What are the best names you let expire?

[domainica]

Hindsight is always 20/20. A few years back I thought these names may be of value someday, but got impatient and just let them drop (I can't remember selling any of them) when no offers were received. Of course, they were picked up right away:

76ersbasketball.com
Avalanchehockey.com
Bahrainfootball.com
Bahrainsoccer.com
Bengalsfootball.com
Buccaneersfootball.com
Bucksbasketball.com
Bullsbasketball.com
Cameroonsoccer.com
Canadienshockey.com
Cavaliersbasketball.com
Chatrooms.ru
Clippersbasketball.com
DetroitTigers.net
Diamondbacksbaseball.com
GiantsFootball.com
Heatbasketball.com
Hornetsbasketball.com
Iraniansoccer.com
Jaguarsfootball.com
Kingsbasketball.com
Mavericksbasketball.com
Netsbasketball.com
Omanfootball.com
Omansoccer.com
Pacersbasketball.com
Packersfootball.com
Panthersfootball.com
Paraventa.com
Senatorshockey.com
Supersonicsbasketball.com
Timberwolvesbasketball.com

Looking back, I guess it wasn't such a good move on my part. I can't put a dollar figure on it, but I'd say they're each worth more than reg fee.

Live and learn.

Anyway, if you feel gutsy enough (or remorseful), go ahead and post some of the best names you let get away.

 

[cvxdes]

I haven't been in the domain scene long enough to even have one domain expire. My first expires in 3 months.

 

[deleted984054565403]

I haven't been in the domain scene long enough to even have one domain expire. My first expires in 3 months.

Then there's no reason to post.

</troll>

The only one I've had expire on me was SpongeBobArea.com -- received hundreds of uniques daily and was the most visited Spongebob fansite (this was about 4 years ago )but the registrar (small company) did not let me take administration control of the domain after the other owner disappeared.

 

[Grrilla]

I think that looking back at old names that were let go qualifies as one of the most painful and difficult experiences that a domain marketer can put himself through. I let 50+ info, biz and us 3 char acronyms drop- (not LLL!)- and recently went back and saw that 90% had been picked up- mostly by the same person who found them, undoubtably, because he was performing the same kind of bulk searches that I had performed back when I had originally regged them. As the names came up and revealed, one by one, that they were all taken, my heart sank and my blood began to race. But a little later I became philosophical and just figured that someone else had made the same mistakes that I had already made a year or two earlier and I was comforted by the fact that I had kept the cream of the crop. However, I'd be lying to you if I told you I would be happy if I saw these names sell for big bucks or if I searched some and discovered they were developed into large, successful revenue generating sites. :hehe:

If you register enough names and you don't rene them all, there is bound to be regrets along the way- no one is immune from dropping the odd name or names that they wish they had kept and, probably, should have. Even if you believe in the names, it's tough not to become influenced when they are met w/ by indifference or a lack of interest from others.

 

[greggish]

I forgot to renew CollegeInterns.com. I think that was a big mistake.

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Golly... just grabbed a couple dozen from my GoDaddy expired file, and at least ten have gone to auction at pool/snapnames... Couldn't sell some of them for a few NP, but they went decently high...

ERROR: EDNY.ORG is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: CAROLINALAWOFFICE.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: COURTAPPOINTEDLAWYER.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: AD-CENTS.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: ELDERLY-LAW.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: IMIGRATION-LAW.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: PRODUCTCLASSACTION.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: RANDOMLAW.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: RETAINCOUNSEL.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: GEOCASHED.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: GOINGRED.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: KILLERDOCTORS.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: PORTSOUTH.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: RAAAR.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: UOFAZ.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: UOFFL.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: UOFKY.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: UOFSC.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: UOFTX.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: VINDICATER.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: MERCKLAWSUIT.INFO is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: NORTHCAROLINALAWYER.INFO is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: NORTHCAROLINALAWYERS.INFO is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: FREELOANCONSULTATION.INFO is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: XXXBUG.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: IPODPUB.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
ERROR: DIANEKRUGER.INFO is unavailable and has been removed.


Some of these I'm sure I sold, so the list isn't perfect, but it's just a sample.

Some of my favorite names of alltime I let expire like an idiot, so now I want them back, so they won't be being posted ATM

-Allan :gl:

 

[domainica]

The names I let go are, I'm pretty sure, making some good ppc money. But back then, if someone would have mentioned "ppc" and "type-ins", my reaction would have been "What the hell's a ppc and a type-in?".

Yep. Live and learn.

 

[RJ]

I let NewsVine.com expire not long ago. Now its used by a multi-million dollar media company. http://www.newsvine.com/_cms/info/companyinfo

 

[Sam]

Hmmm... nothing really that good. I let my entire freebie network expire... Headphones4free.com and such.

 

[Ringr]

47E.com, didn't know 3-character .coms had been gobbled up, I found out only days after it expired that all 3-character .coms were taken. ¬¬

 

[Premium]

I let NewsVine.com expire not long ago. Now its used by a multi-million dollar media company. http://www.newsvine.com/_cms/info/companyinfo

:lol: Ouch!!! That has gotta hurt because I'm feeling it all the way from Canada!

I don't remember the names I let drop :td:

 

[wot]

I just try to forget :gl:

 

[Halobitt]

I let NewsVine.com expire not long ago. Now its used by a multi-million dollar media company. http://www.newsvine.com/_cms/info/companyinfo

Wow! This was one of the ways I first heard about this amazing domain name biz!
Checkout this article here
about the domain name you let drop RJ.
I think if Mike hadn't got Newsvine for a good price he'd
have just used something else instead, But commiserations all the same.

 

[RJ]

I let NewsVine.com expire not long ago. Now its used by a multi-million dollar media company. http://www.newsvine.com/_cms/info/companyinfo

Wow! This was one of the ways I first heard about this amazing domain name biz!
Checkout this article here
about the domain name you let drop RJ.
I think if Mike hadn't got Newsvine for a good price he'd
have just used something else instead, But commiserations all the same.

That's hillarious. I attended the Domain Roundtable conference in Seattle in 2005 and heard Mike Davidson tell the detailed story about how he went after and caught this domain name. I had no idea it was my Newsvine.com.

 

[Epic]

That's hillarious. I attended the Domain Roundtable conference in Seattle in 2005 and heard Mike Davidson tell the detailed story about how he went after and caught this domain name. I had no idea it was my Newsvine.com.

Well, honestly without development NewsVine.com isn't the greatest name out there.

But still, that hurts

 

[drifta]

blobb.com
could have developed it into anything.. quite brandable and will fit any site it was also getting tons of traffic since it used to be a site which hosted blogs free

and mp3directory.net which i paid $150 for a awesome design which put every current directory to shame
i developed it into a directory a few years ago for mp3 related sites before the current directory hype and it was receiving 500 or so uniques a day and making good money with adsense and clickbank mp3 affiliates

 

[DreamWeb]

I will not post mine, as i want it back

Any way it was really good one word russian .net domain... and i payed for it at due time, but my register forget to pay

Well, honestly without development NewsVine.com isn't the greatest name out there.

But still, that hurts

Amazing story... it`s all like gambling each name may worth xxx xxxx or even much more $ if You`ll be lucky to find end user for it. But before it`s hard to find any potential in it.

 

[Grrilla]

On 2 occasions I've sold names that were about to expire at reseller prices, (which the new owners subsequently renewed) and than, a day after my sale, received offers at Sedo for the names- one for $750 the other in the low $xxxx, as I recall. I followed up on both and they did, indeed, later change from the buyers whois to a new one, so I can safely assume that my buyers flipped a nice profit a day or two after they picked the domains up from me.

I have noticed that there is a higher than average number of offers that come in for names that have just, recently, been renewed than what the norm is for names, in general. This would be a result of a buyer finding or following a name that is near ing expiry and hoping to pick it up at reg fee. What is good for the goose is good for the gander, I suppose.

Oh just thought of a good one. I let LinkWolf.com slip through my fingers. I, originally, picked it up in an NP auction and, frankly, I viewed it as one of thousands of other nice name possibilities that are in need of branding and I neglected it never, even, putting it up on Sedo. That would have been that, except that it was picked up by an NP member who gleefully PMd me, (twice), asking me why I would ever drop a name that was receiving 1000, (or was it 100?), uniques/da? Sure, I wish I would have managed the name better than I did and I wish I still had it. But what really started to bug me was the constant needling I would get whenever I ran across the member and he didn't stop w/ me. He also contacted the original seller, (the member I had purchased the name from a couple of years ago), to share his good fortune w/ her. I guess he gets a kick out of letting someone else know that they screwed up. Hey, people do whatever they need to do to turn their own crank, I guess. :hehe:

I'm totally cool and am acceptant of the fact that I have erred and will err again in the future.

Losing out on capitalizing on a name feels about the same las getting a good kick to the mid-section. On the the other hand, overbuying and holding onto too many names can make another part of the body feel like it is in a ringer- neither alternative is pleasant. In the broader scheme of things, the only way to play it, completely, safe is to not enter into the game, at all. Than, one could go to Sedo or DNJ, look at the sales as a detached observer, and having risked nothing, would only be left to wonder, "What if?"

 

[domainica]

UOFAZ.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
UOFFL.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
UOFKY.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
UOFSC.COM is unavailable and has been removed.
UOFTX.COM is unavailable and has been removed.

Dang. I like those names!

 

[IAmAllanShore]

Dang. I like those names!

Yeah, I registered a few dozen of those, sold some, not sure why I let those expire, must have been a "simple" moment.

Was getting a few uniques a day on most, and decent traffic on the KY and SC ones in particular.

-Allan