Gotta love seasonal domains when they're in season...
 

RentCollegeBooks -dot- com...registered it off the drop a few months ago (don't even remember why), hadn't been getting much traffic initially but it had been ramping up this month and seems to be all type-in. Then Monday came and it started going nuts (well, relatively nuts) on revenue - guessing many colleges' fall semesters started on Monday? Anyways, good stuff:

Date - Uniques - Revenue
Monday, August 24, 2009 - 15 - $14.14
Tuesday, August 25, 2009 - 12 - $7.38
Wednesday, August 26, 2009 - 16 - $12.24

Not much but these 3 days alone is 400% the reg cost...would be nice if every registered domain did this, I would have retired already. :pimp Just surprised the traffic is that well paying.

pretty cool keep up the good work :thumbsup

Very nice. :)

What parking service is that?

What parking service are you using? I don't currently park any of my domains but this might be good for some type-in traffic domains I don't use.

nice job man

BigJumbo...if you've ever heard of Skenzo it's like a Skenzo Lite...Skenzo I think requires 1 million or more uniques per month to get in while BigJumbo requires roughly $500/mo in portfolio earnings (in fact that's their min payout). They're tough to get used to at first - no click data and you have absolutely no settings on the domains - everything is completely auto-optimization. However, the auto-optimization is pretty good, probably the best of any parking co I've tried.

Skenzo/BigJumbo used to be far and away the best in adult parking but that was when they had an Ask feed and then Google pulled the plug on that, so adult earnings there is a mixed bag now, but I've found certain things here and there pay out pretty well there. I had a lot of domains pertaining to the DTV transition and converter boxes and was getting sometimes as much as $2-$3 per unique. That said, it's still not much different than other parking places - some stuff does better there, most stuff probably does better somewhere else, only finding that "somewhere else" is the pain in the ass sometimes. They are a good hands-off set and forget parking site though and I've parked a good chunk of my domains there since I joined up a few years ago.

just curious what are you looking to sell this domain for?

Honestly am not sure - if you have an amount in mind, lemme know and I'll consider it.

I was watching CNN on Monday and there is this guy that talks about how to save money. They showed him few times and he was always talking about a "rent college books" website and how much he loves it. It's chegg.com and people probably didn't remember it, so they just typed in your domain.

I think that's it. Send them an email and sell them the domain.

Well here's August's full stats...prior to August it was doing only about 6 uniques a month so as you can see it did ramp up:

8/1/2009 1 $-
8/6/2009 1 $-
8/8/2009 1 $-
8/11/2009 1 $-
8/12/2009 2 $2.55
8/13/2009 2 $-
8/14/2009 4 $1.15
8/15/2009 1 $-
8/16/2009 6 $1.91
8/17/2009 11 $3.02
8/18/2009 14 $1.64
8/19/2009 3 $0.76
8/20/2009 10 $2.67
8/21/2009 10 $1.99
8/22/2009 7 $0.61
8/23/2009 8 $2.37
8/24/2009 15 $14.14
8/25/2009 12 $7.38
8/26/2009 22 $15.52 (yes, up another $3+ since this was originally posted)

The CNN story was the 17th from the looks of it, but looking at the traffic starting to go up some prior to then, I'm not sure if much of the traffic is attached to that or not. It would appear some is but college has started in more places too surely, ergo more people searching for this stuff and typing the domain in.

Looks like Chegg already has RentTextbooks.com which is a far better name searchwise. Good to know of them though - may be worthwhile doing affiliate with them.

Renting textbooks is definitely a good idea - wish that shit was around when I went to college - they cost an arm and a leg to buy and collect dust and/or reseller for shit after you're done with the classes.

hmmmm $200 via paypal, think about it, going to sleep now will check back tomorrow...you can also email me at handballjim [at] yahoo

Gonna have to decline that. Based on what last month's search #s show (480 avg/mo searches for the term I think it was), I would probably seek that much if it had no traffic. As it is, today marks the 4th day in a row it's earned more than $10 (at close to $12 now with 6 hours left to go) and even if the traffic may well go down soon, how soon I'm not sure. I think I'll know more of what I'd seek for it once early September rolls around so I can see what the search #s are for this term "in season" now, plus that'll give more traffic stats to go off of.

Nice, thanks for the info. :thumbsup

FYI, being another new semester now, things have heated up once again. Overall it's earned another $262.14 since you posted your offer, and this month it has done the following:

Saturday, January 02, 2010 4 $0.93
Sunday, January 03, 2010 3 $0.00
Monday, January 04, 2010 7 $3.13
Tuesday, January 05, 2010 4 $6.61
Wednesday, January 06, 2010 8 $4.56
Thursday, January 07, 2010 3 $2.42
Friday, January 08, 2010 1 $2.94
Saturday, January 09, 2010 4 $1.18
Sunday, January 10, 2010 2 $4.27
Monday, January 11, 2010 5 $5.58
Tuesday, January 12, 2010 11 $7.74
Wednesday, January 13, 2010 10 $8.07
Thursday, January 14, 2010 9 $9.50
Friday, January 15, 2010 8 $5.87
Saturday, January 16, 2010 7 $2.34
Sunday, January 17, 2010 5 $1.73
Monday, January 18, 2010 6 $12.53
Tuesday, January 19, 2010 23 $10.24
Wednesday, January 20, 2010 14 $16.46
Thursday, January 21, 2010 8 $18.48
Friday, January 22, 2010 6 $4.10
Saturday, January 23, 2010 6 $1.86
Sunday, January 24, 2010 2 $1.27
Monday, January 25, 2010 4 $4.18
Tuesday, January 26, 2010 * 14 $8.36 (* means not done adjusting yet - given the traffic it may adjust up which it's done sometimes)
Total in January thus far: $144.35

So yea, $200 wouldn't do it. :) Sorry for necro'ing thread but I've had a lot of people here in the past question why I price some names what I do or why I'd turn down certain offers or something, and figured I'd illustrate it with this name. It's in an upward trending area making its money on pure type-in traffic on a parked page and in this case I made more than the offer I received in less than 5 months. In fact, this in-season period appears like it will make well over 50% over the revenue of last in-season period - upward trending showing in the revenue it's making.

Nice to know that...good job!

Nice job. :thumbsup

No shit. I just spent almost $1,200 on this semester's books for my son and daughter. Spent about the same amount last September... :Oh crap

They usually release 'new editions' every year, so not sure how rental can work...

Why the hell are we still using textbooks in school?

I mean does anyone use books to research anything anymore??

Books dont have a search function....

I think one DVD with PDF files would fix the kids up...

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and no.. I would not sell that domain for 200 neither...


Big B
Schwingin it...

what service are you using to monazite the clicks?

whoa, nice earnings from typeins :)

Very nice job.

I registered HoustonGlobal.org after it was dropped. I loaded it up with some worthless page and put Analytics on it only to find out that it doesn't get any Google traffic. I went to check it out and the domain is banned by Google (whatever previous owner did – it does have some good backlinks though, including one from MichaelMoore.com). However with shitty no-page, it's been generating more than $1 a day off of AdSense so after 1 year when time came to drop it, I saw over $500 in earnings so I renewed it even though it's banned by Google. I do jack shit on it. After I bought it, I invested 10 minutes of work into it and it's generated nice few hundred dollars in exchange. Banned or not, I'm keeping it for the time being :P

I've gotten a few drops for reg fee with similar earnings and I'm always asking myself why can't I just find another 100 domains doing the same thing so I can sit back and not have to lift a finger.

LOL, so banned in Google but earning money from Google. Whatever works!

It's actually amazing sometimes what a crappy minisite can do. We had one on a domain with a phrase with 1x,xxx searches per month. Obviously parked it's a cold day in hell to get rankings for a term like that, but as it happened, maybe a month after we put a minisite on it (which was horrible at getting content to fit the sought keywords), it was ranked as high as #3 on Google for the term, was getting nearly 100 uniques a day and was making a couple bucks a day. Keep in mind the only reason parking pages are not high in rankings is because Google specifically targets and penalizes them. I've had a number of cases in the past where some slipped by and ranked highly for nice profitable terms...once was making about $4-$5/day on a blackjack domain that was page 1 in Google for its term for a few months.

Mentioned elsewhere in the thread - BigJumbo.com, a Lite version of Skenzo.com which one day I hope to qualify for.

Yea that's the killer. I've had cases where I managed to snag typos early on of a rising poker site, only for the site to eventually go bust, so there's cases like that too where the names aren't earning money forever that make it harder too. I have means of finding traffic domains but even with that I'm lucky if 5% of those names that I get make their reg fees back in the year let alone make a nice profit like this name has been. BTW, as I figured it ended up adjusting yesterday's earnings up to $13.12 - still truckin!

It's amazing what some typos can earn. I once knew someone who owned a .org of a very popular poker site that op'd on both .com and .net. The take? $700 a DAY. Yes, 6-figure earnings on 1 domain, and actually today it's probably higher since that site has grown even popular.

good deal

Wow, wonder if he was redirecting to the .com site via their affiliate link. Seems weird that many people would type in the .org.