The Domain Hunter » Domain Tools http://www.thedomainhunter.com Hunting Domain Profits For You Mon, 02 Mar 2009 20:16:44 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 en hourly 1 Website Monitoring Software – Get out of the Zero Dollar Zone Now http://www.thedomainhunter.com/news/website-monitoring-software http://www.thedomainhunter.com/news/website-monitoring-software#comments Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:32:22 +0000 admin http://www.thedomainhunter.com/?p=22 table.dptable { width:100%; border:0; } tr.dphead { background-color:#0066CC; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight:bold; } tr.dphead td a { color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprow { background-color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprowalt { background-color:#CCCCCC; } #dpcols-contact { text-align:center; } #intro { }

If you’ve been following these posts you know I’ve been recommending that it’s important to have an alternate plan for monitization. One method I’ve been suggesting is developing some of you sites into little automatic ATM machines that will deposit money in your account every day.

If you develop any of your web sites you’ll have to read my posts on hosts and hosting companies. But one of the things you will quickly realize is that if your site is not up because of some hosting company problem and your clients can’t get to your site you’re out of business and you’ve entered the ZERO DOLLAR ZONE. Even the best hosting company has some downtime.

1. It’s important to know whether your sites are up or not and you have entered the ZERO DOLLAR ZONE for several reasons besides the money.
2. The second negative effect is you are annoying your potential website vistor that’s trying to reach your site – you are showing them you are not really ready for primetime and you are sending them to your competitors.
3. The third reason, especially if your site is down for any length of time you are showing the search engines that you’ve worked so hard to impress convince to give you a higher rank and the money it brings is that your really aren’t all that trustworthy.

Once I started spending a lot of time putting up these web sites. I noticed that the web sites would sometimes be down once or twice a day. I started thinking if my sites go down once or twice a day while I’m on the web looking at the site what about all of the time that I’m not looking? How many times are my web visitors trying to get to my and my sites are down and I’m not even aware of it? Remember my web host is generally well regarded in the industry. What’s happening to your sites if you shopped for that low cost web host. Are your sites up all of the time or are there frequent times when your sites are inaccessible and you’re in the ZERO DOLLAR ZONE.

But how are you going to know? I searched for website monitoring and found a number of sites that will monitor your web sites. But they charge from $10-$12 a month for each web site! That would have been a heck of a lot of money if I wanted to monitor all of my web sites. That’s not a solution that will work for very many people

But I came across a piece of software you can run from your PC that will monitor all of your web sites, notify you with alarms if a site goes down. You can even set it to alarm you if there are changes in the web site from the last time the site was checked. What I like about it it is simple, you simply type in the domain names you want monitored, set the monitor interval, set the alarms and let it go. You can set it to sit quietly in your tray at the bottom of the screen until one of your sites goes down. If you have set it up for an audible alarm you will hear it – if not you will just see it flashing in the tray until you click it to see the details. It will even tell you if the site was down in the past so you can start forming a good idea about how reliable your host is even when you are not watching.

So how much will this peace of mind set you back? Less than $10- $9.97 to be exact. That’s for software that can monitor all your domains. It’s not a monthly fee either. I think this is one tool you can’t be without. Get it at Domain Monitoring Tool

It’s already proved it’s weight in gold to me. I have had a couple of issues with my current host that I’ve had for the past two years. We’ve always managed to work things out but I wanted a host where I didn’t have to work things out – my sites would just run, load fast, and there would be no downtime – or rather no ZERO DOLLAR EARNING TIME.

Going to different forums and doing some research I’ve found out some interesting things about hosts. One of the basic truths is they all go down at one time or another. What’s important is how quickly they go back up, how often are these service interruptions and are you inconvenienced or do your sites just pop right up.

Some other web masters were urging me to try another host they felt deserved consideration.
So far my little $10 alarm has shown that none of my sites on my existing host went down during the past few days. But during the same time sites on this new host went down twice yesterday and three times today.

One of the great things about knowing your site is down as soon as it happens is that you can call up the hosting company support and alert them and complain. I’ve found, especially with shared hosting companies, the loud squeaky wheel gets fixed quickest.

All the best,
Ted Sudol
The Domain Hunter

PS – One thing I forgot is that this is being marketed by one of my Internet partners in Germany. So when you click on the Paypal buy button it will come up with the German PayPal screen. Just enter your PayPal account information and the PayPal screen will change to the American version. The amount $9.97 is US dollars. And finally if you are thinking I don’t read German don’t worry – the software is in english.

PPS – A lot has been happening here at The Domain Hunter and I want you to share in my success. There’s going to be a very exciting announcement here on July 12th so make sure you check back often to make sure you don’t miss out.

]]> http://www.thedomainhunter.com/news/website-monitoring-software/feed 0 Domain tool still great – just no longer free. http://www.thedomainhunter.com/domain-tools/domain-tools-update http://www.thedomainhunter.com/domain-tools/domain-tools-update#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:50:32 +0000 admin http://www.thedomainhunter.com/domain-tools/domain-tools-update table.dptable { width:100%; border:0; } tr.dphead { background-color:#0066CC; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight:bold; } tr.dphead td a { color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprow { background-color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprowalt { background-color:#CCCCCC; } #dpcols-contact { text-align:center; } #intro { } Hi, A few days ago I wrote a post about one of the best domain name tools around, PremiumDrops.com It allows you to sort and really dig out the gems based on traffic, link, age -more statistics than you can imagine. It’s also highly customizable so you can customize it to follow the strategy you [...]]]> table.dptable { width:100%; border:0; } tr.dphead { background-color:#0066CC; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight:bold; } tr.dphead td a { color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprow { background-color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprowalt { background-color:#CCCCCC; } #dpcols-contact { text-align:center; } #intro { }

Hi,
A few days ago I wrote a post about one of the best domain name tools around, PremiumDrops.com It allows you to sort and really dig out the gems based on traffic, link, age -more statistics than you can imagine. It’s also highly customizable so you can customize it to follow the strategy you are following. I’ve been using it daily for two years. And for two years Luc at Premium drops has been saying that the costs were really great and some day he would be forced to start charging. Today is that someday – from now on there is a monthly membership fee. I still think it is a valuable tool that will remain in my arsenal. But I wanted to give you the lastest update. I didn’t want you to think that I was misleading you. So go to PremiumDrops.com you can get an idea of what it offers before you sign up. Then, if you decide sign up for the membeship.

The way I look at it is a good tool allows me to do my job easier, faster and in the end make more money. It saves me lots of time. I’m sure that your time is valuable too. Who has time to manually search through the 40,000 names that drop a day looking for the gold? I know I don’t – do you?

All the best,
Ted Sudol

Remember if you are interested in Ebay domain auctions stop by www.HotDotAuctions.com I’ll also put a sampling of ebay domain auctions immediately below this post.

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]]> http://www.thedomainhunter.com/domain-tools/domain-tools-update/feed 1 The Best Domain Name Tool to help you find the Gold. http://www.thedomainhunter.com/domain-tools/domain-tools http://www.thedomainhunter.com/domain-tools/domain-tools#comments Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:54:10 +0000 admin http://www.thedomainhunter.com/domain-tools/domain-tools table.dptable { width:100%; border:0; } tr.dphead { background-color:#0066CC; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight:bold; } tr.dphead td a { color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprow { background-color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprowalt { background-color:#CCCCCC; } #dpcols-contact { text-align:center; } #intro { } When you are going to look for gold where would the gold panner be without his gold pan? Where would the miner be without his pick and shovel? Without the right tools you could try digging with your fingers but you will work pretty hard, your fingers will be bruised and [...]]]> table.dptable { width:100%; border:0; } tr.dphead { background-color:#0066CC; color:#FFFFFF; font-weight:bold; } tr.dphead td a { color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprow { background-color:#FFFFFF; } tr.dprowalt { background-color:#CCCCCC; } #dpcols-contact { text-align:center; } #intro { }

When you are going to look for gold where would the gold panner be without his gold pan? Where would the miner be without his pick and shovel? Without the right tools you could try digging with your fingers but you will work pretty hard, your fingers will be bruised and blistered and you won’t have much to show for it.

It’s the same with domain names. You need the proper tools to find those gold nuggets hidden among all of the fools gold. If you start you career with expiring domain names there are 40,000 to 50,000 names that become available each day. You could start looking over the lists each day, but you wouldn’t get very far or found the gold before the next days list becomes available.

Why do I suggest starting with expiring domains? With expiring domains you can register a domain name for less than ten dollars. Some of them will be home runs, some of them will be profitable, and some of them won’t. There is going to be an inevitable learning process where you learn what will bring you in money and what just sounded like it would. I’d rather learn with $10 lessons than go into the auction market and pay $69 – $1,000 where again some will names will bring in money and some will lose money. I’d rather risk $10 to learn than $1,000.

Every day you’ll have 40,000 to 50,000 dropping domain names that become available for you to register. They were all someones “great idea” of what would be profitable. But for one reason or the other, not paying attention, other projects, not enought time, or unprofitable results for the current owner they didn’t renew the name. Some of those names were great ideas, dropped by the owner, picked up by a domainer and resold for a profit – sometimes a six figure profit!

There are some tools that will help you separate the gold from the rest. Some of them cost money and some of them are free. I started out with some free tools to search the expiring domain names which were much more basic than what I’m going to show you. Later I added some tools that cost some money. But that’s for later after you’ve gotten your feet wet and made some money.

Fortunately one of the best tools for ferreting out the gold from 40,000-60,000 domain names that expire everyday is free! It’s helped me to find some gems. You can set the search to just find domain names with High Page Rank, high type in traffic, Links, etc. There are about 20 different statistics you can use on you search to pinpoint the type of domain you want. And Best of all its FREE. So run, do not walk to:
http://www.premiumdrops.com/?1386 (update: although no longer free it still is a great tool to help you discover the hidden jems. The computing power required to do all of this is awesome and costly.)

This site is truly amazing. There is so much there it is almost overwhelming. During the year that I’ve been using it it just keeps getting better and better. He’s working on a major upgrade that will allow you to search on language. Now you might not think that is much but I just saw a Google trend graph that put the US at 10 behind Denmark in the number of Net Searches.

This will certainly get you started on your road to profit.

Remember to go to:

http://www.premiumdrops.com/?1386

All the best,
Ted Sudol
TheDomainHunter.com

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