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JACKSONVILLE, FL -- Natalie Williams says she can work in her pajamas. She saves $400 a month on gas because she works at home. And she's pulling in a couple thousand each month just sitting in one chair by her computer.
It's not magical. It's hard work. But domain flipping has turned out, Williams says, to be a huge success for her.
Williams and her husband were living in a trailer. He was making ten bucks an hour and that's all they had, she says.
Now they're living in their first home. The house in Arlington, plus a motorcycle and car, are from her profits at the computer screen, she says.
This month Williams graduated from FCCJ with a degree in computers. Her professor, Mike Kirkland, says Williams is proof that many people have skills they don't realize, but if they'd tap into them, the profit can be significant.
Williams has been domain flipping for about a year and a half now.
She researches hot domain names and then buys and sells them on the internet.
For example, she found out that a robotic dinosaur named Pleo was coming out this last Christmas. So she bought the domain name: mypleospace.com.
She paid, she says, $7.17. Seven days later, Williams explains, she made $910.10.
Sometimes, yes, she says, she loses money, but it's not a big amount.
Williams isn't dealing in the dot-com names worth millions. But the profits she's making, she says, has significantly raised their standard of living.
Kirkland from FCCJ has a warning, however. He says make sure you are dealing in officially-registered domain names.
He says you don't want a domain name with strings attached, for example, porn sites.
Kirkland recommends this web site to check out registered domain names.
Williams has a website to help people avoid getting ripped off when they're working at home. It's a free web site with tips. Right now, Williams says, she has 2900 members.
Her website also has an option to purchase programs about domain flipping and other topics.
To visit Williams' web site, just click here.
Williams says people should know she's spent hours and hours researching domain flipping. It's not something you can just plunge into at home one night and make a bunch of money automatically.
But in her view it's definitely worth the effort.
Click on the video story to learn more about how she makes money domain flipping. Williams offers the web sites she uses to buy and sell.
Also, if you want to do more, in-depth research on domain names, Kirkland emailed us this list of places to check:
I thought these websites would help your viewers to understand the issue of domain name registration and the other security issues surrounding Domain name registration?.. As we discussed, firstcoastnews is the user lower level domain name with the .com being used as the TLD , Top Level Domain, to denote the type of organization.
http://www.internic.net/faqs/new-tlds.html This site explains all of the upper level or TLD domain name prefixes? very good information
http://www.internic.net/faqs/authoritative-dns.html This site explains the issue of Domain and how the use of the.com,.org., edu., etc. as TLD's or Top level domains are used?.. A layman's explanation
http://www.internic.net/faqs/new-tlds.html This site explains all of the upper level or TLD domain name prefixes? very good information
http://www.icann.org/about/ This organization is the "de-facto Keeper" of the Domain name information and user who have registered a domain name. A very good site.
http://www.icann.org/registrars/ This the ICANN site can assist users in registering their site names
I hope it helps with your blog????If you talk with Natalie again, tell her I am proud of her success??.
Sincerely,
William M. (Mike) Kirkland
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