discuss Shoulda, woulda, coulda.

[S-B]

I have the opportunity to buy 200 double repeating premium LLL.in at $90 a piece and I passed on it due to my uncertainty. Turns out that was a big mistake.

What was your most recent shoulda, woulda, coulda moment?

 

[garptrader]

Renewing marginal-quality domains is probably a common mistake many domainers make. Renewing 100 marginal-quality domains for two years at $8 each is $2500 in total cost (initial + renewals). Keep those names for five years before you finally drop them and you are out $4k. Imagine the caliber of domain you could have acquired with that money. Registering hundreds of senseless domains in any TLD which you will never sell is digging your domaining grave. Add premium renewals for some of those and you get into trouble real quick. I have had to pare back .TV holdings because those $28-$30 renewals just get too expensive but some nTLDs have renewals of hundreds of dollars.

 

[kemjika11]

I have the opportunity to buy 200 double repeating premium LLL.in at $90 a piece and I passed on it due to my uncertainty. Turns out that was a big mistake.

What was your most recent shoulda, woulda, coulda moment?

My regret was not snapping up any and all the NNN.ins i could a few years ago at $50-$100 each. End up with a few, but not as many i wanted. their prices are high now..lol.

 

[Michael R.]

I have the opportunity to buy 200 double repeating premium LLL.in at $90 a piece and I passed on it due to my uncertainty. Turns out that was a big mistake.

What was your most recent shoulda, woulda, coulda moment?

Same as you, not enough LLL.in

 

[tomcarl]

Last summer someone let hundreds of 4L domains expire, so many that there were about 20 - 30 chips that reached closeouts at $10 each. I put off buying them thinking they'd drop again in price since the aftermarket was flooded at the time. An hour later someone bought them all (lucky them). A couple of months later they were selling for $1500 each. I would've been holding on to $40K - $60K in 4L domains had I just bought them on the spot.

Risk = reward.

 

[drsheraz]

Dropped good pattern 6n .com in last april.

 

[Truekumar]

Similar regrets for me too, not picking up hundreds of LLL.in at $40 a piece a couple of years ago that were offered to me as a bulk deal, not buying enough NNN.ins and selling the rest that I had off for very cheap prices to the chinese last year, only leaving me with two in my portfolio.

Another major regret was selling off some great category killer .IN keyword names over the past 5 years, until I recently learnt my lesson that it was much better to hold and wait for the .IN extension explosion (which is happening right now). Although I always think about those regrets...and the cat killer .IN names I let go of for pennies back in the day!

 

[Embrand]

Selling several lll.coms for low $x,xxx just a few years ago. It hurts to think about it

 

[james haw]

Turns out that was a big mistake.

I disagree it was a mistake for the same reason I don't feel I made mistakes with unpredictable CHIPS. And this can be applied to most peoples "mistakes" or "regrets".

Seeing something in hindsight does not necessarily mean the original decision was a mistake, as long as it was a logical and calculated decision with the only info available at the time.

Buying "potential" CHIPS is a risk as their spilling into all kinds of TLDs was and still is always a fairly high risk with potential for a loss. No-one can really say if a certain TLD is the next bubble, or how high prices will rise.

So it's mostly a risk either way - Either buy early at high risk they become tradeable at all; Or wait to see a trend forming and buy at a higher price which is then a risk in getting ROI.


So yes you would have made a good ROI, but you could have lost a fair bit too. Given the risk factor, it's not a mistake just simply a decision to not take a risk. I think this is just good business sense TBH. Risk are needed in domaining, but calculated risks not pure gambles.

 

[S-B]

I disagree it was a mistake for the same reason I don't feel I made mistakes with unpredictable CHIPS. And this can be applied to most peoples "mistakes" or "regrets".

Seeing something in hindsight does not necessarily mean the original decision was a mistake, as long as it was a logical and calculated decision with the only info available at the time.

Buying "potential" CHIPS is a risk as their spilling into all kinds of TLDs was and still is always a fairly high risk with potential for a loss. No-one can really say if a certain TLD is the next bubble, or how high prices will rise.

So it's mostly a risk either way - Either buy early at high risk they become tradeable at all; Or wait to see a trend forming and buy at a higher price which is then a risk in getting ROI.


So yes you would have made a good ROI, but you could have lost a fair bit too. Given the risk factor, it's not a mistake just simply a decision to not take a risk. I think this is just good business sense TBH. Risk are needed in domaining, but calculated risks not pure gambles.

You make a very valid point, which actually makes me feel a little better.

 

[Premium gTLD]

Not buying LasVegas.city because of the $440 per year renewal cost.

LasVegas.city seemed very expensive compared to most of my .CITY domains which renew at Uniregistry for $22, $36 or a few at $72 per year.

Really dumb move. Las Vegas.online sold at NamesCon for $4,750 and LasVegas.Asia went for $30K a few months ago to the same company that owns LasVegas.com.

 

[Kate]

Is there a liquid market for LLL.in right now ?

 

[Michael R.]

Is there a liquid market for LLL.in right now ?

Yes I suppose, I receive 2 or 3 brokers inquiry each week, and 2 very active auctions here this week:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/eyx-in.926320/#post-5372803
https://www.namepros.com/threads/mjt-in.926321/page-2#post-5370169

 

[jideofor]

Well, I was watching HomesPrint.com on pending delete around January. It met all my criteria for picking a name but I just somehow let it slip and didn't take interest. It ended at pheenix at $89 and sold in february for $4500. That's life.

 

[Jasonn]

oh probably something every day. there are just so many domains out there its impossible to not miss opportunities constantly .one that still bugs me from years back was a LLL.com that a company was going to give me that they had let expire but they were too slow to get the domain out of the redemption period so it went to pending delete and sold for $40k on snapnames.

 

[amirp]

Not buying LasVegas.city because of the $440 per year renewal cost.

LasVegas.city seemed very expensive compared to most of my .CITY domains which renew at Uniregistry for $22, $36 or a few at $72 per year.

Really dumb move. Las Vegas.online sold at NamesCon for $4,750 and LasVegas.Asia went for $30K a few months ago to the same company that owns LasVegas.com.

LasVegas.City is developed now.

 

[Omar Negron]

A domain name I had been watching at Namejet pre release didn't get any bids and went to the pending delete list.

At the pending delete auction, went for a little over 11K.

Or the time I didn't raise my bid by $10 in a NJ auction and that domain sold a few months later for a lot more than I ever thought it would. I should have just put that extra bid...o well.

-Omar

 

[main]

Was looking at buying Chinese LLL.cc back in May / June of last year. They were selling for $150ish. They're around $2,000 now. : )

 

[Ms Domainer]

In my early days (2007), I passed on a Go Daddy closeout domain (it was a poker domain); a few months later, it sold for $31,000.

But we learn from these missed opportunities.

 

[cocaseco]

Sadness

But next time you have that issue, hit me up. I'm sure we could work something out.