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Monthly Archives: February 2008

End of social networks?

Websites on sale, close down 
Soon many of these social networking websites will close down. So much much time and money is spent and it all is wasted.  If only people had thought about where the money is coming from, instead of following the latest trends. 
If it is someone else’s money, you can be careless  with it, [...]

Diversifying online income

Adsense Decreases Does Not Mean I Should Settle For Less . That is the problem dealing with large companies, you are just another number. 
I have diversified my revenues to some extent, by this year end Adsense should hopefully be a small part of my total revenues.  It is always better to work with smaller companies, you are [...]

Protecting against DDOS attacks

Protecting against DDOS attacks
I’ll be spending a lot of time researching DDOS attacks now that my sites are affected, I wonder how much they cost the attacker. My sites are all Web 0.00 so only the forums are offline. 

Google clamp down on publisher adsense “so called” minisites

Google clamp down on publisher adsense “so called” minisites . Interesting post, I had guessed this in December, so I have been exploring other options.  I first made money online by selling directly to my customers,  and they still are willing to pay.  Earlier I would do every thing manually which was very time consuming,  now I [...]

End of domain parking?

Threats to the Domain Name Industry
I have spent a lot of time studying the domain industry and find that most revenues seem to be from parking or sales. Parking revenues are from only a few sources and a policy change can adversely affect you.
Last year, I spent a lot of time experimenting to find non-Google, [...]

.in fits in

Vanity portals set cash registers ringing 
.in fits in with internet , international , but selling .in domains in India has its pitfalls. I own some  .in domain names  , yesterday I got a call from Mr XYZ who wanted one of the domains. He claimed to be “a poor student with a limited budget” but [...]

More on domain tasting

There’s a lot of money in domain tasting
Some interesting and concrete figures - making money with domains is a numbers game. If you register a domain and make $10/year, you can make some profit.   I can’t afford to taste domains - most of the registrars I use charge $1 for deleting a domain, so I [...]

Social Network Inventory Not Monetizing

Social Network Inventory Not Monetizing
There so many stories about social networking websites, but I feel it will not take off in a big way as there is no use for the “friends” you make, many profiles are fake anyway. For teenagers and students, they are a good way to spend time, but they really do [...]