Developing domains into websites

Am I the only one having problems with this?
I look at the guy on this forum, forgot his username that owns developeddomains.com and seems to be making a lot of money developing domains and selling them on ebay.

Any ideas on how to develop the domains into small sites?
For example I want to develop these names:
RussianMint.com
Xinvestors.com
eQuarters.com
GotGasMask.com

Etc...

[thinkaholic]

I own www.DevelopedDomains.com. What are you having problems with? Do you just needs some ideas to develop those domain names?

The only one I see that could be developed would be GotGasMask.com, but even that one would be hard. Maybe you could find an affiliate that sells gas masks or terrorist products or something like that. i just watched a news story that those kind of products are selling very fast. They are even selling compact parachutes for people in case they need to jump from a tall building.

The rest are not very marketable in my opinion.

Personally, I ONLY register domain names I know I can develop. I only register .coms, unless of course a .net is just too good to pass up. Even before I register a name, I do a little research first to see what I can do with it. Would it be better to just redirect it to an affiliate or build something else on it.

Reselling domain names can be profitable, but I believe that a domain name would have much more value with a site on it. Even if it's just 1 page or redirects to a related affiliate, it shows prospective buyers what they could use the domain name for. Instead of selling the "front door", you'll be selling the entire business, which looks much better to buyers. If they want to do something else with the domain name, that's their choice.

I live by this: A domain name is worthless without a website. Period.

[dtobias]

I, myself, have almost never registered a domain without having a website already up (the exception being that I did attempt, mostly unsuccessfully, to get a few names in the .info and .us landrushes with only an idea of what I might do with them rather than a finished site).

Usually, my sites will start out as merely a subdirectory within my personal site, develop and expand from there, and at some point I'll decide they deserve their own independent identity... that's when I might register a domain for them (unless I decide it makes more sense to use subdomains of my existing domains logically, like I did with domains.dan.info and webtips.dan.info). Later, if a new TLD comes along, I might decide the site makes more sense there and try to get an address in it to replace the old one.

As my personal sites are noncommercial in nature, I presently don't use .com addresses as the primary address of any of them, though there are a couple of "legacy" .com addresses still pointing to them from an earlier time.

This is kind of the direct opposite of the speculator mindset, isn't it?

Thinkaholic, I know exactly what you are talking about and that is what im trying to do. I like what you did with vrecipes.com. Put a small site on it and now its selling for a few hundred on ebay. Im not a graphic designer or programmer so I can't really make the sites. So my biggest problems are creating the small sites. You think we can work together on them?

Also can any of my other domains be made into anything:
byalik.com/domains

[thinkaholic]

Thanks for the compliments on www.vrecipes.com

If you're going to register domain names, I highly recommend learning basic graphic and HTML skills. Then you can whip out a site whenever you reg a name.

Development depends on the domain name. Honestly, some names aren't worth developing. I'm speaking in general, not yours. I'll go through some of them and let you know which ones would be good to develop.

I know a lot of html and can make "ok" graphics but I am not imaginative or creative and cant think of anything. I have great web designers and programmers but I feel that if I pay them, it will cut my profits to almost nothing.