Smokeless, Spitless and Profitable

The tobacco industry is among the very biggest advertising spenders among all consumer product marketers. So when RJ Reynolds rolls out a new smokeless tobacco product called Camel Orbs, it's major news, and another reminder of the money to be made in tobacco-related domaineering.

Reynolds is very busy in the smokeless, spitless tobacco field, introducing a bunch of Camel brand extensions, including Camel Snus, Camel Sticks and Camel Strips, in addition to the dissolvable Orbs.

A major aim for Reynolds, Altria (new owner of Skoal and other former US Tobacco products) and other alternative tobacco products is to provide new choices for smokers who want to quit, but still need to satisfy their fairly harmless nicotine addiction.

That makes domains like SpitlessTobacco.com, SpitlessTobaccoProducts.com, SwitchToSmokeless.com and
SwitchToSnus.com particularly valuable. You can probably come up with a dozen more.

Another Auction Coming Up

The next T.R.A.F.F.I.C. domain names auction is coming up April 29-May 7, but the deadline for submitting your domains for consideration is Friday, March 27. Go HERE to submit your domains. You'll have to open an account with Moniker and their sister organization, SnapNames, but it's all free. They only accept a small percentage of the many thousands of names they are offered, so don't be surprised if only one or two of your domains (or none) are welcomed into this auction.

Financial Terms for the New (?) Economy

The New York Times says locavesting (locavesting.com) is one of the top ideas to come out of 2008. It refers to investing in our own communities, putting our money into local small businesses. And it makes sense.

As the market surges higher (thank goodness!) people willl be looking for 10-fold returns on their investments (Ten-FoldReturn.com) and tomorrow's hot stocks (TomorrowsHotStocks.com).

As for any remaining Ponzi scheme operators out there -- you'd better be wearing bulletproof clothing (BulletProofApparel.com, Bullet-ProofClothing.com)!

Powerball (This Has Nothing to Do With Domains)

If you live in one of the 30 States, plus Washington D.C. or the US Virgin Islands, that offer PowerBall tickets, here's a prediction: The PowerPlay number will be FOUR (4) very soon!

Just look at the official Frequency Chart. The number 4 is the only one to have come up only twice in the PowerPlay column in all PowerBall history (that's since August 2005). Pure rule of mathematical odds dictate that 4 has some catching up to do, since most numbers have been picked 10-13 times for the PowerPlay.

Your welcome.

Movie Money-Makers

Movies and TV shows are loaded with money-making domain name possibilities.

Tina Fey's flick "Baby Mama" featured a fictitious company called Round Earth Foods... and the domain RoundEarthFoods.com was available and legal to privately own.

Snoop Dogg has a new show Tuesday nights called "Dogg After Dark", but he didn't trademark the name before the domain DoggAfterDark.com was registered. That domain is parked with Revenue Direct and is earning good money as an advertising vehicle. Of course, it's for sale. (Revenue Direct web pages always have a "Buy This Domain" box with a link to allow visitors to submit an offer to the seller.)

Cuban Domains, Si! And Turkey, too!

President Obama just announced he's going to ease travel and trade restrictions with Cuba, effectively ending the U.S.'s 40-year-old economic embargo of that island nation.

That means that a wide range of Cuba-related domain names are going to gain value, overnight. Get creative. Come up with domains like MakeMoneyInCuba.com, HavanaLodgings.com, or HavanaIndustriales.com (baseball team) and city names like SaguaLaGran.com.

The White House also recently announced that Obama will soon honor Turkey with a visit there, aiming to improve relations with that critical Moslem, democractic ally. Turkey-related domains may take on added value as that country's interaction with the U.S. expands. Focus on business-related domains there.

Mega-Bucks Still Available from Mega-Port Project

We’ve blogged before about the terrific profit potential of domain names relating to the proposed mega-port project in the sleepy Mexican town of Punta Colonet. Construction dates have slipped, owing to the global economic meltdown, but an authoritative source today says the multi-billion-dollar project is still going ahead.

Among the giant companies expected to bid on the Punta Colonet project are Mexico's largest construction firm, ICA Companies, multinational port operator Hutchison Port Holdings and French container shipping company CMA-CGM.

Every imaginable domain related to Punta Colonet (and surrounding towns) is bound to grow in value. Think of English and Spanish names like PortColonet.com, VisitPuntaColonet.com, MegapuertoDePuntaColonet.com, PuntaColonet411.com, PuntaColonetRentalCars.com and PuntaColonetFreightForwarding.com.