Acro.net – Technology Rants & Raves by Acroplex®

It’s quite ironic issuing this statement; as a web developer I am supposed to be pushing everyone around me to develop, build, create.

Right?

While this is true in small quantities, when a domain is truly one project that derives its potential from its owner’s imagination and vision, developing all domain names into web sites is not the smartest thing to do.

You’ve heard the usual mumbo-jumbo for months: develop, mass develop, build minisites and traffic will come flooding faster than a waterfall, even for the ugliest long-tail B’ class TLD that you own.

Wrong.

Without a concrete plan, throwing “content” onto a web site can actually kill its current revenue and potential.

Let me explain.

There has been some conversation lately over at DNForum whether a parked domain can bring in $1,000 per day or more – day after day. While some responses were skeptical and some negative, in all truth such consistent daily revenue is not only possible, it’s actually achievable.

The secret is simple: obtain domains that do well at their basic function of traffic generation. While this category includes the obvious generics and typo-domains, there are also domains with dormant traffic, sleeping giants if you must.

Would you develop a sleeping giant of a domain in order to monetize the traffic that’s already there to be harvested?

Again, as a web developer I would be biased if I told you to go ahead and develop. As a domainer, I will tell you: don’t do it.

In a nutshell:

Smart domaining entails being selective in your domain registrations, parking and development. With time and experience you will learn how to make the right choices about which domains to register, which domains to park and which domains to develop.

There is no single solution for all.

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The news floated since just two days ago but it has just been confirmed: Flair Polos – a New Jersey manufacturing corporation with embroidery factories in Taiwan, China and North Korea, purchased MassDevelopment.com for the sum of $6.75 million dollars, in what appears to be the largest sale of 2009.

In a recent article in DNJournal, mass development companies were reviewed by editor Ron Jackson; after reading the news, Flair Polos assessed that none of these companies made the cut when it came down to picking a brand name for mass development. MassDevelopment.com was the sensible choice: keyword relevancy without resorting to black hat SEO – the price was a hefty one, but definitely worth it.

Flair Polos has an annual gross revenue of $2.3 billion dollars, one of the biggest textile exporters to the US from East Asia. The company intends to capitalize on the hot market for mass domain development, which has recently exploded and mass develop web sites for its range of men’s, women’s and children’s clothing lines.

The waters of “mass development” were hit by a major tsunami today, when news broke of a new, FREE bulk development tool that promises to deliver instant results. Seasoned web developer, Tia Wood launched the new service at BulkDevelopment.com

In her own words:

Want to leave domain parking? Don’t want to pay for MASS domain development? Our tool is FREE, fast and easy. Mass develop hundreds of domain names at the push of a button.

Newsflash: There is no “silver bullet” when it comes to web development. What has been the blurb of recent months and weeks has escalated to ridiculous claims from certain individuals that promise to develop “hundreds and thousands of web sites” en masse – all without having any such credentials and being unable to produce samples of their alleged creativity via a portfolio.

To truly get results from a selection of domain names, one needs to implement a well-thought strategy and entrust the web & graphics design only to skilled and qualified professionals. An exception to this paradigm, appears to be Rick Latona’s AEIOU service, that provides a streamlined process of quality designs aimed at domainers, at an affordable price.

The bottom line: Tia found a very creative and imaginative way to promote her web development services, while expressing her views on the subject of so-called “mass development” and I applaud her creativity and sense of humor.

It is sad that as soon as she launched the service, some hater clown left a message at her blog assaulting her creativity.