.info domains to just redirect to affiliate product?

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hello all,

I'm probably asking another stupid question but...

I was on the godaddy website a few minutes ago and they are selling .info websites for £0.51 and I am wondering how I can put these cheap domain names to good use.

What I am thinking is that I could create a few info domains on keywords that I have been thinking about, write a few articles and just have the domain redirect to a specific affiliate link, I am specifically thinking about links to amazon products but I might choose other things.

Is this a worthwhile exercise?

I have been doing a bit of reading about selling clickbank products, I am based in the UK and most of what they sell are American based so I have not given it serious consideration just yet, but if I could have these just redirect to products and write ezine articles, it might be worth a go.

One last question, I asked it in another post but it got overlooked. How exactly does copyright of domain names work?

This is how I understand the process of long tail niche marketing to be. You find a product, lets say tv, you then keep going down, so say 'Sony', then 'sony bravia', then maybe model 'br75657' which would mean you create a domain with something like sony-bravia-br75657 and then you create the website around this?

But I am now reading that if you use brand names the companies can either get a court order to get you to close it down or ask for the name to be transfered. How exactly does this work?
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  • This is actually done quite often and is a worthwhile exercise
    Yep this is the way it works (sometimes)...IMHO you are better off getting a site like TVReviews.com (or something) and putting your reviews on their own page so you get something like TVReviews.com/sony-bravia-br75657

    or even using subdomains so you get sony-bravia-br75657.TVReviews.com
  • You are correct if you use a branded name there is a chance you can lose it. This usually doesn't happen until your site gets too popular. I have experimented with .info with some success.

    Using it as a blog or review site seems to be the best choice.

    I also don't recommend godaddy for lot's of reasons, like they are too big for their britches and can take your site offline for the littlest infraction or complaint.
  • How often have you done a google search and actually saw a .info domain come up in the results?

    In our past experience during the adsense days, it was a waste of time and money, even when they are so cheap.

    Kevin
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    • Redirects for Ezinearticles, Youtube, etc. are a very good use for .info domains, even if you prefer not to build a site on them. You can get nice short keyword-rich domains that aren't available in .com.
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    • I appreciate that there is very little chance of getting them to rank high, that's why I was thinking of just using them solely for redirecting traffic to one product and inserting the links into articles. I read that some article directories are funny about using direct affiliate links, so I would need to have domains.

      When you say during the adsense days, what do you mean? Is adsense on the way out? I have just started thinking about making an information website and was planning on adsense being the way to make some money from it. Am I beat before I start!

      I have just recently created my adsense account, and I noticed adsense for domains. Is there a way to use info sites with this? I don't even understand quite how adsense for domains works as I read their terms and you are not allowed to direct traffic to it.
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    • This does beg the question, have you ever searched for info on Noam Chomsky? How about regular expressions, roman coins or craft ideas? Maybe you've never needed to do some research to find out if New York was a sanctuary city or to find out something about New York transit. Oh, and have you thought about moving your money to a local bank before you go shopping on Black Friday?

      (hint for the ignorant, Google on the bold terms)
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    • Thanks for the detailed reply.

      Firstly let me say that I know nothing!

      With clickbank I have only had a look for a few hours and it was in the educational section that I was looking, everything I looked at was written or designed for the American education system, I couldn't find one thing that applied to the UK.

      Now, I know what I have just written sounds like I haven't grasped the idea of the internet yet but what I mean is, I am finding it hard to use clickbank products to complement existing websites that are UK orientated.

      I will start looking at products that can be just marketed as they are without having to narrow myself to a particular nationality.
  • I don't think you can find keyword domain now days!
    almost all of them are registered!

    And yeah , don;t register domains with brand names in it. Your domain might be seized by the company.
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    • Yes, you can find keyword domains (I have lots), but you have to look a bit harder and have tools like MicroNicheFinder that can help. New keywords are being created all the time (like 'ipad'), plus I read recently in a domainer's ebook that 40,000 domain names per DAY become unrenewed and available for re-purchase.

      So never think that all opportunity is long gone!

      Sue
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