How you got started selling domains?

[DSL]

Im always curious as to how people have started on this so once again, how did you start in this business? What got you interested? :]

 

[redhippo]

just starting out, from stories of mega sales to namepros.
hooked.
hope to be trading soon
once i learn the ropes,
a bit scary though from
the way some registars are doing there business:gn:

 

[Elefekt]

i started because it was kind of fun. now i still have fun..

 

[chelsea]

I started with a .us .

The word had come to my mind that day and when I ( by mistake ) found yahoo domain registration I was even willing to pay $70 for the 2 year registration. This domain is still more worth to me than any other one and I will probably keep it forever and a day.
Unfortunately I can´t manage this domain recently (check my other thread for it and possible help, please ).

Anyhow, I then tried all "useful" words to see they were all registered, but I got some more in the meantime.
I have sold a few names to end-users and can´t complain, but this business is taking a lot of time away from me, time I have no more (and never had...it´s called missing sleep ).
I still class it as good fun and as long as I make more money than I spend that is fine. (P.S. but don´t tell my hubby : this is such a great community here that I would not want to leave...)

 

[XxFaTexX]

I want to know how to get started as i am interested but do not know how to as opf my n00biness , lol

 

[fifihopkin]

Have been in the computer industry for yonks. Mostly commodity trading.
Have been involved in the web development of my various companies. And more recently SEO for personal gain and profit.
I used Mydomains for nameserver stuff and they sent me an email regarding Namewinner. Trawelled through the names and found one I liked and decided to bid (for purely education purposes). It just happened that my baby would wake for a feed at 3am which is the drop time (in Australia) for the domains in USA. After the feed, in the cold wee hours I booted up the trusty PowerBook to see how the auction went. After a brief flurry of bids I won the auction and then lucked the name drop (didn't know this at the time). I pointed the name at my website and a few days later I get an email from a guy wanting his domain name back. I sold it back to him for a very small profit. And thought how easy is this! I got the bug. To this day it is the best name I have lucked. I have got some names that have been better but I have had to pay for them. It adds to that conspiracy theory that your best auction is your first with namewinner.
So now I have incorporated my name drop obsession with my day-to-day business for justification.
For me and I think a lot of people, it is a case of one man's trash is another man's treasure. When I was a kid we would go to Lightening Ridge and go through all the opal mining tailings looking for black opals the miners missed. We would spend hours going through dirt looking at discarded rocks. It is the same feeling. Going through discarded names hoping to find a gem everyone else has missed. At least with domaining I do not have to lick dusty rocks!!!

 

[Elefekt]

to further my starting i found this forum and got interested :p