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While selling domains at the low level market prices are not a big deal, one can sell a domain in the domain name forums for couple of dollars. There is usually limitation for the number of sales he can do and the amount of money he can get in that specific level, because of the low ROI and the fact he needs to sell a lot of domains to buy a domain that will push him towards the high domain market.
Most of the successful domainers in the industry agree that choosing a niche and sticking with it, will help a domainer to succeed faster because of the benefits of having a niche.
Here are some of the benefits of having a niche in the domain name market:
Choosing a niche in the enormous domain trading market is one of the definite must. The reasons for that are that there are many domains in the market and without some kind of uniqueness, a new domain name trader have no real advantage above other domain traders in the industry.
When you are small it's hard to have any power to sell the domains you own, unless you have a niche. If you can build a niche then you have a point of differentiation from others, and you know better who are your potentials costumers and where they can be found.
I suggest investigating even more, trying to search for other domainers in the same or related niche. That way you can find out what is your competition in that niche and maybe you can create some kind of joint venture that will help you and your partners to achieve more success with your doubled effort.
With that concentration, you gain some power if you take the time to learn your market well and build a niche targeted domain portfolio. If you get enough in that one area of your choice, you can directly recruit advertisers, get special CPA deals, and build a common brand.
Buying something for a low price and reselling it for a high price is the basic idea behind many different types of business. People having been doing this, "flipping", with real estate properties for many years. Now, with the advent of the Internet, the same basic idea has been applied to domain names.
As with real estate, the key to success with domain name flipping is buying for a low price and selling for a high price, and fundamental to that is the ability to recognize something being sold for less than its true value. However, there are also important differences:
1. Buying a real estate property usually costs a large amount of money. However, registering many of the most common types of domain names (names ending .net or .org for example), costs just a few dollars per year.
2. If you wish to flip a real estate property, you may need to spend time and money on fixing it before flipping it. With domain names, while you can spend time and money building a web site on your domain (and thus aim to flip both the web site and domain together), it is also possible to simply resell the domain itself without spending any additional money on it (other than costs associated with the sales and marketing process).
In addition to the above, there are also things that you need to know which are specific to the domain name industry. For example, the types of domains that can be successfully resold (so you don't lose money by registering a bunch of unsaleable domains), the technical processes behind searching for, registering and transferring domains, and issues relating to trademarks and cybersquatting (you should avoid registering domains that infringe the legal rights of others).
As with any business, some things may have to be learned from your own experience and mistakes along the way - but you can jump start your efforts by learning from others with personal knowledge of domain flipping. It is for this reason that you might want to read guides such as "Domain Cash Vault" by Brian Pubrat, "How I Sell My Domain Names" by Edwin John.
