Pacdesco.net How To Make Money Online

Back in the dot com boom it was easy to buy a good domain name as there were loads about, make a good site and flog it on for a lot of money. I’m sure we have all heard of the guy (can’t remember his name) how sold his site for around $5M then after the big dot com crash bought his website back for peanuts!

Those days of making money quickly from buying and selling websites can still be done but it takes a lot more time and not likely to get mega bucks. You can still make money online from buying and selling domains, your not likely to pick up and 4 or 5 letter .coms now as they have all been snapped up. But there are still some good ones to be found, especially from dropped domains, which Pacdesco.net was. Speaking of dropped domains, should I start up doing my dropped domain give away again?

I thought it would be useful doing some research of the most expensive domain names ever sold. I’m sure there are lots of big purchases that go relatively unnoticed, deals done well away from forums and any online media. The purpose being to try emphasize the point of branding, the sites that sell for big money are the ones that are easily brandable.

11 - VIP.com

Sold for a cool $1.4 million in Sept 05

Bought by keisure and gaming, vip.com is a gambling site. I’m not sure how this domain name really relates to gambling but it’s very very easy to remember!

10 - Creditcards.com

$2.75 million in July 04

This site will probably get a lot of direct traffic just from people typing in the URL straight off like most of the other sites on here. The margins in finance/loans can be massive, and have very high cost per click on Google Adwords because of the margins involved.

9 - Wine.com

$2.9 million Sept 99

Only sells to the US market which is a big mistake, and has a very annoying pop up when you go on asking what state your shopping in.

8 - Shop.com

$3.5 million

I don’t think this was really a good buy at all, hands up who’s ever bought anything from here? Not done a very good branding job compared to Amazon, play.com ETC

7 - SEO.com

$5 million 07

Just shows how much SEO has come along and how much money is involved now!

6 - asseenontv.com

$5.1 million Jan 00

Lets you buy stuff that you have seen on TV, a good idea. But was it a good buy? Bought during the dot com boom it’s the only exception to the others because it’s a very long domain name. This dude would lose big money if he sold it on.

5 - Beer.com

$7 million

Bargin, considering the traffic that it will get catering to the main people who currently use the internet.

4 - diamonds.com

$7.5 million

can’t do anybetter domain name wise for what they are selling.

3 - Business.com

$7.5 million in 99

Former Guinness world record holder for the most expensive domain name ever sold.

2 - porn.com

$9.5 million 07

This guy got a bargin!

1 - Sex.com

$11 - 14 million Jan 06

Judging by the top top 2 site I need to get me a porn site going. This will get uber amounts of traffic, plus it would have got a lot of links and traffic just from the hype when it sold.

So what do you think? How does your domain name stack up to these names? Note that they are all .com’s so ideally buy a .com as it’s what people tend to think of after the name. You don’t need a really short multi million dollar domain to succeed as lond as you do a good job of branding what you have got!