Directory Startup Costs

So after reading my last post you are ready to create your own directory but are wondering about the costs.  Well I will tell you.  There are really two types of costs to a directory site.  The upfront costs and the ongoing costs.  The upfront cost includes things like the cost of the script and inital domain purchase.  While the ongoing costs would be things like the yearly domain registration fee, hosting fees, and the like.

If you wanted to create a similar directory site, your only upfront cost is $49.99 for the directory script.  There was no domain purchase price since I did not purchase the domain on the secondary market, I hand-registered it. Buying a domain of the secondary market can be expensive, but might be worth it if the domain already has traffic especially if it is Type-in traffic.  I choose to use one of the domains I had on hand for the project.  I had hand-registered it a couple of months back and had just had it parked since.  For being a new domain, it was still getting about 20 type-ins a month.  Not a great deal of traffic, but worth the registration fee.  Back to the costs.  My ongoing costs with be the year domain renewal fee and hosting which would be about $28.00/yr or less.  To break even in your first year, the site needs to bring in about $78.00 or 6.50 a month.  Of course, once the upfront costs are covered, the site will only need to bring in $2.35/month to break even. Which should be doable, but only time will tell.