Online Porn is big business: National A-1 owns and operates some of the BEST, even an Affiliate Program

Online porn is big business, and has been since the early days of the internet.  Many companies invest in adult domain names and development. 

Though adult websites might be a thorny issue for some, almost every Top Domainer owns or has owned adult names/properties. 

Expect individuals and organizations to do what it takes to keep a business running – even if you might not agree with it.  It’s about the bottom line.  There’s definitely a huge market online for the Adult niche and National A-1 isn’t hiding the fact they’re in it – if you own great names, why not put them to work like National A-1 has.

Adult Properties:  When ownership and development is the right choice

Some names like ecommerce names are obviously great investments but can be impacted by the economy – and other names simply will always have an audience.  Names like torture.com, perverts.com, clips.com, hotmovies.com and dozens more.

If you consider adult names a problem, then this story might not be for you.  But we just enjoy learning about the accomplishments of some of the biggest and brightest individuals and organizations in the Domaining industry – and National A-1 certainly falls into that category.

As a disclaimer, we can tell you – do not type any of the URLs mentioned in this story in your browser, as most of them are Not-Safe-For-Work and you must be 18 years or older.

Affiliate Program, They’ve got that too

There may be other sites out there supplying affiliate cash, but National A-1 provides their own affiliate program both for Webmasters and Studios that allows webmasters to earn money selling content that’s been posted to National A-1 sites, while studios can post and sell content.

National A-1 uses their MovieDollars.com website as the hub for their affiliate program, while Clips.com and HotMovies.com allows users to buy, sell, and collect content.

List of National A-1 Owned sites in the affiliate program

HotMovies.com
Clips.com
FetishMovies.com
HotMoviesForHer.com
BigBreasts.com
BDSMvod.com
ClassicVOD.com
CuckoldsVOD.com
GayHotClips.com
FetishClips.com
HentaiVOD.com
HomeGrownVOD.com
JapanHotMovies.com
TVTSvod.com
Perverts.com
RealLesbianVOD.com
GayHotMovies.com
GayMovies.com
Spanking.com
TabooVOD.com
Torture.com
VintageMovies.com
VODAfterDark.com
AVNVOD.com
CoedsVOD.com
GroobyVOD.com
ElegentAngelVOD.com
EdPowersVOD.com
BuckAngelVOD.com
Channel69.com
ExtremeVOD.com
HomeGrownVOD.com
NettlesVOD.com
RascalVOD.com
VideoXPixVOD.com
VOD.com
IndepdendentVOD.com

Other Tidbits

- National A-1 owns thousands of category killer names.  Samples of others not even listed that are developed include Fantasies.com and RonJeremy.com.

- HotMovies.com had over 500,000 unique visitors in December 2008.

- VodAdult.com sold for $800 in 2008.  Vod-world.com sold for $2,200 in 2008.  Vod360.com sold for $408 in 2007.

- When we tried typing Perverts.com (one of National A-1′s properties) into our browser – we accidentally typed in Pervets.com and guess where it took us?  It re-directed us to Kevin Ham’s BlackFriday.com.

Before ShoeMoney.com had a MultiMillion Dollar Business, he was overweight and in debt over $50,000

All that changed in 2003 when he started ShoeMoney.com.

Here’s a clipping from his About page:

In 2003, I took the plunge and started my own business, began writing my blog (ShoeMoney.com), and took my ringtone community company, Next Pimp, to the next level. Not only had I lost over 200 pounds that year through a remarkable surgery, but I also started making more money online in one month than I had made throughout my ten-year career. Actually, a photo of me with a check for $130,000 (my one-month earnings from Google AdSense) is one of the most linked to pages on my blog.

In March 2007, my business partner, David Dellanave, and I launched AuctionAds, an eBay affiliate marketing service that serves eBay auction ads on contextually relevant sites. The service won multiple awards and in a matter of months, marketing company Media Whiz purchased a majority of the company.

My blog, ShoeMoney.com, shares my ups and downs in the world of online marketing to a loyal daily readership of over 30,000 people. ShoeMoney.com has been named the Best Affiliate Marketing Blog and ranks in Technorati’s top 50 blogs for the past three years. Having made millions of dollars over the past five years, I want to share my insights with others so they, too, can learn and grow.

One-month earnings from Google Adsense topped $130,000

Make More Money as a Blogger

If you believe everything you read, then it might be a lot easier to give up on things, but if you read stories like ShoeMoney’s, then you can easily find inspiration, especially since his website shares real-world lessons about what works and what doesn’t work.

In a recent article on ShoeMoney.com, Justin Goff (who runs GymJunkies.com) wrote a story called “How Being a Good Copywriter Can Make You More Money As A Blogger.”

It includes points like:

1. Up your prices for your products or services. Why? Because according to Justin You attract better clients and users and you have more money to get new customers.

2. Be a good storyteller.

3. Write your posts as if you were talking to just 1 person.

4. Focus on your headlines, call to action and layout.

5. Smack your readers in the face with TONS of social proof.

In the last and probably most important point for many of us getting a start, Justin writes:

Being a successful blogger won’t happen overnight. If you follow some of the principles I outlined above you’ll be ahead of 95% of the crowd. If you’re just getting your blog started my last guest post on here will be helpful to you… It’s the story of how I went from 0-350 visitors per day in just one month on my blog.”

NewMedia Holdings (Sellers of Russia.com) Run All of Their Category-Killer Geo Domains on a Turnkey Platform That You Can Use

As we reported early yesterday morning, Sedo brokered the deal of Russia.com for $1.5 million dollars.  NewMedia Holdings, the sellers of the domain name own an impressive portfolio of domain names with a focus on geo domain names ranging from PuertoRico.com to Scotland.com. 

NewMedia uses a Turnkey Travel Site Platform for their Geo Domains

The same framework is used on all of their geodomains – a framework that you can use to get your geodomains up and running for a cost.  According to NewMedia’s Web Consultancy at Paley Media,

Each of the Country Domains appearing on this site were created and are managed by Paley Media using our technology platform.

Our technology platform is supported by a proprietary content management system that combines industry standard web publishing software with server side tools. This solution provides our customers with full control over the design, structure and interactive functionality of thier travel sites.

Our turnkey platform includes the following features:

◦A Fully Integrated Booking Widget;
◦Advertising and Banner Managment Administration;
◦Server and Project Administration;
◦Unified Member Registration;
◦Hotel and Establishments Directory;
and
◦Traffic and Web Site Analysis. 

NewMedia Uses WordPress, Too, for Sites

Like Birds.com and Autoracing.com

Keeping it simple, NewMedia also uses WordPress as a solution for most of their non-geo domain names like, Birds.com, AutoRacing.com, and Airplanes. 

NewMedia Holdings’ Notable Properties

NewMedia’s properties include:

Airplanes.com
Algeria.com
Autoracing.com
Bangladesh.com
Birds.com
ChinaTrade.com
Ecuador.com
HorseRacing.com
Morocco.com
Musicians.com
Nepal.com
Nicaragua.com
PuertoRico.com
Scotland.com
Snowskiing.com
SouthAfrica.com
StockMarkets.com
Ukraine.com
VirtualCountries.com

NewMedia Holdings sells Russia.com for $1.5 Million, Rumored Buyer is Russia Standard (of Vodka.com)

In a deal that puts it in the Top 10 sales of 2009, Sedo has brokered the sale of the domain name Russia.com for $1.5 million.

It looks like NewMedia Holdings has sold the name, a name they have owned and operated since 1995.  They also own some other category-killer properties including: StockMarkets.com, Musicians.com, Puerto Rico.com, Scotland.com, Birds.com and many more.

Whether or not the website was included in the deal, isn’t known.  But compared to previous Geo sales like Korea.com which sold for $5 million – this is a steal for the new owner.

New Owner Reported to be Russia Standard, Same Buyers of Vodka.com

The new owner is rumored to be Russia Standard according to one of our readers. Russia Standard is the same company that purchased Vodka.com in 2006 for $3 million (also brokered through Sedo).

The registrant information is currently set to Sedo’s Transfer Service, while the nameservers still point to NewMedia Holdings’ nameservers at RackSpace – that hosts several of their other names like Algeria.com, SouthAfrica.com, and AutoRacing.com.

About New Media Holdings

In case you’re wondering about NewMedia Holdings (the seller), they own some of the world’s best internet properties.

NewMedia Holdings, Inc., owns a diverse network of niche media properties comprised of some of the world’s most unique and visible online brands.

Our publications span a range of subjects such as destination and travel guides, sporting events, music, finance, entertainment, and enthusiast activities. Each month our publication are read by many hundreds of thousands of targeted consumers and audiences located both domestically and abroad.

NewMedia Holdings, Inc., is a privately held company located in Seattle, Washington. We own each of the media properties featured on this site.

The properties appearing under “Our Properties” are operated by Paley Media, Inc. – a web consultancy and technology company that is solely responsible for the development, operations, and day-to-day management of our assets.

Other Notable “Russia” Domain Sales

It’s hard to compare a seven figure sale other Russia domain sales, but they’re sales nevertheless.

MissRussia.com sold for $50,000 in 2007 on Sedo.

RussiaImport.com sold for $4,124 in 2007 on Sedo.

Will Twitter Vanity URLs make a run at the Search Engines? Take a look at the Twitter URL Domain King

Writers Write, Inc. provides a network of professional websites covering books, entertainment, gaming, media, publishing, and writing. They run a network of blogs including ReadersRead.com, BloggersBlog.com, ShoppingBlog.com and dozens more.

Twitter has revolutionized the social networking world with it’s popular microblogging platform – and with it’s own search Engine in real-time it’s got big plans for the future.

But Twitter Vanity URLs have been surprisingly successful at ranking in the search engines. Who is the Domain King of the Twitter Vanity URL world?

Writers Write, Inc

While you might own some of the best category-killer domains in the world – there’s an entirely different land rush going on with Twitter, and there are several Twitter Domain Kings who got in early, registering names from twitter.com/science to twitter.com/blackfriday. In the Twitter Vanity URL world – there is one Domain King and it’s Writers Write, Inc.

They have some of the best vanity urls on Twitter. Here’s a look at just a sample of their category-killers:

twitter.com/toys
twitter.com/science
twitter.com/shopping
twitter.com/fashion
twitter.com/beautytips
twitter.com/bestsellers
twitter.com/gourmet
twitter.com/gadgets
twitter.com/blackfriday
twitter.com/health
twitter.com/pets

Twitter Vanity URLs rank well for keywords

If you don’t think that registering a keyword rich vanity URL doesn’t matter, perhaps you should consider what Writer’s Write, INc. has done.

Their twitter.com/blackfriday ranks on Page 2 of Google. And with Twitter gaining more credibility – they stand to do well.

Twitter and Domaining: What Some Skeptics Call a Fad, We like to call “Good Business”

Although it might seem like just another fad to the cynical users - the boom of Twitter on the internet works out great for domainers for a number reasons. With some bloggers earning thousands in Sponsored Tweets, organizations bringing awareness to their brand (even NASA), or simply having conversations with others you might never get a chance to meet in person --- it's wonderful.

Twitter skeptics can be pretty rowdy.  They claim they don’t see the value of using another social networking tool, despite the popularity of Twitter and the rising numbers.  They claim they don’t get the idea about following people or having people follow them back and that it’s just a waste of time. 

A lot of the skeptics say, “Who cares what other people are doing?”

Well, you’d be surprised what other people are doing – especially when they’re trying to do the same thing you’re doing in the Domaining business and they’re tweeting about it.

Getting Domain Development Help Through Twitter

We have tons of followers now, nearly 25,000 on Twitter for our Domaining account – which translates into traffic each and every time we send out a link. Whether it’s one visitor or a hundred visitors – it works out great for us, because we haven’t paid a single penny for advertising.

Last night we decided to ask our Twitter friends for HELP with SEO on one of our websites — ArmyVehicles.com – and the response was extraordinary.  Within seconds (not minutes) dozens of people were crawling ArmyVehicles.com providing us with ways to improve the SEO on the website. Not just regular readers with no background in SEO or website development, but people with years of experience in both fields.

A BIG THANKS to everyone who provided feedback, especially Tia Wood who gave us some much needed advice on things to fix (working on them now). Not just one piece of advice, but several – all value-added for us.

Followers: Quality? Quantity? You Just never know

Some of the best conversations we’ve had on Twitter are people we would’ve never expected to reach out to us. And we run several Twitter accounts to help promote all of our sites — most numbering in the thousands of followers and quickly growing.

Say what you want about Twitter, but the site is a huge help. Whether you’re plugging a product or looking for advice. It’s hard to argue with its benefit until you really try it.

Domaining “the old-fashioned way”, Hand-registration. Even the Big Timers Do it

Nowadays, you get alot of people telling you Domaining can only be done with lots and lots of money, rather than doing it on the cheap.   Everything is so focused on the short-term and huge profits that there’s not a lot of focus on hand-registering names and the long-term — at least from what we’ve been hearing.

But did you know that for $10 or less you can still hand-register names that could break records in terms of sales some day just like some of the names purchased years ago that are selling today?

Domaining: Patience can be the Key, not always money

Due to the fact that not everyone has lots of money, most of the new domainers getting into the field, can’t afford to buy the candy dotcoms of the world or even lesser names worth $25,000.   But did you know even some of the Big Time domainers who got into domaining in the nineties still hand-register names?

They’re still using some of the same tactics that helped them to get rich years ago.

Just because you don’t have thousands of dollars, doesn’t mean you have to miss out. Lots of new domainers are doing the same – and if you don’t think any of the big time Domainers aren’t still doing it, take a look.

The Castello Brothers

On DNUnderground in a story that appeared online yesterday, David J Castello offered the following comments about some debate over a quote by Rick Schwartz, which also highlighted their hand-registration tactics:

it’s not all about people like Rick or me and my brother who got our names in 1995-1997. Every year we also hand reg names that we could easily flip in no time for 500%-1000% profit, but we hold them for long term gain/development. Even the best stock can’t do that.

Rick Latona

In an interview with Chef Patrick that appeared online in November 2008, Rick Latona admitted he could very well be one of the most prolific hand-registering domainers:

I hand registered 4000 names in the last 30 days. I am finding new ways to make money on HR names all of the time. You’ll find out what I’m registering now, years from now when I’m trying to sell them. I can give you a clue though, they are all .com names or ccTLD names. I never touch mobi, info, biz or alternative gTLD names. ccTLD names have a lot of growth potential.

If you have $500 or less, give it a shot

Chances are pretty good that a number of the big time domainers who don’t talk about hand-registration, are still just as involved in the business of hand-registering names as they were 10 to 15 years ago.

National A-1′s Category Killer Antiques.com, Prelaunch and Countdown. See how they do it.

With many of the Big Time domain portfolio owners slow to develop many of their category-killers, National A-1 is expected to be launching several.  The launch of their category-killer domain Antiques.com, is expected this month. 

According to the page that’s online right now, it looks like Antiques.com will be a fully developed, Antique MEGASITE. 

The megasite will help you find dealers, local shows, auctions, flea markets and more.   It will offer resources such as Appraisals, a glossary, free listings and who knows what else. 

You can get a sneak peek of the website by going to Antiques.com to learn more. 

99 percent of the links don’t work, but if you’re an Antiques vendor the Free List Form does work, while National A-1 builds up their online Directory so they  have resources available for visitors at Launch. 

Writers of High Quality Antique Content Wanted

Are you an author with expertise in the field of antiques? We require unique, original content from authors/columnists/dealers/appraisers/etc. such as articles, how-to’s, FAQ’s and book chapters from published authors.

Antiques.com has Two Goals

Antiques.com is brought to you by National A-1 Internet, a leading provider of Internet content since 1995. Antiques.com will be launching in November 2009 with two goals; to be the premiere resource for shoppers in search of antiques and various antique resources and to be a marquee venue for antique dealers, shows, auctions, flea markets and appraisers.

List Your Antique Business for Free!

We invite all antique dealers, shows, auctions, flea markets and appraisers – whether you have a showroom or work out of your home – to take advantage of the Antiques.com free directory.

Domains starting with the word “The”, finding a Niche

YummyNames owns dozens of them, Mike Berkens owns literally hundreds of them.  “The” niche names are the focus of many buyers, even selective ones. 

In this week’s DNJournal Sales Report there were some four figure sales of “The” names including theintroduction.com and thethesis.com.

Is there interest?

According to NameBio, notable sales in 2009 included:

thePrivateDetective.com $1,000
theJob.com $15,000
theExpert.com $2,560
theShapeofDays.com $1,655
theLove.com $11,000

Have you taken a look at Mike Berkens’ MostWantedDomains.com? He owns tons of them.  And there are some good ones, even some funny ones.

TheBartender.com
TheBastards.com
TheBestShit.com
TheBeerBong.com
TheBlonde.com

Mike owns hundreds more and of course, it’s probably no suprise to many since he runs the popular blog TheDomains.com.

YummyNames owns dozens of the names ranging from theHills.com to theOpera.com.

You Can Still Find Plenty of Them for Hand-Registration

A lot of “The” domain names definitely have potential, even if it’s longer term down the road.