Making money from domain names

So, you missed out on the Great Gold rush, and you missed the Great Land rush and what about the great Oil rush? Did you invest money in MicroSoft in the early 80's? Google in the 90's? Do you feel like all the great "Wealth" opportunities have passed you by? If you have been reading the news lately, especially the Tech and financial sections, you have obviously seen many articles about "Hot property--web domain names" Wait a minute you say? Am I back in the late 90's? Have we seen this already?

Well."thereeeee back" How can there be a "rush" for domain names? All the good domain names were taken (registered) back in the late 90's right? How can there be a huge demand for domain names if there all gone? Well, guess what. Those are the names the rush is on for. Those and any decent two or even three word domain names that have been registered since then. Any name that is easily remembered and easily spelled, even phrases, are hot properties.

Why, you ask? Several reasons. More and more people are typing a generic name or phrase into their browser instead of doing a Google or Yahoo search. If your interested in getting information on Loans, the probability of getting good information at Loans dot com is much higher than doing a search for "loans". We assume that a Loans dot com site is going give us very specific information as opposed to a page full of links to God knows what that you would get in a search. So when your quest for information can be boiled down to a simple word or phrase, your odds of getting good information is much better by typing in that word or phrase. This is referred to as "Direct navigation" and you will see it referred to a lot in articles about the Hot Domain name business. And that direct navigation is what makes some names so valuable. If you have a name that gets thousands or tens of thousands of searches a month, how much do you think that traffic is worth? It's like having a business on a very busy avenue in Manhattan rather than a back country road in Alabama. Its all about traffic. Internet traffic is Dollars. No matter what your selling, the more traffic, the more sales.

Other ways of making money from domain names are PPC and Adsence. With ppc you just sign up with a PPC provider like DomainSpa. They build a website that has relevant ads for your domain name, everytime someone clicks on an ad, you get paid. Or build your own site and add Google Adsence ads. Earn money on each ad clicked.