The title is about domains! In my last post I got a question how much money I make from the domains that make little traffic. The answer is that it really depends. First take a look at this screenshot, put your attention to the CTR:

It’s a few of my parked domains. Take a note of the 2nd and 3rd domain. They perform very well. (Note that the 3rd one had just been parked for 10 days when I took this screen.) These two domains are product trademarks.

Then look at the one which had 3,788 visitors. It performs really, really bad. It’s a typo of a community.

So what decides how well a parked domain will perform?

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The overture keyword suggestion tool once was very popular for finding domains with traffic even before the domains were registered. If you didn’t already know, it works like this. When users have a toolbar using yahoo search installed, they sometimes type the domain into this instead of the address bar of the browser. Both the main domain and also misspellings of it will register as keywords in the overture tool. This makes it possible for domainers to check for alot of misspellings of many domains, buy the ones with traffic, and monetize them with parking programs.
Nowadays this tool is almost constantly down or very very slow, probably due to overload.

So what to use now instead? Maybe paid keyword tools would do it? I haven’t tried. Read the rest of this entry »

So apparently there’s a gold rush for .in (India) domains going on. .in domains are currently selling for like $16.99 but the price on some registrars is said to go down to $3.96 on October 15, for the first year. Also people are selling lists of all currently available LLL.in for like $10. I thought fuck that, so I let my own whois script run over night between October 12 and 13. And I have now come up with my own list, which I am releasing here for free!

Alot of these domains are probably taken by now as the list is more than 1 day old.
Here’s the text file: List of available LLL.in

Updated October 18: List of available LLL.in updated There are still over 4k available LLL.in!