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While the domaining industry continues to get larger, the need for domaining education is also becoming more prevalent. Yes, there is a lot of potential to make money in this business, but there are also many complex money-making strategies and ideas that are often skipped over by a domainer who doesn’t fully understand the marketplace.

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The domain industry continues to grow, as demonstrated by the latest Domain Report by VeriSign, the global registry operator for .com and .net.

VeriSign reported that the third quarter of 2007 had 31% more domain registrations than the same time period from last year, ending with a total base of 146 million domain name registrations worldwide for Top Level Domain names (TLDs).

“Some growth was driven by consumers as domain name registrars targeted consumers with their marketing efforts and expanded product functionality aimed at making domain names more attractive to consumers including tools to enable consumers to publish their own podcasts, as well as, add custom calendars and personal portal pages.”

While the domain industry continues to grow, so does the idea of purchasing domains for the purpose of parking, an issue that is becoming more difficult to track for VeriSign.

According to the December report, 87% of all analyzed websites are live while only 13% are inactive. In their previous reports (including the August report), however, VeriSign had another section attributed to “Parked Web Sites”, which at the time accounted for 23% of the .com/.net industry.

While it is safe to assume that 20% of all .com and .net web sites are being parked, it is interesting to note that VeriSign may be no longer able to easily distinguish between which sites are live compared to which ones are parked. As the domain industry continues to grow at staggering rates, so will the use of parked domains.

On occasion we would like to point out tools that can be of use to us. Today, we’ll look at DomainersHub, a real time domain listing monitoring system, which has recently introduced a RSS feed.  The site allows you to subscribe to daily e-mail reports notifying you of any new listing matching your keywords.

If you don’t have the time to monitor all the forums for domains on sale that might be of interest to you, this tool is for you.   Domainershub monitors the domains appearing in the subject or those listed on the top portion of the posts. Currently the site monitors DNForum.com, WebHostingTalk.com, NamePros.com, IDNForums.com, AcornDomains.co.uk, ConsultDomain.de (German) and SitePoint.com.

DomainersHub’s lists the domain names under two categories - “Premium Domains” and “All Domains”, which are broken into domain name, link to the listing, category (whether its auction, external auctions or for sale etc) and added (the time since the domain has been listed).

NameBio.com has re-launched its site with a new layout and advanced functionalities. The site established in 2006, presents domainers with domain sales and comps history. The redeveloped site stresses on inaccurate, transparent and duplicated data. Moreover, with a new design the site offers its users increased search capabilities in addition to a cleaner interface.

The new functionalities offered by NameBio.com includes exact sales price search, exact time frame search, pattern recognition search, IDN search, user submitted sales, new RSS feed, newsletter, emailed comps, user submitted sales as well as new skin advertising for Sponsors. According to Justin Allen, founder of NameBio, “No one in the industry is offering what we are. We basically went back to the planning board and said how do we make NameBio better? These new features are the first of many yet to come“.

What type of domain tools and features are you missing out there? Let us know in the comments.

[via Press Release, email]