By Wael Abdelgawad | DomainerPro.com There’s a new and widespread phishing scam going around, and it targets domain name owners. You get an email that appears to be from your registrar. I know for certain that Moniker and 007names.com domains are being targeted, and most likely others as well. The domain name will “alert” [...] Continue reading
The domain name bcfj.com is up for auction here: bcfj.com auction The bid is still fairly low (below $1,000). This is a premium 4-letter dot com domain that receives consistent type-in traffic and (for some reason) has attracted a lot of attention from Chinese buyers over the years. Put in your bid now and [...] Continue reading
By Wael Abdelgawad | DomainerPro.com If you want to be successfully self-employed, it comes down to this: Every day you must work on something that will increase your income or diversify your income sources. There’s no such thing as stability. Suppliers go out of business or raise prices. Buyers switch suppliers or cut budgets. [...] Continue reading
By Wael Abdelgawad | DomainerPro.com Domain name registrars like GoDaddy often try to push other products onto you when you register or renew a domain name. One of those products is domain name privacy, for which you pay a modest annual fee. Privacy services conceal your name and contact information on the domain name [...] Continue reading
I recently sold ChinaScore.com through Sedo. The initial offer was $500, but after some bargaining we settled on $1,325. Unfortunately the offer came from one of Sedo’s partners, so Sedo took a 20% cut – ouch! – and I ended up getting a check for $1,000. Still, not a bad profit for a domain [...] Continue reading
1. Dump Non-Performing Domain Names Domain names are investments and should be assets, not liabilities. They should either earn profit through parking revenue (profit means covering their annual registration fee plus at least 50% more), or be built into profitable websites, or appreciate in value in a way that can be measured. If you [...] Continue reading
How I turned a website with little traffic and no profit into a $10 a day profit machine Pay attention, because these are concrete, specific tips of the kind that are not usually shared in the domain name industry. I have a blog – whose name I will not furnish because I don’t want [...] Continue reading