Which to Purchase; a New or Used Domain?

It all depends on what you are going to do with the domain.
If  you want a domain that is already registered and getting a fair amount of  web traffic already [related to what service you provide or sell] It may be an option. You will have to figure in how much the traffic is worth and if it is actually worth the asking price.

Sedo and a host of other domain brokers sell registered or old domains for their clients [anyone] They will even allow you to put up holding pages that have GoogleAds on so you can earn revenue while your domains are parked.

A lot of the domains are priced too high and just sit there year in year out getting older! Some get sold for big bucks [tools.com : realestate.com etc] But they usually have a lot of traffic already.

We have some aged domains at Sedo going grey and starting to smell like old domains do.
We have never sold a domain through Sedo and we have about 60 with them, out of the half a dozen old domains we have sold only one of them had a page stating the domain was actually for sale and none were sold for over £500

We have a domain sales page on this website and various other websites and blogs:
You would think these domains were crap if they have not sold after all these years but they are not, I love them and in their day [when there were only 2,000,000 website on the net] they all jostled together on the first few pages of Google [If it weren't for those meddling kids at Google they would probably still be there!] They have a history and not a bad one either so that can’t be bad can it?
If you want a second hand domain go for a .com or country specific like .co.uk as they are usually the easiest to work with.

New domains are good too
if your going for something easy to remember you’d better pick one with no hyphens or numbers and as short and to the point as possible.
Check out todays new .com domain name registrations at http://addeddomains.com/
Not as many with a hyphen I’ll bet.

If you are marketing a domain through the search engines and PPC it don’t matter about hyphens; it is in fact easier to get a domain that has really good keywords.
Have a look at this domain not registered that long ago; http://register–domains.info/wordpress/ Notice not one but two hyphens together, did you know you can register domains with two hyphens together? We can supply this type of domain [have as many hyphens as you like] If you are promoting a domain through SEO the chances are huge that your prospects are not going to type in your domain URL anyway.

Google does not think better of domains without hyphens;  Google loves all domains and URLs, even ones with “?” marks in!

To register a new domain with loads of hyphens go to: http://domainrush.biz/

You can pay by PayPal by using this link: http://www.domainsrush.com/bizshopcart.htm

I’m going to spin this article on the next post Article Spinning, not very impressive!

New or Aged Domain Names

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