http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eXhbV_IXAUY&eurl=http://www.patbdoyle.com/?p=135

   This is a nice little parlor trick for those of us who don’t have access to complex perl scripts or back-end API’s..  Domain name mining is alive and well folks. Regular people like you and I are learning about this business, coming to accept that generic keyword-style domain names have value.. Lots of the generic, bigger traffic type-in names like sportsocks.com may be gone but there is still a fine opportunity today (November 6th 2007) to mine the long-tail.. 

   What’s the long-tail? If you think of the 80/20 rule as it applies to domain names (80% of the domains get just 20% of possible traffic) there are a great raft of unregistered domains which as a whole get very little traffic,  but within THAT set lie the gems that hold up the traffic tent..  Think of it as an 80/20 rule WITHIN the 80, of the main 80/20 rule.

If I had no domain names today, but I had 6 months or so of free time, and a credit card with a 20k limit I could probably mine the long tail for enough names to generate $50,000 a year in revenue via parking or name sales.  And that’s just based on the types of names “I” would think about..  We all think differently. The guy in this video is thinking “tube socks”, I’m thinking cars, planes and rum-cakes…  you’re thinking something else.

Go gettem’ and good-luck!

Related:  ‘Domaining 101′ on Whizzbang’s blog today

http://www.whizzbangsblog.com:80/content/view/313/1/