What does an average domainer make a year?

[KCsGreat]

I was just interested to know an estimate of what an average domainer can make a year. I know you can get lucky and hit a big score, but I'm saying just buying and flipping domain names, with average returns, not every single one at end users prices obviously.what is realistic yearly income?

 

[gutz]

Wow, I'm impressed.

I registered on this site just for curiosity's sake, and was really expecting just to find a lot of posts giving little info and just trying to market whatever they could. However, after reading a few threads, I have to say there are some quality members here providing really good, and honest, answers to other members questions. Looks like I just found one of those "gem of a community" forums.

Cheers to you all

 

[CosmotownVP]

I think like in most industries, it's probably a very small percentage of people that make most of the money (or any money at all). From everything I've gathered, one has to treat it like a business. It takes a lot of planning, research, and commitment to be successful in any business. The domain business is no exception. It seems that many people treat it more as a hobby than a real business. But I think if there were no successful domainers at all, than there wouldn't be anyone doing it.

 

[biggie]

:talk:

maybe question should be....


what's an average domainer?

 

[tjl92]

I used to use the other strategy - high-volume flipping at low margins. In a 3-year period from 2006-2008, I sold about 5,000 domains, mostly on the domain forums. It was an adventure, but it was also a lot of work for not that much reward. Anyway, in recent years - with the economy crashing - most of those sales have dried up, so I wouldn't recommend going that way. Good luck.

@randomo What do you mean dried up? As long as there's domains in demand why would sales stop from resellers?

 

[forge]

@randomo What do you mean dried up? As long as there's domains in demand why would sales stop from resellers?

randomo was last seen: Mar 12, 2018

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[stewmath]

According to my efty account, where i track everything from all my purchases, renewals, commissions etc i am currently at $1.2k profit this year, however i could have a long dry spell and not sell anything for ages and lose it all on renewals.

 

[bluemeteor]

I invested $300 last Q4. Sold a 277 and a few small xx/x ones. I would have earned $60 if one of my payment received email not going into trash bin :/
It took too much time to read the names. So I'm learning python now to do auto process some data. It's been a few months. I haven't been able to scrape the data I want yet.

 

[nomen]

Frank has a lot of crap-to-average domains as well. Just like most other domainers. What he's good at is selling. Also, he's rich enough that he can wait it out for his price.

He has to have made a fortune from purely parking in the good ol' days. Probably still makes some serious dough in parking alone considering the size of his portfolio. He has the means to say NO until the offer is crazy enough.

 

[platey]

the only way to make money as a domain name investor is to develop your own strategy that works for you

Horses for courses

Mind you i have yet to make money as a domain name investor

But then i view domain name investing as surfer

Eg you dont go to the huge wave

The huge wave comes to you

That way you enjoy the ride

 

[tjl92]

randomo was last seen: Mar 12, 2018

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lol oh well, keepin it movin

 

[randomo]

lol oh well, keepin it movin

I'm baaaaack ....

And by "dried up", I don't mean that premium domains weren't selling. I mean fewer people were willing to take a flyer on the decent-but-not-great domains I was selling. That type of domain seemed to become less liquid as people had less disposable income in a down economy.

I do a lot less domaining these days. I've trimmed my portfolio from about a thousand sort-of-interesting domains to a couple hundred of the most promising ones. I make a decent sale now and then from buyers contacting me or from targeting a few leads; I'm no longer posting long sale lists at $xx prices on forums like this one.

 

[tjl92]

I'm baaaaack ....

lol!

And by "dried up", I don't mean that premium domains weren't selling. I mean fewer people were willing to take a flyer on the decent-but-not-great domains I was selling. That type of domain seemed to become less liquid as people had less disposable income in a down economy.

I do a lot less domaining these days. I've trimmed my portfolio from about a thousand sort-of-interesting domains to a couple hundred of the most promising ones. I make a decent sale now and then from buyers contacting me or from targeting a few leads; I'm no longer posting long sale lists at $xx prices on forums like this one.

ah..I see what you mean. I've learned some more since postin this question and even tho selling this way serves a purpose, end-user prices are way more worth while anyways.
Thanks for explaining @randomo

 

[creataweb]

With over a million registered users here on NP I'm sure that most had never made a real profit.

Likely scenario in many of those cases:

• Hears about domains being a way to make money.
• Buys a crap ton of inventory or makes purchases in general without understanding the market or reading the forums.
• Flounders for awhile then gives up without many if any sales.
• Total money made = (hint: starts with a MINUS sign)

 

[imadoer]

$3.76 to be exact