Good domainer and bad domainer, which are the differences between them?

keep buying, never selling
keep dropping, never regret
keep dreaming, never awake

I think I am a bad domainer....

btw, @Russkie I like your question, I then realized I am also a bad man...

Consistent results.

My experience..good domainers stick to a budget, and bad.don't!

A good domainer takes pride in being a part of this $800 Million domaining industry and tries to keep it clean & green - would like to see the industry scale to $1Billion which will help more and more people make money, thus help more and more people to be happy with their families and life. Domainers make money the hard way and they know how to spend it the right & responsible way. They are not gamblers but a knowledge community contributing to the economy by paying tax. Long live 'The Honest Domainer'.

To exercise my English skill, I try to reversion my motto as below, better ？

A Bad Domainer

keep buying, never selling.
keep dropping, never holding.
keep dreaming, never ending.

To me, a bad domainer is some one who thinks 'SearchEngine.com' is more valuable than 'Google.com.' Where imagination has given way to boring mechanics and defeated resignation. The fact of the matter is, there is no magic formula to this game. If you don't have any marketing or conceptualization skills, stick to the dictionary-word .com's and sling geo domains to plumbers. Personally, it's not my idea of a good time.

If you have a brain...do your research and set the bar high.

Zilla said:

keep buying, never selling
keep dropping, never regret
keep dreaming, never awake

I think I am a bad domainer.... WRONG!!!

btw, @Russkie I like your question, I then realized I am also a bad man...

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keep buying, never selling = @wakguano
keep dropping, never regret = @wakguano
keep dreaming, never awake = @wakguano

i am the baddest ...

Good domainers are organized. Bad ones hardly.
All good domainers are orgnizaed, but not all organized domainers are good!

This thread has generated lots of insightful answers. Here is my attempt....

A good domainer is informed, professional in all dealings, reflective about their domain activity, and reasonable about expectations (i.e uses evidence in setting prices and knows about typical sell through rates). Beyond that they regularly try to make the domain business better, for example by helping others, encouraging the highest ethical standards, and being innovative in how to promote use of domain names. I agree that most successful domainers will be organized, disciplined, hard working and will invest for the most part in niches they know. They also legitimately believe in the power of good domain names.

A bad domainer? I would say they have low ethical standards and shady practices, and/or are unprofessional and simply rude. The bad domainer hurts us all by shaking trust in dealing with domainers.

I would not be as judgemental as to call them bad, but I feel badly for those who come into this with unreasonable expectations re how easy it is to flip domains for profit, and those who can't control urges to invest more than they can afford to potentially lose. But they are not bad, and most of us were there once to varying degrees.

Have a good day everyone.

Bob

Nice topic but the title is quite confusing.

DomainGuy86 said:

To me, a bad domainer is some one who thinks 'SearchEngine.com' is more valuable than 'Google.com.' Where imagination has given way to boring mechanics and defeated resignation. The fact of the matter is, there is no magic formula to this game. If you don't have any marketing or conceptualization skills, stick to the dictionary-word .com's and sling geo domains to plumbers. Personally, it's not my idea of a good time.

If you have a brain...do your research and set the bar high.

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You have a lot to learn about domains!

there is no good domainer or bad domainer! biz are biz, some loose and some not! and some make profit more than average! but I do believe that good businessman always have patience! once they know what to do! they will scale the hell out! but before they know whats going on! they learn and wait! afterall PIG get slaughter!

Bad domainers, usually:

1. Speak mostly about themselves and about their past success ... what was 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, before internet era, etc. Also they boast about sales which can not be verified, or about sales which they still plan to make
2. Will never write any good or useful information for others
3. Have inflated ego, and are usually very argumentative
4. Speak total nonsense
5. You can not see their portfolio, their "valuable portfolio" is well hidden. Or you see their portfolio and it is full of crap.
6. As a result of all this, such people have no money coming from domain investments, and are massively loosing their money...which is sad...

Good domainers, usually:
1. Write something useful to others and are trying to be helpful
2. Are not too harsh to others - if you are doing well, you do not feel urgency to be harsh ... if you are not doing well, you usually say statements as "no sugar coating needed" ...and simply hurt others.
3. Might have ego, but logical reasoning prevails (in most cases)
4. You can see their portfolios and those portfolios contain at least some good domain names
5. Do not sell their domains for low prices

Many people here at Namepros are kind of mix of good and bad domainers, imo.

good domainer: learns and adopts
bad domainer: does not learn from past mistakes.

"distinguishes" is that Indian word?

a good domainer, does their own research

while a bad domainer, wants to be spoon fed

a good domainer, will raise the question

while a bad domainer, will be afraid... to question.

a good domainer, will always try be professional

and....a bad domainer,
can truly ruin the profession.

puff puff.... ahhh



imo...

lolwarrior said:

Bad domainers, usually:

1. Speak mostly about themselves and about their past success ... what was 10 years ago, 20 years ago, 30 years ago, before internet era, etc. Also they boast about sales which can not be verified, or about sales which they still plan to make

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Lol I know who you're mentioning here and I agree

creataweb said:

Lol I know who you're mentioning here and I agree

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Multiple cases of jealousy coming out of the woodwork.

Yes you're right Mr man sir. So jealous of a man who has had next to zero sales

creataweb said:

Yes you're right Mr man sir. So jealous of a man who has had next to zero sales

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Not talking about me, referring to attacks by “lolwarrior” against those successful in .com extension. He is wasting his time with his new tld only nonsensecal posts.You think he has made a profit in domains??

topdom said:

I'm a good domainer, and I can't make profit. So maybe a bad domainer is one who makes profit.

A good domainer buys a domain which can sell for 1000, but to raise cash drops the price to 100, and sells one of such names this way, and all the rest need to be dropped.

A bad domainer buys lots of stupid domains, but also some ok ones, and asking price unrealistically varies from 10K to 1M, and doesn't realize that once a buyer is lost, noone else will buy the domain, and insists on the price at all costs. Then an enduser comes and want to get a good deal on one of these names, but there is no room for negotiation, and this makes the buyer more desparate. And the bad domainer raises the price a little bit more, and the enduser buys in panic. This arrogance continues as long as luck continues.

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Trying to sell overpriced domains is a big mistake. But being firm on a reasonable price is a must. If you lower the price as the buyer wants, buyer will less likely buy it. If you raise the price a bit, buy will want more to buy it. will likely buy at a later date after he reasoned. Buying easily is not a success. Buyer will feel success and proud if he could barely buy something.

johnnie018 said:

Not talking about me, referring to attacks by “lolwarrior” against those successful in .com extension. He is wasting his time with his new tld only nonsensecal posts.You think he has made a profit in domains??

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My mistake then. Thought you meant something else.

I am bad domainer,

Now what?

Am I getting banned?

Does it's going to stop me selling my crap .com for $$$$

Njtnelav said:

What distinguishes a good domainer from a bad one? What does one that the other doesn't?

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Timing.