discuss How much domains You got ?

[Donmarick]

Maybe some members want to share their stats of portfolio and how much they earn on domains ?
I will start:
Number of domains: 79
month revenue: 90$
source: ads on developed part of domains.

 

[ivey]

The problem with a smaller portfolio is that there will be fewer sales...

I had only four sales in 2018 for a total of 43K (2 x $X,XXX, 2 x $XX,XXX), but from March to September there were no sales at all. No sales = no cash flow = no good buys == no momentum.

43K would do me well lol. That's a yearly income for many(And more than many).
I do get a level of consistent interest in the top names i have. So if i have 100 top names then I believe it's possible. 150 may be more feasible though..because I also buy trendy names that get quite some interest too. But I know quite too well what you said... going months with zero sales....(it puzzles me sometimes). This happens even when i had more names. So having less names mean less renewals, and a higher probability of a high price sale which could easily renew 100-150 names. Then everything else is profit. I can't be spending so much on renewals monthly.. I could be eating Chi-Fil-A or Shake shack..lol

That's why I am developing and starting businesses too, so I can have multiple income streams and be a more effective domain investor.

 

[uzver]

43K would do me well lol. That's a yearly income for many(And more than many).
I do get a level of consistent interest in the top names i have. So if i have 100 top names then I believe it's possible. 150 may be more feasible though..because I also buy trendy names that get quite some interest too. But I know quite too well what you said... going months with zero sales....(it puzzles me sometimes). This happens even when i had more names. So having less names mean less renewals, and a higher probability of a high price sale which could easily renew 100-150 names. Then everything else is profit. I can't be spending so much on renewals monthly.. I could be eating Chi-Fil-A or Shake shack..lol

That's why I am developing and starting businesses too, so I can have multiple income streams and be a more effective domain investor.

Well, 43K would do well for me too After deducting acquisition costs and Uni/Escrow fees I've got 36.5K net (which is still not bad for most, I understand). To get to this point, however, I invested roughly the same amount of money during the preceding 18 months. It paid off, but there is no magic.

I'm also trying to develop some sites for diversification, but after three years into domaining I think I'm getting better at it and I'm currently pouring all my income into domains as the most profitable niche to grow fast (I understand it won't last forever).

 

[ALBROKER]

I had 3200 in 2017-2019 now I have 1050
I dropped most ngtld and sold/dropped most .info .biz also
My 1050 domains 950 .com and 100 the rest
Trying to let my portfolio up to 2500 domains again by the end of 2019 but with only .com purchases

 

[Recons.Com]

Can you share more details on your inbound leads, please? Did they come from whois or your own marketplace? I'm very interested in the latter because I'm trying to understand your (successful) strategy to compete with the likes of Afternic/Sedo/etc, i.e., at what price ranges end users feel comfortable to approach a less known marketplace.

So referring to your own marketplace sales, could you share the following:
1) How many sales with make offer only and what were the final sale prices (ranges will do)?
2) How many sales with BIN (or BIN + make offer) and what were your BIN prices on those?
3) For domains with BINs, what is your strategy for pricing the domains on your own marketplace vs other venues? Do you set the same prices everywhere or compensate for 10-20% fees?

My marketplace is still work in progress. It was pretty much direct contact via phone or email. I got about 10-15% sales that way, same averages.

My commission average was around 16% (from 0 to 35% percent range).

Most sales were bin or negotiated down. I don't do many make offer ones.

I price the names the same or bin at Afternic and make offer at another place. I don't like being confusion.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

p.s. It was always interesting for me what is my maximum, and now I know it.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Nowadays, when aftermarket is continiously trending down, such strategy is dangerous...
The more domains - the more time and health you must burn... up to level where personal life will disappear at all.
That's why other reinvest directions should be considered also.

 

[Fancy.domains]

What are some of your favorite, present or past?

Do you mean my favorite domains?

If, ngTLDs are my favorites at the moment.

 

[Anna_M]

After ~11 years of domaining I don't think that 100% reinvesting into domains (only) is a good way.

Same thoughts - hard assets like land, real estate, business and gold are cooler for peace of mind . Domains are 'agreements' in essence, so counterparty risk. But they are interesting and keep you away from having to go to the office Provided you invested 10K Gladwell's hours to learn it bien sur

 

[spikedo]

Reached 1,400 the other day

 

[mani0307]

350 and 70% Hand Reg

 

[dragtastic]

I'm around 400, want to downsize to around 250-300 soon

 

[Recons.Com]

Why do you want to know?
My wife don't even know how may names I have.
Beside 1,000 crap names is not equal to 1 good name so the question is who care?

Why you want to know why he wants to know? ))

And why am I asking why you are asking?! )))

 

[DomainCrystal]

I only have + - 500 domains at the moment ..
99% I have .COM + 1% .NET
I'm so comfortable...

 

[dande]

I only have less than a hundred.

How do you guys manage 1000s of domains? spreadsheet or software?
The amount of work to list them on various marketplaces is crazy.

You don't get those 1000s at once. You buy and list as you go. One or two at a time, that's what I do. Mine is still at 100s but I plan going thousand this year or next, with majority as super premium.

 

[Recons.Com]

Oh, I didn't think about it from this angle. Makes sense.

But the question is how would I motivate buyers to buy the domain from me instead of, say, Godaddy?

I would not do it with price, except what @bmugford said above.

If even with lander GD beats you as being more attractive venue to buy, kudos to them. It means otherwise deal would not have happened.

Just work on earning brand name and reputation with time, do some tricks to instill confidence in buyers etc.

 

[uzver]

I would not do it with price, except what @bmugford said above.

If even with lander GD beats you as being more attractive venue to buy, kudos to them. It means otherwise deal would not have happened.

Just work on earning brand name and reputation with time, do some tricks to instill confidence in buyers etc.

That's exactly what I wanted to know

BTW, I noticed that some domains listed at Afternic and BuyDomains redirect type-in traffic to a lander without a price and make offer button, but if you use search on their websites, those domains are priced. So I'm guessing it can be a viable strategy for my own marketplace (at the expense of low ball offers ) - a perfect motivation to get in touch with me first by asking for a quote. No scaring prices, no make offer decisions...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

will you have 6k again in another 6 months?

I will have again If necessary for me... and if I have time and health...

 

[Name Trader]

After ~11 years of domaining I don't think that 100% reinvesting into domains only is a good way.

Well that's about the number of years I've been in this business too. But it's probably only the last 7-8 years that I've been trying hard to grow in size, and re-investing all of my sales revenues. hopefully in better quality names. The proof will be if we sell more domains for more revenue every year. Which are erratic., year-on-year. For sure. But, I THINK, I'm moving forward. At least.

 

[Name Trader]

Nowadays, when aftermarket is continiously trending down, such strategy is dangerous...
The more domains - the more time and health you must burn... up to level where personal life will disappear at all.
That's why other reinvest directions should be considered also.

I hear what you are saying. For sure.

 

[Maldo]

I am trying to keep my portfolio at 500 names, but I will try to get it up to 1000 in 2020. I can make a living from my domaining.

What are some of your favorite, present or past?

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

I am able to find about 20-30 names a day I want to have, but the bottleneck is adding to marketplaces and marketing properly. I feel like just collecting is not effective, when I have a backlog of hundreds that I already own, but don't properly market. And this includes adding to afternic, adding to brandable marketplaces (Brandpa and Squadhelp for now, Brandroot and Brandbucket have been dead slow), launching my own marketplace and featuring them there etc.

So I am forcing myself just to get 1-10 a day and probably will reach 4K mark by the end of 2019.

But, numbers aside, there are bunch of other similarities I find with you. Perhaps, because if you are a logical person, you will be thinking/acting the same way as others like you.

Definitely that's very time consuming task.
I think taking a break for maximum one week would help you to sort out all pending work.

 

[AbdulBasit.com]

I wish )) took 3 months off and did not help. I have too many other projects off the domains, including a magazine that want to launch in few month, managing real estate partnership for 65000 square feet new development, mixed sports, retail, office, a 2 year old baby and so on

Oh well... That's too many tasks! I thought you're solely into domaining.

 

[Jay Ha]

There are what? 10k domain names in this thread alone? I can't even think of 1k good names lol.

I'm at 109 names at the moment. 106 .COM and 3 ngTLDs. Into my 8th month in domaining. Had a hand reg rush in the first couple of months but then I moved my focus into closeouts with the odd hand reg every now and then. 80 hand regs and 29 aftermarket names to be specific.

I still have a backlog in listing names (especially on Sedo and my own marketplace).

 

[AndrewDTG]

I plan to reinvest 100% of my first sale back in to growing My Domain Collection!

 

[uzver]

~150 domains. No hand regs. 25-30% .orgs (but buying more .coms lately).