On news of Apple opening up it’s fancy iPhone and iPod Touch to developers – the first thing I did was go out and register a bunch of domain names that I hope to capitalize on.
One of these names, to my delight, instantly started getting direct traffic and clicks and has brought in a whopping $30 in the couple of weeks I have had it up on my parking service. For those wondering - the domain that is doing so well is iTouchGame.com
(I also have iTouchGamers.com and iTouchPrograms.com and several others…. I will do something with them as well… probably network them all and try and rank for “ipod/iphone games/programs.” Best part about it, I’m pretty much promised a front page listing on Digg thanks to the word ipod 
well maybe not, but a solid post.)
I could leave these sites parked like this. Making a few dollars a day – but I know I can make more with just a simple site, an affiliate program and some Google ads.
As I found out later “iTouch Game” is one of the most popular iphone games at this time… so I lucked out with the name… why not take advantage of it. As of yet I have not had much free time to build even a simple site pulled from OSWD, hopefully I can do that this weekend.
Point of this post you ask? If you have a great idea to make money with a site - register the domain name and park it even if you have no time to do anything with it. Domains are cheap, less than $10 a year and just by parking them you can bring at least that in a few months. (Well most of the time anyway – a friend of mine is bringing in about $70 a month with gocandle.com just with parking not much… but gocandle? The hell is that?)
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What a great idea. It really pays to know what words work and which ones don’t. THanks for these tips!