Jeff,
If you are trying to make an entire business out of domain
registration, I'd say that would be a tough thing to accomplish
successfully.
Domain registration is quite well suited, however, as an add-on
service to a companies existing offerings. It brands well with many
other services.
But as the central income source, I wouldn't put much money into that.
Wednesday, Wednesday, August 15, 2001, 8:08:21 PM, Jeff Bevill wrote:
> Dear OpenSRS Community,
> I just joined this list a few days ago in order to do some research on the
> domain name registration industry. My goal is to determine if it's even
> worth trying to start a business in this industry so late in the game. From
> what I've read so far, the industry is extremely saturated and domain name
> sales have decreased heavily due to the slowing of the economy. With that
> said, can a small business put up a relatively sophisticated site (something
> like Dotster functionality) and expect to make much money (goals of 1-3k per
> month eventually) ? Obviously a fair amount of marketing would need to be
> done via search engines, banner ad posting, and other means to build traffic
> and publicity. Until more funds are available, all operations of the
> company would have to be on a very small scale basis (me and my savings
> account), but the priority would be to have 24/7 redundancy and good
> customer service.
> What about expired and deleted domain compilation lists ? Considering that
> each registrar maintains their own database of zone files, I suspect that I
> would need to either brute force the WHOIS protocol for individual domain
> name checking or find a way to get the entire NSI registry ... which I do
> believe costs some serious dollars. The idea is to put a site up solely for
> expired domain renewals and lists in hopes to make a little cash. Are
> expired and deleted domain renewal sites explicitly frowned upon by the
> operators of the OpenSRS system ? I would suspect so considering the
> bandwidth requirements to check the 'expiration' status on an individual
> domain _every_ couple of seconds. This process sounds very similar to a
> denial of service attack, heh.
> Let me know your thoughts, flames, or advice. If a site could make me even
> $1-3k per month I would be happy. For the last 6 1/2 years I've been
> writing device drivers on a 1099 contract for companies all over the globe.
> As all of you know, the market is extremely dry right now for work, so I'm
> looking for anything that will help generate some revenue so that I can get
> out of this extremely hair-pulling industry (device drivers).
> Resources I have at my disposal right now:
> 1) 20Mbit bandwidth circuit at a 24/7 redundant co-locate facility.
> 2) 4 Dual processor pentium 3 machines with 1 gig of ram each.
> 3) Combined 200 gig of storage.
> 4) 10+ years of programming knowledge in x86 Assembly, 8051 Assembly, C/C++
> and 3 years of perl/php.
> 5) Friend that can create quality graphic design work for cheap.
> Thanks
> Jeff Bevill
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