Today, July 22nd, 2008 Dickinson.com will be auctioned off at the premier one-a-day auction house, Bido.com.

Unlike most auctions where premium domains have high reserves and a preset price level to start on, Dickinson.com will start at $1 and will be listed at no reserve. This means that the domain will be sold to the highest bidder no matter what, and is a true case of letting the market decide on the value of the domain name.

The auction starts at 1:00PM Eastern and will run approximately one hour. The accounts at Bido.com are free and only require a credit card authorization in order to verify the account holders.
For more info, visit Bido.com and don’t forget to get your bids in!

From the Bido.com site:

“This domain is highly generic geo/family name. The domain is estimated by Bido to sell for anywhere between US$ 10,000 - US$ 100,000.00 and possibly more!

There are six cities named Dickinson spread across a few different states, and the largest two have populations of 17k and 15.5k respectively. There are three Dickinson counties, several Dickinson universities, few colleges, and numerous companies that are related to the name Dickinson.

Dickinson is also a very popular last name. One notable Dickinson would be with Emily Dickinson. Furthermore, there are over 3000 daily searches on wordtracker.

Aside from the above, there are a large number of end users among people and companies with this name: http://www.google.com/search?q=dickinson.com

A similar domain, branson.com, sold for $1.6 million two years ago.”

Being a subscriber, I thought you would be interested to know… someone will perhaps get a good deal today, I hope its one of you! Here’s the link: https://www.bido.com/Auction?domain=dickinson.com

Guys — let me tell you a strategy which will help you sell more domains and skyrocket your domaining profit.

Start a newsletter - it is a very powerful tool and something that most people ignore. I have been running newsletters for some time now so I am talking from personal experience.

Learn how to start a newsletter, how to get people to subscribe and some practical things I have learn from my own experiences. Let’s get started, shall we? Read the rest of this entry »

Guys — I have just upgraded to WordPress 2.5 — yeah I know I am late but a lot of other projects have been keeping me busy and this blog is something I do in my free time!

If you face any issues or find that something is broken, please let me know. Also, I may be trying a new theme in near future to test advertising effectiveness and a few new features.

Oh and another thing — I found out that Domaining Tips is now ranking #4 for the keyword Domaining in Google. Thanks a lot for all the quality links everyone.

Just Released - Domaining Success Handbook. A compilation of my best posts — more readable and extended.

Chapter 1 - The Shocking Truth about Domain Parking
Chapter 2 - How I “Really” Make Money From Domain Names
Chapter 3 - 6 Ways Not to Go Broke Developing Domains
Chapter 4 - Should You Fool Around With Your Domains
Chapter 5 - An Interview I did recently
Epilogue - The Unanswered Questions…

Read it online »

We have just launched Easy Link Building’s Link Building Tool. It is an easy way to build high-quality links. And if you are serious about making money from your sites, you need it.

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ImagesAndWords of Proftapolis approached me a few days ago for an interview. It was published today — you can read it here.

A few days ago a member on WickedFire who uses the moniker PFNetwork posted a thread about How She Made over $30,000 in 1 Month from Her Sites and is a pretty inspirational story about how to make money online.

I asked her if I could reprint her story on DomainingTips.com and she was kind enough to allow me to do so. Read on to learn how she did it and my own commentary on her story. Read the rest of this entry »

Blank Czech, using Ask Lord Brar service, asks:

If I have a good domain, do you think it’s worth fooling around with if it’s my first real domain? Or do you think I should try and make a long term (>3 months) development plan for the domain. It currently gets 20-30 hits a month.

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One of the most critical components component of your success on the internet is your web-host. If your web-host keeps giving you troubles, you will not be able to concentrate on developing, promoting and monetizing your websites. Also, if your website is down, you will not be able to show any ads and that would translate into zero revenue for you.

Sure — you can go with the top-of-shelf hosts which provide 100% uptime but they cost an arm and leg. Since our objective is to keep our costs minimum, we are going to use cheap shared-hosts. However, a LOT of these cheap hosts often resort of tactics — which I call “Dirty Games” — to squeeze every bit of profit from their customers.

Read this post to find out how most of these hosts try to rip-off their customers and “Rules of Thumb’ for identifying and avoiding such hosts. And yes, I will have host recommendations from my personal experience with some companies. Let’s get down to business, shall we? Read the rest of this entry »

Art Deco — while referring to my Domaining Strategy and Domain Development posts — asks:

Quoting a wise man “I keep an excel file with weekly details of how much traffic did the site get and how much money did it make from various revenue channels. If both don’t increase consistently, I know I need to get moving to grow these figures.”

With some sites it just seems like they plateau at a certain volume - maybe a 100 uniques/ month, maybe a few 1000 uniques/ month, but never enough to actually profit by either affiliates or ad cents clicks - and then they they just don’t grow much more.

It is hard to know whether to put some more time or money into them or sell them and move on. That’s what I was talking about - some way of judging what the potential of a URL is, and how many times to submit it, or add content to it, or let it be.

I assume you have to have enough domains running through your system that you develop some or list some for sale every day or every week, so when do you decide this domain is not worth holding?

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