How to Find a Good Domain Name for a Business
If you want to learn how to find a good domain name for a business then you have come to the right place. If you want to get right down to business and find a great domain name for your business right away then use our quick and easy domain name finding tools.
Our Type-In Traffic Finder is a great place to start to find business domain names that match exactly keywords searched in Google every month.
Our Instant Domain Name Search is a tool that searches for the availability of a domain name instantly just as quickly as you can type.
For some tips for finding the best business domain name first read our comprehensive guide for how to choose a domain name that includes 25 rules for choosing a domain name. Business domain names should definitely adhere to almost all of these 25 rules – in some cases it is even more important than a domain name for personal use.
Ok, now that you have read the 25 rules here are a couple more things that you should keep in mind before choosing a domain name for your business:
Choose the Legal Name of Your Business Wisely
If you are just starting your own business and haven’t yet chosen a legal name for your business then before you incorporate or form an LLC (we recommend MyCorporation.com – from the makers of QuickBooks) first check to make sure that any potential names for your business are available to register as a domain name.
For example, if you have a list of potential business names and only one of the 3 potential names has a domain name available to register then you should probably lean towards registering that domain name for your business and choosing that corresponding legal name for your business.
Keep Your Customer Base in Mind
When choosing domain names for a business many owners do not think long term in regards to their customer base. If you own a local catering business in Portland and all of your customers are in Portland and you have no aspirations at all for expanding outside of Portland then a domain name like PortlandCatering.com could be an awesome choice.
However, if you are thinking some day you might like to expand outside of Portland then maybe you should plan for this eventuality from the start and purchase a domain name like OregonCatering.com or maybe a name that is not region specific like ClassyCatering.com or JonesCatering.com.
On the other hand, you need to balance the desire for expansion with the desire to appeal directly to your niche. Make sure you don’t aim for too broad of a customer base or you may end up shortcutting yourself. Define your customer base and target market very clearly ahead of time and then choose a business domain name that would appeal to that niche.
Balance Clever with Professional
By all means be creative when choosing your business domain name. After all, our domain name tools are designed to stimulate your creativity and give you a ton of different high quality choices of domain names for your business. That being said, balance your creative juices with a desire to make sure your business maintains a professional image.
Some businesses may be able to lean a little more towards the creative side of things (i.e. a website design firm, a graphics designer, any type of business where creativity is a highly prized competitive advantage) where other types of industries should definitely lean more towards accentuating their professionalism rather than their creativity (i.e. an accounting firm, a law firm, a financial advisor, etc.).
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How to Look up the Owner of a Domain Name
If you want to learn how to look up the owner of a domain name then here is a quick way to find out who owns a domain name AND all it takes is a couple of clicks.
Every domain name that is not privately registered will have the contact information for the owner of the domain name. If a domain name is privately registered then the domain name will have the contact information for the registrar of the domain.
To do a quick domain name owner search simply enter in the URL at the GoDaddy WhoIs Lookup Tool.
After you have done some quick and easy domain name owner lookups using the WhoIs tool then be sure and check out our other domain name tools to find yourself some great domain names.
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Afraid of Getting Outranked by Big Corporate Sites? Here’s How to “Stick it to the Man”
One of the biggest fears of many domain name owners and SEO’s is working hard to choose a profitable niche, layout a strategy, buy a domain name, build a website, and then market the website only to see their success dwindle when a big company comes along and uses their considerable resources to outrank them.
Whether you are a beginning SEO working out of your dorm room or whether you are the head of a big time search marketing agency – come on, you know that you have had that thought before haven’t you? Here is one thing that you can do to alleviate some of those fears and give yourself a better night’s sleep: choose the right domain name.
“Choose the right domain name?” you say. “That is all of the advice that you have for me!?” Bear with me. Here is why.
Every Domain Name is Unique
Every single domain name is unique. No one else on the planet can have the same domain name as you.
If you build 100,000 backlinks then your Fortune 500 competitor can certainly use their vast resources to build 101,000 backlinks. If you hire a professional writing service to churn out 100 articles a day of high quality content to publish to your website then your Fortune 500 competitor could BUY a professional writing service (or a newspaper for that matter – and pretty cheap these days) and have them publish 1,000 high quality articles a day to their site.
Almost anything you do to market your site a competitor with more money and resources than you can duplicate and take to the extreme to outrank you. It sounds a little bit depressing but remember there is no free lunch in SEO just as in life. You have to work at it. SEO is best thought of as competitive webmastering because that is exactly what it is. Of course in a competition the biggest and the best (those with the most resources) usually win. Not always but usually.
Notice that I said almost in the first sentence of the above paragraph. The one thing that a Fortune 500 company with billions of dollars CANNOT duplicate is your domain name.
How the “Small Guy” Can Get A Leg Up
Imagine this scenario. Let’s say that you are a part-time SEO working for yourself out of your bedroom on a couple of vitamin websites that you own. Your biggest competitors for your target keyword of “vitamins” are huge corporate sites like GNC.com, VitaminShoppe.com, VitaminWorld.com, etc. All of these companies have vastly more resources than you. However, (drum roll please) you own Vitamins.com.
Guess what. As the owner of an exact match keyword only domain (definition) you have a sustainable advantage that any of these big competitors absolutely cannot copy (unless you sell them your domain name and of course you get to decide whether you want to sell the domain name or not).
With the weight that Google and other search engines place on a domain name that is an exact match keyword only domain to the searcher’s keyword or keyword phrase then even with limited resources working out of your bedroom you can very well outrank many of your bigger competitors based in large part on the strength of your domain name (of course, there are other factors involved and yes, you actually have to work hard at it to provide solid content and build links – remember, it’s competitive webmastering – but having the domain name that matches your target keyword exactly is half of the SEO battle).
“Stick it to the Man” by Choosing the Right Domain Name and Dominating that Niche
So what does this all mean? Am I telling you to go out and try to buy Vitamins.com or Cars.com or Loans.com? No, of course not (unless you can afford it 
). What I am telling you to do is to concentrate on finding a great domain name that is an exact match keyword only domain name to maybe a longer tail keyword in your target market and then own that keyword.
For example, I wrote a post about how to use data from the Google Adwords Keyword Tool to find domain names that match exactly keywords returned from the Adwords tool (Watch Me Hand Register Keyword .com Domain Names Worth More than $100). While it may not be in your budget to be able to buy Vitamins.com you can most certainly afford to pay the regular registration fee of under $10 at the registrar of your choice to buy a domain name like DailyVitaminC.com, BuyVitaminC.com, or CheapVitaminC.com each with 3,600, 1,000 and 110 average monthly Google broad match keyword searches according to the Google Adwords Keyword tool and all available for anyone to hand register as shown by entering in “Vitamin C” into our Type-In Traffic Finder Tool as of 2/25/09 at 3:05 PM EST.
You can stick it to the man. You can maintain a competitive advantage over the big corporate sites that cannot be duplicated. You can do that with the right domain name.
What do you think?
How to Monetize Domain Names
If you want to learn how to monetize domain names then be prepared because there are a lot of different domain monetization tips to research. The easiest way to display all of the different domain monetization methods is with a list. Here are some of the best ways to monetize domain names:
1. Google Adsense
Google Adsense is the king of domain monetization as far as popularity and ease of use. You can literally have money making ads set up on your domain name with just a couple of clicks and some copy and paste action on your end.
Adsense is a Pay Per Click (PPC) advertisement in that advertisers pay Google every time someone clicks on one of their text, image, or video advertisements and Google in turn pays you the website owner a portion of that money.
It is important to distinguish Google Adsense from Google Adwords. They are both very similar yet the difference is that Google Adsense is the publisher side of things where the advertisements show up on websites that are run by webmasters using Adsense and Google Adwords is where advertisements show up next to and on top of Google’s regular search results.
Note: to use Google Adsense you must have a privacy policy on your website and actually have some unique content published to your website unless you use Google Adsense for parked domains (see #3 below for more information on making money by parking your domains).
2. Affiliate Programs
Almost every major website has some sort of affiliate program. In fact you can check out the Domain Superstar Affiliate Program if you would like to earn some money by referring people to our site to sign up for premium membership.
An affiliate program is used by a merchant to pay its affiliates when a user clicks on a special affiliate tracking link. Different affiliate programs are structured different ways. Some affiliate programs pay per sale, others pay per lead, and still others pay per action. Some of the features to look for in a merchant that you would like to have an affiliate relationship with is timely payouts, high converting offers, and cobranding.
You can join a merchant’s affiliate program directly if the merchant has an in house affiliate program although many merchants use a 3rd party affiliate network like Commission Junction or LinkShare.
3. Domain Parking
If you thought that using Google Adsense to monetize your domains was easy then parking your domain is even easier.
All that you have to do to make money parking your domains is to just point your domains nameservers to the domain parking company of your choice and then voila they take care of the rest.
Typically a parked page will show PPC ads similar to Adsense (in fact Google Adsense has recently made a foray into the domain parking business) although some parking companies will fill your domain with some type of content.
4. Selling Advertising
If any of your domains are built out into websites and have some traffic then one option for making money with your domain names is to sell advertising. This is pretty straightforward. You can use a service like to sell advertising for you or you can sell the advertising space yourself.
5. Selling Your Own Product or Service
Of course what might be the best way to monetize a domain name is actually selling your own product or service. While there is certainly more work involved in dealing with customers/clients, managing inventory, etc. there is also huge potential upside to sell your own product or service.
Find Great Domain Names to Monetize
Now that you know some of the different ways to monetize domain names then get started using our domain finding tools in our dashboard to find yourself some great domain names to monetize!
Do You Make These 7 Mistakes When You Develop Your Domains?
Ok, so you already know how to choose a domain name, you know how to choose a hosting plan, etc. etc. You may know how to do all of that BUT if you are making the plunge into domain name development and shooting to make quite a nice sized chunk of change then you had better plan ahead to make sure that you do it properly. Are you making any of these 7 mistakes when you develop your domains?
Mistake #1 – Forcing All of Your Domains into the Same Business Model
One of the biggest mistakes that you can make when you develop your domains is to treat them all the same. If you do this then you will most likely leave a lot of money on the table. This is even more true with premium domain names.
While it is certainly important to find a winning business model or domain monetization strategy and then scale it quickly (see #2 below) – you should only scale and duplicate your business model across domain names from your portfolio that are similar in nature. Do not assume that just because the best way to monetize your mortgage domain names is with a mortgage lead generation affiliate program then that a lead generation affiliate program of some sort is the best way to monetize your music lyrics domain names as well.
Treat every new niche as a chance to craft a new business model. Stay away from blanket statements like “AdSense is never the best way to monetize a domain name” (that is usually true though by the way) or “You should sell advertising on all of your websites”. Take the time to plan out your business model and do it before you begin designing your site.
Mistake #2 – Failing to Scale Your Web Development Efforts
By all means put up a test site to work out some of the kinks in setting up an affiliate program, or creating a membership site, or creating a downloadable ebook BUT once you have put your business model into practice then scale your solution across all of your sites within that same niche.
To quickly scale up your web development efforts then consider using a combination of the following solutions:
1. Wordpress – (Wordpress is much more than just free blogging software and can very easily be used as a CMS for an entire website. Minus our domain tools dashboard this entire site is run on Wordpress).
2. cPanel/WHM – Choose a host that offers cPanel and WHM (Web Hosting Manager). Some of my favorites include HostGator and HostMonster. Along with being compatible with the other mass website development options that I will mention below and offering many other features cPanel also offers an install of Wordpress with just a couple of clicks.
3. Mass Account Manager – MAM is a software package that you upload to your server and use to interact with WHM and cPanel to create and manage multiple packages and accounts. Using this software it is a cinch to create hundreds or even thousands of accounts on your server so that each of your domains will be set up and ready to go. MAM also has functionality to allow you to schedule cron jobs to mass upload files across multiple sites via ftp. This means that if you want to update a file or folder on say all of your nutrition sites then you can just with a few clicks instead of having to connect via FTP to every single one of your sites that you want to make the change on.
4. WP Auto Installer/WP Auto Upgrader – These 2 Wordpress plugin (not free) are well worth the price if you are planning on installing Wordpress on a lot of your domains and want to keep them upgraded to the newest version of Wordpress. You may think that you don’t have to worry about purchasing plugins like these but let me tell you once you start to install and manage more than 10 or so Wordpress installs on different domains then it can quickly become a huge time suck if you don’t plan ahead to scale your efforts with these plugins.
5. WP Cloner – This plugin is my absolute favorite Wordpress plugin (not free and again well worth the price just like the preceding plugins) and I use a lot (until I get around to writing my own list of Wordpress plugins Michael Fortin has a great list). WP Cloner allows you to clone the pages, settings, themes, options, posts, categories, you name it from one Wordpress blog onto as many others as you would like. This is a huge time saver and it is pretty flexible as far as being able to select via check box which things you would like to clone over and which you would like to just leave alone. Just like MAM this plugin is also another great way to update multiple websites at once although with WP Cloner of course you can only update your sites that have Wordpress installed and with MAM you can update all of your sites whether they have Wordpress installed or not.
6. Manage Multiple Blogs Plugin – I confess that this plugin is not one that I have used myself but I keep meaning to try it. I also would like to try out Wordpress MU and although I do not know too much about it I know that Barry Goggin of Predictive Domaining does and I may have to see if I can get him to weigh in on it in detail (I did buy his ebook and it is pretty well detailed and full of good information but it does cover a lot of basic Wordpress material for the first portion).
7. Premium Wordpress Themes – If your site looks like crap then people won’t buy. There I said it. Now I feel better. Go out and purchase some high quality premium Wordpress themes from a place like WooThemes or Studio Press (formerly known as Revolution Two – this site currently uses a modified version of the Revolution Church Wordpress theme developed by Brian Gardner). If you are smart and thinking ahead then you will buy a developer’s license so that you can install the themes on as many different domains as you want.
Mistake #3 – Letting Your Site’s Content Get Stale
This is self explanatory. Some niches will need more attention than others. At a minimum you should keep some kind of website tracking sheet so that you can periodically check up on your websites (even the ones that you are not continually adding fresh content to). Again, this is where using a very easy to use free software package like Wordpress can be a huge time saver.
Mistake #4 – Failing to Market the Site
Sure, I will give it to you that sometimes it is a good strategy to just put up a quick website with a couple of pages of original and well written content so that the domain can at least get indexed by the search engines and start to age a little bit. However, if that is all you are doing with all of your websites then you may be in for a rude surprise when all of the type-in traffic that you were expecting doesn’t necessarily monetize as well as you had hoped. Build backlinks to the site slowly, participate in the community of the niche that the site is in (leave blog comments, post in forums, etc.), and slowly but surely your marketing efforts will start to pay off.
Mistake #5 – Ignoring Basic SEO
It is really amazing to see some web developers ignore or just flat out violate basic and commonly accepted SEO good practice guidelines. When you are building a lot of sites at once it can definitely be easy to overlook common things like adding a keyword rich title tag, properly structuring your site’s internal link structure, arranging your site into a properly themed silo structure (since I am in the mood to mention a lot of good Wordpress plugins here is another good one: Virtual Silo. This plugin makes creating silo themed Wordpress sites a snap)., etc. If it helps make a list so you won’t forget. If you don’t know where to start or you just want to stay abreast of what is happening in the SEO world then purchase the SEO Book membership from Aaron Wall or go get a PRO Membership from SEO Moz.
Mistake #6 – Thinking You Know it All
If you want to consistently build great sites and scale your web development up so that you are publishing to more than just a couple of websites then you need to be willing to learn. Do all you can to study up at places like TUTS+ or enlist the help of a mini site developer like Bradley from Site Graduate. There is always something that you could use to sharpen your skills or someone who can offer some fresh insight.
Mistake #7 – Giving Up at the Wrong Time
Notice that I did not say that just plain giving up is a mistake. Why? Because sometimes quitting a particular course of action can be a smart business move. However, make sure if you quit it is for the right reasons and not just because you would rather watch TV for 6 hours every night and stuff your face with Twinkies (although you could of course actually still keep working from your laptop while doing both of those things but anyway…) Read The Dip by Seth Godin to figure out when you should quit and when you should persevere.
Getting Started
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Watch Me Hand Register Keyword .com Domains Worth More than $100
Want to hand register .com domain names that are an exact match to keywords that have profitable Google searches each and every month? Of course, what domainer wouldn’t?
The catch often is how to find those exact match keyword only domain names and calculate if they are worth the hand registration fee. Well, watch me as I attempt to hand register some .com domain names that hopefully we can all agree are worth more than $100.
Step 1: Choose Profitable Niches
The first step is to choose some niches that are profitable. For the purpose of this exercise let’s define profitable as keywords that have a Google CPC (Cost Per Click) of $1.00 or higher and more than 1,000 average monthly Google searches according to the Google Adwords Keyword Tool.
Let’s start with a list of some of the top paying Adsense keywords that we can get here, here, or here.
Of course, not all of those niches will work. We can discard the pharmacy, porn, and casino related keywords and concentrate on some of the other “safer” niches like finance and health. Let’s grab some of the keywords that we like and head on over to the Type-In Traffic Finder Tool. This tool will pull data from the Google Adwords Keyword Tool and check the availability of all domain names related to the keywords that we enter into the tool.
Step 2: Find Available Related Domain Names
The trick with using the Type-In Traffic Finder Tool is to first enter in general keywords and then look at the related keyword results returned by the tool to see if any of those available names are attractive and if not then start to enter some of those more specific related keywords back into the tool to drill down and find some great .com keyword domain names available for hand registration.
Let’s enter in “student loan” into the tool and see what comes up:
The first available domain name that the tool returns is studentloanconsolidationinterestrates.com. Kind of a long domain name but it has potential because it matches the keyword phrase “student loan consolidation interest rates” exactly and it seems like this keyword phrase is a phrase that is very commercially oriented (i.e. high CPC and shows strong user intent). Just to make sure let’s now take a look at the Google Adwords Tool and see what the CPC is for “student loan consolidation interest rates”:
Wow! $39.12 CPC. Very high. It looks like studentloanconsolidationinterestrates.com is a winner predominantly because of its extremely high CPC but also because of its search volume (1,000 average searches in Google alone every month). Even if one was to decide to just write a simple one page article and slap up some AdSense ads then this domain could very well turn a profit after only a few clicks with that kind of extremely high CPC. Yes, a domain name that is this long will probably not get much if any type in traffic BUT it should be quite easy to rank for the keyword phrase “student loan consolidation interest rates” even if one only has the most basic SEO knowledge – all due to the exact match of the keyword to the domain name + .com.
Let’s try to find a couple more good ones. Let’s enter “incorporation” into the Type-In Traffic Finder:
There are a ton of very good domain names available in the “incorporation” niche. I personally like incorporationcertificate.com. Let’s take a look at what the CPC is for “incorporation certificate”:
“Incorporation Certificate” is a very respectable $3.97 CPC and I also notice that the plural version “incorporation certificates” has a CPC of $8.70 with average search volume of 260 times per month so I check to see if the plural is available as well using our Instant Domain Search Tool:
Yup, the plural version is available so I decide to grab both of them and probably just redirect the singular to the plural. incorporationcertificate.com and incorporationcertificates.com have a combined average monthly number of Google searches of 8,360 and a CPC of $3.97 and $8.70 respectively. These 2 domain names are definitely worth more than than the registration fee that I am about to pay and prob worth more than $100.
Step 3: Purchase the Domain Names
The 3rd and final step is the most obvious. I need to actually purchase the 3 domain names (note the date and time on the invoice and then note the date and time of this post):
Find Some Great Keyword .com Domains for Yourself!
Now you have seen how simple it is to find great keyword .com domain names in lucrative niches that are exact matches to keywords with significant search volume. Use our Type-In Traffic Finder Tool or our Keyword Domain Repository (our database of domain names that the Type-In Traffic Finder and our proprietary Domain Spider have found previously) to find some great domain names now!
Domain Superstar Launch: 25 Best Domaining, SEO, and Internet Marketing Websites, Forum and Blogs
To kick off the launch of DomainSuperstar.com I thought that it would be fun to show people a little bit about who we are and what we want to accomplish by yes, talking a little bit about us but also making a list of our favorite blogs and websites in the SEO, domaining, and internet marketing niches.
In a nutshell, we are all about trying to help you find great domain names – over and over again. Whether you are a full time domainer that wants to be able to weed through a lot of the junk available in auction domain names and find the gems (you can do so using our All-in-One Domain Auction Tool or our personalized Domain Alerts), or maybe you are an SEO that wants to grab a great exact match keyword only domain name (like those you can find using our Type-In Traffic Finder or Keyword Domain Repository) to help you rank for a specific keyword phrase, or maybe you just want to find a great domain name for your business (you can find it quickly using our Instant Domain Search Tool) – we can help.
You can view a description of how all of our tools work by selecting a tool from the drop down menu at the top of the page, you can compare the features that free vs. premium members will have access to on our pricing page, and you can access all of our tools directly to try them out right now for free by navigating to our dashboard.
Without further ado, here is our list of the very best domaining, SEO, and internet marketing websites and blogs that we love to visit and read.
Best Domaining Websites, Forums, and Blogs
1. Domaining.com – Domaining.com is of course the owner of the absolute best domain name possible in the domaining niche and the content of the site matches the premium domain name. Francois (the owner) has been adding some very cool new features that serve the domaining community as of late including a domain name marketplace, customizable domaining news feeds, and more.
2. Chef Patrick – Chef Patrick is a key example of a person who has chosen to go the route of using and marketing a very brandable domain name (this requires more work than using a generic keyword domain name but he appears to be pulling it off quite nicely). Chef Patrick offers a great mix of content that has recently included videos of weekly domaining news.
3. Rick Schwartz – Rick’s blog is the home of the “Domain King”. Rick could very well be considered one of the Godfathers of domaining. He is a founder of the ICA (Internet Commerce Association), and he is CEO, President and Co-Founder of eRealestate.com and T.R.A.F.F.I.C.
4. DN Forum – Great domaining related forum.
5. Name Pros – Another great forum for discussing domain names and everything related to the buying and selling of domain names.
6. Domain State – Top domain name forum with a LOT of posts to read through and learn from.
7. DotSauce – Mark Fulton is the Founder and Editor of the DotSauce Domaining Magazine and has really done nice job.
8. Elliot’s Blog – Elliot Silver’s blog about all things related to domain name investing and domain news. Elliot has some very nice in depth posts on a wide range of domaining related topics.
9. Predictive Domaining – Predictive Domaining is a blog that is run by Barry Goggin who is a full time scientist and a member of the NY Academy of Sciences but a domainer on the side who manages to keep his blog updated quite frequently with some pretty good stuff.
10. DotWeekly – DotWeekly is a weekly domain name blog run by Jamie Zoch. DotWeekly has a number of great domaining resources.
11. Domain Habit – A domain name forum with not quite as many posts as some of the others but has some quality content and discussion nonetheless.
Best SEO Websites, Forums, and Blogs
12. SEO Book – SEOBook.com is run by Aaron Wall and the blog is constantly updated with very high quality SEO and internet marketing nuggets.
13. SEO Moz – The SEO Moz team headed up by Rand Fishkin is continually on the cutting edge of Search Engine Optimization. A great source for both beginner and advanced SEO learning.
14. Search Engine Land – Chock full of SEO information and information related to all things search.
15. Stomper Blog – The Stomper Blog is a good source of SEO information.
16. JenSense – Ok, ok the JenSense blog isn’t truly about SEO as Jennifer Slegg focuses on all things related to contextual advertising (both with Google AdSense & the Yahoo Publisher Network) but still worth a read to broaden your knowledge of how the search engines “think” (it’s pretty much all about money).
17. High Rankings – Known more for their SEO newsletter, the Jill Whalen High Rankings Newsletter is a very popular newsletter for search marketers.
18. SEO Roundtable – Solid SEO information and SEO news.
19. Search Engine Journal – Loren Baker’s Search Engine Journal is a tried and true place for great SEO news and information.
20. Matt Cutts – Of course you knew that the blog of everyone’s favorite Google engineer would be in the list didn’t you?
Best Internet Marketing Websites, Forums, and Blogs
21. Digital Point Forum – THE forum for learning about everything related to internet marketing, search engine marketing, coding, graphic design, copywriting, and more. Really this forum could be in any of the above sections as it is quite literally the most active webmaster related forum currently on the Internet.
22. MichaelFortin.com – Michael Fortin’s blog focuses primarily on copywriting and marketing tips as well it should as he is the “Internet’s number one copywriter”… and actually very well could be.
23. Shoe Money – Shoe Money’s blog (run by Jeremy Schoemaker) is quite possibly the most entertaining of all of the blogs on this list and one of my personal favorites. Jam packed full of very practical tips and advice for succeeding in internet marketing.
24. Copy Blogger – Copy Blogger probably takes the award for most consistently offering extremely high quality material. This stuff is so good that it really almost shouldn’t be free.
25. Perry Marshall – Perry Marshall is an AdWords guru who isn’t afraid to tell it like it is. Perry has a great way of just plain telling the truth in a way that if applied will tend to make some people a lot of money.
Submit Your Favorites
I know that I am bound to have forgotten some of the best. Submit some of your favorite domaining, SEO, and internet marketing related websites, blogs, and forums via the comment form below and then check out our tools for finding some great domain names today!
What is a Premium Domain Name?
Whether you are looking to buy or sell a domain name it is important to ask yourself first, “What is a premium domain name?”. After all if you are the seller you do not want to sell a premium domain name for less than you should and of course if you are the buyer then you most certainly would like to be able to get a bargain on a premium domain name and purchase one for less than maybe it is really worth.
Read on to learn some criteria for judging whether a domain is considered a premium domain name or not. (The following tips will be just a few of the things to keep in mind. To read a more in depth article that contains 25 things to look for then read our how to choose a domain name guide).
After you are done reading through the premium domain name guide then head on over to our domain auction database to find some great premium domain names and regular domain names at bargain prices.
1. Perceived Value – The perceived value of a domain in the domain marketplace will have a lot to do with whether a domain name is considered premium or not. As a general rule of thumb if a domain name is for sale (and has bids) for more than $1,000 then there is a good chance that it is a premium domain name. This is not a hard and fast rule of course but just a rough guidelines. Yes, yes, maybe the really particular folks will say that a truly premium domain name will sell for a minimum of $10,000 or $50,000 or what have you but generally speaking the $1,000 mark is a a good place to start.
2. Memorable – The more memorable the domain name the more it is worth. If a domain is easy to spell, is short, is easy to pronounce, is potentially brandable, doesn’t have different variations on the way it could be spelled, and ends in .com then chances are you are looking at a premium domain name.
3. Generic – If a domain name is an exact match keyword only domain name (i.e. petfood.com is an exact match keyword only domain for the generic keyword phrase “pet food” while petfoodabc-online.com is not). Use our type in traffic finder tool and our keyword domain repository to find only domain names that are exact match keyword only domains.
4. Commercial Intent – The more commercially oriented a domain name is then the more valuable it will be. For example, a decent domain name in the “mortgage” niche may be more valuable than a decent domain name in the “rosebushes” niche.
5. History – A domain name’s history plays an important role in helping to determine whether it is a premium domain name or not. The longer a domain name has been registered then generally speaking the more valuable it is. This is especially true for those who are interested in developing the domain name by adding a website and marketing the website as the age of a domain is an important ranking factor for Search Engine Optimization (SEO) purposes.
There you have it. Those are 5 quick things that can help you when you try to determine, “What is a premium domain name?” Of course, there are many factors to be considered and this is just a brief overview. To read a more in depth guide then read our a fore mentioned guide on how to choose a domain name. Use our domain name tools to find yourself a great domain name today!
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What is a Sub Domain Name?
What is a sub domain name? A sub domain name is a domain name that is a part of a larger top level domain name.
An example is probably the best way to explain what a sub domain name is.
Let’s say that you want to buy a domain name so you head on over to GoDaddy (a popular domain name registrar). While you are over there you have some questions and need to get help. You stumble across their help center which has the URL http://help.godaddy.com. This is a perfect example of a sub domain. In http://help.godaddy.com the “help” portion is the sub domain and the “godaddy” portion is the top level domain. Many webmasters set up sub domains to better categorize their site.
Another common way of categorizing a site instead of using subdomains is to use folders. An example of using a folder system to categorize a website instead of a sub domain would be if GoDaddy had decided to create a “help” folder. If they had then the URL to visit for help would be http://godaddy.com/help rather than the sub domain of http://help.godaddy.com.
That’s it! You now know what a sub domain is. Get started finding yourself a great domain name by using our tools today!
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What is the Purpose of a Domain Name?
Many people just starting to learn about domain names and websites will ask, “What is the purpose of a domain name?”. Well, a domain name can have many different purposes. Read on to learn some of the most common purposes for a domain name and then use our tools to find yourself a great domain name!
Here are some of the more common purposes for a domain name:
1. Exposure – The most basic purpose of all for a domain name is for the owner of the domain name to have whatever they choose to put up on the domain name’s website gain exposure on the World Wide Web.
2. Profit – One purpose that many have for buying domain names is that the domain names will make them money. They hope that they will either be able to park the domain name and collect money through the use of Pay Per Click (PPC) advertisements, develop the domain name by building a website on the domain, or resell the domain name in the future for a price greater than they paid for the domain name. In fact, there are even domain name professionals called domainers that do just these 3 types of things.
3. Fun- Of course we can’t leave out the fact that owning a domain name is just plain fun. One of the major purposes of a domain name is to bring joy to the owner and users. If you want to start a blog or build a website about your favorite rock band or put up a showcase of your graphic design work then its a cinch with a domain name and a website.
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