I went through your portfolio. After 18 months in domaining (part time) , I am still not sure about what sells for how much but got a fair idea on what won't sell.
I usually write down all the names popping up in mind every now and then. Also handregged some of them out of "FOMO". But often when I look back at my list after some months, they were not as sexy as they seemed once. I hope after one more year of listening and takings notes from domaining podcasts, my domain appeal might get even better. Start listening to podcasts of Domain Sherpa, Brandable Insider, Kickstart commerce, Josh.co , DN wire etc. Read and stick to what experienced nameprosers post here - Bob Hawks, Twiki... to name a few. Good luck my friend .
I think this is how a lot of domain investors feel when starting out. When I first started, I'd have website/software or product ideas and that's how I bought my first couple hundred domains.
Whether it's domains, or any other business, it's important to build upon your branding skills and business sense, and engage in Accurate Thinking regularly.
Rick had a post a couple years back and I thought it was a good way to classify the domains you own or are thinking of purchasing. The types of domains at the bottom 3 of the list are worthless domains.
If you stick to the 3 highlighted above, and in particular Commercial Domains, you'll have a much higher chance for success. How do you do that? Just check Google for any of the domains you bought.
If there is not a single business, facebook business page, marketing campaign, commercial project, or significant social media account running under that name,
what do you think your chances are of selling it? The world has billions of people and the internet has been around for decades already so if you are not seeing some usage out there on the exact terms the domain is made up of, for a large percentage of your domains, your chances are pretty bleak.
Years ago I bought ASliceAbove(dot)com. I'd consider it one of my lower quality names and I bought it as a budget domain at $13.50 in 2013. When I bought it, it sounded like it would be a good name for a pizza place. I looked, and it used to be owned by a cake business, and the name "A Slice Above" was currently used by several pizza places. At the time I was trying outbound again (bad idea), and none of the current businesses wanted the domain even when it was in the low $xxx range. Does it matter that none of the current businesses are interested in the domain? No, doesn't make a difference at all. If the name is already in use in 2 different states, it is just a matter of time before a new store, or chain of stores opens up in a different state or location.
So the most simple advice I can give if you are
starting and want to be successful is
ONLY buy names that have some real usage by either an existing business, an existing marketing campaign, or commercial social media usage.
Anything else is really speculating, and you
shouldn't be doing that
until you have more experience. If you do speculating in the future, I would track those separate from your main portfolio and stats. Then if those are dragging the rest of your portfolio down, you can more easily drop the bad ones out of the bunch.
If you've found some domains with current usage for that exact term, then personally, I would
price them
no less than $1,450 each. You can attain a decent sell-thru rate at that price range and $1,450+ will go a lot farther than a $250 sale.
Also, only
stick to .com in the beginning. Out of the top 100,000 websites in the world, about 64% are .com, .net & .org. The majority of the other 36% are made up of .gov, .edu, and country code domains.
Accurate Thinking
Below is a video from Dan Lok on Accurate Thinking. Some of his videos are a little cheesy and "salesy", but many of them are pretty genius in getting you to think differently.