When beginning an online business there are many ways that you can go about it. You should purchase your own domain, from nothing, or you can get domains for sale that currently have a site and traffic built in. Just as in the ‘real world’ you can make money flipping internet sites. Folks do it all the time. There you will find a list of websites that somebody else has taken the time to build and grow and with a little luck has a regular flow of traffic and has made money from it. Now you can ask, if this individual is making money with their site why would they sell it? The explanation for why it that this is the way lots of folks actually earn money online, they make more from selling the site than they might by keeping it. If you do your required groundwork you can pick up a great niche site, with decent traffic and perhaps even some good links for very little money. You don’t have to do much since it is set up and moneymaking.