discuss Your biggest regret in your domaining career?

[Arpit131]

We all have regrets.
As a domainer, here is one of my biggest regret :

While deals come and go and I recently blew a $900 deal, which is not a big one, but considering that it was a hand reg and the ROI was close to 45000% it was definitely a regret.

But the biggest one was letting CommercialGain.com expire. While some may not see it as a great name, I saw this name going in 5-figure or more over a period of time. I was careless enough to postpone its renewal and later it expired.

What's your biggest regret in domaining?

 

[MapleDots]

I once let almost 200 domains drop because I did not want to pay so many renewal fees. Most of them ended up at hugedomains. Only a small fraction actually dropped and even those are gone now.

That was a moment

 

[ValleyRock]

Learning the hardway that; just as there will always be another girl. There will always be another domain name.

Dont spend 5usd on domain A to make 500usd, when 2usd on domain B will make 300usd

Whenever, you have to choose between domains when restocking concentrate on staying liquid. Don't spend it all to acquire a single name. Then five minutes later, 2 more names appear that offer the same profit margin show up for 1/3 of the price you paid for the first domain.

As always you need to become an information and statistics nerd to out fox the big boys in this business.

 

[italsat]

i have dropped 24 chips 4l.com in 2012

 

[ValleyRock]

i have dropped 24 chips 4l.com in 2012

 

[frostify]

I let Rediscuss.com expire and now it's on HugeDomains.
Overall, my wins way outweigh my losses though and you must always look forward.

 

[ChelseaDott]

Selling at a lower price

 

[Cdomains]

I let Rediscuss.com expire and now it's on HugeDomains

That doesn't mean much.

My dropped domains wind up on Huge/Domains all the time and I have some of their drops also, some of which were even hand regs after they dropped them and nobody picked them up.

Huge/Domains grabs tons and tons of domains and they don't really care if the quality is not great because they make their money selling mostly low to medium quality names, at relatively low prices, and rely on having a huge (no pun intended) inventory to support those sales.

So you can't really use Huge/Domains to judge your portfolio, or as an average example of how to buy names.

They play the game in a totally different way than we do.

So does Buy/Domains.

 

[DomainLift]

Was in the right place at the right time (1990s). Didn't take it serious was more of a hobby buying domains and building sites but unfortunately I never followed through.

It's never too late and the future is full of opportunities.

Who remembers?
Compuserve
56k modems
Frontpage
AOL Chatrooms
Prodigy
Alta Vista
Netscape

 

[Jv1999]

Was in the right place at the right time (1990s). Didn't take it serious was more of a hobby buying domains and building sites but unfortunately I never followed through.

It's never too late and the future is full of opportunities.

Who remembers?
Compuserve
56k modems
Frontpage
AOL Chatrooms
Prodigy
Alta Vista
Netscape

I don't think the 1990s are that much of a miss if u were able to buy 4L CHIPs for $30 each (or less) then sell them the very next year for $1.5k. People became millionaires. #TrueDomainingStories.

 

[donnied79]

Being greedy and countering a 500$ offer on a domain that was, honestly, worthed zero.
I've rejected many XX.XXX offers in the past and I don't regret any of them, because they were for valuable domains, but that 500$ one yes... I was greedy.

 

[Cdomains]

Your biggest regret in your domaining career?

Answer - Starting a domaining career.

 

[Julio]

I'll my biggest regret was when I left domaining in 2010.

It leaves me with a question "What if?" I've always felt that I had one foot in the door in domaining ready to walking with a x,xxx sale but I left before I could find out the answer to run a gaming community that I was big on.