What is a Domainer?

A domainer is someone who earns a profit buying and selling domain names. The philosophy is similar to the stock market: buy low and sell high. Here are 28 tips, tools, techniques and financing options to get you started on your way to successful domaining.

The Aviva Directory has compiled very thorough list summarizing 28 tips on how to become successful at buying/selling domains. Their list starts off with some eye popping numbers by Marcus Frind and Yun Ye who were making $10,000 and $100,000 per day respectively.

The tips are divided up into 5 main categories:

- Domain Buying Strategies
- Financing Your Domaining
- Important Practices
- Techniques for Monetizing
- Tools for the Trade

Here is just a taste of the tips you'll find but you'll have to visit the Aviva Directory to get the entire list.

- Trademark Typo Domains.
One of the original domainer buying strategies was to hunt for any trademarked names that hadn’t yet been purchased, and failing that, to purchase typos of those domains.

- Trademark Typo Domains.
One of the original domainer buying strategies was to hunt for any trademarked names that hadn’t yet been purchased, and failing that, to purchase typos of those domains.

- Organize and auto-renew.
If you’re holding domains for longer than a year, it’s a very good idea to have them all set to auto-renew.

- Create traffic.
If you own domains that aren’t receiving a lot of type-in traffic, you may want to try to increase their value by getting them indexed into the search engines so that the eventual purchaser will find it easier to get the site to rank for relevant search engine results.

- Park and go.
While running your own PPC or adsense is the more lucrative solution, some domainers who are short on time or technical expertise choose to simply park domains at a service like Sedo.

Source: http://www.avivadirectory.com/domain/

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