Small Portfolio Ye or Nay

Without knowing the domains, its hard to agree or disagree on the quality. A year is a bit long, but remember, many ultra premium domains sit for years awaiting the right buyer.

The lack of sales could indicate your prices are high, visibility is low, or that the domains are decent but not great.

Patience is key. Particularly with passive selling (just listing them and waiting).

I was racking my brain and went on a futile search of an investor who keeps an extremely small portfolio size of 15 or maybe 30 domains. Was sure it was an article here on NP. It was a good example of very high quality names that puts one into a position of years of sustainability with just one sale, and as Silent suggested, await the right buyer for the rest. If anyone happens to come across the article please post here..

I think you can succeed with a small portfolio; especially managing it, but the quality and desirability of the names must have no margin of error. Meaning you could be sitting on a pile of duds without ever knowing it. A year with no sale might be a good time to re-evaluate your names, maybe give them exposure to get a proper feel outside your own.

Even with truly great names, sometimes the right buyer doesn't know he's it until presented the option.

Some great posts in this related thread:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/is...domainer-with-a-very-small-portfolio.1164717/7/

Thank you @Silentptnr and @HotKey for your detailed responses. Much appreciated.

The wonderful thing about domaining is that you can do so at your own pace, and size your portfolio based on your budget and propensity to risk. A domainer with 20 names could end up doing better than a domainer with 2,000 names.

Keep renewal fees in mind and remember that the best domain sales often come from holding a name for years (sometimes decades) until the right buyer manifests. Renewals are the biggest killer of the new domainer's dreams. I do not recommend buying names for the sole reason of increasing your portfolio size. Buy only when you come across a name that you love at a reasonable reseller price. Focus on quality and getting the best names within your budget.

Winterburn said:

However, most of my names are strong (as they are in BB, SH etc.).

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Hi

IF..... and that's a BIG IF, you consider you domains being "strong", simply because they are listed on bb, sh, etc...
then that is a false premise to start with.

imo...

A small portfolio needs a super premium names to be profitable. Example (the names are randomly selected):
Tornado.com
WhiteKnight.com
GreenLeaf.com
Cancer.info
Super.org
Cocktail.com
Fishing.net

It's a small folio, but super profitable, because of the quality names. Having a small bunch of marginal names, you just don't have any selling potential and additionally you lose time waiting for utopian sales.

RJ said:

The wonderful thing about domaining is that you can do so at your own pace, and size your portfolio based on your budget and propensity to risk. A domainer with 20 names could end up doing better than a domainer with 2,000 names.

Keep renewal fees in mind and remember that the best domain sales often come from holding a name for years (sometimes decades) until the right buyer manifests. Renewals are the biggest killer of the new domainer's dreams. I do not recommend buying names for the sole reason of increasing your portfolio size. Buy only when you come across a name that you love at a reasonable reseller price. Focus on quality and getting the best names within your budget.

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So let's say someone had $100K to invest in domains. Rather than having a giant portfolio with 2,000 domain names with renewal fees, they could technically invest in one really banger $100K domain and wait however many years for the right buyer. Focus on quality, right? Does that make sense?

sansmidman said:

So let's say someone had $100K to invest in domains. Rather than having a giant portfolio with 2,000 domain names with renewal fees, they could technically invest in one really banger $100K domain and wait however many years for the right buyer. Focus on quality, right? Does that make sense?

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Absolutely. That 100k domain could be flipped for 500k hypothetically, and do better than the 2,000 domain portfolio.

RJ said:

Absolutely. That 100k domain could be flipped for 500k hypothetically, and do better than the 2,000 domain portfolio.

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straight from the horses mouth. Thank you RJ. You have changed my future choices.