Can newcomers to domaining still make it realistically?

[dotgold]

For people entering the domaining world, can they actually make a living buying/selling seeing how things are so competitive and scarce?

Are their any examples of people who recently got into domaining and are doing very well? What sort of investment did they make?

Thanks!

 

[Want2learn]

Singing and acting do take talent, yes. Absolutely but you also learn to be better. You get taught to be better. Experience, coaching, practice, etc. etc.
Same goes with accounting, teaching, and nursing. You need to be born with that brain wired for numbers to be any good. You need to be born with that brain wired to teach others to be any good. You need to be born with that brain for nursing (compassion) to be any good. The world is full of bad accountants, teachers, and nurses. They have all been taught the "skill" to do it but they do not have the talent to be any good nor do they have the temperament or personality.
This is not to say that one can not be good at something if they are not born with an inherent talent to do it. Practice, learning the "skill", etc will allow one to overcome those obstacles and perhaps be one of the best there is to be sure but comparing whether you can be successful in acting or accounting without being born with that "knack" doesn't ring true in my own head but it really helps.
I am not trying to say that if I practice enough I can beat Michael Phelps or a shark but that some things can be taught and some can't, it depends on the person. That's just what I think......which doesn't really matter in the end.
Luck? Hell, that plays into so much in all aspects of life.

The bolded part is my point. No matter how much MOST people practice they will not beat Phelps in a race. We don't have the same talent. I know he is a workout beast, so Im not suggesting talent alone has won him his races.

Lets get into numbers. NumeroPhobia for many in the states Take the concept of 0. "Zero was invented independently by the Babylonians, Mayans and Indians (although some researchers say the Indian number system was influenced by the Babylonians). The Babylonians got their number system from the Sumerians, the first people in the world to develop a counting system." Take those 3 people groups. Essentially South America, the Middle East, and India . . . those people did not look European. It makes no sense to me then that Hispanics in the states as a group do so poorly in math. Their forefathers came up with concept of 0! I do agree we have to have a nice brain. I don't think that you have to be more than average intelligence to do those 3 jobs well. Compassion for the nurse is a great quality to have. It is neither talent or a skill though.

 

[imadoer]

I think almost anyone can do this if they want it bad enough. I came into this business not knowing anything about domains or websites. I didnt even know much about going online. This was all like a foreign language to me. I'm no genius my road wasn't easy. I grew up in the ghetto. Had to struggle everyday. I didnt go to college and my writing skills are terrible. I screwed most of my life up. However I didnt let anything hold me back I wanted be a successful domainer. I saw the money. So I worked like a machince studying ,networking and learning from different people. I make money from domaining. I dont have a job. This is all I do. I started in jan 2015.
If I can do this, You can do this. Get off your lazy asses and put in the work required to become successful.

 

[xynames]

I think at this moment there are a lot of domainers scrambling to buy dropped domains, and this is driving up "wholesale" prices. Not necessarily more domainers than ever, but more than recent past.

 

[zomgmike]

Everything is in motion. You can still "make it" because new concepts are always being invented by the public. For example, before Big Baller Brand shoes popped up recently, nobody knew to register names like bigballerbrandshoes.com.

 

[elevator]

New comers are still making it. With hard work anything can happen, all it requires are to study and know the dos and don't of domaining. You can know these by reading through many blogs and try and errors. But must minimize spending on new regs, you must do it softly as you study, you put on practice and with time and effort you can sale through. 90% of domainers are still practicing even when they are making money to date.

Good luck and cheers you are welcome into this highly addictive business or call it investment