The domain was sold to YellowPages.com surprisingly since the rumors are that the yellow pages lately are doing really bad, and such an huge investment in domain name it just really was unbelievable.

The full story can be read on Yahoo Biz news.

The ‘best’ way would be to grab a expired domain name that is already listed in search engines, but, are you lucky enough to grab such a domain to yourself now days? Similar domains, in most of the cases you will find them listed on auction sites as SnapNames.
But lets presume you got a expired domain name, nice words, very well listed on major search engines, what next? There are two options you could go for

1. Domain name parking programs (NameDrive, Sedo, iMonetize, Afternic and many others). The traffic of your domain will constantly decrease with the time as it is passing, your best move would be to keep the domain while the traffic is still high, once you notice the traffic and clicks on the ads are decreasing sell the domain unless you plan to follow the example 2).
2. Check the history of the domain from aboutus.org ex. www.aboutus.org/yourdomain.tld , read more what the domains content used to be, view the cashed version of the content, then dedicate some time and develop a site with a similar content, make sure there are no broken links in your site then sign up for AdSense (Google advertising publisher program) or Yahoo Publisher, now you are done, your next step would be to check your advertising panel and see your revenue growing.

First off, get typos of domains, not words. One of the reasons Pocker.com and Porker.com were able to sell for as much as they did were because Poker.com was an established, fairly high traffic site site in addition to poker being an elite keyword. Keep this in mind when selecting your target to get typos of. The Overture Keyword Selector Tool is often referenced around here as one of the most powerful domain tools, and indeed it is. Put your target domain in here and see how many results it gets. Compare a lot of different target domains you have, and the higher number is the better target for traffic since those are direct type-ins to Overture.

Secondly, though harder to judge, try to target domains in more lucrative markets. Poker is my favorite, because Fabulous pays $8-$20 per click on their poker parking. Casinos are even higher and are another good target. There are many high-paying keywords out there, and a good way for those who have a hard time figuring them out is the Overture Bid Tool. It shows the max bids of links placed on Overture, a PPC-based search engine. The higher the better of course.

So…onto the first revelation: The best typos I have are actually not typos. They are either misspellings or substitute related terms inserted in place of a word in the domain (like putting “auto” in place of “car” in the domain). I have about 30 poker names among which are many misspellings and “related term” names to a couple of poker sites, and it’s generally those doing the best.

For the misspellings, target words that could be hard to spell. I was excited to see a commercial for UltimateBet.tv, knowing first that Ultimatebet.com/net was an established poker site and that the .tv was probably new to their arsenal, and seeing that “ultimate” is misspelled a LOT. The misspellings I got for that site have worked out rather well. An example of related term is a “typo” domain I got for DoylesRoom.com/net (another poker site). Doyle Brunson is who the site is named after, and a simple switcheroo of his last name in place of his first and I found myself some available names that have been making me a nice earning.

Some of the other typo names I own are in fact typos though. Again, based on how mine do, if you want to get typos, get missing letter typos or transposition typos instead of extra letter or wrong letter typos. Extra letter typos and wrong letter typos usually involve many situations with 1 single letter of the name. Missing letter involves only 1 situation per letter, and transpositions of letters right next to each other also involves only 1 situation. Don’t do more than one transposition or missing letter at a time. Like “music”…search for usic, msic, musc, musi, umsic, msuic, muisc, and musci sooner than typos like mussic, nusic, mudic, etc.

That’s all for now. Hope this post helps a bunch of you aspiring typo-ists! If any other people out there doing well with typos would like to chime in, feel free to do so.