UK Domain Rentals
Happened to stumble upon Harpoon earlier who seem to be practising a business model I’m very interested in - domain rentals.
Rather than parking a domain I’m wondering if there’s more revenue to be had in leasing domains? Scott at selfmademinds aired his own experiences only yesterday. He highlights that there’s some grafting to be done in an attempt to secure a lease deal - something that may well be off-putting to many domainers.
I wonder how many domains Harpoon manage to rent out? I’ve checked a few like heels.co.uk gardenplants.co.uk donor.co.uk (better as an org I know) and studycourses.co.uk and they are still unlet. I note that they quote a typical monthly rent of between £20-£40 just for the domain - hosting is not included.
It’d be great to hear from anyone with experience of domain leasing.
I Was Hacked
Someone hacked this blog on the 27th March by modifying the header.php file in the theme folder.
Time for a security review!
Firefox Extension For Domainers
Fellow Wirral domainer and coffee drinking friend Chris Hough has been busy getting a useful firefox plugin developed. The domaining for firefox plugin provides additional information when browsing the on-auction and drop lists in many of the leading domain auction sites such as sedo and namejet to name but two.
The plugin provides (optional) additional data such as:
- PR (pagerank)
- Google cache
- Age
- Alexa ranking
- Dmoz listed
- whois link
Personally I’d prefer slightly different default settings as I take little notice of alexa but it only takes a second to set your preferred plugin defaults. Anyone who is familiar with Aaron Wall’s seo plugin (for firefox as well) will find this plugin a breeze to setup/configure.
This plugin is currently beta though it seems robust as I use it in sedo. I’d like it to be a bit faster but then I always set the number of entries per page to be 100 rather than the default 25 so I’m making it work harder!
On the blog that details the plugin there are a couple of presentation issues that should take 5 mins to resolve. There are some useful (silent) feature videos to watch that show how to install and use the plugin.
You can download the demo version here and the full version is only $9.99 / £5
Happy domaining!