discuss Regrettable purchases...

[Truespin Domains]

What's the worst purchase you've ever made? We've all been there, you spot an interesting domain in the final minutes of its auction, and before you know it you're in a bidding war and you care more about winning than the actual domain.

I'm usually quite careful and simply don't bid on something until I've thought about it for a couple of days and done my research.

However, I once bought toppu.com for about 300 bucks in an expiring auction. Certainly not a bad brandable, but not worth 300 dollars to a reseller. I didn't even particularly want it, I just didn't want to lose - a very dangerous mindset in an auction.

I did sell it in the end, but only for about a third of what I paid for it. I could have held it and maybe got more, but the very fact I owned it annoyed me! Indeed, it wasn't the money that made it painful it was knowing I'd acted so irrationally. Even if I'd sold it for profit I'd still have hated that domain.

 

[Zilla]

mxai///com is nice name...

 

[richasis]

In the early days (1996/1997) I once registered a domain name with three consecutive hyphens.

 

[Soofi]

I purchased ipen.net from Sedo in 2012 after reading an article about iPen as future something of something for 750.00 Euro = 942.00 $US.

 

[Jason Baudendistel]

99 cent domains were my first pitfall because they were "cheap" Also mixing letters and numbers

 

[Steven McEvoy]

I purchased ipen.net from Sedo in 2012 after reading an article about iPen as future something of something for 750.00 Euro = 942.00 $US.

Ew .net

 

[Steve Andersen]

Sometimes technology screws you up. I hate this dang auto correct feature on my mac. Maybe great when typing letters, but sure does suck entering in domains. I have had it more than once change what I entered. A couple of time I didn't catch it and reg some complete trash.

 

[Jason Baudendistel]

Ew .net

no issue with taking a unicorn bet but for 900 bucks ouch.

 

[turbo funk]

within my first 24 hours as a domain junkie

ChaoticNuetral.com
...
Nuetral
...
yea i spelled it wrong when i typed it in and panic bought when i saw it was available lol
luckily i realized right away and got a refund from godaddy

edit: oh also during this panic purchase i ended up spending $40 on it instead of 10 because it auto selected the more expensive package.. it was an all around mess of a day

 

[Richbillionaire]

Jeeprepairs.com
Didn’t figure that Jeep was a trademarked name.
Thought it could work for a Jeep repair shop

 

[woncent]

topapp.com

 

[kaposzta]

MyWall.co - it does not make any sense. I paid $12+renewal+VAT. What was I thinking?

 

[LarryDomain]

{Something}Trump.com

Paid well over mid 0000s for it.. got urdp right away... and got an offer for purchase a few days later.. sold immediately to not have to deal with udrp..

come to think of it, maybe the udrp came for the potential buyer either way.. made a quick profit so it all worked out.

 

[Avijit Roy]

Every two word or three word .in domains.

 

[Jay]

I regret all of my .md domain registrations. Out of the 30 I registered, scolding a whopping 2 at 10% above the price. Really thought that one would take off.