Over the last few week I’ve been in heated debates where domainers buy great names then do the research on them, but I do it the otherway around find great markets then buy the domains.
A good example is the recent flurry on Michael Jackson Domain Names recently registered (current 5,000+).
As a long term domainer I look at this quick cash grabs as just that, a few months of income then nothing.
Are you really passionate about Michael Jackson?
Can you compete with 5,000 other Michael Jackson domains?
I’ve been arguing with fellow domainers and internet entrepreneurs about finding a market/keyword that is trending upwards rather than a having a product then registering a domain.
Why?
Because without a market that’s growing what’s the point?
Sure once you hit a supply point where demand has bottom out and there is only two suppliers for a particular type of good or service ie Records or 56K Modems (remember them?) then the niche may be worth it as you’ve got a proven product but the demand is low and specialised or non existant.
56k Modem Search Trend

But.. for the most part you want growing search terms like blu-ray then find your sub niche like Blu-ray Horror movies and work your way up!
Blu-ray Search Trend

So how do you avoid being a “sheeple” domainer
The Great thing about land rushes to domain name whether it be new extensions like .asia coming online or trends in global media (like the death of Michael Jackson) the crowd will be focused on those particular domains whilst people like me are making a killing in TLD’s that some domainer names that just don’t come to mind unless you’ve got a problem that needs solving
So how to pick a Market?
First start something your passionate about it might be a particular type of flower, Book, movie, or hobby. Take a look what’s out there look at where the market growth is and what trending upwards.
- Find a Market of Buyers or growing information trend (ie Blu-ray)
- Do you keyword research (Hint check out Adwords keyword tool)
- Register Your Domain Names (At lea
Focus on purchasing at least 3 domain names with high search keyword terms used the top 3 keywords the in adwords keyword tool
Happy domaining!
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Good point Myles. I myself get caught up in over saturated trends with domains sometimes. Here you give a great example of thinking out of the box. Thanks!
-Dan
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Hi Myles,
if you are buying lets say 10 domains, it takes some time to set up everything (cms installation, content preparation and etc). What is best option – park that domain somewhere or create at least temporary front page with some related content ?
Hi Vi,
Glad you asked!
10 Domains would take me a day in total to setup manually.
Here’s what sort of time frame I use
(10mins) Buy a hosting account with a CPANEL web host provider which allows you to host mutliple domains.
(20Mins) Delegate the Domains to point to the providers servers
(20mins) Setup invidiual accounts or subdomains (pointing the domain to subdomain)
(30mins) Using Cpanel One Click install WordPress on all domains / directories.
Have a Break!
(120mins) Spend time in getting articles for ezarticles.com and articlecity.com and posting them into a notepad or word document (try and get at least 5 for each domain) KEYWORD RELEVANT
Have Another break you’re going well!
(30mins) Paste the articles into the blogs One for today and schedule the rest 3-5 days apart
(30mins) Add Google Analytics to your blog (Tip: Use a plugin this will have you hrs!)
(30mins) Add Google Adsense (My experience has been those domains I ad adsense are index by google quick than those who don’t have adsense)
Almost there have another break.
(30mins) Submit your sites to google, yahoo and bing.
Basically that’s quick way of doing this manually to get online.
I personally have a system that can register my domains setup hosting and wordpress blog etc so it’s alot faster for me.
Your instructions sounds so easy. Didn’t think about borrowing articles from article sites. Will try it.
BTW are you using wp plugin for adsense too? May be you can recommend one which is better from your practice? Thanks
I personally use
Advertising Manager is does most advertising Networks.
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advertising-manager/
I prefer this over template/theme based adsense as when you change theme’s they are lost and you have to start all over again.
I normally add the adsense to the post (Note: Make sure you only have 3 post displaying per page othewise your in breach of Adsense TOS)
Thanks, Myles. I think you could write it as separate post with all your answers you gave me here
This is a really good read for me, Must admit that you are one of the best bloggers I ever saw.Thanks for posting this informative article.