Made Money Like This...

[beks001]

So...I own hundreds of domains....maybe its not alot to you but regardless, it's a lot to me. I use very few of them and I only actually make money on about 3-4 of them. My question is this...how many domains do you actually own? How many of them are developed? and How many of them actually are main contributors of your internet income? I've been debating whether to build them all out or to just sell or let most drop and work on some of the better domains. I hate to cut things lose tho.....lmao

[bns666]

post a list if you plan to sell so you'll get better opinion.

[HandballJim]

I had a couple thousand and decided that I only need a couple hundred, its hard just to have a couple great websites, so unless I had a staff to help me develop and update the websites I was wasting money on renewing the domains. This cut my profit 3 years in a row.

I just have some good keyword rich search domains that are special for my Japanese/Asian Cams niche. I think you get sales when people land on your website and find what they are looking for. So if someone goes to yahoo and types in Japanese Cams they find what they want and join.

You can throw a ton of shitty blind traffic at a website with no joins, but if you can target even a small amount of niche traffic to a website you will do well. Hope I am making sense?

[Dubya]

Originally Posted by HandballJim

I had a couple thousand and decided that I only need a couple hundred, its hard just to have a couple great websites, so unless I had a staff to help me develop and update the websites I was wasting money on renewing the domains. This cut my profit 3 years in a row.

I just have some good keyword rich search domains that are special for my Japanese/Asian Cams niche. I think you get sales when people land on your website and find what they are looking for. So if someone goes to yahoo and types in Japanese Cams they find what they want and join.

You can throw a ton of shitty blind traffic at a website with no joins, but if you can target even a small amount of niche traffic to a website you will do well. Hope I am making sense?

i have a decent japanese domain if you want it cheap.

[ErectMedia]

I usually own 450-700 but currently closer to the 450 mark. Fully developed a handful, slightly developed 50 or so. Most income comes from a select few where the rest are bought strictly to resell.

I have sold domains anywhere from xxx-xx,xxx and brokered a few in the xxx,xxx range. I would say if they are dead on keyword .coms develop them or try to resell them. If you are holding domains where they are less desired extensions or you can't immediately picture a perfect end user for the domain then clear some clutter and put your effort into improving your current money makers.

Renewing a domain each year where you see a potential sale is okay as quite a few of my $7 purchases that turned into 1-10k sales took years to materialize as patience is key. Renewing a domain for years where you can't imagine an end user is throwing away money which is cutting into your profits. I have some domains that I should cut loose as they were bought in bulk purchases etc... but time is a precious commodity so I'm guilty of hitting renew on 25-50 at a time as I don't have time currently to analyze them. Not much junk left in my portfolio as I'm at 99%+ .com and almost all dead on keyword domains but I think everyone has a little trash as it's hard not to once you own so many. Last time I looked through my portfolio I got surprised at a few as I forgot I owned them.

[anexsia]

I own 47 domains, 46 blogs and 1 wordpress tube that I am working on.

[HandballJim]

Originally Posted by Dubya

i have a decent japanese domain if you want it cheap.

I guess let me know what it is: parisplay69 [at] yahoo

Originally Posted by ErectMedia

I usually own 450-700 but currently closer to the 450 mark. Fully developed a handful, slightly developed 50 or so. Most income comes from a select few where the rest are bought strictly to resell.

I have sold domains anywhere from xxx-xx,xxx and brokered a few in the xxx,xxx range. I would say if they are dead on keyword .coms develop them or try to resell them. If you are holding domains where they are less desired extensions or you can't immediately picture a perfect end user for the domain then clear some clutter and put your effort into improving your current money makers.

Renewing a domain each year where you see a potential sale is okay as quite a few of my $7 purchases that turned into 1-10k sales took years to materialize as patience is key. Renewing a domain for years where you can't imagine an end user is throwing away money which is cutting into your profits. I have some domains that I should cut loose as they were bought in bulk purchases etc... but time is a precious commodity so I'm guilty of hitting renew on 25-50 at a time as I don't have time currently to analyze them. Not much junk left in my portfolio as I'm at 99%+ .com and almost all dead on keyword domains but I think everyone has a little trash as it's hard not to once you own so many. Last time I looked through my portfolio I got surprised at a few as I forgot I owned them.

Besides .coms, I have a bunch of .net and .org domains and some hyphen .com domains, search engines still like these, but other extensions is a total waste of $$$

Originally Posted by anexsia

I own 47 domains, 46 blogs and 1 wordpress tube that I am working on.

that's good you got them all in use

[ErectMedia]

Originally Posted by HandballJim

Besides .coms, I have a bunch of .net and .org domains and some hyphen .com domains, search engines still like these, but other extensions is a total waste of $$$

I have a couple .net .org .info .biz .us .mobi hell even 1 .name so nothing against other extensions I just stay focused on .com primarily as that is where most type in traffic would fall and based on 9+ years selling domains seems to be where I have been the most successful. If buyers start asking me for alternate extensions frequently then I would shift some of my own purchases there but majority of inquiries are for .com. Your angle is development so you can succeed where my angle is strictly resale so .com is an easier sale without development.

[wehateporn]

I stuck with 1 for many years, it brings over 95% of my sales. I now have 6 adult domains altogether, the 5 new sites all make a small but worthwhile amount each month, including bringing in useful Google traffic. I'll keep building them up, but will always prioritize my main site

[HandballJim]

Originally Posted by wehateporn

I stuck with 1 for many years, it brings over 95% of my sales. I now have 6 adult domains altogether, the 5 new sites all make a small but worthwhile amount each month, including bringing in useful Google traffic. I'll keep building them up, but will always prioritize my main site

I wish I would have done the same but I started out buying them to resell, then the recession hit...

[cooldude7]

i had 100+ but they were undeveloped so i let them expire to cut the reneal cost and now i own near about 40 most of them are developed ., very few are waiting to be developed or resell..

[wehateporn]

Originally Posted by HandballJim

I wish I would have done the same but I started out buying them to resell, then the recession hit...

There are pros and cons both ways, there's also the risk of Google updating their algorithm in a way we didn't anticipate. I believe the best way is to do a bit of both, but putting the majority of our time into 3 blogs maximum (from an individual perspective, if you have people working for you that's different). If our main blogs can get to the stage where they become brands, then we're onto a winner!

Having said that, if I had 1000 basic blogs right now, I might be making a lot more money than I am today, I can't know without having tried.

[drmadcat]

about 70 domains and about 15 developed