BANS Domain Selection, Cheaper Not Always Better

Written by: Don Miller

Posted on June 5, 2008 
Filed Under Starting your Online Business, bans

As everyone knows getting an info domain indexed these days is quite the challenge. I own 40 or so myself and I continue to get links for them. I know one day they will be indexed. There are many people trying different methods and with some success. Installing a blog ahead of your BANS site seems to be the most popular. However, I want to talk more about buying existing domains. Yeah I know it is more expensive. Just hold on to that thought for a minute, and if you just don’t have the money, I understand.

I have not purchased a new domain in over a month and here is why. Existing domains provide an opportunity for making money faster. How much faster? read on. I started purchasing .com domains that were a minimum of 3 years old. I do not get overly concerned with page rank. I repeat, do not get overly concerned with page rank. Aged domains are my priority.

I go to Fresh Drop, filter my results my results for age, 3 year minimum, Set Fake PR to N, PR minimum 0 . There I begin a search for domains to fit my criteria. If you get hung up on having a particular word of keyword term in the domain, you are going to get frustrated. Remember you can make a domain rank for any keyword or phrase you choose. The history of the site is very important. Why? Because lets say you find a domain that used to feature financial products. Let’s assume for this discussion you find pages archived or still showing on Google related to that term. You start your niche site that has to do with investing in the stock market or mortgages. The result in many cases is instant authority.

You can do this with BANS or Niche sites for Adsense. It works the same. I recently purchased a domain that was 5 years old. The site has been up for two weeks, As of this writing I am on page two of Google for my search term. I have not worked the domain all that hard.

Last week I purchased a domain for BANS. I frankly did not know how I would use it but I liked all the deciding factors I use to choose a domain that I described above. I set up the BANS site with 3 search terms and store pages. The result? It has become my biggest Bans producer. I sold items off of that site the fist day it was up. It is that easy folks and sometimes being lucky is nice, but properly choosing an existing domain takes being lucky out of the equation.

Now let’s talk about the making money factor. Info Domains are .99 and .com domains will cost you a touch over $15.00. That’s big difference, right? It’s not when you consider you will make that $15.00 back and more inside two weeks. So what to do with all the profits? Buy more existing domains. I bought two while writing this article. I will be making money from them next week. It has worked for me and it can work for you.

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11 Responses to “BANS Domain Selection, Cheaper Not Always Better”

  1. bloggingzoom.com on June 5th, 2008 6:17 pm

    BANS Domain Selection, Cheaper Not Always Better…

    Building my business has taken me away from my blog to some extent, but I wanted to share a thought or two on choosing domains for your BANS sites or Niche Sites. My goodness people get wrapped up in Page rank dont they? It i snot my priority when choo…

  2. Blogging Zombie on June 5th, 2008 8:12 pm

    Don I couldn’t agree with you more. Preowned is the best thing since sliced bread. I go with preowned unless I cannot find anything for a niche I want to work.

  3. Frank C on June 5th, 2008 9:10 pm

    One thing to consider is that eBay seems to have a problem with domains that have a history that they don’t like, even if that didn’t happen on your watch. They have suspended some EPN accounts over this. Check the history and make sure it’s clean to avoid trouble.

  4. Don Miller on June 5th, 2008 10:33 pm

    Frank thats a good point I do have one with a shady past, but so far so good, Im trying to clean it up

  5. Monika Mundell on June 5th, 2008 11:55 pm

    Thanks for the great post Don, thanks to you I just purchased a cool domain. I did buy pre-owned before but didn’t quite grasp the “whole” system.

    Just to confirm, I am in the sandbox with a site i built up a couple of months ago and while this will only delay my income with it, I can see the value of pre-owned now even more.

  6. Don Miller on June 6th, 2008 12:20 am

    Monika , one more thing , make sure the domain you choose is currently indexed , I know that sounds basic but it happens, if it is then it will be smooth sailing , good to see you again gal

  7. Don Miller on June 8th, 2008 3:22 am

    Justin , darn missed your comment ,sorry, thanks for stopping in

  8. Niche Blogging on June 13th, 2008 8:10 am

    Great review of the BANS preowned domains. I am buying them more than the .info right now due to Googles slapping of the spam .info’s and have been having great success with them.

    I have one preowned that is #2 out of over 19 million for its main keyword, not bad for only having it for 1 month!

  9. Yoav on July 16th, 2008 7:49 am

    sorry for the question but buying cheap domains is not enough for BANS. I need to buy also a shared hosting package (i.e. for $5 a month - unix+mysql) for each domain which makes the costs for each BANS site even higher

  10. Don Miller on July 16th, 2008 10:51 pm

    Yoav Then I suggest a Host Gator reseller account , you’re getting done over

  11. make money online on November 10th, 2008 11:43 pm

    Love this post. I have been looking into buying from freshdrop. Great to hear that existing domains can be used almost right away for adsense sites.

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