Comments on: UK Domaining Guide

By: 18th April Friday Wrap » Self Made Minds

18th April Friday Wrap » Self Made Minds — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 08:22:41 +0000

[...] killer domains suitably called Killer Domains . Could be useful for those following our advice in picking up expired co.uk’s -hat tip to Stephen for his [...]

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:56:36 +0000

I research words and owners of domains directly mostly, so just keep an open mind to all news, papers, TV etc for inspiration and read New Scientist & online news sources and then check the domains for use when I hear words like economics, TVs, Genes, HumanGenome, iDocs, ledbulbs and then approach the owner direclty if I think it’s not in use.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:45:58 +0000

Possibly Susan but I have never purchased a .org, they work fine for Adsense and ranking but less so imo for an end user sale so if you intent is to earn from it and it’s ranking with little effort it should be able to pay itself back and earn money but if you are looking for an exit strategy I personally don’t see .org’s as being attractive to the high street etc

By: kelvin newman

kelvin newman — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 15:58:27 +0000

Where do you tend to buy you’re .co.uks when they are virgin territory?

By: Justin Cook

Justin Cook — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:47:16 +0000

I’d love to find a dropping service for .ca domains! Anyone know of one?

By: susan

susan — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 11:32:11 +0000

hi Scott,

I spotted a domain name that I like ( but it ended with org. ) . 2 keywords doamin and now currently ranking on page 2 ( not sure how long it has been there.) The number of searches of those keywords are about 1000++ according google freekeywordtool . The price is about $1000 ++ as well. Currently it’s just a parked domain and no back links at all. Method of monetization would be from adsense to affiliate program. Do you think it’s worth it? I’m wonder if I better than the money else where.

Thanks!

By: Matthew

Matthew — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:59:57 +0000

I think that if you pay for that, intend to use the list every time it arrives, then it should be easy to cover the £50. The problem is that a number of people will subscribe and then not bother doing anything as “now is not the right time”. Being active and engaged in using the list will bring a ton of benefits.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:27:43 +0000

I’d get access to the stats to make sure the other domains are not providing too much additional traffic and then if I was convinced the prime domain was the most descriptive and held it’s rankings well and could rank for all the other terms I would consider buying it alone - that is unless the seller would do a good deal on them as a bulk buy, if they priced the domains really high I’d be happy with the main linked to one which had the site,rankings & hsitory.

By: Lukep

Lukep — Thu, 17 Apr 2008 01:08:58 +0000

Hi Scott,

What other things do we need to consider when buying existing UK domains?

I’ve seen a great domain which is for sale but it has a site operating from it at the moment. The domain/site is ranking highly. the owner is willing to sell but he also has about 200 other domain names which are related to the one i’m looking at and also currently point at the domain. The 200 other domains aren’t no where near as good as the one i’m looking at but i don’t want the seller to start a competitor site once i buy the main one, would you buy all the domains?

Cheers.

By: Scott

Scott — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 17:06:46 +0000

Thanks Stephen, £50 buys you thousands and thousands of up and coming expiring domains and seeing as catching them is no win no fee you have a pretty good chance of being able to find something you can flip to cover the fee.