How can a Newbie recover from this mistake

[Parmeet]

Hi,

Like most New comers in this industry, I made the same mistake of registering a set of hand-registered domain names. I have registered 40 domain names before joining NamePros and after reading NP for a month I feel that I am in some trouble. I have listed these domain names on each market mentioned on the NP. But since they are Hand Regs I doubt that my decision to buy them. Because Domaining needs a lot of patience, I can hold these domain names for 3-5 years, but I don't know if they really have the Potential.

How can I overcome this? Should I start outbounding or I should just wait? Should I liquidate them at the end of registration period or Should I renew them all? The biggest question I have is what price should I enlist them? Below are the domains I have registered. Do you see any potential in these domain names?

PryNow.com
AttemptNow.com
BegNow.com
HeapNow.com
OweNow.com
PeelNow.com
PreferNow.com
ExamineNow.com
ForgetNow.com
CriticizeNow.com
KetogenicDietMenu.com
AdmireNow.com
BurpNow.com
DetermineNow.com
DislikeNow.com
ShutNow.com
DenyNow.com
IgnoreNow.com
ImplyNow.com
MarinateNow.com
MentionNow.com
NarrowNow.com
SnoreNow.com
StarTrailPhotography.com
SwearNow.com
ChesterfieldCountyRealEstate.com
DifferNow.com
ForbidNow.com
InsistNow.com
MoanNow.com
NeglectNow.com
PortMacquarieRealEstate.com
QuadrupleNow.com
RefuseNow.com
SpecifyNow.com
WashoeCountyRealEstate.com
AssumeNow.com
IntendNow.com
OvertakeNow.com
RealestateVsStocks.com
SupposeNow.com

 

[Parmeet]

Can someone please help me on this.

 

[johnn]

Register one more name
INeedToLearnNow
and consider the money you paid for these names are the money to pay for the lesson.
No one can help you but yourself.
10 people will have 12 different ideas and that would not help but confuse you more.

See you next year. Hope you will get better.

 

[Future Sensors]

Here's a Top 5000 with the most common domain prefix/suffixes.

https://gist.github.com/erikig/826f49442929e9ecfab6d7c481870700

Adding 'now' is not always bad, but you have to create better combinations.

 

[Parmeet]

Here's a Top 5000 with the most common domain prefix/suffixes.

Thanks a lot! That is a really helpful list

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Domain name investing is not easy, fast, or assured @Parmeet . A typical portfolio has a retail sell-through rate of about 1%, meaning that with a typical portfolio of 40 odds are there is about 1 chance in 2 that a single name would have sold at the end of one year.

The link above to popular keywords by @Future Sensors is a useful tool in assessing your domain names.

I would provide my clear opinion on the following question. No.

Should I renew them all?

It is almost never good advice to just renew all domain names. Evaluate each domain, being rigorous, and only keep names which you think have a good number of possible end users that would benefit from the name. If you feel that a better name could be acquired, then don't keep that one. I am not saying none of your domain names should be renewed. Just don't renew any without a clear analysis with a positive outcome.

You may find the following links helpful:

• Free Research Tools for Domain Investing
• A Selection of NamePros Resources for Those New to Domain Investing
• Hand Registering Domain Names (but really most apply to auction or closeout acquisitions as well)

Welcome to NamePros and best wishes for success. This is not easy, but it can be challenging, interesting, and rewarding.

Bob

 

[love4ever]

outbounding will not work with meanningless names , specially : SnoreNow.com / BegNow.com !!!
nobody wish to snore or to start begging !!

List them at the minimum price on afternic and sedo till the expiry , and try also nameliqidate maybe you will get some luck and sell few !

 

[SuperBrander]

The chance of one of these 'Now' domains to sell is 1 in a billion, IMO. None of them makes sense for a business to use. Consider this the price of education. Drop them all, learn more and buy better domains. The few that aren't using the word 'Now'... are slightly better.

 

[Samer]

Not the worst hand reg’s seen in my life;

Majority are two words

Submit them to highly selective Brandables marketplace for
“True test”

Thank you for sticking to .COM !!
No hyphen, numbers, or Special characters.
Better than you give yourself, credit for.

 

[Parmeet]

@Bob Hawkes @Samer Thanks for the response. I keep reading your answers here. You both are always ready to help Newbies like me.

 

[TauseefKhan]

I like when someone bulk registers on a single theme. (here is now which actually is not a strong prefix or suffix) as it increases the chances of sales. But, the keyword has to be strong.

Another thing is stick to names that businesses may value. One of the most common type of business names I have came across consists of two words. The first is a positive word like best, perfect, strong, etc. And, the second word is the industry or service the business caters to like finance, manufacturing, real-estate, tech, etc. Like StrongFinance, PerfectBuilders, etc.

Well, there is lot to learn and analyze as rightly said by @Bob Hawkes

 

[CraigD]

PortMacquarieRealEstate//com

Are you in Australia?

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Of the many now in your portfolio, I have an easier time seeing potential end use for ExamineNow.com than most of the others.

Possible end use might be something like online testing services (increased attention during pandemic), appraisals of documents or collectables, credential around software expertise, background check services, investigation, etc. I have not researched the name enough to say if you should keep it or not, and not looked at comparable past sales, if any, but I can see the logic in the name.

According to OpenCorporates here are 56 businesses and organizations that use or are alternatively known by a name that includes examine (although none with the word now as well). Now is used with other words a lot though, 20,000+ names on OpenCorporates include now.

I also looked at NameBio to see how many .com sales have now as a suffix. There were 489, a pretty respectable number. Here is the list organized by price. I might look at the list to find comparators, names that have sold say in the last 5 years, which have a verb + now structure and with the word of comparable suitability and common nature to examine.

As I said, I have not done the research needed for a renew decision, but if selecting one of your Now names to research more it would be this one. I hope this might help as you research others on your list.

Bob

PS Another useful check I just did was a Google search, with quotations, on "examine now". It yields quite a few results, and some of them gave me additional use possibilities I had not considered before, such as home inspection services, for example.

 

[alop]

Nothing is promising ...Even your 3-5 years

 

[Parmeet]

PortMacquarieRealEstate//com

Are you in Australia?

No, I was thinking to invest in real estate niche specific domains, and this one was one of the top searched globally, so I hand registered it.

 

[Mister Funsky]

Should I renew them all?

Not sure if anyone above said this yet, but the answer is 'no'. There could be a couple that might be worth hanging on to...the rest you should liquidate or drop.

Don't feel bad, I doubt there is one person here that has not made the same regging error (I've have hand regged MANY bad names over the years) but the key is learning from the experience.

Stop spending money and spend time reading and learning...successful domain investing takes time.

 

[theinvestor]

Next year take $400 and buy one domain. Take your time, do your research and then buy.

It’s better to buy one domain then register 40.

Best of luck moving forward.

 

[alcy]

nobody gets it on first try
...even neo...

domaining takes 1000s hours research and work
..then u make profit.

 

[Corey]

How can a Newbie recover from this mistake?

Learn from your mistakes

Cheers
Corey

 

[Parmeet]

Of the many now in your portfolio, I have an easier time seeing potential end use for ExamineNow.com than most of the others.

According to OpenCorporates here are 56 businesses and organizations that use or are alternatively known by a name that includes examine (although none with the word now as well). Now is used with other words a lot though, 20,000+ names on OpenCorporates include now.

I will try to find the end users in the same way. OpenCorporates would be a big help, Thanks for the idea.