With close to 230,000 domains and growing fast… I think Andrew Reberry is onto something “huge” here. Not too many people are familiar with HugeDomains.com or Mr. Reberry but he is no rookie when it comes to the domain biz and internet marketing / development. In the last 1 – 2 years he has put together an impressive domain portfolio and quite a unique online marketplace that is visited by probably 400,000 – 500,000 end-user domain buyers monthly on average right now.

It’s clear that he has modeled his entire biz similar to that of BuyDomains, and that wasn’t such a bad idea… The entire concept of “retail” domain sales has been proven time and time again by BuyDomains over the years who are probably one of the top 2 or 3 domain investors in the world with 1,000,000 domains in their arsenal and millions of dollars in sales monthly. So if you see something working great, do copy it, just don’t forget to put your own unique twist to it and try to do it a little better. It’s what 90% of all businesses do, whether they like to admit it or not.

Andrew Reberry’s company, TurnCommerce.com got accredited as an ICANN registrar a little while ago as NameBright.com which is currently one of the top 60 largest registrars in the world. Now of course all of the domains registered there are their own… But that just goes to show you that this man is on a mission. Anybody who is running a huge operation like that should have his own registrar, plus it makes sense because you can save some nice cash. Guys like Kevin Ham and Frank Schilling have their own registrars as well.

It looks like all of the traffic coming to the main website, HugeDomains.com, is from direct navigation. Visitors who type in one of the 230,000 owned domains are immediately redirected to a for sale page. No PPC ads or any other bullshit. It’s straight to business… And the Huge Domains website setup is just as good as Sedo.com or BuyDomains.com. Andrew went all out and put together something truly special and unique in order to close as many sales as possible. You only get one chance at making a good first impression

So far he has probably invested $2,000,000 on all these domains, infrastructure, development, etc… Still though, he is registering thousands of domains and making improvements. I tried to get the lowdown but the man kindly refused when asked for an interview. I guess he’s just not done yet and ready for the spotlight but really, the man has accomplished a lot in a very short period of time and should be recognized for that… It’s impressive for a thirty something year old self made businessman / entrepreneur. He’s now part of a very elite group of domainers.

This just goes to show you that if you put your mind to it, anything is possible… Even in 2009 or 2010 or 2011!! It was a little less than one year ago when Andrew really cranked things up and went hard at it as far as domain acquisitions go. You know, there was a new blogger who popped up a few month’s ago into the blogosphere who claimed to have 200,000+ domains and earn millions with this and that… Blah blah.. But it’s impossible to verify his claims. Impossible to know if he even owns 1/10th of what he says… Not that it’s anybody’s business or whatever.

But anyways, then there was a huge debate and discussion at one of the domainer forums where people tried to figure things out (snooping around) and many said that it is impossible to create a huge portfolio of 100,000 domains in 2 years that can earn PPC $ and especially 200,000 of them… But come on, anything is possible. It’s not easy to put together a quality portfolio that can be turned profitable in such a short period of time, but if you’re experienced and know what you are doing… You will figure it out. It’s never too late.

Looks like Andrew did just that and proved everybody wrong. He figured it out for good… Forget parking and PPC,  lets focus on domain sales. PERIOD! That is of course where the money is… Always has and always will be. Domain parking income is a nice passive revenue stream but a domain sale can generate a lot more cash flow than the expected lifetime PPC income. No arguing or denying this.

From my domaining career early on, we’re talking about right around 2004, I personally always took the “exit” option when I was presented with a reasonable offer to buy one of my domains or a whole group of them… I never got attached to them whatsoever or actually fantasized and believed that PPC earnings can magically somehow go up 2x, 3x, etc. I am not very patient when it comes to investments and if there is a chance to make a guaranteed profit with little to no effort… DONE DEAL!

I like to check up on domains which I sold every now and then. Always interesting to see whether it’s been developed, marketed, etc. So I sold the domain WallStickers.net about 6 month’s ago to an “end user” and it was immediately developed by the new owners as a full blown e-commerce store selling you guessed it, wall stickers and wall decor.

It wasn’t that difficult to get it sold, because a good keyword domain really sells itself. Of course it has to be priced right. We kept the asking price reasonable, got multiple offers and made a deal with one fella who seemed very nice and definitely knows what he is doing. It was actually a quick flip, as I acquired it for about $100 or $150 last year from another domainer.

Lets look at the monthly search volumes with the Google AdWords Keyword Tool, [exact match] for root keyword wall stickers is 135,000 in the US and 246,000 worldwide. That is more than 3,000,000 people typing in wall stickers into Google.com annually and looking to shop for these.

Broad match is exactly 1,000,000 per month globally… So it’s safe to say that these wall sticker things are pretty popular and in-demand. Also if you look at the Google search trends for the keyword wall stickers from the past few years… It shows that this product is slowly but surely still growing. Heck, it’s only existed for about five years. Still a lot of room to grow…

I could of easily developed this domain, sure… But I always try to flip a domain first if possible. There is really no shortage of good keyword domains to be had which can be developed, and I already have literally 1,000’s of similar domains sitting in my portfolio waiting and waiting for something to go up on them.

I am sure the new owner’s of WallStickers.net are extremely happy with the purchase of this category leading domain. I am also 100% sure that they got their money’s worth literally within a few month’s as the domain now ranks at the top for keyword “wall stickers” at Google.com, Yahoo.com and Bing.com as well.

Now that is the power of keyword domains… Put up some relevant content + do a bit of standard on-page search engine optimization = organic keyword rankings within a few month’s and you know what specific e-commerce product related keyword rankings mean… $$$ Cha-ching $$$$ !! Those are targeted shoppers brought right to your door, at no cost. Just give them the opportunity to purchase what they want and it’s money in the bank. Gotta love it!

Lets take for example the three domains below: AdultTalentAgency.com, ForensicPathologist.com and HomeWeatherStation.com — I owned them all for at least one year and sold to three different people just last month. All of them were developed for about $100 – $150 max and re-sold for a decent ROI.

I paid $1000 for HomeWeatherStation.com + HomeWeatherStations.com a little over a year ago during a SnapNames auction. I immediately “flipped” the plural to an e-commerce operator / marketing company who goes by the name of 3tailer. The singular we developed last month, shopped it around a bit and got it sold as well. The new owner is going to re-develop the site with his own unique setup apparently.

AdultTalentAgency.com I won for the standard $60 one time backorder fee at SnapNames as it was a drop. We developed it like 6 month’s ago, so it was receiving around 30 visitors per day. Shopped it around… Got it sold to NetTuner.com who are currently using the website to drive traffic to their InternetModeling.com business and boost up SEO for the new PornModels.com site which is coming soon.

ForensicPathologist.com I originally purchased for $100 from a domainer last year on a private forum along with a few  similar domains such as CrimeSceneCleaner.com and BailBondService.com which were flipped last year. So anyways, we developed the domain, and it was receiving 50 visitors per day on average and slowly increasing. The domain was sold to another domainer who is keeping our original website setup, just adding advertisements in order to monetize the traffic.

So does domain development really make sense?? Does it create any value? Of course. All this free traffic is quite valuable. It also brings out the hidden potential of the domain’s keywords, once it is properly developed and furthermore optimized / marketed. So you buy a domain for $60, $100 or whatever… What next??!

You need to continue investing in your domains wisely if you truly believe in them and want to increase value the proven way. Not too much cash, but just enough to get in the game. As you can see, the $100 – $150  that we spent on each of the three domains’ development got us search engine rankings, a consistent and targeted traffic flow and a sale in each case at the end which we are happy with.

Umm, yea… Talking about the one and only SEX.COM. The domain sold for something like $12 to $14 million as was reported in January of 2006 by DNJournal… It was funny to see SEX.NET sell only a couple of month’s later for a fraction of what SEX.COM sold for… It went for only $454,000 during a live auction held at a domain conference put on by Rick Schwartz in Las Vegas.

Gary Kremen of Grant Media sold both SEX.COM and SEX.NET in 2006 and moved onto other ventures. Things were really booming in the domain industry in 2006 and 2007…. The golden days. Lots of big deals were being put together both privately and publicly. This one 14 million dollar deal got lots of heads turning without a doubt.

I always thought that the partners who formed “Escom LLC” specifically to acquire SEX.COM under a joint venture type of deal overpaid big time and now it’s clear 100% that they did.  I am sure they had great plans and all, but here we are 4 years later and they got nowhere. A huge miscalculation and failure on their part.

Only burned through tons of cash and wasted a whole lot of time / resources. What a shame.. Definitely not the first time or last time that something like this will happen. Take for example Men.com which sold for $1.3m… What is it now? A banner farm. That is what happens with generic domains. They aren’t always all that great.

The partners / owners of SEX.COM are 1 year late on monthly payments due (domain purchase was financed) so it was announced just last month that this domain is going to be auctioned off as it was foreclosed by Domain Capital. Even though the domain gets around 40,000 – 50,000 unique visitors per day… The current owners see no value in them. They stopped believing in this domain

If you visit the current site, SEX.COM,  you will see why it is losing money and is hopeless. It just doesn’t have much going for it. So what that it’s possibly a category leading domain. So what that it has a ton of visitors… That doesn’t mean much! The problem that this domain has is that it’s too damn generic. HUGE PROBLEM!

If the domain is too generic, it’s very challenging trying to tie it up to a certain topic and develop it out right…. So what exactly can you tie up SEX.COM with??! Good question, eh! Something that nobody during the past 4 years was able to figure out. Also most of the traffic that this domain gets are unintentional type-ins from all of the sites that end in *sex.com which there are over 40,000.

People are looking for whateverSEX.com in the back of their mind but end up going to just SEX.COM . This happens quite a lot too, trust me on this… I’ve managed some very similar high trafficked generic gTLD and ccTLD domains for various clients as part of the Maxxximize.com domain monetization services we provide and this misdirected traffic isn’t all that great. Very hard to convert it. Sometimes it is absolutely worthless. That is right… I said it, WORTHLESS!

This is a cool domain, without a doubt… Worth a few million dollars, but not $14 million. It can do a lot for a company that will put it to good use and think long term because development always is. It’s a good investment and whoever acquires it next, they will be put on the map instantly. All of the free press will give them instant recognition and all of the credibility in the world to succeed in whatever it is they do… Whether they provide some kind of a service or sell products.

So with that said, probably somebody who isn’t all that well known right now in the SEX business (adult industry) will gather up all of their resources, maybe even partner up and try their luck by putting in a multi-million dollar bid during the foreclosure auction set to happen in NYC less than 10 days from today.

I see some people throwing around unrealistic figures, that it will sell for some $10m, $15m or maybe even $25m… LOL! That is highly unlikely to happen. This domain names’ value pretty much has decreased year-over-year by 10% – 20% at minimum. The adult business has also changed big time since 2006 so this domain isn’t all that great as far as running a standalone business goes. The only ones who made a killing with it were the previous owners in the early days, from 1995 to 2006.

Everybody who had anything to do with it the past four years have gotten nothing but headaches and that is because nothing good lasts forever.. YEP SEX.COM had a great run for exactly 10 years but that’s about it. Whoever pony’s up the cash next will have to be very creative in how they put this domain to use in order to turn in a profit at the end of the day. I can only think of a couple of business models that can possibly work; directory of sex sites, tube style, live sex cams portal or classifieds / personals mega site.

What do you think? What do you make of all of this… Lets hear it!

After dot com domains, the next best thing is either .net and .org usually. It really depends on the topic though. Sometimes a dot org will beat dot net and the other way around. I like these gTLD’s a lot and they have quite a bit of value if the domain has the right keywords present. I usually value strong .net/.org domains at 10x – 15x less of what the dot com name is worth.

So for example if keyword.com sold for $10k then the keyword.net domain is worth around $500 – $1000 easily. Same thing for keyword.org which would be valued at 10x to 15x of what the keyword.com domain may be worth or already sold for.

Below is a few dozen domains which I’ve “flipped” the past few month’s for a quick and easy profit. All of them were acquired within the past few month’s and re-sold for an average 10x ROI. Some domains were purchased at GoDaddy for $25, while others at SnapNames for $60 or at NameJet for $70 – $100 maximum. I don’t usually get into bidding wars, so really most of the domains were either sniped or I was the only bidder and was lucky enough to get them cheap, basically below market value.

• aprcalculator.org
• automaticbackup.net
• banktellerjobs.org
• bedroomvanities.net
• billiardequipment.net
• blogdesign.net
• blogdesigns.net
• broadcastingjobs.org
• caregiverjobs.org
• carlights.net
• cheapheadphones.net
• creditrestoration.org
• deliveryflowers.net
• digitalkeyboards.net
• diningchairs.net
• dobermans.net
• downbedding.net
• dresshats.net
• elegantdresses.net
• exerciseapparel.net
• federalloan.org
• federalloans.org
• flightinformation.net
• flowerseeds.org
• gamechairs.net
• greatest.org
• homeschoolcurriculum.org
• homeschoolsoftware.org
• insurancecalculator.org
• internetcompany.net
• keymachines.net
• kindergarteners.net
• malpracticelawyer.org
• oilprices.org
• overlooked.net
• ovulating.org
• petsforsale.org
• playkitchen.net
• revolutionized.net
• screenwriters.org
• tapshoes.net
• teakettles.net
• telecommutejobs.org
• xxxpasswords.net

Some of the domains above were sold for a few hundred bucks, while some for a few thousand but the average price for each domain sold is right around $500. A handful I simply got rid of for $100 or $200 but you get the point… Collectively, it is a nice sum and consistently a 10x ROI which I shoot for in every deal I make.

As you can see, most of the domains consist of 1 or 2 keywords and they are relevant one to another. The domains have a clear purpose and can easily be tied up to a certain topic. This makes the development of the domain easy. Search engines favor this types of domains, as do visitors. So that is basically what makes them valuable and good investments, be it for a few hundred bucks or a few thousand.

During the good ol’ days right around 2004 and 2005 it used to be more like 30x – 50x ROI on domain flips on average, and sometimes even 100x with domains that had traffic but times have changed big time in the domain business. The inventory isn’t as good as it once was but still there are plenty of opportunities to be had even today, in 2010 and beyond for those who are in the game day in and day out!

You gotta keep your eyes wide open, do the right research and pull the trigger when it’s time. Gotta be in it to win it, daily. Consistency is the key. Good luck!

There are still plenty of valuable keyword domains available to register for less than $8 per year which can be easily re-sold for hundreds and even thousands of dollars in profit. Need proof? Have a look at the list below:

• ShopRunningGear.com
• OnlineHuntingShop.com
• LaxStore.net
• RacquetballStore.net
• OnlineYogaShop.com
• KayakingShop.com
• GymnasticsStore.net
• KneeboardingStore.com
• KitesurfingStore.net
• WindsurfingShop.net
• WakeboardingStore.net
• UltimateSkiShop.com
• WaterskiingStore.com

I’ve sold literally hundreds of the same type of domains over the years which are e-commerce related that end in shop/store in the dot COM or NET extensions. With the group of domains above, we focused on acquiring the best domains in the sports and outdoor related niche by doing some in-depth market research and keyword analysis.

To any knowledgeable  domain investor or developer, most of the domains listed here are probably worth at least $100 – $200 each. That is only on the reseller market, what I like to call wholesale pricing. That is what I personally would pay without hesitation if I saw a domain such as SquashStore.net, FencingStore.net, WaterskiingStore.com, KayakingShop.com, etc listed on an expired list, forum or whatever.

The domain’s value should be pretty clear and ideas should be jumping staright at you as soon as you are done going through the list of domains. The potential is massive if you do everything right and the keywords are all relevant to each other.

They are not just any brandable, made up “sound good” domains. They are generic keyword domains describing something that covers a large category of products. Domains which an actual business can be built on that search engines will favor and users closely identify and want to interact with.

• ShopVolleyball.net
• ShopSwimsuits.net
• WakeskatingShop.com
• ShopSoftball.net
• SquashStore.net
• BowlingEquipmentStore.com
• CheerleadingStore.net
• BackpackingShop.net
• BoatingEquipmentShop.com
• BmxStore.net
• FencingStore.net
• EquestrianSportsShop.com
• FieldHockeyShop.net
• …etc

Now for any actual business owner, who does not have a strong keyword domain currently, any of the domains above may be worth $500 – $1000 easily. Maybe even a few thousand. Depends on how big and successful their business is and how much they fall in love with the domain. How badly they want it. A good keyword domain is an investment and one that should pay for itself in no time.

So I basically purchased these domains for re-sale / development. We will first try to quickly “flip” them for as much as possible. Be it $200, $300 or $500+. It’s still not a bad ROI considering each domain cost less than $10. We’ll shop them around here and there and see how it goes. The unsold domains, we will mass develop as affiliate based stores. That is the plan. Clear and simple.

Basically, don’t wait for the domains to come to you… Gotta go out there and find them. They are out there. Like the title says; just gotta look. Good luck and happy domain hunting!

At DomainStryker.com we are always interested to learn about domain flipping success stories… So, we invite you to open up! We’ll even give you $1,000 if your success story is the most liked and gets some votes. That is right, one thousand bucks paid via PayPal just for a little bit of your time. Come on now, don’t be shy

The rules and guidelines are pretty simple. If you’ve sold a domain for at least 5x to 10x ROI or more recently (at least a few hundred bucks worth) and want to share your story with us at Domain Stryker, please e-mail and tell us all about it!

The e-mail should go out to admin at domainstryker.com (replace at with @) and be sure to include at least a couple of screenshots from the sales listings, negotiations,  payment, etc so that we can verify everything and make sure it’s 100% legit.

We encourage you to be creative with submissions. Don’t just write a paragraph or two and send it off. Take some time to organize everything and walk us through step by step in regards to what you did in order to make a sale happen and so on. Record a video if you want to! We love those. Put some real thought and effort into it.

The whole purpose of this contest and success story’ series is education. We can learn a lot from each other. So why don’t you provide some tips and tricks… Give insights and maybe you will be the one to take home all that $$$$ that is up for grabs.

We will be publishing success stories as they come in and get reviewed over the next couple of weeks. Then we will setup a poll where users can vote for their favorite domain flipping success story. The winner will be announced at the end of March and the prize of $1000 will be immediately awarded. Sounds like fun right?! You bet…

To show our appreciation to participants, anybody who sends in their success story by March 1st, 2010 we will hook up with a 30 day membership at DomainStryker.com if you don’t currently have an account. If you are already a member, we’ll extend your membership for one extra month. Win-win! Good luck everybody.