Submit Your Domainer Mistakes

[James Iles]

I'm going to write a blog post about the Top 10 mistakes a domain investor can make; if anyone wants to contribute then please make your suggestions below!

They can be anything related to domain names. I'll use the best ones in the article - crediting you, of course.

 

[DomainBag]

One of the biggest mistake is not to learn from old mistakes And keep repeating it. Like i have invested in aged domains by hoping will get some profit but hard to sell on purchasing price. Also keep buying like there is no tomorrow and pay high on purchasing and same with sale.

 

[Nattydomain]

Adding random words/numbers to other domains that sold for lots as a single word. Done this a few times when I would register BS and expect roses!

 

[cm4150]

buying spelling mistake domain but sold out mid $xx

 

[Canopie]

it's a real price... I sold RXUH.com for $31 LOL

Wow... how did you get such a premium price for it? :P

 

[RU]

Wow... how did you get such a premium price for it? :P

auction on NamePros)

 

[RU]

4) buying hyphenated domains!!!!!

 

[solarix]

Not buying NNNNN.com last year when they were dirt cheap. (even without 4s)
Selling a few LLLL.com too early.
Not going full throttle when I first found domaining in 2003. I didn't revisit again until 2013.

 

[forge]

Being unable to predict future market activity trends with a minimum 99.98475% accuracy.

 

[RU]

domainmistakes.com is taken, domainmistake.com is available for registration. Is it a mistake to reg only plural?
BTW I had mistakes.biz ...

 

[forge]

domainmistakes.com is taken, domainmistake.com is available for registration. Is it a mistake to reg only plural?
BTW I had mistakes.biz ...

It's a mistake to think about any of that.

 

[namezest]

getting so busy in real life I forgot to renew 50 plus dot coms that are all now registered to other people

 

[RU]

getting so busy in real life I forgot to renew 50 plus dot coms that are all now registered to other people

think positive - you saved your money! :D

 

[forge]

getting so busy in real life I forgot to renew 50 plus dot coms that are all now registered to other people

Wow, that's pretty bad.

But I can relate, dropped an excellent CVCV.com. It hasn't sold over 10 years, so that makes me feel a bit better.

 

[RU]

buying .io names.

 

[hookbox]

In the beginning I was guilty of pricing my names way to high because you see others pricing their domains high, but then you realize those high priced domains never sell.

Being realistic in pricing should be #1 on the list.

 

[London555]

it's a real price... I sold RXUH.com for $31 LOL

Oh my. I feel better now. lol (hopefully you hit some homeruns also)

 

[London555]

buying .io names.

We own 2 pretty good ones and 2 not so good .io lol Bought two numeric .io waste of $$$

 

[London555]

Here you go-we own pretty much every "category killer" name in the .moe extension re Insurance-CreditCards etc etc-this is either a major hit or .moe extension is heading for extinction and it's been a big waste of $$$$$.

 

[London555]

Biggest mistake overall-buying domains. lol

 

[barefooted]

A year ago, not knowing anything about domains, I registered three words .NET domain with two hypens for my blog.