poll How many domain names do you own?

[Gerald K]

I`m wondering how many domains do you own in total?
How many domains do you buy and sell per year?

 

[dnk]

This year many will be dropping or selling many of their domain names as prices have reduced

 

[AndyM]

Around 50, down from 200. Looking to decrease further and move away from domaining and concentrate solely on development.

 

[metwebber]

I own 68, try to decrease 25-30 by increasing quality.

 

[nomen]

900 or so. Looking to get rid off of about 200-300 but to increase the numbers nevertheless closer to 1000. 99% .COMs.

 

[Negoshi]

There have been countless of threads asking the exact same question, so you can definitely take a look over it. (Also the reason why you are not getting comments)

In my opinion it does not matter how much domains you possess, it's about how good they are. So I buy a domain only if I think it's great enough and will sell. Past year I bought about 35 domains, and sold about 10.

I'd rather have 20 good domains than a thousand of crappy ones any day.

That being said, you can tell what's my portfolio size

What did the sales look like for those 10 domains you sold within the year, if you don't mind me asking?

 

[Mohammad]

224.

 

[Together4Forever]

Just over 500, 95% hand registered.

And I must add some of the top tech names

 

[domain66]

2100+

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

I'll update mine too. I pruned even more first to maybe around 1200 and then ramped up within last year and half to about 3700 domains currently. I haven't really checked the sales against the ramp up to have exact sell through, but I'd estimate at 1.5%-2%. With the launch of my marketplace, I expect 2-3%. As for quantity, I plan to get to 10K within 2 years and then add 5K-10K names every year.

Are you adding any money into domain investing from other businesses as well or solely from domain income?

 

[dragtastic]

301

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

Reinvesting part of domain income. How about you?

So most part of money invested into domains is from different businesses income which makes sense since you're targeting to add domains quite aggressively in coming time.

At my end, it's 100% domain income invested back into domains so I cannot be buying at the same pace like yours.

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

Thank you! I'd say about 50% of my domain income goes towards renewals and new acquisitions. I rarely buy brandables for $xxx, as I don't want to get into bidding wars with HD and others for the names that still won't sell above low to mid xxxx. $20 to $2500 even with a bit lower sell through is better than $200 to 5000.

Yes, it takes time to look through the lists to buy 5-20 names a day. But it also takes time to be in auctions and you have to be there stuck at certain hours.

The only auctions I still regularly participate is for LLLLs and added over 100 during the past year. Few brandables I bought for xxx lately are LaCherie, Briefa, Raily (sold) etc. Those would be the ones I can see an own use for pretty much.

Examples of the names I buy at closeouts are LetsGoRentals, ClayExpressions, Turanos, BJCustom, LifeRugs, ScienceBuy, InfluxFinancial, Keramio, Draska, TimelessHotel, Restaurantex, AutoRepairCare, Riville, Brackner, VestPartners, Fabna, SongMarketing, Trisla, H2OFactory, WeaponVault, QualityTreasures, Frangelli, Viazu, Lovesque, ModelReels, RightAthletics, Techtian, Steys, Nutscoop, BackyardHouse, RepairPages, Portahut, PalmaBella, Sharoco, WestPortraits, VermontHills, DyeWork, USAQuantum, SecretLog, LeftRightGaming, StraightRecords, Costean, PointPsychology, ForteMart, GloriousCraft, InstaTray, CareerAward, BallTutor, CaspianTrade, BrilliantWines, LifeProspects... These are just part of what I bought in last 2 weeks...

Very interesting to see how much % you invest back into buying and renewing domains. Also it looks like you focus these days (if not from long time) more on closeouts which is making your inventory going up pretty quickly.

Thank you for sharing the type of domains you've recently acquired. Some nice domains there

By the way, do you do outbound at all?

 

[Silentptnr]

320 currently

 

[armed2012]

404

 

[DiogoP]

4 in fact I think they are very low quality that's why I did not sell none yet.. Well just started on domaining in January so it's not so bad isn't it?

 

[msgc1188]

over 350

 

[Windoms]

I was probably not clear. I am reinvesting earnings from domains, not other sources.

But probably you select names more expensive to acquire? I currently buy either llll.com for xxx to xxxx or brandable names for very low xx$. With the latter category, adding 1000 names costs around $20k.

Adding 100 llll.com costs as much as adding 1500-2000 brandable names.

For good, descent names picked at low xx$, what's the efficient sales price?
Efficient: if one wishes to sell and acquire more.
1500, 2000, or 5000?

 

[Windoms]

@Recons.Com from your experience