discuss WHY DOMAIN INVESTING HAS BECOME DIFFICULT ? WHAT YOU THOUGHT SAME ....

[SUPER FIVE]

Domain investing was once like digital gold mining. Catchy names, brandables, and premium keywords were there for the taking. A decade or two ago, you could hand-register a gem, flip it within weeks, and make a decent profit — sometimes even life-changing money. But those days feel distant now.


The market has matured — or maybe, saturated. Most of the low-hanging fruit is long gone. Premium one-word .coms? Already locked up. High-quality brandables? Either overpriced or parked with no intention to sell. The entry barrier has risen sharply, and new investors find themselves competing with seasoned pros and AI-powered bulk buyers who scoop up opportunities before humans even blink.


Platforms that once helped discover hidden deals now feel crowded and predictable. Auctions are full of recycled names. Marketplaces are flooded with junk listings. Everyone’s trying to sell, but few are buying — at least not without steep discounts.


Worse yet, the thrill is gone. What was once an adrenaline rush — grabbing a hot name, negotiating a sale, watching the domain world shift — now feels like a repetitive cycle. Analyze, bid, wait, no sale. Repeat.


For many, domain investing hasn’t just become difficult — it’s become boring. Not because the industry is dead, but because it's evolved. And sometimes evolution leaves behind the romance that drew us in the first place.

NOW TELL YOUR OPINIONS ON IT ....

 

[Marka]

So as a partial end user, do you view domain investing as cybersquatting?

I regularly use the backorder tools to capture domains of interest to me. But the practice of the domain business has shown that it is better to have what you are sure of.

I will tell you a secret - some registrars, for example Dynadot, offer in the domain statistics section information about checks in Whois. I regularly use this statistics for all domains to exclude the ones I don't need from my portfolio “for sale”. Let's say a domain is worth 10000 USD, but it is looked at by 10 people in Whois, when another domain is worth 50000 USD and is looked at 2500 times a month. I will get rid of the domain with a small number of views in Whois as it is irrelevant to maintain.

Anyway, I have optimized my portfolio a lot and I try to adjust to trends rather than counting on 5 or 10 years.

 

[Kyle Tully]

One $100,000 domain sale does not cover the need to pay a notional $50,000 a year for name maintenance (renewals).

Correct, it pays for two years of renewals!

 

[Kyle Tully]

I regularly use the backorder tools to capture domains of interest to me. But the practice of the domain business has shown that it is better to have what you are sure of.

I will tell you a secret - some registrars, for example Dynadot, offer in the domain statistics section information about checks in Whois. I regularly use this statistics for all domains to exclude the ones I don't need from my portfolio “for sale”. Let's say a domain is worth 10000 USD, but it is looked at by 10 people in Whois, when another domain is worth 50000 USD and is looked at 2500 times a month. I will get rid of the domain with a small number of views in Whois as it is irrelevant to maintain.

Anyway, I have optimized my portfolio a lot and I try to adjust to trends rather than counting on 5 or 10 years.

While those stats in Dynadot are interesting (especially add to carts) they don’t necessarily relate directly to sales data, and out of all of them Whois is the weakest number to gauge interest on.

 

[Joe N]

I regularly use the backorder tools to capture domains of interest to me. But the practice of the domain business has shown that it is better to have what you are sure of.

I will tell you a secret - some registrars, for example Dynadot, offer in the domain statistics section information about checks in Whois. I regularly use this statistics for all domains to exclude the ones I don't need from my portfolio “for sale”. Let's say a domain is worth 10000 USD, but it is looked at by 10 people in Whois, when another domain is worth 50000 USD and is looked at 2500 times a month. I will get rid of the domain with a small number of views in Whois as it is irrelevant to maintain.

Anyway, I have optimized my portfolio a lot and I try to adjust to trends rather than counting on 5 or 10 years.


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This is interesting. Could you provide the link where this is available?

 

[Joe N]

While those stats in Dynadot are interesting (especially add to carts) they don’t necessarily relate directly to sales data, and out of all of them Whois is the weakest number to gauge interest on.

Yes agreed. There are plenty of valuable names that rarely get looked up on WHOIS. The WHOIS database is the tool of the investor. I doubt most business owners would even be aware of it.

 

[Kyle Tully]

Yes agreed. There are plenty of valuable names that rarely get looked up on WHOIS. The WHOIS database is the tool of the investor. I doubt most business owners would even be aware of it.

Yeah some older/wiser business owners or those who have bought names before might know about it but if you have names with lots of Whois lookups (I have some with hundreds last 30 days) it’s most likely bots/tools used by investors and web scrapers etc.

 

[Kyle Tully]

This is interesting. Could you provide the link where this is available?

Under manage domains you can change column views and these stats can be added there.

 

[Joe N]

Under manage domains you can change column views and these stats can be added there.

Ah, so you can't use it on domains until you buy them?

 

[Kyle Tully]

Ah, so you can't use it on domains until you buy them?

Yup as far as I know it’s only available on that screen.

 

[Vertibox]

A pointless post and replies. Anyone who is intelligent and is using this site already knows the answers.
Domain names are no different to other commercial endeavours and so they are subjected to the same forces and challenges as other commercial endeavours, because it all revolves around people, even all the stupid junk AI nonsense.

In domains, there is no innovation, no new things to explore and around 98-99% of the best of domain names have been secured already. The only real area that still has some potential is made up words, but it seems the quality of domain name registrants is very low, creatively and intelligence wise and made up words require more work and time. Putting two keywords together is not creative nor intelligent, plus people who think keywords are a source of good domain names need psychiatric examination.

What I mostly see on this site is pure maniacs, who use very poor English and who think they are in a gold rush and so they are busying themselves with emptying their pockets on junk English language domain names and garbage extensions, like .xyz and .ai, and then wait with sweaty and fevered excitement for that email from someone who wants to buy one of their names. Then 5-10 years later, when they are still holding these junk and worthless names, it may dawn on them the idiocy of their ways, and as they look around their one room apartment, dishevelled clothing and $24 left in their bank account.

 

[Vertibox]

yes this chatgpt becuase I am not good in english speaking and write so that why I say chatgpt for that ...

Why do you think it is OK to not learn English, properly, before engaing with English with other people? Its not, its rude at best, insulting at worst and you should be fully asahamed of yourself.

Whatever country you are in, if people just went there and learned to speak a bastardised version of your language and not care about it, how do you think the people of that country would feel about that?

No-one should tolerate shitty English from people who have no respect for it.

 

[SUPER FIVE]

Why do you think it is OK to not learn English, properly, before engaing with English with other people? Its not, its rude at best, insulting at worst and you should be fully asahamed of yourself.

Whatever country you are in, if people just went there and learned to speak a bastardised version of your language and not care about it, how do you think the people of that country would feel about that?

No-one should tolerate shitty English from people who have no respect for it.

MY BROTHER I THINK YOU ARE GOING TO START WITH ME FOR THIS . MY BROTHER I AM NOT SAYING THAT I CAN'T SPEAK OR WRITE ENGLISH PROPERLY AND I AM NOT THINK THAT IT IS OKAY TO NOT LEARN ENGLISH . EVERY COUNTRY HAVE THERE OWN LANGUAGE , PEOPLE JUST TRY TO LEARN DIFFERENT LANGAUGE AFTER LEARNING THAT THEY BECOME EXPERT ... I AM ALSO LEARNING .

 

[Vertibox]

MY BROTHER I THINK YOU ARE GOING TO START WITH ME FOR THIS . MY BROTHER I AM NOT SAYING THAT I CAN'T SPEAK OR WRITE ENGLISH PROPERLY AND I AM NOT THINK THAT IT IS OKAY TO NOT LEARN ENGLISH . EVERY COUNTRY HAVE THERE OWN LANGUAGE , PEOPLE JUST TRY TO LEARN DIFFERENT LANGAUGE AFTER LEARNING THAT THEY BECOME EXPERT ... I AM ALSO LEARNING .

I am not your brother.

It is not anyone's responsibly to compensate you for your language inadequacies. At the very least it is rude and insulting and you need to see it from the other person's eyes and ears, which you currently do not.

Other people are not pseudo English teachers, here to teach or correct you or anyone else with your English. Learn English, properly, before engaging with properly English speaking people. You will be amazed at what will open for you in life, which at the moment, you will not see.

Oh and you cannot speak English properly, contrary to your claim.

 

[alop]

Good read

I am not your brother.

Sister ?

 

[SUPER FIVE]

Good read



Sister ?

skip this now . I am asking him brother as a friend but he going to start war with me for this little thing. He also need to understand he also not know other countries language like urdu , hindi , arabic etc .. HE also need to learn all language to become expert ..

 

[karmaco]

Whoever told you domaining was easy or had guaranteed results? Or that it was exciting and non boring?

Not much has changed except end user buyers are more picky, less willing to spend what they used to and there has been a decline in end user sales and prices except for very specific niches.

I get the general point there was a time when it was much easier to sell. I also get that aftermarket prices can exceed some domainers budget. But that has always been the case that people with capital can afford better names.

This is mostly a watching paint dry, slow and solitary kind of side hustle. No one should expect excitement or easy results.

 

[Jannes]

A pointless post and replies. Anyone who is intelligent and is using this site already knows the answers.

Condescending much? I feel the same about your trademark question, but I'm not going to say it. Oops.