discuss What's one thing about domains you wish someone had told you earlier?

[nicenic]

Looking back, there's always that one thing you only understand after using domains for a while.
What's something you wish you had known earlier before your first few registrations?
Curious to hear lessons from both beginners and long-time users.

 

[Impactful.id]

In late 2009, I started researching ways to make money online. A year later, I purchased my first domain for an AMZ affiliate. If I had known about domain investing back then, I might have been able to acquire high-value domain names with reg fees more easily than I do now.

 

[kmanX7]

Simple and clear:
"Don't trust your "feeling" which domain is gone sell and which not!"

 

[nicenic]

In late 2009, I started researching ways to make money online. A year later, I purchased my first domain for an AMZ affiliate. If I had known about domain investing back then, I might have been able to acquire high-value domain names with reg fees more easily than I do now.

Yeah, “not grabbing a short .com back in the day” is pretty much the shared trauma of every domainer looool

Simple and clear:
"Don't trust your "feeling" which domain is gone sell and which not!"

That’s a solid takeaway, early on, “feeling” tends to reflect what we like, not what buyers repeatedly pay for. Over time, good domainers don’t eliminate instinct, they replace raw intuition with pattern recognition shaped by actual sales, inquiries, and misses.

And... some magics maybe