I know that politics is the hot topic on the streets, especially after the election last night and all the campaigning that’s been going on. As I was watching the nightly news tonight they said that vendors were selling Obama apparel like crazy. I have spent a few hours researching how political domains were doing on the internet, and what I found was they aren’t doing well at all, and in fact, their were such a small amount of buyers out there that most seller’s who opened threads selling their domains didn’t even get one response.

Some of the evidence I found through my research was for example, on the forums, I saw I pretty nice, page rank 2 political blog up for auction beginning at $50. And there was not one bid on it! It was a Barack Obama blog, barack.ws, which I personally thought was full of content, and had a nice design to it. Along with that, when I put two of my political domains up for sale, ePalin.com and eBiden.com, over on the forums a couple of weeks ago, there wasn’t one $10 starting bid for either of those.

I looked into why exactly the political apparel “fab” isn’t carrying over to internet domain names, and websites, and I think I may have found one key reason why. Politics doesn’t pay. AdSense clicks, as well as clicks on parked web pages are making way to little. Along with this key reason, another reason may be because of how competitive the political field is on the internet. When you open a political website up, you are competing with sites like CNN, NBC, ABC, huge companies that will most likely beat you out on the search engines.

Maybe we should move on from politics, get it out of our mind when it comes to domaining at least, and focus on bigger money makers in less competitive niches. Anyways, I would love to hear some comments about your views on political domains, and also sales you have seen that support, or prove my studies wrong.