Truth About Domain Names

A lot has changed about domain names. Business, small and big alike continue to invest resources and energy towards securing a good catchy name.

Do not drive yourself crazy, some people still invest hundreds, thousands and in some cases millions just but to buy a unique domain name. But here is the simple truth it’s not how much it costs that make a good name. No it’s not. We are now living in the year 2008 and beyond.

When starting out, what really matters is not your name, rather – it’s what you can do with that name, the product, service or brand… the truth about domain names >>

Earn Money Parking Domain Names

How to earn money from parking domain names without building your own site.

The other day, was one of those days. I was lazy. So I decided to surf the internet, aha but these ad’s, they are everywhere. As I have just said this was one of those days when you click…click one ad to the other just curious and lazy enough to do nothing else.

Then there was this particular ad. You know those kind of ad’s that make you go like – - you are right? If you have tried to run your own internet business then you will most likely side with me here.

How many times have you seen all those ad’s promising you, that you are going to make money without raising your finger, only to learn later that – those are just dreams!

Here is the ad’s I’m talking about, if I recall well it was something like this:

Domain names Parking
Park your domain names with us.
Get started & keep 100% revenue.

Now naturally, I clicked on the link expecting to see a long sales page full of hype of how to make money with your domain name without doing anything coupled with a click bank statement as a proof, probably with another list of testimonies comprising of links to other internet marketers and so on.

What I saw was different though. As a matter of fact for the next one hour, I found myself keenly reading each word from the home page >>> Tour >>> FAQ >>> Contact and finally their sign up page.

I know, you want to know what I found out about this whole aspect of parking domain names, right?

There are two ways:

1. You can read more about domain parking here.
2. You might also want to read this article I wrote on how you can make money parking domain names without building a website.

One thing that I should make clear here is that, it’s not going to make you an instant millionaire. But if you own several or even hundreds of domain names as some people do, then this is a very passive way to earn extra income from your domain names that would actually be sitting on your account waiting for you to do something.

Free Internet Domain Names

You know, it’s amazing, there are so many people still searching for free internet domain names. How I wish they knew…knew that there is no such thing as a free lunch.

Here is what you should know. Next time you see free – - just know that there is a catch. It’s a give, take world.

• catch number one.

Yes, they will give you as many free internet domain names as you want. In return when you put up your site expect to see all kinds of advertisement banners on your site that you will have no control over.

• Catch number two.

99.9% chances are, the domain name you get will be a sub-domain name. For instance here is my ugly domain name www.your-inforcom.com Now when you sign up for a free internet domain names what you actually get is not a domain name, like the one I have show you above, but a sub domain name, here is how a sub domain name would look like www.domainnames.nikenya.com

I think that’s obvious to you, the long name (sub-domain) will be hard to:

1. Market and promote.
2. Memorize or remember.
3. Brand with your product or service.

But forget about the catch for now, Let us get serious here. The main big reason why you should never even think of getting a free internet domain name is this. Ask yourself:

• What if your website becomes so successful in attracting a lot of visitors?
• What if your site gains credibility and search engine ranking – high pr?
• What if you have spend so much money to advertise and develop your site?

And then you want to move your site to a new host or obtain a new unique domain name (which is actually less than $10 right now). I will save you the trouble of thinking. Here is the most likely scenario.

You will not be able to move your site, unless you are willing to start all over again from scratch.

It’s your choice; get a free internet domain name if you are just pursuing a hobby that you care little about even if you were to lose everything associated with your hobby.

On the other hand for any serous activity or business, do yourself a favor forget about free internet domain names and secure one today.

If you are new to domain names, download a free internet domain name ebook here