Even a blind chicken can find a great domain!

[MapleDots]

On namePros most of us are familiar with a famous domainer that spent an entire night hand registering domains only to see them sell for millions of dollars. The domainer continues his streak and today is one of the most successful domainers on the planet.

Seems to me some businesses like Huge Domains are very much copying this process by registering millions of domains and hoping a percentage of them will resell at a profit. The difference here being that Huge Domains mostly registered dropped domains figuring eventually someone else will want them.

In German there is an expression.....

"Auch ein blindes Huhn findet mal ein Korn."

Loosely translated to english it means....

"Even a blind chicken sometimes finds a piece of corn"

The question here is can this be repeated in 2019?

So if someone decided to randomly sit 10 people down and hand register any combination of two word .com's could one conceivably have a successful business?

My opinion on this is that one probably could as long as the selling price of the domains stayed in the 2-4k range. Two word .com's are still very much in demand and chances of success are probably pretty good.

So what do my fellow domainers think?

Any successful blind chickens out there?

 

[bmugford]

So, two hand reg domains for $20 in 2011, add 8 years of renewal each. If you count the commissions and taxes paid for the 38k or so and is you ad the thousands or tens of thousand of his hand regs from the same period that did not sold, you will conclude that it's nothing out of ordinary. I can bet that there are lots of smaller domainers here at NP who have better ROI than him, but everything it's at a smaller scale, so it's not that evident.

Those are impressive sales, but If you own a few hundred thousand domains and ask high prices, you will make a handful of outlier sales.

However, you have to account for all the domains that don't sell as well; not just the ones that do sell.

Brad

 

[eurorealtor]

Any successful blind chickens out there?

I had a similar thought in 2006 and I ended up with many drops the following years, mostly .eu at that time.

 

[xynames]

My advice to anyone working in a particular niche would be to say as little as possible, just make your deals and be done with it.

Hmm, but...you're about the most open and splashy with posting as could be, not only what you have bought, but about what you intend or would like to buy. Are we talking about the same person? "Say as little as possible" about what he has bought or intends to buy? MapleDots? Think McFly, Think!

https://www.namepros.com/threads/wanted-premium-ca-domains.1122103/

https://www.namepros.com/threads/my-first-1-000-000-offer-to-purchase.1115466/

https://www.namepros.com/threads/shopcost-co-nice-hack.1116420/

https://www.namepros.com/threads/gab-com-for-sale-would-you-buy-it.1107930/

https://www.namepros.com/threads/100k-domains-are-you-a-buyer.1104236/

https://www.namepros.com/threads/p-u-r-e-c-a-acquired-by-mapledots.1102794/

https://www.namepros.com/threads/i-...ut-i-just-bought-my-first-app-domain.1102452/

https://www.namepros.com/threads/just-registered-a-canadian-related-org.1099221/

https://www.namepros.com/threads/made-an-offer-domainer-let-the-domain-expire.1096909/

https://www.namepros.com/threads/p-i-n-k-c-a-acquired-by-mapledots.1092970/

https://www.namepros.com/threads/will-buy-your-ca-5-000-00.1074538/

etc. etc.

As far as any sales though you are mum about them. I don’t post my completed sales here either. Not asking you for specifics. Just wondering if you sell as much as you buy or try to buy. Or sell at all. 'Cause you sure do post freely about buying or wanting to buy domains. It doesn't really make sense to me that someone so transparently voluble about his buys or intended buys wouldn't post his sells, unless there are none.

All I've seen from you are posts about domains you wish to give away free
https://www.namepros.com/threads/free-domain-wifigratuit-ca.1105582/

https://www.namepros.com/threads/free-expiring-com-ca-domains-by-mapledots.1126822/

or have paid $5K for with intention to give away free
https://www.namepros.com/threads/re...ory-and-a-warning.1132707/page-6#post-7198692

but nothing about anything sold.

Again, you started this thread, so I think the question is a valid one to pose to the OP, given the topic you yourself created. I am not trying to pigeonhole you or put you down, just asking a legitimate question, given the topic you started.

 

[xynames]

I checked your website. You have around 1300 names listed, some really great ones, but also many of those you can re-stock at $8-20 range from the closeouts or even drops. Just curious, why are you acquiring "very few" past couple years?

Whatever I have seems to sell, and haven't sold anything much under a $ thousand, maybe...ever.

The few I've dropped over the past couple years have always been snapped up.

There's talk (<<but also many of those you can re-stock at $8-20 range from the closeouts or even drops>>), and then there's reality (my nearly daily offers and my nearly weekly sales).

I don't try to second guess. I just field the inquiries and book the sales.

I'll think about dropping names if gross sales ever drop below monthly registration fees. I'm open to suggestions though I'd be curious about your messaging me the list of domains that you suggest that I drop.

 

[Mr_Kumar]

Searching and finding a great domain is what I personally like to do. I can say that I can make it even a hobby. Recently, I got one word .com domain with a positive meaning... http://www.demulce.com I made a quick Amazon affiliate site on it and earned approx $120 (without doing any SEO thing; just putting amazon feed products). At the moment, feed is not working.

Anyways, I have got a few more 2-word awesome domains with .com and few with new TLDs. But none of them is on sale.

I don't see good ROI by just selling these good domains. I want to build websites and earn even more. I don't if I'm a blind chicken or not. This is just to share my personal experience.

 

[Kai W.]

But what does it mean if an idiot buys a terrible domain and sells it to another idiot ?

That industry will usher in explosive development, probably the next mobile phone industry.

 

[Kai W.]

True it is funny

Just one issue...

I would love to have the money from all the domain sales that were thought to be idiotic.

I hope that is the "idiot" that can pick up the gems. Do you have CVCV for sale? We can communicate

 

[johnnie018]

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On namePros most of us are familiar with a famous domainer that spent an entire night hand registering domains only to see them sell for millions of dollars. The domainer continues his streak and today is one of the most successful domainers on the planet.

Seems to me some businesses like Huge Domains are very much copying this process by registering millions of domains and hoping a percentage of them will resell at a profit. The difference here being that Huge Domains mostly registered dropped domains figuring eventually someone else will want them.

In German there is an expression.....

"Auch ein blindes Huhn findet mal ein Korn."

Loosely translated to english it means....

"Even a blind chicken sometimes finds a piece of corn"

The question here is can this be repeated in 2019?

So if someone decided to randomly sit 10 people down and hand register any combination of two word .com's could one conceivably have a successful business?

My opinion on this is that one probably could as long as the selling price of the domains stayed in the 2-4k range. Two word .com's are still very much in demand and chances of success are probably pretty good.

So what do my fellow domainers think?

Any successful blind chickens out there?

No such person, please stop encourage register bad names.

 

[MapleDots]

but nothing about anything sold.

HeHe....

What a wonderful post, I've been meaning to make a nice directory of some of my best topics

Crap....you found me out.... I AM THE BLIND CHICKEN !!!!!!!

Seriously though, I was pretty open about what I bought and intended to buy but I made a new years resolution to stop that because it was creating competition I did not need, hence that advice.

I have a group of domains not listed on my site, they were purchased a long long time ago. They were bought back in the day when my registrar was called DomainDirect, that will probably give away the age. That's all I'm going to say about that.

This blind chicken does not worry about money any more.

 

[Recons.Com]

Whatever I have seems to sell, and haven't sold anything much under a $ thousand, maybe...ever.

The few I've dropped over the past couple years have always been snapped up.

There's talk (<<but also many of those you can re-stock at $8-20 range from the closeouts or even drops>>), and then there's reality (my nearly daily offers and my nearly weekly sales).

I don't try to second guess. I just field the inquiries and book the sales.

I'll think about dropping names if gross sales ever drop below monthly registration fees. I'm open to suggestions though I'd be curious about your messaging me the list of domains that you suggest that I drop.

You misunderstood me. I am not telling you to drop. I am asking why you stopped buying?

 

[Kai W.]

@xynames I saw your list field, which is not a lot of liquid domains (I thought that only liquid domains would be able to sell high prices). I want to learn how you do SEO to increase sales per month.

 

[Kate]

Do you know the story ends ? The chicken gets slaughtered and fries in the pot.
Bon appétit

 

[MapleDots]

 

[xynames]

You misunderstood me. I am not telling you to drop. I am asking why you stopped buying?

Ah, okay, so you're suggesting I could buy more names. I did have a number of names on a droplist and as those became available I did buy as many of them as I could, but I stopped doing that a while back.

I just don't buy much lately, haven't seen as much opportunity I suppose.

Put it this way: instead of buying, I demand higher prices for my domains, which keeps my inventory higher because I sell fewer domains, but at higher prices. For every inquiry I get I could easily dump at $1000.
https://www.namepros.com/threads/if...meone-offered-me-a-1000-for-a-domain.1055040/
but this would be selling the domain too low, below its value, so I quote closer to actual value, and not every end user is able to come up with the money, even if they all mostly seem to acknowledge or accept the value.

 

[MapleDots]

No such person, please stop encourage register bad names.

Come on guys, I may have phrased this wrong so I will clarify....

On namePros most of us are familiar with a famous domainer that spent an entire night hand registering domains only to see them sell for millions of dollars. The domainer continues his streak and today is one of the most successful domainers on the planet.

I did not mean to imply he is from namepros

I meant, we as a group on namepros, are familiar with this hugely successful domainer who spent an entire night way back hand registering domains. He is now one of the most successful domainers in the business.

HeHe.... I can't believe nobody has guessed it.

 

[zeev yagorov]

Come on guys, I may have phrased this wrong so I will clarify....



I did not mean to imply he is from namepros

I meant, we as a group on namepros, are familiar with this hugely successful domainer who spent an entire night way back hand registering domains. He is now one of the most successful domainers in the business.

HeHe.... I can't believe nobody has guessed it.

i order to make it big you must have high quality domains very simple and it sound so simple yet in reality, if you check what people hold , you understand why they are not have sells, and if you have really top 2 word domain and you price it high it will take time but you will see bids also.

i am only 2 weeks in this and was also was thinking this and that great until i get to the point i know what to hold period, and its hard to understand because some one hold 4 word or 3 word domain and and think wow...

for example --CertifiedDomainNameBrokers.com its to much long and when you look on the browser its very messy and alot of 3 letter domains dont worth so much-- if we compare to what reported you will not find one domain 3 letter domain, fact not theory.

 

[Recons.Com]

Come on guys, I may have phrased this wrong so I will clarify....



I did not mean to imply he is from namepros

I meant, we as a group on namepros, are familiar with this hugely successful domainer who spent an entire night way back hand registering domains. He is now one of the most successful domainers in the business.

HeHe.... I can't believe nobody has guessed it.

Bulloney?

 

[Bob Hawkes]

chicken.coop which would be the ultimate, has already been cooked up.

And would only be available to a registered Coop in any case
I car share with a company using a .coop, I insure with a company on a .coop domain name, I could bank with one too! But chickens, no!

 

[MapleDots]

Bulloney?

Nope, wrong guy.

I see I'm not getting anywhere ..

https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-the-mann-who-registered-14962-domains-in-24-hours/

I don't know how that can have been so hard.

 

[xynames]

Yes but from this, and other, threads
https://www.namepros.com/threads/mi...-domains-up-for-sale-with-bin-prices.1053164/
there has been considerable debate as to whether such a move was even wise, or profitable.

There was also discussion about how Ali Zandi's move to reg 4600 domains at once ended in a net loss.
https://www.thedomains.com/2017/04/19/ali-zandi-regged-4600-domains-com-promotion/
he regged 4600. and sold almost none. Some on there posted that Zandi was lying or inaccurate about making back even 50%, and in any case according to the comments and based on the lack of follow up by Zandi, the move ended in failure.

See the posts below. Take a look Omar VG I believe is a NP member he "follows" Ali Zandi a bit, he knows the true score.

All that glitters isn't gold!

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The below are not my posts, but are comments you will find below the above article:

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Abi says

DECEMBER 1, 2017 AT 11:31 AM

AliZandi let almost all of these 4600 domains go without making a dime. He’s a manic who thinks that the few flashes in the pan he was successful with buying low and selling high mean that he knows something others don’t.

Now all he does is broker because his domain picker is broken.

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  OmarVG.com says
  
  DECEMBER 1, 2017 AT 1:20 PM
  
  LOL!! you are 100% right Abi. He is NOT SUCCESSFUL as domainer and he is FAILING as “broker” too! LMFAO!!!