Anyone for a vodka.com ? That’ll be £1.5 million, please
Fascinating article on the Guardian’s tech section about the trade in web names being worth millions. Basically, buying a domain name before someone really wants or needs it for their commerce is not any different to speculating on any other investment.
It’s long been a mild obsession of mine to try and bag a really good domain that someone might want, but I’ve never got near. Yet. Sometimes, as the article points out, it’s just good to gather the real estate in the first instance – because it’ll all go eventually, just like buying real land. If someone, someday wants to come and build their skyscraper on your real estate, then you’re quids in. But only if !
Posted by Dave Haygarth
on Sunday, March 16th, 2008
in Internet Marketing, Internet trends, Pay-Per-Click, Web news.
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March 18th, 2008 at 12:44 am
Interesting to read about Kevin Ham who makes $70m a year from
these domains and also has a deal with Cameroon so that people mistyping .com as .cm end up on his site (.cm basically being the .com of cameroon). I always find it so annoying landing on one of these “parked” domains, but every click on a link on these pages generates a few pence for Mr. Ham (and for Mr. Google). We have a couple of parked pages with Google AdSense ads on them and every now and again we get a cheque from Google. Thats without even trying!