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Three More Ways to Cash in On Fresh Top Level Domains

Three user-submitted ways to make money from fresh top level domain names.

Yesterday I provided twelve examples of ways you can make money from the launch of fresh top level domain names. I received some comments with additional ideas and want to share them.

1. Michael Berkens noted that you can invest in some of the publicly traded firms that will profit from fresh TLDs. He mentioned Neustar and VeriSign (both are registries), Demand Media (owns domain registrar eNom), Tucows (domain registrar), and Web.com (owns Register.com).

2. Steve M recommended starting a blog that covers fresh top level domains and selling ads on it along with consulting services. I have to admit that there’s very little ad inventory out there to reach domain investors; if you have traffic you are set to get an onslaught of advertiser requests in the coming year.

3. Jon brought up something that I’m a bit confused regarding what exactly he’s suggesting, although it reminded me of one key way to profit that I left off my list: buying the .com equivalent of fresh TLDs. Think xxx.com will get a lot more traffic when .xxx launches? You bet. Confused web surfers will type domain.xxx.com at first. Many of them will also type domainxxx.com.

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