discuss Topic for discussion Are domain sales reports really real?

[bahaba]

I wrote this same text as a comment on one of the posts, but later I thought why not write a special topic about this thing and see that I suffer from this thing alone, or are there people like me who have the same problem? So I write here with a separate topic in the same idea with some modifications to the text. I hope you will share your opinion, advice or feeling with me.

I want to talk about us as sellers or investors in the domain, They cracked our heads with the xxxxxx domain sales reports, and I believed that, but through my experiences and expertise, I doubted all these things and reports.
I am not speaking out of envy, I am speaking in order to make the online community more honest and useful.

I don't know why I was disappointed in selling the domain and why I feel that these sales are fake and are just advertising for domain registration companies!
Look at our situation. We sellers buy from each other, and there is no final customer, but a seller who buys from a seller!
To confirm my suspicions, I researched the domain sales reports. Most of the domains that were sold at fantastic prices are not available online, or when you try to access them, you get a warning through an anti-virus program.
I began to suspect that most of these reports are being bought by the domain registry companies themselves as propaganda and to spread the spirit of hope that there are people who buy domains with XXXXX

I will tell you my experiences i will talk about my self!
I have more than 800 domains since 2 years I have not sold any of them! 800x10=8000 $
You may ask me why I bought all these domains? i will tell you why:
When I see xxxxxx sales reports Everywhere, my eyes pOp OuT Then my hand crawls over to the domain registrar then this sentence runs in my head ( Money Money i need money) For a while, I think that by investing in the domain, I will become Elon Musk and i will buy Twitter.
Then i start buy more and more domains, with every domain i buy i hoping to see XXXXXX luck smiling to me! But I did not see XXXXX, nor her cousin XXXX, nor even her aunt xxx or her grandmother xx. But once I got lucky once and I sold my domain through Dynadot User Action for $1 so i see x. In fact, I didn't see the full x because Dynadot took a 10% commission so I got 0.90 x. any way...

I think we sellers are just fuel for domain registration companies.
They play with our weakness, our need for money. They put out huge sales reports and we fall into the trap of greed. The result is that we lose more money, and domain registration companies earn more of our money!
In this case, the companies are the sellers and we are the buyers.

Maybe someone will jump off the screen and tell me look at the car.com domain sold for XXXXXXX.....Million dollars!
Ok do do you think that you can get a car.com domain name for $10?
All good domains are already registered my friend, don't think they will let any good domain fall and let you buy it with $10 so dont wait.

They tell us to buy more Domains, when you buy more Domains, your chances of selling will increase!!!
Yes, two years ago, until now, I paid $8000 and i won -$8000 and I'm still buying more every day when i see any X report and I'm still falling into the trap every day hoping luck smiles on me.

After that, exaggerated fictional reports begin to appear! Thousands of dollars and xxxxx again.
and again my eyes pOp OuT and I buy more and more, then i put them with domain parking companies.
The result is two years until now. I have earned 2.5 dollars from the investment. I'm talking about 800 domains, I'm talking about 8000 dollars.

Yes, I am a pessimist and I want to speak and express my feelings! Because I did not see anyone criticizing here, but all the topics are positive and sales reports, am I the only one thinking in this way?

 

[bahaba]

Ok, I'll rephrase to help you understand.

Your domains suck. Can't get more valid reason than that.

Wow, great and useful advice.

 

[bahaba]

Please take the discussion seriously

 

[bahaba]

But what kind of experience do you want people to share? The experience shared is precisely in the ''Report Sales'' section.

I also looked at your portfolio, and it is simply that you don't have good domains (except for a couple unpronounceable 4L that probably will sell in some time).

First of all - it seems to me that you think that simply buying more domains will increase a chance of sale - that's wrong. Buying GOOD names will do, not ANY name. Clean 2 words, popular niches, new trends...

Look even at ''Report Sales'' section - you see, roughly for each 8-10 sales in .com you have 1-2 in xyz and 1-2 in other extensions (you can do lots of this analytics at NameBio). Then look at your portfolio, you only have 35 names in .com and the rest in some ''weirdos''.... So, end users buying .com, and you have almost none - how do you expect to sell all these absolutely weird extensions you have, like ''.at''? No end user ever heard of such tld...

Please stop buying extensions just because they are available, you are precisely buying the ones that no one needs, and key words are not even good. If you want to stay in this game please read and analyze a lot (I know I am being Captain Obvious, but what else to say here?) And stick to .com only for Christ Sake for the first year at least.

Thank you for the reply and thanks for sharing good information. For .at is an international domain Austria. I live in Germany and Austria speak German and it is a neighboring country. So I bought .at and most of these domains have meaning in German. I also have another wallet. This is not all my domains

 

[Domainication]

North Rhine-Westphalia. is the name of a region Is it possible that no one is interested in it??

Yes it is.

If you got Niedersachsen.de, Bayern.de, Hamburg.de, ... (german names of regions) i'd keep them over years. But not in english translation. That will not work.

Think of endusers. Gouverment of Nordrhein-Westfalen? They use NRW.de for sure (why should they need the english translation?!).
So there could be only some (international) holiday advertisers be interested (which i'd disagree anyway). Not a single one of the other 15 regions (in english with .de TLD) from germany are developed businesses. Lots are even free to register. Only bavaria.de is a thing because of lots of existing brands in germany with this term.

 

[bahaba]

I went through your entire portfolio. Goals Aloud might have potential but that is literally the only name I didn’t immediately think was nonsensical or worthless. Did you have a clear reason or strategy for any of these purchases?

thank you for replaying. Well I'm not saying all my domains are good but I definitely have some good ones.
Goals Aloud is old domain is 14 years old. You can see the first comments We have already discussed why I bought some domains and I explained it

 

[bahaba]

I agree that some of the reported sales seem sketchy. Especially when it is random gibberish.

I think most of them, because it is unreasonable for a person to pay this amount and then not put a blank page as little as possible! But they do not do that, and if they do, their site is full of viruses. I think that some sales are not real, they are just advertising for the marketplace or the registrar.

 

[bahaba]

When are you buying domain name , you should think like the end-user.

If its sound not good for development, leave it otherwise you are losing money .

Good advice, thank you for sharing your opinion and experience. Yes, I learned the lesson, and this is the reason I wrote this post just to spread awareness and not get new members to be drawn into this trap. This is how we build an honest community by exchanging experiences, tips and useful information. Thank you

 

[bahaba]

Before you try to keep this industry honest, try keeping yourself honest with yourself.

Pick an industry and you will find people wondering the same thing about that industry. The people wondering, are people that tried to make it in that industry and failed.

People that fail at day trading are convinced the day trading success stories are put out there by brokerages. People that try opening a pizza shop and fail, are convinced the other pizza shops are just money laundering operations. People that fail selling on Amazon, suspect that the people making millions via amazon FBA are Amazon shills.

Most people that get involved in anything will not succeed at it, this is why most people are not financially successful. The good news is there is certainly at least one industry where you will be successful and the key is to let go of ideas that you tried and were not successful at making them work. A lot of successful people tried many different businesses before they became successful.

Picking the right names to invest in right now is something that you either get or you don't get. It's like web design, some designers just don't have the skill and nothing will change that. Even if you do know what names to pick, most will never sell.

So don't feel bad, you are not the exception, most people getting into any business or even personal relationship will fail. Keep on moving and soon enough you will reach success in something.

Because I am honest with myself I wrote this topic!
To lie to myself means to be silent and not object and say that everything is good.
Everyone has the right to object and everyone has the right to try to improve something.
You can't accuse me of failing and not being honest with myself just because I'm expressing my opinion!
I do not understand how you came to the conclusion that I am not honest with myself and why?
I expressed my opinion frankly and transparently and explained the reasons that made me take this position. During the discussion, I accepted the opinions of all those who discussed me and treated them with respect, even though some try to obscure the truth and blame me.
So please, let's share information and experience, Please read my topic again to know that I expressed my opinion honestly through my experience.

 

[bahaba]

You continue down the same loser path of refusing to take responsibility and being honest with yourself. The majority of reported sales, probably 99% are all true. The problem is you, nothing else.

Honesty starts with yourself, you didn't even start. I suggest if you seek confirmation to any of your troubles, if you seek big groups to confirm that nothing is your fault, post a tiktok video about your domaining failure. That crowd will confirm all your suspicions and cuddle you all the way to homelessness. Make sure to use the word honesty, authenticity etc. they will love you.

Lots of frustration. This obliterates the truth by not giving any opportunity to express opinion freely. It is enough to blame the victim, you have to see what the executioner did. Do you have any experience or any some thing good to share with me other than frustration? I am really frustrated and need encouragement

 

[bahaba]

In any case, thank you for your reply, but so far I have not received any useful information. I hope you will share your experience with us as little as possible. I think sharing experiences is better than patience and better than telling me that my domains are not good! Without any valid reason.