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Why I decided not to own “AirTel.com”

Why I decided not to own AirTel.com

Domaining is a process of earning money through buying, selling and monetizing domain names for a profit but at the same time as E.L. James says – ‘There’s a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.’ Same way, you have to be very cautious as you don’t know when you will be slipping onto the other side of the coin.

On our one side is always pure Domaining and on the other side is Cyber Squatting. I remember preparing my own scripts to find the high traffic domain names way back in 2008. It used to search for high traffic .com domain names which were about to expire and then give me a list of the top ones which I will place on Back Order in bulk at various websites.

This process was pretty automated, and I would had upto hundred such domain names in my list every day. Sometimes even more than a 100 too. Then I used to check the next day which ones of my back ordered domain names, I was able to secure or which ones are put in an auction.

Once such domain name attracted my attraction and that was no other than – AirTel.com

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