discuss $1 .Realty Domain Sale - Marketing ideas

Been overloaded with my other project and dealing with my elderly father so way behind with my dot Realty efforts.

But, just received my first serious inbound inquiry for one of my top Realty domains.

Of course it's one I was considering developing ha.

I'll post more as I know more.

Thanks for your post Brad....other than the two domains I am developing and buying; BroadBay.Realty and BroadBayRealty.com I'm still accumulating. As of this am I own 718 .realty and 41 xxxxxRealty.com domains. There are still some pretty good names still unregistered...a few minutes ago I registered, Rocker.realty and if you go to RockerRealty.com you might understand why I own Rocker.realty.....hint, it has nothing to do with a rocking chair

On another note, about half of my .realty domains identify a town, city, community or a neighborhood. With most everything about real estate being "LOCAL", i've discovered there are hundreds to thousands of unregistered domains for neighborhoods/communities like the one where I've lived for over 40 years.

Part of my "outbound" marketing strategy is to "bundle" .realty domains representing regions/counties and sell them to large Real Estate Companies like Century21 or ReMax to give to their agents who "specialize" in certain neighborhoods/communities.

That's about all for now and thanks again Brad

Go .Realty

BradWilson said:

Been overloaded with my other project and dealing with my elderly father so way behind with my dot Realty efforts.

But, just received my first serious inbound inquiry for one of my top Realty domains.

Of course it's one I was considering developing ha.

I'll post more as I know more.

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Brad...despite Covid, real estate is actually doing pretty good especially in the south and in particular Florida where I intend to focus a lot of my "outbound" marketing efforts.

According to the nTLD stats .realty is only adding about 50 new registrations a day and today for example I added another 18 domains;

Boxer.Realty
Beagle.Realty
Striker.Realty
Acer.Realty
Collaboration.Realty
LandBank.Realty
Zax.Realty
GenX.Realty
GenY.Realty
Blueberry.Realty
VirtualView.Realty
Parkview.Realty
Ynot.Realty
FrogPond.Realty
PleasureHouse.Realty
Pier1.Realty
Amigos.Realty
FastTrack.Realty

For three of the above domains I also picked up the .com equivalent like BoxerRealty.com etc.

Something else I'll also share is that these domains won't sell themselves. By that i mean just having a landing page and hoping and praying they'll sell on their own That's not to say I'm not gradually building my landing pages, but if you go to Alvin Browns KickStartCommerce.com site and listen to a podcast interview he did last month with Jason Eisner and Yogi Solanki, you can learn how to "outbound" your own .realty domains. It's not for everyone, but I can assure you it will work if you give it your ALL

Go .Realty

ThatNameGuy said:

Welcome to the domain biz...SouthJersey.realty is a good name, and your English is good too. I'm not sure if you mean letters or emails or both, but I'm currently working on a few that should be ready in about 30 days. I'm still accumulating .realty domains and just picked up; GoLo.realty, GoLow.realty and the equivalent .com's to go with them.

Ironically I've spent a lot of time at the Jersey Shore and I'd say to pick up JerseyShore.realty, but sadly someone already owns it. Good Luck!

Go .Realty

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@ThatNameGuy Trust you're doing great.

Just following up on this, please are you still working on it?

Good to see you're still registering more.

Boniface chuks said:

@ThatNameGuy Trust you're doing great.

Just following up on this, please are you still working on it?

Good to see you're still registering more.

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I'm doing good chuks, and thanks for asking. It seems I'll be working with real estate and domains for many years to come. Why? I luv it

Already this am I registered;

HappyHomes.Realty
and
Beneficial.Realty

A couple of things I'll share about each of these domains;

HappyHomesRealty.com appraises at GD for $1,693 and they're asking $3,295 for it. Thus I plan on using this info to help sell HappyHomes.Realty for $875. I also noticed when Googling "Happy Homes Realty" there are other companies that use "Happy Homes" as part of their brand.

As for Beneficial.Realty, I recall there being a "Beneficial Finance" that was a large National loan business so I was a little surprised to find it was available to hand register. BeneficialRealty.com appraises at GD for $1,808 and is in use by a full service California Real Estate company so I may go to them before I showcase it to someone else.

Also, and I'm not sure what this means, but Epik provides the following stats for Beneficial Realty;

Avg Search Results (keyword):993

Avg Search Results (sld):100,000,000

I just know enough that 100M of anything has to be good. Anyone who can decipher or add value here, I would appreciate it. Thanks

BradWilson said:

Been overloaded with my other project and dealing with my elderly father so way behind with my dot Realty efforts.

But, just received my first serious inbound inquiry for one of my top Realty domains.

Of course it's one I was considering developing ha.

I'll post more as I know more.

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Awesome, good luck!

ThatNameGuy said:

Also, and I'm not sure what this means, but Epik provides the following stats for Beneficial Realty;

Avg Search Results (keyword):993

Avg Search Results (sld):100,000,000

I just know enough that 100M of anything has to be good. Anyone who can decipher or add value here, I would appreciate it. Thanks

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Well since you asked...

SLD means Second Level Domain and in this case the word Beneficial is a very common and valuable word.

Got more to say but can't gotta run.

BradWilson said:

Well since you asked...

SLD means second level domain, and in this case the word Beneficial is a very common and valuable word.

Got more to say but can't gotta run.

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Thanks Brad...can't wait to hear more....i owe you Another thought, if a name like this were to generate a few leads a year and only one resulted in a sale, it would more than pay for itself. Make sense?

RogueWriter said:

Awesome, good luck!

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Hope you're doing well, and in the way of an update for .Realty, as of today there have been 17,671 domains registered, but just 614 domains in the last 12 days for an "average" of about 50 new names a day.

To show there are still decent names left to register at .99 cents each, I registered the following this am:

Democracy.realty
Salvation.realty
LBGTQ.realty
HOBO.realty
SeaGull.realty
Windfall.realty
TQM.realty (TQM means Total Quality Management - perfect for a property manager)

I can't tell you how much fun it's been accumulating these .realty domains, but the real fun will start when we start selling them to realtors as lead generators that will result in more sales. Just one additional sale a year will more than justify purchase and renewal......stay tuned.

Go .Realty

ThatNameGuy said:

I can't tell you how much fun it's been accumulating these .realty domains, but the real fun will start when we start selling them to realtors as lead generators that will result in more sales.

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How are the names going to generate leads? Are you going to be developing them?

Joe Nichols said:

How are the names going to generate leads? Are you going to be developing them?

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Joe...sorry you weren't able to hold on to Nichols.realty It would have been a perfect domain if you were to ever get into the real estate business. As for how the .realty domains are to generate leads, my technical partner assures me they will, especially with a generic (developed) website that compliments every domain.

Here's a few more domains I registered while drinking beer and watching football this afternoon;

Ganja.realty
Bhang.realty
Reason.realty
Horseshoe.realty
Crusade.realty

Joe, considering the fact that 35% of all the real estate companies names in America end with the keyword "realty", .realty for .99 cents sure as hell beats the lottery

Go .Realty

ThatNameGuy said:

As for how the .realty domains are to generate leads, my technical partner assures me they will, especially with a generic (developed) website that compliments every domain.

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You're putting a generic landing page on each domain? And that's going to generate leads specific to each name?

Joe Nichols said:

You're putting a generic landing page on each domain? And that's going to generate leads specific to each name?

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Oh....did i say it's a landing page

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ThatNameGuy said:

Oh....did i say it's a landing page

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You said generic website. Did you mean customized for each domain?

Joe Nichols said:

You said generic website. Did you mean customized for each domain?

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Do you understand the term "cookie cutter"? You can fill in the blanks, but in the interim I picked up;

Cadet.realty
Pepper.realty
Gump.realty

Two of the three, CadetRealty.com and PepperRealty.com are already spoken for, but Forrest's GumpRealty.com is available

Go .Realty

ThatNameGuy said:

Do you understand the term "cookie cutter"?

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No, can you explain it? And how it will generate leads?

Joe Nichols said:

No, can you explain it? And how it will generate leads?

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Any "Common Sense Consultant" can fill in the blanks. Give it a try Joe

Go .Realty

ps. that's all for me this evening. Thanks again for all your support and encouragement.

ThatNameGuy said:

Any "Common Sense Consultant" can fill in the blanks. Give it a try Joe

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So you don't know how the sites will generate leads.

Joe Nichols said:

So you don't know how the sites will generate leads.

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You might want to ask your buddy Brad....he seems to be interested too Just picked up;

Cougar.realty
MILF.realty
ProTeam.realty

Gobble! Gobble!

ThatNameGuy said:

You might want to ask your buddy Brad....he seems to be interested too.

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That's ok. Just wanted to make sure that no one is misled into thinking that a domain name on its own can generate leads unless it has a lot of existing type-in traffic (either due to it being a premium name, or to a past website having operated on the name).

Development of a name can certainly generate leads over time, but I think you'll be hard-pressed to get any with a cookie cutter site on a ngTLD extension.

It sounded like you had information that suggested otherwise, so I was curious to discuss and learn. But you don't seem to know anything about it, and opted to shut down the conversation to save face.

I get it. But it's important that new members have all the information.

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Joe...and not for anyone to be "misled" by your comments, here are the EXACT words from a PM sent to me by a well respected member of NP since 2005 after one of your recent posts;

"Don't let Joe Nichols distract you, he is trolling, imo. Unless I am misreading him, he will never believe in your project, and the last thing you need is someone that offers no value to the project pulling you down. You have nothing to prove to him, just work on developing a corporate portal for your business; do your thing. I am looking forward to seeing what you do with this!"

I needn't say much more Joe, but since registering the three .Realty domains mentioned earlier, I was talking to a buddy of mine who has a very successful photography business, and a lot of his photography is of homes and property for realtors throughout Virginia. After our conversation i checked to see if I could buy the domain(s) Photo.realty or Photography.realty, but sadly they were both registered. Not to be deterred I was able to purchase SnapShot.Realty for my friend as an example of what I'm capable of doing.

Joe, it's my opinion if there's anyone misleading anyone here you just need look in the mirror, and the same thing goes for Brad.

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The member you were talking to is very insightful, although I've never made an effort to hide my skepticism in any of your projects. You self-promote far too much, and many of your posts could be damaging for newer members who may be misled into thinking that you've had success in selling domains using your methods.

My goal isn't to troll you, Rich. I'm sorry if you feel targeted, but I'm not the one who has been restricted or suspended on this forum several times because of my behaviour.

As much as I wish you great success in any of the many projects you have undertaken, I also am not going to show blind faith in your words. My goal here is to help generate meaningful discussion that we can all learn from.

New domainers come to this forum to learn from more experienced members of the community. If you're going to present yourself as such then you need to be prepared to share everything about your experience, both positive and negative. And along with sharing successes, you need to also share when you're just trying something out even though you have no idea of its merits.

I hope you checked with that member before sharing their personal comments with the whole forum. I'd be pretty annoyed if I were them.

ThatNameGuy said:

I don't know who you think you're talking to Joe Nichols, but your unmitigated accusations and insinuations are uncalled for. I started this thread titled;

$1 .Realty Domain Sale - Marketing ideas

a few months ago because I believed it to be one hell of an opportunity for anyone with a modicum of "common sense" as you claim to have. There are over a million realtors/agents in the US alone all of whom have a domain or need a domain. In addition there are tens of thousands of agents getting their license every year and they all need a domain. I've shared information like 30% of domain names for realtor/agents have "realty" in their names like NicholsRealty.com and regardless of what anyone says, Nichols.Realty is shorter and more direct than the .com equivalent.

Furthermore I've gone on to say that typical domains are way overpriced for the average consumer, and that buy, hold and hoard isn't the way to make money with .Realty. I'm a visionary Joe, and if sharing my vision and my successful business experience and background offends you, I'd suggest you stop wasting your, mine and everyone else's time with your opinion and conjecture.

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I just wanted to know more about how your generic sites were going to generate leads. If you don't know, that's fine. No need to start hurling insults at me. Just say, "I don't know."

Thanks Joe....here's EXACTLY what i told you; "As for how the .realty domains are to generate leads, my technical partner assures me they will, especially with a generic (developed) website that compliments every domain."

I know you know I'm on to something Joe, thus I registered another 16 .realty domains a few minutes ago just for you and Brad;

CrossRoad.realty
Roar.realty
Sox.realty
Cubs.realty
Braves.realty
Raider.realty
Oiler.realty
Charger.realty
Hornet.realty
Dodger.realty
Reds.realty
Padres.realty
Giants.realty
Blazer.realty
Piston.realty
Lakers.realty

Go .Realty

ThatNameGuy said:

Thanks Joe....here's EXACTLY what i told you; "As for how the .realty domains are to generate leads, my technical partner assures me they will, especially with a generic (developed) website that compliments every domain."

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I remembered what you said. It's just that people don't find or visit websites simply because they've been built.

Did you ask your technical partner how people will find the sites? There won't be any type-in traffic, and it'll be difficult for them to rank on Google without good content and quality backlinks.

I'm not sure who you're working with, but if you're having to pay for the technical services then I would be a bit cautious. I suspect there are a lot of "developers" who have no problem taking money to throw up cookie cutter websites. But they should have some kind of strategy for actually driving traffic to the pages.

Joe Nichols said:

I remembered what you said. It's just that people don't find or visit websites simply because they've been built.

Did you ask your technical partner how people will find the sites? There won't be any type-in traffic, and it'll be difficult for them to rank on Google without good content and quality backlinks.

I'm not sure who you're working with, but if you're having to pay for the technical services then I would be a bit cautious. I suspect there are a lot of "developers" who have no problem taking money to throw up cookie cutter websites. But they should have some kind of strategy for actually driving traffic to the pages.

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I don't pay any technical people upfront Joe, so no real need to be cautious. This is where my background and practical business experience comes into play. Note that I said, if even "one" sale a year resulted, the domain and annual renewal fee would be justified. With the "average" existing home price in the US being $295,300 and the "average" realtors commission being 5%, a commission of $14,765 will result. This is if the realtor represents both the buyer and the seller, however if the realtor only represents one or the other their fee would be $7,382.50.

Joe....you really do bring out the best in me....after reading your post I registered Monetizing.realty. I'm sure you have no idea why, but I'll give you a hint by saying, it's NOT for sale

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