SecondVersion

After a while of trying to keep this project “hush hush” it got out on NamePros a while back. So, I bring to you my latest project, Domain Name Portfolio.

Latest Version: 0.9.0 as of August 21st, 2007

See the changelog for details.

What is it?

Domain Name Portfolio is a FREE PHP and MySQL based application to help domain owners better organize their portfolio. It allows you to list your domains with their expiry, registrar, price, status, and category. Also allows visitors to your portfolio to contact you about a given domain.

Features (short list):

- List your domains along with a category, registrar, expiry, price, and a status.
- Domains are sortable by domain, category, registrar, expiry, price, or status.
- A quick and convienient contact form is provided for anyone interested in a domain.
- Captcha to help deter spam, and bot emails.
- Secure admin area to add, edit, delete, and set site options.
- Categories
- Domains have their own details page.
- Add domains in bulk.
- Search domains
- Custom template engine.
- Support for MySQL & MySQLi
- Nice clean template.
- Quick and easy installation.
- …and many more!

Requirements

Tested on:

Linux / Apache
PHP 4.3.11 - 4.4.7 & 5.2.x (5.2.4 and later recommended)
MySQL 4.1.21 & 5.0.x (5.0.45 and later recommended)

To use the new captcha feature, you’ll need GD (2.0.35+) w/FreeType(2.3.5+) support.

License

Licensed under the GNU GPL (v2).

What’s new?
You can view changes in the changelog.

Where can I get it?

Project Page: http://www.freshmeat.net/projects/dnport
Home Page: http://www.domainportfolio.us/
Demo: http://www.domainportfolio.us/demo/

This software is considered to be in BETA/Production Stable condition. You may encounter a bug or two. If you have any problems, ideas, or suggestions, post them here, PM me, or contact me at http://www.domainportfolio.us/contact.html

Enjoy!

Various ways to make money with domain names
by David Underhill aka Barefoottech
Copyright 2006 by BareFootTech

As more people and companies than ever are investing in domain names, it has become evident that not all of these names will realise their full income earning potential. As a Domain reseller and investor with a reasonable sized portfolio ,I have often been asked the best way to make money from these investment domains. The following are the most common ways to create an income stream or maximize resale value.

• Park the name with a parking service
  These places pay a percentage of the advertising revenue derived from ads placed on a page displayed when someone visits your domain. Also most of these parking services also offer a sales listing service to enable easy resale marketing of your domain.
• Make your own park page
  Similar to the above ,only you create your own small Website with ads and get 100% of the revenue. This however will not be as profitable because the parking services get a much greater traffic flow.
• Develop a small, but content rich minisite
  These small minisites are usually filled with articles and contextual ads from Adsense. Also often called AdsenseSites
• Develop a full featured web-site
  Selling services or products and also have some ads and paid links.This can be either selling your own products or as an affiliate for an existing online website.

Factors that increase value

At any of the above stages of development and Value adding,you can make money by reselling the Domain/Site for an increased value above the purchase price. The following is some of the variables determining a fair resale price.

• Keywords & brandability of the name
  i.e. Become-rich.biz is Keyword rich and is valued higher than CrappyNames.com
• Amount of Visitor Traffic
  Simple equation More visitors = More Income = Greater Value
• Return from site
  (Income for Ads,Sales or Paid Links) . Higher Income earned ,Higher value for the site
• Current Demand for similiar names
  If a particular type of name is hot property ,all the similar names increase in value because of the demand.
• Current Search Engine Ranking
  If the Name is Not listed by the major search engines or is on page 346 than value is low, conversely if it is listed on the first page of the listings than value will be higher.
• Number of Sites linking to your site
  Related to Traffic and S.E.Ranking , More links = more traffic + higher rankings
• How keen is the buyer for name
  Buyer may want the name for a specific purpose and will pay a premium to ensure they get it.

Ways to Lose money on Domains

• Register a trademarked name
  like “P*yP*lFees.com” because of the Legal hassles. Most High profile companies can afford an expensive legal battle ,can you?
• Pay too much for Domain Name
  Just because ReallyGreat.com sold for $Big-bucks , doesn’t mean paying $bigBucks for any old name will mean reselling it for an even higher price.
• Get scammed by Email and other types of fraud
  Domain investors attract more than their fair share of Scammers A common one is an email claiming to be someone wishing to buy your name ,all you have to do is use their preferred Appraisal service to confirm the offered price. It is just a ruse to get you to pay an inflated price for this appraisal.

About the author: David J Underhill aka BareFootTech is an Australian based domain name reseller and MiniSite developer. He has a minisite network covering a gamut of topics from Lingerie to car bits

Source: GoArticles

Name Intelligence, Inc. is the internet’s source for domain wisdom, combining engineering expertise with a sophisticated understanding of the global domain space order to provide enterprise and user-end solutions for centralized domain information, intellectual property protection and semantic domain name suggestion technology. We pay close attention to the domain industry, and we like to recognize companies and individuals in the industry for their excellence. The Name Intelligence Awards are our way of exposing those that are making great things happen in this great industry.

Community Award in 2006
NamePros - “Buy, Sell, Discuss Domain Names”.
Eric Sizemore, known to NamePros members as SecondVersion, is an active paricipant in the forum and the most constant presence in the live chat room. He has helped many by freely sharing his knowledge of PHP and domain names.

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I have to say that I am very honored to have received one of the awards. It totally caught me by surprise. Thanks to everyone at Name Intelligence, and of course, NamePros

(You can view more about the awards here and view the winners here.)