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Domaining is certainly addicting and has the power to consume you 24/7 at least for the first 45 days before the reality dawns on you that maybe it’s akin to spitting into the wind and hoping it to land big on target. No more hand regging, lesson learnt!

Please suggest ideas on how to go about investing 8k. What niche to pick? Average timeline in flipping a liquid domain?
 
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You are not looking for advice.

You are looking for the validation of what you think you already know and understand.

It seems your way is through making your own hard mistakes and even then you will blame something else for undesirable outcome.

Not really! I am willing to take advice and also learn from my own mistakes and fortunately domaining is not my bread and butter and can afford to lose without blaming anyone. It's more of a hobby right now to swim against the odds..Thank you all for your time and inputs!
 
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Not really! I am willing to take advice and also learn from my own mistakes and fortunately domaining is not my bread and butter and can afford to lose without blaming anyone. It's more of a hobby right now to swim against the odds..Thank you all for your time and inputs!

What you are registering currently is probably going to remain worthless for many years if not ever.

I just have a feel that you are at a wrong trajectory but are so sure you know it all.

Sorry for harsh words. I just wish someone told me those when I was starting, but I did not even ask ))
 
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What you are registering currently is probably going to remain worthless for many years if not ever.

I just have a feel that you are at a wrong trajectory but are so sure you know it all.

Sorry for harsh words. I just wish someone told me those when I was starting, but I did not even ask ))

Let's see how things play out...No Big Deal...Good luck to you!
 
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Nice thread @Anjani. Learning a lot. Update us on your progress
 
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Just invest wisely. Don't make everything public.

Good Luck
 
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Let's see how things play out...No Big Deal...Good luck to you!

That is the thing though. You have to treat it as a big deal to be successful. And you have to make it to work on its own merit.

Not like I will plunge my other income into this and see how it plays out. It will play out the way it works in a casino and even there you probably have a better bet.

One quick advice, join Brandpa when they re-open registrations. Add your names there. They are nice to provide feedback on their rejections and even though I don't agree with them often (and I yesterday sold a Brandbucket reject at Brandroot), I still learn from them and on some names I do agree and wonder what I was thinking when I registered those.
 
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That is the thing though. You have to treat it as a big deal to be successful. And you have to make it to work on its own merit.

Not like I will plunge my other income into this and see how it plays out. It will play out the way it works in a casino and even there you probably have a better bet.

One quick advice, join Brandpa when they re-open registrations. Add your names there. They are nice to provide feedback on their rejections and even though I don't agree with them often (and I yesterday sold a Brandbucket reject at Brandroot), I still learn from them and on some names I do agree and wonder what I was thinking when I registered those.

Yes i did submit 5 once and all rejected and yes learning from the feedback. Thank You!
 
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Until you fully understand what constitutes a good domain. I'd be wary of spending too much on domains because risk of failure is greatly increased when you lack experience. A "good" domain can be described in so many different ways and relates to a number of different characteristics which will only become more obvious over time.

For now hold onto your cash and read absolutely everything you can get your hands about recent sales, strategies and trends....and if you do buy something with that $8k make sure it's in .com and has at least 10 TLDS taken.
 
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I posted my thoughts on how to systematically identify good names to buy in another thread. Several folks liked it. Here it is again as a quote since I don't know how to link directly to the post:

Try this exercise to help teach yourself about domain names that sell to large corporations for top dollar:

1. Go to Jamie Zoch's website at DotWeekly dot com

2. Read through every post he has ever written under the "Domain Movers" banner

3. As you read each post, type into a spreadsheet the names of each .com domain name that a large corporation bought for a new business, product name, or other new brand name (i.e., not any domain name that already includes their existing brand name in the domain name like Amazon does a lot of -- those are simply 'brand protection' registrations to protect their trademarks, which you want to avoid like the plague)

4. Read through your long list of domain names you typed into your spreadsheet and start to cust and paste them into categories, like LL.com, LLL.com, One Word .com, Two Word .com, Three Word .com, Made Up Word .com, etc.

5. Identify the patterns of the kinds of .com domain names that large corporations buy, as reported by DotWeekly

6. Once you see the patterns, start to watch drop auctions at GoDaddy.com, NameJet.com, SnapNames.com, and DropCatch.com BUT RESIST THE TEMPTATION TO BUY ANY DOMAIN NAMES FOR 30 DAYS; only watch, do not buy for a full 30 days; make sure the auctions are drop auctions, not some other domainer just listing his or her domain names with reserve prices

7. Start to notice how much the domain names with the patterns you identified sell for at the drop auctions; these are the wholesale prices those kinds of patterns go for

8. Determine if you can afford to pay those kinds of wholesale prices, or not

9. If you cannot, it might be best for you to exit domain name investing – the best names are typically on the drop auctions; the best names get bid up to healthy wholesale prices; you need the best names with the right patterns to one day ultimately sell for a retail price to an end user that is a large corporation with deep pockets and a general indifference to paying upwards of $XX,XXX to $XXX,XXX for a .com domain name; if you cannot afford to play the game, it may be best for you financially to not enter the game at all; or, find a different, lower cost strategy within domain investment (e.g., picking up $9 bargain names and flipping them for $250 to $350 a piece, a la Josh Eisenhower at DSAD.com)

10. If you can afford to pay those kinds of wholesale prices, welcome to the game! :)

Lastly, remember that there are a little less than 150,000,000 or so .com domain names in existence. Keep in mind that less than 1% are .com domain names that a large corporation would ever want to buy from anyone else to use in their businesses. That means only 1,500,000 .com domain names are "investment grade" domain names. That's a relatively small amount. All the rest are .com domain names that are simply not marketable to large corporations, no matter how much the domainers who own them believe otherwise. You want to ignore those 99% domain names and resist the temptation to register them or bid on them at auctions (don't worry, we all fail or have failed at the resistance). If you follow all of the above instructions and understand what you uncover from having done the exercise, you'll be in a much better place as a domain investor. Possibly a lot richer to boot.
 
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Strangely...
No less than 50% of my enduser sales are handregs.
This doesn't mean that my domains are since 2008...
I reg them on a daily basis...
Some handregs were sold even within 24 hours (inbound)... most handreg-sales - within 1-2 years.
And ~99% of them are non-.com
 
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Sorry what?

My advice above is based off my own experience. Generally speaking it takes about a year or so of decent hands-on experience for someone to get to a point where they can make good profit. This is a blanket statement for any market not just domaining.

Just my opinion.

I said:
as you did when you started
[sarcasm]

nobody will do so
and if you don't feel the pain of a loss
you don't learn

if you don't risk failure
you won't learn

just my own experience
 
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I said:
as you did when you started
[sarcasm]

nobody will do so
and if you don't feel the pain of a loss
you don't learn

if you don't risk failure
you won't learn

just my own experience

You're right, but I'm sure there are some clever folk around that can also learn from other people's mistakes.
 
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Suggest a domain name ?

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Send me a msg if you want to retire.

- NamePros users
 
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Domaining is certainly addicting and has the power to consume you 24/7 at least for the first 45 days before the reality dawns on you that maybe it’s akin to spitting into the wind and hoping it to land big on target. No more hand regging, lesson learnt!

Please suggest ideas on how to go about investing 8k. What niche to pick? Average timeline in flipping a liquid domain?
I sold three hand reg domains in feb this year. I accepted whatever offer came. But yeah I've sold aged domains for much better price.
 
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Regarding $8K...
The easiest variant which doesn't require knowledge, experience and full time domaining - to buy/sell cryptocurrencies...
Overall, you will get ~ the same ROI or even significantly higher...
This is actual pulse. The best times for domaining are already in the past.

+ buy domains with quality traffic...
And you may live just from their monetization...

I have invested in cryptocurrencies as well.It all depends on your knowledge and right investment strategy. Even in cryptocurrencies many people have lost their money.The cryptocurrencies market is very unpredictable and volatile.

The same goes in domaining with right names one can make much higher ROI than cryptocurrencies.
 
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Personally I prefer to invest in domains that I consider would be on demand in close future (3-5 years), that is why back in 2015-2016 I invested in VR and AR domains, it remains to see if my choice was a good one but I definetly think it was. I also wanted to buy crypto and blockchain domains but I didn't have money at the time so I missed the train.
Personally I find it pretty tough to find good domains at this moment, especially if you are only hand-registering.
 
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solid advice that everyone should listen to.. but frankly, almost no one does. don't reg nor even buy in first year of domaining.
just read learn observe and wait.

Easier said than done.
 
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:cigar: you have to go with crypto domains
 
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:cigar: you have to go with crypto domains

I have:
Crypto2d.com
CoinKic.com
CoinCro.com
CryptoGeeko.com

Maybe there is far too much inventory in the crypto space and the probability of a sale is a moonshot unless it's a great name like cryptobuy or cryptoworld etc
 
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You can invest some in bitcoin?
 
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You can invest some in bitcoin?

Not up my alley - Too late in the day, highly volatile, unregulated and with no govt backing as yet.
 
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Don't buy anything for the first year would be my advice for anyone approaching any market.

OHHH, if any of us listened to that advice in our first year - all the registries would go out of business HAHAHAA.
 
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The only possible hope is that of an end user sale which is stacked against odds with so much of supply

That is actually the only reason this is a business in the end. AND, you will get that exact same answer from any sales person, in any industry, selling any product - and is struggling with the sales process and sales fundamentals.

Dont ever let yourself - talk yourself - into a loop of self doubt and inaction. It snowballs fast. Reach out to end users and the positive interactions will fuel you positive mojo and it changes everything.
 
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That is actually the only reason this is a business in the end. AND, you will get that exact same answer from any sales person, in any industry, selling any product - and is struggling with the sales process and sales fundamentals.

Dont ever let yourself - talk yourself - into a loop of self doubt and inaction. It snowballs fast. Reach out to end users and the positive interactions will fuel you positive mojo and it changes everything.

With all due respect, you have quoted out of Context:xf.smile: but i appreciate the insight.

"The impression i get is that it's a random market with few winners and most are groping in the dark just like me:xf.smile: The odds and external factors are too many to take a calculated risk.
Salute the degenerate gamblers who hold more than 5000 domains..even to a rookie like me most names sound illogical when i compare them with real world names in crunch base. the only way out is to hold quality names which appeal to the big fish with deep pockets. That's hard for late entrants i guess to tap into the re seller market. The only possible hope is that of an end user sale which is stacked against odds with so much of supply, competitive pricing and obviously their own intelligence in hand regging a domain specific for their business need"
 
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