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.

 

[MapleDots]

All of my .app names are coming up for renewal. I regret buying the bad ones that aren't worth the $14 renewal fee. And I regret buying the good names with their ridiculous $56-$220 renewal fees.

I know a few members regretting their .whatever purchases

As much as one would like to say we told you so, my heart goes out to these individuals and I hope they get a couple of decent paydays to help with their losses.

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

I think whoever paid over $5,000 for the 4 CHARACTERS domain SEAN.com definitely made a regrettable purchase.

What price did that domain finally sell for? lost track.

I was about to bid until I realized it was an IDN.

it did not say 4 Letters but 4 Characters. lol

or is a 4 character that's a mix of letters and IDN or maybe it was all IDN? a good investment at over $5,000?

Edit. I regret all my .fun regs.

 

[MapleDots]

I think whoever paid over $5,000 for the 4 CHARACTERS domain SEAN.com definitely made a regrettable purchase.

What price did that domain finally sell for? lost track.

I was about to bid until I realized it was an IDN.

HeHe.... I was just about to give you hell and say 5k for sean.com is a bargain until I got to the IDN part

 

[NickB]

My worst was/is.......

EVERY SINGLE .UK I HAVE!!

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Stalbeansescorts.com - was supposed to be St Albans Escorts (where i live)

 

[MapleDots]

I bought FindABussiness.com in May 2018, and dropped it 2 weeks later once I noticed the misspelling. I run them all through the tool now to avoid misspells.

Since then, it looks like it tricked another marketplace...

If it was listed as shown then Huge Domain even made an effort to show it as a misspell.

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

HeHe.... I was just about to give you hell and say 5k for sean.com is a bargain until I got to the IDN part

Lol was it an idn? Man I swear that one was either one of those "smartbuys" or well you know.

It was advertised on here. Congrats on the seller though. Good hustle!

 

[Steven McEvoy]

PerfectDrip (com) $300 from BuyDomains.com

Was going to use it for a coffee project but things fell through... now im stuck with his debuting to renew.

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

PerfectDrip (com) $300 from BuyDomains.com

Was going to use it for a coffee project but things fell through... now im stuck with his debuting to renew.

Renew sell for $600 to any future cafe or auction.

Market it as the perfect name for a cafe. Probably worth $2500 retail.

 

[MapleDots]

Renew sell for $600 to any future cafe or auction.

Market it as the perfect name for a cafe. Probably worth $2500 retail.

I was going to say similar except I think your valuation is low.

 

[BaileyUK]

Regrettable purchases
Pretty much anything I've purchased with a bottle of Whisky to hand, All are an absolute embarrassment to own. Thankfully I don't do it very often and rarely drink. Which is probably why I lose my sense of reasoning

 

[IPBFlippers]

HeHe.... I was just about to give you hell and say 5k for sean.com is a bargain until I got to the IDN part

What's IDN?

 

[MapleDots]

What's IDN?

An internationalized domain name (IDN)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalized_domain_name

In most cases pretty worthless domains

 

[artstar]

jeez where do i start?

amoled/oled years b4 it was a household word
vr domains 4 years too early

number domains when asian invasion happened

buying .mobi when it came out

buying .tech

dropping cannabinoid.online. dah

thank gawd i bought on all promo codes when gd accepted multiple buys per code.

 

[Brian L.]

I love that Huge Domains is asking $1895 for “Find A Bus Siness”. GoDaddy appraises it at $1150. Must be a good domain after all.

 

[lock]

I make loads of errors but the good ones make up for all the mess ups.

 

[Malcolm Kerwin]

I bought FindABussiness.com in May 2018, and dropped it 2 weeks later once I noticed the misspelling. I run them all through the tool now to avoid misspells.

Since then, it looks like it tricked another marketplace...

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Funny thing is, I almost made this exact same mistake today on a similar domain. Lucky I noticed before I purchased!

 

[Recons.Com]

If it was listed as shown then Huge Domain even made an effort to show it as a misspell.

With them, or is automatic and sometimes the script gets it ridiculously wrong

 

[Ariff BD]

I won a domain at auction for $200 [word]skys.com and then I realized that's not how your pluralize sky (it's skies)

but still it is brandable right?

 

[jideofor]

I bought FindABussiness.com in May 2018, and dropped it 2 weeks later once I noticed the misspelling. I run them all through the tool now to avoid misspells.

Since then, it looks like it tricked another marketplace...

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It didn't trick them.. hugedomains just do not have a much good taste when it comes to picking domain names...

 

[richasis]

I know a few members regretting their .whatever purchases

As much as one would like to say we told you so, my heart goes out to these individuals and I hope they get a couple of decent paydays to help with their losses.

Here's to Mexico continuing to up their AI game since I over-paid for mxai//com at a Go Daddy auction...