question Loaded Q: Does Anyone Feel Domainer Guilt?

[Charac]

While I am massively interested in domains and the community overall, I don't consider myself a domainer per se. More of a developer having domains for sale and dabbling in prospective projects to develop, along the lines of many others.

- Does anyone feel a sense of guilt that sets in when obtaining a new name and then, selling at a big fat margin too quick, for instance?

- Could it depend on the subject matter?

Recently I stumbled across an ai name that when doing some legwork, discovered it was in use as a transposed .ai but otherwise ordered the exact same wording. And it was being used for medical research. Maybe this is a rare case, but I backed away not feeling right.

 

[.X.]

I never felt guilt, domaining is shark infested waters, I always operated ethically in the industry, but if you drop that domain name, i would pick it up. If i could find a way around you, i would take it. at the end of day, Its Profit and business , nothing else

 

[ARCCLOUD]

One time I fell for the "small company", spiel. Come to find out much bigger company after the sale. The mid $$$ sale could have easily been low $$$$. Never again. Fair pricing but no breaks.

 

[HostGeeks.com]

Does a real estate agent feel guilty when they secure a deal on a house and sell it for a profit?

When you purchase a domain, it becomes your property, giving you the right to sell it at any price. You discovered the domain, acquired it, renewed it, and took the risk regarding its potential sale.

 

[DomainNature]

I consider there are 2 types of squatters in this industry, good and bad ones, I m the good squatter, because I hand reg domains based on my own ideas, I even don't own any GPT domains but I regret that I let some important ones to pass by, I have missed the NFT and DAO great domains, but no need to feel sorry because I got better domains non related to this niches.
Bad squatters are those who heard of an upcoming idea, project, invention and go hand reg the domains, because he does not own his own ideas, he makes money from others peoples inventions, like the guy with chatgpt,com domain, he vent and reg someone's else idea, there are other examples but will not mention them.
Only those who develop domains as a service/product are not squatters.
So I feel guilt that this industry is full of bad squatters.
Human behavior is such that if you don't occupy a free cave someone else will, so sometimes it's better to be the first.
That is why I sold only 2 domains after 4 years, because I m the good squatter.