A great comment the other day at one of the Silk Road domain blogs said “the sherpas on DomainSherpa.com would say aperfectlanding.com sucks Drop that name fast stop throwing your money away start over. BUT Mike Mann would sell aperfectlanding.com for $100,000” First of all you are missing all the information about Mike Mann and his domains. You hear what he wants you to hear and what his lackeys put out there. He HAS to get those prices to think about breaking even. Don’t get me wrong. I think he will end up doing very very well. He has been doing it a while and has a lot of great names. Despite those names there have been financial problems. I’ve never heard of financial problems from Berkens, Schilling, Schwartz, Reyberry brothers. I know, I know, personal reasons. All I am saying is he isn’t killing it despite being in this a long time and making lots of money.
Back to the quote. Would I tell you to drop it? No. I would throw it into the numbers game portfolio just like Mann does. I have a section of my portfolio like that too. But I didn’t have SEO and HappyBirthday.com from back in the day to cashflow my waiting names like him. I do now so I have started building a brandable, BIN portfolio. Want to follow his lead? Do it. I challenge you. To the point I’m pretty sure you can’t buy 300 names and publicly track purchases and sales and show a profit for 2 years in a row. Ali can. Josh can. A few others can. Most can’t. They just talk and comment in the blogs and talk about the sales. Leaving the important details in the closet.
Here are today’s names. Click for most recent price
Godaddy Domains That I Like With Multiple Bids
Frostbit.com I like the name. Bit actually makes it sound techy. Bad name for warming products though
AccessPoints.com 20 years old. Wireless is what first comes to mind. Worth $10,000 according to Godaddy
CreativityZone.com I think that creativity often trumps higher education
StartPay.com What is the starting pay of every career
ODFF.com Under $300 at press time
SpotRepair.com A few repair names seem to sell each month according to Namebio. And that’s just reported sales
SweetPetals.com Girly brand under $25 at press time
DotWow.com Because there will be some day
NextLevelCapital.com Godaddy likes it, and bidders like it. Who am I to say different?
GoMonkey.com Two timeless Internet keywords. Go and monkey . 16 years old
SE99.com LLNN with repeating numbers can hit four figures on the right day
vTimes.com Top price on the Godaddy board today
LCMF.com I take that back. It’s this one
POSCloud.com Point of sale not piece of shit
HiddenPassages.com 600 monthly visits. Stuff hidden in books or hidden under the city
LawSchoolRatings.com You know exactly what this will become. Just have to decide if you want to make it happen
BitPapa.com “I love it when you call me Bit Pa….pa ”
3474.com A rare NNNN.com sighting
PZPT.com, TWMB.com, FGWM.com, TSWB.com A group of CHiPs up for auction today
Domains That I Like With One or No Bids
BodyThunder.com Nice brand for workout product. Body pump. Ass thunder
NewMommies.com New Moms is obviously better but this is $12 and 1999 domain
CraftOftheMonth.com Craft everything is big right now. Craft beer comes to mind first. No bidders
GamedayAuthentic.com Collectible sports memorabilia all the way
BlakStar.com Like this brand. Blak is cooler than Black
Funbrellas.com Nothing says fun like an umbrella
DriveandPutt.com The two most important parts of golf. Surprised there are no bidders
URLAddict.com Yes you are. No bidders
MoreHugs.com Nice thought
Emaik.com Typo of email, whatever that means today
BBQBeef.com It may just be because I’m hungry but I like it at $12
PinSquare.com I like making up names that are a mix of currently successful startups
BigTwist.com Nice brand that nobody else likes at $12
LondonVision.com Can’t see shit in London with all the fog. But still a nice brand
TheRedMouse.com easy logo, easy to spell
MadCrush.com Love or recycling
Flexcit.com Fails the radio test but passes the cool test
Other Godaddy Domains With Bids
611162.com
613335.com
855532.com
accessuk.com
adwareprofessional.com
anona-design.com
ASMGroup.com
BairPhoto.com
BankersGuruAdda.com
BGTP.net
BKGS.net
BlogAdvisorySystem.com
BusinessBuildersGlobal.com
BuyTackle.com
CityOfShelter.org
ClotheslineProject.org
ComputerChess.info
DisasterRecoveryCenter.com
DisasterRecoveryCenters.com
Domrex.com
Earthquakerose.com
Ethereumtrade.com
Inch-Aweigh.com
inticahuarinaspanishschool.com
JackRussellBrewing.com
JustPensions.org
lawomenstheatreproject.com
LocusDesign.com
LTDM.net
MenstrualPoetry.com
MichaelSakaMoto.com
MillionaireCarClub.com
myjobscout.org
n6wk.com
NDRF.net
NextLevelCapital.com
NVXs.com
odamochka.info
OnlyAtFarmersMarkets.com
PandaEducation.com
PerformanceWebMarketing.com
Plascart.com
PostApocalyptic.net
ResponsivePrint.com
SBWB.net
SimplyTracking.com
SmartChoiceSelfStorage.com
SoloWare.com
SportScarSales.com
StemRecruiting.com
TecoTheater.org
TheAnticMuse.com
TheHumaneTouch.org
Tingzai.com
TooManyMornings.com
Tsact.org
VSTCafe.com
VYR.co
Web-Catalog.com
WittyBeep.com
WomensSelfDefenses.com
WorldNewsReport.net
SEDO Auctions
Start-Up.com Has a hyphen but that only drops it from 6 or 7 figures down to four or five
YZ.net Two letter dot nets have been pretty rare. Will be interesting to see what this closes at
Inheritance.com Tax or estate planning dream name
Namejet Auction
RestoreCredit.com There is a reason why the CPC on credit repair and restoration is so high. People pay a lot to have it done . Even Uniregistry bid $3500 for this one which tells you the value
HostingProgram.com I see more hosting families and kids from other countries than I do web hosting. No bidders
BankingInstitute.com 12 bidders on this financial name.
CENO.com Getting all the action because its a CVCV. 103 bidders and five figures
PHPH.com ABAB. One of the most desired patterns. Just not as desired as it was a year ago
SellingPrice.com So generic I don’t know what I would do with it. But memorable
EndurancePills.com If only. Although they may mean sexual endurance not athletic
Longer.net This would work as well
WeedGame.com Somebody is going to like this one. Just because of weed
PRN.net Great letters. 5% of the dot com puts this in the $2K range IMO
GlobalVegan.com Nope. Don’t even say it
778.co No value and the bidding shows it
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” To the point I’m pretty sure you can’t buy 300 names and publicly track purchases and sales and show a profit for 2 years in a row. ”
Geez .. I’ve only recently started building my portfolio … been a very bad boy and procrastinated making a marketplace etc .. but I seriously hope I’ll be turning a profit sooner than later. Maybe not on my first 300 names (well maybe) .. but almost certainly on my last 300! lol
Anyhow .. I would never buy “aperfectlanding.com” because I don’t think it’s worth the risk to reward … there are times when a garbage domain name will sell before a great one .. there’s a luck / random timing factor to domaining that sometimes seems to defy if you look at all the sales published .. but if you stretch out probabilities I’d think those longshots are certainly going to pop-up from time to time … and most certainly will seem to happen more for the big boys .. but that’s only because they have a kazillion domains and their domains and market places have much better exposure .. in fact on would argue that it would be weird if they didn’t make such sales from time to time.
Now if only I’d get one! 😉
.. there’s a luck / random timing factor to domaining that sometimes seems to defy **REASON** if you look at all the sales published
Ategy,
Good points. It’s a game of percentages. Percentages that will never be shared
Loved the read, and i agree 100% to that. He has invested for the future but i’d rather live a happy, and not under financial pressure everyday than making up for all the renewals every year.
Definitely a different strategy but domainers only with millions of dollars can do that. I’ve been in domaining for over 15 years now (hobby for me) and only invested in names that either come really well off the tongue + have some sort of brand value to it.
On the list, i really like Funbrellas as a brandable, i can foresee a possibility of a cool product being built on it!
On a different note, my biggest regret was selling eVirtual .com last year for a couple of grand on Namejet, definitely could have got higher seeing the craze now, had i held it. But that is what domaining or anything you invest or do in life is about, you learn from the mistakes you make.
Shane,
If Mike Mann (who I have tremendous respect for) and Josh both were given $100K and one year to make as much $$$ as they could in domain names IMO Josh would !@#$%* him. Just head to head no employees etc. They would be allowed to only buy drops and hand reg domains. How about Namescon 2018 in Las Vegas. Just think of all the publicity this industry would get. It would be a good thing for everyone.
Cheers
Ken,
I would put my money on Josh as well. 🙂
I’d agree as well … HOWEVER … a few very important points …
1) Josh would likely win because he works harder. He puts in more more hours list-surfing to find the same quality domains that Mann and other big names did when they build up their portfolios ages ago.
2) Mann and other big domainers don’t need to work (as hard as us) given the portfolios they already have. He likely makes a very good living and very likely makes a good profit. If he didn’t then he’s very likely simply just drop the weakest portions of his portfolio.
3) His past hard work has built up his reputation and Rolodex of key industry contacts which also has a huge effect on both buying cheaper and selling higher.
Re: BitPapa.com
“I love it when you call me Bit Pa…pa” 🙂
Funny Biggie Smalls/The Notorious B.I.G reference.
I was wondering if anyone would get that
I always get your references.
Always funny!