discuss 2 Years as a domainer no sale.

Quality > quantity.
Newcomers often waste hundreds if not thousands of dollars in the purchase and renewal of dozens of domains.
In hindsight they could have bought just a few domains, but quality ones. Then you have much higher odds of selling, and minimal renewal costs.
Making sales just depends on having adequate inventory. It doesn't take any sales skills in particular. If you have good names, buyers will come straight to you and you take it from there. If you never receive inquiries in years it's not a good sign.

I did a humbling expirenment last summer. I purposely let 200 domains drop just to see what would happen. To my surprise.

200 DNs dropped
75 got hand rigged
6 got developed

all of that happened within a 4 month span

ctmixing said:

Don't get discouraged. Whatever domain names you buy, register them for 3 years at a time.

When I first started out I bought over 1,000 domains. I listed them on tons of platforms and I barely got any buzz. I let hundreds of them drop.

I forgot that I Iisted alot of them on Afternic and never deleted them. I checked my email a few days ago and I got a sh*t ton of price request from buyers.

To bad I let those names go years ago

moral of the story. hold onto your sh*t because you never never know!

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Thanks for the valuable input.

ctmixing said:

I did a humbling expirenment last summer. I purposely let 200 domains drop just to see what would happen. To my surprise.

200 DNs dropped
75 got hand rigged
6 got developed

all of that happened within a 4 month span

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"There are a lot of people who can be right, but very few can both, be right and sit tight" - Legendary Stock Trader Jesse Livermore.

Rich Trader said:

"There are a lot of people who can be right, but very few can both, be right and sit tight" - Legendary Stock Trader Jesse Livermore.

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And even few can accept not being right.

I think you need to put effort into picking names that are brandable or correctly spelt words. Those are the kind of domains we see being bought on our marketplace. Also, I noticed you don't have any landing pages or contact forms on your domains. We're a domain name parking service with a free plan that hosts up to 100 domain names if you're interested. http://domainholder.io

No disrespect...

These domains are not HODL. They aren't worth putting ANY time or effort into. Don't develop, don't build sales pages. Don't do outbound selling.

Take whatever offer you get and sell quick. Otherwise drop them - soon. If these names were stocks, you would never touch them.

Learn what kind of names are useful assets for businesses to generate CASH FLOW with. Buy and sell those.

ctmixing said:

I did a humbling expirenment last summer. I purposely let 200 domains drop just to see what would happen. To my surprise.

200 DNs dropped
75 got hand rigged
6 got developed

all of that happened within a 4 month span

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Still hard to make a conclusion.

the 75+6 maybe were ok for buyers at reg fee, but they possibly wouldn't have paid above reg fee to high $xx for them.

And you cannot sustain the business with $xx sales. An end-user has plenty of options for mediocre names.

Recons.Com said:

Still hard to make a conclusion.

the 75+6 maybe were ok for buyers at reg fee, but they possibly wouldn't have paid above reg fee to high $xx for them.

And you cannot sustain the business with $xx sales. An end-user has plenty of options for mediocre names.

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Assuming the end user would not pay above reg fee would be a stretch to say. You can not speak for another person's wallet

You have absolutely no idea what the next person is willing to pay. all you can do is make assumptions

ctmixing said:

Assuming the end user would not pay above reg fee would be a stretch to say. You can not speak for another person's wallet

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Sir, you need to pay better attention at what is written. "Possibly" means just that - one of the possibilities. So I don't need to speak for anyone.

Basically, what I was saying is that don't feel bad you let them go. Maybe they were great (I haven't seen them), maybe they got picked up because they were reg fee. Again, MAYBE. Basically, you don't have enough info for a conclusion.

Recons.Com said:

Sir, you need to pay better attention at what is written. "Possibly" means just that - one of the possibilities. So I don't need to speak for anyone.

Basically, what I was saying is that don't feel bad you let them go. Maybe they were great (I haven't seen them), maybe they got picked up because they were reg fee. Again, MAYBE. Basically, you don't have enough info for a conclusion.

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one of the .com domain names that I let go, they built a site on it. And they also bought it in 5 other extensions

That's already past $xx

Chris Wright said:

No disrespect...

These domains are not HODL. They aren't worth putting ANY time or effort into. Don't develop, don't build sales pages. Don't do outbound selling.

Take whatever offer you get and sell quick. Otherwise drop them - soon. If these names were stocks, you would never touch them.

Learn what kind of names are useful assets for businesses to generate CASH FLOW with. Buy and sell those.

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Yeah these are like penny stocks. HAHA

ctmixing said:

one of the .com domain names that I let go, they built a site on it. And they also bought it in 5 other extensions

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Again, not enough info. I have LLLL.com and I found a radio station in the US that uses that LLLL+radio dot com

I called the owner and asked her if she is interested. She bluntly said "no". I asked may I know why? She said "well, you gonna ask money for it, right?" "Yes", "then, no, I am not interested". And I was willing to let it go for quite cheap, but decided that don't have time to waste on someone that has no idea about a value of a short exact match name in dot com. And she did register her llll+radio in few extensions, though.

Recons.Com said:

Again, not enough info. I have LLLL.com and I found a radio station in the US that uses that LLLL+radio dot com

I called the owner and asked her if she is interested. She bluntly said "no". I asked may I know why? She said "well, you gonna ask money for it, right?" "Yes", "then, no, I am not interested". And I was willing to let it go for quite cheap, but decided that don't have time to waste on someone that has no idea about a value of a short exact match name in dot com. And she did register her llll+radio in few extensions, though.

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Thats a little different from my situation.

xxxxxxxx.com
xxxxxxxx.net
xxxxxxxx.co
xxxxxxxx.org
xxxxxxxx.com.au

and they hand raged my .com first. then bought the others

ctmixing said:

Thats a little different from my situation.

xxxxxxxx.com
xxxxxxxx.net
xxxxxxxx.co
xxxxxxxx.org
xxxxxxxx.com.au

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Sure. Maybe he was the buyer. But you'll never know

Recons.Com said:

Sure. Maybe he was the buyer. But you'll never know

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Exactly. Thats why I told the OP to reg. everything for 3 years+

In order to be a good domain name investor you have to know the difference between a crappy name and a good name. That way you can feel confident in every single name in your portfolio. No matter what the next person say

Names that you handregged or buy at a low price will take longer and more luck to sell or receive interest. Premium names above $500 will get you more inquiries. So if you want to flip names quickly, buy better names. It usually cost more. It's hard to find cheap good names now adays.

A single reason: these domains are crap. Drop them before the next renewal arrives.

If you can't hand register some quality ones with development/reselling potential now, save some money and invest in buying some good domains in the aftermarket.

You said someone on namepros offered you $700 for 4 of your domains, what happend to that deal, did you not take it?

Rich Trader said:

Hi, everyone. I have an offer for block1001, blockchain 1001 blockxrp and blockbth for selling at 700 should I sell?

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ctmixing said:

I did a humbling expirenment last summer. I purposely let 200 domains drop just to see what would happen. To my surprise.

200 DNs dropped
75 got hand rigged
6 got developed

all of that happened within a 4 month span

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This information seems like a vote for the names having some good utility.

I've started tracking my drops that get reg'ed, bought, or developed. Mike Mann has one of my drops listed for $50k. He's much more likely to get that price than I was.

Chris Wright said:

This information seems like a vote for the names having some good utility.

I've started tracking my drops that get reg'ed, bought, or developed. Mike Mann has one of my drops listed for $50k. He's much more likely to get that price than I was.

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You have a parking page with a BIN price, he has a parking page with a BIN price?

End user doesn't know Mike Mann from Santa Clause

Chris Wright said:

This information seems like a vote for the names having some good utility.

I've started tracking my drops that get reg'ed, bought, or developed. Mike Mann has one of my drops listed for $50k. He's much more likely to get that price than I was.

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Sometimes you have to let things go to see how the market feels about what you had. I get so many low ball offers it started to make me second guess my portfolio. Which is ultimately why I let some go.

Mike got a few of mine as well. I started pricing my portfolio on par with his. It would be a travesty for someone to tell you that he can make that kind of money for a domain name and you can't. His portfolio is good, but not not every name in there is good. If he paid for your drops, your on the right track.

Some of the names that I see him sell for $xx,xxx+ I think to myself.... If the buyer use that domain name as their business name..... customers will laugh at how stupid of a name that is. Even if it got crap ton of views, aged, so on and so forth...... the name still don't sound good. Nor is it a good name to use for a business.

To each is own though. lol

wwwweb said:

You have a parking page with a BIN price, he has a parking page with a BIN price?

End user doesn't know Mike Mann from Santa Clause

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It get's deeper than a landing page. I tested that out for 3 months and I got more emails from my whois email than I did from the email I had setup for the landing pages

This is y I luv NP! every1 iz so nice and helpful, it's a rly gud communuti with so much <3!

I als0 don't get dis!!!!!111!!!

I reggae JVisGood2019.com, and renew since 1970. But it got no offers!?!?!?!? I thot domain is like wine, age to perfection! I even list on flippa as age domain, but no one bid!!!!

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