Have you tried to find a good domain name lately? If you have, chances are that you had some trouble finding one.
Try to find a decent short name, and you’re pretty much out of luck.
There are entire companies dedicated to grabbing up anything that might possibly be worth something someday.
So how can you hope to profit from all of this, especially with so much competition?
First, stop spending every waking minute trying to grab the next loans.com, or business.com, or forsalebyowner.com.
Trying to grab a name that will make you millions some day actually has a very small chance of actually working at this point.
But, there is another way that you and I can profit by picking up a few names.
One idea is to spend your time searching for names that you can use to promote your favorite affiliate program.
Pick a few creative names with keywords in them related to the program that you want to do a little better with.
A few examples:
To promote NextCard ( http://affiliatematch.com/nextcard ) and get $20 per new account, get a domain with credit, or cards, or credit cards, or visa in it.
To work on your lifetime commissions from Ken Evoy’s MYSS!
( http://www.sitesell.com/helpmakemy.html ), you can search for names with website, selling, making money from a website, or making money on the Internet.
What you are hoping to find is something memorable, but also search engine bait. If you put together several pages with reasons why your visitors should purchase the products that you are selling, you will have a better chance with search engines and directories.
Another idea is to grab a few names related to your existing website’s topic, and point them to it. You should find that this is an inexpensive way to draw additional targeted traffic to your existing site.
Now, at this point you might be thinking that this is nothing new. But what is new is the fact that the prices to register names have hit rock bottom.
Plus, there are so many great tools available to you now, for FREE that you can use to find great names.
Some great sites that I use are:
http://000domains.com – registers domains for $13.50 a year, and you can register it for only one year, or up to ten years. They are really fast, too!
http://www.nameboy.com – allows you to put in your keywords and it will give you a ton of possible combinations. This is great for giving you ideas of what to search for.
http://www.whois.net – has a cool deleted name search tool that shows you names that were registered at one point in time, but now aren’t. This could be because they didn’t pay their bill, or they just changed their mind. Again, this is a great tool to help you get those creative juices flowing.
Another option if you’re still not quite sure what domain name you would like to use, you might want to visit http://affiliatematch.com/unclaimed. They have a list with over 300,000 unregistered domain names.
Remember, the more pathways to your site you have, the better. And this is one idea that you have a little more control over.
So, you can either jump on the bandwagon with the countless others scouring the databases for the next million dollar name, or you can get creative and start earning some extra money right now!
Chuck McCullough is the author of a new ebook titled: “Affiliate Mistakes: Maximizing Your Profits From Affiliate Programs!” Get your free Email Course at: http://www.affiliatemistakes.com
