discuss Domaining is dead! Drop your loots and go farm potatoes!

[CLAYjenny]

Drops Mic!

 

[johnn]

Why are you here? Go to the farm.

 

[DrJacoby]

It is dead in the real sense of death.
No longer lucrative as before.

LOL. I received a Congratulations email from Afternic earlier today. My very first 5-figure sale.

 

[bmugford]

Drops Mic!

Good news. I own PotatoFarming.com.

It's the perfect domain for you!

How many sales have you had this year? How much spent on renewals and what's your portfolio to begin with?

More total sales dollars than total renewal dollars.

Brad

 

[BaileyUK]

It is dead in the real sense of death.
No longer lucrative as before.

So how long have you been involved in buying/selling domains.
If you have 10 or 20 years experience you may well have a history worthy of examination and correction. All our portfolios can weaken over time if your not maintaining quality. However, it sounds like you've dipped your toe into domains only for that toe to drop off through frost-bite. Dead in the water Domains from the start. Same would have happened to you 10 or 20 years ago

 

[D Haynes]

Yeah, it just boils down to personal incredulity.

Just because it doesn't work for you, doesn't mean it doesn't work for others.

Brad

If it wasn't working for me my initial thought would be "what am I doing wrong?" as opposed to "this business is dead".

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Once a week. I will start one next monday. Who wants to do mon april1
Haha joking

 

[bmugford]

Even if the answer would be 0 across the board, it would only mean domaining is dead for me, not dead generally speaking.

Yeah, it just boils down to personal incredulity.

Just because it doesn't work for you, doesn't mean it doesn't work for others.

Brad

 

[MasterOfMyDomains]

Lots of value here. Thanks for sharing

 

[Edukar]

I think that in the near future there will be old -timer domainers with large portfolio, as well as bots of large companies, do fightings at auctions, and true creators who handmade register domains without history, but these domains have great potential. I have 99% of manual registration out of 500 domains, and I'm still in a plus. I sell every year 1-2 % domains of my portfolio on average. Thanks to people like me, domains are recognized by other. Ithe beginning these domains are not worth anything, couse they are registered manually! Appraisers do not give more than $ 100 for them, but after a year or two they are estimated above $ 1,000, they have a story. And if for any reason I do not renewal them, other domainers are fighting at auctions for them. Domining has not died. You just need to be a creative person to engage in this business. However, as in any industry. Even in growing potatoes.

 

[D Haynes]

Seem to get one of these threads once a month.

 

[bmugford]

I woke up today to a domain sold email, for $3,950.

Domaining is not dead for me.

Brad

 

[cooljub]

Potato farming is a growing business

 

[BaileyUK]

Why do we have too many nonsense threads lately?

Probably due to the number of new and inexperienced members. Mind you we've also got our fill of repeat-offenders. I like to think I've got a level of tolerance based on my own early days in 1999. It's when someone wants to argue the toss based on nonsense, that I call a nonsense thread.

Don't forget a lot of this questionable stuff is similar to debate that goes on in a pub or bar between 10pm and midnight. Can you imagine a bar for domainers, new and old Thankfully nobody remembers it tomorrow.

 

[pb]

 

[DomainLift]

Domaining isn't dead but the names you're trying to sell probably are. I'm working on closing a deal for 3.5k on a name I bought for 250 bucks. If you don't possess the skills to purchase names people want, then you're going to inevitably struggle to make it in domaining.

 

[Sjpals]

It is like any industry, they all get harder and harder to enter and compete in. Domain wise, yes, I am dropping my loots. They are all for sale for either $99 or $10 (expires in the next 2 months). Are any selling? No, not many. But I put this down to me, not the industry. I face the face the fact that I am obviously not very good at domaining, and I think a lot more people need to admit that. As for farming potatoes, its tempting, but no. I'll stick to buming around in a campervan.

 

[Gabriel360]

Potato...Farming.....com.


Brad

Did this get sold TODAY or you just haven't changed the NS after purchasing it?

 

[MKA]

I'm currently in the negotiation process of a sale, and I've been receiving a surprising amount of offers throughout the year so far.

 

[Zenland]

Having spent the last 15 years in Internet Marketing, I've come across threads like this countless times. I've heard all sorts of declarations: 'SEO is dead,' 'crypto is dead,' 'native ads are dead,' and so on.

What I can tell you is that OG users actually appreciate these types of threads. They signal that someone is giving up and shifting their focus to a different career, which in turn scares off newcomers to the domain reselling business.

 

[Kyle Tully]

I covered my renewals for the year in late Feb with 3 sales to date.

Anything else the rest of the year is profit / portfolio growing.

I think I'll do OK

 

[Mkt Sales Leads]

Seem to get one of these threads once a month.

They want to scare others off and grab the names for themselves hehe

 

[Sjpals]

Wanna be domainers complain, but the real problem is not domaining, but their names!

I had a look at the names you listed for $99 and I would not even have them for free. There are no end users for your names! Maybe some hobbyist, but good luck with that, if that's your target group.

Sorry for being brutally honest. It's just the domaining low entry barrier and the promotions that bring a lot of naive people in looking for 'get rich quick' schemes. Investments also take time, usually a lot of time.

Yeah, thanks, already aware and dropping everything. Most were bought for my own projects, so i had an enduser (me) and end uses for all. They were not bought with resale in mind. I then realised that I will never have the time and motivation for 267 projects, lol, and that I had gotten a tad carried away with buying. Add to that being told that my website designs were also crap, then I just decided to trash the whole lot.
They are just there on afternic / dan / sh etc until 2 months before drop and then I put them on here for $10. I have had enough people tell me they are crap to heed the advice. Unfortunately, many domainers dont ask for appraisals or listen to advice they are given. I listened.

 

[Joe Styler]

I'm gonna add a shameless plug for my new role, domainacademy.com One of the reasons I love it is because it helps people to get the knowledge AND Tools to be successful in investing in domains. There is nothing worse to me than seeing people losing money on something they are excited about. I really enjoy teaching the classes and I use the tools myself when deciding to buy or renew domains. I saw last week Josh Reason posted on Twitter - this is a paraphrase from memory - That it took him some time to realize the data is king. It doesn't matter if I like a domain or you like a domain and think it will sell it's the data. Our free tools help dial into the data of domains you might want to buy.

Here's an example of Josh's point. I personally love the domain AffordableArizona.com I think it is wonderful for so many potential use cases, home sales, land sales, healthcare, insurance sales, tourism, family outings, etc the potential goes on and on. But you know who doesn't like it? The data, so I didn't buy it and it's still hand reg available for like a year which shows me no one even wants it as a hand reg. I bought instead as a hand reg about a year ago AizonaTaxRelief.com. 3 word seems much worse but the data is there behind it vs AffordableArizona when I looked at them together last year. I had 80 visits this month - it is tax season of course, and I have had lead inquiries on it via AN this year. And if I wasn't lazy I could outbound it for sure - which our course also covers. If it wasn't for the tools and data I would be stuck with AffordableArizona with probably no traffic and definitely no leads since it's still a hand reg available name. I've been doing this 18 years and I will tell you successful investors have a system they use to evaluate domains. Domain Academy provides one way to look at investing with some tools to help you evaluate the data around your domains.

So my point is this, we have a great course and if it can help you to be successful please use it. It comes free with Domain discount club, and anyone who has it can use it. If the OP is interested and doesn't have DDC pm me and I will give you a year of it for free to try this class out.

 

[dnbknowledge]

If you're trolling, I'd give the effort a 6/10 rating... not awful, but needs some work.

If you're being serious, I'd be curious to hear your argument(s).

 

[dnbknowledge]

That's the reality bruv!
How many sales have you had this year? How much spent on renewals and what's your portfolio to begin with?

Even if the answer would be 0 across the board, it would only mean domaining is dead for me, not dead generally speaking.

Fundamentally, why do you believe it's dead? Higher interest rates and the effects thereof, too much competition on the drops, maybe something else?

Not judging by the way, just curious what the arguments are.

PS: ironically, we will be moving to a farm late this spring or by early summer, but mostly to live a healthier life and for hobby-related reasons. Would not bet on my success as a farmer, potato farmer or otherwise!