It seems that everything I let go gets regged - Please reassure me.

[jacal1]

I went into 2009 deciding to let go of about 100 domains - names I regged for very specific development, or those where beauty was seemingly only in the eye of...me, or those that were technologies that turned out to be fads or never took hold, etc. I try to only put those I think are worth someone's time (and money) in sales threads, so I skipped that for these names.

Now, each day when I check what happened to names I let go, I am finding more and more were either picked up before they dropped by Pool, etc, or re-regged right after they dropped.

But, here's my question - is this just a sign that people are willing to take a chance on almost anything these days, and you'd guess that in a year the new owner will let it go too. Or should I be more conservative about what I let go?

I know it's hard without knowing the names, but I mean this as more a general question for those who have found this to happen to them...and/or a statement about the industry these days.

I'm looking for reassurance that I haven't thrown money out the window!

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[owntype]

When I started domaining in July 2006, I thought I joined too late.

But 3 years from now i will have to say 2006 was the good old days for regging good domains.

 

[Pred]

i dont look once i drop to see who picked it up

i did once, and noone had regged it, 2 months later.
that hurt me more lol

8^X

 

[jacal1]

i dont look once i drop to see who picked it up

i did once, and noone had regged it, 2 months later.
that hurt me more lol

8^X

:lol: Good point!

 

[Fka200]

When I started domaining in July 2006, I thought I joined too late.

But 3 years from now i will have to say 2006 was the good old days for regging good domains.

This is something domainers always mention. Just because we didn't get in when Gold.com was available for fresh reg'in doesn't mean we can't evolve to the times and make things work.

There's always a chance to make some cash and get involved on a larger scale with creativity and outside-the-box thinking.

:bingo:

 

[DomainTalker]

All my drops were getting regged immediately, too....I was getting paranoid about it until I realised they were getting regged by new domainers that were making the same mistakes I made when I started...lol


In fact, I bet there are some domains that could be called 'newbie specials'....been regged (and later dropped) by about 3 generations of newbie domainers....


What'll really do my head in is when I see a domain I hand regged - and dropped - one day sell for $xx,xxx....

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[-Adam-]

This is something domainers always mention. Just because we didn't get in when Gold.com was available for fresh reg'in doesn't mean we can't evolve to the times and make things work.

There's always a chance to make some cash and get involved on a larger scale with creativity and outside-the-box thinking.

:bingo:

Well put, once you cross outside of the box your mentality changes and all of the sudden your blinded eyes begin to see a new world.

 

[gazzip]

I went into 2009 deciding to let go of about 100 domains - names I regged for very specific development,
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I think the problem is there are always tons of names that are great for development but without being developed they don't make a profit in ppc. Development is time consuming and requires a whole new set of skills that many domainers (me included) do not have.

For those that started around 2000 with a decent budget chances are their parked domains make many many times what it cost to buy and keep them each year so they can afford to wait 2 years, 5 years, 10 years, 15 years to sell them and there is no real need to develop them.

The income from one good name could help renew 100 or 1000 names that do not do that well in PPC but are great for development or resale.

eg: Spyware.com was bought for 12$ in 2000 and made around a million dollars in pay per click revenues in 2004 alone.

Nowadays people buy a name in the drops (where there's now far more competition) , if it does'nt make its reg fee or does'nt sell they sometimes drop it a year or two later because they don't have the income to keep them all.....then someone else picks it up in the drops.:hehe:

I'v also dropped names I paid $60 at snap for that were picked up by Buydomains or others.

I think the days of buying good generic type in traffic domains for very little money are loooong gone.


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[Fka200]

I think the days of buying good generic type in traffic domains for very little money are loooong gone.


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You can definitely still buy good generic traffic names for little money (even reg fee--dare I say it), but it is EXTREMELY hard to do. Still available, but the amount of research and finding that hidden gem takes a ton of work!

 

[gazzip]

You can definitely still buy good generic traffic names for little money (even reg fee--dare I say it), but it is EXTREMELY hard to do. Still available, but the amount of research and finding that hidden gem takes a ton of work!

Are you talking about domains with incoming links or type in generic domains ?



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[Fka200]

Are you talking about domains with incoming links or type in generic domains ?



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Type-in generics.

Edit: To the scope of a couple thousand uniques/month, fresh reg'd.

 

[gazzip]

Type-in generics.

Edit: To the scope of a couple thousand uniques/month, fresh reg'd.

Damn, I must be doing something wrong then ! Do you give PVT lessons :lol:

I have one name where FS owns the plural, its made me a grand total of €0.05 in 9 months, even though the name makes sense it only makes cents !

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[Fka200]

Damn, I must be doing something wrong then ! Do you give PVT lessons :lol:


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You have to glue yourself to the computer, but definitely worth it. There are still some "unexplored realms" of domaining... kinda of stressful, but in the long run = $$$!

:] I've relaxed on the 'staying up all night trying to find good names' game. Was getting a bit out of control, but my parking accounts like it! And 95% of the names are all fresh. Of course I buy on the secondary market, but nothing feels as good to buy a name for $7.50 and have it make some cash!

Oh yeah, there are also a lot of duds for traffic, but I only buy names I feel comfortable with... so if no traffic = investment opportunity for the future. Normally names stay in the portfolio for a while, but hasn't been until now where I've been trimming down.

 

[Kate]

All my drops were getting regged immediately, too....I was getting paranoid about it until I realised they were getting regged by new domainers that were making the same mistakes I made when I started...lol

When you see your drops being picked by vaxis & buydomains you can't help but think you might be doing something right after all :]

 

[gazzip]

You have to glue yourself to the computer, but definitely worth it. .

I have'nt been to bed before 3.30am for at least 2 years, if I stop that I'm scared I'll turn into a human

Was it worth it ? For me - No, not yet

Conclusion...I must be doing something wrong



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[Sam]

All my drops were getting regged immediately, too....I was getting paranoid about it until I realised they were getting regged by new domainers that were making the same mistakes I made when I started...lol


In fact, I bet there are some domains that could be called 'newbie specials'....been regged (and later dropped) by about 3 generations of newbie domainers....


What'll really do my head in is when I see a domain I hand regged - and dropped - one day sell for $xx,xxx....

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Happened to me before, because of a cctld registry error. Went to DNJ, saw it sold for $X,xxx. Was about to scream and curse at the registry!

 

[jacal1]

Happened to me before, because of a cctld registry error. Went to DNJ, saw it sold for $X,xxx. Was about to scream and curse at the registry!

For what its worth, my own thinking was that I would save about $800 in renewals by letting go of these particular 100 names. So, if one turned out to be a mistake and later sold for $500, but the rest were correctly dropped as duds, I'd still be ahead.

 

[SpareDomains]

one advantage to using moniker and fabulous as a registrar is you could send your moniker names to snapnames and fabulous names to namejet so dropping names could be profitable instead of possible regret.

 

[-REECE-]

I hear ya. Often think to myself "If I knew then what I know now..."
One of the member's here (npcomplete) has a sig I'm quite fond of which says "Smile! In a few short years you will realize that these are the good old days!", and it really is true -- 10 years from now, people will be wishing they had the opportunities we have today.

When I started domaining in July 2006, I thought I joined too late.

But 3 years from now i will have to say 2006 was the good old days for regging good domains.

With handregs, I think most people are targeting the wrong audience going after domainers... They just don't sell very well on domain forums for the most part, not to mention there's way more money in hunting down endusers. Wouldn't need more than one or two sales to cover the 100 reg fees