Comments on: How to pick the best domains for development from a large portfolio? http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/19/best-domains/ Finding the domain names of the future Sun, 12 Jun 2011 17:44:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Delphi Programming http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/19/best-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-13207 Delphi Programming Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:31:12 +0000 http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=954#comment-13207 Hey Barry...Fantastic post...Best domains.... Seems very interesting.... I agree to u by all ways especially logic versus emotion... :p Logic is always rite... Even I believe in this "A great domain name can help you towards success". Hey Barry…Fantastic post…Best domains…. Seems very interesting….
I agree to u by all ways especially logic versus emotion… :p
Logic is always rite…
Even I believe in this “A great domain name can help you towards success”.

]]> By: Johan http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/19/best-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-13205 Johan Fri, 20 Feb 2009 08:24:10 +0000 http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=954#comment-13205 Hey! This post matches what I doing right now (again) . I'm looking at a portfolio of about 700 hand registered ccTLD (<$1) domains (december 2008) which have been parked since then. During february 2009 I've extracted all domains not having any type-in traffic, ie no revenue or future as type-in domains - and threw them at Google with a landingpage having content related to the keyword(-s) in the domain. Happy to see that 10-20% of the domains that I would have thrown away actually receive daily traffic now. My next step is to move these domains to my WP MU area for development into mini-sites and try Adsense on them. The remaining 80-90% I'll try to sell after 6 months. When the WP MU step is done and some link building is in place, I will repeat this for my quality pages with type-in traffic. I might change approch if it takes to long to work on the low-quality sites though....need to get revenue ticking in order to get renewal money. :) Hey! This post matches what I doing right now (again) . I’m looking at a portfolio of about 700 hand registered ccTLD (<$1) domains (december 2008) which have been parked since then. During february 2009 I’ve extracted all domains not having any type-in traffic, ie no revenue or future as type-in domains – and threw them at Google with a landingpage having content related to the keyword(-s) in the domain. Happy to see that 10-20% of the domains that I would have thrown away actually receive daily traffic now. My next step is to move these domains to my WP MU area for development into mini-sites and try Adsense on them. The remaining 80-90% I’ll try to sell after 6 months. When the WP MU step is done and some link building is in place, I will repeat this for my quality pages with type-in traffic.

I might change approch if it takes to long to work on the low-quality sites though….need to get revenue ticking in order to get renewal money. :)

]]> By: Barry http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/19/best-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-13201 Barry Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:32:42 +0000 http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=954#comment-13201 Hi Ross Logic versus emotion? Evolution versus religion next? Just kidding. Passion is the driving force that will keep you optimizing a website even when it is not performing as well as you want. It takes you through the goodtimes and bad. Balancing that with good business sense though is the tricky part. You have to love what you do but you need to treat it as a business too, I think. There is no substitute for experience either in developing websites or in the subject matter of the website. Agree completely. And, readers, always feel free to tell me I am spouting rubbish. I do not offend easily at all. :) Hi Ross
Logic versus emotion? Evolution versus religion next? Just kidding.

Passion is the driving force that will keep you optimizing a website even when it is not performing as well as you want. It takes you through the goodtimes and bad. Balancing that with good business sense though is the tricky part.

You have to love what you do but you need to treat it as a business too, I think.

There is no substitute for experience either in developing websites or in the subject matter of the website. Agree completely.

And, readers, always feel free to tell me I am spouting rubbish. I do not offend easily at all. :)

]]> By: Ross http://www.predictivedomaining.com/2009/02/19/best-domains/comment-page-1/#comment-13200 Ross Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:14:23 +0000 http://www.predictivedomaining.com/?p=954#comment-13200 I like the scientific approach to this but in all honesty you should pick the domain with potential that you feel passionate about. It will become more work and likely to fail if you pick something you are not interested in or do not know much about. Picking a name that you feel for and have experience in comes natural and has a higher rate of success. Yes this is where emotion does actually take effect on a business. I like the scientific approach to this but in all honesty you should pick the domain with potential that you feel passionate about. It will become more work and likely to fail if you pick something you are not interested in or do not know much about. Picking a name that you feel for and have experience in comes natural and has a higher rate of success. Yes this is where emotion does actually take effect on a business.

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