What has been your TRUE ROI for 2007?

[jacal1]

:hi:

I'm curious, but please balance ALL the money you've put in to domaining as a whole, including all reg fees for all your names, etc., with ALL the money you've taken out from sales, parking, etc. (Not "each domain I've sold has been 500% Return on the $6 reg fee")

Also, note how long you've been doing this if you want.

I still think this is an easy way to make a good return, but its also easy to mislead ourselves based on 3 or 4 huge sales. (After my first low-xxx sale, I know I excitedly regged mid-xxx worth of new names that I did or will end up letting expire )

For me, I am at 200% ROI now, and because I'm not registering many more I'm hoping to be at 250% or 300% by the end of the year.

I'm guessing I'm middle of the road - I'm still relatively new and I'm guessing the "elders" here are way beyond that ROI.

Again, ALL the $$$$ in, versus all the $$$$$ out.

 

[-REECE-]

How do you value your time?

I value it at $0.00 +/- NP$ per hour :hehe:

I do this in my free time so whatever profit I make is just extra icing on the cake :wave:

 

[Pred]

ROFL :hehe:

yep. to keep it real simple.
If you bought a name for $7 & you sold instantly for $14.
You made a 100% profit


But there is overheads, least of all time + everything else bills wise

 

[godolphin]

How do you value your time?

Time Valuation: There are two options here: IMO

1. Either you treat Domaining as a Business and all the profits and losses are yours to have. Do it right and enjoy the profits.

2. Start paying salary to yourself from the income of domaining (i.e., sales income, parking income, adsense and affiliate income etc.)

I am doing point no.1 now.

 

[Sam]

My ROI? - Around 500%+

 

[whitebark]

Business secret - but if we had shareholders they would be happy campers.

Offline biz doing exceedingly well. Go go Canadian dollar!

 

[Sam]

Crappy US DOLLAR . Someone tell me of a bank that can store my money in euros without conversion fees

 

[godolphin]

Crappy US DOLLAR . Someone tell me of a bank that can store my money in euros without conversion fees

Suzeorman(.)com may answer your question well

 

[Mike]

HEAVILY in the red with my ROI this year. More invested than i've seen coming back. I should consider doing what WhiteBark is doing, developing mini sites. It seems to be more profitable.
In short, 2007 is a genuine disappointment so far

IB

 

[barcode]

Saw this thread right now, couldn't help but post!

My year has been an investing year. I started this year with registering two TM domains! So negative ROI - LOL!

I have invested around USD 500 till date, which is roughly Rs. 20,000 (which is actually a formidable amount, here in India). Have received offers upto mid xxx on some of my domains, but then its been for a few domains only. So I think I 'can recover' my investments easily. Now I am happy with a diverse set of domains across .tv, .in, info, .co.in and .com.

Domains that range from AsianMarkets.info to LiveQuotes.tv and Schedules.co.in, StockTicker.co.in, USB.co.in

Have had the courage to pick up a couple of VERY generic adult domains too!

As far as monetizing domains is concerned, I have recovered cost of two of my domains via PPC! So I guess I am doing good.

We should keep this thread alive to revisit it a couple of months later when 2007 gets over both as an year, and as a financial period. All the best to everyone!