There's still Gold in "dem dar hills"!

[Biggie]

But what kind of typos should I go for? Swapped letters, missed letters, common misspellings, "www" typos..?

all of those are good examples to check

 

[CyrusL]

Don, you simply didn't like my answer because you have a different opinion. But mine was a factual analysis of the food chain. What you call gold is simply not there. The money goes into the deep pockets of companies like Sedo. End of story.

I disagree. The gold Don is talking about is hand regged traffic domains. How he chose to monetize the names isn't really the point of this thread. If you accept that parked revenue domains have inherent value, then you accept that Don has found his gold, regardless of if you find Sedo's, NameDrive's, or anyone else's revenue sharing percentage fair or not.

 

[ck89102]

Another vote on way to go, Biggedon!

I concur with similar results. My hand-regs are earning me almost $2000 this month. I happen to use Parked & Fabulous.
This should serve to inspire all newbies. Think outside the box & go for it.

God I love this business.

 

[tonyfloyd]

Another vote on way to go, Biggedon!

I concur with similar results. My hand-regs are earning me almost $2000 this month. I happen to use Parked & Fabulous.
This should serve to inspire all newbies. Think outside the box & go for it.

God I love this business.

off of how many hand-regs are u earning $2000?.....10...20...30....40...50+?

tony

 

[Gerry]

I read.

I read news, industry news and trends, just about anything. Not so much looking for regging ops, but for the sake or reading.

Recently, Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks of NC was named the number one beach for 2007. The significance here is this is the first time a beach outside of Florida or Hawaii was named the number one spot. No surprise as my wife have been going there for a little more than 24 years now.

OcracokeIsland.com was regged. OcracokeBeach.com was not, along with a few more common typos.

For the month thus far, we're looking at:

124 views
58.06% CTR
$0.38 per click
$27.43

plus a few cents more for the typos.

This has only been regged for a little less than three months with this month being the lowest totals. I would expect that as summer is winding down it would not get as much traffic.

Just keeping up with things can present opportunities. I have hand regged many specialty medical domain names. These do not get much traffic but I have seen some pay as much as over $9.00 per click. But these also are some of the highest CTR. Usually if someone is looking for a particular product or device, they are going to follow through with the search.

One particular domain that falls in this category, regged since September 06:

452 Views collectively
38 Views per month on the average
113 Clicks collectively
9 Clicks per month on the average
25.00% Click through rate on the average
$4.26 Revenue per click on the average
$40.09 Revenue per month on the average
$481.09 Revenue collectively

The stats shown above are somewhat deceiving as it was regged late September and had very little stats to show for September and October. But those stats are still factored in. If all the stats for September were zero, they are still part of the average.

Usually all you have to do is stick to what you do know or the industry you are in.

 

[Theo]

I disagree. The gold Don is talking about is hand regged traffic domains. How he chose to monetize the names isn't really the point of this thread. If you accept that parked revenue domains have inherent value, then you accept that Don has found his gold, regardless of if you find Sedo's, NameDrive's, or anyone else's revenue sharing percentage fair or not.

Knowing how dear Don is pro-Sedo in order to push Sedo-pro via his affiliate id, makes me say that you've been fooled one too many times.

 

[Johnn]

Back to the topic and no personal attack please -

No one is right or wrong - personal opinion is always personal opinion.

John

 

[Biggie]

I agree "Doc Com"

as they say reading is fundamental

I was trying to pull up stats from 2006 at DS but couldn't

I regged a name last year in April, it was a typo of a new service, that was featured in a article in the business section of local newspaper. The name was making $700 > $800 a month from parking before I sold it for $XX,XXX.00


yes, Reading = another clue!

 

[ck89102]

I read.

I read news, industry news and trends, just about anything. Not so much looking for regging ops, but for the sake or reading.

Recently, Ocracoke Island on the Outer Banks of NC was named the number one beach for 2007. The significance here is this is the first time a beach outside of Florida or Hawaii was named the number one spot. No surprise as my wife have been going there for a little more than 24 years now.

OcracokeIsland.com was regged. OcracokeBeach.com was not, along with a few more common typos.

For the month thus far, we're looking at:

124 views
58.06% CTR
$0.38 per click
$27.43

plus a few cents more for the typos.

This has only been regged for a little less than three months with this month being the lowest totals. I would expect that as summer is winding down it would not get as much traffic.

Just keeping up with things can present opportunities. I have hand regged many specialty medical domain names. These do not get much traffic but I have seen some pay as much as over $9.00 per click. But these also are some of the highest CTR. Usually if someone is looking for a particular product or device, they are going to follow through with the search.

One particular domain that falls in this category, regged since September 06:

452 Views collectively
38 Views per month on the average
113 Clicks collectively
9 Clicks per month on the average
25.00% Click through rate on the average
$4.26 Revenue per click on the average
$40.09 Revenue per month on the average
$481.09 Revenue collectively

The stats shown above are somewhat deceiving as it was regged late September and had very little stats to show for September and October. But those stats are still factored in. If all the stats for September were zero, they are still part of the average.

Usually all you have to do is stick to what you do know or the industry you are in.

You are exactly correct - hitting the nail on the head.

Those who seek the answer - read this post carefully. It is very powerful.

& thank you Doc Com for sharing.

 

[omosquera]

biggedon Are the gold-domains only dot com's??? I think so

 

[Theo]

Back to the topic and no personal attack please -

No one is right or wrong - personal opinion is always personal opinion.

John

I believe I am on topic from my 1st post already. Don got so upset apparently by my steering of the conversation onto the straight road that he felt compelled to comment on my avatar in a sarcastic manner.

 

[Gerry]

Many of mine are .com, several .net, a few .info, and surprisingly .us is doing very, very well.

And dare I say it...

yes...

.mobi.

 

[Biggie]

biggedon Are the gold-domains only dot com's??? I think so

only a few of them are . com

 

[GAMEFINEST]

This is a great thread with great posts by doc com and BIGGi...Thanks

 

[TurNIC.com]

Noone will tell anyone the secret, but give hints.

Here is your secret:

Try to mix the letters with nonsense. :smilewinkgrin:

Like fomrazon.com formazon.com for amazon.com. You can ask yourself how in the hell a human-being can think he landed on amazon.com when he hits formazon.com by the way.

:yes:

 

[CyrusL]

I believe I am on topic from my 1st post already.

Not a chance. Don made a thread about hand regged traffic domains with example stats and your only comments are about Sedo's revenue share. If you think that's relevant, why don't you go into every traffic domain sales thread and post the same comments? Here's a couple to get started:

http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?t=247085
http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?t=246193

You can call me foolish or Don a shill all you want, but it won't the reality of my previous post: If you accept that parked revenue domains have inherent value, then you accept that Don has found his gold, regardless of if you find Sedo's, NameDrive's, or anyone else's revenue sharing percentage fair or not.

 

[GAMEFINEST]

I sense " Tension" in this thread

 

[Theo]

Not a chance. Don made a thread about hand regged traffic domains with example stats and your only comments are about Sedo's revenue share. If you think that's relevant, why don't you go into every traffic domain sales thread and post the same comments? Here's a couple to get started:

http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?t=247085
http://www.dnforum.com/showthread.php?t=246193

You can call me foolish or Don a shill all you want, but it won't the reality of my previous post: If you accept that parked revenue domains have inherent value, then you accept that Don has found his gold, regardless of if you find Sedo's, NameDrive's, or anyone else's revenue sharing percentage fair or not.

I see that very eloquently you avoid commenting on the fact that Don slapped these numbers here with a direct reference to SedoPro. Furthermore, Don's bias is pro-Sedo and has shown that in several of my posts where I SPECIFICALLY post numbers about Sedo's failing PPC. Last but not least, Don is promoting Sedo in his sig for obvious reasons.

Sorry, but your post fools noone, especially with your trolling remark that I should interfere with traffic sales; you even provide me with links. I thinκ that you should really get real and refrain from some serious brown-nosing side-effects.

 

[Gerry]

Noone will tell anyone the secret, but give hints.

Some don't want to reveal secrets. I have no secrets. I don't mind sharing how to improve anyones position or portfolio.

The only thing I will not share (sometimes) are specific domain names or keywords. If the keyword is overused and saturating the market, then it drives the PPC way down. Think porn, sex, hardcore...got to be a few hundred million sites out there using those keywords. I'm lucky if some of the adult names get 3 cents. I am shocked sometimes when i see 23 cents. I have seen them as little as 1 cent.

My assumption is based on my own using some successful keywords on other domains. Just not a good idea. You learn things as you go along.

I was not a member of any forum until this past fall and basically used common sense. Some work, some don't. Non performers are dumped.

And yes, I do domain tasting. But I had never heard of this concept until a few months ago. Surprisingly, I had been doing pretty good on my own but this added another new area to look.

I think this doing "well on my own" again comes from common sense. When the experts were preaching:

only .com
no numbers
no hyphens
nothing over 7 letters

I was laughing. I was hoping like hell everyone else believed these words as this left a massive market. This was the same advice given out 10, 7, 5, 3, and 1 year ago.

Yes, it can be done with fresh regs. It is being done. I am even doing it today.

What works for some will not work for all.

Here is one just regged on 081107; ogical.com. Doesn't say a thing. Yet it is getting traffic. Keywords are set at Biological, Ecological...perhaps you can see where I am going with this.

Biol.ogical.com, Ecol.ogical, Neurol.ogical.com. No PPC yet but traffic is there.

Look for opportunity.

 

[dcristo]

Don, you simply didn't like my answer because you have a different opinion. But mine was a factual analysis of the food chain. What you call gold is simply not there. The money goes into the deep pockets of companies like Sedo. End of story.

You have a point, but it wasn't the reason for starting this thread. biggedon is simply giving incentive especially to noobs that there is still a chance to grab money making domains for cheap if you work hard enough.