Are You Still Hand Regging?

[DnEbook]

I thought i would post a poll and see who's still hand regging, with new products hitting the market all the time i am wondering if it is working for you?

share your thoughts

 

[arend]

Yes Often.

 

[DnEbook]

cant keep a domainer down

 

[NetOctave]

Whenever there is a Godaddy coupon for $1...

 

[DnEbook]

Whenever there is a Godaddy coupon for $1...

yes always handy to something on the list for such ocassions

 

[dtagr]

Handreg rarely these days. Last pair maybe 8 or 9 months ago.

 

[GiftedDomains]

Whenever there is a Godaddy coupon for $1...

There are not lot of them recently.
So i even reg names with 5 Dollar Codes
But i never pay 8 Dollar anymore. Only if i find a real Gem and can't wait until next code

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BTW, there is one possible answer missing in the pole, and that answer would probably be voted 99%, IF everyone (specially those new in this biz) knew about the truth. That answer would be:

Yes .... I register crap daily!

 

[lincolndsp]

out of the quite decent number of sales i had in several years, only 2 were hand-regs. speculation with handregs is not what i'm good at, so i don't speculate with them =)

 

[wercylno]

only if I have good mod :D

 

[lothos]

I still hand register, but mostly brandable domains for sites I'm working on. Most of my domains come from the aftermarket and auctions.

 

[DnEbook]

we still see a few gems in the available names forums

 

[Ms Domainer]

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I just hand regged a "chancy" domain today, using the $2.95 GoDaddy coupon. If it doesn't do well, I can allow it to expire without worrying about allowing an expensive domain to delete.

Sometimes I hand reg domains related to my writing, for example, the book title in my siggie. These are not high-ranking, high traffic terms, and I know it, but I try to choose titles that are memorable. It's great being able to hand reg these kinds of titles.

I AM regging fewer domains these days, though. It can get expensive, especially with prices going up.

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[GiftedDomains]

I hand reg a lot these day. With and without cheap codes.
Have to stop slowly but surely.

 

[DnEbook]

Yes price is a factor .........especially at renewal time. I did reg about five domains related to my ebooks but in the end i stuck with vampirehire.com and made a site for all my ebooks in the one place. Plus i think the name is handy enough to keep. After all vampires are real are'nt they? .......LOL

 

[fm1234]

Down to 318 domains in my portfolio, nearly 300 of them hand regs. But I don't know if I can honestly say that I'm "still" hand regging, since my rate of expansion is so close to zero. I mainly hand reg when I do pick them up though.


Frank

 

[procanic]

Yes, I still hand reg ,But not as much as earlier years. I am down to Roughly 70 domains now down from 400 2 years ago. I am only interested in Development Domains, But am still selling when I get the chance . I would like to get a good portfolio of my own development Domain names and keep it at 50 . Put an end to the after market ups and downs.

 

[DomainGnome]

When it comes to new technologies and trends, hand reg's are the best way to get in ahead of the crowd. It requires a lot of research and news-gathering, but that's the best part, for me. I've sold more hand reg's than drops or aftermarket purchases.

 

[baseballworld]

well I've kinda switched to hand registering more phrase domains ones with multiple words that together in a phrase mean something and get alot of search results with low to medium comp. working very well for traffic for me.

 

[Ms Domainer]

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The imprint I'm publishing my books under is a hand reg: BanMyBook and BanMyBookPublishing both dot com domains (I also have other variations of these terms).

I figure that banned books sell well, so decided to make the term my own.



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