Premium Dot Com Domain Names on the Internet Are Harder to Find For Small Business
By Brian H Campbell

The reason these top domains are so valuable are numerous. Sometimes domain names are called internet real estate. And rightly so. Just like real estate some buyers use their domain names for websites, while others sit on their investment. Most people think of prospective real estate investors as using their money for a smart, worthy cause.

Well, domain investors who resell domain names are doing the same thing. Of course, there are the occasional dishonest domain investors but they are far and few between. There are laws in internet commerce to prevent unscrupulous dealings just like there are in real estate.

Dot Com Domain Names

Were the first popular tld or top level domain to be offered to the public. They are without a doubt the most valuable and treasured of all. Dot coms are also very hard to come by in virtually every sport, industry or subject matter you can name. Now I am talking about names like realestate.com, food.com, restaurant.com, golf.com so on and so on. Very few of these type of names are for sale by their owners.

The better the domain name for sale the more likely a website has already been developed for the name - but not always. In these domain sales proven revenue figures may be available for the new buyer to look at. You have heard the saying, "anything is for sale for a price". Well, many domain names not listed for sale are for sale, if the price is right.

Toys.com did come up For Sale in 2009 and Sold for over Five Million Dollars

BabyBoomers.tv sold for $1,000.00 and MajorHealthPlans.com sold for only $300.00, which was a good buy. With real estate there are comps to compare properties with so you can surmise an approximate value of a property. With domain names it is all over the board.

An individual or small business can actually purchase most domain names for less than twenty dollars per year, if no one has ever owned the name before. Here is where the problem lies. Like investors gobble up premium low price real estate, investors in domains have done the exact same thing. There is still the occasional great buy. Other top level domains are generally easier to come by then dot coms. I say generally because even dot net,.org,.info and other tld's can not be found in certain fields.

So what do you do when you need a good name?

Thankfully there are other options. Sometimes a two or three word domain name is available in the same field you are looking for. I wanted a good real estate name and found RealEstateOnline.tv and iRealEstate.ws. I was also delighted to find TravelTime.tv, VacationTravel.ws, Holein1.org and 18Holes.org.

Many domain names are resold on the internet from websites specifically set up to handle the transactions. Several of these sites use a secure escrow company like Escrow.com. They actually hold the buyers funds in escrow and will not release them until the seller transfers ownership of the domain name to the buyer. This totally protects both parties involved in the transaction. Escrow.com has done business internationally and is audited by the government.

People get perplexed at how the Domain Name Business Works and Why they can be so Valuable

When a website with targeted traffic comes with the name it is often much more valuable. Some sites have thousands of customers every month or every day already coming to the website. Some other names are still very valuable without a website to certain prospective investors. They may want to develop their own website.

There are several forms of revenue that can be had from well targeted traffic. The merchandise list is endless just like in regular merchandise stores. Jewelry, fashion, computers, food, cars, cameras, furniture, toys, paper products, camping equipment, golf supplies, candy, flowers, tickets, etc.

There are also other avenues of advertising opportunities. And having a premium dot com domain name - just makes it easier in most cases.

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