Metro Dude

One of my new online friends introduced me to the concept maybe running a few more websites as a webmaster, a very grand name for a poor peasant like me, but it got me thinking about riches beyond my ken from buying websites or domains as investments.

Now this is really interesting, I mean I never knew that ordinary folk can get rich having websites, I actually thought all the big money making websites were owned by large corporations.

So anyway, being the conscientious investor like I am (cough cough) I’ve been bugging the crap out of a few people and the search engines looking for information to prevent me making a monumental mistake. Especially since one of the domains I’ve been looking at is already registered and I’m going to have to make an offer on it.

Did you know you can get an appraisal on a domain name, I found midflux, a company where you can get a real life legitimate appraisal telling you exactly about the domain you’re looking at buying or have bought, and how much money its worth.

This is the same type of document you’d expect from a realtor if you were interested in a house, or an auctioneer if you were looking at fine art, and I had no idea they existed for domains, but a $2.95 domain appraisal seems worth looking at.

I’m not going to mention the domain I’m interested in, but if you’ve been paying any kind of attention to comments I’ve made on other sites you’ll know its a bit risque, if you take my meaning. I’m sure you’ll agree, taking precautions is even more important in that industry, I mean I wouldn’t want to spend a lot of money on content only to discover the domain is a dud.