Acquiring Domain Assets

[Keyquest]

What is the percentage that you spend for your domain assets?

1. Hand regs.
2. Expired aftermarket.
3. Purchases from existing owners.

I believe the best strategy for acquiring domain assets is through motivated sellers. What is your experience?

 

[lexisdomains]

my investing

1. Hand Registered - 80% register & develop
2. Expired - 20% drop-catch & develop
3. Purchase from domainer - 0%

 

[mwzd]

20% 1. Hand regs.

20% 2. Expired aftermarket.

60% 3. Purchases from existing owners.

 

[Jaco]

Maybe 1% hand registrations
Lately, maybe 14% expiration's/snaps/pre-releases (down a good bit from the past)
85% aftermarket (of these, I'd say 90% bearing a registry date of 2003 or earlier, save for a few .US purchases I've made)

Overall, though, 2% emphasis on "domaining" and acquiring names for acquisitions sake, with the remaining 98% emphasis being on developing the names we already have into operating businesses and managing those.

 

[htmlindex]

1. 60%
2. 0%
3. 40%

 

[SiberForum]

All domain names are hand regs.
I prefer only new domain names for me and for my business

 

[SpareDomains]

80% expired domains that fell through the auction houses picked up for reg fee
10% domains that were given to me on a brokerage agreement
9% hand regs
1% bought from previous owners/auction houses

I figure this is a good guess would take me a bit to calculate exact percentages.