Should I quit domaining?

[katerleonid]

I need your advice.

A friend reached out and said something that really made me think:

Should I move my domains to somewhere else… or just get rid of them? They don’t actually sell.

And honestly, that question hit me harder than I expected.

Because I think every domainer - beginner or veteran - has faced this moment.

You buy domains. You believe in them. You refresh marketplaces hoping for offers. You tell yourself, “one of them will sell soon.”

But days turn into months. Renewals keep coming. And your passion slowly turns into frustration.

You start thinking...
Maybe I should’ve never gotten into domaining in the first place.

And that’s when I remembered my own story.

In 2021, I got into daily stock trading.
At first, I made money. Everyone wasm, remember the 2021 GME madness?

But when the wave broke, I started losing. Still, I kept going. Because I didn’t want to quit.

Until one day, I saw my wife’s face - tired, frustrated - watching me lose money every day while calling it a business.

That’s when I learned something most people avoid talking about.
And that brings me back to my friend’s question:

When’s the right moment to quit domaining?
Or should you keep going… hoping for that one domain that changes everything?

 

[Vertibox]

I should have said this in my original reply.

People who are regularly on this forum (and I am sure other advice/help/financial forums), get to see posts by people who go and do stuff, often without any plan, preparation, budget, rules and other elements when they decide to get involved in something. And only when their efforts haven't worked out well or in the way they wanted, do they reach out to others for help.
Asking strangers to clear up someone else's mess, with zero information, is beyond ridiculous.

Now, nobody here knows any of what your friend did or did not do, but I would have asked some questions of them about that, again, before coming on this forum and starting out what has turned out to have been a really pointless thread.
Nobody here or anywhere else has some magic power to know how to advise someone, when we have nothing to base the advice on. It's really a surprise that so many people have contributed , yet your friend is none the wiser.

You would not have approached anything else with such a lack of information or preparation.

Really, really silly.