strategy Your Reason For Trading Domains - Why/How Did You Start?

[GetBigDomains]

I'm curious to hear from established and newbies..

What was your real reason for getting into domain sales (your motivation)?
How did you stumble upon it/start selling on day 1?
How much was the first domain you bought?
Where was your first sale auction/private?
How long did it take you to sell one?
Who contacted who?
What tools do you use for domain handling if not Excel?
How many names have you cancelled, dropped, forgotten/lost?
What would you tell yourself if you were starting today?

 

[JB Lions]

So even though you lost many names it is all worth it?
Keeping the end user in mind. Not your own ideas lol. (as I began with a zillion)...
I loved this video BTW

Yes, it's worth it since I've been working from home since 2002, freedom. And the lost domains/not renewing is more at the beginning. Consider that your education, finding out what works/doesn't work, for you. For example, 1 thing I noticed for most of the domains I don't renew, is that they were only registered in .com and not 1 other extension. The ones I have that tend to get the most offers/sales, are usually registered in many different extensions. And that just makes sense. Now, I easily renew 90%+ of my domains.

 

[shorterwinters]

What would you tell yourself if you were starting today?

https://www.namepros.com/blog/six-lessons-for-domaining-beginners-from-a-beginner.922026/

 

[biggie]

https://www.namepros.com/threads/wh...-best-advice-for-newbies.926627/#post-5367179

 

[stewmath]

I honestly cant remember, ive been at it for over 10 years on and off

 

[GetBigDomains]

I'm not a newbie.
I registered my first domain in 1999 around the time I was studying.
I was away from domains after running a site called Sing2Win..co.uk which was a tester really.
I ran the competition for less than 1 year.
I remember registering some good names at the start but forgetting about them.
I registered to many names with one company and ended up losing many.
I have sold premium name for cheap.
I have missed a matching premium name that went for silly money.
I have won in flippa and NamePros.
I have missed a nice .info here and told myself off after... loans.info
I have bought from chat (which I regret some)

I was busy raising a family
My eldest is now finishing university.
My middle is a footballer.
My youngest is a maths wiz.

Currently I'm recovering from an operation. And seem to have some neurological twitches.
I did not get much sleep for a while. I took a break from the computer and lost many more names.

My reason for selling domains is an additional income. I want to be successful in many things.
There's so much I still want to do...
But I no longer wish to waste my time.

When I joined NP I wanted to learn for myself through experience. And was quite stubborn at times.
Surprisingly some pages I made began to rank well in Alexa - randomly the ones I'd least expect.
It was also a bit of an experiment. Using various hosts and methods of publishing.
Catchy long tail names and cheesy kind of names. LOL
I think that to be successful with selling or flipping domains and parking revenues / redirects
you need to be much more in the know and read all the threads. Don't guess and waste your money.

I wanted to learn more in practice the Online Marketing Diploma I had take - an online course.
So that when I apply for a job I had a broader knowledge and practical experience.
Using Adwords, Adsense, Google Analytics, Webmaster Tools and so forth.

So I'm looking out for a job that is local or online now. And will hold around 20 domains as a PT hobby.

Thanks for all your replies!

 

[GetBigDomains]

I honestly cant remember, ive been at it for over 10 years on and off

I know, I've forgotten the first cool names I registered as well!
But you must remember where your first purchase and sale was??

 

[imadoer]

I was looking on Google for a way to get rich discovered the ebet sale I was floored that you could sell a name and at that very moment a light exploded in my head and I knew that this is what I wanted to do with my life

 

[ET76]

I thought GetBigDomains.com is yours @GetBigDomains , it's still available

 

[GetBigDomains]

I thought GetBigDomains.com is yours @GetBigDomains , it's still available

I know.

 

[GetBigDomains]

I let it drop as I was sick - can you see the post above?
I am back on NP now and my name might change... Or I might open a different type of account.

 

[ET76]

I let it drop as I was sick - can you see the post above?
I am back on NP now and my name might change... Or I might open a different type of account.

No, I think it's a cool name. Thanks for for clarifying.

 

[alwaysforGod]

Domaining just sort of fell in line with other projects I had going on, but was discovered by myself quite on accident. I was considering a domain name for a website, started thinking of various names and then more and more names, researched their availability and such, then looked into domain sales a whole.
I find it enjoyable, a solid investment, plus it's awesome so I stayed at it :]

 

[toughdomains]

i want a name that went from 3k in price to 30k i was considering trading one of my 6 letter .com one word for the name...but the name i want is with a broker so its unlikely since no money involved that the trade would take place...i have had others offer to trade names for a name they cant afford...the name they want to trade for hardly ever is equal to the one they want....

 

[namelancer]

I was busy raising a family
My eldest is now finishing university.
My middle is a footballer.
My youngest is a maths wiz.

So, unless the avatar is something borrowed, for you to still manage to look as remarkably good as your avatar purports you to be, and to be able to fit in that black dress you would've had to sell your soul to the domainer's devil

 

[GetBigDomains]

So, unless the avatar is something borrowed, for you to still manage to look as remarkably good as your avatar purports you to be, and to be able to fit in that black dress you would've had to sell your soul to the domainer's devil

LOL... The pic is a couple of years young..
Thanks for the compliment!

 

[maxtra]

Discovered this article: http://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-domain-names-of-all-time-2015-7

Started Domaining immediately afterwards.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

Your reason for trading domains - why / how did you start?

Whyyy
I started because I want to make the highest sale of all time.

Howww
I started by creating the highest domain of all time.

 

[MR Harrist]

in 2010, actually domain with pagerank, have high demmand, so, I create 1 and sell it for a few dollar! and because of that reason, I always knew buying domain are the shortcut to make more money, and getting page 1 in Google SERP!

and to be honest, I never knew, that domain with no metrics can be sell for thousand of dollar! and then I learn in here from namepros members, reading all good pages, and then start to buy domain! .us, $50 for 50 domain! and after 11 month, someone buy 1 of the domain, and after a few weeks, someone buy my dot com domain! and that's it, I think domain biz are not that bad! its just need some time to make sales!

but recently I try to do outbound to make sales proces much more faster! but doing outbound are quite tricky! because offering mean low price, but do nothing or inbound, it will take a very very long time to make 1-2 sales! so I am kind of searching the best way how to combine those two between outbound and do nothing! and make maximum profit!

 

[Dorkvader]

I just got into it, I'm a noob and don't have a sale yet. Main motivation was to purchase domains for a website/forum I was thinking about trying to start. Decided I did not want to deal with the liability involved with that type of forum. Held onto the domains incase I changed my mind... Now I find buying domains to be slightly addicting. I think it's more the challenge of wanting a specific type of domain name and trying to find one that's catchy, short and not already taken.

But it's mostly just a hobby what's a few bucks here or there? While I learn something about an industry I know almost nothing about and could potentially make a few bucks off, I see no harm in it.

 

[Coinking]

Discovered this article: http://www.businessinsider.com/most-expensive-domain-names-of-all-time-2015-7

Started Domaining immediately afterwards.

Amazing sales