discredit.org

For a domainer, I had quite a productive domaining day.  To start the morning I joined other domainers in the bido chatroom to watch the DisabilityCompensation.com auction.  The domain was auctioned off for a total price of $1,193.00, although some say it could of been more, I feel it was a great auction and it hit the target price of what I was expecting.  After that I proceeded to work on a new site for the domain EducationalSolarKit.com, I installed wordpress and vanilla cart.  This site will be strictly dedicated to featuring different affiliate products for educational solar kits.  Since this is an affiliate based site, I signed up with the ebay partner network and am currently waiting to hear back from them.  I am tempted to sign up with amazon’s affiliate program since ebay hasn’t gotten back to me as of yet.  Apparently many have said that the ebay partner network can be a bit picky now, to keep from wasting more time on the project I might just have to let ebay go!  I then headed over to domainertelevision.com, to talk with a small group of domainers about several different domaining topics.  The site itself is run by Bruce, who definitely has tactful ways to sell domains to end-users.  That’s specifically why I decided to join the chatroom at around 4PM PST.  There were two other domainers in there one who goes by the name of TeenDomainer and the other DNSamauri who just graduated from law school.  It was a nice way to network with those in my industry and learn a tip here and there.  Bruce actually took the time to describe how he approaches end-users for domain sales.  It definitely sparked a few light bulbs in my mind, because until recently I have always geared my marketing efforts towards other domainers.  I feel now that if you gear your domain marketing efforts towards end-users, you will receive a better range of offers.  While in the chatroom, I went ahead and followed one of Bruce’s tips, searching for the keyword claim on a drop site.  To my amazement AutoClaim.org was listed on the deletion list.  I could not believe that no one else had registered this name before I had the chance to.  It was at this moment my adrenaline started pumping and I ended up finding AutoInsuranceClaim.net, talk about lucky!  That’s what you call a double whammy!  The second domain was pure luck because .com and .org were both taken for it.  This pretty much told me that it probably deleted within the last couple of days or was just overlooked!  I can honestly say that I have raised the value of my domain portfolio by registering these two amazing names.  I already approached Sedo.com with AutoInsuranceClaim.net to see if it can be featured on the GreatDomains website.  If they do not accept it, I will then proceed to find potential buyers myself for the name and debate on whether to submit it to Bido.com or not.  Now the only dilemma I have left is finding an appropriate domain to feature my entire domain portfolio on.  I am still debating on whether I want one main site to feature my domains on or whether I want to create a number of different sites to increase the awareness and potential traffic that my domain portfolio would receive.  Either way, once I develop my domain portfolio I plan to advertise it with google adwords and on various domain forums.  My goal as a domainer is to bring as much attention to my domaining portfolio as possible and glamorize this industry to the point where more end-users partake in it.  I’ve got a few other tricks up my sleeve, one that involves a dnpimping.com which will be sure to open soon.

Best Regards,

Jason Thompson

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