question How has been your September so far in sales?

[twiki]

Tomorrow is 20th, 10 days remaining from September (one third).

Been watching my sales and I'm not happy. Likely going to be in a small profit but that's not enough. It looks so far identical to August in sales.

I'm also always watching the reported sales thread. When I get lots of sales, there are lots of sales there too. Especially in the 4-fig area there's always a speed match. I can tell NP-ers are not selling that much these days - from what I see there.

How about you? How has been your September so far?

( Edit: my .coms are selling a little, but in other TLDs there has been a grinding halt to zero in the last 30 days. )

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

They are not new, 7 years elapsed already. Just another wave of gTLDs.
I already sold 16 of them for high $xxx per domain on average, almost all within 1st year. Inbound only.
Regged for promo/standard fee.

Lowest: $101
Highest: $5K

 

[karmaco]

With all due respect, nobody knows by reports on here how everyone is selling. Very few participate or report here. Some will only report certain sales. Some report nothing at all. Some think reporting every little sale is important. Others do not.

The same can be said for your own sales. You having a bad month is not an indicator everyone is and vice versa.

 

[twiki]

With all due respect, nobody knows by reports on here how everyone is selling. Very few participate or report here. Some will only report certain sales. Some report nothing at all. Some think reporting every little sale is important. Others do not.

The same can be said for your own sales. You having a bad month is not an indicator everyone is and vice versa.

Well, in the last 3 years as I've always watched, there was always a correlation between my sales volume and the number of sales reported per day in the sales thread.

So I have to disagree. It's not a simple coincidence.

Edit: And it also usually matches Namebio trends as well. Please note that I have a larger portfolio (25k) with very different domains and TLDs and niches so I'm all over the board, and this makes the sales more smoothly distributed and less fluctuations. It might not be the case if I had a specialized portfolio.

Edit2: Not everyone will, of course. But for me the sales thread is basically a valid trend monitoring tool. Not only that but also the breakdown on common TLDs usually matches my own breakdowns per TLD.

 

[DanBingham]

September for me too has seen Zero sales but I'm optimistic for the next few months in the run up to Christmas. July and August saw some $$$ sales but I'm not too concerned. I'm already in profit this year to renew those quality names, invest in more and still have some funds still available.

 

[Name Trader]

I liked this part best. I've said before. The only people making money off of the NewGTLD's are the Registries. They are even selling some of these new domains, at premium prices, directly from the registry~registrar chain. I wonder how many of these new online retailers (because of COVID), will realize they cannot rely on their domain for maximizing customers, since most people (in the buying public) still have no idea what a NewGTLD is. Which means a lot of money has to be poured into SEO etc, in order to get their domains into the SERPS.

Not to mention: Most nGTLDs won't even work for email.

That could be all the profits lost for that business.[/QUOTE]

I read this before. But only just got to it. Can you give us some examples of some of of the NGTLD's which don't have emails. I've never come across one. But maybe I just have a 5th instinct about this.

 

[Jamor]

well I just bought my first ever domain this month, wish me luck to sell it, appreciate your thread keep up

JAMOR

 

[Name Trader]

well I just bought my first ever domain this month, wish me luck to sell it, appreciate your thread keep up

JAMOR

Wish you luck. What's the domain name?

 

[tomcarl]

I made the same observation the other day...
Those times when there's a rush of reported sales post on NP...
I'll be having an Influx of inquiries/sales as well. Seems connected.

 

[manuelbroker89]

well still 0, pretty sad actually.
but its a process....

 

[syedzaheer]

no sales

 

[Jamor]

Wish you luck. What's the domain name?

thank you

AskPsychiatrist (com)

 

[blogspotter]

I had 6 sales till the 15th of this month and have been quite for 1 week. But I have 2 pending sales now. WIll see how they go.

July was bad but August was 5 figures in profit. September also crossed 5 figures, but not sure how the rest of the month will hold up.

My average sales are 1999, 2499 and 2999

 

[VadimK]

I had 6 sales till the 15th of this month and have been quite for 1 week. But I have 2 pending sales now. WIll see how they go.

July was bad but August was 5 figures in profit. September also crossed 5 figures, but not sure how the rest of the month will hold up.

My average sales are 1999, 2499 and 2999

Care to tell portfolio size and if it's com/other tlds? Thanks!

 

[blogspotter]

Care to tell portfolio size and if it's com/other tlds? Thanks!

Till last week I had over 3000. This week I bought a 1000 domain portfolio

I don't focus on any particular TLD. It is skewed towards .co because I buy thousands during promo but I have a lot of .io and .com and some ccTLDs

I like nGTLDs too but they are way too expensive in the wholesale market for my taste.

 

[Fancy.domains]

I've had two sales in September so far, but I'm happy with that as I have increased 50-60% of my prices. My portfolio is also much smaller compared with 2018, which was a really good year for me, but I am actively increasing the number of names again.

 

[Robin A.]

No sales, no offers yet this month. At least the visitors are picking up after the summer holidays. Next sale is just around the corner... I can taste it in my spit.

 

[blogspotter]

Another sale today I crossed 18K in sales this month. I also still have a couple sales in pending status. I think I have been lucky this month and won't read much into it, because from my friends with whom I chat regularly about sales, half of them have good sales, and the other half are doing very badly. This is regardless of portfolio size. Meaning all have decent sized portfolio

 

[twiki]

Less than 10 k this month. For me that's a bad month. Lots of bits and bobs sold.

But the month is not finished yet.

Note, I see a bit of uptick in reported sales. Not much yet but encouraging.

 

[twiki]

Another sale today I crossed 18K in sales this month. I also still have a couple sales in pending status. I think I have been lucky this month and won't read much into it, because from my friends with whom I chat regularly about sales, half of them have good sales, and the other half are doing very badly. This is regardless of portfolio size. Meaning all have decent sized portfolio

Quick question:

Were your sales mostly in single-word, non-COM's ?

Cause that's what tends to sell during this September.

 

[twiki]

thank you

AskPsychiatrist (com)

Not a bad name but keep it at xxx range so you sell it soon.