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Does anybody else laugh when they see some of the prices people are asking for domains? I'm no expert, but seen some right crap on offer lately for xxxx+ Domains, I wouldn't pay x for!

Is it just me who gets a chuckle out of seeing these?
 
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FYIII

Neither I am (nP - member) "@Banned" (?) nor I am banned (?) nor I am offering "crap costing thousands" (?) because my "crap" costs more hahaha

Further I reject all wrong / exagerating / ridiculess allegations that are made against me in this (or any other) thread - but however, I can understand your reactions (because I know that some of my domaining - views / domains are "polarizing") and beside a few posts, this (and other) thread(s) is (are) amusing and I hope you all doing great and I wish you all the t*p *

* best
So, have you sold your top^63 domain?
 
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That's a great question @mayazir but let's make it easier for @DOMAIN ILLUMINATI to respond to...

Have you ever sold a .top for more than 1k ?

I understand you are banking on future value, but what about in the present, are you making any sales?

Basically all arguments are mute when one is presented with actual sales data.

So let's set our differences aside and talk about sales data, as in do you have any for .top?
 
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So, have you sold your top^63 domain?
I am sure you can find that out by your own.

That's a great question @mayazir but let's make it easier for @DOMAIN ILLUMINATI to respond to...

Have you ever sold a .top for more than 1k ?

I understand you are banking on future value, but what about in the present, are you making any sales?

Basically all arguments are mute when one is presented with actual sales data.

So let's set our differences aside and talk about sales data, as in do you have any for .top?
As I already stated in past, I decided to not publish my sales at this time.
But of course it is possible that I will change my mind, then I will publish (some or all of) them.
 
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I am sure you can find that out by your own.
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It was not question...
I know you still own it, so my question was not exactly question..
But now I want to ask you: how much you have spent on domains until now? and how much have you get from domains until now?
 
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It was not question...
I know you still own it, so my question was not exactly question..
Of course it was a question, it has a question mark.

But now I want to ask you: how much you have spent on domains until now? and how much have you get from domains until now?
I generallyyy don't share my investions / profits (exceptions possible).


But now I ask you:

Howww much have you spent on domains until now?
And howww much have you get from domains until now?

Feel free to share your investions / profits if you like.


@DOMAIN ILLUMINATI, just think how many good domain you could buy and flip instead to invest in non-sellable domains. Even you you sell them somehow, your ROI will not cover your renewals.
Guys, if you have enough money and dont know what to do with them, better pay my electricity bill instead to reg crap
@mayazir, your concerns are 100 % unnecessaryyy because I 100 % knowww what good domains are (that's why I own them), you obviouslyyy don't knowww it (that's why you don't own them).

Just think how many good domains you could buy and flip instead to "invest" in "non-sellable" - domains.
Even if you sell them somehow, it seems your ROI does not cover your electricityyy billl

Guys, if you have enough moneyyy and don't know what to do with it, better payyy @mayazir's electricityyy billl
 
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Howww much have you spent on domains until now?
And howww much have you get from domains until now?

Feel free to share your investions / profits if you like.
I did mistake not making notes of my investments in domains, but I know just 1 thing I got more than lost.
I think I waste 2k on domains since 2015, but I got at least 3,5k
I almost didnt reg nothing during last year.
 
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I did mistake not making notes of my investments in domains, but I know just 1 thing I got more than lost.
I think I waste 2k on domains since 2015, but I got at least 3,5k
I almost didnt reg nothing during last year.
Congrats that you have not made a minus in past, I wish you a high plus for future.

Maybe I made a plus of millions or even billions in past.
If not yet, then I am sure I will make such a plus in future - at least that's what I believe.

My latest domain that I have registered is
highest.plus
which is another proof that myyy domains are far awayyy from crappp
 
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Congrats that you have not made a minus in past, I wish you a high plus for future.

Maybe I made a plus of millions or even billions in past.
If not yet, then I am sure I will make such a plus in future - at least that's what I believe.

My latest domain that I have registered is
highest.plus
which is another proof that myyy domains are far awayyy from crappp
The day you sell all you great portfolio for xx,xxx dont forget rest from the sum all your xxx,xxx renewals.
 
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The day you sell all you great portfolio for xx,xxx dont forget rest from the sum all your xxx,xxx renewals.
hahaha thank you for your "advice" but better don't forget to consider that you do not knowww my portfoliooo which means that your "estimation" is nothing which could be taken serious in this context.

But regardless of this fact, you anyway just
think that you understand the value of domain names, but in fact you don't understand it (many think they understand it while the opposite is the case, so no offense), at least thats my current impression - so it doesn't mean that you won't understand it at another time.

However - I believe, that at the day on which I will sell my portfolio - or, more precisely, already just a certain domain of it - I will not be in need to reckon the cost of all renewals that I have paid because I will knowww in the same moment that they were just a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what I (will, if) have earned finallyyy
 
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hahaha thank you for your "advice" but better don't forget to consider that you do not knowww my portfoliooo which means that your "estimation" is nothing which could be taken serious in this context.

But regardless of this fact, you anyway just
think that you understand the value of domain names, but in fact you don't understand it (many think they understand it while the opposite is the case, so no offense), at least thats my current impression - so it doesn't mean that you won't understand it at another time.

However - I believe, that at the day on which I will sell my portfolio - or, more precisely, already just a certain domain of it - I will not be in need to reckon the cost of all renewals that I have paid because I will knowww in the same moment that they were just a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of what I (will, if) have earned finallyyy
The important point is not to know tha domain values, but sell it for more than you get it.
If you have a bunch of domains of which just you understand the value, they worth zero.
 
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The important point is not to know tha domain values, but sell it for more than you get it.
Believe me, it is veryyy important to knowww your domain's value.
Otherwise
you won't knowww its potential and you will sell it for the "next best offer".
If you want to make real profit, you have to avoid selling it belowww its value.
Knowing your domain's value is like knowing who you are - if you don't knowww who you are, you won't knowww the wayyy


If you have a bunch of domains of which just you understand the value, they worth zero.
First of all you have to understand the value of your domains.
If others see, that
you understand the value of your domains, they will stop whining and they will start to understand it too.
 
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Believe me, it is veryyy important to knowww your domain's value.
Otherwise
you won't knowww its potential and you will sell it for the "next best offer".
If you want to make real profit, you have to avoid selling it belowww its value.
Knowing your domain's value is like knowing who you are - if you don't knowww who you are, you won't knowww the wayyy


First of all you have to understand the value of your domains.
If others see, that
you understand the value of your domains, they will stop whining and they will start to understand it too.
Listen, millionaire, you really think all domainer have money for endless renewals waiting the right buyer?
If for you domains are collection and you have money, so it has nothing to see with domaining...
If I have the domain name which worth ... lets say, 10k.. and everybody says it worth 10k for the right buyer...
but no one of these "pro" domainers is ready to buy this domain from me... so I can keep it months, years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, mention it in my last will etc..
So I pay this great 10k domain 20 years, in total 200$ and then I find the right buyer and sell it for 10k.
Great, I get 9800$, but... this is the income of 20 years investment, it is mean I get just $41 for each month I was keeping this great domain...
Ooops! But I can reg 20 expired domains each month, waste as mush 200$ and then sell each one for at least $30 (even if you tell they worth $1k ea) and get $200 extra each month without sit on 1 domain waiting for the right buyer...
Hm.. but you cant sit just on ONE domain, even it is a very potential domain, you need more domains.
So, you dont just pay $10 renewal but at least $10 x20 domains =$200
If you dont know what to do with your money, better pay my electricity bill.. I am not joking... at least you will waste money on something worth that "great" non-sellable domains...
 
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To ”understand a value of a name”, but never get offers close of that price range for years, could indicate that you haven’t understood the value of your name. Or, you are just unlucky. ;)

More important, if a number of really experienced and hopefully unbiased domainers disagree on the value of your name, this is a huge indication that you have overestimated it.
 
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Listen, millionaire, you really think all domainer have money for endless renewals waiting the right buyer?
If for you domains are collection and you have money, so it has nothing to see with domaining...
If I have the domain name which worth ... lets say, 10k.. and everybody says it worth 10k for the right buyer...
but no one of these "pro" domainers is ready to buy this domain from me... so I can keep it months, years, 5 years, 10 years, 20 years, mention it in my last will etc..
So I pay this great 10k domain 20 years, in total 200$ and then I find the right buyer and sell it for 10k.
Great, I get 9800$, but... this is the income of 20 years investment, it is mean I get just $41 for each month I was keeping this great domain...
Ooops! But I can reg 20 expired domains each month, waste as mush 200$ and then sell each one for at least $30 (even if you tell they worth $1k ea) and get $200 extra each month without sit on 1 domain waiting for the right buyer...
Hm.. but you cant sit just on ONE domain, even it is a very potential domain, you need more domains.
So, you dont just pay $10 renewal but at least $10 x20 domains =$200
If you dont know what to do with your money, better pay my electricity bill.. I am not joking... at least you will waste money on something worth that "great" non-sellable domains...
Listen, expert - what let you think that I am a millionaire?
Maybe I am a billionaire???
Maybe I am a poor student???
You don't knowww how rich or poor I am...

I understand your reckon - example very well - but that's simply not the way how I do domaining.
I see money that I have used for renewals never as a loss - no matter how long I will hold the domain name - and, yes - also no matter if I will sell it or not - because I anywayyy received something for my money - no matter if I will sell it or not:
The chance to make profit.
Everything above that (bought / paid) chance is a gift.

So also if you have not sold your domain names after 1 / 2 / 3 / ... year/s, you can not say that you have made a losss
Because you had 1 / 2 / 3 / ... year/s the guaranteed chance that someone will buy it - while another person had this chance not, for 1 / 2 / 3 / ... year/s... ...but you had it.

So at the end, your renewal - payment/s is / are never a losss
You were "using" this chance for
1 / 2 / 3 / ... year/s - thats what you have paid for.
You have not paid for a "guarantee to sell it", you paid for the "chance to sell it".

I simply will never see any gone money that I was paying for renewals as a loss.

If you know the value = potential of your domain name/s, you will decide how long you will renew it / them.

The point is, that I simply know the value of my domain/s - because I know who I am.
However this sounds, there is indeed a truth behind it.
That's also the reason why I absolutely know what I do with my moneyyy

If you don't know what you should do with your money, then you could save it for your future - electricity bills or you you could buy some solar panels to produce your own electricityyy
I don't recommend you to buy domain names.

If you see value in your domain/s, you will renew it / them - simple as that.
The higher the value you see in it / them, the higher will be your will to renew it / them, means the higher will be your effort to have the money for the renewal/s readyyy

If you are 100 % sure that you have the right domain name you will wait for the right offer.
For a certain domain I can wait.
1 / 2 / 3 year/s... ...10 / 20 / 30 years... ...my whole life, no problem.
I will even set it up in my testament if neccessaryyy
The higehr the value, the higher the price - and the higher the possibility that no one can buyyy / payyy it.
 
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To ”understand a value of a name”, but never get offers close of that price range for years, could indicate that you haven’t understood the value of your name. Or, you are just unlucky. ;)
You do not knowww the price range of the offers I got or get - but you think you do, this indicates that you don't understand the value of my domain name.
In other words, you are clueless about its value.


More important, if a number of really experienced and hopefully unbiased domainers disagree on the value of your name, this is a huge indication that you have overestimated it.
As the reallyyy experienced and unbiased domainer, I fortunatelyyy realized, that I unfortunatelyyy have to disagree on the "evaluation" of so called "experienced and hopefully unbiased domainers" - a huge indication that they have underestimated it.
 
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If I don't sell enough domains to pay for my renewals, new registrations, and everything else I pay for when running my domain business on an annual basis. I make a loss :( I've just realized where I am going wrong. If ran my accounting on all registrations/renewals are investments, I'd feel much better, as a millionaire :)
 
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You do not knowww the price range of the offers I got or get - but you think you do, this indicates that you don't understand the value of my domain name.
In other words, you are clueless about its value.



As the reallyyy experienced and unbiased domainer, I fortunatelyyy realized, that I unfortunatelyyy have to disagree on the "evaluation" of so called "experienced and hopefully unbiased domainers" - a huge indication that they have underestimated it.

My post was a general one about domain overvaluation. But ok, I am 100% sure your name (that you have been posting about here for a few years) falls into that category too. ;)

The estimated value of a domain name is measured by previous similar sales, no (so much) someone’s dreams or hope.
 
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If I don't sell enough domains to pay for my renewals, new registrations, and everything else I pay for when running my domain business on an annual basis. I make a loss :( I've just realized where I am going wrong. If ran my accounting on all registrations/renewals are investments, I'd feel much better, as a millionaire :)
The domain business should never ba a "hamster wheel".
 
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My post was a general one about domain overvaluation. But ok, I am 100% sure your name (that you have been posting about here for a few years) falls into that category too. ;)

The estimated value of a domain name is measured by previous similar sales, no (so much) someone’s dreams or hope.
And my post (at least the second part of it) was a general one about domain undervaluation.
So you can 100 % be sure that the domain you are referring too falls into that categoryyy

Sometimes the estimated value of a domain name can not be measured by "previous similar sales", as it is possible that there are no similar domain names - and therefore no similar sales.
It is historicallyyy proven that something must be the first of its kind in the beginning.
What may look (so much) as someone’s dreams or hope, can in fact be the realityyy
 
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Lol Mapledots, you knew you did little wrong thing, but you still did it - we have some common features I see :)

But seriously, I hate discouraging or putting down another members (the following remark is general, it is not pointed towards you ) .. it is my observation that if one have a need to criticize or discourage or laught on others, it is usually a sign that one is not satisfied with himself/herself..if you are happy, you like others to be happy as well.

I would be also very careful to listen "experts" here: for example, I remember year ago or so, there was a member with veeeery long .top domain name, I am sure everyone knows who I am speaking about...he got lot of heat for his passion for .top, and we now learn that this extension sells surprisingly well in China for large amounts of money almost every day (check namebio). I have not read one comment here which would indicate such development, only this member was basically spot on...
I remember that guy DOMAINILLUMINATI . I had to defend that guy since some members on here were acting like teenage girls you see you TV like NamePros is Disney channel or something. It's a shame but everyone always kicks out the the free thinkers so the masses can continue to think the same... It's a shame for the masses ;)

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If I don't sell enough domains to pay for my renewals, new registrations, and everything else I pay for when running my domain business on an annual basis. I make a loss :( I've just realized where I am going wrong. If ran my accounting on all registrations/renewals are investments, I'd feel much better, as a millionaire :)

Maybe the bank will give me loan against my investments :)
 
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I get a little chuckle to or more an adreniline rush when I see people buying domains for $99c and selling them for $10 but worth thousands.
eg DealerBet
 
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Go through DNprices and if you could get half the money again that some have paid for their domains you would be a god. The price is irrelevant half the time it is a supply and demand issue. End users are not domainers but they are the ones setting the benchmark on keyword prices. Domainers need to be the observers. Everytime a non domainer end user buys a name he sets a precedent on the keywords value. Chuckle or laugh out loud you can see for yourself the sale prices of domains bought by non domain experts are the ones driving the prices.
 
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