Back in my day (), beginners didn’t have the money or didn’t want to spend the money it takes to buy a solid one word or two-word dot com. Instead, they hand registered a lot of longer dot coms or two keyword dot net/org/biz/info/etc. domains. Those domains seem far more exciting because if all you’re investing is the registration fee, you fall into the trap of making calculations about the huge returns you’ll generate once you sell for a profit. Of course, that frequently doesn’t happen
Read MoreThe same thing is happening when it comes to short domains. Instead of investing in a LLL dot com or in a LLLL dot com, lots of Chinese newbies prefer speculating on for example LLLLs in exotic TLDs, especially if the registration fee is low. The main problem, of course, is that when renewal time comes, things can get tricky. But most beginners don’t like thinking about renewal time because they think they’ll find some way to generate profits by then...