From wwweb;
I work for myself. E and I domains have have been pretty slow for the last few years, and that trend is pretty dried up now, mixed into a gtld combo, that’s another wasted registration.
Right now registrations are around $10-15, it is stated quite clearly when you register renewal are going to be $30-40 next year based on your account status. So yes it is a fact.
These names were not released 45 days ago, but over a year ago. The people who you know when they had the chance, and traction of gtld marketing releases behind them screwed this up over false hope, and greed. When they saw no traction they had to remarket at a lower pricing model, otherwise their extension was kaput.
I understand you weren’t born yesterday but your namepros registration date of Nov 2017, with restricted status shows you kind of were in this space.
There is a million great .homes domains, actually every major city can have a good name attached to it. The problem is the registry has reserved, and put unattainable high premiums on them, or nobody in the industry is willing to pay a middle man premium for one because they have other options. If you ask any schooled domainer how hard it is to deal in the real estate space in general, they will have you shaking your head to some of your buys.
Guys like Brad have nothing to prove here, his opinion which you are getting for free is quite valuable, as he has a great track record. You wouldn’t know this because you have been here since 2017, and have been to busy bickering to actually listen to people who are successful in this industry.
That’s great you went to namescon, and have that warm tingly feeling when you got back home, but it’s a marketing event, it did what it was supposed to do, give you hope, get you to come back home, and spend more money, even though you are just doing what you think is right, not following sales trends, or reports.
I think there was some flyers you could have taken on the rerelease of this extension that may yield $1500 or less type sales, but it is going to take time, and real estate brokers love to low ball so if you want to waste your golden years listening to lowball $100 offers on your precious .homes gems be my guest.
Nobody ever said domaining was easy, to be honest domaining is the hardest I have ever seen it in 2019.
Let’s take your precious egreen.homes as an example the .com someone didn’t think was worth renewing for $10 in 2017, where it dropped, and passed thru backordered, and was finally caught on a low tier catch by huge names, and sits with a parking for sale lander, with payment plan unsold. Now how do you expect to sell your gem, when they make it quite easy to acquire the .com? Do you realize the gtld contracts allow registries to raise prices by infinite amounts, and they don’t need to inform the registrant, only the registrar.
As for poking fun, no that was an observation, yes I believe smart.homes was $600k, if you don’t see an issue with that, then I guess you proved my point throughout this thread that you have absolutely no idea what you are doing, and maybe it is time for the powers to be to take your credit card away from you so you don’t do anymore financial harm to yourself, or your family.
I wish you luck, but your working much to hard to to find yourself 2 steps behind from where you first started.
From ThatNameBuy™
Wow...your rant proves to me that this industry is just as screwed up as Verisign said. A couple of things I'll address however involves your misinterpretation of the facts, and your statement that the registry will be going up 3 x 4 times the current renewal soon after someone buys a
.homes domain. Just for the record, when I buy a
.homes domain directly from Dominion it clearly states: "$29.98 / year renewal". I don't know what that means to you, but I know what it means....at least for my first year of renewal, if the fee has changed, their in some
BIG trouble as far as I'm concerned. For the record, they don't want to mess with me, not just because of who I know in this town, but what I know.
And as for your comments about selling domain names to the real estate markets, the typical model of how domains are sold to "end users" is fraught with failure. You don't know what you don't know, and I guess you don't know there's a new domainer on the block that knows just a little more about selling to "end users" than you'll ever know. I guess you haven't had a cute realtor (yes sexist) working a booth at the National Association of Home Builders convention in Vegas selling domains to builders. Shame on you if you never thought of that
Then as for Dominion hoarding all the good domains, that's only partially true. Yes, they own most of the big city names, but a friend of mine and I own names like; Sonoma.homes, Coranado.homes and names for some of the fastest growing communities in the country. Shame on you again if you never thought of that.
Finally, I just bought the name Bills
.homes this am and it's valued at GD for $2,313 (see the "marketing" reason why a majority of my domains are hand reg'd at GD) BillsHomes.com is for sale for a little over $3,000 at afternic or "if" I could have bought it at GD for reg fee of just $8 I'd own that too. Then take a look at Bobs
.homes or Miller
.homes (premium domains owned by Dominion) or any other common first or last name .coms and you'll learn that it just isn't large city names that realtors or builders are interested in. Shame on you again for not doing research.
That's about all I can say to you other than you should think seriously about the domain business model that's holding you down.Maybe it's time for a change
