if you believe or not to believe but i register min $1,000 value domain last month...(after 1 week to drop)
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Maybe golds there ,after 4 days period, I saw lot of of golds at the past, huge monthly extacy search, each click value $3-$5 ,monthly 20k US searches..weird.. weird because all are .com
Sorry, I choose not to believe. Great names like this are rarely waiting to be registered. I'd say never, but there are always exceptions (though not enough to make a living on). And how do you determine a minimum $1000 value? To me, that means you can offer it up on the forum or Sedo, and it will be snapped up for at least $1000 by another reseller. That's not easy to do with a freshly regged name.
It's not a good idea to give new guys unrealistic expectations. If you are new, try to think like a business person would, and give yourself all the possible objections any name you are thinking of selling. Instead of looking at all the charm points, take the opposite tact and ask these questions (for example):
Why is that name better than the one I already have? Is it so much better that I should spend $1000 of my hard-earned money on it? Why shouldn't I just get a similar name for $10, with a plural version, an extra word, a different TLD, a hyphen, a additional letter or prefix?
Look at covering your costs to start. If you can do that, then you can learn for "free" (this ignores that your time has value).
Look at the weekly sales of domain names from 6 months ago, and research each sale. See what has been done with name, and who bought it. Try to eliminate the names that sold because of traffic or because a business was attached. Focus on the names that just sold for what they were, because you're unlikely to have much else to offer in the lower tier. Look for patterns, similarities. Check to see how many other extensions of each name were taken. Check each taken extension to see if theres a real business on it, a ghost site, or just a parked page. Check the searches. See how many people are advertising for the domain keywords. Check the keywords in quotes, and see of the first page is filled with
businesses (not personal pages, academic pages or anything lese that doesn't generate profit) are using those keywords in titles.
And since gold was mentioned....
There is gold in the drops and hand-regs. But let's not forget that most gold is mined piece by piece, a milligram at a time, after a lot of research and hard work. A guy panning for gold has to drag heavy equipment to some cold mountain stream and spend all day looking through sludge and sand to get a few grains of gold. They have to do that every day until those grains add up to something of value. Once in a blue moon they will find a larger flake of gold, but they only find that if they are willing to dig through the river bed every damn day looking for grains.
Gold prospecting is a great metaphor for domaining at this level. Every once in a while, you'll see a news story about a prospector who finds a gold nugget weighing several ounces. That gets everyone excited, but they forget the reason it's in the newspaper is because it's such a rare occurrence. Real prospecting, like domaining, is nose to the grindstone stuff.
The other big difference is that gold is easy to appraise, and easy to sell. You might have a domain that's easily worth $1000 to an end-user, and maybe a dozen end-users perfect for the name, and it still might not sell.
But fairy tales dont create for terminnate..
