A newbie lesson - Let time pass

[Fleege]

Here's a great lesson that I have learned and wished I had learned 2 years ago.

Dont jump on any registration. Take your time and think it through. Keep asking your self how can I still make it better:
shorter,
more memorable,
more relevant,
more fun,
better curiosity factor ( I call it click curiosity)
less likely to type in wrong,

Be careful to fall in love with something too fast (in real life too)

Pretend that someone already have that name and design/write around it.

I keep a log of my ideas and let them grow on me for a while. Even when I know I want to register something I still take a little more time to see if I can make it better.

It is so easy to just jump in a register a bunch and then look back "what was I thinking" Happens or happened to all of us.

Like now I am biting my nails about one domain. Holding back... kinda like foreplay...

The chances that someone just this moment is thinking alike are very minimal -- unless you are talking about the big timely domains as Katrina or Tsunami... things people cant prepare for...

Keep writing and taking your time...

 

[cache]

I bought some names initially as you described when I started. Then I learned to hold back and keep my favorite list of domains. Now my problem is the opposite, I see some of the names in my favorite list registered one by one, by other people!

Here's a great lesson that I have learned and wished I had learned 2 years ago.

Dont jump on any registration. Take your time and think it through. Keep asking your self how can I still make it better:
shorter,
more memorable,
more relevant,
more fun,
better curiosity factor ( I call it click curiosity)
less likely to type in wrong,

Be careful to fall in love with something too fast (in real life too)

Pretend that someone already have that name and design/write around it.

I keep a log of my ideas and let them grow on me for a while. Even when I know I want to register something I still take a little more time to see if I can make it better.

It is so easy to just jump in a register a bunch and then look back "what was I thinking" Happens or happened to all of us.

Like now I am biting my nails about one domain. Holding back... kinda like foreplay...

The chances that someone just this moment is thinking alike are very minimal -- unless you are talking about the big timely domains as Katrina or Tsunami... things people cant prepare for...

Keep writing and taking your time...

 

[Jennifer]

It really depends on what your reasons are for registering the name in the first place.

Are you acquiring the name for development, to park, to sell on the aftermarket?

Chances are, if the name isn't worth securing the moment you lay eyes on it. It just isn't worth it.

1st instinct is gut instinct - go with it!

 

[cache]

For me, it is like this:
1. phase I: the initial gut instinct yield crapy names (hyphen, TM etc names).
2. phase II: initial gut instinct is better, but alway multiple alternatives available and usually the first one is not the best one.
3. phase III: may be, the gut instinct will be important again.

 

[Momo]

I usually wait for a few days before I reg a domain I've recently thought of, though there have been a lot of spur-of-the-moment regs too.

Sometimes it's better to wait, but then again, someone could snatch up that domain before you can do so.

 

[andrewc]

Here's a great lesson that I have learned and wished I had learned 2 years ago.

Dont jump on any registration. Take your time and think it through. Keep asking your self how can I still make it better:
shorter,
more memorable,
more relevant,
more fun,
better curiosity factor ( I call it click curiosity)
less likely to type in wrong,

Be careful to fall in love with something too fast (in real life too)

Pretend that someone already have that name and design/write around it.

I keep a log of my ideas and let them grow on me for a while. Even when I know I want to register something I still take a little more time to see if I can make it better.

It is so easy to just jump in a register a bunch and then look back "what was I thinking" Happens or happened to all of us.

Like now I am biting my nails about one domain. Holding back... kinda like foreplay...

The chances that someone just this moment is thinking alike are very minimal -- unless you are talking about the big timely domains as Katrina or Tsunami... things people cant prepare for...

great advice fleege!!

I know exactly what you mean about getting a good name/site idea and registering a bunch of names before thinking it through

I used to do this all the time a few years back....
now as you say I too am much more measured and always think through multiple variants of the domaain till I come up good with that..."yes thats the one" gut instinct...(which doesnt always come nowadays!!)


So many good domains are regged now.....I'm sure your all the same but it used to kill me (not literally of course) when I thought I had "THE" domain that no one else had thought of and it was regged (or just the .com was which I found most annoying as I need .co.uk too really)

Ahh well....I got used to that feeling now

 

[Fleege]

yeah - it almost never hurts to wait (and be quiet about ones intentions) for a few days. I'd sell back half my first 60 names. No let me correct that 75% of my first 60 names.

Those are the ones that wont get renewed and it hurts but afterwards feels good to actually let them expire.

I dont even go and really see if they are available until I have a bunch runaround ideas/options unless it isnt avail. I am just paronoid that someone is watching the seaches of names at the registrars.

And yeah - of course it also depends why you reg in the first place. If you really need something specific and its avail AND your say go then thats ok too.

 

[andrewc]

yeah - it almost never hurts to wait (and be quiet about ones intentions) for a few days. I'd sell back half my first 60 names. No let me correct that 75% of my first 60 names.

Those are the ones that wont get renewed and it hurts but afterwards feels good to actually let them expire.

I dont even go and really see if they are available until I have a bunch runaround ideas/options unless it isnt avail. I am just paronoid that someone is watching the seaches of names at the registrars.

And yeah - of course it also depends why you reg in the first place. If you really need something specific and its avail AND your say go then thats ok too.

hehhe..sounds very familiar too

Im paranoid about the registrars watching for gems popping up but now I have a trusted Biig uk registrar that has so many searches going on they cant posisbly watch them (or they have nto piched any of my names as yet!!)

Like you say though. I always keep quiet till I have the names in the bag...

 

[Oblivion.]

With some domains, if you don't register them straigh away, they'll get registered by somone else.

 

[Fleege]

With some domains, if you don't register them straigh away, they'll get registered by somone else.

well yeah and no. They havent been registered yet EVER so a few days wont make a difference. BUT of course anything that is timely - like a new product launch or news, or turn of event type speculation type domain.

 

[swimjenni]

I have a few on my list to register when there is a sale. By that time I will have made sure I only have the good ones.

 

[Fleege]

mattchapman - this thread's for you.. No offense. I really liked some of your names -- and it only takes one good one to make up for buuuuunch of bad ones - a fact that fuels all of us.

Cheers,

 

[Fleege]

If you would evaluate your first 50% of your portfolio vs. your latter 50% - there is no contest. I'd say my Latter 50% is 80% more valuable. In the beginning I regged so many stupid things with out really thinking and letting time pass. PS. The chapman reference was to someone who had posted a thread about leaving the domain game.