Flip Your Domains

The Essentials of Domain Flipping

Jul 28, 2008 Domain Flipping

Buy a Domain that best fits your ideas of a website or your product lines.

Let’s say you want to a write about castles in Ireland, and then find a domain name like irelandcastles.com…

Or if you have a good product line of e-books to sell, then you should buy a domain name such as E-booksforsale.com.

Tip: Find an expired or dropped domain that is relevant to your product lines, they are often highly recognized and may give high profits later on!

Check What’s Up in the Latest Trends!

Find what’s in and what’s hot! Make a list of the most wanted products or info that the online market is craving for! This would help you decide which domains to choose.

Tip: Take into consideration the age, gender, location, and income of your target markets, this will help you get the profits you want.

The Secrets of Niches

Find a good niche, optimize it and with the right techniques applied to it, a good conversion is definitely on your way. The hard to find ones are the essential ones; this would define a good niche eh?

Tip: Choose the niches with high volume searches but has low advertisers on it. It is a bit lower in value and thus you’ve just bought a cheap yet high quality domain!

Jazz Up your Site!

Create unique themes, designs and fill it up with the necessary images and videos to make it more attractive. The most important for jazzing up your site is to create good and informative contents!

Tip: Always look at your site as if you were the customer! This will help you find the bad points in your site and thus you could easily renovate it.

Be on the World Wide Web!

Once you’ve jazzed up your site, be sure to register it in hosting sites that give cost-effective services just like Godaddy.com. Now you’re ready to target your markets and convert them into sales!

Tip: Canvass the best hosting services available and choose the ones that will fit for the timeframe that you set when marketing your domain.

Generate Traffic

This is all about your online presence and its impact on the web. Make sure that you promote it and create high ranking links to it. You could also join affiliations to get into the circle of the established ones.

Tip: You could hire someone who knows the flow around it but be sure that you’ll only pay for those that bring good results or else it will ruin your budget.

Reap the Fruit of Your Success!

This is the point where you’ve fully optimized and renovated your domain and is now on its way to be auctioned for the value that it deserves.

List them in popular buy and sell sites such as e-bay, namepros.com, websitebroker.com and the list goes on…

Tip: Avoid posting in advertising in forums where you’ll get low or cheap offers!

Here’s a quick view of the latest domains that was sold with the highest values from DN Journal:

	Domain	Sold For	Where Sold
1. tie	Ringtones.org	$120,000	Moniker/ T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East
1. tie	Revolution.org	$120,000	Sedo
3.	Voitures.fr (”cars” in French)	€50,000 = $78,935	Sedo
4.	FilmMaking.com	$55,000	Moniker/ T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East
5.	Annonces.fr (”advertisements” in French)	€30,000 = $47,361	Sedo
6.	Rainbows.com	$45,000	Moniker/ DomainerMeeting
7.	Kudo.com	$40,000	AfternicDLS
8. tie	Sprints.com	$35,300	Moniker/ DomainerMeeting
8. tie	LonelyWives.com	$35,300	Moniker/ T.R.A.F.F.I.C. East
10. tie	Taxi.us	$35,000	Sedo
10. tie	AGuide.com	$35,000	AfternicDLS
12.	EverestGames.com	$33,333	Sedo
13.	PhoneAccessories.com	$25,000	Moniker/ DomainerMeeting
14.	2in1.at	€15,000 = $23,681	Sedo
15.	SS.tv	$21,500	Sedo
16.	ChicagoLoop.com	$20,000	Pvt Sale
17.	HialeahPark.com	$17,500	AfternicDLS
18.	Kinderwagens.nl (”baby carriages” in Dutch)	€10,000 = $15,945	Sedo
19.	PrimeHotels.com	$15,700	AfternicDLS
20.	Bingo.us	$15,000	Sedo