guide What Would You Buy for $1,000 or Even $25,000?

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If you were a beginner in domain name investing, what would you purchase if you had $1,000 or even $25,000 in capital? Domain name investing experts Nat Cohen, Andrew Rosner, Shane Cultra, Frank Schilling, Giueseppe Graziano, Mike Mann, Joe Styler, Tessa Holcomb, and Morgan Liton all weighed in on what they would do in a blog post by James Iles today.

While there was laughter from Mike Mann’s response about taking a vacation with $1,000, there was even more discontent with the opinion of investing in what is classified as liquid domains by Shane Cultra – primarily LLLL.com’s. This is due to the fact that we’ve seen LLLL.com Chips rise from $300 to $3000 and fall nearly one-half to the current pricing of $1500 in the timespan of less than two years – nobody knows its future for sure, so it's all speculation at this point.

With such inclines and sharp declines in pricing over the past year, one can hardly call LLLL.com's liquid. However, it’s of Shane Cultra’s opinion that LLLL.com’s can be bought and sold at any time and the only loss that you would incur, if you were to flip the domains quickly, would be commissions or other transaction fees.

Additionally, it’s argued by Shane Cultra that these domains will always retain value. The data on the other hand, speaks for itself; they will not retain their current value: The prices will either go up, which is a win, or continue on the downfall.

My advice? Don’t get caught up in the hype. Follow the words of a more seasoned domain name investor, Nat Cohen, and invest in product or keyword domains that will always have increasing value.

But for God sakes, do not, and I repeat, do not, go out and buy 800+ .XYZ domains with your $1,0000.

 

[briguy]

But for God sakes, do not, and I repeat, do not, go out and buy 800+ .XYZ domains with your $1,0000.

I sure won't repeat the same mistake twice.
Few years back, (dot) infos were 99 cents esch, acquired 600+ within a few days.

Planned on keeping a few years, till demand became profitable. Jyst parked them and forgot them....imagine my surprise when renewal price wasn't the same as registration price!

Most lessons that I learned the hard way cost me money

 

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Exactly @briguy,

That's one thing that the original blog post neglected to cover. It asked "experts", with already obtained knowledge, what they would do... but not what they actually did.

 

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When you think that it couldn't get any worse with the poor advice given by Shane Cultra on LLLL.com's, it does.

Surprisingly, a domainer that proclaims to practicing since the late 90s, but is proud of his accomplishment of holding Sony trademarked domains since 2004, stated the following:

With mini-sites on 1,000 xyz names, you should be able to pick up a reasonable income, it's a lot of work initially, but you don't have all the fuss and bother of selling the names, and it's a continuous income stream.

If you've ever developed a mini-site, you know the hours and "mini" content that needs to go into developing a site like this. This goes without mentioning, attempting to do it on a network of 1,000.

To break this down for beginners, a minisite would generally have 5 unique pages of content. That would be 5,000 articles ordered. At a discount rate, and with very poor English, you could get that much content for $18,750. A deliverable rate on this type of order would be approximately 20 articles per day. This means you could potentially put up 4 minisites per day. That, however, would be hardly achievable as development of a minisite would require more work, such as a logo, formatting the deliverables and making nice SEO'd pages, etc.

I would realistically put it at 2.5 minisites developed per day with a 1 man team and no enterprise solutions — just the good old fashion upload WordPress, tweak settings, add plugins and add content.

So, 1000 minisites in 1 year? Still possible. That is, with a team of writers and developers, and of course, a boat load more cash than the initial investment of $1000. However, would it really be worth it?

Let's hope @Kuffy was joking and nobody seriously tries this approach.

 

[Wesley S]

the best vr headset. maybe a domain with the change

 

[Sulabh Sharma]

My advice? Don’t get caught up in the hype. Follow the words of a more seasoned domain name investor, Nat Cohen, and invest in product or keyword domains that will always have increasing value.

But for God sakes, do not, and I repeat, do not, go out and buy 800+ .XYZ domains with your $1,0000.

Seriously, this is a great advise. There are really a good things to learn from this post. Thank you for sharing it. And there is no question that, investing in product and keyword domain names is always profitable.

 

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Seriously, this is a great advise. There are really a good things to learn from this post. Thank you for sharing it. And there is no question that, investing in product and keyword domain names is always profitable.

Thank you.

Yes. I find some of the advice given by one of the so-called "experts" in the original blog post to be discouraging.

Mainly, though, it lacks the question of what they actually did with their first $1000; it's going based on the assumption of assumed knowledge. As @briguy earlier pointed out: We make mistakes.

 

[Doughmange]

I bought 18 domains this week for a total of $2250.

I will have to wait a week for them to push over to my account, but one of them was a $xxx forum acquisition that I've got some mid $x,xxx interest in within a few days of owning it.

If I can close this one then it pays for my acquisitions and then some.

Then I will focus on selling one or two more, and the rest are holds for inbound inquiries..

 

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I bought 18 domains this week for a total of $2250.

This is something most beginners on namePros do not understand and do not comprehend. For the most part, they are dreamers. They've been manufactured to believe that $1 can turn into $10,000 overnight because places like DomainSherpa. It's simply not true. The old adage applies: Money makes money.

I will have to wait a week for them to push over to my account, but one of them was a $xxx forum acquisition that I've got some mid $x,xxx interest in within a few days of owning it.

That's not bad at all. Like I said, some would prefer spending $xxx on 100+ xyz domain names with a "spray and pray" attitude.

If I can close this one then it pays for my acquisitions and then some.

Right on. Looks like you've done your homework. Hopefully, your "then some" is a reinvestment into your business as well as a slight investment into you. What I mean by that is, treat yourself, but don't fail to realize that you still have a mission to accomplish, which is obviously, acquire and sell new names; going on a spending spree or bender will not accomplish this.

Then I will focus on selling one or two more, and the rest are holds for inbound inquiries..

See what works out best for you time wise. You may find that sales come naturally and you can push more than you believe at this point. One step at a time though.

Good luck.