Now that I have your attention I have to say that September’s figures were a little disappointing. During the month of September the 11 sites in the challenge managed to average $0.90, compared with $0.88 the month before.

The figure is influenced by the fact that a significant proportion of my domain name portfolio is pointed to one or two sites, so the income from ‘natural traffic’ is far less.

This has important implications for the project as the break even point for .com, .net, .org and .info domains is around $0.41 per week and is around $0.18 per week for .co.uk and .org.uk domain names.

A single page minisite takes about 2 hours to complete, including writing and using my regular template. A minisite using wordpress and free articles would take about 1 – 2 hours to set up at leisurely pace (finding articles, searching for a wordpress theme etc) and perhaps 20 – 30 mins a month to search for and add articles.

In total, I would say that the revenue for the 11 sites in the challenge probably covers their costs. However, with a portfolio of 100 + domains that might be suitable for inclusion in the challenge, I may be better considering alternative monetization techniques.