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Buying and Selling Domain Names for Profit
By Craig Rowe

Buying and selling domain names for profit is something that many people are figuring out can be done and can even be quite fun when approached in the right way. If you spend much time on the Internet you’ll see that there are many websites out there that are just collecting dust when they could be making huge profits. If you see websites like this, you can actually buy them; change them up with the help of the www.whypark.com website and make quite a bit of money on them though you don’t have to do a lot of work on them. Then, you can decide to sell this very profitable domain name to someone who is looking for a website that has good rankings and has a decent amount of traffic. When you work with this website you’ll find that you can turn a website around quickly so that you can profit from it, making it simple to sell the domain if you so choose.

You can either buy domain names from others that are not doing anything with them, or you can buy domain names from whypark.com and you can start making money instantly. Even if you don’t have the content to put on all of the domains that you buy, you can make money. The way that this works is that the WhyPark.com website won’t just put up an under construction notice on your website, instead, they will help you put content on the page. Not only will the content draw the attention of those that are looking for specific information, the page will draw the attention of the search engines, which is priceless when it comes to making money with the website. This isn’t a hit or miss program, the content that www.whyPark.com puts on each website is unique and is content rich so that both people and search engines will find the website highly interesting. This means that if you pair the content with Google AdSense programs you can make a lot of money.

The WhyPark.com program also provides website statistics about click through rates, visitors, and the like. This information can be invaluable when you are trying to increase profits, or when you want to sell the domain. Many people out there are looking for websites that are already profiting and have a following. With good statistics, your domain will be simple to sell, and you can sell it for much more than you bought it for, no doubt. WhyPark.com doesn’t just provide the content rich content, though. They also provide information on how to market your site to drive even more traffic to your site to increase traffic as well as profits.

When you work with WhyPark.com it is simple to buy and sell domains for a profit. This program doesn’t have a huge overhead or even monthly charges, there is simply a one-time fee that will allow you to host up to 100 domains! One hundred domains with keyword rich content can mean a lot of money for you, and for those that want to buy from you!

Put your unused domain names to work by building traffic and revenue at http://www.whypark.com.

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A Low Maintenance Site Anyone Can Do

Whether you’re in between large development projects or just needing a break, here is an idea for a small niche site that anyone can make. A geographical site related to the area in which you live just may provide you with a bit of traffic, some added income, and a diversion from work or other projects.

Whether you live in a densely populated metropolitan city or a small rural town, people most likely do search for information on your area. People who are moving to the area like to find out what it is like there. People who have moved away from the area like to catch up on what changes have taken place since they left. People may be planning a business trip or vacation to your area and want to get some particular information about it. Plus, sometimes people just like to learn about other areas in the world and what they’re like.

Setting up the site can be as much work as you make it. You could do an extensive gallery with hundreds of pictures. You could make an ongoing blog with weekly updates about the happenings in your area. You could also just make it ten or twelve pictures of the area along with a guide of things to do and stuff that shouldn’t be missed out on. Make it unique by including a “little known things to do” section, this would include local knowledge that you can provide but other large travel sites cannot.

Monetizing such a site is also relatively easy, you can include Adsense ads as they will key on the geographic name of the area you are promoting, or you can also sell local advertising.

One recommendation if you are in a large city, you may not want to make the site about the entire city you’re from. You may instead have more success making it about a particular section of your city. Do a site on the old downtown section of town, the waterfront district, or a specific suburb.

Once the initial work is done your site can be set on remote control and gain its visitors naturally through very minor promotion. The site can stay online for years with very little maintenance and either bring an added income, or provide you with a necessary distraction.

The ease and low maintenance of a niche geographic website makes it a almost pleasurable project to undertake.

Your Domain Name is More Important Than You Think
By Mike Dillard

Owning your own domain name is the fastest, easiest, and cheapest way to increase the professionalism of you and your business, virtually over-night. Understand that in network marketing, or any business for that matter, you are selling yourself.

In actuality, people are much more concerned with YOU, than they are about your network marketing business opportunity. I do not care if you have the greatest business in the world.

If you don’t successfully position yourself as a leader in the eyes of your prospects, you will go no where.

With this in mind, understand that you are constantly being judged, sized up, measured, and compared to other potential up-line partners. People want to work with winners. They are attracted to leaders.

It is a survival instinct that is a part of our very DNA, and you cannot escape it. But you can also use this to your advantage! So what does all of this have to do with registering a little domain name?

Well it is simple. It’s all about professionalism. If you do not even know how to register a simple domain name, how can you possibly expect other people follow you to financial freedom?

But there is much more to it than that. Having your own domain name is crucial for self-branding, tracking your advertising results, and ensuring that your prospects successfully make it to your site instead of someone else’s, but after writing this guide, I realized there is much to this process than meets the eye.

Personally, I will spend hours and even days selecting the perfect domain name that meets all 5 of my exclusive criteria which allows me to find a domain that protects my brand from competition, pulls in maximum traffic from advertising, and gets listed in the top search engine results. (Just to name a few of the considerations I put into play).

Ok, enough of my soap-box chit-chat. I am glad you are here because we are going to completely change the image of your business in about 30 minutes, so let us get started!

95% of network marketers who actually register a domain name put very little thought into the actual domain selection process. Not me.

I will spend hours or even days selecting the right domain name because I am always thinking five steps ahead of the average business owner, and that is what I am going to teach you how to do as well.

Three reasons you need to own at least one domain name: First is the increased professionalism it gives to you. Having your own domain names does not necessarily put points in your professionalism column because it is an expected practice today.

But not having one, will definitely hurt your image.

Again, because having one is an expected practice today. Let’s say that you were one of my cold market prospects and you did not know anything about me at all. I have your contact information, so I decide to send you a quick introductory email from my address which is: bigboymike429787@aol. (Not a real email address).

What would your first impression be? Do I sound like a professional business owner? A successful CEO? A leader?

Or do you picture some big college dropout making $8.00 delivering pizzas? The truth is irrelevant. I am being judged by that email address the instant it arrives in someone’s inbox.

On the other hand, how would your perception change if my email address had my company name in it?

Now you are left with two options. The impression you get is going to be either positive due to the professional nature of the name, or neutral because the actual domain names themselves are neutral in meaning.

You can avoid negative stigmatisms because they are generic domains. The second advantage to having your own domain name is that you can now have a personal email address that is not dependant upon a 3rd part provider like AOL, Yahoo, Hotmail, Excite, or GMail.

If you have your own domain name, you can choose any address you would like, and the e-mail address will include your domain name.

Finally, the third advantage to owning a domain name is that you can use what is called a “redirect.” In network marketing, we often use replicated website addresses or affiliate links in our businesses.

These are usually fairly long web addresses that are difficult to give out over the phone, or place in advertising pieces.

Most of the time your domain name will include numbers, phrases, and often your name. The bottom line is that it does not look professional. You are losing business just because of the web link itself.

Let me count the ways this will cost you. 1: Anytime you give someone your domain name or link with additional information in it like your name or ID number, people will automatically erase the extra part and go straight to the primary domain name just out of curiosity. It happens all of the time.

The bottom line is that you stand to lose out on that business. 2: You cannot put a website address like that in an advertisement of any kind. It means DEATH to your results.

Why? People are not going to remember the number at the end of your web address. Not only will people do exactly what I stated in #1 and leave your ID number
off so they can go to the primary site, but anyone who actually spends money on an advertisement, and does not even bother to set up a real domain name with a redirect obviously does not have a clue as to what they are doing.

Which means you will only attract leads who are even less savvy and less professional than the person who placed it. When I see an ad with a full link like that only one word comes to mind: “amateur.” Which means I would not even bother responding to that ad for that reason alone.

3: You are just asking for trouble if you try and give out a long link like these to a prospect over the phone. Chances are they are going to spell it wrong or leave a piece out.

Try giving out a link like this on a conference call and you are going to lose professionalism along with all of the listeners who could not write it down correctly no matter how many times you were asked to repeat it.

URL Redirect. So like I said, the third advantage to owning your own domain name is that you can use what is called a “URL redirect”, or “domain forwarding.”

This simply means that you can instruct the company that is hosting your domain name to “redirect” all traffic coming to your domain (A), to site (B). This is like telling the post office to forward all of your mail to a new address because you just moved to a new home.

Instead of advertising your long link with your name, numbers and codes etc., you would instruct your hosting company to take all traffic coming to your catchy domain name (that you came up with) and have them sent to your long affiliate domain. That way you can market your catchy domain name.

Your “redirect” domain name that you come up with should have something to do with what it is you are selling. It should be easy to spell, say, write down, and remember.

If you don’t have your own “redirect” domain name for your on-line business, you losing a lot of good customers and prospects to smarter competition.

From waiting tables to millionaire at 29, Mike Dillard, is a professional marketer who has taught over 100,000 entrepreneurs from around the world how to tap into the power of his attraction marketing techniques. Sign up for his free on-line boot camp at: BuildYourOwnMLM.com

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Claiming An Infringement On Your Domain Name
By Richard Chapo

A domain name is your address on the web, which can make it vitally important. So, what do you do when someone tries to move onto your yard?

If you work on the web at all, you know that domain names can be very similar. This raises the question of when one domain crosses the line and infringes on another. The issue is often brought up with larger commercial sites when others register similar domains.

A claim for domain name infringement is governed by the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy issued by ICANN. As a domain owner, you might be surprised to learn you have consented to this. It occurred when you purchased your domain, although you probably didn’t read the terms and conditions associated with your purchase.

To prove your domain is being infringed upon, you have to prove certain things. They are as follows:

1. You must prove the domain name in dispute is identical or confusingly similar to a trade or service mark you have registered. In simple terms, this means you must show the other guy is using a domain that most people would associated with your business. If I have a trademark for ZipIt and someone is using a NET suffix of this, it is confusing for the public.

2. You must also prove the owner of the other domain has no rights or legitimate interests in the domain.

3. Finally, you must prove domain name is registered by the other party and being used in bad faith. Indications of bad faith include the other party tried to sell it to you or one of your competitors for more than they paid for it, the other party has done this repeatedly to other companies, the other party registered the domain in an attempt to intentionally steal your clients.

If you decide to pursue an infringement action, it is always handled as a binding arbitration. This essentially means the dispute is heard by a panel of arbitrators and their decision is binding upon you and the other party. The advantage of this is it tends to be less expensive than going to court, but your damages are limited to an act instead of money. Specifically, the panel can only issue instructions for the offending domain to be canceled, modified or left alone. The panel cannot award any monetary damages.

At the end of the day, using the infringement arbitration provisions of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy provided by ICANN is a good choice if you just want to terminate a domain you feel is infringing upon yours. The key to the dispute, however, is the fact you need to have a trademark or service mark first in most cases.

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The Frustration of Broken Links

Time for me to vent a little.

Is there anything more frustrating than exploring a website and coming across repetitive broken links? I know it will happen from time to time and I guess that’s alright but its those times where you’re really getting into the subject at hand, you’re seeking more information, and –blam—end of story.

I guess the really annoying thing is that it is not that hard to have links that work, especially if the links that are broken are internal links to other areas of your website. Broken external links are a different ballgame, the webmaster may not have 100% control of the link and hasn’t found that it is broke yet. That’s another reason to explore your own site sometime and see if anything looks wrong.

Well, thanks for letting me bend your ear a bit.

Domain Name Trademarks
By Richard Chapo

As your Internet business grows, the value of your domain name
increases. The issue of a domain name trademark should move to
the top of your list. You need to guard against unscrupulous
competitors that may try to incorporate your domain name in
their meta tags to obtain search engine rankings under your
name. If you have a domain name trademark, you can go after
these individuals and compel the search engines to remove
their listings.

What Is A Trademark?

A trademark is a distinctive item that is used to identify a
logo, product, device, package or service. The trademark
identifies the item as being provided by a particular firm. To
protect these items you can obtain a mark from the patent and
trademark office that prohibits others from trying to gain
economic advantage from your mark.

Domain Name

The patent and trademark office views domain names in a unique
way. The office views the “http://www” element as a part of
the file transfer process, not your domain name. The “.com”,
“.net”, etc., designations are considered top-level domain
identifiers and are also disregarded for the purpose of a
domain name trademark. For example, our domain name is
http://www.sandiegobusinesslawfirm.com. If we submitted the
domain name for registration, only the
“sandiegobusinesslawfirm” portion would be considered for a
mark.

Locators Cannot Be Registered

A domain name is a locator for file pages. When you type in
your domain name, a server locates and displays files. If a
domain is used solely for this purpose, it will not be granted
a mark. Instead, the domain name must be incorporated into the
site. For instance, Amazon is recognized as an online
bookstore and the site actually has the word “Amazon” on every
page. Since “Amazon.com” is more than a locator, Amazon can
apply for and receive a trademark. If Amazon used the domain
name, bookstore.com, the company would be able to register
“Amazon”, but not “bookstore.”

Generic and Descriptive Terms

Domain names that are generic or descriptive in nature cannot
be registered because they fail to designate a distinctive
product or service. For example, “sandiegobusinesslawfirm” is
comprised of generic terms and describes who and where we are,
to wit, a San Diego business law firm. This domain name cannot
be trademarked. The same result would occur with bank.com,
book.com, advice.com, etc.

You may be thinking, “What about ‘Coke?’ “Coke” is a
trademarked term because it is a distinctive term for a soft
drink product. It just so happens that a brilliant marketing
plan has convinced most people to refer to soft drinks as
“cokes”, even if they actually prefer another brand!

Trademarks are an important factor in protecting your Internet
business. Armed with a trademark, you can keep competitors
from pulling traffic off the search engines when people search
for your site.

Richard Chapo is with http://www.sandiegobusinesslawfirm.com -
a law firm providing legal advice to California businesses.
This article is for general education purposes and does not
address every facet of the subject matter. Nothing in this
article creates an attorney-client relationship.

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Ways To Make Domain Name Investing Pay Off
By Jeff Alderson

The practice of domain name investing is becoming a popular choice for those who want to make money on the Internet. This investment practice is fairly easy to get involved with and can pay off very well for a small investment. It is important to understand how it works to be able to open the door for big returns.

Getting into domaining, as it is called, requires nothing more than buying domain names and parking them via parking services. The other option is selling these domains to other investors. The practice does take a little effort to master, but it can be well worth the effort. Financial returns from domaining come in one of two ways - resale value or ad revenue.

Starting out in domaining involves buying website names and having them registered and parked or reselling them to other investors. How much of a return an investor will make will depend on the traffic a particular domain name pulls in or how sought after the name tends to be by others.

There are a few methods to use for figuring out what types of domain names to register and buy. The most common are “type-ins” or “typos.” Typos are names that are similar to existing websites or brand name products. Typo sites receive traffic due to accidental “typos” people make in trying to reach other sites. This type of buying can get a little tricky, especially when trademarked names are being used though. Some domainers don’t feel the typo route is the best way to go for legality issues. Another route to take is to buy actual “type-ins.” These are domain names that are commonly used in web searches. For example, “organicdogfood” or other actual words that might be used in searches. This is considered by many to be more legitimate. Another option is buying formerly used domain names that have traffic or backlinks and simply parking them or reselling them.

The options for buying and selling domain names are many. Some investors choose to get their names in bulk from sites like Moniker.com and then research them at a later time to determine their money-making potential. Other buyers go to domaining forums like DNForum.com or DomainState.com These forums are designed for the buying and selling of domain names. On these sites, domains are traded and sold in much the same manner as real estate is in the “real world.” These sites do present some challenges though; it is up to buyers to figure out if a sale is legitimate. Not all deals work out. Some of these forums, however, do offer a ranking system for buyers and sellers to help with checking the integrity of a sale. Some buyers and sellers simply opt to use escrowing services to handle their deals to ensure they go through smoothly.

Arriving at the real value of a domain name can be the hardest part of this venture. The price and value tends to hinge on what a buyer believes a name is worth. Buyers can, however, request revenue and traffic reports in some cases to help them figure a fair price.

After domains have been secured, there are ways to really make them pay off financially with little effort involves. Parking service sites are the most common way to make this happen. Services like these let owners “park” their pages with little content on them. This means the pages will appear in web searches, but they won’t contain a lot of content. Although content doesn’t go with this deal, these pages can have text ads on them. This means the owner of the domain name will reap the advertising revenue if the sites are viewed and used. The other common option for making money is to sell the domains to those who want to develop or park them.

Parking services like Sedo and Parked.com have their own rules domainers must follow. Although these services do allow text ads on parked pages, they tend to frown on backlink generation. They expect that traffic that comes in will be of natural, organic means. Simply put, they want accidental hits, normal Internet searches or existing backlinks to drive traffic. If site owners do too much to generate traffic, their pages can be taken down.

Getting into domaining can be one of the easiest ways to make money via the Internet. It requires very little effort. Using this practice to its full potential will take a little time. Although some forms are not considered as legitimate as other, the overall business is one that works quite well for many people.

Jeff Alderson is a software developer and Internet marketer. He is an expert on PPC and SEO tactics. To boost profits, Jeff suggests using a keyword tool when doing any keyword research

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