Domainer Resources

If you are a full-time domainer (or a very heavily involved part-time domainer), one of the toughest things to do is explain to people what it is you do and how exactly you make money.   I often find a more confused face once I finish explaining the world of internet real estate.

On some rare occasions, I will get someone that sounds interested and wants to learn more.   Where do you point someone like this?   Going forward, one place I will be sending this people is Domaining 101.   While this post is very basic, it does a great job of providing many of the essentials a domainer needs to get started.

Even to a veteran domainer it can sometimes be difficult to know exactly how many country-code top level domains (ccTLD’s) there are out there.

If you are a new domainer and are looking at investing in ccTLD’s, there are some things you need to look into. Here are two things I look at before investing in a ccTLD:

1. How well has the country adopted their country code? - There are a few ccTLD’s that have really gone over well with their country, while many others no one really uses. For example, a lot of people invested in China’s country code when it was released and it didn’t take very well there. India is one that seems to be doing well.
2. How much does this ccTLD cost to register/renew? I’ve read about some costing as much as $500.00 a year to register/renew, so you’ll want to factor this into your decision on whether to invest or not.

I’ve also thrown together a list of domain suffixes for your reference and the country they are associated with. More ccTLD are becoming available every year (.me due out soon), so I will do my best to keep this list updated:

Just a quick post to say that if you prefer to use Microsoft Excel to manage your domain portfolio, I ran across a pretty good one over at Namepros.    You can find it here.

According to the author, this spreadsheet entitles you to the following benefits:

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Columns :
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- Date
- Number of domains in each sale.
- Domain Name(s)
- Price (what i paid for it)
- Sold Price
- Profit ($)
- ROI (%)
- MarketPlace (where i sold it, ex: Sedo, NamePros, etc..)
- MarketPlace Section (ex: Sedo auction, Sedo “counter offer” ,Fixed Price (forum), etc..)
- Type (if available, ex: LLLL.com, Generic Domain, etc..)
- Notes (ex: if renewed, etc..)

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It Also calculate *(Totals for) :
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- Number of sold domains
- Price (what i paid for it)
- Sold Price
- Profit ($)
- ROI (%)

* So you can always know what it’s the total ROI or profit for each extension.

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Averages of
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- Profit per domain.
- Sold Price per domain.

It is free, so check it out!