We all have domain names in our portfolio that we'd like to develop or plan to develop, but for many of us with limited time and budgets, it's just not possible. If that's the case, until you get around to it, there are FREE WordPress themes that make it easy for users to put up a friendly "Coming Soon" page that gives the site a more professional look and feel over the standard parked page.  If you're still not using WordPress or you haven't given it a shot yet, installing these FREE WordPress themes is a good first step in learning more about installing and setting up WordPress sites.  

We took five of our domain names that were not doing anything and that are hosted on GoDaddy, then added WordPress through GoDaddy's Hosting Connection (which is a free app), then installed each theme.  Each theme comes with a number of features - such as Feedburner integration - that make it easy to give the site a personal touch.  The nice thing about getting WordPress installed on these sites - is that it allows us to quickly launch a web site using FREE or Premium WordPress themes, when we find the time.

You can click on the screenshot to see a Live Demo.

LimitedEditionBooks.com - Ready2Launch!

The Ready2Launch! theme is available directly through WordPress when you click "Add Themes".  Just search on Ready2Launch.  It has a number of options that you can change including your Twitter Id, email address, and the countdown clock.  This is one of our favorite "Coming Soon" themes.

Weened.com - Ice Breaker

The Ice Break theme is also available through WordPress, so you don't even need to download it separately.

Regionally.com - LaunchPad

The LaunchPad theme is another WP theme you can download through WordPress when you edit your "Appearance" and click Add Themes.

LoanHeaven.com  - Changing Room

The Changing Room WordPress theme can be downloaded here.

Shrinkable.com - UnderCon

The UnderCon theme can be downloaded here.  

If you've got a tip on a FREE WordPress theme, tailored for domainers, please send us an email or leave a comment.

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Have you taken a look at the sales of domain names starting with the word FREE?  They aren't cheap.  FREE related domains cost money.  Several of the sales are in the six figure range.  Several went for a price tag over $25,000.  And there are literally too many to list just over $10,000 - including the recent sale of FreeStay.com reported by GreatDomains for nearly $15,000 USD.  

What's the draw with the word, FREE?  
 
People love free stuff.  The keyword free is searched over 9 million times globally.  Other keyword searches like "free online games" had an exact globally monthly search in January over 4 million.  Free ringtones, free music, free downloads, free movies online - all tallied over 1 million exact global monthly searches.

Who owns the most sought after FREE domain name?  National A-1 Advertising, that's who.  They own FREE.com, a site that ranks on Page 1 of Google.  But another web site with a less appealing domain name - thefreesite.com - ranks at the top of the search engines and receives over 200,000 unique visitors per month.

Notable FREE Domain Sales 
 
FreeCreditReport.co.uk sold for $300,000 in 2008

FreeQuotes.com sold for $210,000 in 2009

FreeHoroscope.com sold for $185,259 in 2007

Free-sms.de sold for $162,150 in 2010

Free.tv sold for $100,000 in 2003

FreePicks.com sold for $91,250 in 2006

FreeCreditReports.co.uk sold for $70,000 in 2008

FreeCoupon.com sold for $60,000 in 2008

UPDATE:  Shortly after we ran this story, the owner of Fly.net renewed the domain name.  Although NameJet still has the domain listed for PreRelease, when NameJet refreshes their database today, the name will no longer be up for auction.  Original story below.

Most domainers might be familiar with past sales of "fly" domains.  Fly.com sold for a whopping $1.5 million in 1999 and was acquired in 2009 by Travelzoo for $1.8 million. Fly.co.uk sold for $181,042, Fly.co.za sold for $65,000 in 2010, and even Fly.ma sold for over $4,000 in 2007 via Sedo.  Domain owners work in mysterious ways, and fly.net is one example.  

The domain name expired on March 4, 2010 and is up for auction over at NameJet with a mere 4 bidders and a high pre-bid of $300. The domain itself gets over 1,000 unique visitors per month alone according to Compete and it's a keyword that is searched globally over 1 million times per month.  That's an exact match type. 

Why Fly.net expired, is anyone's guess
 
The original owner of the domain going back to 1997, Chris Townsend, also owns slack.net - which is still an active and registered name.  Fly.net is a huge domain to let expire, so either Chris Townsend has been slacking on renewals or for other reasons -- the name just hasn't been renewed. 

If this name makes it to Auction on April 8, it's going to be one whopper of an auction on NameJet.

Sedo GreatDomains has been ringing up some significant sales recently.  The premium domains auction site and parking program, also reported the sale of MusicVideos.com for $250,000.  The competition for auction sites and domain parking programs has heated up over the last few years, but Sedo continues to beat the competition.  The new owner of the category-killer names (WeddingGifts.com and WeddingGift.com) has not been revealed while the registrant information points to Sedo Transfer Service - but the pair of Wedding Gift names managed to attract one savvy investor - who moved to acquire both the singular and plural to own the .com category.  

The keywords "Wedding gifts" was searched globally (exact match) in the month of January approximately 110,000 times, while "wedding gift" was searched over 40,000 times. For comparison purposes, "birthday gifts" was search just over 130,000 times globally and "gifts" reached 1 million searches.

Other Notable Wedding Domain Sales
 
Weddings.org sold for $34,500 in 2008 in a Private Sale

WeddingPlace.com sold for $16,000 in 2008 on Afternic

WeddingChocolates.com sold for $12,611 in 2006 on SnapNames

GayWedding.com sold for $10,100 in 2008 on Sedo

WeddingCatering.com sold for $10,000 in 2007 on Moniker

WeddingGift.net sold for $3,600 in 2008 on NameJet

Ron Jackson of DNJournal, the domain industry news magazine, is reporting that Moniker has brokered the sale of Guns.com for $800,000 shattering the 2010 .com sales records of .com domains by over 100 percent.  The next highest .com sale of 2010 is PartySupplies.com for $360,000 which was also sold at Moniker, followed by Biking.com and Boating.com each for $250,000 which sold on Afternic in February. 

Though the buyer hasn't been disclosed, for the price tag of $800,000, it's hard to imagine this name not being developed.  In terms of visitor traffic, the URL guns.com had over 13,000 visitors in January 2010, and reached as many as 30,000 unique visitors in January 2009.  As far as the search engines, GunBroker.com ranks at the top with over 1.5 million unique visitors per month for the search term "guns".  ImpactGuns.com gets nearly half a million visitors, followed by NRA.org with almost 200,000 visitors.

Here is some of what Ron Jackson had to say about the transaction:

You might recall that Guns.com was in Moniker's live auction at the DOMAINfest Global conference in January but did not meet reserve. After that event Moniker brokers continued to work hard to close a deal for the category defining domain and have now succeeded. The name was transferred on Friday and the WhoIs record currently has privacy listings...

Previous Sales of Gun Domain Names
 
If you're curious about previous sales of Gun-related domain names, here's a list of sales pulled from NameBio:

GunVendor.com sold for $28,000 on Sedo in July 2009

SpearGuns.com sold for $14,000 on Monkier in April 2009

PaintballGun.com sold for $10,299 on NameJet in December 2008

GunSpace.com sold for $5,000 on Afternic in April 2008

Guns.tv sold for $140 on Sedo in June 2008