What was your real reason for getting into domain sales (your motivation)?
I find it really interesting. Something I can do anywhere, any age (till dementia creeps in and that might not stop it), and hoping to make some money. Also to the point of if I wasn't going to do it now, I may never do it. I would never know if I could or not. So, here I am.
How did you stumble upon it/start selling on day 1?
Don't remember how I stumbled on it. Kind of always knew about it in a way (bitcoin anyone??). Big sales in the news or "Ahh, that would make a good website....." kind of thing and and tried about 10 years ago with little effort, no knowledge, and no success.
Where was your first sale auction/private?
How long did it take you to sell one?
Who contacted who?
Inbound offer. Did not even have the name listed for sale.
Last year I looked up some of the names I had dropped from about 10 years ago. Many were taken and some were websites. I decided to jump back in and really try to learn how it's done. It was also before finding this place. That came about 3-4 weeks in this time.
About 4-6 weeks later I got an offer on one of my "new names". Although I hand regged it I since learned that it was a website in a previous life and had been dropped a few years earlier. I still had no clue what I was doing but that got the ball really rolling. Kind of messed with my head a little too. Even tho I really knew it wasn't that easy, I thought I had a handle on what good names were. Ha. This is right about the time I stumbled upon this place.
How many names have you cancelled, dropped, forgotten/lost?
What would you tell yourself if you were starting today?
Original batch I still got my first one and another 4-6 of those.
Right now is renewal time from when I started again about a year ago.
I am dropping far more than I have sold or that I am going to keep many of which I will forget and probably just as many I hope I forget.
The one piece of advise I see here over and over I think is the best.
Read and learn, then read and learn some more. Don't register anything out of the gate. Wait until you have some sort of clue what a truly good domain name is. When you think you know, read and learn some more then look at registering names. There is lots to it no matter how stupid simple it sounds or we think it is, how smart we think we are or even really are.
If I would have followed that advise then the next few months for this batch of renewals would not be so painful. Amazing to see how my portfolio has gotten better. Mind you, I know there is still crap but there is no doubt the quality has gotten far better.
As I have gone along I have found out just how much time is involved and how much work this really is if you wish to have success. So much to learn.
There are some great threads here from members who wrote about what they learned over their first year or just advise given to beginners. Namepros is the single best resource out there for this I think. There are other good ones for sure but you can find them from here (from advise in threads or just mentioned, etc) instead of trying to weed through them on your own.
