How to Find Money Making Domain Names

Here are 7 tips for finding money making domain names:

1. Search Auctions – Many people are under the impression that the only way to acquire a domain name is to hand register a domain name that no one else has already registered. While tools like our instant domain name search make it easy to find valuable domain names like this to hand register the fact is that many good domain names can be bought for cheap at a domain name auction. Use our domain auction tools to search and compare key statistics for domain names available for sale at auctions like GoDaddy and SEDO.
2. Set Alerts – Our domain name alerts allow you to set up personalized domain name alerts that will send you an email when domain names meeting criteria that you specify are found with our tools.
3. Search Dropped Domains – Many times the owner of a very good domain name will let the registration lapse or just plain forget to renew the registration and those who are paying attention can snap up a great domain name as soon as it is available to register again. Use our dropped domain name tool, set dropped domain name alerts, and read this guide on how to catch a dropped domain to find some valuable dropped domain names.
4. Search Domain Names About to Drop – Use our domains dropping soon tool and set domains dropping soon alerts to find domain names that are scheduled to become available to register so that you can snap up any potential money makers as soon as the domains become available to register.
5. Look for Domains with Type in Traffic – Type in traffic is when a domain receives traffic from someone navigating directly to the domain name by simply typing the domain name into the URL bar in their browser without necessarily knowing the site they are about to visit. Use our type in traffic finder tool to find domain names that have type in traffic.
6. Look for Keyword Domain Names – Keyword domain names can be extremely valuable for their SEO benefit, potential type in traffic, and perceived authority by users. Search through our database of keyword domain names to find some money making exact match keyword domain names.
7. Look for Dictionary Domain Names – One word domain names that are found in the dictionary can be very valuable especially if they are commercial in nature. Try out our database of dictionary domain names to find some for yourself!

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Best Mozilla FireFox Plugins for SEO, Domaining, and Web Development

One of the reasons that FireFox is my favorite browser is the wealth of different plugins, extensions, addons, and themes that are available to use free of charge from the Mozilla community of developers. Here is a list of my personal favorite Mozilla FireFox plugins/addons/extensions for SEO, Domaining, web development, Internet marketing, etc:

1. Search Status – The Search Status FireFox plugin is primarily an SEO plugin and it lets you look up WhoIs information, backlinks, indexed pages, perform keyword analysis, highlight nofollow links, and much more for whatever domain you are currently visiting all with just one click.
2. Firebug – The Firebug FireFox plugin is a plugin designed for web developers that is an extreme timesaver for me. The plugin works by letting you see HTML, CSS, scripting, DOM information and much more in a little console box at the bottom of your browser with just one click. The feature that really sets Firebug apart though is that it will let you edit any websites style sheet on the fly and then in real time allow you to see the effect of those changes in your browser. Of course, you still have to change the style sheet on your site and then FTP it to your site to make the changes permanent but Firebug is a great way for both novice and experienced web developers to play around with the code and see how their changes affect the display of the site.
3. Colorzilla – The Colorzilla FireFox plugin is awesome because it lets you mouse over anything in your browser and it will tell you exactly what color it is both in RGB and in web safe HTML color code. Very easy to use and very useful.
4. Google Toolbar for FireFox – This one doesn’t need much explanation I would hope. BONUS: Use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+K to do a Google search in FireFox (doesn’t require the Google toolbar).
5. InFormEnter – This data entry FireFox plugin makes any field on a website a clickable drop down field where you can select information that you specify ahead of time to fill into the field with no typing required.
6. SearchKeys – This FireFox search engine enhancement plugin allows you to simply type in the number of a search result in a Google or Yahoo results page and it will take you there automatically without any mouse movement or clicking. This is pretty sweet when you combine it with the keyboard shortcut mentioned earlier. If you want to do a Google search you just hit Ctrl+K, type in your search term, hit enter, and then press the number of the result that you want to go to (i.e. press “1″ on your number pad for result #1)

Those are some of my favorites although I am sure that I am missing some that I have used in the past since I recently reinstalled FireFox on my new home office computer set up. What are your favorite FireFox addons and plugins? Also, would it be useful to you if we made any of our tools into widgets/FireFox plugins or addons?

How to Find Short Domain Names

Do you want to learn how to find short domain names? If so, here is a quick how to guide with some practical tips for finding short domains. Once you have read through this guide then be sure and head on over to our dashboard to find short domain names and all other kinds of valuable domain names!

The Search for Short Domain Names

Why do a short domain name search? Well, the easy answer is that short domain names can be worth quite a bit of money. There are of course many different factors that go into making a domain name valuable (read these 25 rules for learning how to choose a domain name to get an idea of what some of those factors are).

Everything else being equal a short domain name has quite a lot of built in value. All domain names have intrinsic value because every single domain name is unique. Short domain names are desirable because they are generally easy to remember, easy to type in, and if the right domain name is used can just flat out look great!

For example, if you were partner in the law firm Jones, Smith, Rogers, and Williams would you rather have the domain name JonesSmithRogersWilliams.com or JSRW.com? Of course, JSRW.com would be the better choice. Many domain name investors looking to buy and sell domain names for profit capitalize on this inherent value found in short domain names and buy up many different LLL.com’s, LLLL.com’s, and LLLLL.com’s just hoping to be able to see a big payoff some day when a business wanting to use that particular acronym as a domain name comes knocking.

Finding and Using Short Domain Names

Before you start to use a short domain name you have to find a short domain name! Obvious yes but finding short domain names are not always as easy as you may think, especially a short .com domain name.

Use our domain name tools like our domain auction tool, dropped domain tool, domains dropping soon tool, our keyword domain repository, and more to find short domain names because all of those tools have advanced search capability that will let you search and find short domain names quite easily.

In any of those tools simply type in the number of characters that you want to find in a domain and the tool will search laser fast through hundreds of thousands of different potential domain name options. Get started finding some money making domain names – sign up to become a Domain Superstar premium member now!

How to Make Money as a Domain Investor

Do you want to learn how to make money as a domain investor? Read this guide to domain name investing and then get started finding some domain names with long term value by using our domain name tools on our dashboard.

What is a Domain Name Investor?

A domain name investor is much like a real estate investor or an investor in the stock market. Of course, the underlying assets are different but some of the investing principles are very much the same. Just like a real estate investor looks for real estate to either fix up and flip or to buy and hold for cash flow from rental income the same is true of many domain investors. A domain name investor will look for domain names to buy with an end goal typically being to flip the domain name or to monetize the domain name so that it kicks off cash flow in the form of advertising, affiliate sales, ecommerce, etc. The process of investing in domain names is typically called domaining and the domain name investors are referred to as domainers.

Why Invest in Domain Names?

There are many good reasons to invest in domain names. It is important to understand that each and every domain name is unique and therefore has inherent value. There is only one hotels.com. Only one insurance.com. Only one cars.com. And on and on. That is not to say that every domain is valuable because some domains are pretty close to worthless (i.e. efy56u7ett90-i-09-m.info). Read this guide on how to choose a domain name for more details about what makes a good domain name.

Domain Name Investing Strategies

Just like there are many different strategies for investing in stocks (i.e. “buy and hold”, “daytrading”, “dollar cost averaging”, etc.) there are also many different domain name investing strategies. Here is a listing of some of the ways that you can make money as a domain name investor:

1. Buy and Hold – This domain investing strategy is just like its stock market counterpart. Choose domain names that you predict will increase in value and be worth much more than you paid for them years and years from now. This strategy typically works best for generic keyword domains and does not work as well with trend domain names.
2. Quick Flip – The quick flip of a domain name for profit is akin to a real estate flipper buying a house, remodeling it, and then selling it for a quick profit. This strategy works very well if you have some web development skills (or can afford to hire someone that has some web development skills), you know the domain niche market quite well, and it especially works well if you have end user (an end user being almost anyone other than a fellow domain investor) contacts to sell the domain name with website too.
3. Optimal Monetization – The domain name strategy of acquiring a domain name to monetize is done when the purchaser knows that the domain name is worth much more to them then it is in the hands of the current owner. Maybe its a big company with vast resources or even a lone individual with a highly specialized skill set that knows how to monetize domain names of a certain type and get them to making the most money possible. This strategy is best attempted by those who are ultra familiar with the niche that the domain name is in or by someone who just recognizes that even though they may not have super specialized skills that they do have a better understanding of how to monetize the domain name than the current owner.

Powerful Domain Name Investing Tools

Our domain name tools are used by anyone from small business owners that are looking to bring their businesses online to beginners looking to learn how to make money with domain names to highly successful domainers who invest in domain names for a living.

No matter what your background is there is money to be made investing in domain names. Our tools can help you find potentially very lucrative domain names over and over again.

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