If you are a visitor to the domain name forums you will see "BIN" mentioned in some of the threads. This refers to the "Buy It Now" price. If someone lists a domain name with offers starting at $200 and the BIN is set at $1,000 this means that you can buy the domain name at $1,000 without going through the offer-counter offer process.
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When people take about topic related to making money online. They generally will mention Google AdSense program, affiliate programs, how to sell products and services through a website and ebay, paid survey and so on. But have you ever heard about making money online with domain names? It is a new concept to profit online and there is a number of people earn a living with domain names. So how domain names can make people money? Good question. Here's how:
Purchase Domain Name at Low Prices, then Resell Them at Higher Price
Do you know, companies, e-entrepreneurs and Internet marketers that want to make their websites popular and powerful are willing to pay a lot for a good domain name. So this created an opportunity to make money online. What you can do is register those good domain names earlier and then sell to them at higher price. But nowadays, it is getting harder to profit online with this method as more and more people have aware of this opportunity and started to do the same.
Fortunately, there is one solution: buying expired domain names. Everyday, thousand of domain names are being abandoned by their owners and become expired domain names. Some of the main reasons the owners don't re-register their domain names are they have closed their online businesses, they have lost interest in operating their websites and so on. Expired domain names reached certain periods will be deleted and available to anyone who wants to buy it. Among these expired domains, you can find some profitable domain names with existing traffic to resell for profit at auction sites like ebay.
Park Your Domain Name to Earn Advertising Revenue
If you have domain name left unused or waiting for development, you may consider parking them to domain parking websites to generate extra income for you. For less than $5 per month you can park a domain to a domain parking company. The company will build a parked page with links or content and sponsored ads on your domain name. You drive traffic to the domain name and earn advertising revenue such as AdSense commission. Here are two companies that offer domain parking service:
Parkedgold.com
Godaddy.com - Cash Parking Program
You can also buy an expired domain name that builds in with existing traffic and park it to domain parking company to generate advertising revenue. To determine whether an expired domain name still has traffic comes in, you may check the domain's link popularity. If the domain has many inbound links, it is very likely that the domain name have a steady stream of traffic built in. You can find expired domain from Godaddy's domain auction at https://www.tdnam.com. Another way is to use a paid domain name search tool of Expiredtraffic.com to find profitable expired domain.
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New York: The master-keeper of internet addresses ending in ".com" and ".net" - two of the most popular domain name suffixes - said on Thursday it would raise fees charged to register those names.
The annual levy for ".com" will increase seven per cent to $6.42, and the ".net" fee will go up 10 per cent to $3.85.
The per-name fees are what VeriSign collects from companies that sell domain names on its behalf, and such charges are generally incorporated in the prices companies, groups and individuals pay to register names.
With about 62 million ".com" names and 9.1 million ".net" names in use, VeriSign stands to ultimately make $29 million a year from the increase, which will take effect October 15.
However, the price hike applies only to new name registrations and renewals, and customers can lock in the old prices until October 14. Many brokers, known as registrars, offer multiyear deals for up to 10 years; Network Solutions, formerly owned by Veri-Sign, even offers a 100-year package.
VeriSign runs the Domain Name System computers that keep track of all the ".com" and ".net" names in use.
Computers from around the world check them continually to find out how to reach ".com" and ".net" websites and pass along e-mail.
The Mountain View, California-based company said the fee increases, the first since 1999, stem from a need to keep up with growing online use as well as threats from hackers.
"Over the last six years, VeriSign has dealt with two phenomenons when it came to the infrastructure," VeriSign spokesman Tom Galvin said.
He said VeriSign's DNS computers now get 30 billion queries a day, compared with one billion in 2000, while security exploits have grown eightfold over that period.
In February, the company announced Project Titan, an initiative to expand the capacity of its systems tenfold by 2010 - to four trillion queries a day. The extra capacity is needed to respond to any unusual surges from legitimate demand, as well as to overcome any denial-of-service attacks, in which hackers try to overwhelm the systems with fake traffic.
The price hike does not require any regulatory approval.
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Special thanks to DNP at DNForum.com.
Pricing Guide for 3-Letter (Composed Of Letters Only) Domains:
Current Observed Minimum Wholesale Price (regardless of letter combo) as of April 2, 2007:
3-Letter .com - $3400 (+ $50 since March 1, 2007 report)
3-Letter .net - $750 (+ $40 since March 1, 2007 report)
3-Letter .org - $250
3-Letter .info - $140 (+ $5 since March 1, 2007 report)
3-Letter .biz - $80
3-Letter .us - $110
3-Letter .mobi - $145 (+ $5 since March 1, 2007 report)
The quality of the letter composition can play a significant role in determining 3-letter valuations. General concensus states that the letters A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T are considered premium letters. Other lesser high quality letters include: J, K, U, V, W. Lower quality letters include: Q, X, Y, Z. Domains selling for less than the above figures would represent a strong buy in today's market. Premium letter only domains tend to fetch a 500% to 600% premium (or more) over the Minimum Wholesale Price. Mixed letter quality domains have valuations somewhere in the middle of these two extremes.
Pricing Guide for 3-Number (Composed Of Numbers Only) Domains:
Current Observed Minimum Wholesale Price (regardless of Number combo) as of April 2, 2007::
3-Number .com - $5500 (+ $100 since March 1, 2007 report)
3-Number .net - $875 (+ $50 since March 1, 2007 report)
3-Number .org - $325
3-Number .info - $190 (+ $5 since March 1, 2007 report)
3-Number .biz - $95
3-Number .us - $165 - (Note: These are the rarest of the NNN Domains, as the registry holds a high percentage of NNN.us names)
3-Number .mobi - $575 (- $35 since March 1, 2007 report)
LISBON, Portugal — A key Internet oversight agency put the brakes on plans to construct an online red-light district, rejecting for a third time a proposal to create a voluntary ".xxx" address for pornographic Web sites.
Armando Franca, Associated PressPeople attend the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers meeting where participants debated whether to accept a proposal that would create a voluntary domain address for Internet porn. The board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers on Friday cited fears that it would find itself having to regulate content and concerns that such a domain name did not have the support of the adult-entertainment industry.
"So the proposal is effectively rejected, and it is my understanding that as a consequence of this vote, we will not accept any further proposals" on the domain name in the current round of applications, ICANN Chairman Vinton Cerf said after the 9-5 vote. One member, ICANN Chief Executive Paul Twomey, abstained.
The company seeking the domain name, ICM Registry LLC, had been allowed to revise a previously rejected proposal. Although ICANN wants to close the current round, which began in 2004, a new proposal could be offered in the next round of applications.
And ICM's president and chief executive, Stuart Lawley, said a lawsuit against ICANN was likely over the rejected bid.
A few ICANN board members criticized their own agency as being too timid to tread toward controversial ideas.Susan Crawford, a board member who backed the ".xxx" domain name, said the Internet's success grew out of a principle that the network should be open to anyone or anything as long as it isn't illegal or harmful.
"In a nutshell, everything not prohibited is permitted," Crawford said.
Crawford, a professor at Yeshiva University's Cardozo Law School in New York, said no applicant "could ever demonstrate unanimous, cheering approval for its application."
Other board members, however, said the level of support for ICM's proposal was a factor, along with concern that ICANN could find itself in the tricky role of deciding or managing what content would have been appropriate for the new Internet address.
"This application doesn't meet the request for proposals mainly on the supporting community," said board member Raimundo Beca of Chile, who voted against the domain. The adult industry, he added, "has been from the very beginning so split about this."
Porn sites opposed to ".xxx" were largely concerned that the domain name, while billed as voluntary, would make it easier for governments to later mandate its use and push sexual content into what the adult-entertainment industry terms an online ghetto.
ICM, which had planned to charge $60 per ".xxx" name, had vowed to fight any government effort to compel its use and cited preregistrations of more than 76,000 names as evidence of support.
"We are extremely disappointed by the board's action today," Lawley said. "It is not supportable for any of the reasons articulated by the board, ignores the rules ICANN itself adopted for (new domains) and makes a mockery of ICANN bylaws' prohibition of unjustifiable discriminatory treatment."
Religious groups worried that ".xxx" would legitimize and expand the number of adults sites, which more than a third of U.S. Internet users visit each month, according to comScore Media Metrix.Focus on the Family lauded the decision, noting that from "the very beginning this idea held out false hope for parents concerned with filth on the Internet," said Daniel Weiss, a senior analyst for media and sexuality.
"It's a strange notion to suggest that we can help kids by sanctioning, endorsing and proliferating the very material that threatens them," he said.
But U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu, a Louisiana Democrat, chastised ICANN for not approving the domain name.
"These top-level domain names are the first signal to parents as to what their children are viewing online," she said. "For example, when we see '.gov' we know we are visiting a government agency, and '.edu' tells us an educational institution is about to appear. Yet, ICANN continues to turn its back on child protection by refusing to take similar steps to make harmful content as readily identifiable."
Given its voluntary nature, ".xxx" wasn't unlikely to have much effect on parents' ability to block porn sites. And because a domain name serves merely as an easy-to-remember moniker for a site's actual numeric Internet address, even if its use is required, a child could simply punch in the numeric address of any blocked ".xxx" name.
Lawley, however, said sites using ".xxx" would have been required to label themselves based on such criteria as the presence of nudity and whether it is in an artistic or educational context. Filters could check the labels even if a child were to try to bypass domain name-specific controls.
Nearly all of the board members opposing the domain cited concerns about content regulation, while supporters said ICANN should not block new domains over fears like that.
"I think that this — what this should alert us to is that we have a much higher, bigger problem that we need to be discussing, and I hope that conversation doesn't end here," board member Joichi Ito said.
Lawley added that "the part of the contract they are now claiming would lead them to content management was put in by them during the contract negotiations."
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