Domain Names Time to Buy?

Investing in a down market produces more wealth
Before Logic begins let’s get one thing out of the way. You need to be educated in domain names before you begin your road to great wealth and since it has been a long time since you would read in your local paper that there is going to be a new (TLD) Top Level Domain name ending like the last release .mobi that went no where even Logic added about a dozen of these .mobi domain name endings and no one has done anything with any of them.

.com rules the Internet
Your number one piece of Logical advice is to always buy a domain name with a .com ending or your investment is going to have a really rough road.

About today’s domain name article
We are sharing today about timing the domain name market tricky, though possible because the great domain names when they are not paid for due to the economic downturn are going to be bought up by someone else if not you or us.

Domain Name Renewal Fees
We are going to talk about the annual renewal fees that have been increasing and have jumped up two times already in less then a year.
However if you want to buy a name that is coming off of the drop lists at one of the more popular drop services then you are going to pay 30.00 to 60.00 USD and this is only if you are not bidding for the name with another club drop member.

Domain Name Daily Drop Lists
If you get into a bidding effort, these bids start 3 days after the name is dropped and the total number of bidders is shared as well, then the price you are willing to pay which you should have in your mind because you have these 3 days to decide how bad you want the name because these biddings can as we have had to do get up into the 10,000 USD easily sometimes they are in the hundreds so it all depends.

Annual Renewal Fees think long term
Annual renewal fees for a domain are under 12.00 USD once you have bought it the first time. When you buy a domain name for the first time if you create the name however our advise being that we own thousands of domain names is to be sure you are going to be able to pay the under 12.00 USD each year because this can be a very expensive annual investment as it is for us today though in over 12 years of buying domain names we have never let a single domain name that we wanted to keep expire and end up on the open market.

We are going to talk about where to buy domain names that are going to come available between 40,000 and 70,000 names each day 7 days a week.

Where to buy domain names
Here is our Viper Gate domain name store where you can buy a domain name you create.

Domain Name Clubs
These two clubs are where you can become a member to bid on names that are coming back out onto the market for you to bid and acquire.
ClubDrop and NameJet are now the same place
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When to buy domain names as investments
Domain Name buyers help is a place devoted to the beginner in the domain name investment world that wants to read our 11 steps to buying domain names and buying names for under 12.00 USD at the Domain Name Assistance.

The time to begin learning how to buy and invest in domain names is now however the time to begin investing your money into domain names is better spent towards the end of 2009 to the beginning of 2010 in our opinion.

Domain Name Industry News
Start your own domain name company
Now we read for 185,000 USD. you can buy and create any ending but you will need to have your own selling engine to sell or offer them to others as well you would need to market these to sell for example WhatEverYouWant.AtYourEnding making your own modern day .com ending.

Money is not always the correct answer to success
Worry not about these new buying opportunities they will more then likely not materialize and besides even if someone big gets behind creating and popularizing a new domain name ending one only has to look at search engines today to realize that like starting a new search engine and competing with the likes of Google, Yahoo and Live you would realize that it is not possible to accomplish regardless of the financial backing of a new search engine like Logic’s current favorite search engine is Cuil.com and they are great but have little chance at this stage of their development though Logic would love to see Cuil.com prevail.

A domainer expert has 3 pieces of advise for domain name buyers
This guy has done really well and is a profitable domain name buyer and parker, parker or domain name parking is a way to allow a simple single page web site with advertising related to the domain name for example EmailMarketingAuthority.com is a site with information about email marketing though this particular site is a single email marketing companies sells site where persons with questions about email message sending and building ultimately click on the free email marketing trial offer once they are educated about starting an email marketing campaign. Generally these parked pages are full of advertisements not related to the site.

His advise is quite simple
Why does traffic go to a domain name? Where does the traffic come from? Will the traffic continue?
What we see him truthfully saying might be more to himself rather then writing these three questions to ask yourself before you invest in a domain name and Logic sees the first two as really great questions but reading between the lines Logic realizes that the third question he has you asking yourself is the question he is more then likely asking himself Will the traffic continue? and here is why.

His advise might be old school
Persons searching the Internet today rarely ever and less persons each day are typing their requests for example EmailMarketingAuthority.com into their browser address bar instead they are typing the search into the search box at the search engine resulting in less and less daily traffic to these parked pages and in fact the search engines list these parked pages but they do not index them with any effort resulting in the pages not coming up in the first 10 to 20 pages under any search a person does on the Internet.

Understanding Internet traffic by Logic
One only has to understand that 80% of all search page returns also known as (SERP’s) Search Engine Return Pages are only viewing the first page 15% are viewing page two and 5% are searching page three so you can see that a parked page being overlooked 100% of the time unless you as a parked page owner are playing tricks to get a visitor to your parked page hoping to get the page visitor to click on an advertisement on that page resulting in you as the parked page owner and the search engine (PPC) Pay Per Click advertisement provider sharing in the profits from the paid advertisers budgeted money.

Beach Craft .com

BeachCraft.com
Hello domain name investors and welcome to a visit with one of Logic’s oldest domain names in our portfolio at Viper Names and after well over 10 years Logic has yet to do anything with this name.

What would you do with this Domain Name?
Try to sell it?
Develop it into a site?
Hold onto it for 5 or 10 more years?

Share your thoughts
Logic is actually in love with each domain name we at Viper Logic own and to date we have not ever sold a single domain name however we notice that we used to get inquiries about one a week however today we do not get a single domain name request.

What we do notice in this tough economic downturn is a there are more names for sale today then in anytime we can remember so if you happen to be reading this article and you own a domain name or a lot of domain names like Logic then hold onto them more then likely when the economy turns in the coming 5 years these will once again be a hot buyers topic.

Meet Domain Name Tracker
We have a friend who wrote a program that searches domain names then returns how many domain names are located in each country, state, county, city, street and address and it is amazing how many domain names are owned by so few individuals around the world. What his program shows us is that most domain names are controlled by a select few persons or companies, making his research totally amazing.

You are welcome to view our portfolio of domain names if you like at Viper Names.

Domain Names and Marketing Companies

Where does a company find domain name advise
Logic your trusted writer here to explain after a lot of reading in publications needs to come out to write about domain name advise because you can read for yourself that a marketing company generally is not the best place to get advise on what domain name to buy for a business or organization.

Where marketing companies go very wrong with domain names
We read in business magazines all of the time about advise from marketing companies sharing that for example you do not need a domain name that ends in .com even though the natural premonition of a human is to automatically or subconsciously add .com to the end of anything they tpe into a computers address bar. Remember that when you do not own the .com ending or (TLD) Top Level Domain you risk loosing business from this natural human typing thing and being a new business things change you could even have a competitor already own the .com or buy the .com for your selected name and loose even more future business.

Logic is everyones friend
We are not saying that there is not a marketing company out there with an expert in their organization on the Internet, SEO/SEM Search Engine Optimization and Search Engine Marketing and domain name understandings when applied to any business or organization however in most small marketing companies their expertise is in an other important facit of your business like branding, communications and awareness. You might notice that they even claim to be a search engine marketing firm handling a businesses online advertising but nothing in this has anything to do with the total understanding of domain name principals both near and long term.

Best Domain Name advise
This advise really should come from an expert or knowledgeable Internet company and generally these are the ones in the know about current and future domain issues. Viper Logic owns a lot of domain names and has been a buyer of domain names for over a decade and in fact we offer an entire site devoted to educating first time buyers of domain names and the site is focused on a new business buying a single domain name for that business.

Domain Name Buyers here Domain Name Assistance

Domain Name Buyer Help

Domain Name buyer tips
Here is the fastest way to figure out which domain name you will want to buy when starting your business or organization and for once Logic your happy writer is keeping this short.

The DN should be as simple as you can get it.
The DN should not be difficult to spell
The DN should be unique to you
The DN should never be a branded name trademarked or not
The DN should be as short as you can possibly get it
The DN should be personalized
The DN should be easy to pronounce and interpret
The DN should be easy to remember
The DN should always be a .com (TLD) Top Level Domain
The DN should be very descriptive to your business category in search engines

Here is some other Domain Name resources
Advanced Domain Name Education by Domain Name Assistance
Domain Name Storage Domain Name Portfolio