Right ACRO?

I was not until “.bomb” era (starting in 2000) that tons of good/great domains began to drop and become available. There were then more domains to register that were not available in 1999, the time of the article. The market had tightened up by then and competition was getting much stronger.

And, what is considered good today was not then, for the most part. Why? Because good luck trying to monetize NewYorkCars.com or CellPhonePlans.com when there was nobody to buy the traffic. Today those domains would be considered worth a lot, and rightly so. Back then, you needed top-dog, premium, category killers to get someones attention.

Therefore, with no real apparant monetization platforms, how many domains could you buy/hold with no ability to monetize them? The only thing was CJ.com and they stole from everyone, so you would send them 50,000 uniques and make $30. Another way was to develop sites, but do you realize how slow connections were back then? Making sites with Notepad? Cumbersome DreamWeaver? Using FTP ? Buying overpriced software and computers……everything was much more expensive. All this, to try to get some guy to pay a flat rate on you site, or God forbid, by the click, which was much lower back then (.05 to .10 for the average domain), which you still needed to track. Another method was doing redirects, which I had the most success with. It was a dog eat dog world back then…..it was VERY tough to make it.

Truth is, by the end of 1995 it was getting harder to find the category killer domains for reg free……$200 total, a piece, for two years. I know b/c I started regging in Aug. 1995 like a crazy man. I also only registered generics.

It all depends on the optic. Sure, there are tons of great domains to be had at great prices today, but you WILL need to pay up, unless you find underpriced domains, or catch a trend and reg a domains before anyone else does.

“Domaining” is a recently invented word and thus no such term was used in the 1990′s. I didn’t hear it until 2004 or so.