Domain Shane’s Daily List of Domains at Auction for Monday July 2nd , 2018

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1. Seems like it’s been a while since I’ve rambled here .. lol .. been so busy with a whole lot of things (including finally finishing my new multi-sheet domain inventory control excel file .. it’s a beautiful monster)! lol
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   As you know I try to grab (what *I* consider good names .. lol) that others have missed and have fallen through the cracks (often even to closeout). It costs me less in terms of dollars .. but there is still the cost of my time going through so many names (as well as future optometry costs .. lol). But that being said .. “TheTrail // dot // com” is way WAY stronger than the average “good” two word domain .. it’s a fantastic brand for a very broad set of possible companies (probably is already a few). I never would have paid $350 for UrbanSoil … and I don’t buy $1500 domains .. but I can very clearly say that even at Wholesale TheTrail at $1500 was a solid get!
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   As for new G’s .. I consider .co’s in that category .. and they have done ok for me. When I got serious about domaining (I have domains for much much longer, but with development dreams .. lol) I started with a whack-ton of .co that looking back I either overpaid for or shouldn’t have bought in the first place … after a month or so I started to only get them on the drop without a drop service “hand catch” (as Josh calls it). But considering all that “learning money” I wasted that first month, since then I’m pretty much even with .co .. it used to be over 30% of my portfolio but now it’s down to about 3% of my portfolio as I only kept the strongest 1-word and 1-keyterm domains. So admittedly I’m not in huge profits with .co (I’m literally even +/- 10%), the fact that I made back all my worst “beginner learning/mistake” money, it makes me a very happy domainer! lol
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   Many many years ago (before I started “domaining”) I grabbed a large amount of dropping .mobi domains at expiration auction with intent of developing tons of micro sites. I didn’t know much about domaining at the time (although I did feel they had value and that resell was a possibility down the road). I spend a good deal of money there .. but looking back I can’t say it was a bad decision because at the time google ranked .mobi equally and even supposedly favoured them on mobile. More importantly I hadn’t heard of Responsive web design yet which would change the business world from absolutely requiring a 2nd (mobile based) website … to a world where it isn’t even though about anymore. Back then (I thought) there was a technical need for .mobi .. which is NOT the same thing for pretty much all the new GTLD’s.
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   Ironically I didn’t even look into any .app domains this time around .. lol. My portfolio is now 87% .com; 3% .org; 3% .co; 2% .biz; 1% .net and the rest are very strong one word/term .tv, .cc, .ws and a couple more. I have one remaining .mobi and that’s my first name and even that is only because it has a grandfathered email credit from GoDaddy that in my head I value at about the same as the renewal.
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   So all that being said .. if you’re very selective with a very smart subset of alternate extensions I do think you can be profitable in non-.com .. but it’s a lot harder and you have to be EXTREMELY stingy with what you buy (well over 99% of ngTLD’s I see registered are beyond horrible and will never have any chance of selling). But they can be good if you’re smart and patient .. In the last year I think I only picked up 2 new .co with one of them being Burgundy // dot // co .. which I have zero regrets grabbing at the price I got it for (because acquisition cost is extremely important)! 🙂
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   OK .. ramble over! Happy in between Canada and USA days! 🙂