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
 

07/30/2010 05:15 AM Fiction and Freemarket Top Reported Weekly Sales A slow week for domain name sales saw no sales above the $100,000 mark in the week to 11 July according to Domain Name Journal’s list of reported sales. The top sales for the week were freemarket.com and fiction.com who sold for $93,000 (sold through Sedo) and $90,000 (private sale brokered by Moniker) respectively.

07/30/2010 04:15 AM RIM buys BlackPad.com RIM (Research In Motion ) has recently acquired the domain name BlackPad.com .This could only mean that RIM's new BlackBerry Tablet will be called BlackPad .

07/30/2010 03:56 AM Global Internet Security Update Aims to Prevent Cybercrime A critical upgrade to the internet's infrastructure that will help make it more secure has been made in what is described as an historic collaboration between ICANN, the US Department of Commerce and VeriSign. The upgrade is to the domain name system and aims to protect Internet users from certain forms of online fraud. The upgrade will eventually allow Internet users to know with certainty that they have been directed to the website they intended.

07/29/2010 11:34 PM Moniker releases the DOMAINfest New York auction catalog The much anticipated DOMAINfest New York auction catalog has been released .Moniker live domain name auction introduces a great collection of domain names for auction .

07/29/2010 11:33 PM OutdoorFountains.com hits $22,000 in Sedo's Marketplace auction The auction for OutdoorFountains.com is live on Sedo. OutdoorFountains.com received just one bid of $22,000 .

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