Domain Secrets Revealed: Making Money With Domains

You've heard the rumours, and we're glad to say that some of them were true. Think about recent news events - printers.com being sold for $800,000; iSearch.com has been sold for $300,000. It's an unarguable case: there is money to be made in the auctioning of domain names. But of course it's a 'try your luck' industry. Some make it, some don't and with domain secrets revealed you have an increased likelihood of being one of the lucky few.

The most common question for domain secrets revealed is of course, "How do you get started?" For those not in the know, there are basically two ways to get started, both of which require a keen eye for commercial domain names.

The first of these consists of buying your domain name through an internet reseller after using a tool like 'whois' on unix-based systems or 'nslookup' on MS Windows machines (although the former is said to be more accurate and can be downloaded in a Ms Windows format). Should the domain name in question be available, then it is simply a matter of registering the domain name and holding on to it.

Our second way of getting your hands on those hard-to-come-by domain names is through joining a domain name auction website. The process here is the same, where a bid is placed on an auction and the highest bid wins when the auction runs out. This is of course a route that offers more guarantees as the auction website will only list those domains on which it can make money.

So that being said, we hope you have a fair idea of how you will be able to come by your domain name. The next step to follow in domain secrets revealed is one that will guarantee a certain amount of income while the domain name remains in limbo.

Think about a number of popular domain names on the internet and type them into your browser. While in most cases you'll be directed to an already active commercial website, the odd chance will see you arrive at a website which appears as a kind of internet directory listing. It may not look like much, but there is a fair amount of money to be made from these sites through advertising benefits (if you landed on a site like that, think of the thousands if not millions of other people who've taken the same route). This then guarantees a passive income while you wait for the big one to come along - blue.com has recently been sold for $200,000. Just imagine.

All-in-all, with domain secrets revealed it's a good business to be in if you know how to play it. Think of it as the forex market for domain names - big risks, big rewards. For more information on the buying and selling of domain names, we'll recommend literature surrounding the era of the '.com boom' as well as those focusing on the registration of domain names. The rest, as they say, is pure experience.