How do I get started to make money online doing Domaineering?

Answer 1

1) Someone interested in doing domaineering will probably need to register at least one, if not more, high internet traffic or niche market generic keyword domain names. Natural type traffic in domain names are highly desireable with .com tlds the most sought after. Aged domain names are also worth considering. Registering a domain name for one year costs about $10 US dollars give or take. It's also a good idea to hide your identity when registering a domain name to cut down on spam. Before registering the domain name, first check to make sure you are not infringing on someone's trademark by checking the trademark registry in the country you are located in before you register the domains. In the USA, check the USPTO.gov trademark registry. If you don't know how to do this, perhaps consulting with an intellectual property attorney is a good idea as trademark law can be tricky. Bottom line: as a general policy, if it's a trademarked word or term, it's probably not generic and consider avoiding registering it as a domain name...unless you own the TM of course.

2) As an intending domaineer, you will then need to open an account at a domain parking services company. These are usually free and some companies want you to have more than one domain name. It's OK to obtain an account at several domain parking companies to see which one pays the most ad revenue for use of your domain names. There are all sorts of landing page formats, ad feeds and different terms of service, (TOS ). Some domain-parking services even let domaineers add content, set keywords and change colors on the landing page(s). Some may auto-optimize the landing page for you. If you make money, the domain parking service will have their hand out wanting their cut of the money for supplying the advertising feed(s) and landing pages. The % share the domain parking company takes varies from company to company and there is sometimes little or even no transparency as to actual the Internet traffic hits or revenue earned your domain name(s) generated.

There are also domaineering and domaining forums and blogs read and get ideas from preferably before you get started domaineering.

The above constitutes only worthless opinion and does not in anyway constitute legal advice.