.info My little portfolio after 18 months!

[TheBaldOne]

I hope the following will be good news for those who have invested in .info.

Background

About two years ago I managed to register a ccTLD domain, the development use of the domain was obvious and involved the production of a major Geo-site/sites. Immediately I started work on researching the subject matter and formulating a business plan. It was during the business plan evaluation that I realised that my reach to the US market would be weak without spending a fortune in marketing and advertising. Unfortunately, not having won the lottery, the projected horrendous cost getting into the largest national market would be too great for me to proceed.

Then about 18 months ago luck struck (no I didn't win the lottery) I saw some US geo.info domains for sale, a quick few checks such as Google search stats, comparrison of .info and .com values in the aftermarket (ignoring the 'dreamers'), etc., it seemed that I could utilize these domains to get a very tiny finger tip hold in the US market. I therefore immediately purchased the domains and started hunting out more in the same niche. Ever since that first purchase I have checked daily for drops (when my epilepsy would permit) and even purchased some on the aftermarket!

Today

I now have a portfolio that covers over 1,760 US Counties, Parishies, Boroughs, and Independent Cities with populations of 20,000+, this represents approx. 97% of the total niche! What of perhaps the most important statistic available, Google 'local' exact searches? For these domains Google totals circa. 3 million per month, so that will equate to about 4 million searches a month in total accross the search engines. This definately shows people are 'associating' with their counties, etc., even though there is little in the way of developed sites to find.

Let's face it folks, I should never have been able to accumulate this portfolio, and its creation has been more by luck than anything else. It should also be taken into account that 'IF' the geo-domain .com owners had got their act together and actually co-operated together, then this portfolio and the resulting opportunity for mass development would always at best have been second fiddle.

Development

I have tried to obtain the services of a 'developer', offering a 60% share of the gross revenue for development and continued running of the proposed websites, unfortunately to no avail. I therefore have no option but to develop these myself, that means they will be nowhere as good as they should be and is therefore in reality an unfortunate waste of potential, but I have no realistic alternative.


So what is the upshot of all of this?

1) I have now stopped 'domaining'. From here on in I am just going to liquidate what domains I have that are not associated with the development plans.

2) I will not make the mistakes Marchex made with their 'Zip Code' website portfolio fiasco. Only a fool does not learn by another's mistakes.

3) I will utilize this portfolio to enable and support the development of the single ccTLD domain into an internationally recognised Geo-based site.

4) I will welcome contact from those .info domain owners who either own the unhyphenated domain where I own the hyphenated, or more especially from those who own any of the relevent 15 domains where I own neither (hyphenated or unhyphenated). My hope would be that we can work together.

The Portfolio

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Oh, and if anyone knows a good website developer who would be interested I would be more than happy to hear about them! :cy:

 

[JamesDavid]

It would be rare to have monetization fully optimized. Trials and tests on small datasets can have a massive impact when scaled. Rolling out changes to lots of sites after the fact is much harder.

I would have to agree here... I know for a fact, that even a flawless monetization plan needs to be executed to work. Execution usually involves, time, people, and money...

Now I am sure TheBaldOne has his own plan lined up but I have to take a second to rant..

PLUS the BIGGEST thing with geo is this..
NATIONAL ADS DO NOT WORK!!!!
If you are going to put up a local geo site with Google Adsense and affiliate programs I will save you alot of time and money and energy and tell you to just close up before you start...

The reason that the local TV sales shop (Bob's TVs and more) will advertise with you is because its local... Now if next to Bob's ad is a Google Adsense Box with BestBuy.com, RadioShack.com and TigerDirect.com in it then Bob loses... you lose..

Local geos NEED to provide quality traffic, and support local business only... teeth whitening, diet pills, etc does not give off the local pride...

I have seen local site after site FAIL becuase they were more worried abotu throwing up a Google Adsense ad with some affiliate links than focusing on what counts...

I mean if you type in ANY zipcode followed by .us you will arrive at the largest geo network anywhere. covering every zipcode in the US. BUT it will never take off because it is just a parking page with useless info and Google Ads...

 

[MattheP]

I am kinda late to discussion, but I'll share my thoughts. Please keep in mind I make for living from "website monetization", and I have lots of .infos, some generic words, and some "developed" .info sites. Try to take my advice seriously.

I dont see how you can make profit with your portfolio.

- If you try to sell it, you probably wouldnt get higher offer then $20. I personally wouldnt take them for free. Why to bother with something I cant resell or make profit?

- Automated Development. You have 1194 domains there? Thats more then $8500 renewal fee per year. Its almost impossible to make that money with 1194 auto created info sites.

- Manual development. You cant develop them all manually. And if you could, you probably wont be able to make $8500 from, for example, adsense. why? you cant quality develop 1200 sites by yourself. It would take years for that, and renewal fees would grow. If you pay someone to do that for you, your costs will grove much higher then $8500. You want be able to cover that with adsense revenue.

- Real development. You can develop any of those into real, local related website, with ads to local shops, bars, real estate, etc. But it would take you 2 lifetimes to do that with 1200 sites. And 1200 local employees to maintain those sites. Development costs? Much to high for 1200 sites.

 

[Kate]

registering one domain and then creating sub domains would have been better. You pay for one domain and then have code directs to the sub domains when you trigger the click.

Sub domains are free.

He had been told about using subdomains.
But I think the whole plan was not a very good idea, do Americans identity much with their counties ? I doubt but feel free to correct me.

Many times domainers have attempted to corner a niche and I have not seen any achieve success.
24hournames is the most famous example. It was over a decade ago and few people even remember it but it probably is the worst domain flop ever :tri:

Domains are not for free and real development is not cheap either.

 

[techspecx]

Scientifically squirrels collect nuts and other items and bury them only to forget later on where they buried them.

Sometimes a domainer falls in love with the creation of an idea or a name and goes with it without realizing the initial development and upkeep costs later down the road.

I agree to start one at a time - that is the only way to build a reputation and secure yourself as a designer/developer/domainer. Once past the infamous learning curve and you have a lot of fun and possibly make money - if that is the intention. (Of course it is - silly me)

 

[Kate]

How do you develop such a large list of domains ?

 

[mhdoc]

one of the beauties of the internet, costs when managed can be extremely low and well controlled.

As someone who went bankrupt doing real estate that is a fact I know and love. I still attend a monthly meeting with some of my friends from the old days and I am astonished at the amount of money they put at risk to do a deal. I sit there thinking that if a website makes $10 per year I break even.

Even in a room full of experienced and knowledgeable investors only one or two understand the power of $1 or $2 per day.

 

[Erdy]

I don't understand the reason why you started this thread. To me it looks like you are trying to show off and you want some approval for the very bad investment you made.

I think you have lost a lot of money and you will lose much more. You will never make money with these domains. You will never catch up with the renewal fees. Just let all the domains drop.

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No matter what business you are in, you need to think about the return of investment. Investors usually aim for getting their money back in two years. However with your portfolio I don't see this happening at all. You wouldn't get your money back in 2, 5 or 10 years. On the contrary you will keep losing 10 grand a year.

You might have spend $10.000 for those 1194 domains, but if you were to sell the whole package I wouldn't spend $10 for them. If you offered those domains to me for free, I wouldn't want them.

It is sometimes tough to admit you made a bad choice. However you need to cut your loses at some point. The dream is to live off of the Internet but that's not going to happen with this project. You are a family man and you have important things to think about in life. This project is a total failure.

 

[Erdy]

You have delusions of grandeur. Your portfolio is worthless. The development route is much more costly and demanding then you imagine. No matter how much money you spend you will not make any money.

Spending money is never the problem. Everybody can do it. Making money is.

You generate absolutely no income from your investment and you need to keep spending a huge amount of money on renewal fees and now you plan spending even more for a development project nobody will ever care about. You need to stop throwing away money before you lose your house.

 

[JamesDavid]

If I come to you and say I spent ten grand on something totally worthless and need to keep spending 10 grand more every year to keep it what would you think?

Development is like a magical word amateurs like to throw around as if they have developed many money making websites. Building a website is not a problem. Getting visitors to your website and making money is.

When I read elliotsblog.com and check the sites he developed, I think that's a guy who knows what he is talking about. If you came here with one quality domain instead thousand worthless names, you would have done a much better job. Firstly you would have spent your money on something you can sell and immediately get your money back. Secondly a single top quality domain will cost you $8 a year to keep instead $10.000.

You just know how to register worthless domains. You are not an entrepreneur. You are a dreamer. You will do nothing but lose more money.

The level of competition on the Internet is very high. Majority of people like you lose money and quit. If 10 people have posted a message in this topic at least 6 of them lose money. If 200 people have viewed this topic, 140 of them lose money.

Most of the domainers lose money. You are one of them and I think you are the worst I have ever seen. There was a guy a while ago here at at namepros who registered 300 worthless domains and came here asking which ones he should drop.

Sometimes people come here saying they can't do domaining anymore because they can't handle the pressure. Some people have family problems. The stress effects their family life.

If you had spend that amount of money on something meaningful like a cityname.com, there would be no regret, no stress, no dreaming.

Rarely do I reply to such nonsense but I can only label your posts as ridiculous and I personally think you yourself may have a grudge about a past or current failure that you need to deal with...

There was once a gentleman who was ‘fired’ by his newspaper boss for "lacking desire and ideas".....

That man is better known as Walt Disney, who in my mind would greatly deserve the title of "father of all ideas"....

Whether TheBaldOne's project succeeds or fails miserably, he will be more wealthy or in the case of failure: more knowledgeable.

You however will just be known as "Mr Negative". no different than the previous boss of Walt Disney...

 

[fm1234]

I think this may end up being the weirdest thread in the history of NamePros.

TBO, I hope that you don't consider any negative-sounding remarks on my part to be mere sour grapes. I'm sure you're a grown up and have a plan, and anything I might say about the matter at hand is actually intended to be constructive, and comes from experience.

I think some of the backlash, or maybe all of it, to your original post comes from this statement:

Let's face it folks, I should never have been able to accumulate this portfolio, and its creation has been more by luck than anything else.

The reason you were able to acquire this portfolio is, in fact, that as domains qua domaining, the portfolio is garbage. .info domains got collectively and brutally slapped by Google once in the past, and they are consistently the hood in developed sites -- for any one quality site on a strong keyword .info you could name, I could find fifty that are splogs or link farms or whatever. The low first year cost and constant GoDaddy specials on .info all but guarantee its place as the princess of the ghetto in the domaining world.

That said, your plan has little to do with the domains on "domainer merit" so the sub-regfee inherent value of the portfolio is an irrelevant tangent.

FM, as for your point that up to 30 counties (in the case of Washington County) can have the same name is so simple to deal with it took me seconds to work out how to differentiate the visitor target required. However, for obvious reasons I think, I am hardly likely to blurt it out here.

As an experienced and ongoing geo developer, I sure wish you would.

In case it isn't Maxmind, I will suggest that using Maxmind to sort traffic into folders or subdomains works pretty well for that kind of thing, although if you have fleshed out sites sitting on separate subdomains and a dynamic page for the index this can create load issues.

One other piece of advice, also from the standpoint of an experienced geo developer and offline promoter: subordinate the hyphenates. Ditch them, do them last, wait for non-hyphenates to come available or go after them more aggressively. The power of local/offline promotion is word of mouth, and a hyphenated domain is poison to that power, because of the leeching effect that people's memories have when repeating things that they've heard or seen, but not written down. No matter how hard you try, you'll lose some traffic to "countynameinfo.com" because people just won't make the connection to the .info TLD even if they see it in print. Losing even more to eg. baltimorecounty.info would be a travesty, and it absolutely 100% guaranteed will happen if you invest in promoting the hyphenate. So, if you won't abandon them entirely, at least consider leaving them for last when some of the rest of the portfolio achieves cash flow or at least breaks even.

Best of luck to you, and do keep us posted.


Frank

 

[Erdy]

...I have only taken 'exception' to one poster on this thread

Yes, because there aren't many straight talkers like me. There is no way for you to make money with this project. Some of your domains were registered in late 2009. Why don't you stop talking fiction and tell us how much money you have spent in year 2009 and 2010 and what your predictions are for 2011 and 2012?

If this is a real business project, you should be able to show some numbers. Here is my guess:

2009: spent $1,500, made zero: $1,500 net loss.
2010: spent $8,500, made zero: $8,500 net loss

Predictions for year ends:
2011: will spend $13,000 including development. You will make $300: Your net loss will be $12,700.

2012: You will start downsizing. You might spend $6000. You would make $500. Your net loss will be $5,500.

In 4 years, from 2009 until end of 2012 I think you will lose $28,200 USD. Then you will finally give up. I think that is the worst business idea I have ever seen in domaining. So that's what I think.

Now, if you like you could show me your predictions and we can come back here at the end of this and next year to see who was correct.

 

[theoretical]

A few observations and suggestions from someone who also holds a large and somewhat unconventional geo domain portfolio:

- Dropping half (or more) of the lowest quality domains (dashes, smallest populations, fewest exact match searches, etc.) will cut your carry costs in half and not significantly impact your revenue. It's the old 80/20 rule.

- The economies of scale are interesting but complex. 300 sites earning $1 a day is a full time salary (> $100k gross revenue per year). But spending even just 8 hours of development, content creation time and SEO on each of those 300 sites is 2400 hours of labor which is more than most people work in a year. Minutes per site turn in to days.

- Direct advertising becomes really interesting for local sites and could, in theory, very easily get you that $1 a day per site (and potentially significantly more). Get one direct advertising deal for $30 a month and the site is now generating a $1 a day. But if you have 300 sites, you need to close 300 such deals. That means self service and mass marketing techniques are likely going to be required or you will spend a tremendous amount of time dealing with your advertisers. The problem is that self service and mass marketing are almost completely counter to "going local".

- You said originally (and haven't really discussed it since), that you were initially focused on a single ccTLD domain and that you plan to market that domain across your network of sites. A. that's a good way to get your great site banned. B. why put all that effort into a ccTLD in the US? I mean, you have all these US counties... the most relevant extension in the US is .COM (and that's coming from someone who owns 200+ .US domains). Seems like poor planing.

- Launch with something manageable. Figure out something local, the county where you live or the one next door, a couple of the names that you have that are the best/highest searched, heck, even a particular state, whatever you think makes sense - and launch just those sites in your first wave. Iterating on a dozen counties is far, far easier than iterating on 500. A classic example of this is that Bruce Marler owned 25 State .ME's but he launched with Missouri.me because he lived there... because he lived there he was much more successful than if he hadn't been there and that gave him the foundation and the funds to expand to other states.

 

[nameflake]

It looks like some of his names here have recently expired and I'm wondering how the progress is going or if he's having trouble coming up with the renewal costs.
I could imagine it's not easy to keep track of.

 

[techspecx]

Lose with the same attitude as if you won - I made this quote up a few weeks ago and I reflect on it as you learn from everything in life and if you let it get you down then you will always be down.

To the chap who had this dream - registering one domain and then creating sub domains would have been better. You pay for one domain and then have code directs to the sub domains when you trigger the click.

Sub domains are free.

Then all is it is time and effort and not so much money and effort.

Dream and enjoy life and ignore all the doubters for they are miserable to begin with.

 

[nameflake]

If you cannot see the negatives, then you probably will more than likely fail, given you have no strategy for them nor a variable plan.
I think a lot of people here gave good criticism (I would not consider that "miserable; rather level-headed) and it would have saved a lot of time and money, but some people are too optimistic in their dreamworld to consider.

Just another case of a person who started out with grand-scale ideas when they have little if any development/project experience when really they should have started small.
I've never managed a restaurant before... so I surely am not going to start out by opening up 10 of them. It's good to seek advice, because many times people get too caught up in their own way of thinking without external input. Would I rather someone told me I was "right" just to feel good and continue my outrageous plan rather than the truth which could have allowed me another perspective to alter plans saving time and money? Rome wasn't built overnight. A little common sense goes a long way.

The development, which would be an unfathomable feat in itself, is just the beginning.

 

[imadam]

Wow, that's a pretty impressive list of domains you have.

 

[vc]

I would look into Drupal if I were you.

There's a module in particular that will let you manage/build all your domains with 1 install/database.

http://drupal.org/project/domain

Good luck %%-

 

[fm1234]

Over and above the unfortunate fact that probably half or more Americans couldn't name a county other than the one in which they live, how are you dealing with the fact that some counties share similar or identical names?

Also: Do you not consider it instructional, or at least worth contemplating, that you can't find a single developer willing to take this on for a 60% cut?


Frank

 

[PlusNames]

Sent a PM And impressive list!

 

[mhdoc]

I would have to agree that county isn't a consideration for most. It generally comes up in discussions of property and sales taxes and police and fire protection. I live in New Mexico and can tell you that DonaAna county is Las Cruces and Bernalillo county is Albuquerque. It seems like most searches would use the city name rather than the county. Albuquerque auto parts rather than Bernalillo County auto parts.

 

[TheBaldOne]

Firstly, thanks for the PM's, I will respond to them later today.

Secondly, the fact is that circa 4 million Americans search for the '(countyname) county' each month, so perhaps it is a case that people 'are' looking up their own county or a nearby county. The argument that most Americans do not know any other counties apart from where they live is therefore irrelevent. Indeed more than this, it shows that local people are searching for a 'local site' - their county site. WIth this information monetization becomes a breeze.

FM, as for your point that up to 30 counties (in the case of Washington County) can have the same name is so simple to deal with it took me seconds to work out how to differentiate the visitor target required. However, for obvious reasons I think, I am hardly likely to blurt it out here. What I will say though is that I wish more counties shared the same name!

As for developers not willing to take on the project - this does not concern me in the least. In fact I would be worried if developers were falling over themselves to take on the project - my specifications, though not severe, do require committment, and over the past decade I have found that 'developers' are not too hot on that subject. If I find a developer/development company that I feel can do the work, expand the sites, keep them updated, etc., then I shall be eternally thankful, but more than this - I shall be surprised!

 

[Blake]

That's a very impressive list Baldone...I'm quite impressed and very interested in your project! I have something similar that I will be sharing very soon as well! I have a little over 1200 names that I got a team of 4 developers working on ironing out the details on

I would really like to keep an eye on the is project...so please keep me in the loop and once I'm ready I'll share my project as well. I feel we are like minded people and would be nice to speak with someone with similar goals!

Cheers

Blake

 

[Rehydrated]

Great idea and project. Go for it, that's what I say. *Bookmarked

 

[TheBaldOne]

Blake, thank you, your words are much appreciated.

I would welcome the chance to keep you abreast of developments my end.

Bill