Cherry Picking Domainers

[VURG]

To me, Cherry Picking is a term I use in domaining for people who specialise in reg fee domaining. Cherry picking is a lot harder than it use to be but this has been my focus. Any Cherry Pickers on Namepros?

 

[MKA]

Cherry-picking usually has negative connotations, e.g. you're cherry-picking evidence (picking the evidence that supports your case while ignoring the evidence that discredits it).

I think all domainer do hand-register domains in some capacity.

The "secret" as far as I'm concerned is coming up with a nice sounding brand or just think of potential use cases (preferably both).

Let's say you're into AI assisted workflows and automation, or you see a lot of apps popping up using those terms. Well then you play around with those terms and come up with good sounding domains, perhaps adding related terms like dynamic and adaptive.

And then you do a search to see if it's a normalized/popularized expression.

Which to me seemed fair, so last week I registered the .com.

But there are people that are good of thinking of pure brandables. I think I saw something like "Everetta" (probably misremembering) in a thread: it's pronounceable, versatile, and it looks professional.

Of course when you're doing domains like that you might want to make sure that it's not in the USPTO database.

 

[Altetra]

Just for fun, what pop in my head is Cherry Pickles.

 

[DomainRecap]

To me, Cherry Picking is a term I use in domaining for people who specialise in reg fee domaining. Cherry picking is a lot harder than it use to be but this has been my focus. Any Cherry Pickers on Namepros?

Not sure where you got this definition from, but when buying any type of property, collectible, or any digital or tangible item, Cherry Picking has always meant to select the very best items at the most attractive prices, and leaving the rest of the unsellable crap.

That's why when buyers view portfolios and request to buy only a few domains, or ask for sellers to submit domains fitting a certain criteria, they are trying to "cherry pick". Conversely, those who have experienced this scenario (selling only your best domains and being left with only the junk) have been "cherry picked".

To combat this tactic, take an "all or nothing" attitude towards portfolio sales, or price your "good stuff" higher to compensate for keeping the junk.

 

[alcy]

in my 10 years 99.9percent all names were regs

and 99.9 of those were freshly expired .. so like 24h or less

 

[bmugford]

Not sure where you got this definition from, but when buying any type of property, collectible, or any digital or tangible item, Cherry Picking has always meant to select the very best items at the most attractive prices, and leaving the rest of the unsellable crap.

That's why when buyers view portfolios and request to buy only a few domains, or ask for sellers to submit domains fitting a certain criteria, they are trying to "cherry pick". Conversely, those who have experienced this scenario (selling only your best domains and being left with the junk) have been "cherry picked.

To combat this tactic, take an "all or nothing" attitude towards portfolio sales, or price your "good stuff" higher to compensate for keeping the junk.

Yeah, that is the general meaning of "cherry picking".

Buy the best, leave the rest.

Brad

 

[VURG]

Maybe #WildDomaining may be a better term than #CherryPicking. What are thoughts on this?

 

[Acroplex]

Since you've been a NP member for 20 years, you'd probably remember listings by the late MrsJello.
He'd email me the upcoming lists 30 minutes in advance so that I could cherry-pick them e.g. buy the domains I liked before everyone else had a chance. That's an example of cherry-picking.

 

[BaileyUK]

Indeed 'Cherry Picking' relates purely to those ripe cherries on a tree or even a field. Never seen it relate to every cherry globally available. I think our OP has misunderstood the term.

I suppose you could relate it to the 'Best of available to register terms' But that's a domaining fundamental anyway. You could relate it to new-commers not cherry-picking their registrations, which we see all the time

 

[Wesley S]

garbage pizza is defined with all the toppings, even anchovies. Cherry picking is a specific top elite item out of a group of items. ty. (my definition of garbage pizza is wrong because i leave out anchovies.)

So.... why would i argue with the supreme court of pizza about the definition of garbage pizza?

 

[VURG]

I have been thinking through about how I domain to give a bit of context. I search for an emerging opportunity. I study the best potential domains related to that opportunity. Then I pick the domains that seem best. Then I educate others about that opportunity. When the general community realises the opportunity that I found, the market value of the domain names that I picked rise significantly and so I am in a position to flip for a good profit. I did this with 4 letter domain names when they were being bought out between 2005 and 2007 and I made a significant profit over a 2 year period. The growth of the domain name market was a lot faster then than it is now and so more complex research is needed. The types of domain names that I am interested in are markets than most people don't realise exist. They are low traffic domains and they are in niche areas that nobody is buying. I tend to look for what I call potential #PegasusMarkets (Markets with US trillion dollar potential). I study the politics behind the market to work out what is needed to awaken the markets. I play a long game and so I put a lot of attention into getting my analysis right and my timing right. My approach is to aim to get a pay day in the 2030's. This gives me more room to get bigger flips. The 4 letter domain days were pocket money days. I take my work a lot more seriously now.

 

[bmugford]

I have been thinking through about how I domain to give a bit of context. I search for an emerging opportunity. I study the best potential domains related to that opportunity. Then I pick the domains that seem best. Then I educate others about that opportunity. When the general community realises the opportunity that I found, the market value of the domain names that I picked rise significantly and so I am in a position to flip for a good profit. I did this with 4 letter domain names when they were being bought out between 2005 and 2007 and I made a significant profit over a 2 year period. The growth of the domain name market was a lot faster then than it is now and so more complex research is needed. The types of domain names that I am interested in are markets than most people don't realise exist. They are low traffic domains and they are in niche areas that nobody is buying. I tend to look for what I call potential #PegasusMarkets (Markets with US trillion dollar potential). I study the politics behind the market to work out what is needed to awaken the markets. I play a long game and so I put a lot of attention into getting my analysis right and my timing right. My approach is to aim to get a pay day in the 2030's. This gives me more room to get bigger flips. The 4 letter domain days were pocket money days. I take my work a lot more seriously now.

Can you give any recent examples?

You are basically just talking about hand regs.

There are 150 million .com. I doubt there are many amazing terms out there just waiting to be regged.

Brad

 

[VURG]

This is what I can say for now:

The domains that I am looking at currently are for the "Modular Vehicle" market. I am not buying a lot of domains for myself as a core part of my business strategy is to help others make profits in this market. There is a lot of politics that needs to be sorted through to get this market accelerating in growth. I can't reveal much more about this at the moment.

 

[NameGroove]

Can you give any recent examples?

You are basically just talking about hand regs.

There are 150 million .com. I doubt there are many amazing terms out there just waiting to be regged.

Brad

I can guarantee you that many venture funded companies and future Unicorns are going to hand reg names today that you feel aren't "amazing terms". Imagination is required for hand regs, and there are plenty left.

 

[Altetra]

I can guarantee you that many venture funded companies and future Unicorns are going to hand reg names today that you feel aren't "amazing terms". Imagination is required for hand regs, and there are plenty left.

I agree with you 100% there are still many great domains to hand reg, I regret that I no longer can afford to add them to my pile.

 

[VURG]

Since you've been a NP member for 20 years, you'd probably remember listings by the late MrsJello.
He'd email me the upcoming lists 30 minutes in advance so that I could cherry-pick them e.g. buy the domains I liked before everyone else had a chance. That's an example of cherry-picking.

I didn't know MrsJello but I did a project with NameClerk who used to create domain lists for people. I did a bit of domain list dropping on the available domains section myself but they weren't popular enough to get private clients. Thanks for the example.