Is it still profitable to buy and sell domain names?
Buying domain names is an investment that you’re hoping to earn back. As registration isn’t free, having 100 domains registered in your name will be costly in the end.If you use domain parking for most domains then the ads on the domains will scare away visitors and will result in your domain disappearing from most search engines, thus the value would drop considerably.You can put a simple site behind every domain but that means investing man-hours to generate the content. It will be useful as it might attract visitors and give you higher ranking in search engines, but it can be a lot of work. Still, it would increase the value of the domain.Your sale price should be more than the costs that you made for registering it. If you bought the domain from someone else, your sale price will be even higher. Your profit margin is likely to be small, unless you manage to pump up the value of the domain in some way.How? By getting plenty of visitors and appearing high in search engines. That often means there’s an active site behind the domain.Many domains will have prices from $10 to $1000 in various domain auctions and other sales. Higher prices are possible, but most people won’t offer that much unless they plan to use the domain for their own business. For example, a domain like femalecyb.org might be valuable for some hollywood moviemaker who is working on a movie with female cyborgs. They would probably like the domain for their marketing and might be willing to pay a lot for it, making it very, very profitable.But as long as no one has any interest in making such a movie, the domain would not be popular either. And that’s the case for all domain names.Most valuable domain names have already been taken and the owners are keeping those because of their value. So your marker will be the less popular domains and finding people who would actually want those. That’s not easy, but some domain experts manage to do this quite well and thus have good profits.But most who start in this business are likely to end up with some losses…
Why do people complain about Bollywood films not having 'something new', but they ultimately make an SRK-SK film a hit no matter how bad the film is?
It’s about the patient and the medicineFilm making is about realizing what is your patient’s sickness and giving him the right medicine in the right doze.So, there are very few patients of the disease you mentioned “complainants” and high number of sick “love SRK-SK film a hit”. So the Bollywood directors treat the patient and they are cured of their sickness for a short time, and then you need another potboiler to cure the patient. Indians are irritated by their system, and are sure that no one can change that system - so they look forward to a fantasy where the Hero breaks open the system and releases them.In comparison, Hollywood specializing in their own patients who have no worry about their future, with government doles. So, lacking real challenges, Hollywood creates a threat of Alien Invasions, or Muslim Invasion (to put it blatantly) and their Heroes resolves the situation with Americans being shown in limelight solving the world’s imagined problems.Neither of them tell the truth. However, US Government uses this fiction to sell arms to the world, and to terrorize their own citizens about the remainder of the world, while the Indian Government uses their pieces of fiction to understand what issues need attention.Hollywood directors focus on internal peace that most Americans don’t have, and Bollywood directors focus on the external materialistic possessions that most Indians don’t have.So in hindsight, Bollywood film makers are not doing a bad job.However, Hollywood film makers are important to science since they throw up a lot of ideas for future gadgets.Me? Program Director, College of Art & Design, Chitkara University, Chandigarh, Subject Matter Expert, ICE, Mumbai. I mentor students in Performing Arts, Design, Web, VFX, Animation. Email or whatsapp me.You can upvote and share this answer if you like it.
How do independent film producers make money?
By volume Independent film producers probably make more money from things other than the movies they create.Some would be earning competitive incomes from producing, directing, editing, shooting or acting in commercials and corporate videos. Some make their money from documentaries, or sports or research. Some draw the majority of their income from a different business entirely. Some got lucky with a film and are able to subsidize future films with it. Some come from weathy families. Of the producers who make the majority of their income directly from the movies they create some have deals with a cable network or tv broadcaster Some are under contract with a company that supplies content to tv and cable. Some work on high volume low cost multipicture deals. Some self finance and some are independently wealthy so movies they make only need to break even. Some have found a specific movie niche and have been working in that. (Sharknado) In any case getting paying gigs for making movies almost always starts with making ultra low budget movies that are primarily self funded with the goal of generating a solid calling card for future work. There is no guarantee of income from producing independant films. Making movies is a huge passion and quite likely (for those that like it) the most fun thing possible to do. Independent film's inability to provide stable incomes for the majority of those that make them can be directly tied to two factors:There are more films being made than the market for them can support (see below)The current movie distribution system is flawed. People like to watch movies but fewer and fewer of them are willing to pay to do so. If for example 75% of independent movie audiences stream or download them without paying then that reduces the markets ability to pay for new movies. On our two released movies we calculated that well over 90% of the people that watched them did not pay. If most of the viewers worldwide paid 99 cents to watch a movie and there was some kind of mechanism to limit sponging to 10-20% there would be a much larger independent film market with much greater content and quality.