question I have no idea what to do next

[Laguna]

I've been buying domain names for 7 months now and realize I've bought some bad names, but also believe that I have acquired some very good ones too. I have them for sale at afternic and sedo but as yet have had no sales or enquiries. I know it can take a long time to sell just one but jeez. I've sent loads of outbound emails but had no response. Just don't know what to do next apart from wait .

 

[JudgeMind]

This is not a get rich quick avenue.. it also is a numbers game. The more good quality domains you have, the more sales or interest you’ll have from buyers. One thing I can say is be certain you are capturing direct traffic to your domains.. meaning, use efty, undeveloped or uniregistry etc to post a for sale sign on your domains. So many of my sales come directly through landers.

 

[Laguna]

This is not a get rich quick avenue.. it also is a numbers game. The more good quality domains you have, the more sales or interest you’ll have from buyers. One thing I can say is be certain you are capturing direct traffic to your domains.. meaning, use efty, undeveloped or uniregistry etc to post a for sale sign on your domains. So many of my sales come directly through landers.

I've currently got them on sedo and afternic .

 

[MapleDots]

Find someone who knows what they are doing to go through your portfolio maybe get a few people and a few points of view.

Just don't do that via PM (Private Message), I've seen situations where new members were persuaded to trade some pretty good names for crap. I remember saying to myself.... you traded for that? holy crap, they were twice as bad as what the poor guy gave up.

In other words he was hustled by someone appearing on the surface to want to help him.

 

[MR Harrist]

Property
Crypto
Cellphones
Airtaxi
Insurance
Recruitment
These are just a few but are many more

actually you can mention your domain, so everyone can know your domain have hope or not :D lol

without knowing your domain its hard to tell!

for example if your domain cellphones(in king) mean dot Com, I am sure someday someone will buy it! but if your domain cellphones(org), its hard to tell, because obviously cellphones and ORg doesn't sound right! even though if you have luck! believe it or not, someone will buy it! though! the price will not high, but again it will depend on situation! if you can play your card right and play hard to get :D maybe you can get decent price! But I have to tell you, domain biz are almost same like investment! sometime you loose sometime you win unless you want to risk big money! something like buy 1 word com with reseller price, and then you you sell at end user price! but for me personally its still risky

Btw don't hope to much, especially when you spend $10 i.e HandReg domain !

 

[vital]

I've been buying domain names for 7 months now and realize I've bought some bad names, but also believe that I have acquired some very good ones too. I have them for sale at afternic and sedo but as yet have had no sales or enquiries. I know it can take a long time to sell just one but jeez. I've sent loads of outbound emails but had no response. Just don't know what to do next apart from wait .

I could tell you to be patient, but once you understand the game better, you'd call me hypocrite.

So...

I've been buying domain names...
Buying means buying or registering? General advice here is stay away from registrations, specially if you haven't nurtured "sense" for saleable domains. The more you have the more you pay. Every year!

...for 7 months now...
Good opportunities come and go. So many streams of domains to buy, not so many mid-high margin domains though. After 7 months you may have 1 to 1000+ domains, who knows.

...and realize I've bought some bad names, but also believe that I have acquired some very good ones too.
How do you rank those domains? By how "nice" they are, or by how much you like em? Don't use your eyes, but potential buyer's eyes. I strongly recommend to be pessimistic and work on your sense for saleable domains. Not that you only need to know what sells, but you also have to be quiet precise with your valuations. The more precise the better.

I have them for sale at afternic and sedo but as yet have had no sales or enquiries.
If you have a domain listed at popular marketplace without single offer for such a long time, it's not a good sign. Any domain could sell for whatever price, but do you want to bet on odds of selling supershittylongdomain.weirdextension for $1M? I would not.

I know it can take a long time to sell just one but jeez.
It takes long time to sell random domains. It's much easier to move good names though.

I've sent loads of outbound emails but had no response.
There surely is a reason for that. You either try to sell shitty names OR your prices are insane OR your emails are crap OR you target wrong potential buyers OR your emails end up in the spam...

Just don't know what to do next apart from wait.
One thing you can do is improve!

• save cash by buying less crap, to get one good name
• buy with confidence. think first before you hit Buy/Register button.
• make sure you know who need that domain and why before you buy. if you don't know, do not buy.
• research potential leads and make sure there are multiple, not just one. the more the better.
• learn more about the domain, research it's history, find out why your leads still don't own it. is it because they don't need it? or is it because it was unavailable? you don't have to own the domain to find out.

If you have strong name, avoid typical outbound. It could affect the price in a negative way... What you want to do is teasing potential buyers by simply informing them about availability, possibility, whatever. They have to chase you if you want to sell for serious money.

There is lot more to it, but if you can implement at least few points, you should do better.

My opinion!

 

[Laguna]

Great post and very informative.
Appreciate it bud. Thanks

 

[~ The 34 Year Buzz!!]

... I have them for sale at afternic and sedo but as yet have had no sales or enquiries....

You are competing against everyone else doing things the "normal way". Setting out on a truly original path (developing unique sites and finding end users in creative new ways) can be rough, but very rewarding long-term. Also you can do some "normal" while experimenting with original ideas.

....

Oh and enjoy yourself.

Great advice, you need to want to be a great "domain scalper"

 

[Laguna]

Are there any experienced domainers on here I can direct message with just one of my domains so you can look at it on afternic and click on the rest of my domains to see what I have. I really want to get in to this game but need to know if I have made any good buys and know that they are the kind I should concentrate on.
Kind regards

 

[Ben Ahmaid]

Iam new too and made horrible mistakes in domaning (in life too)
ًًWhat I have learned lately domains are sorted in three grades:
-NEED (startups and companies daying to get them)
-WANT ( they want them as possible as they can)
-DESIRE (medium chances to sell)
Now, our (possible) field is DESIRE names we may have chanses !
The other two grades are really difficult to acquire and handle .
In fact we are (me& you, I guess) in scrap yard we've got to be very careful
Finally it is just a newbie opinion.
Wish you good luck

Mohamed

 

[Laguna]

Thanks Mohamed, nice post.
I'm here to learn as much as possible so I don't spend a fortune making big mistakes.

 

[MapleDots]

I really want to get in to this game but need to know if I have made any good buys and know that they are the kind I should concentrate on.

Look I'm going to try and be really honest with you here.

The Mike Mann's of the world (google it) have bought out anything useful in the .com domain industry. The rest of us have picked up the scraps hoping to catch the few dollars the so called kings of the industry have missed.

So when you hand register new domains chances are they have not nor never will be a viable domain. The only real chance you have is to look at TRENDING subjects in the news and on https://trends.google.com/trends/?geo=US

When any new term, item, politician, satire... anything of any substance comes up jump on it and register a domain.

I remember when covfefe the misspelled twitter word from donald trump came up some fast guy snapped up covfefe.com. I actually offered him 5k for it because I had a satire website planned but he did not sell and held out for a bigger payday. Today he lists it on Sedo and 200 bucks is his highest offer. So he should have taken the deal and kept on with new trends.

That is my advice to you. Personally you can go to the poor house trying to hand register random combinations. It may not feel like it at first but renewals crop up very fast.

Anyways.... good luck to you

 

[Laguna]

Look I'm going to try and be really honest with you here.

The Mike Mann's of the world (google it) have bought out anything useful in the .com domain industry. The rest of us have picked up the scraps hoping to catch the few dollars the so called kings of the industry have missed.

So when you hand register new domains chances are they have not nor never will be a viable domain. The only real chance you have is to look at TRENDING subjects in the news and on https://trends.google.com/trends/?geo=US

When any new term, item, politician, satire... anything of any substance comes up jump on it and register a domain.

I remember when covfefe the misspelled twitter word from donald trump came up some fast guy snapped up covfefe.com. I actually offered him 5k for it because I had a satire website planned but he did not sell and held out for a bigger payday. Today he lists it on Sedo and 200 bucks is his highest offer. So he should have taken the deal and kept on with new trends.

That is my advice to you. Personally you can go to the poor house trying to hand register random combinations. It may not feel like it at first but renewals crop up very fast.

Anyways.... good luck to you

Thanks bud