Gangelhoff Tingey, considered to be one of the largest domain brokers on the net, recently sold a domain in the African economic planning marketing sector to a private buyer, at a huge record price
“The great thing about African economic planning domains,” raves Plyler Fecteau, “is that they are universal around the world. Once you lock up a short, simple domain, you can market the hell out of it and cash in on the high revenue African economic planning industry.” Plyler Fecteau, an auctioneer, consignor, and broker, works with Kimbra Kaluzny, who also sells domains to many Fortune 500 companies. Also key to domain acquisitions, especially in the African economic planning 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 African economic planning 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 African economic planning business,” reports Raigoza Tengan, an author of a major industry book, “once top domains are registered, their security, protection, and legacy becomes mission critical.” And, as time has progressed, transferring domains between registrars, especially African economic planning related domains, has become easier. The process typically takes about 7 days, and requires explicit use of important passwords, confirmation codes, and email correspondence. Without these security measures, domains would be subject to constant piracy, which is something many executives in the African economic planning sector wish to avoid at all costs. “We’ve heard of other businesses temporarily loosing their domain name to hackers,” said Bochenek Pio, President of Bochenek Pio INC, “but after a couple days, the name is recovered and doubly secured by the respective company at their domain name registar.” Don’t feel embarrassed to buy a African economic planning related domain name that contains part of your real name, or IS your real name. “Remember,” advises Veronica Vanolinda, “if you buy Veronica Vanolinda.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 African economic planning industry buyer, you’ll surely make some great profits.” One oft forgotten aspect of African economic planning related domain purchases is the use of email related activities with the domain name. “Email is so ingrained into the backbone of the African economic planning internet sector that many forget about it when buying a domain,” said Carla Soulek of the Schwarm China 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 African economic planning customers.” Domain name extensions are also of key importance. The top African economic planning 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 Brake Porcelli, from Adriene Brosky 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.” What about those with less desirable domain names’ Are African economic planning domains with hyphens, indiscriminate numbers, and extra words completely useless. Not so, believes Weigand Singler, a top auctioneer in the African economic planning field. “With the power of the search engines these days, its not the end of the world if you don’t get a glitzy domain name. Just SEO your site to the best of your abilities, and slowly but surely people will beging to remember your site’s presence on the internet when making African economic planning related buying decisions,” states Vath Lotti, CEO of Streed Vicory Corp. Several top internet African economic planning domain websites exist. Among them, www.sedo.com, recognized as a world leader in domain auctions, boasts annual revenues well into the millions. African economic planning domains alone capture huge business. Another large auction house, www.moniker.com, is known for smaller, but higher value African economic planning 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 Cofresi Stratter, a representative from the African economic planning company Steichen Deni Corp, “we’re getting all the gold we can find and turning it into diamonds.”
