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Just bought a dot-co domain. Need ideas - Park it/Adsense it/CPA it ?

by ajax3592
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I bought this (dot)co domain today called 18year(dot)co not even hosted it yet.
Thought holding it for 3-4 years could fetch good $$$ out of it. What do you guys suggest:

- I simply park it at Sedo/DNS
- Build a blog with 18+ posts on it (I guess only adult stuff with go with this keyword) and join 18+ affiliates
- Make it an amazon review site
- Or simply leave it as it is with no hosting and and hold it for 3-4 years until (dot)co domains gets real hard to buy then auction it

How's the future for (dot)co domains. Should I hope to get 6-figures $ with this particular domain name ? Or am I being too over-ambitious. I read (dot)co is the next big thing after (dot)com
#bought #domain #dotco #ideas #it or adsense #it or cpa #park
  • Profile picture of the author CynthiaNataline
    Yes, .co is supposed to be big in coming years but about your question, what's your passion? What are you good at? If you can build a blog, then you do that for the next 3-4 years like you said you'd be willing to wait, then it can be so huge compared to only keeping it. If you're good at ecommerce and want to do Amazon, it can also be huge, too. Not to mention flipping it in the next 3-4 years. It can be even much sooner than that if you plan to flip it. An earning site can be flipped for high bids. So it really depends on what you're good at. Once you know, keep doing it over and over again.

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  • Profile picture of the author dougp
    Originally Posted by ajax3592 View Post

    I bought this (dot)co domain today called 18year(dot)co not even hosted it yet.
    Thought holding it for 3-4 years could fetch good $$$ out of it. What do you guys suggest:

    - I simply park it at Sedo/DNS
    - Build a blog with 18+ posts on it (I guess only adult stuff with go with this keyword) and join 18+ affiliates
    - Make it an amazon review site
    - Or simply leave it as it is with no hosting and and hold it for 3-4 years until (dot)co domains gets real hard to buy then auction it

    How's the future for (dot)co domains. Should I hope to get 6-figures $ with this particular domain name ? Or am I being too over-ambitious. I read (dot)co is the next big thing after (dot)com
    This question is unanswerable. You invested into something know you want use to tell you what to do? Next time, think about what you want to do before you invest, because just because you read something online that .co domain names is a good investment doesn't mean that it will manifest that way. Also, if you think you can make 6 figures from a .co domain name WITHOUT building a solid business on that url then you are simply out of your mind.
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    • Profile picture of the author Steve B
      Ajax,

      Dot com is the premier extension now and it will be in the future. I don't buy anything else. Prices are at least partially driven by scarcity and good dot coms are more scarce than anything else and it will probably remain that way for the foreseeable future.

      What does "18year" have to do with anything? Are you hoping that 18-year-olds will spend lots of money on your product or service? I'm failing to see why you're excited, especially since you don't seem to have a plan to monetize the domain.

      I'm glad you're excited as passion is important in IM. But I honestly fail to understand your reason to hope your new domain is going to make you rich ("I hope to get 6-figures $ with this particular domain name.")

      I encourage you prove me wrong,

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      • Profile picture of the author ajax3592
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        I'm a product photographer/graphic designer. My passion is researching pc hardware and making configurations for different budgets. I can suggest good diets/exercises for weight loss. Also I can suggest home made remedies for treating diseases. (In-depth 2-3 years research on these niches)

        dougp, Steve
        I've been reading many different methods for money-making on forums, so it has confused me on what to start with.

        I saw parked .co domain names for sale on Sedo and that made me buy this domain. I mean ok 6-digit is a bit exaggerated, but I could see many .co's for 10k $ on sale with no pages whatsoever on the actual website, just parked-website-look.

        Today was the first day of my action. "Youtube videos + Sharecash/Cleanfiles Surveys on LP" seems do-able to me for now. Maybe I can make this as my landing page for now.
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        • Profile picture of the author onqdirector
          Originally Posted by ajax3592 View Post

          I've been reading many different methods for money-making on forums, so it has confused me on what to start with.

          I saw parked .co domain names for sale on Sedo and that made me buy this domain. I mean ok 6-digit is a bit exaggerated, but I could see many .co's for 10k $ on sale with no pages whatsoever on the actual website, just parked-website-look.
          This might be the most ridiculous forum post I've ever seen. Why buy a domain you don't know what you're going to do with it? Why buy a .co? Why do you think you can make money with it bc you read about people making money online?

          6 Figures? HAHA laughable. The .com version of this exact same thing wouldn't even get 6 figures probably not even 4. You are bat shit insane. I think you should apply at McDonalds and save yourself the aggravation its very clear you will never even make a single dollar online. Anyone can list and TRY to sell any domain for any price. Just bc their are .co's listed for 10K doesnt mean people are paying for them. Maybe if you had a dictionary word .co that would be something of value but surely 18year.co is worth zilch.... Smooth move Ferguson. Hopefully you prove me wrong, but the chances of that happening are about the same as a chimpanzee launching the next facebook.
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          • Profile picture of the author ajax3592
            I just came across these available domain names

            1) 8 letter/2word .net domain name whose .com counterpart is being sold by Godaddy as a premium domain for $3000. It's name of a traditional art method.
            It's keywords (in present tense) have global exact monthly searches of 40,500.

            2) 16 letter/4 word .com domain name whose without hyphen(- I put one in b/w its 2 words) counterpart is being sold for $2700 by Godaddy as a premium domain. It's keywords have global exact monthly searches of 6,600.

            3) Also 10 more 7-letter single words (with meaning) domains

            What do you guys suggest, which one to go for, for reselling domain name ?
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            • Profile picture of the author tooAlive
              Originally Posted by ajax3592 View Post

              I just came these available domain names

              1) 8 letter/2word .net domain name whose .com counterpart is being sold by Godaddy as a premium domain for $3000. It's name of a traditional art method.
              It's keywords (in present tense) have global exact monthly searches of 40,500.

              2) 16 letter/4 word .com domain name whose without hyphen(- I put one in b/w its 2 words) counterpart is being sold for $2700 by Godaddy as a premium domain. It's keywords have global exact monthly searches of 6,600.

              3) Also 10 more 7-letter single words (with meaning) domains

              What do you guys suggest, which one to go for, for reselling domain name ?
              Auction them off. People here may give opinions, but there's no way to know how much someone would be willing to pay for those domains.
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    Why buy something you don't know how to use?
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  • Profile picture of the author tooAlive
    It all depends on the buyer.

    It may be worth $5 to someone, and $50,000 to someone else that absolutely wants that domain.

    There's no way to know unless you put it out for sale.
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  • Profile picture of the author GforceSage
    In regards to your first post, you could think of a Top 5 list of things that 18 year olds are really into and monetize each of the items to create revenue.

    As far as the 2 domain names that you saw on GoDaddy, ...If we don't know the actual domain names, it's hard for us to consider the value of them.

    Also, just because GoDaddy puts a sale/auction price on a domain, it does not mean that that is the actual value of that domain. It means that GoDaddy has a domain analyzer or domain holding customer who thinks that a given name has mass appeal to lots of folks, so they give it a perceived value in hopes that they can make some nice money off of it. If nobody buys them, then what are the domain names true value?
    There are a ton of catchy domain names that are listed for sale that you think might be a quality name for a business venture, yet they sit there and sometimes nobody bites. If you see a name just sitting there, make a low ball offer and go up from there. Sometimes they go to auction and nobody bids. Seems dumb to pay thousands for a name when you could have possibly had it on the cheap. Be careful or you can go through lots of money unnecessarily.
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    • Profile picture of the author ajax3592
      Respect your advice, tooAlive and GforceSage

      Btw got mortgaged(dot)co today, purely for selling its domain name.
      With Global Exact Monthly Searches of "Mortgage" being 110,000, its place in top 3 most expensive Adwords keyword and mortgage(dot)com being sold for $1,800,000 in year 2000, maybe this one's a smarter move than 18year(dot)co Lol ! What say, folks ?

      Appreciate your views serryjw, but something inside me says (dot)co would get big if not huge in coming years else why would biggies like Google, Twitter, Amazon, Facebook, BMW, Canon, Honda, Nike, Sony, American Express move onto it. See this - sedo(dot)com/fileadmin/documents/pressdownload/dotCO_market_study-3_years_dot_co_2013-Sedo_.pdf
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      • Profile picture of the author serryjw
        Ajax, Don't confuse industry opinion( Sedo wants to make money!) with end user value. The MORE competitive a EDM is, the less end user value the .co will have . WHY would a mortgage company spend a fortune to send most of their traffic to .com? After all the Panda updates, contents will separate the men from the boys....Good Luck, Email me in 3 years
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  • Profile picture of the author serryjw
    Ajax... Personally .co is my LEAST favorite extension. I'd buy .biz before ( NOT). WE are the only ones that even know that .co exists. I am afraid it would continuously get majority leakage to .com...IF you spend BIG money, develop it. If you regged for $10, try monetizing it for 1 year before it is ready to expire.
    Good Luck!
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