discuss Is Hand Reg Really Dead?!?

[URL Stream]

Hello Everybody,

An oft repeated view is that the days of hand-registering a domain and subsequently turning a profit are done with. The purpose of this thread is to serve as a platform to explore this further.

Anyone who has hand registered a domain name and then successfully sold it, should please post it here. The more details, the better. For example; xxx.com, reg Nov 2023, sold May 2024, for $xxx. Points are being awarded for more recently registered dates, so if you regged in 2019 and sold it in 2024 that wouldn't help much with the stats for the current market trend. There is no specific cut-off date, but you get the point.

Again, this is specifically for completed transactions. Do not hijack this conversation to promote your fantasies. Also, please stick to factual statistics; short comments are reserved for any member who is actually posting his sale.

Hope to hear from you all!

 

[Molly]

Hi @shlyou25. This is an interesting idea. I sold When // I // Say // Jump (com) within 45 days of hand reg’ing it a couple of months ago.

 

[URL Stream]

Wow! If anyone posting is comfortable adding the sale price, please feel free to do so.
Let's keep them coming!!

 

[equity78]

No hand regging is not dead. It's hard to attain consistent results. Anyone can hand reg and sell a domain name, it's not unique or special. It's about can I replicate this success on a consistent basis for the juice to be worth the squeeze?

A hand reg is generally not going to be a liquid domain name. Liquid domain names have a market just about any time of day, every day. I am writing this at 11:36 pm my time but I could get a hold of people from different parts of the world and drum up interest for a LL or LLL.com. A domain name registered an hour ago, not so much.

So hand registered domain names will probably result in a 0.5 to 1% sell through rate on a decent sized portfolio of hand registered domain names, provided the portfolio is names that make some sense or have successfully touched upon a new trend that's in vogue.

So most people starting out are hand registering 10 or 20 maybe 50 names. You might go years without ever selling one, so then the old adage of hand regs are dead starts up.

There are plenty of long time domainers who don't advertise it or tweet it out who still hand register domain names from time to time, that's balanced with liquid domain names, solid two word.coms and one word popular keywords in alt extensions.

They are not, and no one else should either, dependent on hand regs to attain financial success in domaining.

This is a lonely business, you can go years without a sale, you might have beginner's luck and sell 3 your first month. Domaining is a numbers game. Plenty of people you see posting sold this for $29,888 and this for $8,888 oh and then this for $10,000. Own thousands of domain names, they start each year with a renewal bill in the tens or possibly hundreds of thousands of dollars.

This is not an easy business, the person who shared 20 sales in 2023 did not share the 9,000 names that never sold or maybe never got a decent offer.

You want to have a lot of things going on in this business, hand reg some, play the auctions, see if you can find someone who will let you work to sell one of their better names for a commission. 10% or 15% of an ultra premium domain name is probably better for many than a 100% of their strictly hand regged portfolio.

You need to have a budget and be diversified. Always have a safety net, if you have $1,000 do not blow that all at once, because unlike other collectibles because that's what your really doing, you are collecting hand regs like someone collects baseball cards or coins, you have to renew again the next year. Once you bought the card or the coin you don't have to worry about any of that. So have a safety net. And if you know how to truly build a real, modern website, that's a big plus.

 

[Blueleaf66]

It's not dead. I'm selling hand-regs, 95% of my portfolio are hand-regs. Hunting every day. Every sale I posted here on NP was a hand-reg name.

 

[alcy]

ever heard of sold names thread? go read it. all sales there. nobody gonna repost same stuff here that's all there

 

[Kyle Tully]

The existing sale thread generally includes whether it was a hand reg or not. There are plenty of sales. But as mentioned above, scaling it into a repeatable business is the trick.

 

[phaethon]

Quiet a few experienced domainers are very successful in hand registering as far as I know..They are actually more successful in hand registering..

 

[EtherealEmilie]

All my domains are hand-registered given I originally buy them because I have a project for them, I only try to sell them when I rename or abandon my project. I sold a couple.

 

[TehNeth]

Here's a few ways in which hand reg can be profitable:

- Reg based on long term trend prediction. Requires substantial patience, knowledge and research effort to do well.

- Reg based on expected short term developments in relevant industry or field.

- Hype / bandwagon / event jumping. For instance, regging mediocre names in high demand tld, regging domain hacks on recent big sales, diving on names relevant to topical matters, world events, celebrities etc.

- Hand regging and developing the domain yourself.

 

[alcy]

if u handreg use nothing other than expireddomains.net and be on time for drops. if u reg other ways u increase chances of unsellable name by ... well... a lot. 10 or 20yrs ago was different ... not now

 

[OceanKing]

Everyone do hand reg. It is part of domaining. no one can says i never do hand reg.

 

[The CEO]

I just hand reg 7 domains last night.

 

[Kyle Tully]

I just hand reg 7 domains last night.

Reg is the easy part

 

[MKA]

Hand-registrations works, but it should be expected to sell in ten years, not ten days.

And that's assuming you're registering domains that people actually want at some point.

 

[domainnews]

In the past，I have sold several hand-regged domains through platform or the sedo broker contacted me by email，but now Most of my domains are backordered from expired domains because the quality will be getting better and better by means of this way， apart from this， i also usually can register high quality domains depend on patience and knowledge that yeild to good result.

 

[M Ashraf]

Hand registration require huge work then you can hand register a good domain.

 

[Zavian]

There is a thread for completed sales - https://www.namepros.com/threads/report-completed-domain-name-sales-here.83628/

 

[lknights1987]

Hello Everybody,

An oft repeated view is that the days of hand-registering a domain and subsequently turning a profit are done with. The purpose of this thread is to serve as a platform to explore this further.

Anyone who has hand registered a domain name and then successfully sold it, should please post it here. The more details, the better. For example; xxx.com, reg Nov 2023, sold May 2024, for $xxx. Points are being awarded for more recently registered dates, so if you regged in 2019 and sold it in 2024 that wouldn't help much with the stats for the current market trend. There is no specific cut-off date, but you get the point.

Again, this is specifically for completed transactions. Do not hijack this conversation to promote your fantasies. Also, please stick to factual statistics; short comments are reserved for any member who is actually posting his sale.

Hope to hear from you all!

All the domains I sold ( 18) in the past 4 years have all been from hand reg apart from 1 domain which was bought on epik liquidation. I have bought quite a few domains at auction and not 1 has sold nor have I received any offers on them.

 

[zmmr]

All my domains are hand reg and sold lots of them
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