Macrons for domains
Macrons will be available in New Zealand internet domain names for the first time from Monday, enabling te reo Maori to be correctly used in domain names, in time for Maori Language Week. Macrons are vowels with dashes over the…
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MyDomain Offers .CO Domains in Landrush Phase for Limited Time
New .CO domain is now available for priority registration until July 16, 2010
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Now that you have an excellent expired domain in your kitty, what do you wish to do with that domain? Do you want to sell that domain at a mouth-watering price or do you wish to retain it with you to flip and make money through an affiliate link, click-through program? Affiliate programs are possibly the most lucrative and profitable way of making expired domain gains. Though affiliate program is fairly common method of earning money online, you can still use it to make meaningful money from your pack of expired domain names.
Here are some simple tricks that you can use to conquer a fiercely competitive affiliate program market:
Most of the affiliate web links invariably contain an affiliate ID in its URL. Some people may not like to click on such URL’s just because they may not like affiliate marketing. Smart and experienced expired domain marketers are known for their wise and intelligent moves while choosing their expired domain names. If you wish to participate in an affiliate program, then you may need to search for the availability of a desired expired domain name that is fit enough to be projected to an affiliate program. It is always a wise move to choose and select the “redirect” and the “mask” option for your domain.
Just take a look at the following domains:
www.excellentbargain.com/affiliateprg/112324/affID?=bob
www.greatportal.com/cheapproduct.html
www.greatportal.com
In fact, all the above mentioned URLs are affiliate programs. But, two of the three URLs are masked and invisible to an ordinary internet user. Masking is an intelligent technique that can help you hide your URL’s connection with an affiliate program. This intuitive technique will help you earn decent expired domain income. To mask your expired domain based affiliate program URI, you can mask it by using a redirect script on your expired domain; creating a new file on the domain server, naming it (with cheapproduct.hmtl) and later copying and pasting the script code with the page, and entering the affiliate URL will help your affiliate domain masked in front of the ordinary eye.
Click-through affiliate marketing is a novel idea of earning an online income that is more of residual income in nature. By using the above mentioned technique, you can add more sophistication to your expired domain name as well. More clicks mean better traffic and increased income. However, using an affiliate program means that you are actually flipping your expired domain for better earning potential.
Thus, you may need to create a catchy and attractive web page to enter into an active business partnership with the affiliate program. In fact, you can use your stocks of expired domains to start a series of affiliate program and earn handsome income on an ongoing, residual basis. Domain redirection is a wonderful strategy to lead your prospective customers to your affiliate web site.
Dotster Offering Landrush Phase to Claim .CO Domains Before General Availability
New .CO domain is now available for priority registration until July 16, 2010 (PRWeb Jul 6, 2010) Read the full story at http://www.prweb.com/releases/Dotster/CoLandrush/prweb4221594.htm
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Today, more and more people are beginning to invest in domain names. You might be wondering what makes people do so. The answer is simple: the internet is fast becoming the ‘place to be,’ as more and more people have access to it, and want to claim their very own space. From personal journals to businesses, charities to support groups, people are relying on the internet for practically everything.
People are also starting to secure their own places by getting their own domains. Registering a domain name means getting a dot com, dot net, or dot org of your own, and this has many advantages—foremost of which is its easy remembrance. So it is naturally a good investment for many. If you want to try your hand at domain name investment, here are a few tips that will assure that you get a good domain name worthy of investment:
First, think of the top level domain or TLD. As much as possible, get a dotcom since they are easiest to remember, hence making them the most valuable. The reason for this is that people have always associated dotcoms with the internet, so whatever your name is, chances are, people will put a dotcom at the end of it when they are typing your address. You don’t want to register for a dot net even if the dotcom for your name is no longer available, as people might type in dotcom and end up visiting another site altogether.
What will your name be? If you are just beginning to choose one, make it short. As a general rule, domain names have to be short and catchy so they will be easy to remember. The shorter it is, the more valuable it will be. Chances are though, you will not find an available domain name that is only a few letters, but keep your name to at least two words, and it will still be profitable in the future.
Try to think of a prospective buyer, and gear it towards him or her (or the company). Is your name relevant to today’s times, or is it already popular? If not, will it be, in the next few years? To whom will you market your domain name to? Is it for charity, for booklovers? Is it business-oriented? Thinking of these will help assure you of buyers in the future, if not now.
The reason it’s called an investment is because you have to wait for a while for the prices to go higher and higher. You can try thinking of future trends—figure out what will sell years from now, or if it’s already valuable and you got it, hold on to it and wait for the price to go up. Remember that the internet is continuing to attract more and more people, and years from now, domain names will be so much more in-demand, as more and more people will want to create their own web sites.
