3 Investments, and only one is going up

What is in a domain name
Looking back is like looking at a stock like AMD (Advanced Micro Device) they produce processor chips like Intel does but they are 15 times smaller and these are the only 2 manufacturers of processor chips in the world that go into yours and mine computers anyways.
In 2006 the stock hit a high of around 42.00 and today it is running a little over 7.00 dollars per share. Hinesight is 20/20 and looking back will case most of us to hesitate when making and investment like those in any home, other then your primary residents, stocks, or domain names.

AMD Price history
Looking at the AMD (Advanced Micro Device) stock history and not selling the stock when it was 42.00 dollars and still owning it at 7.00 dollars is just sometimes the way things go.

Stocks, Real Estate, and Domain Names
Why is Logic talking about stocks and real estate because for the most part in this, a bad economy and it is really bad these days.
You should expect the loss on investments if you did not sell during the better times.

Set a Price to sell Investments, and stick with it
So we all hold on awaiting the next time it begins to rise and this way we can sell it. This is why having a sell price for a real estate or stock investment is so important, even before we buy it because it is going to rise sometime eventually and here we go again greed kicks in and we hold on only to see the same reverses happen to us all again.

Domain Name Prices are still rising
One area that is gaining in sells and gaining in price is the current market for a good domain name. We just read about a domain name as a great example of buying a name not using it and watching the price go up over a short period of time.

Domain Names with Value
The sell history on this name is a good one to share with you.
It is NightLife.net and it was bought in May 2006 for a little over 5,500.00 dollars and it sold this week for 20,000.00 dollars almost 4 times the money in 2 years.

Investor Note about .net domain names
Remember reading we do not like .net extensions for you to invest in because for example there were only 3 domain names with that (TLD) Top Level Domain extension sold this week at a premium price.

Hard to find investments like that in today’s market place
Even for a domain name the market to find a great name is difficult and this is why we are here to encourage you our readers to buy a name get busy building it into a great web site offering helpful information and gathering the visitors email addresses from your web site for another money making idea we already are sharing with our email marketing readers at the E-Marketing section of this blog.

What could have, might have, been
Who really knows if the site had been built into a great web site for a hot market offering a lot of night life or night life entertainment groups it may have sold for 100’s of thousands of dollars or depending on the advertising and features millions of dollars could have been realized.

Ok thank you for reading our thoughts about investing into the great world of domain names and stay tuned.

Where are all of the Domain Names being used

More Domain Names being used for Blogs
Hello it is another week of great opportunities for the world of Domain Names Investments.

How many web sites are on the Internet?
Total number of web sites and blogs worldwide as of January 2008 is 156,000,000 million offering billions of pages.
There are a lot of blogs on the Internet and over the past 3 years this has really eaten up a lot of domain names.

Just like our blog you are reading today it required a domain name to begin building a presence on the Internet. Logic had to create a blog, the blog needed and Internet address and we selected LogicsBlog.com to build and become our outside information delivery tool.
The great thing about blogs is that you can just go to your favorite search engine and type in the search box “blog software” and you will find lots of blogging software like we did to build our Logic Talk blog.

So if last week you had followed our advise and bought your families name with a .com on the end for 9.95 dollars you could now begin building a fun project like Logic can because Logic owns LanceConway.com.

If you have not gone to ViperGate.com and bought your domain name then let us help you with a few tips before you start looking for your favorite domain name.
Finding a Domain Name Tips:
Researching for a domain name can be frustrating because there are so many names taken already. This is why for your project we selected your family name and this will be easier to find it available and get you started into the domain name investment world as well as sharing with you how to build your first blog or web site.

Lets learn how to buy your family name
We are going to want you to create a list of possibilities that way when you go to the ViperGate secure domain name buying web site you can type in your best or first choice and if that one is taken you will have a list of names in front of you to continue your name search.

Example using Logic’s family name:
ConwayFamily.com
ConwaysBlog.com
ConwayFamilyBlog.com
ConwayHistory.com
ConwayFamilyCalifornia.com

Building a domain name wish list
You can see we came up with 5 samples in just a few minutes in the order that best fits who we are (Conway) and what we are (Family) and if needed to be what we are building (Blog or History) and where we are located (California).

Putting your list to work you can now go to ViperGate.com and see which one of your names are available Managed Hosting Services

Family Unit Interaction is a good thing
The reason we selected also to choose your family name as your very first domain name to get started is this can be a fun family participation project to gather around the living room and create your list of domain names, create your personal email addresses for each family member and then to build your first web site or blog adding things as a family like vacations, photos, videos, history, achievements, etc.

You can build a blog or a web site using a software that we will teach you find or buy. To find a web site building software you would, just like we showed you how to find blog software in the last paragraph except this time you would type into the search box “web site building software.”

A Few Computer Skills Needed to get Started
Today though still requiring some education and a few skills these web site and blog building softwares are easier then in anytime we can recall iin Internet history. This is why we are confident you can build this lasting family project and we think family projects make for a healthier family.

Ok when you search for your blog or web site software you will need to do some homework and with some effort as a family this can be a great project and you need to be sure you understand all you will be learning to properly utilize these great software tools. Do not be afraid there are forums all over the Internet to teach and help you along with this Logic Talk blog.
Once you select the software that is best for your family then you will need to go to your ViperGate.com account, log in and upgrade your domain name parking account to a web site or blog hosting account for 24.95 per month email accounts with antivirus and anti spam included.
(We believe ViperGate.com has the best anti-spam software and hardware protection there is available today)

The domain name and the web site or blog hosting is all managed under your same account.
Our system once you upgrade to hosting will activate your account providing the FTP account log-in information then-upload your site via FTP.
There are great free FTP account softwares you can find again by going to your search engine and searching for “FTP Software.”

FTP Software What it is
FTP allows the transferring of files between computers software provides the unloading capabilities to send your web site or blog to your ViperGate.com account. These programs are referred to as the client program it allows your computer to connect to in this case our ViperGate.com servers where your web site or blog will be located.
These are secure access server files when you purchase a hosting account from VipGate.com you will be given your FTP server access user Id and Password. This way when you have your web site software and have built a web site or if you have a blog software you are ready to FTP it to the server and begin sharing it with the World Wide Web.

There are softwares that do not require you to have HTML programming skills. Mostly you would just need some good typing skills and know how to upload your photo and videos and before you know it you are off and running your own Internet presence.

Domain Name Sales Figures and Getting you started today

Domain Name sales are hitting record highs
Hello it is Friday and so we thought it would be a great time just before the weekend to share some recent Domain Name Sales that have been completed.
We do not know about you, but some positive news before the weekend can make us all feel a little better.
The numbers we will share come from the selling agencies that represented the sale.
We will share the .com domain names that sold this week, because we want to keep you and ourselves focused.
Win.com sales for over 1.5 million dollars
SimiValley.com sales for 90.000 dollars
IndianaNews.com and KentuckyNews.com each about 20.000 dollars

This is a great story to share during and economy that is bringing really tough times to us all.
In our last post we discussed how many people are great investors during a down economy and these investors really come out of these down turns shinning like rock stars of the investment community.

Building a Business and Investing during Tough Economies
These people can be you and us. These people are no different then you and us and in fact in past down markets in everything from yes Domain Names, Real Estate, Stocks and Bonds, and the opening of a business can have great advantages.
Investing in these products or opening a business during a down economy leaves the owner with no where to go but up. Opening a business during these down economies teaches and owner how to survive in tougher times and therefore when the economy returns to doing good again you will always carry with you the knowledge of survival because you bought your investments or built your business during times that were the toughest.

Save up to Invest in the Domain Name Investment World
The time is now, as we also mentioned in our last post saving your money up while you learn the art of being a successful domain name buyer and investor. This time will position you to be in the know and in the ready to act when the domain name market takes a down town which is not here yet in our estimates.

Taking our own advise at Viper Logic
We also mentioned that we have bought very few domain names for the first time in 5 of the past 10 years of buying Domain Names in 2008. We think we have it right the holders of great amounts of domain names might be headed for financial trouble in the coming 18+ months and these holders of some great domain names might have to let some go.
If we are right and you start saving money for these names right away you will be able to buy into this relatively new form of wealth building known as the Domain Name Investment World. You are also being given the time to learn, do research, and generally become very savi about Domain Name Investing.

Domain Name Investing is an Interactive Investment
We want you to buy the right domain name or names and yes we want you to buy Domain Names through us as your safe and trusted domain name reseller. We are a secure credit card processor. We are based in California USA.
We also want you to, while you are learning about buying correct domain names picking these investments just like we all should do research before buying stocks and bonds.
Here are the 11 steps to becoming a successful domain name investor Picking the best Domain Name tips

Buy one Domain Name today to begin
To keep you interested in this investment vehicle, and we mentioned this as well in prior posts that you can start by buying YourName.com and maybe your children’s names so this way you have a beginning, you will then have an account at ViperGate.com here Managed Hosting Services where you can add to your portfolio when the time is right, and you will know how the domain name hosting administrator control panel works as part of your educational process.
You are going to be able to do this for only 9.95 USD per year.

Here is a Really Cool Domain Name Interaction
Once you have your first domain name you can also open and email account at ViperGate.com, however that is going to cost you 9.95 per month but it allows you to have up to 5 email address’s, maybe one for each person in your family.
You can check and send your emails from anywhere anytime you have access to a computer.
These commercial level email addresses allow you to send larger files or attachments like photos in your emails with very few limitations.
These high level accounts also are sent and received utilizing our very tight Anti-Virus and Anti Spam filtering servers that will keep you and your family a little safer from dangerous virus threats.

Personal Domain Names present a professional image
It is really fun and a status symbol to have say like I do or in your case
You also will now have your first domain name working for (interactive investment) you and the best news of all, you only need to have one commercial level email address. This means the related expenses go to your first domain name investment, and are not required or needed for all other domain names from here on out.

Demand for Domain Names is growing globally
Domain Name Buying is maybe the single least expensive investment available to us all today. Domain Name buying is not a city, county, state, country or regionally needed product, they are used as a product globally. The demand for domain names is only going to increase as new countries like China and places we hardly even here about begin coming onto the Internet over the coming 2, 5, or even 10 years from now.
The .com is the top of the shelf most valuable domain name extension known as TLD’s (Top Level Domain).

Learn two ways domain names are going to make you money
What we will be writing about in the coming posts is how to utilize your domain name investment, so that you can hedge your investment to do more then just sit there while it gains value, and we are sure it will.

After all we ask you?
What else can we all afford and invest in that only costs us 9.95 USD per year?

We have shared how to have your own professional email account already today, but there is more, a whole lot more that these domain names can also be put to work doing for you as and interactive investment.
1= We are going to share developing a domain name into a web site, at again a very low cost.
2= We will teach you how to make money automatically, while applying a little effort. 

Domain Names and the Recession

Domain Names? Are they recession proof?
There are several answers to this question.

Lets look at the housing, the credit markets, and the Cost of living
Housing Status
As we all know right now in California, where Logic lives in Palm Springs the total number of homes that sold in April 45 percent of sales were repossession and these prepossessions are no bargain they have become the norm in housing sales.
Housing prices looking forward for 2008 based on price reductions for the 4 months of this year this far, tell us that houses are going to be 45% less to buy by the beginning of 2009 then they were in January 2008.

Credit Card Status
Credit equity loans are being cancelled or reduced to reflect the lower value of a current homes price.
There is also a credit crunch for credit card users which Logic admits to using these as well. The credit card companies are reducing the credit limits on cards raising the interest rates on the remaining balances to cover the very large default levels.

Groceries and Gas
We all know that these two pieces of our worlds are in bad shape and we know that the grocery prices are rising by and overall 30 to 40% estimate and that gasoline is at 4.00 dollars and more then likely headed to 5.00 dollars by the first quarter of 2009 estimated.

Economic Recovery our prediction
The world economy has its ups and downs, these are normal healthy adjustment to our well being. This economic recession we predict will last through and just into 2010 where the bottom will be indicator recognized as coming out of these times of economic adjustment.

What roll will this economic down-turn play on Domain Name Investing
We Viper Logic at ViperNames.com stopped buying domain names accept for the ones we need for particular projects in December 2007.
See we build our names one at a time into useful web sites for our financial gain. Yes you can buy names today and lightly you truly should they are cost effective, they are going to be here for ever at this point, and they when developed can bring you great financial gains like Logic and business partner Catnip are enjoying.

Why we stopped our daily buying from those club drops (places where domian names can be bought from people who have let them go or forgot to pay for them. This way of buying though makes each name cost between 29.00 and 69.00) was because as we are going to explain below in detail is to save our money for some top shelf domain names that should be coming on the market this coming year of 2009. If you create a name or you buy a name that someone has let go and no one bought it at a dropped name membership club then you can buy it for 9.95 USD here at ViperGate.com Domain Name sellers

Domain Names will be sacrificed and let go of for several reasons
There are a lot of owners, and some very large holders of domain names that own them for the sole reason to use these names as parked pages. Parked Pages are those names you might run across when you type in a name in the address bar of your Internet browser.

Parked Domain Name Ownership
When you arrive on these pages you will see non useful information with keywords those keywords for example: Email Marketing Services that are paid links to a sponsor or a Google or Yahoo style advertisement and when you click on these links the domain name owner gets a payment for that click like the PPC (Pay Per Click) advertisements on the major search engines.
However you rarely will find these parked pages while doing a search on Yahoo, Google, Live, or Ask because the search engines block Parked Pages from there search results.

Diminishing Traffic for Parked Domain Names
Also since these mid size to large domain name parked page monetizers will be as we are seeing today getting less traffic then the old days years ago when the parking pages formula worked and they even used to come up in search results. This was before to many people got into the buying domain names and building parked pages monetization game.

Next and we do not know about you but we would say that most of us when we need a product or service and it is not one in our favorites list then we just go to our favorite search engine and type into the search bar what ever we are looking for.
This is not how it always was, a lot of people including us and maybe you? used to go to our address bar and type in whatever we wanted for example ManagedWesiteHosting.com because you were looking for what you wanted and that would take you to that actual web site. Today that searching by anything in the address bar and adding the .com extension on the ending has ended for the most part.

Annual costs of maintaining a lot of Domain Names
Logic can attest to this one as our annual domain name renewals bill is large and we are discounted as a domain name seller so when we recently did the math for a best case scenario for a large Parked Domain Name owner we realized that just to break even on there expenses there renewals alone not including there parked pages web site hosting staff and other operating expenses put their cost at over 23.5 million USD.

When to grab a Great Domain Name and Why
This information is the crown jewel of getting in the Domain Name Investment Business for those that have the money to invest when the market is just perfect for two reasons.

Reason=1 Some of these Parked Page monetizers are going to have to let some inventory go to save their otherr names that mean the most to their portfolio. We do not park our domain names but here is our inventory of Domain Names here Domain Name Portfolio
They (parked page businesses) will have to let some inventory go for reasons of a lack of paid advertisers, lack of typed in .com traffic, and the search engine blocking parked pages issue.

Reason=2 If you can buy domain names now great this a will get you into the domain name investment business and get you on the road to learning and understanding what is a good domain name you can learn the how to buy a great domain name at our 11 steps to buying a domain name assistance web site here Domain Name Help
Once you buy these domain names you can develop them into a content rich and focused web site or a blog that will be search engine friendly and will bring to you great traffic. You can sell advertising space or sign up with a leading search engine to carry their relevant ad placements with ease.

Logic’s Logical Thought
Ok when and economy goes into a tail spin the whole world goes into the doom and gloom mode, we think this is just a natural occurrence in our DNA to survive in the urban jungle, we know it as living life, but like weathering a good storm if you plan, save and pay a little more attention then the next person then there are a lot of online real estate bargains to be had and they are coming our way in the coming 18 to 24 months as we head towards the bottom of this economic correction.
It is also very true that in a bad economy there are great opportunities for the savi investor, and we want to educat you to be one of these great bottom fishing investors that come out of recessions living large through a diversity of investments into the domain name world Logic lives in today. We know the domain name world very well and we are sharing this post with you our valued investors and friends about how we do what we do? Make Money.