mole said:
Has anyone been contacted by BuyDomains on a 20% discount off their names yet? They used to have this around this month, its close to Christmas and NADA
One site
http://www.exclusivedomains.com is having a super Holiday sale, thousands of .COMs for less than $1k on their 30,000 plus domains, some pretty good names there.
Anyone else having a sale?
Why do you always mention exclusivedomains? Do you have some connection?
Times must be hard for not too few of these 30,000+ domain merchants...or maybe they are just altruistic at xmas? LOL
Maybe they are evaluating their failing business models..
They look at their annual reg fees and need $180,000 to cover it - just to break even!
I doubt exclusivedomains sell $15,000/mth. And most get little/no traffic - other than SE spider bots.
In fact exclusivedomains,com is mostly crap. Very little quality. Totally made up names of two words joined-up that make little sense.
FAVORITECLICKS,COM $595 WTF? So what?
NETSTARTING.COM $695? not even reg fee
Also in many cases they have held these "good" domains (2nd/3rd tier) for 6/7/8 yrs and received zero interest. Sure, many have commercial value but the problem is finding end-users. And who knows when, if, they will come...
Outside of those 1 word generics that define an industry, Supply > demand. Everyone's a seller. Full of newbie get-rich-quick-merchants rushing in must signal some kind of temp top to the domain market. That and the front covers on mainstream mags, no? (the classic stock market contrarian indicator)
But get this. End-users do not know or care about that "the domain market is hotter than ever!"
They have a set budget that they have to work with.
If they have $25,000 and badly want it, good luck to you, but most don't.
So these sellers face the domainers dilemma of selling to the first inquirer for any reasonable price or maybe wait years for Mr Big-Pocket-end-user - assuming they didn't pay 'end-user' prices at the drop shops in the first place. LOL
Many of these long-time domainers are desperately trying to offload their junk eg "Edwin" - 9000 junk domains.
They will talk about "testing the market", "funding other purchases" or other rosy euphemisms. In reality they are bailing out.
The reality is very different from the rosy picture painted of the "lottery winners" listed every week on DNJournal, eh? (not a dig at DNJournal)
Kachingo, baby. Probably just not you.
