Domain Addicto - Tales from a Domain Buying Addict

Rantings & ravings about researching, buying, & selling domains. Which tlds are the best? How much are .bz and .tv URLs really worth? Should men.com really have sold for over a million bucks? How about IDNs, will maƱana.com really be worth something someday? Caramba too much to research, too little time!

Wednesday, January 05, 2005

What to Do with your Domains...

A user just asked me to write a little bit about what to DO w/ domains you've bought - since you don't want to have them up on some shelf gathering dust, here's a few quick ideas

1- park them at Sedo and list them for sale (appears to be a bit lame, but at least it produces statistics that can help you decide which to develop and which are probably stinkers).

2- point them to your existing sites in order to gain type in traffic

3- find cheap hosting someplace like Webintellects.com and develop a site - even if it's just a skeleton, it can begin developing some pagerank in Google

4- get cheap hosting and put a BLOG up in the space

5- create your own "parked page" at your host - GoDaddy allows you a free page you can semi customize - you can put anything from a business card to an ad for something

I'll have to expand more on this later - just wanted to give a quick response. I'm still dealing w/ quite the backlog of work left over from the holidays - but I've got lots of ideas for articles, and hopefully I'll have more time in the next few weeks.