information Your biggest mistakes in domaining

[Michael Ehrhardt]

My biggest mistakes so far :

i invested ( wasted ) to much money ( around 6000,-$ )
in Flippa & Sedo Showcase with nearly no results

let,s learn from our mistakes and share

 

[Michael Ehrhardt]

i like your post ..i dont want to make mistakes like you but what is the best place to sell domain name?

i guess some domains are the best for oubound ( contact enduser )
some domains are good for just waiting
some domains are good for Sedo ( eName 4.cn West.xyz ) and other

up to your names , your focus

 

[citylines]

So I went out & got Hellena.co.uk , to try to cheer myself up a bit.

 

[sbweb]

Buying and selling LLLL .com's for $XX several years ago. Some were Chips but at that time, no one had any clue.

SMH

 

[garptrader]

I THOUGHT ABOUT registering some .CONDOS domains when they were first released. There were quite a few cities available. My hesitation was the $69-$99 renewals and my familiarity with low portfolio turn, limited aftermarket pricing for the average domainer and my experience with .TV of how expensive greater than $10 renewals are. If I had gone ahead and registered a dozen .condos domains and renewed them through 2016 I would probably be out $2500. True, one sale might get you back to breakeven but the reality is real estate agents are probably the most reluctant group of professionals willing to open their wallets for an aftermarket domain name (even though one real estate sale might pay the cost of the domain).

 

[Nitindomains]

Had a chance to pick LLLL chips for about 150-250 per name in bulk from a leading domain company and I had about $15k to invest as well but I didn't buy those.

It was back in 2015 right before the Chinese boom.

But I did make better and solid investments from the money later on.

Never believed in the Chinese.

 

[Ross Murray]

I sent an email to all potential end Buyers I could find and misspelled the domain name. I had bought the domain for $2888.

 

[Templr]

In this business, you pay your way.

Don't believe the hype

 

[TDM]

yeah LLL.com .. 16 years ago ..

We not have a crystal ball (if you got, call me) .. so maybe today's fast turnarounds and crap is goldmine 16 years from now.

My biggest mistake (not finally approved yet) is the reason me being here:
sedo short name auction

 

[rokaska7]

Probably that I regged ygx84.com . Got hooked up on chinese domains and decided to do a number and letter combo.

 

[Sinh]

Thank you, I haven't made a mistake up to now.

 

[Sinh]

If we know what will happen in the future, we are not here like now :D

 

[Sinh]

Oh sometimes you can see and feel the future

I got a vision in 2010
This vision came true in 2012

My biggest mistake : i trusted the wrong people ( German Government )

My idea was a slogan
I got all domain names
I invested 50.000€
I tried to get a TM but they denied ( to general )

In 2012 the german olympic team ,,stole,, my idea ( slogan ) for the olympic games in London

We had a Settlement at court in Frankfurt
The Boss of the Olympic Team ( Thomas Bach ) is the President of IOC now
( International Olympic Commitee )
I am still fighting ( and i still got the domain ) www.wir-für-deutschland.de

One day adidas or DFB ( german soccer team ) will come and buy my domain

This slogan is to good for soccer


That,s why i dont like Trademarks
I didnt got the TM
The olympice team got it for the exact same slogan

Eppur si muove

Ohh hopefully it is going on well with you. TM domains very headache

 

[anantj]

Too many to list but most notably: A couple of typo backorders, a few 6N & 7N domains (Though decent patterns) and overpaying for a few not so high quality domains

 

[Michael Ehrhardt]

replying to your threads

I guess your profile pic fits your style

 

[italsat]

i have 5 or 6 years ago dropped moil.com , i have sell it for 1600 in only 2 days , when he receive the domain have received rnoil.com , i have refund the payment and ask excuse me for big mistake.

Dynadot have character that you not can good make difference for m or rn .

 

[TDM]

yeah 1&1 .. my first registrar and hoster 10+ years ago.. terrible

dsds + tv that TM sounds only legit in German market to me.

 

[Julio]

My biggest mistake was leaving domaining in 2008 - 2010 just when I was starting out. Now I feel like I am re-learning everything all over again specially now with all these new gTLD's.

 

[CHB777888]

Registering REDROCKS.CC, NORTHPOINT.CC & FLATIRONS.CC. I am focusing on .COMs now!

 

[decades80]

Oh sometimes you can see and feel the future

I got a vision in 2010
This vision came true in 2012

My biggest mistake : i trusted the wrong people ( German Government )

My idea was a slogan
I got all domain names
I invested 50.000€
I tried to get a TM but they denied ( to general )

In 2012 the german olympic team ,,stole,, my idea ( slogan ) for the olympic games in London

We had a Settlement at court in Frankfurt
The Boss of the Olympic Team ( Thomas Bach ) is the President of IOC now
( International Olympic Commitee )
I am still fighting ( and i still got the domain ) www.wir-für-deutschland.de

One day adidas or DFB ( german soccer team ) will come and buy my domain

This slogan is to good for soccer


That,s why i dont like Trademarks
I didnt got the TM
The olympice team got it for the exact same slogan

Eppur si muove

Sorry to hear Michael, but actually the TMs are here to distinguish between different producers of the same or similar product on the market. As long as there is no product, you can not get a TM

IMO you should make a least couple of tea pots or T-shirts with that slogan and apply for a TM:

 

[DomainPluto]

I'm greatful for my many mistakes... Some of the biggest were registering and purchasing hundreds of names without understanding the game... Also following others (blind leading the blind). Thankfully, I was able to learn from those mistakes. Those mistakes made me a better domainer....

 

[stewmath]

My biggest mistake was not holding onto the domain name Cugh.com, thinking it was a crap name and selling it on ebay back in like 2007


I also wasted a fortune on $69 snapname backorders thinking they were good names and turned out to be total junk

 

[WingMan]

Removing privacy was a mistake. I'm tired of all the web development spam

 

[denzuko]

I dropped some names I listed on Sedo, but i did not remove them from sedo. 1 month later one of them got an offer.

So patience is one of the key

 

[sids70]

Had two letter domain in .vc tld
renewed it couple of times. Had left it at multiple marketplace. After long time when I logged in Sedo one of them got offer for 500 and he increased price upto 2500. By that time, I had lost the domain just few days before. After that I try to log in all marketplace at least once a month.

 

[eurorealtor]

My biggest mistakes so far :

i invested ( wasted ) to much money ( around 6000,-$ )
in Flippa & Sedo Showcase with nearly no results

I made that mistake @ Flippa couple of years back, when I spent around $300 per listing on multiple domains with no reserve and lost big time. That's when I learned Flippa is not the best place to sell, but it's decent place to buy domains.

On the other hand, I spend $16 per homepage featured listing @ GD Auctions and scored couple of grand per one single listing.