Mispelt Domain Names are growing in popularity, as domainers realize they can capitalize on people misspelling domain names when visiting websites. When typing a domain into the search bar a customer may skip letters, double letters, reverse letters or not know how to spell a certain domain name. When an address is miss-typed the user may be redirected to the correct site, an advertising site, a completely incorrect site, or no site at all.
Have you defined a strategy ?
Each and any domain name can be worth something. Also, over time, the domains will be worth more as the scarcity will increase: there are more and more people online everyday and less and less available domains.
There are probably two main strategies for you to profit from this increase in value:
Domain Sales Stay Strong in 2009
As the recession continues to plague most sectors of the economy, domain sales continue strong for 2009. The top 10 largest domain sales of 2009:
| Domain Name Sold | Sales Price | When Sold |
| Toys.com | $5,100,000 | March 15, 2009 |
| Candy.com | $3,000,000 | June 9, 2009 |
| Fly.com | $1,760,000 | February 3, 2009 |
| Auction.com | $1,700,000 | March 24, 2009 |
| Ticket.com | $1,525,000 | October 14, 2009 |
| Call.com | $1,100,000 | September 1, 2009 |
| Webcam.com | $1,020,000 | June 9, 2009 |
| Server.com | $770,000 | August 4, 2009 |
| Luck.com | $675,000 | October 14, 2009 |
| Exterminator.com | $600,000 | October 14, 2009 |
| Christian.com | $600,000 | Spetember 8, 2009 |
Insure.com
Insure.com has recently sold for whopping US$16 million recently! This is a huge increase from 2001 when it was sold for $1.6 million. Involved in the US$16 million transaction is the domain name and the website itself.
China to apply for .?? ‘Zhongguo’ domain name
China Internet Network Information Center (CNNIC) today will apply for the top-level Chinese domain name “Zhongguo”(written in pinyin), to key Internet oversight agency the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), www.people.com.cn reported Global netizens may be able to log on to the Internet with the new domain at the beginning of next year at the earliest, according to reports.
Egypt launches Arabic web domain
Egypt will open the world’s first Arabic language internet domain, its communications minister has said.
Tarek Kamel said the new domain name would be “.masr” written in the Arabic alphabet. It translates as “.Egypt”.
“It is a great moment for us… The internet now speaks Arabic,” Mr Kamel said.
IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Launch
16 November 2009, ICANN is pleased to announce the launch of the IDN ccTLD Track Process.
Non-English speakers across the globe will soon have access to the Internet addresses completely in their own lanuage. The Internet Corportation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the organization charged with overseeing the Internet’s naming and numbering systems, is today launching a process for delegating a number of internationalized top-level domains.
Any combination of letters can be worth something
All domain names have potential. Any domain can, at some point, mean something to someone. And that someone may be willing to pay lots of money for it.
A good example are brand names: everyday new businesses are formed and brands created. So a good sounding domain with no meaning may become a brand in the eyes of the marketer of a big company.
Domain Name Front Running
Domain name front running is the act of a domain registrar using insider information to register certain domain names for the sole purpose of re-selling them or to earn profit.
Often front running is conducted via popular whois searches; where some whois websites can track what you look up. (NOTE: the Above whois does not log whois searches)
DNS Errors
The Domain Name System (DNS)
is a naming system for computers or resources connected to the Internet, or a
private network. Its most important function is to translate domain names into
the numerical identifier (usually and IP address) of the computer.
The
DNS is a complex network. If any part of this network, between your computer and
the server you are attempting connect to has problems, you will receive a DNS
error. The problem can be with your computer, your Internet Service Provider
(ISP), the server you are trying to connect to, or any DNS server in between,
making the cause of DNS errors sometimes difficult to find.
