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12-15-2007, 07:10 AM
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| NamePros Regular  Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: HTML and CSS
Posts: 680
   | Keep Your Portfolio Lean! for people have just interest on domaining, instead live on it, like, every year like spend $500-1k, enjoy search/read latest industry trend, like search some interesting name, like earn some money back from park, dreaming a luky sell, which means, for a people like me, I want give some suggestion base on my own experience...[which means it is not for the real "investor", I have no idea how they works, I feel most of them come to this area at 199x...my suggestion only for people come into this area post 2005 and have a limited budgeting below than $1k/year] ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/407215-keep-your-portfolio-lean.html 1. find a cheap but OK register, the register need well known by others, easy to free push, cover most majoy extension, can use paypal, I use NC..but not really cheap, and I guess namepros may be better, it is easy for our namepros member, right? not need goto somewherelse.... 2. only reg the the cool name youself really like and want keep a long long time...but don't reg too many, 20-50 is enough, .com .in is my favorite....com still the king, but alway consider .in's future...for .in, if u can reg/buy some good LLL, pls buy it...this will cost u every year 300 $ around 3. if u like build ur own site, and try different type of website, u can buy a host as well, I like dreamhost, but pls remember you only need spend very small $ to try one year, then u can find if build a website is really fit u...remember, if u only want have a personal blog, what u need do is goto some public blogger site to start, if u want make it more professional, reg a ur own blog name, point ur name to that ur blog on that public blogger site....in this case, u not need a host, and u enjoy a real blogging... 3. spend ur most budgeting to buy real premium name here at a reseller price....buy a name may be expensive, but remember, it is better than reg a lots of bad name, and finally struggling on renew or not.... consider u buy a good name at $800 vs reg 100 bad name, 1 good name is only spend u 8$ to renew...but u renew 100 bad name, u need spend $800 and that is every year! 4. keep ur portfolio lean...keep a small premium collection is better than own 500 bad name..and easy for you survive in this area, I know some one spend lots of $ to reg a lots of bad name, finally, they lost interesting, their name all dropped, and they never back....domaining become a failure to their life..... |
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12-15-2007, 09:17 AM
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| . .. deaol.com .. .  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Desolation Snd, B.C.
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  | I learnt this early (which beneifted me greatly) never fresh reg'd anything in the beginning (except in late 90s), bought generic .coms. Kept my portfolio under 100. 80% of my domains were strong generic keyword .coms (for quite awhile) After a few good sales, I registered and developed many new/or dropped names (experimental), which in turn, sold many of those for very good profit. I am still learning, and if I get the time I hope to develop more of my high traffic .coms. I found development is were it is at (for me at least) Great advice Zilla  |
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12-15-2007, 09:38 AM
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| Senior Member  Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Upstate NY
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12-15-2007, 06:09 PM
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| NamePros Regular Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Washington D.C.
Posts: 567
| Keeping a lean portfolio is definitely good advice. I have found that while my best ROI has come from hand regs I have been able to make more money from buying expensive names, holding them for a few months, and then either trading for better names or selling for a nice profit. |
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12-15-2007, 07:17 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Boston, MA
Posts: 1,838
| Agreed. Something that works for me is only regging a new name if I feel it is better than one I already have. Then I always try to cancel auto-renew on an old one when I reg a new one. That keeps my portfolio from growing, and gradually leads to better names.
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