ccTLDInvestors.com Online Magazine Launches
Big congrats to my good friend Morgan Linton for the launch of ccTLDInvestors.com which will be a great new blog focused on investing and developing ccTLD domains. As someone who has developed and has invested in a few different ccTLDs I look forward to seeing what Morgan has in store and actually look forward to contributing (sorry for the delay in sending the bio Morgan!!!).
With the ccTLD domain market being an opportunity, and as such, a growth area for domainers this I expect this site to do quite well and generate a lot of great interest.
BTW, a quick note, Chef Patrick is running a contest at Name.com that allows you to grab .ME domains at a GREAT price and if you use his coupon code of chefpatrick you get entered into a contest, check out more about the Name.com and Chef Patrick promo.
Below is the press release:
IN SEARCH OF THE NEXT .COM: CCTLDINVESTORS.COM FOCUSES ON TAKING DOMAIN NAME INVESTMENTS GLOBAL
Online Magazine Targets Global Domain Name Market
LOS ANGELES, California – March 11, 2010 - Linton Investments LLC announced ccTLDInvestors.com today – an online magazine dedicated entirely to investing in ccTLDs. Country Code Top Level Domains (commonly called ccTLDs) are the extensions dedicated to a specific country online such as .co.uk (England), .ca (Canada), .in (India) and .me (Montenegro).“The market is there, we’ve already seen some huge sales this year, the problem is that there are very few resources for ccTLD Investors,” says Morgan Linton, the creator of the magazine.
The Domain Name Investing market has grown dramatically over the last few years, and with sales like Toys.com for 5.1 million dollars and Candy.com for 3.0 million dollars it is clear the market is hot. In 2009 ccTLD sales doubled making it the quickest growing segment in the Domain Investing space! With sales like Credit.fr for $851,875 and Free-SMS.de for $162,150 already this year, the ccTLD market has the potential to appreciate just like the .com, .net, and .org markets have over the last fifteen years – but at an even faster pace!
While there are ccTLD sales every week, .com continues to take the limelight in the Domain Investing world. “For some markets there is almost nowhere investors can look to find-out more information about a particular Country’s TLD,” says Linton who is passionate about giving equal focus to oftentimes overlooked countries and regions. “The idea is simple – more people around the world are using the Internet every day – in the United States .com is the focus – in Canada owning a brand means owning the corresponding .ca domain, in Germany it means owning the corresponding .de domain. ccTLDs give investors the chance to buy-into a market before it takes off!”
Markets like England’s .co.uk and Germany’s .de have already seen strong attention from investors and enjoyed excellent sale prices over the last few years. Other markets like .in and .mx are just starting to see some larger sales but have mostly stayed below the five-figure range.
Linton has put-together a team of industry experts for his magazine that will allow it to provide detailed insight into markets very few people have experience with. “Just think, at this very moment India already has more Internet users than the United States. In India, .com is not as strong as .co.in or .in but the market for buying and selling these domains has just started…just like .com did in the nineties!
ccTLDInvestors.com will be published weekly to start and gives readers the opportunity to interact directly with the writers through an online comment system making the magazine more accessible. Linton will continue to add more writers throughout the year to reach even more markets. “The idea is to make ccTLDInvestors.com the online source for information about ccTLDs – this is day one!”
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Linton Investments LLC was founded in 2007 as a Domain Name Investment company. Over the last two years the company has grown their portfolio to encompass over twenty TLDs spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia. With a strong focus on development, Linton Investments turns their domain names into search engine-optimized web properties that generate a consistent monthly income.
The company’s founder, Morgan Linton is also the author of the book – Domain Flipping: How To Profit From The Domain Name Boom as well as Producer of Domainvestors Television. Morgan runs a popular blog – MorganLinton.com where he discusses domain investing, monetization, SEO, and of course ccTLDs.
If you would like more information about this topic, or to schedule an appointment with Morgan Linton, please call 1-800-274-6440 or email Morgan@LintonInvestments.com.
Great Past Week For Localtek And Missouri.me – Just Getting Started
What a week, this is one of those weeks where I had a thousand ideas for blog posts then everything became a whirlwind and it became heads down and focus time.
First off we got confirmation on a top notch customer we had been working on and they actually purchased a multitude of services and advertising for several of their businesses, I love marketing packages versus pure advertising, it really helps pull everything together when you can do everything from the demand creation to landing page and conversion, especially when you can wrap it all up in a neat package for multiple businesses. Those deals excite me.
The other thing that made it an exciting deal is it is a multiple web property deal showing that value add properties can help win niche business along with a more traditional advertising approach on our key Missouri.me business.
Also, we confirmed (actually last week) that we will be attending the DNCruise, my wife is going although the first thing she said was "I don't have to listen to you speak do I?" Seems she gets tired of hearing me talk about domains, Localtek, SEO, local search and everything that is in my head everyday. Great job by Chef Patrick to create such a unique combination of business and pleasure.
It looks like I have another great trip to talk about in June as well, I look forward to sharing the details once I get all the details worked out.
We have a crazy next week ahead, we have two seminars to do along with a meeting with the Chamber of Commerce and economic development group in a fast growing area of Missouri who after seeing what we have done for local business has asked us to create their web site and marketing, this is the second community to do so. Great news.
On that note, I must say that I am loving partnerships with legacy marketing firms, earlier this week we had a call from a large legacy marketing firm who needed help promoting a project of theirs online. They had all the creatives worked out but really needed to understand how search and social could play a role. I see more of these types of partnerships in our future.
On a smaller note, the drop name God shown down this week and I managed to grab the few names I was after with little fight. I love those weeks, one of my employees comes from a seminar background so I can see good things for RetirementSeminars.com ahead.
We also made our latest hire this week, someone to help me on the marketing side, she comes to us with a great background coming from many years at AT&T and has great energy which is going to be very important as we move forward with our growth plans for the year. We needed a marketing coordinator but finding someone with the energy and drive can be tough to find. And why is this so important?
Well, even though I do not want to go into details, a few months back we had been contacted by some large investment firms about growing faster. Even though we did not go down that path for now we did find ways to keep things moving in the direction we would like and worked with a very solid group of investors who want to see us grow even faster in our current model. With the success we have had gaining customers and having success for our customers it was nice to see people have that faith in our plan to take it to the next level. Thanks to them, the first steps happened this past week with much more to happen in the near future. Great news yet again.
Now, on a personal note, 12 lbs gone! I got tired of making excuses and decided it was time to get myself back. The obsessiveness with being healthy, eating right, and exercising often is back.
Oh yeah, thanks to TheDomains.com , Fusible.com, ChefPatrick.com, DomainNameWire.com and MorganLinton.com for the link love this past week (if I missed anyone I am sorry).
Want To Own Your Name? dotME and Namejet Give You A Chance
As a believer in .ME and someone who has actually spent time with real people other than those in our industry talking about the extension I can say from first hand experience people get .ME, and more important remember .ME. And as such I was happy to see the .ME team announce an auction being run by Namejet.com for first name and last name .ME domains.
I own Bruce.me (will be rebranding my blog to this in the near future) and Marler.me and actually bought several other first name .ME domains when they were released in the past. There are many I will be grabbing from this auction as well and look forward to adding to my first name portfolio.
I personally look forward to re-branding my blog to Bruce.me because I think when it comes to personalization and branding .ME does it better than any other. Bruce.me just works.
That said, here is a sampling of the more than 300 names being released on April 5th:
Andrew.Me
Adam.Me
Brian.Me
Daniel.Me
Douglas.Me
Eric.Me
Jack.Me
James.Me
Jason.Me
John.Me
Kevin.Me
Lindsey.Me
Maria.Me
Paul.Me
Peters.Me
Scott.Me
Shawn.Me
Steve.Me
Ryan.Me
William.Me
Here is the full press release for your enjoyment:
LIKE YOUR NAME? HERE’S YOUR CHANCE TO OWN IT ONLINE
More Than 300 Names & Surnames Up for Grabs in the Next .ME Auction
Podgorica, Montenegro – March 2, 2010 – The .ME Registry and NameJet announced the Internet’s largest online auction of personal names today. If you’ve ever wanted your own name as a domain, now is your chance! More than 300 personal names and surnames with a .ME extension are up for auction, starting April 5, 2010.
“We’ve had phenomenal success working with NameJet in the past. Their online auction platform is a perfect venue for this upcoming auction of personal names -- the biggest online auction event the .ME Registry has ever held,” stated Predrag Lesic, Executive Director of the .ME Registry. “The popularity of social media makes this an opportune time to create a personal presence online and, as we’ve told the world from the start, dot-ME is as personal as it gets. Dot-ME is all about YOU!”
Here’s a glimpse at some of the many popular names available in this auction:
Andrew.Me
Adam.Me
Brian.Me
Daniel.Me
Douglas.Me
Eric.Me
Jack.Me
James.Me
Jason.Me
John.Me
Kevin.Me
Lindsey.Me
Maria.Me
Paul.Me
Peters.Me
Scott.Me
Shawn.Me
Steve.Me
Ryan.Me
William.Me
For the full list of available first names and surnames, go to www.PersonalNames.Me.
“This is the first time in the history of domains that more than 300 premium personal names have gone to auction at the same time. It’s so rare to gain control of your very own name with any domain extension. Imagine having it with a dot-ME – the ultimate personal domain,” said Steve Brown, General Manager of NameJet.
“Dot-ME is the ideal personal Web site domain,” noted Lesic. “Imagine the power of being the ONLY person in the world to own your first name or last name through dot-ME, even though millions of others have the very same name.”
.ME is proving to be extraordinarily popular for so many reasons. More than 350,000 .ME domains have been registered in the two years since the domain extension’s launch and a number are used for online call-to-action and catch phrase branding by businesses worldwide. One noteworthy example is Facebook, which is using FB.Me as its URL shortener. For other examples and articles about the many clever uses of .ME, visit ExploreTheWorldOf.Me.
To learn more about the .ME Registry, developing a .ME business idea through non-auction allocation of a .ME domain, or to find out how to register a .ME domain, go to www.Domain.Me.
About the .ME Registry:
.ME Registry (the d.b.a. of doMEn, d.o.o.) was chosen by the government of Montenegro to operate the new .ME domain name extension. .ME Registry partners include ME-net, GoDaddy.com and Afilias Limited. Me-Net is located in Montenegro and its principals have been leaders in the ICT sector in Montenegro, including the privatization of its largest ISP. GoDaddy.com is located in the USA and is the world’s largest domain name registrar and the largest paid hostname provider in the world, according to Netcraft Ltd. Afilias Limited is headquartered in Ireland and is a leading registry services provider, supporting more than 15 million domains worldwide.
About NameJet:
NameJet® is a domain name aftermarket auction company that consolidates an exclusive inventory of expired and deleted domains from top domain name registrars and makes them available to their customers. NameJet's auction services include the ability to place backorder requests on any domain name and a "last minute board" that allows customers to closely watch an ending auction.
How To SEO For Google Real Time Search – A Case Study
Filed under: Domain News, Google SEO Tips, google real time search
Anyone that pays any attention to the search engine optimization world knows that real time search is a hot topic and Google is getting VERY good at picking up on trends and enabling their scrolling news section in the middle of their normal search results.
The part that many people miss is that social media streams are one of the ways Google picks up on trends and links that should be included.
Although there are things that happen everyday I do not like to do a test unless there is something actually relevant to write about when testing the real time search results. Yesterday during the Hawaii tsunami warning though I caught the mention of HITsunami.info on CNN and thought it was a great use of a .info domain name and after seeing the timeline between registration and mention on CNN I thought it was a great story so I blogged about it and also realized that there was a chance, like on my Google Superbowl Commercial post, that it would be picked up in the real time search results.
Click here to find my Hawaii tsunami warning and the HITsunami.info post.
So, all that said, I started by determining the most keyword rich but non-spammy title I could use, you will see it if you visit the post. I truly thought it was amazing how quick John Garcia took the domain to full site and mentioned on CNN so fast, truly amazing. I am a big promoter, user, and all around lover of all things social media so taking advantage of all those aspects was pretty awesome to see. So I wrote the post to be relevant, do not go spammy when trying to take advantage of this, Google is not stupid.
So, after doing the post, it was indexed and getting traffic, this is not a joke, in one minute.
Below I have a ton of snapshots of what real time search results can do, Google is getting very good at this and it is amazing to see how they are picking up trends and changing the structure of their results in real time. If you do not think real time search matters then you need to think again, determining how you can use this to benefit your sites is very important, and myself, as a geo developer, really can think of ways to make sure that we are always on top of what is happening and providing up to date data.
You can see in the below pic that my post showed up on the first page for the term "hitsunami.info" when search in Google, as we all know a good portion of people do not go to the browser address bar when searching for a site, they go to their default search bar. I am amazed by this but it can be valuable as well:
And in this version, timeline 2 minutes since I posted, I was in the top couple results for searches for the site, keep in mind this was the 39th most popular term overall on Google at the point:
And here is the example of the link scrolling through the real time search feed. As you can see much of that is powered by info being gathered from Twitter:
And one that was really nice, top of real time search for Hawaii Tsunami Warning
And the kicker, the term Hawaii Tsunami
And here is a look at the Statpress from my blog for a bit, I did not catch it at the beginning but still shows what was happening:
HiTsunami.info Launches Quick After Hawaii Tsunami Warning
Wow, was just watching the Hawaii Tsunami coverage on CNN and Fox News, one thing that caught my eye was the CNN Internet/social media guy talking about a great site that came up called HiTsunami.info.
Normally you see some types of domainers try to take advantage of a natural disaster such as this but in this case kudos to John Garcia who quickly put up a site focused on providing valuable info to those interesting in the event.
Someone did already own the .COM, but I think this is a great use of a .info domain.
The site features Ustream video, preparedness kit info, twitter feeds, etc. Even though the tsunami in Hawaii has not been a huge problem it was great to see someone use a perfect domain name, get it ramped up quick into a real website and have it mentioned on CNN so quick. Has to be a record for time from purchase to time to mention on a major media channel.
People Are Buying Domain Names!
In the past several months I have spent most of my time focused on the bigger business we are growing rather than flipping domains and growing my traffic domain portfolio. Typically this would mean sales have been few and far between and admittedly for a couple months there were fewer than typical.
But, in the past couple months I have seen a sharp trend upwards in offers even with out any active promotion on my side, although DomainGang.com a great spoof promotion for my domain ExGirlfriend.us, and for those that did not get it, it was a joke although the domain is for sale:)
Not sure if every one is seeing this but the offers on both my exact match keyword domains and on my traffic domains have both been coming in pretty consistently. In the past week alone I had 4 deals closed. Once again, with zero promotion. What is really interesting is I recently shrunk considerably the number of names I actually have for sale due to a separation between company and personal domain assets. So percentage wise it looks even better.
What is really nice here is that 2 of the 4 deals this week were end users that had actively sought out the domain, one a dot com , one a dot net.
Are you seeing the same thing? Feel free to post your current experience with people actively looking to acquire your domains, how has the market been for you?
Looking For A New Domainer Forum???
Well, in the past week or so the options for domainer forums and hang outs has increased by two. Everyone seems to have their favorite forum and it becomes a religious discussion many times on which is better, who is better, blah, blah.
Looks like a couple folks decided a couple new options were needed, with one being specifically targeted at a new and growing niche, domain development. Or as I like to think of it, business development.
Here are the two new domainer forums:
This new forum, ran by web developer and domainer Tia Wood is focused on creating a community of developers focused on development of their domain names. We all know this is a hot topic these days and having a place devoted to domainers focused on developing their properties is a great way to get tips and tricks from those in the know.
This forum, which has the goal of being censor free, was started by Andrei from DomainingTips.com. I have already seen a few posts of people testing the censor free concept so I am sure if you want a good argument with lose moderation this will be the place to be.
That said, in full disclosure, I did agree to sign up to be a mod there. I like open discussion and alternative thoughts being out there on forums and think this could be a great experiment.
Check out the new forums, you may find you have a new place to hang out.
GeoDomain Expo In New Orleans – Sign Up Now
It seems I have been in a conference blur the past few months starting with Affiliate Convention and ending with Domainer Mardi Gras but one that I am hoping my schedule opens up for is the GeoDomain Expo. My life/business revolves around Geo domains so this conference is one that truly interests me. From talking to many that have been to previous Geo Domain conferences it sounds like this event is about as good as it gets as far as learning and gathering insight into monetizing domains goes.
The keynote speaker which has also been announced today is the co-founder of Hotels.com, David Litman.
A few quick notes before all the details in the press release:
The conference will be held from April 28th through the 30th in New Orleans during JazzFest. So after intense networking and sessions all day you will be able to enjoy some great jazz music in the Big Easy. Nice.
As far as pricing, there is a nice discount for booking early:
$795 until the end of February
$995 until the end of March
$1195 until the day before the conference (April 28)
$1395 on the days of the show
Here is the press release:
ASSOCIATED CITIES SELECTS THE ROOSEVELT NEW ORLEANS, A WALDORF ASTORIA HOTEL, AS VENUE OF 2010 GEODOMAIN EXPO®
St. Louis, MO, February 23, 2009. Staying true to the spirit of holding the annual Geodomain Expo® at a hotel representative of the host city, Associated Cities has selected The Roosevelt New Orleans, a Waldorf Astoria Hotel, as the site of the 2010 Geodomain Expo. The industry conference and trade event will take place from Wednesday, April 28 through Friday, April 30, 2010, coinciding with the 40th anniversary New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival.
Recently reopened in July, 2009 after having been closed for nearly 4 years following Hurricane Katrina, a $145 million restoration has returned The Roosevelt to its place as the premier luxury hotel in New Orleans.
Speaking to the hotels phenomenal history, legend has it that Governor Huey P. Long built a 90 mile long highway in the 1930’s and 40’s directly from the state capital in Baton Rouge to front door of the Roosevelt. The hotels’ world-famous Blue Room hosted the times greatest musicians including Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Jack Benny, Bob Hope, Ella Fitzgerald, Cab Calloway, Marlene Dietrich, and Sonny and Cher. The Sazerac cocktail made with absinth, known as the first cocktail invented in America and now the official drink of New Orleans, was popularized at the Hotels’ Sazerac Bar.
In parallel to the reopening of the Roosevelt and its historic Blue Room and Sazerac Bar, modern amenities abound including a 12,000 square foot world-class spa and fitness facility and the opening of Domenica, internationally acclaimed chef John Besh’s newest restaurant bringing his elegant take on the unique cuisine of rural Italy.
Hotel rooms for the 2010 GeoDomain Expo may be reserved at our negotiated guaranteed lowest rate of $229/night by visiting the online booking engine or by calling 504-648 1200 and referencing the GeoDomain Expo group rate.
The Geodomain Expo offers opportunities for operators of local- and destination-focused geo websites to share information, exchange best practices, learn about industry trends, meet vendors and form friendships with other operators. The program will include speakers and panels related to the evolving business of operating geodomains, as well as social and networking events, a trade show and opportunities to purchase and invest in geodomain properties.
Media Contact: Patrick Carleton, Executive Director, Mobile: 314.705.3000
Geodomain Expo is a registered trademark of Associated Geos, LLC.
St. Louis, February 23, 2010 – Conference producer Associated Cities announced today that Hotels.com co-founder David Litman will deliver a keynote address at the Geodomain Expo®, to be held this April 28-30 in New Orleans, Louisiana.
David Litman is a serial entrepreneur. He has spent the last 25 years founding, building and growing 5 successful companies with his partner, Bob Diener. Together they grew their best-known venture, HRN (later Hotels.com), from scratch to become the world’s largest hotel website. From a $1200 investment they guided the company to be one of the Internet’s primary sources of discount accommodations and an industry innovator and leader. They sold the company in 2003 at a business valuation of more than $5.5 billion. They have recently launched Getaroom.com, an innovative hotel booking site focused on handpicked hotel values in major cities.
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About Associated Cities
The Associated Cities network consists of the most intuitive and compelling dot-com city brands online. Every Associated Cities dot-com city site offers targeted local content and functionality for travelers and residents. Our mission is to provide a single, reliable source allowing advertisers and partners to reach consumers in each market we serve. In this capacity, Associated Cities currently represents over 150 city partner sites in 18 countries, 32 US states, and the District of Columbia.
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About the Geodomain Expo
The Geodomain Expo offers opportunities for operators of local- and destination-focused geo websites to share information, exchange best practices, learn about industry trends, meet vendors and form friendships with other operators. The program will include speakers and panels related to the business of operating Geodomains, as well as social and networking events, a trade show and opportunities to purchase and invest in Geodomain properties.
Why I Bought WirelessISP.net and Why Wireless ISP Business Will Boom
We domain investors tend to not talk about the domain names we have acquired in our blogs but one that I am happy to talk about and discuss why is WirelessISP.net.
The Wireless ISP business is set to boom even in this down economy due to the 7.2 billion dollar stimulus package the government is allocating as I type. The package is for the rural broadband build out I have blogged about before and something I had spent quite a bit of time researching due to the fact the industry I was in before was set to benefit directly from it.
One of the things that stuck out to me on this name was the fact that many Internet Service Providers tend to still use .NET names which makes this name really click even more so.
In most rural areas it is not feasible to run fiber or higher quality copper to each home or neighborhood so wireless becomes the faster path to success for many providers getting funding. I have spoke to several and the overwhelming thought was wireless is going to be a BIG portion as far as access technology goes.
So all that said, I have managed to pick up some nice domains lately but this one sticks out. We tend to not talk about why we acquire names, but I thought I would do something a little different and talk about something I acquired.
Now, the question becomes to develop or sell.....
Looking For Traffic? Smartname Content Sites Work
While at DomainFEST last month I had the pleasure of sitting down with Ted Olson from NameMedia/Smartname.com. Ted took me through the new content site solution that Smartname has put together for domain names that currently do not have large amounts of type-in traffic but may still be great names.
After taking a look I was extremely excited to try it out as I could see that it really took automatically created sites to the next level, with just a few minutes of work per site a domain name could be taken from nothing but a domain name to a full fledged website. But until I had the chance to really get in there I wanted to be careful giving to many kudos to the system.
As someone who has developed several news aggregation sites in the past I was not concerned about the duplicate content issue that some people worry about with these type of content sites, I knew that even if a site cannot be ranked for all the leading terms, overall the long tail traffic you can pick up can still add more value to the site than just sitting there with no traffic. Dynamic sites seem to be given a green light by search engines.
Smartname.com has taken dynamic site development to the next level, after trying out the system I can say without a doubt that you can really create a site that has been SEO'ed to some degree in minutes. There was only one minor nitpick issue I came up with and it will be fixed in the next release.
When you first login and then select the domain name to manage you will see a few different options for the type of site you want to create: standard parked page, content site, or Ecomm (to be reviewed later). The site type I wanted to test first was this content site, Ted had shown me that they could get ranked, I wanted to see if they could get ranked as easily as doing so on Wordpress.
After selecting content site you can then select a theme (there are hundreds of selections ranging from Army to Finance), a color scheme, and even choose a header image. After doing this you can also manually selected keywords to be used on the site, this is very important for targeting sponsored links, etc. There are also tabs for modifying the header and footer text and images, all and all a nice setup for a quick site deployment. This also makes it easy to add text for SEO reasons as well.
When you get to advanced settings you actually get the option to add your own Adsense or affiliate ads in, thats right, along with the shared revenue from the sponsored ads you can also insert your own ads that gives you 100 percent revenue from each click or purchase. You also have the option of enabling things like social media links, etc as well from this page. When you put all this together you really have a full featured content/news aggregation site with true value to the user.
There is also a SEO configuration tab that has many useful options in it (titles, meta descriptions, etc) but what I really found useful was the fact I could add in Google Analytics and Google Webmaster info so I can manage these sites just like any other site development I have.
So, verdict on management and usefulness of the platform so far, very positive. These sites turn your non-traffic domains into real websites and bring traffic (and in most cases revenue) along. They are SEO friendly and with a few changes coming up soon this gets even better.
But, how do they rank, do they really get ranked in the search engines and bring traffic?
Well let me show you an example, a few weeks back the very first site I did was Deployed.net, even though I did the least amount of tweaking on this site (no tweaking of sponsored keywords, etc) it still ranks first page (number 6) Google based on having real content, it is a full fledged website, it also ranks very high on Yahoo as well (number 4). From working on news sites like these before I feel confident that the ranking will stay.
A couple more sites I turned up before leaving for DMG but have not had a chance to link build yet are: MedicalQuestions.us and GreenhouseEffect.us , both of these are newly turned up but look how great they look. Great job by the Smartname team. These are names that would receive very little of any type-in traffic but as real value added websites I have added value to the property as well as revenue.
I think part of the problem that many domainers will have is that they discount the value of doing this since they look at it as parking and they are afraid their sites will not rank, in this case many of these sites turn out better than professional sites I have seen done. These are real websites not parking pages.
If you are looking for a way to turn your non-traffic names into revenue producers with minor effort and ZERO cost I recommend taking a look at the Smartname.com solution.
And, as I have made clear in other posts, this is a NON PAID post, I tested the system and liked it. I am also testing their Ecomm platform and liking the rankings I am seeing so far, look for a review on it soon.
A few things in closing, this is phase one, they have phase two coming in the very near future that adds several new features (add your own posts, etc). Also, Ted sent the following as well:
SmartName continues to lead the industry with high payouts and the largest breadth of innovative monetization solutions (Enhanced PPC, Instant Shops and Full Content) allowing portfolio owners the opportunity to make more money from more of their portfolio - all managed from one simple dashboard. Moreover, unlike a pure-play parking company, we can link your parked pages to the industry’s leading domain marketplace where professional domain sales representatives can help sell your domain names 7 days a week. Adding a SmartName For Sale link that links directly to our Expanded Promotion network (AfternicDLS/BuyDomains) has proven to increase sales velocity by 225%. Our goal is simply to make our clients the most amount of money based on their portfolio objectives. In sum, SmartName provides domain owners monetization solutions that fit their unique financial objectives and domain portfolio. PS – if you missed our latest webinar: Discover the Top Domain Parking and Selling Strategies for 2010, view it
here @ https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/792040306
I highly recommend listening to the webinar to get a more indepth idea what I am talking about above.
If you have turned up any names on the content site system at Smartname.com shoot me a message, I would love to see them.
