Bulk domain registrations has a few different purposes.  One of the main reasons that people imply this method on the Internet is because they are involved in many different businesses.  If you are selling something online it may help to have many different domain names that are similar.  This gives you the chance to get more traffic viewing your products simply because you have more sites to see.   This can be a good strategy if you have money to invest on making all the different websites good.

Another reason for using bulk domain name registration is to basically squat the other names so that other people cannot use them.  By doing this you can guarantee that your site is more unique and that there are not any sites with similar names that will steal traffic from you.

Sadly, some people get involved with bulk domain registration for the wrong reasons.  There are people that buy the rights to hundreds of web domains when a new product comes out with the hopes that he or she will be able to sell the domain names to someone else that needs it to sell a product.  This can be unfortunate because it makes the domains unavailable for people that actually need them.

There are websites that offer you the option of buying domains in bulk.  They will typically offer you one site at a certain cost and from there drop the price depending on how many domains you are purchasing.  The cost of buying a domain will vary from site to site, also depending on the type of extension that you are looking for.  A .com website extension will typically cost you more than other extensions.

Bulk domain registration can be a great tool for your business whether large or small.  If you are unfamiliar with the process of domain name registration you can find information on the Internet that will be able to guide you through the process.

The Buy Internet Domain website has additional information that you might find useful.

Purchasing Domain Names and Domain Hosting

You can find low cost domains from several domain name providers.  However, GoDaddy is very competitive and provides a good domain name service.  Hosting is also very competitive, but Host Gator is one of the best and provide web hosting free domain service.  They are very reliable and host on newer equipment with good bandwidth.  You can even reach them behind firewalls.

I have tried some of the newer domain extensions, such as, .ws and .biz with mixed results.  They seem a little more challenging to rank than the traditional .com and .net.