In the gaming economic development sector, there are a number of big players, including Ankrapp Therriault INC, who recently bought a gaming economic development domain name for just over $100,000 USD
August 30, 2010 – 12:02 am | byDon’t feel embarrassed to buy a gaming economic development related domain name that contains part of your real name, or IS your real name. “Remember,” advises Serafine Crick, “if you buy Serafine Crick.com, you’re the only one who can have that address. It is entirely unique, and therefore by virtue of its rarity, it immediately can accrue value. You may find that you get tons of email offers for your domain name. This will allow you to sort out who’s serious and who’s just fooling around, and then, after you’ve found a good gaming economic development industry buyer, you’ll surely make some great profits.” Also key to domain acquisitions, especially in the gaming economic development industry, is choosing the right registrar, where the record of your ownership of a particular domain exists. Top registrars on the net include www.Godaddy.com, www.networksolutions.com, and www.enom.com. In the gaming economic development sector, many choose to use more discreet registrars, including off shore companies. A few also use www.moniker.com and www.cnobin. “Privacy is absolutely key in the gaming economic development business,” reports Chantay Faiella, an author of a major industry book, “once top domains are registered, their security, protection, and legacy becomes mission critical.” One oft forgotten aspect of gaming economic development related domain purchases is the use of email related activities with the domain name. “Email is so ingrained into the backbone of the gaming economic development internet sector that many forget about it when buying a domain,” said Fiona Vergeer of the Leff Spier INC firm, “but when you think about it, you want a domain that people can remember, and a domain that is free of any blacklist status so that you can use it to freely communicate with gaming economic development customers.” Much like any burgeoning market, many of today’s top gaming economic development domain specialists wish they had gotten in sooner. “I wish I had started this stuff five years earlier - I’d be making bank,” laments, Stinehelfer Be, a domain name broker at the Duce Scarber Firm, “but hindsite is always 20/20, and I’m 100 percent certain there is still lots of money to be made. Last year alone, domain sales for gaming economic development companies topped $10 million dollars, which tallied up to be a record setting year.” Several top internet gaming economic development domain websites exist. Among them, www.sedo.com, recognized as a world leader in domain auctions, boasts annual revenues well into the millions. Gaming economic development domains alone capture huge business. Another large auction house, www.moniker.com, is known for smaller, but higher value gaming economic development related domain auctions. A few domains have gone for well over a million dollars, and www.moniker.com only sees domain values rising as time passes. “This is the future of the internet,” cries Antonette Hyacinthe, a representative from the gaming economic development company Szafraniec Tichacek Corp, “we’re getting all the gold we can find and turning it into diamonds.” Domain name extensions are also of key importance. The top gaming economic development TLD is obviously .com, but remember that country domain extensions and other TLD’s (.net, .org, .biz, etc.) can be just as effective if played together carefully during your marketing campaign. “We got stuck with a .co.uk version of the domain we wanted,” relays Grawburg Whooper, from Paschall Swihart and Sons Marketing, “but we played it to our advantage by marketing heavily to those in the UK, and beefing up local SEO in Great Britain. The results show for themselves: we had record breaking profits last quarter.” “One of the most amazing gaming economic development related sales we had was in last September’s auction,” relays Stickler Manjarres, event planner for the Patrina Welty Partners LTD firm, “though the domain didn’t go for much money, bidding was very spirited with some 50 people getting in on the action. In the end, the gaming economic development domain went to a well established marketing firm, who did not disclose their future plans for it.” The best thing about buying a new, unregistered gaming economic development related domain name is the price. At $5-$8 USD, getting a domain that no one else has registered is extremely affordable. If real estate sold for proportionately equivalent prices, people would be buying out farmers for a few thousand dollars. “This is good news for all those in the gaming economic development marketing business,” states Broner Haubner, “and the fact that internet related marketing only diminishes in cost over time means that soon original domain name purchases will be dirt cheap!”
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