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Today I just want to ask you a simple question: “What’s in a name - a domain name, that is?”

Well, if you’re a domain investor, the right domain name can be worth millions of dollars. Yes, I did say millions. I know that seems incredible, but you need to understand the market for good  domain names is huge. Don’t believe me yet? Well, then check this out.

According to industry research, the domain name industry is currently worth $2 billion, and it will grow to over $4 billion by the year 2010!   That’s pretty amazing, isn’t it?  Each and every day ordinary people just like you and me are buying cheap domain names and making money with them in no time at all. And it’s simple once you know the secrets.

In the new video course and manuscript I talked about earlier, Domains Into Dollars,
you’ll learn the exact process used to buy and sell domain names every day, how they are monetized, and how to sell them to reap huge rewards. This is one ofthe fastest and easiest way to make money online.

If you want to stop working harder and start working smarter, then Domains Into Dollars may be exactly what you are looking for. After all,  you can’t make a fortune buying and reselling the same old ebooks and software, but you can make a ton of cash buying and selling domain names.

Just enter your name and email address over there, to the left, and I’ll send you my free Special Report on you too can turn your domain names into dollars.

And when you’ve had a read of the report and decided this is something you’d really like to do, check out my brand spanking new website.

http://www.thedomainess.com

Here, you can check out all the domain names that I have for sale, who knows? you might find the exact fit for your online business journey, or one you can see potential in to build into a site and sell.

You can also list your own domain names for sale, and for a very limited time, listing your domain names for sale is free!

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Last time I posted, I told you  all about the new video course and manuscript that teaches
you how to make money with domain names. Today I want to explain how you can become the master of your own domain and make money doing it!

There are many ways you can use a domain name to make money. The first way is to simply park the domain with a service that will provide you with a web page with a variety of ad links. When people arrive at your domain, they click on the links to these ads, and you make a percentage of the click-through fee. With the right domain name, you can
transform these hundreds or thousands of monthly clicks into lots of cash!

Another way you can make money with a domain is to buy a good name at a low price and then resell it for ten, twenty or even hundred times the original registration fee. Yes,  it is entirely possible to earn several thousand dollars each month all through the resale of domain names. If you don’t believe me, go search for domain names on eBay, and you’ll see tons of good names selling every single day. These could be your domain names, too!

In the new video course and manuscript I mentioned, Domains Into Dollars, you’ll find an explanation on how to use both of these techniques and many, many more to create domain name revenue in little  to no time at all. Best of all, unlike a lot of “get-rich-quick” schemes, making money with domains doesn’t cost you a fortune. In most cases a good domain name can be purchased for under $10.00! Can you imagine changing a $10.00 investment into $100.00 or even $1,000.00 in just a few days?

It happens every day, and now is your chance to become the master of your domain and make money while you sleep. Just enter your name and email address in the form over there, to the left, and I’ll send you my free Special Report on how to turn domain names into dollars.

And if you have decided this is for you, and its time to “sell the shovels”,  check out my brand spanking new website.

http://www.thedomainess.com

Here, you can check out all the domain names that I have for sale, who knows? you might find exactly what you are looking for to compliment your online business.

You can also list your own domain names for sale, and for a very limited time, listing your domain names for sale is free!

http://www.thedomainess.com 

In my last post, I told you two different ways you can use domain names to make
money consistently, each and every month. But do you hear that sound? It’s the sound of a clock ticking. And with every tick another good name gets purchased. If you want to get
in on this game, you need to do it now, before all the good domain names are gone, gone, gone.

You see there are over 100,000 professional domain traders today. And they are busy grabbing up as many good names as they can. It’s their job to do the research and testing.
And they make big, big money buying and selling names each and every day. Just like the stock market!

But if you arm yourself with the right knowledge, if you had a mentor to show you the right way to approach the domain name market, you could join these professional domain traders and start earning big dollars quickly and easily. That’s where my free report on how to turn domains into dollars can help you.

Just enter your name and email address over there, on the left, to get my free Special Report on how to turn domain names into dollars.  You’ll see examples of sites that have sold for millions of dollars. That’s great when it happens, but I assure it doesn’t happen every day. No, the average domain name sells for a few hundred to a few thousand dollars, but heck, I wouldn’t mind earning that kind of money anytime, would you?

You also get the opportunity to get a personalized video course and manuscript. Both are included mainly because some people learn better watching an expert while others
learn better by reading. Whichever you prefer, the same information is available in either format. That’s over three hours of expert video testimony and nearly 200 pages of
priceless information not available anywhere else.

And if you decide that this is for you, and it makes sense to “sell the shovels”,  check out my brand spanking new website.

http://www.thedomainess.com

Here, you can check out all the domain names that I have for sale, who knows? you might just find exactly what you are looking for!

You can also list your own domain names for sale, and for a very limited time, listing your domain names for sale is free!

http://www.thedomainess.com

Did you know that the time to make money buying and selling domain names is right now! Still don’t believe me? OK, well let me tell you little more about those three magic letters: V - R - E !

VRE stands for Virtual Real Estate and refers to domain names. back in the 1980’s buying and selling real estate was all the rage. Every TV channel carried late night infomercials about the ease of making money by using other people’s money to buy homes at a low price and then resell them quickly for profit. And they always reminded you that it’s about
location, location, location.

Well, in the new millenium, there’s no better way of making money than by buying and selling virtual real estate - domain names. And best of all, you don’t have to worry about having to make huge investments, worrying about mortgage payments until you sell your property, or even being concerned with having to deal with fixer uppers.

You see, with VRE you can buy a good domain name for under ten bucks! You can afford that can’t you? Of course, you can! Now if you added Google AdSense ads to that domain home page, you could start earning money right away through click-through advertising. Every time someone clicks through an ad, you earn money. Get enough visitors and that can turn into a few hundred dollars or more every month!

Now add some affiliate program links for related products, and you can begin earning additional commissions on sales of other people’s products, too! Think about it. There are
virtually unlimited ways to earn money. Add Amazon.com links for related books, DVDs, and more. The sky’s the limit!

But you can earn even more money when you can take a site that is generating money like this and receiving consistent traffic, and “flip” it for several hundred or thousands of dollars.

Let me show you how. Just enter your name and email address over there, to the left, and I will take you to this site right now where you can read about the huge successes people have had buying and selling domain names.

And if you decide that this is for you, and it makes sense to “sell the shovels”, check out my brand spanking new website.

http://www.thedomainess.com

Here, you can check out all the domain names that I have for sale, who knows? you might just find the exact domain name that fits your purpose like a glove!

You can also list your own domain names for sale, and for very limited time, listing your domain names for sale is free!

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What is a copyright? Can everything be copyrighted? A copyright is the expression of an idea. The idea itself is not copyrighted. Ideas can be patented and I will talk about patents later.

Let’s consider the example of a story: a poor man who found lots of cash on his way back to his home from his work. He decided to keep the cash to improve his financial situation. But he could not sleep at night because he was haunted by strange voices that told him to find the owner and return the cash. This idea cannot be protected. Anybody can write a short story based on the idea. What is protected is how the author expresses the idea in the form of texts, illustrations, drawings, photographs, etc.

Once an expression is copyrighted, others can still use it for fair use. You can tape a few 15 seconds video clips from a copyrighted TV programs and post it in your video blogs about a commentary on the program or broadcaster, etc. This will be considered a fair use and you will not infringe the copyright.

After a copyrighted material expires, it falls into the public domain. The life of a copyrighted material is the life of the author, plus 70 years. The public domain copyrighted materials can be reproduced without any infringement. For example, if you have an old picture with expired copyright, you can post the picture in your website.

In the USA, the Copyright Act of 1976 governs all copyrights. The Copyright Act does not protect any ideas, procedures, process, systems, and methods of operations, concepts, principle or discovery regardless of how it is expressed. It is the expression that is protected by the Copyright Act. You cannot copyright titles, names, slogans, and short phrases even if those have new ideas.

As mentioned earlier, the life span of a copyrighted material is the author’s life, plus 70 years in most cases. There are a few exceptions to this rule and they are: un-renewed copyrighted materials published pre-1964, materials published before 1978 without a copyrighted notice, and materials published by the US Government.

All copyrighted materials should be fixed in a tangible medium (papers, CDs, DVDs, etc.). If it is not fixed in a tangible medium, it is not copyrighted. For example, your speech to the graduating class that was never recorded, taped, or published is not protected under the US Copyright Act. Your can register your copyrighted materials with the US Copyright Office. All expressions of ideas are copyrighted regardless it is registered with the Copyright Office or not. If you register the expression with the Copyright Office, you can receive statutory damages and attorney’s fees if an infringement occurs. If the material is not registered with the Copyrighted Office, you can only recover actual damages.

A patent holder of an invention has the right to exclude others from using, selling, and making the invention. The United States Patent Office (USPTO) awards patents. There are three kinds of patents: utility, design, and plant patents.

The most frequently used patents are utility patents. They have a life span of 20 years from the effective filing date if the filing date is after June 8, 1995. A utility patent also requires periodic maintenance fees. A utility patent must be a novel, useful, and non-obvious process, machine, manufacture, or compositions of matter or improvement to the same. There are three things that define a utility patent. First, it must be novel. Nobody should have invented, published, used, or manufactured the invention before. Second, one should be able to do some thing useful with the invention. If it is just novel without any usefulness, it cannot be patented. A patentable invention should not be obvious to the person with ordinary skills in the same technology space related to the invention.

A design patent is the appearance or aesthetic of an article and it has a life span of 14 years after the patent is issued. A plant patent, as the name applies, protects a distinct plant produced asexually. It has life span of 20 years from the filing date.

A trademark is word, symbol, design, or a combination of one or more of these items. It is used to identify the source of goods or services of one company and differentiate a company’s goods and services from others. A trademark should not be confusingly similar to other existing names or symbols.

A trademark is registered with the USPTO. It can also be registered through the state’s Secretary of State’s office. If the trademark is not registered, the rights to the trademark may be geographically limited. You cannot use the symbol to represent a mark if it is not registered.

If you want to maintain a trademark for your business, you must actively use it. Just registering a trademark without using it actively will result in diminished rights over time. Never allow a trademark to become a generic word. For example, the trademark “Aspirin” by Bayer has become a generic word to represent acetylsalicylic acid. Others can use it without causing any infringement. When you see a trademark used by authors as a noun or a verb, it may become a generic word. Trademark owners vigorously pursue authors from using the trademark as a noun or a verb. A trademark should always be used as an adjective. For example, Google is preventing others from using the word Google as a verb.

Remember back in school when you learned how to spell? It almost went hand in hand with the “Don’t color outside of the lines!” attitude. It was something you were expected to do - color within the lines and spell correctly. You lost points for bad grammar, incorrect spelling, and oh yes, coloring outside the line.

If you consider words as a business commodity, correct spelling is usually put up for sale and purchased by those of us who are eager to devour it through magazines, novels, books, newspapers, membership sites, and all kinds of downloadable online content. To name but a few outlets. So, what happens to all the incorrect spelling? Where does it go?

You would think that most of it gets stomped upon and eradicated in the classroom, or by the magazine or book editor, or even the newspaper editor. And, for the most part this ib, oops, is true. Yet, with the dawn of text messaging, instant chat rooms, email, and a host of other “who cares how I spell” applications, incurrect speling is becuming the informal norm. So, who cares if you spell incorrectly? Well, despite what your teacher told you, there are people who actually want you to misspell - in fact, they’re counting on it!

Entrepreneurs like Kevin Ham from Vancouver get excited when you absent-mindedly type in prpsi.com instead of pepsi.com. Try it. The ‘r’ key is so close to the ‘e’ key on the keyboard that people mistakenly type the ‘r’ key instead. So, how much money can you make from spelling errors? According to the June 2007 issue of Business 2.0 magazine, Ham’s business is worth over $300million, with much of it coming from owning misspelled domain names that people type directly into their Internet browser address windows. In 2004, Yun Ye sold his portfolio of 100,000 domain names for $164million. Mark Schilling owns over 320,000 domain names and still works out of his home in the Cayman Islands.

In 2006 Ham hashed out a deal with the government of Cameroon in Africa - who have the ‘.cm’ country code (U.S.A. has .us, Canada has .ca, and the U.K. has .uk). Why? Many people who intend to type “.com” as part of a web address end up missing the ‘o’ of com and type .cm instead. Surfers who make this mistake end up on the Cameroon servers where the name is checked to see if it is registered there. If not, the surfer is redirected to agoga.com, which Ham claims to have upwards of 8 million unique hits per month. So, how is the money made?

For the most part, these sites contain simple “park” pages containing money-generating pay-per-click ad links that relate somewhat to the keywords used by the searcher. Each time the visitor to the page clicks on a link, the site owner makes money from that click (pay per click). Other ways these “domainers” make money is from buying popular names like greeting.com and adding a park page to it. Other than joining this bandwagon, one way you can profit from this with your site is to consider different, or even incorrect spellings people would use to access your site. Then figure what the most common mistakes would be and register those sites, and have those sites redirect to you main site.

So, next time someone corrects your spelling you can tell them about Kevin Ham. Happy domain naming!

Check out my website for some awesome top notch domain names for sale.  You can also list your own domain names for sale - and for a limited time, it’s free!

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What’s the one make-it-or-break-it item that your online business needs to stand out from the crowd and become a huge success?

The right domain name!

The domain name is what people type in when they want to get to your site the part that comes after the http:// or the www. It’s your virtual real estate address. Having something they can remember without looking it up each time or keeping it in their bookmarks to be lost among the others is the best thing you can do to get repeat visitors and word-of-mouth free traffic.

People say that all the good names are gone, but that’s about as far from the truth as you can get. Here are some simple guidelines that will make your domain name — and your business — popular and memorable web destinations.

1. Choose a Dot-Com

The number one rule is, go for the dot-com ending, which is typed as .com. This is the Main St. of the virtual real estate world, and the one that most people will type in regardless of what your domain extension actually is. While .net and .org were popular for awhile, and then .us, .biz and .name took the stage, people always revert back to .com — no matter how many fancy country code top level domains are launched into the mainstream, like .cc, .ws, .to, .cn and others.

2. Choose something memorable

You want your business name to be your domain name too, if possible. So if your flower shop is called Suzette’s Flowers, you want to get suzettesflowers.com, assuming it’s available. If not, try adding a dash, like suzettes-flowers.com or a secondary descriptive word like suzettesflowersonline.com or prettysuzettesflowers.com. If you’re creative, you’ll definitely be able to come up with something that works with your business name and is memorable for your customer.

Keep in mind that if you use a dash in your domain name, which some Search Engine Optimization experts say attracts more free traffic to your site, you have to say the dashes if you use your domain name in an audio product or commercial; so it would be “suzettes dash flowers dot com”.

Most people typing in your domain name later will not type the dashes.

3. Get another variation

If you’re lucky enough to grab a great domain name without the dashes, then you might want to get the same name with dashes between the words as well. You can put both of them up on your server as mirror sites to get the benefits of SEO as well as the ease of typing without the dashes.

You may also want to consider getting the .net or .org or even another extension to use as a sister site for your main dot com site… perhaps you put your forum on the .net, or use your .com for your main product and .net for your business background information site.

Even if you’re looking for a domain name that you don’t really think will be available, using your creativity and trying a variety of combinations should allow you to lock down a memorable domain name that will attract people to your website.

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The first thing you will need before you start your website is a domain name. This domain name is what people will type in their browsers and see at the top of every page of your website. It’ll look something like this: http://www.thedomainess.com Since your domain name is blasted all over the Internet, you want something that directly relates to what you are offering the public.

Some people don’t realize that the .com at the end of a domain name is not the only choice. You could have a .org (organizations), .net (intended for Internet service providers), .gov (government departments), .edu (educational institutions or .biz (for companies). There are some other lesser-known endings we won’t bother exploring. In addition, each country has its own code. The United Kingdom gets .uk, Australia gets .au, and so on.

The number of .com names that have not been claimed is rapidly dwindling. I doubt there are any English words.com remaining. Because of the rarity of good .com names, it may be tempting to choose a domain name other than .com that is not the best decision. The .com names have the most prestige and therefore better for your image.

Here’s your plan of action. It can be a challenge to come up with a good .com name. There are people who monitor domain names constantly. They instantly buy up any single word domain name if it becomes available, so forget about single word names. Your best course of action is to come up with a two or three word description of your website. You’ll probably have more success with a three word name than a two so concentrate on that. If you want to get ranked high in search engines, and who doesn’t, think about what your potential customers would type into a search engine. This will require some thought. The obvious search terms may be taken. You might have to add the word “the” or “an” in front on your domain name.

After you’ve come up with several three word descriptive phrases, go to a domain registration service. Godaddy.com is a common one, but it certainly is not the only one. A search on the Internet will give you multiple choices. Type in your phrase to see if it’s still available. If you’re lucky, you may be able to find an unclaimed domain your first several tries. Pay your fee, register the name and you’re now the proud owner of a piece of virtual real estate.

You can also check out my top domain names for sale, or list your own domain names for sale, at my main website:

http://www.thedomainess.com

And if you want to look further into the domain name area, check out my free special report, How To Turn Domain Names Into Dollars. Just click the link, over there, on the left hand side……

Cheers

Sharron

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With the recent explosion in the availability of website domain name suffixes (such as .eu, .ws, .cc and so on) it’s never been easier to grab a domain name that is directly related to the subject matter of your site.

For example, if you want to create a site about Persian Cats, it would make sense to use a domain name including the phrase “persiancat”. Unfortunately, however, other people have had the same idea previously, so persiancat.com is no longer available, nor is persiancat.net, .org, .biz or any other simple domain name with a top level suffix.

Furthermore, it is a fact that most people who are searching on the net are going to give first priority to sites with top level domain names, such as a .com or a .net.

At least partially, this is simply a function of these being the original suffixes, and therefore the average surfer perhaps believes that they have more credibility and authority.

This is especially critical if your website is selling or promoting your business or products, as these factors translate into “trustworthiness” in this situation.

Simply put, a top level domain name is one of your strongest sales tools.

Many people also belive that search engines will give weight to your domain name when considering your site for that all important search engine ranking. In this case, there needs to be some clear relationship between your domain name and site subject, to give you any chance of featuring when people search using Google or Yahoo.

So, what can you do? Well, here’s a couple of very simple tips that may help you to bag that all important top level domain name for your site.

First, try a plural version of your key phrase, rather than the singular version. So, in the example above, you might check out the availability of top level names using persiancats, rather than persiancat.

Truth be told, however, used on its own, this tactic is a bit too obvious, and more often than not, when the singular version of a phrase has gone, then so has the plural.

The second little trick is, however, far more effective and well worth trying if you are looking for a top level name for your site. The trick is - numbers!

Not numbers at the beginning of the domain address - that’s really “old hat” and you only have to look at a list of expired domains to see how many owners of such addresses just allow them to die. Why? Because they don’t work particularly well with either search engines or with real people - and something like “0000persiancats.com” just looks plain silly!

So, that’s not likely to be of much benefit to your site. But, numbers in the “body” of the domain name itself, especially the numbers 2 and 4, very possibly will be.

Why? Well, the number 2 is a simple substitute for the word “to” and 4 can be read as “for”.

Now, tie that in with one other little substitution trick - take the word “you” and substitute the letter “u” - and finding good top level

domain names that still relates very closely to the site subject matter becomes a relatively simple matter.

Let’s take our persiancats example to demonstrate how effective a strategy this can be. Using all three of the highlighted tricks, try searching for “persiancats2u.com” and “persiancats4u.com”. Still available? If not, how about “persiancat4us.com” or “persiancat4me.com”?

Even if all of these are now taken, all it needs is a bit of imagination to create a “.com” domain name that relates directly to your subject matter.

A simple but effective method of grabbing a top level domain name for your site.

You could also check out my top Domain Names for sale, or list your own domain names for sale at my main website;

http://www.thedomainess.com

You should also check out my free special report about how to turn

Domains Into Dollars. Just click on the link, over there, on the left hand side…….

Cheers

Sharron

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If you are like most online entrepreneurs, you’ve been struggling to grab your share of that flood of traffic that you hear about from every guru wannabe out there.

Chances are you have probably invested heavily in search engines, banner ads, classified ads or even spent a mint on so-called “safe lists” only to find yourself disappointed again and again.

There is a perfectly legal, extremely effective, traffic generation technique that, until now, has gone relatively unnoticed by the masses.

What if you could recover existing web traffic that is currently being overlooked and basically being flushed down the drain?

What if you could grab one of those prized listings in Yahoo that cost $200 with no guarantee you’ll even be included in the directory?

What if you could get that traffic for a fraction of what other advertising methods charge?

Expired domains might be an option to consider. Every day over 3 million hits of targeted traffic are lost due to abandoned web sites. Why does this happen?

Webmasters may lose interest or they don’t have the money or time to manage the site. Sometimes they just forget to renew. A large portion of these expired domain clicks come from sites that were never developed. BUT, some were once solid sites generating traffic and sales.

Expired domains is all about capturing all the effort, time and money that the previous owner developed and putting it to good use for yourself.

What if a domain name had link popularity, had a coveted dotcom (.com) extension, or was even listed in Yahoo or had Google Page Ranking?

What is Link Popularity? Simply put, Link Popularity is the number of other websites
that link to your site. Doesn’t it stand to reason that if a domain name previously had Link Popularity or was one of those coveted dotcoms or was even listed in Yahoo,
that it might have once been a thriving website?

Not only that, but with a little time and effort, you might even be able to pick up some popular domain names just for speculation or to resell on eBay! Many of the domain names that expire every day could be resold even without Link Popularity or any of the other “carrots” because they just happen to be highly regarded as a tangible asset. Short, descriptive domain names that end in a “.com” or “.net” are examples of this.

The best part is that you can get these names for the price of registering them, often for less than $10!

Even if you didn’t use the domain name to redirect traffic to your own web site, if you find a couple and sell them at auction for $25, $50 or more, that’s a pretty decent return on a very small investment.

Make certain you do a bit of homework to make sure the previous web site was not an adult site. Sometimes the domain name may not necessarily reflect the former content. There is a tool that can be used to determine the history of the site. Best of all, it’s free! Here is the link:

http://web.archive.org

If you are looking for alternative ways to generate traffic to your site, expired domains might be a good investment.

If you are interested in buying top level domain names, or listing your own domain names for sale, check out my main website:

http://www.thedomainess.com 

You should also check out my free report that shows you how to turn Domains Into Dollars. Just click on the link over there,  on the left hand side…..

Cheers

Sharron

http://www.thedomainess.com