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Sockmoney
Oct 20th 2006, 12:14 pm
Hello,

I read an interesting article the other day about a guy who makes a killing off his domain inventory by just parking them. He also owned a number of common misspelled domains.

I was curious if anyone here had/has any success with parking misspelled domains? Or is it better to develop something for them and try to take advantage of search misspellings instead of direct type-in misspellings?

I recently invested in a few for the heck of it and can't decide what direction to take.

Thanks for any input.
Rez-G
Oct 20th 2006, 12:23 pm
This is way off topic but I gotta say it, I love your name "Sockmoney" hahaha, like shoemoney without the shoe ;) Nice man.

As for misspelled domains, if you had something like www.myspave.com it might work because the v is right beside the c and people can misspell it, but it's not a thing I would invest it.
hitchhiker
Oct 20th 2006, 4:06 pm
parking is better . . . typo domains are usually hard to brand (cause they are hard to say thus remember) . . .
allenmur
Oct 20th 2006, 4:23 pm
I would think parking them would be a good idea for them the one i would normally miss spell is google > gogole there is a few i can think of that do this but i think it could be a nice money earner
Matvey2901
Oct 21st 2006, 6:07 am
Yeh I parked Nungie.net wich is a typo og Bungie.net and it got tons of hits in only a few days.
falco85
Oct 21st 2006, 7:19 am
btw careful with typo domains, they can bring you serious trouble ;)
hitchhiker
Oct 21st 2006, 1:47 pm
falcon is right. . . some lawyers/companies believes its the same as cyber squatting. . .
pixads
Oct 21st 2006, 3:55 pm
with misspelled domains the best thing to do is park them.
if you try to develop them the original company might just take the domain name away if they have a trade mark

imagine your site being MySpaceKayouts.com
falco85
Oct 21st 2006, 4:52 pm
oh well there's nothing wrong with typos until they catch you :D if you really want to go into this market, be sure to use a proxy for whois info , and do not go for typos of big corporations or banks. The thumb rule is not to bug those people that don't think twice to sue someone to obtain what they want :)