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Politics Makes Strange Bedfellows... and Good Money for Domaineers

Republican Whip Eric Cantor of Virginia is gaining enormous media attention as he emerges as the fresh, young (45ish) spokesman of the party, at least as far as the House of Representatives is concerned. That has people talking about his political future, perhaps on the GOP presidential ticket.

Think about buying domains like cantorforpresident2012.com and cantorforpresident2016.com, neither of which have been registered as of this writing.

Get Ready for the Stock Market's Rise

One of these days, the stock market is going to rebound and investors are going to jump back in, in a big way. Now is the time to create and buy domain names that will make you money as the market takes off.

You should be thinking of domains that would attract investors' interest... like TomorrowsHotStocks.com. These domains will be of value to stock promoters, investment advisors and individual companies hoping to convince people to invest in them. For example, here's one that nobody has registered yet: TomorrowsMonsterStocks.com.

Also, there are a lot of businesses in need of financing as they try to emerge from these tough economic times. Domains like FinancingPublicCompanies.com should sell for good prices.

Web addresses like CALventurecapital.com and TXventurecapital.com can be real moneymakers. Look at the established website AZventurecapital.com for an example of how such sites can be built up. And remeber, you can always "park" your domains for free with Revenue Direct, and collect advertising income while you wait for a buyer for your domains.

DomainFest Auction Results

Moniker's DomainFEST Auction ended last week and made a fair amount of money for several hundred domaineers.

The big money went for Wife.com at a cool $100,000. Also RodeoDrive.com for $60,000, ResortHotels.com and Blooms.com each at $58,830, FreeWireless.com at $50,000, and ConsumerElectronics.com at $45,000.

Lots of quick profits were made as folks who bought domains for $10 sold them for around $5,000 each. Examples: AlabamaForeclosures.com, Devotion.com, CustomizedHomes.com and PartyBoat.com, to name a few.

Lesson to be learned from these results: Almost any word or combination of words can produce quick profits for the creative domaineer.

Obama Making A Domaineer Money with "I Screwed Up"

The daily news headlines are ripe with domain name ideas.

The other day, President Obama proclaimed, "I screwed up!" and within hours the domain IScrewedUp.com was sold for $5,000. That's a very low price, so expect it to be resold for much more very soon.

Did you watch the Super Bowl ads? One clever TV addict registered PepSuber.com which is the new name adopted by the MacGruber character from Saturday Night Live who was featured in Pepsi's SuperBowl ad.

At least once a month, the media jumps on the story about wave after wave of medical research showing a connection between the use of skin moisturizers and cancer. The value of the doman MoisturizerCancer.com is obvious.

And not a day goes by without fresh news of corruption, fraud, food poisoning and other calamities ... all of which point to pending litigation. Enter the domain WhoCanWeSue.com, which is bound to sell for megabucks to a marketing-oriented law firm.

Bottom line: See what's in the news, then register valuable new domains.

Are Advertising Agencies Potential Buyers of Your Domains?

A friend of mine has a theory: To get really high prices (6 and 7 figures) for domain names, sell them to the advertising agencies or marketing consultants that serve big companies.

He figures that corporations have the most money to spend on domains, but their ad and marketing agencies are the ones who can see the value in domains, and who won't mind spending their clients' cash to buy them.

If he's right, that puts a new focus on how you create, price and promote your domains.

For example, let's say you're an ad executive with a big tobacco company as a client. Philip Morris (which sells Marlboro Snus), Altria (Skoal Dry Smokeless) and Reynolds (Camel Snus), just to name the biggest, are spending hundreds of millions of dollars to launch new smokeless tobacco products (sometimes called "snus", and often promoted as being "spitless"), aiming to appeal to smokers who are trying to quit. (Medical authorities say that smokeless tobacco is up to 10,000 times safer than cigarettes.)

What domain names would help your client promote their products? How about SpitlessTobacco.com, SpitlessTobaccoProducts.com, SwitchToSmokeless.com, SwitchToSnus.com and QuitSmokingWithSmokeless.com?

Each of these domains are to-the-point and memorable, making them ideal for incorporation into advertising and marketing campaigns, to bring consumers to web pages introducing smokeless products and encouraging their use, especially by smokers.

What are these, and similar domain names that you can think of, worth? We won't know until we offer the domains to the ad and marketing industry. Stay tuned!

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DOMAIN AUCTION ENDS THURSDAY AFTERNOON FEB 5

There are 5,000 domain names being offered at the Moniker DomainFest Global auction. Click on those green words to get to Moniker's Marketplace page, then click on Extended Online Auction Info to get to the complete list of domains.

If you're in the mood to buy a name, this is a great list. If you're looking for domain name ideas, these will give you lots to think about.