Buying and Selling Domain Names

[webmonkey]

There use to be a time where I knew a lot of people that were domain brokering, basically buying a lot of domains that were either of names of new products coming out or just general anything they thought had value. I wonder if anyone out there is still into this kind of stuff and is it still profitable?

[kartik]

I am..

Just purchased www.hacking.co.in and am selling it now :)

Purchased it for 9 usd yesterday and already got bid of 20 usd on dp

[JTingly]

Lol nice, so you just bought it really quick and your already trying to sell it the next day? You didnt buy it just to make a site..you bought it to get more money didnt ya!

[kartik]

Yea.. well after getting really bad reviews on the domain.. I decided to make a site out of it.

Hacking word is like the most searched item on search engines.

A good seo site would probably make millions instead of selling it for 20 $ on dp .

[geline]

hmmm, nice idea but you have to be well versed on SEO, page rank and which sites would be searchable before you decide on this kind of business :)

[kartik]

Setting up a forum has always worked for me.

To kickstart it, I would mass mail the target audience and once the members start pouring in, the questions will obviously be related to the domain..

And having subdomains according to the most searched phrases would also work great.

Something like vbulletin-skin.hacking.co.in would get on the top results for the search query " hacking vbulletin skin "

Lets see how it goes, its will be developed soon

[JTingly]

Ohh, have you guys ever tried invisionfree forums? What do you think about it?

[kartik]

Invisionfree forums ?

I have heard about Invision board. I like it better than vbulletin.

Ofcourse lot of people say vbulletin rocks, but i feel invision is way better than vbulletin.

[destiny]

I got into buying domain names a few years ago with my
business partner. We registered them all with Enom at
$30 a pop EVERY year until we finally decided that the ones
we weren't using just weren't going to go anywhere and
selling them seemed almost impossible, so we let them drop.
There was a time when we had 60 or more of them.