Develop your domains with a branded video sharing platform

If you are looking to move away from conventional domain parking and develop your domains in order to raise their value you might be interested to read on.

“YouTube sold for $1.6 billion. How much will you sell yours for?”

That’s the optimistically biased hook used by StartYourTube ( featured on TechCrunch ) to entice visitors into setting up branded video sharing sites on its platform.

StartYourTube does exactly what the name promises. You can create your own “tube”, customize it with colors and graphics, access it via your own domain, invite friends, and start loading content. The tubes not only host videos but also cater for pictures, audio files, and blogs.

The look and feel is very YouTube like, with most recent, most viewed and most viewed lists. Commenting and voting by users is possible too.

Interestingly, you as a publisher get to keep 100% of ad revenues and the site is even running a $500 promotional giveaway campaign for the “top tubes”.

So far over 11,000 tubes have been created.

In my opinion this is definitely a creative alternative to all the domain parking companies being bandied around.