Flipping domain names or websites has become one of the “urban legend” centers among the many methods of making money online. Nearly everyone involved in Internet Marketing has been told at least one story about businesses or political campaigns paying $100,000 for a brandable domain to “keep it off the market” or to use it themselves. The truth is that there is a nice and in some cases, lucrative revenue stream in the various methods of buy and selling domain names or a Website.
Probably the purest form of flipping domain names, is the purchase of a specific domain name as an investment. This is referred to as “Domaining” and it involves buying and holding a domain name because of a perception about future value. This often involves a short, targeted domain in the .com category. Who hasn’t wished that they had been the first to see the value of a domain like hotels.com or flowers.com? Continue reading »