Visited some of my old names that I let go...

[Vertibox]

While cleaning out my hard drive, I happened across an old domains spreadsheet with names I had as of 2011.

They were good names (to my mind and eyes) but over many years, they never got any interest and so I let most of them go at different stages. As some of us have done, I checked out those names now and found about 75% were being offered for sale by all the large domain sellers (HD, BD, GD, Atom, BB, etc.).
One name was priced at 6 figures, which I thought was insane (a place name, 5L, 2 syllables). Only a few names were being used as active sites.

I did not check the WHOIS history to see if any names had multiple registrants since I let them go.

Its good, I suppose, that others saw that these names were worth having, but since most are still for sale, I can’t get actually excited by that. Maybe I was right to let them go, as I am thinking of what 14-15 years of more renewals would have come to and whether that would have stopped or curtailed my acquisition of other names.

If you have checked out your old names, perhaps you’d like to share what you found, if it’s not too painful.

 

[nlitenme]

I check from time to time.

A lot of mine end up at HD with wildly varying prices. Others get regged but are not used in any way.

 

[johnn]

Move on and don't look back.
There are always people pick up garbage on the street.

 

[Rich]

I notice the same with mine, many end up at HD or other resellers. Those who have built let their store or hosting expire or they merger with another company just to let the domain expire.

 

[eipi]

With no intention of ruining your thread >> https://www.namepros.com/posts/do-y...domains-to-see-what-happened-to-them.9503639/

 

[Jannes]

Move on and don't look back.
There are always people pick up garbage on the street.

Yup, they are akin to ex-wives.

 

[Eric Lyon]

It might be an interesting assumption that if a domain that was dropped after being on a sales lander or parked, is still landed or parked and never developed after 10 to 20 years, that it should make you feel better about dropping it, as there evidently was little interest from hobbyists or end users.

Now, if it's been developed over the years a few times or still developed, then you may want to kick yourself and question why you dropped it, as that indicates hobbyist or end user interest you could have eventually capitalized on.

Looking back, might actually help in tweaking how one continues investing, by seeing where the demand actually was, years later.

 

[Impactful.id]

I still remember three domains I didn't renew. One is currently at GD (formerly BB), the second at HD, and the third is currently used by a US-based digital marketing company. That's why I'm investing in domains again, but this time I'm doing it slowly and with more patience.

 

[domainnews]

I used to have three domain names and actively pitched them to end users, but got no response. I gave up a year after registering them, only to find out later that two of the end users I had pitched to had renewed them for 10 years. The domain extensions were .us.

Another one was .in. At the time, the end user had .co.in but hadn’t registered .in. When I checked after a while, that end user had renewed .in for 5 years.

There was also a .lu, cars.lu. I thought the registration fee was very expensive, about $20, so I didn’t register it. About two weeks later, I saw in a Sedo sales report that this domain had been sold for over $2,900.

The funniest one was when I sold a domain at a low price to a domain investor. It turned out he listed it on a different platform, Dan, and it was bought by an end user at a high price. I had previously displayed this low-priced domain on Sedo’s homepage for a month, and no one made an offer. In the end, I sold it cheaply to a domain investor.

The domain industry is really interesting. I have many domains that get offers just days after registration and sell quickly. Maybe this is what they call the journey.

 

[domainnews]

Here we have a person with intelligennce disabilities who bought only one lottery ticket and won one million dollars, spending just 0.3 USD, in reality while some people play the lottery their whole lives and never hit the jackpot. In domain trading, Mindset and luck are equally important.

 

[Vertibox]

I used to have three domain names and actively pitched them to end users, but got no response. I gave up a year after registering them, only to find out later that two of the end users I had pitched to had renewed them for 10 years. The domain extensions were .us.

Another one was .in. At the time, the end user had .co.in but hadn’t registered .in. When I checked after a while, that end user had renewed .in for 5 years.

There was also a .lu, cars.lu. I thought the registration fee was very expensive, about $20, so I didn’t register it. About two weeks later, I saw in a Sedo sales report that this domain had been sold for over $2,900.

The funniest one was when I sold a domain at a low price to a domain investor. It turned out he listed it on a different platform, Dan, and it was bought by an end user at a high price. I had previously displayed this low-priced domain on Sedo’s homepage for a month, and no one made an offer. In the end, I sold it cheaply to a domain investor.

The domain industry is really interesting. I have many domains that get offers just days after registration and sell quickly. Maybe this is what they call the journey.

I would have jumped at registering cars.lu, even if its was $100. I think the buyer who paid $2900 got a bargain.

So you have an eye for worthwhile names. Hopefully, you are holding others to compensate for those you let go/didn't register and that these losses have sharpened your skills.

Waiting, waiting and waiting some more is the principal name of this game, provided that you have good names first.

Mindset and luck are equally important.

Yes, and timing too.

 

[BritFlippa]

Its good, I suppose, that others saw that these names were worth having ...

Take the positives from it. It shows you chose wisely.

Few people can hang on to them all - just go and do it again.

Reminds me of a racehorse trainer in England.

He sold a horse and the following week it won a very big race winning a fortune.

The reporters asked him if he was devastated at the result.

He said "Not at all. My phone has never stopped ringing - now everyone knows

I sell good horses."

 

[Vertibox]

Reminds me of a racehorse trainer in England.

He sold a horse and the following week it won a very big race winning a fortune.

The reporters asked him if he was devastated at the result.

He said "Not at all. My phone has never stopped ringing - now everyone knows

I sell good horses."

Which trainer and horse?

 

[Rich]

He said "Not at all. My phone has never stopped ringing - now everyone knows

I sell good horses."

Nice way of looking at it, can't tell you how many liquid names I've sold at cost to other sellers while in a pinch, but just the networking opportunities make it worthwhile.

 

[URL Stream]

This past year, I let these two AI+kw.com domains (among others) drop — and they’re already live sites now:

https://aicybernetwork.com/

https://aismartmart.com/

 

[Vertibox]

This past year, I let these two AI+kw.com domains (among others) drop — and they’re already live sites now:

https://aicybernetwork.com/

https://aismartmart.com/

Were the renewal charges the reason or main reason you dropped these?

 

[BritFlippa]

Which trainer and horse?

I don't remember now. It was a long time ago.
I work from home and have the radio on all day so hear little gems now and then.

I remember he didn't give the horse away, he was offered too much money to refuse
the offer as the race was probably 'age restricted' so only one chance to enter and a win
is never guaranteed.

 

[URL Stream]

Were the renewal charges the reason or main reason you dropped these?

Yes.

I hand regged a long list of AI + two-keyword .com domains, and couldn’tafford to carry them all.

I actually posted the portfolio on NamePros to get the community’s feedback on which ones were worth keeping, but most of the responses were strongly negative—saying they were unsellable, a waste of money, and so on.

 

[Vertibox]

Yes.

I hand regged a long list of AI + two-keyword .com domains, and couldn’tafford to carry them all.

I actually posted the portfolio on NamePros to get the community’s feedback on which ones were worth keeping, but most of the responses were strongly negative—saying they were unsellable, a waste of money, and so on.

If the popularity of .ai declines in the near future, as I believe it will, then many more people will be letting go of their .ai names.

It's a "Make hay while the sun shines domain", me thinks.

 

[URL Stream]

Yes.

I hand regged a long list of AI + two-keyword .com domains, and couldn’tafford to carry them all.

I actually posted the portfolio on NamePros to get the community’s feedback on which ones were worth keeping, but most of the responses were strongly negative—saying they were unsellable, a waste of money, and so on.

Another three of my drops that were taken by end-users:
TeenSportsCamp.com
YogiDad.com
BraSuite.com