Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Friday, December 22nd, 2017

You want to make $1000?  The easiest way to make money is to get past what you like or don’t.  To put down your mirror and put in a window.  This has nothing to do with you. Its what other people think.  If you are creating a service, a technology then perhaps you have a chance of creating something so good that people will come to realize they need it.  But most likely you will fill a hole. A need.   You are going to make money in what others want or think is of value.

Just because you don’t understand it doesn’t mean it has no value.  I f’n hate diamonds.  I think its ludicrous that people will pay tens of thousands for a piece of glass that comes out of the earth.  That some person rates them and tells me if its prettier than the others.  One of the stupidest thing someone can spend there money on.  I think those thousands of diamond chips they put on my bricksaw are much more valuable to me.  And I can get a thousand of them on a blade for $75.   Yet I know other people value them so I would have no problem buying and selling them if I decided to learn the diamond trade. I will trade anything if I think I can make money.  (anything legal)

Crypto is a perfect example. Last night a fantastic opportunity to make some money came up.  About 9 pm central BTC took a nosedive.  Twitter lit up with crash talk.  Other crypto followed.  I was in cash waiting for people to take profit for the end of year and the holidays from this big run.   But then last night I see this huge move down.  Is the crash here already?  I know that the big crash is not going to be on a Thursday night. History tells me a $1000 dip will be bought.  A $2000 dip will as well.   I got a little cautious when it got into the high 13s.  Once it rose in the low 14s I bought back my coin, rode it to 15 and took my profit.  $900 after fees for merely knowing the market.

Does bitcoin have to have functional value, a future, or too much risk?  Maybe.  But there was an opportunity to make money based on the short history of the coin that presented opportunity to make money. That’s my job.  Hell, I didn’t have anything else to do on a Thursday night and its not like domain investing is active.  As I type this I am looking for it to go to low 14s to do it again.   (edit. woke up at 3:45 to see it in the 13s all night while I slept ) Domain investing is the exact opposite to trading.  Its a buy and hold game so I might as well make myself useful doing something else while I wait.

I’m not saying buy crypto.  But I am saying that just because you don’t believe in the future of something doesn’t mean you can’t flip or trade something hot.  Take advantage of your new window and see what people are coveting at that point in time and sell it to them.   I think emoji urls are dumb.  Not that I don’t like emojis themselves but because you have to put most of them on the .ws tld.  And because some other tld will start allowing them and there will be several smiley face domains.  Yet I have no problem buying and selling them right now.  This isn’t about what I like, its about what people are buying.  “I make plenty of money in dot coms”  I bet you do.  But there is more money out there.  Out of your comfort zone.  You also can have two strategies.  You can hold some things long and trade some of it on the side for cash flow.  The key is don’t hold things you don’t believe in very long.  Get in, get out

I’m not telling you to throw darts.  What I am telling you is to check out the dart board and the ping pong table, and the shuffle hockey table. There are a lot of games in town.  You don’t have to play just one.   Here are today’s names. They don’t work unless you click on them

Quote of the Day:    Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility’  -Peter Drucker

Domain of the Day: WeDontHaveANameYet.com Might be my favorite name of the year. Maybe not favorite but I really do like it.

Namejet and Sedo Names at Auction

Pami.com   Met reserve so its going to sell.  Looks like its going to take 5 figures to own it

MoviePlayer.com   Sounds like a 90s name but still relevant

LeadFuture.com       Crypto?  Ha.  Cool people are trading lead futures.  Seriously, I think the bidders are actually looking at future tech

CoinCredible.com    The hottest word on the Internet according to Verisign.  3 bids

WeddingPhotography.co  For those of you that believe in dot co

GoodMaster.com     The Bible, domination, or good original copy.  21 bidders

VintageJewelry.com     Vintage jewelry has been a good market for hundreds of years. Most likely always will

TotalLife.com  sounds like a health or power drink

StartupStart.com  A site that helps startups get started. BIN at $99

UnOwned.com  Didn’t think this would get anywhere near this price

MyFollowers.com  Met reserve.  It’s all about influencers

Islamville.com   Hundreds of millions of people are Islamic.  $99 BIN

Mulched.com   Good name for the landscape industry.  We do half a million in mulch.  I know

Godaddy Domains That I Like With Multiple Bids

OLOC.com   Great letters and the two Os give you a big discount

TrustChip.com    I consider it a crypto name.  Getting bids for one reason or another