Do you work on reflex?

[sandyhere]

Just an offbeat talk.
Many a times while thinking about domains we check whether they are available. If you are a good domainer, most of them are already registered. After many attempts you may get one that is available to hand register.

Now the process starts that is the trickiest one. Whether to reg it or not.
There can be many choices

1. Look at search volume if its a generic name. Most of time its useless as many good volume dot com generics do not fall back to hand reg.

2. Make attempts to valuate it through estibot. (We know its useless but still sometimes we can't hold up)

3. Try to control your impulse and note it down for registration after a while till your excitement settles down. But risk here is that you may lose the name if its pretty good. I have lost some of my names by few hours.

4. Wait for coupon code offers somewhere. You reg in your diary first and then with suitable registrar.

3. Believe on your reflex and reg it as soon as possible not to loose it. Risk of loosing money is high on not-so-good names.

Just want to know your strategies to prevent unwanted bumps and safe ride. How much time you wait to reg it after it has born in your mind?
Thanks.

 

[WatchDogue]

RE NEW gTLD

From the mental whelping pen to my " domains management list " is pretty quick for the new gTLD names I register, as these names can be more " dominant ", more keyword rich or have branding potential if and when ( !! ) the new extension becomes acceptable in their marketplace.

The name is born, then googled " loose" ( name without quotes, dots ), then googled as a phrase in quotes, if I like the numbers the new whelp is close to registered.

Usually I also check several DN sales sites for quick Comps - then convince myself it's a valuable name and register away.

Ten - Twenty Minutes from whelp to list!

RE A DROP OR AN EXPIRED NAME

If locate one I like I first determine if I could use it as a " re-direct " to any of our websites, if obviously yes, then a fast registration. Seldom buy a drop / expired for potential re-sale value.

Overall I register pre-owned names with mostly subjective criteria with some objective overtones - I'm not an analyst or use real analytical tools.

And there are always a dozen or so names I agonize over registering.

I put the brakes on and try to rationally decide how might I actually use the name ( re-direct / start a new site / use as an email address / try to sell / etc).

Never use estimated value programs, wait for coupons, special offers, etc, so tend to register by reflex.

 

[Cdomains]

I used to act on impulse and register domains right away so I would not lose them to someone else.

That caused me to waste a lot of $ on bad choices so I stopped doing that.

Unfortunately I have gone in the other direction. I will spend a huge amount of time finding good names and then instead of registering them I put them on a list and put it aside for a while.

When I come back to it I always have a new perspective and it helps to keep me from registering a lot of crap.

The downside is that I usually wait too long and many times names I spent hours finding are gone by the time I finally decide they are worth investing in. You win some - you lose some!!

 

[inforg]

Picking domains is like picking horses in a race program. If you spend too much time looking at each horse, all of them start to look like they have promise.

I create a set of criteria for both picking domains and horses. Then I refuse to even look at the rest, for fear of picking garbage.

On auction sites it can be pretty simple, for me anyway. I set filters for things like extension, length, hyphens and IDN, numbers, and age. I only spend time researching that much smaller list of domains that meet my guidelines.

I still find plenty to buy that way, and reduce the amount of junk I buy. Reduce not eliminate, but it saves me a lot of money.

 

[Cdomains]

Reduce not eliminate

Yes, it seems no matter how hard you try you can still wind up making a bad choice. This usually happens to me when I have spent too long in front of the computer and I am tired.

Sometimes I will look at a name I bought days before and realize it was not as good as I thought.

Yet it still seems to happen anyway.

Can't be avoided I guess, the price of playing the game.

 

[sandyhere]

Yes, it seems no matter how hard you try you can still wind up making a bad choice. This usually happens to me when I have spent too long in front of the computer and I am tired.

Sometimes I will look at a name I bought days before and realize it was not as good as I thought.

Yet it still seems to happen anyway.

Can't be avoided I guess, the price of playing the game.

Yes, surprisingly for me also buying domains in very late nights or when I am hungry leads to relatively bad choices. There is a biological reason for that too...
Many a times when I look at them in the morning, I feel agonizing for my choices.