reviews Your biggest FLOPS - Let's talk the other side too.

[vickyhunter]

There are two sides of a coin. It's amazing to discuss the FLIPS, but there will also be a few FLOPS in our lifetime. This thread is not to discourage - far from it - but to be aware of what kind of domains did not do well over the period of time - and what not to do when selling them - and so on. There is a lesson to be learnt from everything, even from the flops.

So, go ahead. Share your biggest FLOP over the time and add a small comment why that happened and share your advice with the fellow domainers.

Cheers !
- Vicky

 

[chloe321]

I bought a bunch of expensive 1 word .asia domains (costing close to a thousand) when it first came out thinking I'm gonna land myself a big payday when I resell them. What I found myself landed on was huge renewal fees for domains that were doing nothing and eventually dropped all of them...

 

[JyotiG]

I bought a bunch of expensive 1 word .asia domains (costing close to a thousand) when it first came out thinking I'm gonna land myself a big payday when I resell them. What I found myself landed on was huge renewal fees for domains that were doing nothing and eventually dropped all of them...

I registered a .ninja domain which I thought was really cool. Guess what its not! We all learn from our mistakes.

 

[vickyhunter]

Hope this post has been a learning experience for some of us. Thank you for all who have contributed, but frankly we would like to hear more !

Cheers,
Vicky

 

[RogueWriter]

Early into my domaining hobby, I registered a bunch of .bz domains, figuring people would naturally buy these domains for their 'business'. Which always leads me warn new domainers to take their time, don't register a bunch of names until you have a few sales under your belt and have read through np extensively.

 

[Name Trader]

My biggest flops were offloading most of my premium letter LLLL.com portfolio too soon and dropping my entire LLL.net portfolio.

 

[awei]

didnt realize it was "layboybeauty.com" until i got the confirmation email
sucker!
i blame myself for being careless
and i feel bad for the guy who regged it
if he had regged a lousy name like this
very likely he regged more than one lousy name like this

 

[daj]

I sold ibackgammon (.com) for $146 in a namepros auction and the winning bidder ended up reselling it for $2500 months later. I still made a profit on it (it was a $1 domain I hand regged on GoDaddy) but I could of made a much bigger profit if I held on to the domain...

 

[gattoplano]

I registered an amazing (adult).IO name, paid a 349$ flippa auction without even thinking, and only then I realized that IO is banning all adult industry related names.

 

[21x20]

This is a helpful thread.

I've had times where I've been extremely hard on myself for not foreseeing one trend or another. I don't really want to disclose my specific flops, but let's just say, since I started in '99 if I had played everything correctly, I'd have a couple million extra off a basket of names that I either sold too early or just decided not to renew because budgets were tight at the time.

 

[Willox Perez]

Really great thread just read the stories and this is definitely great to see because we all deal with the flops at one point or another.

For me so far the biggest flop was a missed opportunity. There was a name my partner Omar and I were battling in an auction for, the auction was at $140 and we starting hesitating as to this domain being worth it. We really did want the domain but were not sure if we should continue bidding.

In the end the other person we were going against got it for $143. Forward about 1 month later and we come across the .com name on Flippa sold for $1800.

Can you believe that? So for hesitating we ended up losing out on making what ended up being over 1000% return on investment.

Definitely the biggest flop but also the biggest lesson learned.

 

[vickyhunter]

You didn't Order Sushi, right?

Really great thread just read the stories and this is definitely great to see because we all deal with the flops at one point or another.

For me so far the biggest flop was a missed opportunity. There was a name my partner Omar and I were battling in an auction for, the auction was at $140 and we starting hesitating as to this domain being worth it. We really did want the domain but were not sure if we should continue bidding.

In the end the other person we were going against got it for $143. Forward about 1 month later and we come across the .com name on Flippa sold for $1800.

Can you believe that? So for hesitating we ended up losing out on making what ended up being over 1000% return on investment.

Definitely the biggest flop but also the biggest lesson learned.

 

[Willox Perez]

You didn't Order Sushi, right?

Hahaha =-D That's right and to top it off I love sushi lol so every time I eat it I tend to remember the experience.

 

[Layi]

well this is 2025 , 10years after this post..im new to domaining ,started late 2023 , my first year was bad cuz i picked up so many bad names in the first year though not from the auctions or pending delete..i started by domain picked up names on the deleted domain so i didnt actually lose much ever since i started, im not a pro yet and im still learning the curve of this industry but i have trained myself not to spend as much as i spent in my first year though its not a big amount but at the sametime i do not want those mistakes to happen again