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!

 

[dirk]

As someone who owned over 2,500 handregs I can tell you that:

1) Hand-regs will inherently have lower STR. Good names are taken. Whether registered in the 90's, 2000's, or will be picked up when dropping. But every now and then you'll stumble on a gem.
2) Hand-regs take years to ripen. What I mean is that with any name, you should expect to hold it within 3-5 years. It takes time to sell any name. Most people that do hand-regs, typically hold for 1-2, which is not enough to see the results. Additionally, if you register a decent name, you will see that people start buying the name in other extensions. This raises the chance of a sale and value of the name in wholesale market.
3) Hand-regs can be a smart investment for smaller budget investors. You can create a diverse portfolio. If your judgement is not the best, you can increase your luck by owning more names in more categories.
4) Hand-regs give you freedom. You can create names specifically tailored to something. Names that previously didn't exist. Names on new trends. You can play off of existing names.
5) BUYERS DON'T CARE WHEN THE NAME WAS REGISTERED. This is not and never will be a selling point to any buyer or business. This information is only relevant to us - domainers. Even then, domains are dropped, drop-catched, etc which resets the date.

I could list more information, but just know that when you're starting out, it's easy to get sucked into this game of spending all your time looking up and registering available domain names. It can be a tremendous waste of time and resources. Invest your time learning. Set limits on how many names you register per month. Focus on building a portfolio of 50-100 names. Keep optimizing and improving it. This includes dropping poor names.

Best of luck. If anyone wants to know more about hand-reg business, I can make a more detailed post in the future.

Nice! Covering all angles. Thanks for sharing!

 

[URL Stream]

BUYERS DON'T CARE WHEN THE NAME WAS REGISTERED. This is not and never will be a selling point to any buyer or business. This information is only relevant to us - domainers

can you explain in what way is it relevant to domainers but not to buyers?

 

[Kyle Tully]

can you explain in what way is it relevant to domainers but not to buyers?

It matters to domain investors mostly as a filter/factor when looking at many names because generally speaking older names are “better”.

It doesn’t matter to buyers because they just want the name for the names sake.

 

[william]

can you explain in what way is it relevant to domainers but not to buyers?

Because for domainers, age can be a useful factor because typically a name that was held onto longer could indicate that it was of better quality or in demand. By itself, this information doesn't mean much even to a domainer. But it's just one of the factors.

For a regular buyer, this information is not available, nor is it relevant. It doesn't help them in any way.

 

[MarQos1986]

6 hand reg (regged okt 2023) sold in 2024. Sold in the 1500-2500 dollar range.

 

[DomDB]

I built the website wee.domains to find short domains for hand-reg.

I don't think many people use it or know about it.

But I used it to register txse (dot) ai, which I recently received a $10k offer on.

 

[URL Stream]

post a write-up about your work. gl!

 

[dncafe]

Hearing domainers talk about sales is a lot like someone talking about gambling. They'll tell you about the big win they had at the casino last week, but not about the 20 other times they lost.

My advice on hand regs is to lower your prices and not try and go for the mid $X,XXX. Your hand reg domain is not that good, otherwise it would have been picked up at auction when it dropped.

If you can find a winning niche of domains that sell, then you can slowly start increasing your prices.

 

[DomainGist]

My advice on hand regs is to lower your prices and not try and go for the mid $X,XXX. Your hand reg domain is not that good, otherwise it would have been picked up at auction when it dropped.

The exception of course being new tech.

How many NFT domains existed in 2020?

Yet go and look at how many NFT domains have sold on Namebio.

Same with Bitcoin etc.

There are plenty of people who have speculated on brand new technology and ideas and remained ahead of the curve to snag the domains before this tech is mainstream.

 

[g3names]

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.

yes even in 10 yrs you only sell 25% of your hand reg for decent price. it will still give you a good ROI considering you optimize the reg costs ..

example a 5/6 letter .com now for 10 yr costs you around 100-120 ... it can still produce great roi if sold for 1500 (very average price)

now build a portfolio and optimize the portfolio by scoring each name (use atom score for example) make sure your portfolio score is above average. say over 6 out of 10. once your hand reg names age for couple of years the score will increase because after three years your names hold more value

its all how you pick them and how long you are willing to hold the good ones.