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This thread is to see the point of inflection that came across in your domaining career.
As for me, I had one such AHA moment when I sold my first domain name.

After having registered like 2-5 domain names and not having any success, I turned to some more hand registrations, none of which were getting sold. I had done 2 rounds of outbound for all the domain names (there were like 20-30 leads for each of these domain names and I had spent the entire day in doing outbound) with no success. Dropped some of them after a year. It was time to either give up and try once more. I registered another set of domains - like 6 - 10 of them.

Did outbound again, after reading something here and there. This was more like spam when I look back. I reached out to like 70 odd people per domain name (even emailing the privacy protected email address, which was funny and embarrassing, given that I was already a year into the industry and couldn't identify even this). Fortunately, I received a reply from one of the end-users who agreed to purchase one of the domain names for $350. This was my AHA moment! I mean having the first sale after a year or so was a really striking part (a part of me knew that this was bound to work; another part of me was running out of patience and would have quit the business soon enough).

That one sale kept me in the domaining industry and things started to build up. I wouldn't say I did very well post that, but domaining has been my part-time income ever since and definitely helps generate some extra cash that can be used for various purposes.

I think that was a turning point in my domaining career. And it was a pretty important point to keep me in the industry in the first place.

Lesson Learnt: First you learn, then you earn! I was trying to take the shortcut route. No wonder 1 year without any success.

What's your AHA moment in your domaining career?
 
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My AHA moment was when I realized that domaining is more about buying than selling.
 
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My AHA moment was when I realized that domaining is more about buying than selling.
Deep! Exactly! That realization came to me after 3 years.
 
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When I realized my beautiful names were sh*t per market feedback.
 
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When I realized my beautiful names were sh*t per market feedback.

At least you got feedback.
Some of names are so bad *crickets* when ask :)
 
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I put my first domain in an auction, set bin about $50 because i did not know the worth. Someone immediately bought. I was very happy, this domain business is good, i will make easy money. After day another person offered $200 but it was too late. Never sell your domains without proper research.

P.S. domain was turkish translate of bitcoinnews com
 
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My AHA moment (two actually) when sold Boat .us & Horeca .tv
 
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Way back in 1997 when I started getting offers for names I did not have for sale.
 
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When I sold Symphony.com for $375,000 in 2014.
 
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my aha moment was last month funny is i listed kcf.net on namejet with 495 reserve one bidder tried to meet reserve stopped at 450 then after week name sold for 4995$ on gd
really Ahaaaa 🤣🤣
 
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My AHA moment (two actually) when sold Boat .us & Horeca .tv
When was this and how much?

Way back in 1997 when I started getting offers for names I did not have for sale.
Ohh must be amazing! What were offers like then? $200 for a 3 letter name?

When I sold Symphony.com for $375,000 in 2014.
Ahh! The sale! This is amazing! Have you done a blog post around this?

my aha moment was last month funny is i listed kcf.net on namejet with 495 reserve one bidder tried to meet reserve stopped at 450 then after week name sold for 4995$ on gd
really Ahaaaa 🤣🤣
What a luck man! How long have you been holding it? How much did you acquire it for?
 
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My Aha moment was waking up a weekend with an email by DAN that they have received the payment for MoralAi.com, which sold for 399$. That was my first ever sale back in March, 2019.
 
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My AHA moment was when I realized that domaining is more about buying than selling.
Yea that is very true indeed. I wish i knew that much earlier
 
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