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I have been investing in domains for a couple of years now as a hobby business. I have invested part of my profits from my other consulting business in this and now I have about $5000 to spend before the end of the year. I am ready to take this hobby business to the next level and would like your input/advice/ideas how to do it best?

Background:

A portfolio of around 250 domains ranging from the "oh-I-wish-I-had-not-bought-that" kind of learning experiences in domaining to some two-word .com:s and one-word international TLD:s with 10000-40000 searches a month for the specific term. About 40 of the 250 have mini-sites set up on them and 2-3 of them more extensive websites.

I am more prone to building cash flow through buying domains and developing them (am well familiar with web design and good as SEO), more than buying-parking-selling. So unless you convince me other wire, I will continue on that strategy.

The Goal:

Today I have Google Adsense on the 40+ plus mini-sites + sites and they generate about $20 a day. My present/next goal is to elevate this to $333 a day (odd number I know, but it works out well with the overall yearly plan/goals).

Options:

So which option would you choose with this background information and the amount above to spend to get me on the path to my new goal stated above, and why?

A. Buy 1-2 quality domains for the money and then develop them (and others in the portfolio) slowly as money comes in

B. Put the whole sum towards hiring copy-writers, designers and link-builders to develop a good number (maybe 20-30) of the existing domains.

C. Put the whole sum into developing 1-2 of the exisiting domains in to full feature web sites.

D. Another option not listed here or a combination of the above

If you want any more information/background, feel free to post and I will answer as best I can. Any help/input you can provide will be highly appreciated. If you have the time/energy to write a small explanation of your thinking as a background to your choice, I will cherish it, if not, I will be happy to receive the short reply too. :smilewinkgrin:

Maybe someone else has experience with the following received by one of my hosting service clients (name redacted). I'm pretty sure it's a scam but I can't say why. Anyone?

The first red flag is the oh so sincere preemptive intention to prevent cybersquatting. Like this is something every registrar does. And like a Chinese company has their panties in a twist to "protect your intellectual property right." Sure.

Hello guys.

I just registered to the forum and I directly subscribed to Gold member ship to because I am very serious in learning how to hunt domain names.

I am beginner or noob call me as you like. And I am wondering from where should I start to learn how to hunt domains? Is there a topic guide here? or a good ebook you suggest?

I want something that show all the steps and all the good tips I can do.

Thanks

Has anyone here used Sedo's Promotional Features (Featured Listing, Category Showcase) for a domain they sold? If so, did you find it was worth the money? Or was it money down the drain?

Hi, I'm new to domain industry. Just started building my first sites. I used iweb b/c it's super simple. My friend suggested I learn a content management system like joomla really well. What do you use? What would you recommend for beginners?

Thanks.

newbi question for this forum - what does anti snipping mean?

Like top one word domains.

I've made some money from small investments, but now I want to play with the big boys (dnforum) :D

Dropcatchers, DNF, Sedo, anywhere else? I don't really want to pay end-user prices or compete with the biggest industry players, so that already cuts out stuff like TRAFFIC and Rick Latona.

So far I am 0-2 for actually selling domains on Sedo that people have bid on. Each bidder before, offered me half my asking price so I sent to auction. Noone else bid on the auction, so the domain was theres. I was fine with this, however, they never ended up paying.



Now I'm in the same situation. I have a one word domain that I listed for $600 and someone offered me $300. I'm wondering if a person is less likely to pay for a domain if you send it auction.

Should I just take the money or should I send it to auction? I personally think the domain is worth over $1000, but right now I am in the red for the year. So that gives me more initiative to just sell.

If anyone would like to know the domain name, please PM me and I'll let you know.

Thanks for your help.

Jacob

what is the best way to find out what my domain visitors are looking for? domain parking only gives stats for those who links and not others. domain currently gets a few thousand visitors a day.

Hi there

just wondering what the best way to value a domain is.

Is there any rule of thumb or any kind of algorythms?

I have seen Valuate.com which is quite good but how do they get those figures?

Thanks in advance