Secret! How to Make Money With Domain Names

Do you know you really can make money with "Domain Names" even you don't have a website or blog?

Yes, you can make money online by buying and selling domain names and while your domain names are parked until your website or blog is launched.
What is a Domain Name?

It is the unique text, descriptive or non-descriptive name that corresponds to the numeric IP address of a computer or a website in the internet. It is use to access a web page, website or blog because it is easy to remember (e.g. yahoo.com) than the numeric IP address (e.g.72.14.253.99).

In the Domain name of yahoo.com, "Yahoo" is the second-level domain and ".com" is the top-level domain. The second-level and top-level domain are the ones offered by the Domain Name Registrar for anyone who wants to register a domain at various prices. The different top-level domain names are .com, .net, .info, .org, .biz and .ws. There are also a country code Top-Level Domain or ccTLD which are .ng, .us, .uk, .au, .ca, .ru, and .jp.

How Can I Make money with Domain Names?

Do you know that there are many internet users who directly type-in the domain names on their web browsers? It could be a domain name of an existing websites or blogs or a domain names of websites under construction or totally non-existing, unregistered domain names.

Making Money with Parked Domain

Pay-per-click (PPC) advertising sites, including Google, grab the opportunity of making money with parked domain names or domain names of websites or blogs under construction. They place PPC ads on these domain names to capture the type-in web traffic. If these domain names are accessed by the internet users, they display and advertising links. Every click to these PPC ad links makes money to the PPC sites and to the owner of the domain name. See these examples by typing these Domain names in your web browser: work-at-home-faqs.com or make-money-quick-ways.com.

Some of popular domains parking sites are Parked.com and TrafficClub.com. They offer revenue share on PPC ads to holders of few domain names. GoDaddy.com is also offering this Domain Parking scheme in its Cash Parking program (under "Domains" Drop-down menu), but with monthly fee.

Making Money by Selling Domain Names

Domain names are treated as trading product and real estate property that you can buy and sell. You buy domain names at lower price and sell at a very high price in the future. You may buy a domain name by registering it with Domain name registrar for a minimum of one year. You must have seen at godaddy.com the prices of domain names offered for sale and sold.

How to Choose the Right Domain Names

1. Choose keyword with ".com" top-level domain. Most of the internet users type-in the name of website or the keyword with ".com" at web browsers.
2. Avoid using dash hyphen in Domain name. Normally, internet users do not use dash in the keyword name of the websites or blogs.
3. Use Search keyword tool like Google Keyword Tool. This will show you the number and the average of searches in a month, for the keyword and synonyms of your chosen the domain name.
4. Choose one to two keyword Domain names like Website.com and TopWebsite.com. You may use more than two keywords if the name is really popular or potentially have a high demand in future.
5. Search and register Domain names with popular keywords. Below are nine (9) good ways of finding or choosing popular main keywords for domain names:

I. Use name of popular websites or blogs, hosted in free hosting sites like Blogger (blog-name.blogspot.com), Wordpress (blog-name.wordpress.com), Bravenet (site-name.bravenet.com) and Tripod (site-name.tripod.com).
II. Consider Names of popular places like big cities, provinces, tourist destinations, restaurants, disco houses and other top locations.
III. Names of rich and famous people like celebrities, businessmen, politicians, professors, students, reporters, news casters, broadcasters, scientists, inventors, etc.
IV. Research names of famous companies including their brands and products, offline and online.
V. Names of famous structures like buildings and towers.
VI. Names or titles of famous events to be held like shows, exhibitions, car racing, and tournaments.
VII. Titles of famous books and magazines including gazettes, newsletters, school papers, comics and other reading materials.
VIII. Popular games and sports like football, soccer, rugby, baseball, basketball, tennis, volleyball, billiards, boxing, and cricket.
IX. Common misspelling of popular websites and keywords. For example, Google.com is typed as Google.com while yahoo.com as yahoo.com. Here is a very helpful Keyword Typo Generator Tool that generates suggested likely human misspellings and typos.

Th reality is that all this require working hard (or little if you are a professional). You may earn thousands of dollars as profit in trading your domain names. You even get quotations from interested buyers without spending a dime. And you may lose some amount if you have not chosen a profitable domain name.