Talk Price
Money making adventures and miscellaneous ramblings…

I would just like to let our readers know that I took some action after Matthew wrote Should I Buy Typo Domains. The action I took was to actually buy one, wouldn’t I be a hypocrite if I didn’t? Now I spent about an hour looking for good ones. I obviously started with Google, went down to Facebook, over to Myspace, past Digg, through JohnChow, and eventually landed on ShoeMoney. I was being creative here, first thinking about whether users would be experimenting with his domain and possibly typing in something like ShoeCash instead of ShoeMoney (yes, ShoeCash is available if you want it). But then I went back to the basics, and when I do this I always delete the last letter. Why, you ask? Because that is the most common mistake made by people typing into their browsers. Therefore, I landed on the domain ShoeMone.com which I just bought today. Now the reason why I bought this domain was because ShoeMoney.com is actually a well visited site with over 17,000 RSS subscribers, pretty impressive I know. I don’t exactly expect millions of people to be forwarded to my site right away, but I expect to get a few here and there over time. Hopefully, I will be able to eventually sell this to some typosquatting buyer for around $200-$500, depending on its success. The key to being successful here is patience. This decision that I made right on the spot might have been a stupid, but the that I only spent $8.41 and I did for a great reason.

Side Notes

ShoeMone.com is currently being used a redirector to this blog. If anyone is interested in buying this domain, I will at the moment let it go very cheaply, due to the fact that I have no idea as to how effective it will be.