Make Money with Domain Tasting

Make Money with Domain Tasting

Those who do not know what Domain Tasting is… it is a 5 day “grace period” which some domain registrars allow you to hold on to a domain, within which period if you drop it - you get your money back. This has opened up a loop hole which many people are exploiting and making thousands of dollars from. This law allows you to register domains, put up ads on them, measure how much traffic is coming in (mostly from type-in traffic of misspelled words etc) - and then see if you would benefit or make a profit over the yearly cost to book the domain. People use this trick to quickly snap up domains that people forget to renew on time, and measure the traffic and revenues (by putting up adsense ads for instance).

Dynadot.com offers this 5 free day booking. Godaddy.com stopped offering it as it realized that in a period last year over 90% of domains that were booked - were dropped within this 5 day period. But still, everyone here gains… including Google, and now Dynadot - who allows you to use the money for the returned domain to purchase any other service (including another domain). Dynadot wins - because the money remains in their kitty - earning then interest. Google recently announced that they will not allow Adsense ads to run on domains that are less then 5 days old - thus shutting off the possibility to measure how much one can earn in 5 days of ads (and thus apply it to yearly earnings - in order to decide if a profit can be expected) - but Yahoo Publisher Network and MSN have made no such announcement. Also, if ad networks switch to this policy - one can still simply redirect traffic to another domain and still measure additional revenue coming in from redirected traffic. Here is a great post for those who want to learn more about this, and here is an article from Washington Post. If you are clever and move quickly, making even as little as $10 profit per domain per year, if you gradually increase your domain portfolio and holdings to say over 1000 domains - thats $10,000 for your effort. Write special software to snap up names and autoamte the process, and see this figure increase by 100 fold!