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| Sorry, But Your Domain Ain’t Worth Much, If Anything Posted: 12 Mar 2012 09:25 PM PDT
At least once a week I get an email from a reader who wants to sell one or more of his domain names. He then asks me if I am interested in purchasing them myself, or if I know a good marketplace where he can sell them. The problem? The domains people want to sell are worthless most of the time. Here are some examples to give you an idea: TopCarsBlog.com, eBloggingTips.com, MakeMoneyOnlineLand.com, MaxiGadgets.com, GossipAge.com, so on and so forth. Do you think any of the domains above is worth more than $10? Well, then go register it, cause they are all available, which is the point I wanted to make. The rule of thumb is: if the domain you have was available when you registered, and that happened after 2009 or so, then it’s probably worthless as far as selling it goes. Sure, you could build a very popular website on top of it that will be worth millions, but selling the domain alone for anything above $50 is unrealistic (rare exceptions made). Domains that sell for $100 or more are premium domains which you can easily identify after a while. Those are either very short or very catchy or an exact match of a popular search term. Examples include: MakeMoneyOnline.com, CarsBlog.com, Twister.com, eGadgets.com, so on and so forth. To make things worse even the market for premium domains seems to be cooling down these days. In other words, even if you have a premium domain in your hand you’ll have a hard time trying to sell it for its value. Practical tip: forget about trying to make money buying a selling domains. A much better strategy is to develop a popular website on top of any decent domain (even ones still available) and then sell or profit from it.
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| After Blogging Died It’s Booming Again… Posted: 12 Mar 2012 08:07 AM PDT
If you have been following the news about new media and blogging you probably have seen many times over the past years the news that blogging was dying or even dead already. Social networks like Facebook and Twitter were supposed to substitute it. Well, it turns out blogging is still going strong, at least according to a new research published by Nielsen/McKinsey. Here’s the link: Buzz in the Blogosphere: Millions More Bloggers and Blog Readers
According to the research the number of both blogs and blog readers has been steadily increasing over the past years and months, reaching 173 million blogs last October. Bottom line: if you are going to spend time publishing stuff online doing so on your own website/blog is still a much better option than using a third party platform like Facebook, Twitter or Google+.
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