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Sunday, August 2, 2015

A Professional Approach to Domain Flipping (101)


Domain flipping is the act of buying a domain name and selling to another for a reasonable amount of profit. This explanation gives the business a sense of oversimplified simplicity. Unfortunately, most people are quick to jump into this and are quick to jump out when their fingers have already been burnt. It is easy to go to a registrant and register for a domain, but when it comes to selling, you will find out that it is a much harder game.

It may be difficult especially when you have not made a due diligent to research about the prospective name that you want to buy. Some just trust their guts and buy arbitrarily without making any research. They might be lucky to sell for a good profit, and they will be out there in forums shouting, ‘facile’( Facile is a latin word for easy). The difficulties become bare when he is not able to replicate his success consistently over time. So he is out of business, for the soul of business is consistency.

To be consistent and successful in domain flipping, you must have to approach it like a professional. The following tips will help you in doing that.

Learn what constitutes a Valuable domain name

If you must buy to sell, you must buy a name that has value. It is the value that is in the name that the buyer will be going for. We dealt extensively with this in the post ‘how to determine the value of domain names’. In this