BrandBucket.com & Facebook Advertising
While I have never done any Facebook advertising myself and don’t ever really plan on it either I have wondered from time to time though what kind of conversion rate different domain name related Facebook advertisements typically pull.
One example of a nice looking site that I noticed that was advertising brandable domain names on Facebook is BrandBucket.com. I can see how a small business owner could find the “Brands” section of BrandBucket.com very helpful in either finding a domain name or at the very least getting some ideas for their domain name search.
Would anyone like to share any of their experiences (successes/failures/whatever) in advertising anything domain name related on Facebook?
Tips from ProBlogger on Monetizing with Amazon Associates
If you have not subscribed to the RSS feed of Darren Rowse AKA “ProBlogger” over at problogger.net then I would strongly recommend that you do so.
His latest post is a great example of not only top notch content on how to monetize domains with the Amazon Associates affiliate program but also a case study in and of itself on great writing, great organization, and a great headline.
Check out his post titled 11 Lessons I Learned Earning $119,725.45 from Amazon Associates Program and let me know what you think!
Office.com: Microsoft Snares a Great Domain Name for MS Office Online
According to Mashable Microsoft just acquired the domain name Office.com and will most likely use this domain name for the online version of Microsoft Office. I have to say, nice job Microsoft on nabbing the perfect domain name for the MS Office web only suite. You can read the full story by clicking here.
Domain Name Statistics
I certainly do not agree with everything that this article says in regards to choosing domain names but I did find some great domain name statistics mentioned. You can check out the full article by clicking here but here are some of my favorite pieces of domain name information that Preeti Pradhan of Smashing Magazine put together:
1. All 3 letter possibilities are gone on .com
2. All 4 letter words are depleted on .com
3. The most popular registered domain name length is 11 characters
4. There are 255,000+ domain names that are 32 characters or longer
5. All of the top 10,000 family names are registered as a domain name
6. The most common letter to start a domain with is S
7. More than 270,000 domains contain the sequence SEX
Top ccTLD Registries by Domain Name Base, 1st Quarter 2009
1. .cn (China)
2. .de (Germany)
3. .uk (United Kingdom)
4. .nl (Netherlands)
5. .eu (European Union)
6. .ru (Russian Federation)
7. .ar (Argentina)
8. .it (Italy)
9. .br (Brazil)
10. .us (United States)
I have not verified all of these domain name stats but I thought they were definitely interesting. How do you think that these statistics will change over time?
