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When looking to invest in domains, you have to identify keywords which are searched online. Those keywords can then be expanded into domain names.
For instance, if I want to create a portfolio of car related domains, I may look for car.com, usedcar.com, cardealer.com, buycar.com, etc…

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Misspelt Domain Names

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.

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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:

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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

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Insure.com

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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.

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China to apply for .?? ‘Zhongguo’ domain name

chinaflag.pngChina 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.

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Egypt launches Arabic web domain


egyptflag.pngEgypt 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.

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IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process Launch

 
icann-logo.png16 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.

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