Monday, August 18th, 2008
at 1:12pm
Over the past month or so, i’ve been pretty busy online… i’ve been working hard to find potential niche sites and getting quality domain names at bargain prices. Through a combination of hard work, patience and sheer luck, i stumbled upon a huge niche just waiting to be tapped in to and i’ve registered 19 domain names worth in excess of $35k according to estibot. I wouldn’t be as optimistic as that, but i WOULD say that the domains are worth in the region of $3-5k undeveloped.
I know i have a huge niche on my hands, but do i have the skills and determination to exploit it? You’ll have to wait a while to find out as it’ll be another long journey. Things rarely happen overnight, even on the internet.
Anyway, having found this huge niche and the weeks before having previously registered some quality domains for peanuts, i figured it was time to let the cat out of the bag and let you guys in on how exactly i’m doing it.
So at last, my new ‘Webmaster Secrets Exposed Ebook’ is finally available to download for free. All i ask in return is that you subscribe to my blog’s RSS feed in an RSS reader or by email.
If you don’t know what RSS is, this might help. Once you subscribe, you’ll see a link underneath every post in your RSS reader, allowing you to download my new ebook. (note; it might take a while to kick in if my RSS feed is cached or whatever…)
In a nutshell, my new method of finding domains & niches revolves around 3 websites/tools. You’ll have heard of one of them for sure. I reckon not many of you will know about all three.
For anyone new to buying/selling domains, creating niche sites, discovering niches etc… this ebook is a MUST READ and i guarantee it’ll be one of the most useful webmaster related ebooks you’ll ever read. Had this been around when i first got started 2 years ago, i would have saved a small fortune and literally hours and hours of messing about experimenting with useless crap.
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Friday, August 15th, 2008
at 2:50pm
My new ebook, titled “Webmaster Secrets Exposed” is now complete.
It’ll be available from Monday - 18th August and ONLY available for my RSS subscribers. I won’t be selling any copies or giving it away anywhere else… the only place you’ll be able to get it is through this blog.
In it, i go through how i’ve been registering decent valuable domains names on the cheap and how i stumbled upon some huge niches. I also reveal how i generate ideas and niche sites and generally how to ‘work clever’ rather than work hard.
No webmaster should be without this information and i GUARANTEE this is going to open you eyes to a whole new way of creating sites. If you happen to already know about this stuff - no harm done, you’ll probably still pick up a few tips or tricks.
So you’ve got absolutely nothing to lose by subscribing to my RSS feed or subscribing via email. 100% free, 100% quality.
Starting Monday, anyone who’s subscribed by RSS or email will get a link to download the ebook. As i’ve said before the reason i’m keeping this free is simply to gain more RSS subscribers. If all goes well, it’s a tactic i might start to use more often.
Saturday, August 9th, 2008
at 2:29pm
For the past couple of weeks i’ve been been buying several domain names BELOW my normal registration fee of about $6.
Not only are these domain names cheap, but some of them have an estimated value of $1k+ with estibot. I’ve been teasing you guys with these stats without revealing any details but that’s gonna change. Just to tease you guys further, check out this domain valuation - a domain i’m just after getting my hands on for just over $6.
Not enough to get your attention? How about this valuation on a domain i picked up for just over $9;
So screw my last post of $5610 worth of domains, i now have $13,510 worth of domains having spent less than $100 on them 
($91.93 to be exact).
However, as ‘Girish’ has kindly pointed out in a comment, estibot is not bang on with it’s valuations. I’ve said in an earlier post, i generally take 1/20th of estibots valuation as my own valuation just to keep me grounded…
Even if we go by my 1/20th rule, it still means the domains are worth a combined $675 - more than 7 times what i paid for them.
For brandable domains, it won’t get it right…. for cracked domains or domains with an extension other than .com, it probably won’t get it right either. BUT for generic keyword domains, it is pretty accurate.
A few examples….
- looks.com sold for $86k 2 years ago, estibot values it at $110k.
- webhelp.com sold for $30k last month, estibot values it at $17k.
- typo.com sold for $25k last month, estibot values it at $15k.
- language.org sold for $12k 2 months ago, estibot values it at $11k.
Equally, there are plenty of times estibot gets it wrong, but when it comes to dictionary words or two dictionary words together, it’s not as far out as you may think and the sales in recent years prove it.
Estibot, unlike the others, won’t bullshit you and tell you you’re domain is worth $10million. If it’s not worth anything - it’ll tell you. Don’t believe me? Try it for yourself on your own domains to take you back down to earth 
Of course for the smaller domains valued at a few hundred, it becomes much more serious when you only get like $20 for a domain you thought was worth $300. It’s a massive difference to you… when you’re dealing with domains worth $10k+, getting $6k or even $3k doesn’t seem so bad, even though it’s a bigger drop…
At the end of the day, when you buy or sell anything, the price you buy or sell something for will be the price you and the buyer/seller deem the product to be worth. Much like selling a house, these sort of robots and even human appraisals are simply ‘guides’ - just because they say ‘x’ is worth $10k, doesn’t mean you’ll get it. You *could* get more… you could also (more likely) get less.
Only an idiot would register domains based solely on estibot valuations. Although i place a lot of trust in estibot, don’t be fooled - i don’t just use estibot to value domains… i’ll do my homework in google, see if there’s competition, try to find out if the domain has any history etc… if i don’t like a domain or don’t think i could do anything with it, i won’t register it, even if estibot values it at a couple of hundred.
The stakes are relatively low though for me, so i don’t spend hours and hours analyzing a domain and getting expert advice etc… at the end of the day, the max i’ve paid for a domain so far has been about $16 - it’s not going to bankrupt me 
Anyway, i’ll be revealing all my tactics over the next couple of weeks (probably the week after this week as i’ve too much to do with my maths exam on thursday). I’ll produce a series of blog posts (about 3) to RSS subscribers only as i don’t want this to become too popular, too quickly, otherwise there’s too much competition, too many people use/try out the methods and it spoils the sense of bargain hunting for everyone.
It’s also a completely lose / lose situation for me if i blog about this openly as i’m simply adding extra competition for myself when it comes to getting these domains… At least if i keep it RSS only, it’ll help me boost my readership plus give something back to my loyal readers
