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My name is Andrew. I'm from the USA, but currently living in Beijing, China as a university lecturer. Maybe you could consider me an early-intermediate level in the domain industry. I bought my first domain when I was just becoming a silly teenager about 20 years ago - funmp3s.com - which I dropped due to lack of interest and concern about copyright violation at the time. I wish I had followed up on my dream of making a ramen website!

I got back in by buying a few .com/s about three years ago when I started an online teaching business. Now I have about 100 domains, mostly because I got over-zealous in purchasing .world when it came out.

Reading the forums here, there are obviously mixed feelings about gTLDs. I've already dropped a couple dozen because I realized the renewal costs will eat me up, but have continued to hold on to many to sell like drive.world, savethe.world, freedom.world, girlfriend.world and work.world. I've posted many in the market here.

So far, I've had two .world sales for over $1000 each (herb.world and jump.world) and am hoping to finalize my third and largest sale yet this month. I posted on sedo and uniregistry but the turn-around is slower than I had anticipated, so I came here looking for more opportunity and ideas.

I don't anticipate making substantial speculative purchases in the future, though I am interested in acquiring domains related to my business ideas for development, which mostly relate to online education as you can see below, none of which I really want to sell:

ai.education / ar.academy / ar.education / ar.school / ar.training / mixedreality.school / mixedreality.training / mr.academy / mr.school / mr.training / teach.education / teach.world / teacher.world / virtualreality.education / virtualrealityschool.com / vr.academy

Am I on the right track? I'd like to learn about appraising current and future values of gTLD, negotiating skills for buying and selling, and finding effective new methods of selling my domains other than sedo and uniregistry.

This community is an amazing resource, the industry is fun and interesting, and I look forward to learning and sharing ideas with you all!
 
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Welcome to the world of domains
 
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awesome domains in your inventory bro. Seems you already a pro at this :xf.cool::xf.cool:
welcome to the namepros !!

Hope to see you around. I assume you can speak chinese too, you do right ?
 
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awesome domains in your inventory bro. Seems you already a pro at this :xf.cool::xf.cool:
welcome to the namepros !!

Hope to see you around. I assume you can speak chinese too, you do right ?
I've never taken a class, but I've picked up over 500 spoken words! Enough to buy things and joke around! Thanks for your comments.
 
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Heya Pazu .. welcome aboard!

The domains you've listed aren't as horrible as I thought they'd be for gTLD's .. lol .. the fact you've sold a couple for $1000+ means you're doing something right! :)

You've mentioned a few I think are good .. and a few I think not so much ... but that's like all portfolios (well .. actually better than most with gTLD's .. lol)

Good luck in your domaining adventures! :)
 
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Welcome to NP Andrew...
Congratulations on your sales, very few nGTLD sales have been reported and as you mentioned the community has mixed reaction to them. Some LOVE them other HATE them and most are proceeding cautiously buying a few and waiting for things to clear around them. You have some nice domains that make sense in being short and left/right of the dot go nicely together. Best of luck with domaining and teaching. Hope you'll stick around and learn from all the amazing talent here, and also offer your take on domaining in general and on the Chinese Market in particular since you are there now.
 
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Hope you'll stick around and learn from all the amazing talent here, and also offer your take on domaining in general and on the Chinese Market in particular since you are there now.

Interesting to mention that. I checked existing gTLD sales and saw some were posted on Chinese domain sales websites like 190.com and west.cn. However, I'm sorry to report these are not good options for selling to China. West.cn requires hosting on their own registrar to list domains and I can't figure out how to get 190.com to work yet, but it's likely the same deal.
 
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Nice intro. good read. wish you more success and sales.Welcome to NP. :)
 
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Hey welcome !

What is your speciality ?
 
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Interesting to mention that. I checked existing gTLD sales and saw some were posted on Chinese domain sales websites like 190.com and west.cn. However, I'm sorry to report these are not good options for selling to China. West.cn requires hosting on their own registrar to list domains and I can't figure out how to get 190.com to work yet, but it's likely the same deal.

I've also tried some of these marketplaces with no success, The only success I had was with 4.cn, they have an English version and although they have some issues (like verifying domains) and other little annoyances they usually respond to support tickets and emails and resolve any issues. They also have a large of user base so maybe worth trying.
 
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ʬʬʬELCOME @ nP

I was reading about your
.world domains / sales, congrats!
I also own a few (premium)
.world domains, you are welcome to le me know (PM) if interested to know them.
 
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Hey Andrew

Welcome to NamePros!

Nice names, great sales, good luck
 
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G'day Andrew and welcome to NamePros,

Whilst learning, stick with .com.

Understand domaining before you enter the gTLD's

Cheers
Corey
 
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I've also tried some of these marketplaces with no success, The only success I had was with 4.cn, they have an English version and although they have some issues (like verifying domains) and other little annoyances they usually respond to support tickets and emails and resolve any issues. They also have a large of user base so maybe worth trying.

@JoeE I probably will use that, thanks a lot!
 
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Welcome to NamePros. Like the experts mentioned, please stick to what works...Go with .com's.

Good luck!!
 
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