Content Not In “Demand”?

For those domainers and webmasters out there trying to compile web sites out of standard and premium content, the bar has been lowered (ahem) by certain members of the online industry who mimic the very worst journalism standards while trying to ram news “junk” and near-spam content down the throats of innocent online surfers looking for answers. Demand Media is one of those huge corporations that independent writers look at and wonder what they did wrong working so hard to write decent material. A recent mainstream journalism article examined how this looks form the Wall Street view looking at an IPO offer.

Bragging about page views is the measurement and bragging rights currency of any domainer, but many a webmaster has scratched their head trying to figure out how to make money out of dirge content. The Fortune article unpacks just how irritating cr*p content can be and why legitimate webmasters throw in the towel chasing an insane business model. The convergence between what traffic stats show and what people actually want to read and make use of online in the end may actually prove the winner in the end. Demand lost a stunning $22 million in 2009 and $6 million in part of 2010. They may be making money, but that feeling of a bubble about to burst as the bean counters pore over the spreadsheets is the gist of this piece.

Domain Market Update

The recent six figure domain sales have given rise to the hopes of many a aftermarket domainer in these troubled economic times. Whereas some domainers may see a shrinking buyer’s market, other experts disagree. Noted domain bloggers have been consistently commenting on the healthy resale market and auction robustness catching the domainer headlines of late.

The legitimate monetary revenues derived from domaining have not shrunk so much as sharply diversified into more competitive markets. Domain development and domain resale via auction sales seem as healthy as they were in pre-recession late 2008. Furthermore, shifts in the domain marketplace, such as the closing of Bido and the auction privileges extended by certain registrars to some auction sites, symbolize not the expiration but the maturation of the domain market.

Domain sales across all TLD’s can still be savored, but the bonanza market of the initial land grab is past over with. Career domainers with specialized long game interests and savvy marketing skills can promote their chosen domain sale with an optimum chance of ultimate domain profit from resale. Choosing development options, hosting accounts, parking page and template versiosn as well as direct domain marketing to possible buyers brings the steady domain money home.

E dot Biz signals Ebiz Boom

Electronic dot-biz sold at $66,001 on September 9 marks a great Sedo Auction. This looks to promote single character booms and value generation  in domain names. Single character single letter domain names can be very desireable sales in any email resales or accounts for subdomaining.