(By Paul Sloan, December 1, 2005)

One of the way the domainers make money is by snapping up domains that people just "type in" to their browsers.  You think that nobody does that anymore, with the rise of search engines.  Catch these estimates from the above article (emphasis is mine):

"No one knows for sure how much Web traffic comes from type-ins, and Google and Yahoo execs won't discuss it. But privately, during one of the late-night parties at the Traffic conference, one Yahoo official estimates that type-ins could make up 15 percent of its search business. Marchex, a Seattle-based public startup whose strategy rests largely on type-in traffic, estimates that it accounts for nearly 10 percent of the global paid search market, which is projected to soar from $9 billion this year to $23 billion in 2009."

Now, the most lucrative of these are obviously very obvious, general category names, but a more recent article in Business 2.0 suggests that "niche" names might work.

So, we've tried a few to see what happens and get a read on this part of the web market (I had to set up a google AdSense account, learn to put the code in my web pages and all kinds of other fun things along the way!) - I'll blog about them periodically and let you know how it goes,  so here's a selection of them.

realfreemp3.com,  (I love this one, we'll see if people really want "real free MP3's!)
findnoise.com
teenheros.com  A fun topic!
howtosellyourfirm.com
utahhomebid.com
boomerenergy.com
boomervigor.com
boomerprime.com
boomerwealthadvisors.com (did you notice a boomer theme here?) 
getmuse.com