harpo

enjoyable read here,,,, thanks for the great posts. Grrilla your openness to share your experience makes me realize why i like domaining and its difficulties and lessons too.
Im in the same boat i really need some organization skills and dev skills ....

here my 2 cents
if you have no tools for domains dont buy
if you have roo much money dont buy domains
if your lonlely and your girlfriend left you so not buy domains
if your parents give you a credit card do not buy domains
if your anywhere sane do not nuy domains,,,
just havin fun kidding

if your buying for resale its a loooong and lonely road...

primacomputer

One thing I would like to point out is that it can be as much fun to develop interesting ways of monetizing your names as it can be to hunt new ones. Being creative with features of databases, HTTP and HTML can give you incredibly useful results without a lot of work. As with selecting names, the key here is the creativity as opposed to brute force and bulk.

For example, I registered my first adult zilla a few years back as one of my first experiments in “OVT” names. I developed a simple TGP and it started making revenue instantly. I then came up with the idea to use the database behind it to drive multiple niche names. I combined this with another database to present a different “skin” for each name. Doing this with only a handful of graphic files and a single virtual server was an interesting technical challenge. Far more interesting than simply grabbing every smutty sounding zilla that drops.