discuss First Year in Domaining | My Experience

[YairDD]

Hi all,
I've joined this forum 11 months ago and that is when I started with domaining.
At the start, I had a lot of dumb questions ( well, all of us have dumb questions when we start new things ) but after reading a lot of guides I felt ready to start investing.

I did a lot of dumb purchases, I hand regged CroatiaEscorts.com!! LOL. I bought 012n.com for like $100 on Godaddy auctions and those are the best ones, I did three more handregs that I'm too embarrassed to even share here. ( Mind you at the time I did those purchases I thought I hit the jackpot )

While doing those handregs I kept reading and looking at past sales. the 2 threads that helped me the most were Your Purchase of the day ( not handregs ) and the Reported completed domains sales.

I've started investing in domains I thought will have a good chance of being sold, with the first one being FindAdvisors/com that I purchased on Godaddy auctions for $255 and sold within 6 months for $2795 ( If I remember correctly ) on BB.
Also when I started receiving offers for domains I was afraid to negotiate so I just accepted the initial offers, now I have like 5-10 offers I rejected!
And then I did another sale with a $200 profit, and then another one. and then I did a private acquisition of HowToBuyCrypto/com for like $130 and sold for $900 not so long after, which gave me the idea to hand reg all of the available Bitcoin/Crypto related terms with over 500 searches a month and do outbound, which was a great success.


So far my DAN's dashboard shows $2,959 in sales, and all of the domains that were sold cost me $530.

I also sold a domain on Afternic 4 days ago for $988 that I've purchased for $12 on Godaddy Auctions ( waiting for the money to hit my PayPal and then I'll report the sale )

I currently have around 100 domains, which 20 of them are .CO I purchased for $.99 each and another 10-15 are handreggs. and 1/3 of the domains I have are listed on BB + SH.

I'm having fun and making money at the same time, is there anything better than that?

Hoping to have more sales soon! and I invite you to share your first X of domaining experience, too!

Thanks!

 

[Enerika]

Passion is the main thing from the onset, no matter what...I am still reading...since March. So many "right ways to go about this...and so much advice from "seller site" people...What's a newbie to do ....

 

[Ore]

Selling croatiaescorts.com for registration fee?
Croatian here.

 

[YairDD]

Selling croatiaescorts.com for registration fee?
Croatian here.

Lets do it lol

 

[The Durfer]

thank you for sharing, and good luck in your domaining.

 

[BrandVenue]

Great start. Congrats.

 

[richasis]

That's a great start. Wash, rinse, repeat!

Also I like the way your enjoying it. That is a critical ingredient often overlooked.

That said, sometimes a long-term HOLD gains more profit in the long run...

 

[domainer111]

That said, sometimes a long-term HOLD gains more profit in the long run...

That could be very true. However, as long as you can replace supply or increase supply after a sale, the odds are going in your favor. Before the sale, you had a single domain that could of resulted in a big sale. But now you have say, three.

But yes, you don't want to sell the peach.

 

[richasis]

That could be very true. However, as long as you can replace supply or increase supply after a sale, the odds are going in your favor. Before the sale, you had a single domain that could of resulted in a big sale. But now you have say, three.

But yes, you don't want to sell the peach.

*have

Methinks that many peaches have been sold (or dropped) before they were ripe... aye, there's the rub.

 

[BrandFactory]

Congratulations for this great start, and always remember this is a journey not a destination

 

[Jason Baudendistel]

Fairly new to this industry myself, also bought a couple of domains I am not proud of. Hoping to be as profitable as you in a year.

 

[WatchDogue]

Impressed with your willingness to recognize your initial poor name purchases and, to then seek out and purchase and sell for profit better quality names just months later.

A great first year in domains!

 

[richasis]

Impressed with your willingness to recognize your initial poor name purchases and, to then seek out and purchase and sell for profit better quality names just months later.

A great first year in domains!

Since almost all domain names worth anything have already been registered, the best sale is a good buy.

 

[Rajuajoshi]

Hi all,
I've joined this forum 11 months ago and that is when I started with domaining.
At the start, I had a lot of dumb questions ( well, all of us have dumb questions when we start new things ) but after reading a lot of guides I felt ready to start investing.

I did a lot of dumb purchases, I hand regged CroatiaEscorts.com!! LOL. I bought 012n.com for like $100 on Godaddy auctions and those are the best ones, I did three more handregs that I'm too embarrassed to even share here. ( Mind you at the time I did those purchases I thought I hit the jackpot )

While doing those handregs I kept reading and looking at past sales. the 2 threads that helped me the most were Your Purchase of the day ( not handregs ) and the Reported completed domains sales.

I've started investing in domains I thought will have a good chance of being sold, with the first one being FindAdvisors/com that I purchased on Godaddy auctions for $255 and sold within 6 months for $2795 ( If I remember correctly ) on BB.
Also when I started receiving offers for domains I was afraid to negotiate so I just accepted the initial offers, now I have like 5-10 offers I rejected!
And then I did another sale with a $200 profit, and then another one. and then I did a private acquisition of HowToBuyCrypto/com for like $130 and sold for $900 not so long after, which gave me the idea to hand reg all of the available Bitcoin/Crypto related terms with over 500 searches a month and do outbound, which was a great success.


So far my DAN's dashboard shows $2,959 in sales, and all of the domains that were sold cost me $530.

I also sold a domain on Afternic 4 days ago for $988 that I've purchased for $12 on Godaddy Auctions ( waiting for the money to hit my PayPal and then I'll report the sale )

I currently have around 100 domains, which 20 of them are .CO I purchased for $.99 each and another 10-15 are handreggs. and 1/3 of the domains I have are listed on BB + SH.

I'm having fun and making money at the same time, is there anything better than that?

Hoping to have more sales soon! and I invite you to share your first X of domaining experience, too!

Thanks!

Wow very impressive progress. Motivation for me who is looking for first flip and it's been 9 months.
Many congratulation and good luck.

 

[RheiHawk]

Well done! That goes for your success and this thread. Additionally, I'm cracking up over the deal that was done in here Looks like CroatiaEscorts.com wasn't a total loss after all!