Domain Name Investing
Domain Name Investing
What is a domain name and how does it affect your business?
Simply put, a domain name is an address on the Internet or World Wide Web that surfers use to access your web site.
According to Wikipedia, Domaining is the business of buying, selling, developing and monetizing Internet domain names’. Domain name investment and domain names is the New Real Estate.
A lot of people tend to have the wrong idea when it comes to domaining and domainers. Domain names are controlled and monitored by the governing body ICANN - a world recognized organization with rules and regulations that protect domain names and their owners. Domains by definition are leased for a period of up to 10 years maximum. If a domain name expires, all web users have the right to purchase it, unless there is a trademark registered against that name. What domainers do is simply utilize the opportunities enabled by this governing body to the extent of the law. If you own a couple of domain names, you are a domainer too.
Domain names are trading at their highest premium ever. The same domain name that traded for $10,000 in year 2,000 have recently changed hands for $65,000 and more. The expectation is that sector specific domain names will soon trade for millions of dollars.
Domain names are recognized as some of the most marketable and valuable commodities on the web today and as such offer a great opportunity to investors. Prices of valuable domain names have soared with numerous sales recorded at up to and above 7 figure amounts on a regular basis.
Here are some Domains For Sale
On the other hand, if you can find ways to generate revenue from a domain name even while you′re waiting to unlock much greater value from it through a sales or leasing transaction, you′re in a much stronger position. As long as a domain name pays for its own upkeep over the course of a year, there’s nothing (in theory) to stop you holding on to it indefinitely.
Some Good Resources : DOMAINS INTO DOLLARS and PROFITABLE DOMAINER
