The idea was that the domain names are like little plants that I can nurture and grow and milk revenue from like they are .. i dunno .. maple trees or rubber plants or something like that.
Now I am getting offers to buy some of them outright .. like for 1K each !!
Maybe we should modify the farming concept to include the option of selling some of them if and when they are showing "revenue fruit".
The value could be tied to how much it is bringing in .. I'll bet there are reasonably complicated formulas for this.
No reason the domain farm can't be creating new domains and selling older ones at the same time they are being cultivated.
Yeah, that's it. A new source of revenue that can support the ongoing creation of new domains .. while pruning and trimming the herd (thinning?) We can shoot for 1,000 domains as a net moving average.
OK, fine.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
Here is a useful tool for managing your web pages, sites and domains.
You will need specialized tools to keep track of traffic and perform important optimizations on your pages.
Here is one called WebCEO - it has been around for a while and has evolved quite a bit.
I think it will be very useful. It has a free edition that will let you use it and see what it can do for you. I use it myself.
Here is one called WebCEO - it has been around for a while and has evolved quite a bit.
I think it will be very useful. It has a free edition that will let you use it and see what it can do for you. I use it myself.
What if you could get FREE google ads?
I have no idea if this works ... I'm thinking of trying it and see what happens.
I'll let you know what I find out. It costs $67. Seems like a good deal for $87 Million Dollars. I wonder how much a million bazillion dollars would cost?
I'll let you know what I find out. It costs $67. Seems like a good deal for $87 Million Dollars. I wonder how much a million bazillion dollars would cost?
Parking
The first idea to monetize the 500 domain names is parking.
Parking is the forwarding of an otherwise unused domain name to the site of a special organization to generate income
I signed up with: sedo, afternic and whypark.
SEDO:
AFTERNIC:
WHYPARK:
Sendo and afternic are also domain brokers but that is not our business at this time, we are just parking there.
Whypark allows you to add custom material to the landing page that sedo and afternic don't. But it costs 100 a year for parking 100 domains vs nothing for sedo and afternic. It remains to be seen of the cost is worth the extra customization capability.
The rules, templates and user interface for each parking company is wildly different and hard to figure out.
Some approaches (whypark) let you add adsense and other affiliate links to the pages that might generate revenue.
Blogger could be a free way to build your own custom parking page but it is manually intensive process. It would be better if the blogger page could be done automatically (like sedo and afternic)
So far the biggest hassle to parking is “forwarding the domain names” at the ISP (ex. 1and1.com).
You have to decide on html forwarding, frame forwarding or dns setting at your domain name host.
It has to be done one at a time (500 times).
You need a way to keep track of what you have going where.
Parking is not intended to be a big money maker, but each domain is going to take time to set up and this is a way to possibly earn revenue from domains we have not gotten to yet while other domains are worked on.
Parking is the forwarding of an otherwise unused domain name to the site of a special organization to generate income
I signed up with: sedo, afternic and whypark.
SEDO:
AFTERNIC:
WHYPARK:
Sendo and afternic are also domain brokers but that is not our business at this time, we are just parking there.
Whypark allows you to add custom material to the landing page that sedo and afternic don't. But it costs 100 a year for parking 100 domains vs nothing for sedo and afternic. It remains to be seen of the cost is worth the extra customization capability.
The rules, templates and user interface for each parking company is wildly different and hard to figure out.
Some approaches (whypark) let you add adsense and other affiliate links to the pages that might generate revenue.
Blogger could be a free way to build your own custom parking page but it is manually intensive process. It would be better if the blogger page could be done automatically (like sedo and afternic)
So far the biggest hassle to parking is “forwarding the domain names” at the ISP (ex. 1and1.com).
You have to decide on html forwarding, frame forwarding or dns setting at your domain name host.
It has to be done one at a time (500 times).
You need a way to keep track of what you have going where.
Parking is not intended to be a big money maker, but each domain is going to take time to set up and this is a way to possibly earn revenue from domains we have not gotten to yet while other domains are worked on.
Saturday, June 2, 2007
Infrastructure - the domain names
I'm using 1and1.com to buy and hold the domain names.
They have hosting packages that include a number of domain names included in the package price.
(they call it "free domain names" - which in the spirit of today's marketing, corporate and government lying behavior is not exactly, actually free but you know the score ..)
You have to buy a package which will hold all the domain names, you can't buy domain names without one. You can add as many as you want, then forward the names to other destinations we'll talk about later.
Each additional name costs 5.99 a year and they can then be parked, have static pages, php pages or be forwarded via frame forwarding or html forwarding to another url location as desired.
1and1 also allows an adjustment to their dns servers for each name for an alternative method of DN forwarding.
Here they are. Buy a package then buy a bunch of names:
They have hosting packages that include a number of domain names included in the package price.
(they call it "free domain names" - which in the spirit of today's marketing, corporate and government lying behavior is not exactly, actually free but you know the score ..)
You have to buy a package which will hold all the domain names, you can't buy domain names without one. You can add as many as you want, then forward the names to other destinations we'll talk about later.
Each additional name costs 5.99 a year and they can then be parked, have static pages, php pages or be forwarded via frame forwarding or html forwarding to another url location as desired.
1and1 also allows an adjustment to their dns servers for each name for an alternative method of DN forwarding.
Here they are. Buy a package then buy a bunch of names:
Infrastructure - the blog
To describe the journey into 1,000 a day, I've decided to post the daily progress on blogger.
It seems to have many of the features I'm looking in the Blog for including providing modules that allow adsense and possibly other affiliate links.
There is also the possibility of using blogger to host some or many of the 1K DNames ... we'll explore this later.
It seems to have many of the features I'm looking in the Blog for including providing modules that allow adsense and possibly other affiliate links.
There is also the possibility of using blogger to host some or many of the 1K DNames ... we'll explore this later.
Thursday, May 31, 2007
Why do a blog on Domain Name Farming?
I want to share the experience and thinking as I go …
I was thinking I could make an interesting business by selecting 1000 domain names and developing a method of monetizing them to generate at least $1.00 a day each.
That would suggest they could generate $1K a day ..
I think of domain names as little vegetables that have to be cultivated, hence the farmer metaphore.
Domain Name Farming
My journal into the business of monetizing Domain Names. The objective is to earn $1,000 a day from 1,000 domain names. This blog will record the journey.
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