domain My Domains so far (first week) hiya.us

[RJcreatives]

Hi everyone

This is my first week taking all of this with some serious thought. I have a few Domains atm but I honestly acted on impulse. Any appraisals or advice will be greatly appreciated

Domains -
mummy.biz
hiya.us
voxiv.com
kingdatabase.com
onedrive.me.uk
sexywire.com

Thanks :D
Rob

 

[JB Lions]

Hi everyone

This is my first week taking all of this with some serious thought. I have a few Domains atm but I honestly acted on impulse. Any appraisals or advice will be greatly appreciated

Domains -
mummy.biz
hiya.us
voxiv.com
kingdatabase.com
onedrive.me.uk
sexywire.com

Thanks :D
Rob

Don't like any of them, of course I don't like some of my first ones either. I would be interested in why you bought each one, reasoning behind them. Sometimes there might be a reason I haven't thought of.

mummy.biz - don't like the extension, I have no idea what the mummy business is like today

hiya.us - internet slang? on a .us

voxiv - have no idea what that is, if it's a brandable. See an old FB page still up for it, don't like x and v letters

onedrive looks to be a Microsoft TM, I would delete that one

the other ones, don't know their intended use

 

[RJcreatives]

Thanks for the quick reply.

Like I said I'm new to this game so I'm not surprised they suck in all honesty.

Here is my thought behind each one -
mummy.biz - Me and my partner have been looking into the cost of things for a baby such a pushchairs etc. Then we moved onto the whole childbirth deal. Thought I'd check it out. Could be used for baby supplies or advice etc.

hiya.us - One of my early ones. saw a 4 letter word and basically said 'Yep'. Maybe as a social network?

voxiv.com - this was actually the first one I bought. Sort of reminded me of a drink called volvic.

Onedrive.me.uk - knew I'd seen it somewhere. Sounded catchy to me (and to Microsoft apparently).

kingdatabase.com - Noticed that catchy domains with the word 'data' or 'database' were sort of a thing on sudo. The reason for the 'king' bit goes back to an old site I used to use many many years ago called bitlord. Could be ageneral database site.

sexywire.com - figured there are a lot of uses for this. Obviously sexy is a hot term and wire can relate to anything from the internet to money transfer to phone lines etc.

Mostly these have been bought on a whim but I'll still be happy if I could at least double my money

thanks again!

 

[JB Lions]

I should have known when I saw the me.uk that you were talking about a different kind of mummy I was thinking King Tut.

 

[RJcreatives]

haha yeah that did go through my mind when I got it, especially since my misses says 'mammy' instead :P

But hey, might be a mummy fan out there...maybe.

 

[Kate]

I think you need to give it more thought. Sticking two random keywords together seldom works.
And you need to pick the right extensions.
For example, you should not expect a .me.uk to sell at all.

Buying domains is the easy part, selling is much more difficult.

PS: no need to reinvent the wheel, look at what sells. So you'll know what to buy.
Unless you are experienced, anything you find unregistered today is probably garbage.

 

[RJcreatives]

Thanks for the reply, I had a feeling that if it was that easy then everyone would be doing it.

I have a couple more domains to add to the list which are currently for sale on flippa.

Phez.org

Onedirectionaffection.co.uk (don't ask, its a long story)

 

[RJcreatives]

bump

 

[Magicpig2]

Personally , I try and register domains which are relevant to society today. I regularly read tech sites like TechCrunch.com, Trendbird.biz, BBC.co.uk (I first heard about 3d printing on there 4 years ago), 3dprintingindustry.com, and also regularly read these threads. Also, make sure you use the Godaddy codes available on here, there is a thread dedicated to them meaning you shouldn't have to pay more than $3 for the first year on probably 20-30 domains if you look back far enough to previous pages. But really, stick to .com if you can...

 

[RJcreatives]

Thanks for the comment very helpful. .com seems to carry the most demand but I sometimes worry that the available domains are too long. That's probably just a newbie fear though.

 

[Magicpig2]

There are long domains, and there are LONG domains! If it makes alot of sense and creates an exact match, it's not necessarily a bad thing...If it helps, trends I have recently invested in are:

Internet of Things (inc 'sensors')
Robots
3D/4D Printing
Card Linked Offers
Graphene
Bitcoin/Vertcoin

Basically, check out what everyone else is registering on NamePros!
And finally, use DomainView:

http://domainview.verisignlabs.com/grapher/#

It allows you to type in a key phrase and see what domains other people have registered in the last few days/weeks/months, etc. It's given me plenty of ideas in the past.

 

[ImageAuthors]

At this point, you shouldn't be buying domains in extensions such as .BIZ, .US, and .ME.UK -- all of which are selling very poorly in the aftermarket as a whole.

Very good domains in .US and .BIZ can sell. But .BIZ will die a gruesome death, due to all the new extensions being introduced.

Until you've sold quite a few .COM (or even .NET) domains, don't try buying up domains in the leftover extensions. You'll make too many mistakes and waste too much money ... and, more importantly, time.