discuss Baffled by people against hand reg

[Laguna]

As many of you know, I hand reg all my domains. Most posts I have read are all against it. I am baffled by this as ALL domains were originally hand reg . Your comments and opinions are welcome but NO personal comments about my way of doing things please.

 

[DomainRecap]

With creativity you can still find decent handreg names, decent enough for your next business venture, but finding handreg names that have resale value is more challenging.

Exactly. I was doing the same thing tonight, trying to find 5-7 letter pronounceables/phonetics for an online business and there are a lot of nice potentials, even today, but I'm not sure many would be immediately saleable on the current market.

 

[DaveX]

I was reading this morning, and on DomainInvesting .com, Elliot Silver remarked that he "hand registered quite a few domain names last year following a bit of success selling a couple of other hand registered domain names."

 

[handpicked]

I believe most bitcoin, blockchain, crypto domains were han-regs in the recent past and probably sold like gold and so do drones and clouds... people with futuristic vision about a new technology can excel in hand reg i guess. the next is ambient computing (ie iot) google ceo has spoken about it in many of his interviews. eco friendly domains can also have value so is geo. thanks.

 

[Brands.International]

TL/DR : do not hand reg, otherwise you will loose money in 99% of cases.

I am sure no one will listen to this advice anyway, but after all, it is ok to loose some money, part of the learning process

 

[NameBuyer.com]

"Hand Reg" is a relative term if you think about it. I have an Expired Domains watchlist of filtered domains. Out of the ones I don't buy, I'd say 50% get registered within 6 months.

So did those new buyers buy a "Hand Reg", or did they buy an expired domain that didn't sell in auction?

I've sold around $8k in domains last year that were "hand reg'd" for $7, in the same year. But they were all owned at some point in the past.

 

[wormfood]

just use your feet instead. makes you pick better domains if you have to put all that effort in.

 

[Bernard Wright]

I've spent quite some time reading peoples' opinions on hand regs the past few days, in various NP threads. I just took a gamble on one that I was 50/50 on, and I'm new; so it stands to reason that the veterans here would have been more like 15/85 at best. But I thought I'd take one for the team as a case study and streamline the learning process. I'm wondering whether any of the more experienced folk would enlighten me/us as to why this purchase was a bad decision. The domain is m i l d a n i m a l s [dot] com

 

[mistressbellek]

@Lagunaboy

https://domaindomme.com/vibrogasm-com

 

[lock]

Hand reg is an easy way to lose lots of money, almost always very low quality names people picking up that business don’t want even at $10.

The dropped domains you buy were once hand reg. Gtld oppprtunities are all hand reg. I could find better hand registered domains with better resale and register them in 5 mins . If looking at dropped for 5 minutes would find names not really into but buy for traffic etc and end up with far less resale value in the same 5 minutes. My opinion of dropped names is to milk them for last drop of traffic then drop them. My portfolio is proof hand registration has more merit than you care to consider.

The Internet is in English but the people buying names may not necessarily use it. Translations are probably responsible for half the hand reg fails. People without experience are buying up crap terms all great news in my books. There are plenty of crap domainers hand registering crap and the good domainers continue to find gold. I know who these good domainers are on here they register great domains and offer sound advice.

 

[Bernard Wright]

I gather there is both an art and a science to regging. I think I'm grasping the art aspect just fine; it's the science I don't know. With regging prices being quite low and high-speed bots scraping and such, the efficient markets hypothesis suggests that all the good names were taken long ago.

I'd really like a case study. All domains I mention herein are coms.

West Roast is parked. North Roast is developed. South Roast is with Huge Domains. East Roast was held for a few years and dropped last year. On WhoIsRequest I see that it might have been picked up for a few days and dropped again.

East Coast Roast is a company in NY with a trademark at the USPTO. There is and East Roast in the UK with their own UK domain, which I'd expect them to prefer since their customers are domestic. There are other shops on the east coast of the US who might like the domain, and there is the chance an Asian company could brand it as an "East" coffee.

I see occasional mentions of backlinks. I don't expect this domain to have any because it appears to have never been developed, but if I were to want to search for such info on a domain, how would I?

What other considerations would go into the decision as to whether to reg this domain?

 

[McDuke]

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Hand reg is cheap and lucrative if you research research research.
Especially in future tech

You're believing your own hype.

In a year or two you're going to be like every new domain investor and reevaluate your process. Either you learn and adapt or lose money like 95% of domainers. We have all been where you are in the learning phase.

Few get it, many don't.

You better be willing to spend hundreds if not thousands of hours learning multiple fields.

Domaining is not for everyone.

just my 0.02$

 

[mistressbellek]

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You're believing your own hype.

In a year or two you're going to be like every new domain investor and reevaluate your process. Either you learn and adapt or lose money like 95% of domainers. We have all been where you are in the learning phase.

Few get it, many don't.

You better be willing to spend hundreds if not thousands of hours learning multiple fields.

Domaining is not for everyone.

just my 0.02$

I think he get it’s. It’s so annoying to read negative comments about hand regs.

 

[Laguna]

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You're believing your own hype.

In a year or two you're going to be like every new domain investor and reevaluate your process. Either you learn and adapt or lose money like 95% of domainers. We have all been where you are in the learning phase.

Few get it, many don't.

You better be willing to spend hundreds if not thousands of hours learning multiple fields.

Domaining is not for everyone.

just my 0.02$

Yes I read everything that is said on here as well as doing my own research. But I have been keeping quiet

 

[McDuke]

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Yes I read everything that is said on here as well as doing my own research. But I have been keeping quiet

I hear yah, in 4 years you'll be saying the same thing to new domainers these guys are saying to you now. Heck, I can remember debating with the same guys you do now when i became interested in domain names and "sometimes" ;p those guys were right. I'm still a rookie too btw.

Hand regs can sell, it takes time and knowledge to know how to look and what to look for. It can take days or weeks until the right domain comes to you and is available in .com or (other extensions "on rare occasions"). Searching for hand reg domains is fun and addictive but it's easy to get caught in a hand reg rabbit hole. When people do get caught, most of those registrations are junk and the renewal fees end up killing their ROI. There are a tonne of opportunities to find good expiring domains, although it is getting harder to win auctions / drop catch.

It wouldn't hurt to watch every domain sherpa episode from day one and if you want to save money and time, sign up to DN Academy. There you'll get access to years of experience. Domaining isn't the type of business people openly give free information because you essentially are their competitor and it takes years to learn. But, if you are professional and courteous that goes a long way when starting out.

Domaining isn't for everyone as it requires multiple skill sets and at times deep pockets.

just my 0.03$

 

[courlsale]

... patience. So will see what happens after a year or so

 

[courlsale]

Exactly. The first year is a learning process

... and the 2nd, 3rd ....

 

[Wesley S]

believe it or not, its a skill, one ive yet to master. lol.

 

[Rick Ace]

There are two types of people in domain investments- those who are patient to study and sell hand-regs and those who don't (either due to time constraints or having little interest in xxx-x,xxx sales).

 

[TopRightNow]

The dropped domains you buy were once hand reg.

creativity is all you need.
100% Agree.

 

[gtldomainer]

Hand regg will never die 'coz we've new technologies and trends coming every now and then. If you can follow them and can hold the names at least few couple of years then it might yield good ROI for you. But like you can see, its niche and we've only few names available then.

Yes, generic names are all taken already; Its better not try hands on them now.