be websites before they expired.

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Domaining and Domainers
Residual Income Through Domain Parkings
 

Domaining is a fascinating business and investment vehicle because once the initial investment is made, it is a business that requires minimal attention. This makes it one of the best models of a residual income business on the web. However, this is not to say that domaining is easy. Working as a domainer simply means that you have to invest all your attention, effort and money up front, while researching what domains to buy.

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Main News from DomainNews.com
 

03/11/2010 12:37 AM IPv6 Taskforce Trust formed in New Zealand The New Zealand IPv6 Taskforce has been registered as a Trust and charitable entity says the latest edition of The Browser, the monthly newsletter from InternetNZ, who manages .NZ as part of their duties.

03/11/2010 12:26 AM Targeted Traffic is looking for Test Track submissions for their upcoming show in Milan [news release] Traffic Milan is looking for Test Track submissions for their first 2010 European show, which will be held on April 27th-29th 2010 in Milan, Italy. Test Track is one of Targeted Traffic’s biggest and most anticipated events at the conference.

03/10/2010 11:59 PM AAA gets hands on AAAVisa.com American Automobile Association,also known as AAA,has recently been awarded the domain name AAAVisa.com.

03/10/2010 11:45 PM Sedo to auction premium sports domain names Sedo is holding an auction for a number of premium sports domain names.

03/10/2010 11:44 PM Rod Beckstrom exchanged letters of agreement with the manager for .PG ICANN CEO,Rod Beckstrom exchanged letters of agreement with Berry Amol,manager for .PG.

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