Thanks Ollie....appreciate your input. I have slightly over $1,000 tied up in approximately 300 gTLD's, so when it comes time to renew, I don't know exactly what to expect. I'm really new to this game, and at 70 years
old young, I'm really not worried about it. I do know my wife and I budget about 24K a year for travel and pleasure, and I also have a rainy day fund that has more than a few dollars that could be used if necessary. Frankly, even if I don't sell a single domain this is probably the cheapest hobby I've ever had. I golf, I ski, I fish offshore, I travel, and I'm pretty sure all of those hobby's cost a lot more than this one
Frankly I feel like I've died and gone to heaven
You ask, "what is your plan for selling them"? What I can tell you Ollie is that it's
NOT the same plan used by most domainers and in particular members of NamePro's. It's been said here many times that end users are "confused" when they see these domains
I agree, but I also know because of my own personal experience, some end users are curious as well. I also know that I haven't been approached even "once" about any of these domains, and I'm still actively involved as an owner or partner in three different businesses today. I've also discovered that GoDaddy's .com equivalent appraisals are on average 2,000 times greater than what I paid for my gTLD's. That's right....take the domain that I bought this am, think.click. GD's appraisal for think.com is > $25,000. In the case of my gTLD domain that was 4.99, the equivalent .com domain at GD is 5,000 times greater. Does this sound unbelievable to you? To show you how absurd this is, let me share with you an analogy using real estate as an example. Lets say that someone lives in a four bedroom luxury home in and upscale neighborhood that appraises for 1M dollars, then lets say another individual lives in a 4 bedroom home in a middle class neighborhood that appraises for 500K, finally lets say someone lives in a 4 bedroom home in a low class neighborhood that appraises for 125K. In this scenario the cheapest home in town that's worth just 125K is worth just 12.5% of the 1M home. Follow me? The way I figure, think.click that I paid 4.99 for should be worth a minimum of 12.5% of the $25,000 that GD appraises think.com for or,
$3,125.
As for the hyphen in Cha-Ching.today that I paid just 1.99 for, I could have bought ChaChing.today, but a Google search shows the hyphen more often than not. I don't know about you, I think it's way more appealing to the eye with the hyphen than without.
Thanks again Ollie and Good Luck!
Bulloney
