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Morgan Linton had an good post a while back titled “A $329 Click On A Parked Page?” I have been investing in domains long enough to have seen just about everything, including a few big money clicks, once I remember a domain that normally made about a dollar a day made over $1000 one day for no apparent reason. But the best story I have was the $100,000 click, seriously a $100,000 click, but read on before you break out the champagne.
It was 2000 and IdeaLab had made a deal to market the country of Tuvalu’s .tv ccTLD to anybody that wanted one and they were really pushing them, but with a twist, they were taking the real premium domains like Sports.tv, News.tv, Movie.tv, etc and putting huge annual fees on them, like $100,000 and up a year for some of the big words. This is what made me think you could probably also do this with good .com’s, lease premium names?
I jumped on the .tv bandwagon and made a site that promoted the extension, they had an affiliate deal going with Commission Junction so I was trying to get folks to register .tv names through my site and if they did I would get 10% (yes, I still feel a bit guilty lol). I made a few bucks from regular $100 a year registrations people were making through my site (if I remember correctly a regular reg was $100, ouch). Then one day I logged into my CJ account and saw I had a $100,000 commission, WOW, I jumped up and down and screamed and danced around with my wife and popped open a bottle of champagne and lived for an hour or so with the thought that I had just made a $100,000 commission on .tv registrations, it was one of my finest hours lol.
An hour or so after breaking out the champagne I thought I would call IdeaLab president Bill Gross (we had talked a few times before) to see what $1,000,000 in names were registered that had made me $100k commission, unfortunately it turns out it didn’t happen, an IdeaLab employee was testing things and did some test registrations through my site and affiliate link, Bill had told me he liked my site before so I know they knew of it.
I was very skeptical but after lots of back and forth and talking to the legal folks at CJ I was finally convinced that there was no actual sale and I was not getting a $100k commission. Now I know to wait until the money is in the bank before I break out the good champagne.
Here are the domain picks dropping on May 26th 2013:
AphrodisiacsForMen.com – Aren’t most men horny enough already?
BestDealToday.com – This might not be the best deal today but it might have some value
Complimented.com – I get complimented all the time, and cursed
DownloadPlanet.com – I like the planet suffix, I have sold a few for decent $$
FacialSecrets.com – This is how I keep my Steven Tyler good looks
iLoveKitty.com – Ahhh, how cute
MDRealtor.com – Maryland Realtor. Did you know the word Realtor is a registered TM?
Mirako.com – I don’t know what this is, a name maybe? Sounds nice whatever it is
Muddling.com – If it’s a word .com it gets listed whether you like it or not
OklahomaAppraiser.com – Unfortunately lots of this going on right now
OutsideWorld.com – Decent name for a site related to The Great Outdoors
Salarie.com – I don’t usually list typos but I think it’s also a French word?
Shamela.com – A name perhaps?
WackyStuff.com – I like it, I can’t believe wacky.com sold for less than $12k last week
XXLClothes.com – Extra Extra Large Clothes
BostonTerriers.net
CamChatrooms.net
CarnivorousPlants.net
Lasted.net
PornoWebcams.net
EarnMore.org
EarnMoreMoney.org
eBargain.org
HelpingOut.org
iMac.org
Enchantment.me
Lofty.me
Playschool.me
Truman.tv
Tweens.tv
Make sure you also check out Domain Shane’s Big List of names.
Domain of the day: Mojo.tv – Make me an Offer I can’t refuse!
Thanks for looking…
I can’t even think how you felt after you learned that there was no $100k commission…
Like a rich man lol…
As they said, don’t count the ducks until they start quarking
Glad at least that $1000 not turned out to be under test mode. “it was one of my finest hours lol”. I guess it was not just a finest hour but your domain name business’s finest humor hour. Your list is fine and I think xxlclothes.com is something I rate high because it’s very targeted with (C) hige and (GMS) of 210. Complimented is also nice.
I saw this cat tearing away the meat of the bird and all the blood over the whiskers mouth.
After that, she dug a hole and take a big poop. One of her paws caught the poop when she covered the hole with soil using her paws.
I can tell because this cat is white. After that, she starts licking the poop off her paws and the blood.
God knows the owners start lickin the kittie….
Now I feel I should have tried harder for iLoveKitty.com today lol…
I am still waiting for your May27 blog because I have a domain question to ask the master.
I am trying to get it together but it’s Sunday and I have bikinis in my yard so priorities lol…
Send me some pictures….
Speaking about bikini:
…”oh Honey, I need your hands on my skin..”
that the line from one of the Bond movies I was watching last nite. Ha ha ha