Nice but should have some examples of domains. Are they registering english words or native language words? How do they find the terms to register? Doesn't .fr and some of the other extensions have some restrictions of ownership for non-natives?

$3k a day is great, but to put this in perspective, you really need to know the number of domains registered and renewal fees.

Rick, which registrar do you primarily use when buying ccTLD's?

If it's such a good idea why are you on private whois with 8 whois changes in 4 months.

http://whois.domaintools.com/3000adaydomainer.com

Also, are we to invest in local language ccTLD's or english?

Not really buying what is going on here. Call me a skeptic without proof....

Guys, honestly I'm not sure what's going on here either. He asked me to post the video so I posted it. From what I understand, he's trying to pump the value of his own portfolio by raising awareness of ccTLDs. He's planning on releasing more videos as well such as the best places to register and what types of names to go after. As for him being on private, he's a private type of guy.

Not biying a bit of it. Why hide all the domains if they are so great? Who knows may be TMs?

This video comes across more hype than reality in my opinion unless lots of domains were actually shown that were making money.

If you can't get rich in America, you can't get rich anywhere.

Same way, If you can't get rich doing .COMs (many years ago as mentioned in the video), then you can't get rich with .ccTLDs

Think before you end up wasting you money on tons ccTLDs out there.

Just my opinion.

I have to say this though. This guy does make an excellent video.
Very rich voice. I wish he was my maths teacher, maybe I would have ended up a doctor.
As per the content of the movie: "lets wait and see"

I'm waiting for the sales pitch to sell an online video or get rich quick course. Reminds me of Google Nemesis et al.

I agre RKB typical domainer nonsense, its funny a guy on another forum was talking to a TOP Local search firm and asked him if he ever heard of Associated Cities.com ? The guy was like no, so he asked Nashville.com ? or Myrtle Beach.com ? No,No,No and his point was guys who are Gods in the domain world are hardly if even at all known in the real world, funny but true.

Sounds like Don Lapre.

Great video Rick,

It will be very interesting to see what else they produce and how much more they tell about their methods of buying domains.

In regards to to ccTLD's I have been thinking the same way as Rick has and have focused mainly on ccTlD domains over the past few years and done just fine.

What I am going to say next will piss of many Yanks but it needs to be said.
Many Americans (not all) are so insular with their thinking and can't see the forrest for the trees ( the trees in this case are .com domains) HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEELLOOO people there are countries out their other than America that have their own domains and use them widely and more than the .com

I have just come back from a 7 month round the world trip with my family and I can tell from first had observations that the .com in terms of usage on advertising, tv, billboards etc etc is a distant second compared the local ccTLD.

So to say that their is no future in ccTLD's is one of the most misinformed observations that I have ever heard. Take of the blinkers, do your research, look at the facts and the numbers. It is all right infront of you.

You only have to look at markets like India and China with a combined population of 2.5 BILLION people ( 8 times the population of the US) to figure out that there is a MASSIVE market for the ccTLD.

If all you have ever owned is .com, .net, .org etc domains and never gone into the ccTLD market then you are talking about a subject that you know jack sh*t about.

When I did my Podcast Interview with Rick 10 months or so ago he struck me as a very sharp and switched on guy who is well travelled and sees a world outside of just the US. He GETS ccTLD's and the markets that they represent.

People in different countries are loyal to their own domain extention and If you have travelled further thay your own country or state for that matter you will understand what I am saying.

The .com has its place for a global marketplace but so do ccTLD's.
In Australia (as in all the other countries I have travelled to) people assume that the domain extention is their local ccTLD domain and go for the .com second.

If your target market is local whether that be micro local (towns, cities) or country local (India, China, UK, Spain, Germany etc) then it just makes sense to have a local ccTLD, as the products and services will more than likely be more relivant to the searcher in that market.

I have been an online marketing consultant for the past 5 years with clients globally and I specialize in PPC advertising mainly using Google AdWords.
I have been using it since it first started.

One thing I can say is that if the marketing being done is on a global scale targeting many countries we would use whenever possible a ccTLD as the display URL for the ads as 9 times out of 10 the click through rate would be far better (and the conversions more importantly) than by using the .com in the same domain name when targeting ads on a country by country level.

I like Rick am betting the farm on ccTLD domains and so far so good!

If what I have said down the path over the next 5 - 10 years or sooner turns out to be a load of crap, then I will be glad to eat my words.

One thing I have always followed is my gut and its done me well for the past 41 years so no reason to stop now.

PS. I have been to the US many time and have many great friends and clients there but the blinkers about domains need to come of guys or you will be missing out on a MASSIVE relativly untapped market.

Regards

Ed Keay-Smith
OzDomainer.com

-Obviously all tms/typos
-The stat line is from Sept 08, pre economic downturn
-Since then, ppc revs have fallen about 30-40% for most .com guys, 50-60%+ for cctld domainers, as advertisers duck out on unmonetizeable foreign traffic.
-Looks like a pump and dump in the face of a cratering market.
-No one is paying more than 8-12mo on these names

What will they think of next.I am always looking for the next big thing,Cheers,Kevin Davis

Hello Rick,

very interesting video!

I sell now top German names on Sedo.com:

TheCredit.de

TheMarketing.de

TheEconomy.de

These names have an extraordinary potential.

Best regards,

Sergej

Even assuming the stats are genuine, traffic could possibly been engineered in some way (some very smart computer minds in Romania..) or as @RKB said, be TMs.

I just did a random Buy search on .br & travel category on Sedo. The first page shows two airline TMs with 1400+ and 500+ traffic.

Can't wait to see what he talks about in future videos, this one didn't contain enough information to get started. As mentioned by others above, is the success with TM domains, English language, native language? If it is a language with symbols like China, Japan, Korea, Russia, etc. are they using IDNs? What percentage of domains in his portfolio cover their reg fee each year, and how much is he spending in reg fees to earn $3k/day? Are they only premium generics and Geo's, or do KeywordKeyword.com and long tails get traffic as well? What registrar does he prefer? Which parking companies will monetize non-U.S. traffic, and which ones have support for foreign languages? It was a good teaser, but I'd like to have a lot more answers in the next installment.

This video reminded me of one of those late-night get-rich-quick infomercials. ZERO credibility. If anything, it raised the flag of caution.

Ed Keay-Smith's comment, on the other hand, was much more compelling. It had more meat in a few paragraphs than the entire video.

Im so surprised these RichJerk'esque infomercials produce anything but a sigh from anyone with even a grain of intelligence.

Any why does everyone of these infomercials always start out by saying they're not an infomercial.. lol

Like the "Want to know how I make $1m a month with absolutely no effort? - then buy my ebook for $2" scams, this is no better.

Wow, someone makes $3000 a day with Sedo (now theres a zero on the chance-o-meter for a start) and they're going to share it with me for nothing.. Oh.. Oops.. Theres the hook... If you wanna know how then attend my $1000 conference in Amsterdam.

Ironically, I WAS going to attend the conference in Amsterdam but if it's just going to be a smoke and mirrors show - count me out!

[...] Rick’s most recent post, he embeded a video one of his friends created called $3,000 a Day Domainer.  His friend, who [...]

Rick, I have not been commenting for a while on your blog but I can't let this pass. This video can be used to scam non-domainers or some new-comers. Friend or no friend, Rick, this kind of infomercial does not belong on this blog. You are way beyond such stuff. Whoever has a Sedo account would know that the $3000/day represents RPM for the parking company not the actual Earning that goes into your friend's pocket. Technically, this guy would make about 0.05% of each $3000 if he get anything @ all.

[...] many of you I watched the video on Rick Latona’s blog. I was really curious what the response would be like. Would people believe it, dismiss it, [...]

If you are making $3,000 a day and there are still oportunities to do this by other people, the LAST thing you would do is show them how to do it; especially for a few thousand dollars... you would just keep doing it yourself and make $6,000 a day or $9,000 a day etc.. Right?

I figured out it was First Beat Media who put out the video. Perhaps their president Rafi.

I have quite of experience with Polish and Ukrainian ccTLD. I do agree - one gets high traffic if he/she registers a typo. But:

0) you get it on any TLD

1) the good ones are already taken

2) as the local industry grows, so are the chances for losing a WIPO case

Sure.ly - time to drop those "nice" domains and make it someone's else headache plus make some extra cash on selling the books.

Julia - you are so bloody right.

Some ccTLD are good, indeed, for English speakers (don't ignore Chinese too) - .tv .it .me .us .ly - if you jingle them of course, teen-fashion.tv, just-drop.it, unlock.me, please-help.us, week.ly ... expect no type in traffic though, just wrap it nice.ly and flip with proper price tag.

Guys he said in the post its a mystery. Just watch it and enjoy.

.ca domains are my favorite.

Seyi, I've known this guy for years. He swears up and down that he's not up to anything. All will be clear soon enough.

Sounds like Ben Affleck from the Boiler Rooom,
YOU WILL Make Your First MILLION Dollars in the first 3 years !!!:)

Visit http://namer.ca/blog/ca-vs-com.html for a comparison on the advantages of a .ca vs .com, it also applies for other ccTLD vs .com

ccTLD give people that warm home goodness feeling. It's natural, customers just feel like a business under ccTLD will care more about them then a global corporate .com, that's why they trust it more, it makes them feel like a more personal business relationship.

and i agree about oz domainer being more compelling, dump Ben Affleck video

[...] many of you I watched the video on Rick Latona’s blog. I was really curious what the response would be like. Would people believe it, dismiss it, [...]

Ok I agree with the fact we have not seen behind the magical $3000 curtain so who knows what is the truth or not the truth.

BUT to bag ccTLD domains is so nieve its just laughable. LOL LOL LOL

Now I was going to say ( Just take a look in your LOCAL Yellow Pages and take note of the web addresses being used) but then I suspect I high percentage of people reading this are from the US so all they will see is com, net, org a bit of US some info here and a biz there.

Well I have a Yellow Pages for Perth Australia in my hand now.

Perth has population of just over 1 Million people so we are a small place compared to many cities in US, Europe, Asia etc but there are still tens of thousands of advertisers paying tens of thousands of dollars for advertising and guess what?

Hardly a .com domain in site!! At a rough guess I would say that its about
90 % .com.au and the rest is made up of .net.au, .com and some other straglers.

The USA and .COM is not the centre of the universe people, there is a big big world out there and it does not ALL revolve around .COM.

Agreed it is the king in the US as American's basically started the internet and took on the .COM as their own but the internet has a huge way to go and the .COM will not cut it when it comes to businesses in NON US countries wanting to have a LOCAL representation for that country.

An example - I own http://www.waterpurifiers.in and although I would never knock back owning http://www.waterpurifiers.com it is just not within the budget to purchase that name at this moment in time. Besides that I want to target the Indian population of the tiny size of 1.1 Billion people ( cut that number in half and its still 20 times the population of Australia of 25 Million).

The content of the site is targeted at Indians and so are the products so the .IN is much better suited to India than the Global / US assosiation that a .COM has.

Any of my websites that I have that are ccTLDs targeting their local markets rank very well on the local versions of Google eg Google.co.uk eg. search on "Biodiesel Kits" and you will see my site http://www.biodieselkits.co.uk at the No 1 position as it has been for the past 14 months.

Looking at the Google Analytics stats for that site about 15% of traffic is direct navigation and the rest is Search Engines. But the majority of websites that appear in the top 10 SERPs ar .co.uk domains NOT .COM. Why because they are more relevant to the local market.

I say here on the record for all to look back on and say, that Ed Keay-Smith was some nut job thinking that ccTLD's are a smart way to go LOL What a Joker you may all be saying. But I am not a fence sitter and I do a sh*t load of research before I commit to putting my money into something and my gut says GO ccTLD's, GO!!!

Ignore the ccTLD's at your peril I say.

Regards

Ed Keay-Smith
OzDomainer.com

[...] be laughing all the way to the bank when the market catches up. People like Rick Latona, and this next guy who is making $3k/day parking ccTLDs that were bought at reg [...]

Fact is; if bought right and sold to the right buyer (and/or with PPC income at least sufficient to cover the reg & renewal fees); ANY extension can be profitable.

But; as Sahar points out; there is also an opportunity (time) cost in learning enough to have at least a reasonable chance at success. And, monetizing other (i.e. non-.com) extensions is; as others have pointed out; inherently more difficult, if impossible.

Curiously; and his comments are certainly worthwhile; Ed actually makes a very strong implicit, counter-intuitive argument for the large majority of us staying with .com:

The fact that such .com domains are for the most part no worse than the 2nd most used extension in so many countries . . . means that those with .coms receive the benefit BOTH of being the overwhelmingly favorite extension in the largest economy in the world (the US) PLUS no worse than the 2nd most popular extension in most of the rest of the world.

How many other extensions can make this claim?

That's right. None.

When combined with the other above drawbacks of non-com extensions; that's certainly good enough for me; as it should be for the large majority of other domain owners.

My thoughts are..................

1) If you take the UK as an example. I think that while people are 'comfortable' with using the .co.uk extension, the extension people think of first is the .com;

2) Which ever country code you invest in you have to understand how the language is used - to use a very simple example, vacations.com is a premium domain, vacations.co.uk is worth a tiny fraction of the .com because the word is rarely used in the UK. So there are lots of traps for the unwary.

3) I think some people forget how poor some of these countries are. That means that local language ad revenue is relatively low and disposable income is far lower than in more advances countries. Computer usage can also be far less in these countries.

4) I think this video plays on the perception of cctlds as being untapped by local domainers. The reality is that local domainers have been mining for good domains for years. Its not rocket science. The idea that there are valuable, say Hungarian, premium generic high traffic domains waiting for YOU, that the Hungarian speaking business / domaining community have missed, seems slightly naive.

With so much in domaining there is some speculation involved and my personal opinion is that domainers should stick to what they know when it comes to buying domain names.

Interesting video. The 3000 a day is possible with generic words like girls, games, juegos, etc for cctlds. There are two shifts happening with international internet users.

1) they are getting more comfortable with their own cctlds.

2) During the past year they are typing in their own language and scripts for seaches AND urls. This can be verified with G keyword tools.

So, what we are seeing is a huge increase in native language usage: native language content, cctld's (ie. .cn and .de) and urls in native scripts.

To see info on Spanish cctlds and Spanish domains, click on my handle.

I am doing the same for German.

steve, your point is only valid for so much longer... only recently did cn take over the us in terms of people with internet connection, they have just surpassed .de in terms of gdp in 2007 and will easily surpass jp - recession or not. the recession however will hit far stronger outside asia, shortening the gap even further. considering that many users in in and cn are only now discovering the internet, aren't even purchasing anything just yet the potential hasn't even remotely shown...

but, the more people stick with .com, the more opportunities remain for those that are aware that there's more to the global internet community than just the english speaking minority

[...] Rick Latona is talking about it and Sahar Sarid gave his commentary. It seems like everybody is talking about the revenue potential of ccTLDs (Country Code) domain names. [...]

Complete nonsense!

His argument for getting others involved appears to be that it will increase the value of his own portfolio, but with the hits he is claiming to have then that value is already there.. in abundance...

So, there's no need to let others in on it.. all you need to do is keep re-investing yr $3,000 a day in to new registrations! lol..

Spot on. Both the opportunity and the revenue exist.

Our own focus is more on creating a small but strong generic portfolio than $3000/day revenue, but I'd definitely be interested in knowing how to do this, specially if its legal and above board.

Great input though, thanks a lot, have started a thread at NamePros about this to enable the community to discuss and contribute:
http://www.namepros.com/cctld-discussion/562005-cctlds-the-wave-of-the-future.html

Thats a lot of money right there. The revenue he is talking about is probably true and I think there is still a lot of money to be made but its all bout getting the information on how to do it.

This video doesnt really show much to be honest, renewal fees? what type of domains are these? dropped domains? etc...

But a good business opportunity in my view if you know what you are doing.

Strange vid - why would he not go out & reg more names? Why would you ever sell your domains (ie care about their value) if they make so much money?

However he is absolutely right about cc-TLD's being the future. From an investment point of view com is washed up & exhausted. The lack of anything half decent to rego and crazy prices on aftermarket have turned end-users away from com... and that's essential to sustain the market.

It's possible, but it's very hard. Makes nosense to 99.99% of domainers.
So the only reasonable explain why this vid is posted should be promoting the author's own ccTLD portfolios.

IMHO.

ccTLD vs. com is also playing in the IDN area.
The funny thing is that Russian Yandex, which competes with Google there doesn't even have the .com for it's trademark. It's using .ru

Same thing with the Russian Classmates. It's only in .ru

Now, Rick is making a bundle. His counterpart, Rubber Dick (Dave Wrix), is promoting IDNs.
The really big question:
Are these people False Prophets for the non-existent gods?

These guys are for real!! I can say that becouse I make MORE than 3000 a DAY working ONLY with .com.br ccTLD in Brazil.

You guys from USA and Europe make a HUGE mistake thinking that all countries use .com as first option... totally WRONG!!

Probably you make this mistake becouse you have only checked so far in countries that do not use their ccTLD and use .com instead... BUT many countries like Brazil DO USE their ccTLD as first option and leaves .com in second place. Brazil is here to prove this.

Regards folks,
Gustavo Volcan
Brazil

Sham who? Sham Wow!...sounds like the domain version of the sham wow dude.

That being said..although the video is light on details, there may be some opportunity...but still not sure

$3K per day it's a great income, but i'm sure it only earn through commitment and hardwork.

[...] Rick Latona is talking about it and Sahar Sarid gave his commentary. It seems like everybody is talking about the revenue potential of ccTLDs (Country Code) domain names. [...]

I can promise anyone that I have the solutions for making their ccTLD's and gTLD's start making money with very little investment. I'm talking starting a foundation and positioning your non-TLD's to FINALLY start making some revenue.

It's not a promise of riches, it's not an easy road but it IS, based even on this guy's video, the only reasonable path for ccTLD owners.

I'm here, look me up and I'll hook you up. No wannebee's, please.

Go Rick Go!

I invested in .co.uk names in 1999. We own retirees.co.uk, greenjob.co.uk, Businessfund.Co.Uk and many many more.... Don't forget, many german language word(s) are registered in .de so I am bagging the .com wich they did not register.