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Maybe some members want to share their stats of portfolio and how much they earn on domains ?
I will start:
Number of domains: 79
month revenue: 90$
source: ads on developed part of domains.
 
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However creating and updating an excel table for 2k+ domains would take lots of time. Also opening a big excel file and keeping it open for hours every day, would need a powerful computer with good processing power. I too would avoid software.
I don't use Excel at all, except some export-import cases.
 
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I plan to reinvest 100% of my first sale back in to growing My Domain Collection!
 
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I have 8 now, all .com and I am three months old now in domaining. Had around 30 at the start of march, mostly mistakes in handregs so had to grace delete some, sold some in bargains( sold three 3L.ios for a loss) and had a couple of mid xxx sales so got my money back plus a profit of low xxx. I havent regd or bought any new domain in march. I have my focus now on expiry and closeouts, Hopefully I will find some good names soon.
 
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I have been domaining for 1 month now, and have 30 .com and plan to stay focused on .com only for now. I currently spend 30 mins a day domaining and plan to reininvest 50% of any sales going forward.
 
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Around 2500 - %90 hand registrations
 
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I am almost at 300 but I find that too many to properly manage. For much of my time I was around 140 and find that a nice number for me. I plan to let some drop and hopefully sell some more and hope to be maybe around 240 by end of 2019.

I get a tiny amount of revenue from a couple I have developed, but less than $20 most months in total across several sites.

Bob
 
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I am almost at 300 but I find that too many to properly manage. For much of my time I was around 140 and find that a nice number for me. I plan to let some drop and hopefully sell some more and hope to be maybe around 240 by end of 2019.

I get a tiny amount of revenue from a couple I have developed, but less than $20 most months in total across several sites.

Bob

Why is it much time to manage?

I have 9 times more, almost all of them with GD and Dyna. Once they are added to marketplaces, there is nothing else to manage, except to renew timely.
 
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Currently sitting on around 30 domains now. Used to have hundreds but let them drop. Trying to focus on long term quality with a buy and hold approach. My goal is to add a few quality domains each week and invest for the long term.
 
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Why is it much time to manage?
The simple and truthful answer probably is that I am old and inefficient :xf.eek:

But let me expand a little. I like to analyze and for each domain I consider I typically look at many factors including who would be the categories of end users, what value proposition would this name have for them, what are the close competitors, what prior similar sales (both in niche and in extension) have their been, search and advertiser statistics, automated appraisals, trends, was it held before, did it have an operating website or abuse if it was, etc. (some of my considerations in this post).

I consider carefully probably 5 to 10 names for every one I hold. Also, while I register for multiple years a few well over half of my names I only try for a single year so if my portfolio is 300 held, at least 160 are new each year, and for those 160 I analyze 800 to 1600 possibilities. It is just me :xf.wink:.

Also, I like to do a written document of key facts for each domain, and share a portion of that on marketplace listings. I am not sure if this works, it may even be negative, but it is what I do.

I plan to be more efficient, but right now I use a combination of a spreadsheet, text documents and written notes for all of this information. Not efficient! :xf.sick:

I also find the marketplace interfaces not as efficient as they could be. I find it easy and fast to put domain names up on Undeveloped, but between their verification TXT record, adding the domains, doing the category and description, and then changing the category if I hate the picture they put with the one I chose as the primary, I find Sedo really time consuming. Afternic I find a little better, but still takes time. I am surprised how many names I want to add someone has left in Afternic so I have to go through support to get them taken down so I can add them. Anyway, I rant....

But the story of why I can I think comfortably only handle less than 200 in my portfolio. Thanks for asking!

Bob
 
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Are you cash positive now?

Yes, for sure I have already crossed mid $x,xxx in the last 3 months and aiming to hit 5 figures in total sales before the end of 2019
 
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100s. $3,000 monthly on average
 
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The simple and truthful answer probably is that I am old and inefficient :xf.eek:

But let me expand a little. I like to analyze and for each domain I consider I typically look at many factors including who would be the categories of end users, what value proposition would this name have for them, what are the close competitors, what prior similar sales (both in niche and in extension) have their been, search and advertiser statistics, automated appraisals, trends, was it held before, did it have an operating website or abuse if it was, etc. (some of my considerations in this post).

I consider carefully probably 5 to 10 names for every one I hold. Also, while I register for multiple years a few well over half of my names I only try for a single year so if my portfolio is 300 held, at least 160 are new each year, and for those 160 I analyze 800 to 1600 possibilities. It is just me :xf.wink:.

Also, I like to do a written document of key facts for each domain, and share a portion of that on marketplace listings. I am not sure if this works, it may even be negative, but it is what I do.

I plan to be more efficient, but right now I use a combination of a spreadsheet, text documents and written notes for all of this information. Not efficient! :xf.sick:

I also find the marketplace interfaces not as efficient as they could be. I find it easy and fast to put domain names up on Undeveloped, but between their verification TXT record, adding the domains, doing the category and description, and then changing the category if I hate the picture they put with the one I chose as the primary, I find Sedo really time consuming. Afternic I find a little better, but still takes time. I am surprised how many names I want to add someone has left in Afternic so I have to go through support to get them taken down so I can add them. Anyway, I rant....

But the story of why I can I think comfortably only handle less than 200 in my portfolio. Thanks for asking!

Bob

Wow! Here is how I tackle all of that! If I like the name and I test that there are potential businesses for which the name would be an upgrade, I bypass lots of the other work you do. I factor in that $20x10% for the chance of missing an orange flag is not worth my time spending researching more. Because if I have to spend 20 minutes more checking this, then I am valuing my time at $6/hour. For me to engage in an activity, it must be worth $xxx/hr.

I also don't drop a lot, except for "what was I thinking" moments and adjustment for learning curve. The reason: I sold 35+ names in 2018, probably only 5 or so were 2018 reg. I just noticed that the names take some "maturing", like wine, within your portfolio for them to sell. Shifting ownership, apparently, doesn't help.

And I have consolidated 99% of my names between 2 registrars. So I bypass promos on purpose for the reason above ($ save divided by extra time = too little $/hr to bother).
 
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I have total domains 300 as of now..
growing gradually..
90% i have .COM
 
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Down this year from 400 to 300ish.

Dropped a fair amount of .info due to no interest.
Dropped a few .co.uk & .in due to no interest
Dropped all .credit due to ridiculous renewal fees
Dropped quite a few other ngtlds - I'm still a fan of these but I went a bit over the top.
 
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I have over 500 domains as of 2019. 60% acquired. 5% developed. 5% development in progress.
 
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I'm around 400, want to downsize to around 250-300 soon
 
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~150 domains. No hand regs. 25-30% .orgs (but buying more .coms lately).
 
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I had over 600+, but now I'm around 250..... I want to focus on quality and also development.
I would love to make some good sales and bring my portfolio down to 100.

The problem with a smaller portfolio is that there will be fewer sales...

I had only four sales in 2018 for a total of 43K (2 x $X,XXX, 2 x $XX,XXX), but from March to September there were no sales at all. No sales = no cash flow = no good buys == no momentum.
 
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The problem with a smaller portfolio is that there will be fewer sales...

I had only four sales in 2018 for a total of 43K (2 x $X,XXX, 2 x $XX,XXX), but from March to September there were no sales at all. No sales = no cash flow = no good buys == no momentum.

43k on 150 names is great, provided your cost per name is in xx to low xxx and it did involve extensive outbound
 
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Why do you want to know?
My wife don't even know how may names I have.
Beside 1,000 crap names is not equal to 1 good name so the question is who care?
 
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Why do you want to know?
My wife don't even know how may names I have.
Beside 1,000 crap names is not equal to 1 good name so the question is who care?

Why you want to know why he wants to know? ))

And why am I asking why you are asking?! )))
 
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I have maybe 40 domains. Sell one or two a year. Have one XXXX sale a year on average so always in profit. Spend hardly any time domaining but what I do I enjoy. Perfect for me as I don't want it to become a chore or boring. Would be nice to expand to maybe 100 names but who has the time.
 
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