Domaining

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Domaining is the business of buying, selling, developing and monetizing Internet domain names not for primary use as a website, but with the goal of profit generation with the intent of resale, like real estate. The noun form is domainer. A domainer is a person who engages in domaining.

Domaining often involves building up of domain name portfolios, or collections of domain names, according to a variety of criteria. Such domain name portfolios often include marketable generic dictionary-word domain names, or domains whose registrations had lapsed yet still retain reasonable traffic. Domain names are the addresses of the web and come in a wide variety of extensions with .com being the most popular in part due to web browsers filling in .com as the default extension when none is given. Although domain reselling may involve a domain used for a website or mail system or else a domainer may generate advertising revenue through domain parking, domaining in essense is not about using the domain names, but keeping them as an investment for the chance of reselling. ^{[1] [2]}