To start I’d like to say Happy Father’s Day to all the Dads out there. We should be the ones giving thanks for having been given the gift of being a Father but we’ll still take the presents.
In the last week I have read a domain investor that said their goal is to get up to 1000 domains. In the same week I talked to someone that wanted to try and get their portfolio down to 50 great names. Two completely different strategies to making money in domains but both seem to think its the best way for them. As for the first, I don’t see how having a number of domains is a goal. There needs to be an adjective that describes the 1000 domains. I can get 1000 domains in my portfolio by next Friday. But they are going to suck. It’s going to take me 50K plus to get 1000 of any quality and 5 times that to have some good names. Having 1000 good domains is a goal. Not just 1000 domains.
As for narrowing it down to 50. It would be nice to have 50 top tier names. But it also sounds boring. I won’t lie. My favorite part of this investment is the hunt. It’s what kills me and drives me. I guess if I was hunting for the next six figure domain then it would be its own fun and provide the same drive. I guess as I think about it that doesn’t sound so boring. You just have to sell one or two a year to cash flow the next purchase and if they are great names, that could happen. But you could have a dry year and sell nothing. Now we’re back to boring.
Domain of the Day: GoodApples.com Where the world needs to focus
Quote of the Day: “A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires.”– Paulo Coelho
Park.io Names at Auction or Available for Pickup
Learn.ly The kind of of one word keyword that works with dot ly
Notification.to 9 bids have this up to over $500
Hempy.io There are a dozen or so companies or products with this name
Dave.gg Dave is definitely going to want this
Dizzy.info We have an entire division at our hospital called the “dizzy clinic” to treat all the different things that cause dizziness. Evidently there are a lot
Namejet and Sedo & More Domains at Action
WDS.org No reserve. Great letters, lets hope you and I are they only ones that see it. OK, well maybe the 79 bidders will forget they put in a bid
ThePanic.com reserve under $500. Timely name
HappySheep.com No reserve. Some times its easier to just go with the herd
Trisha.com Still the belle of the ball at the Sedo auction
Godaddy Domains With Bids
OnlineTherapist.com Most bids on the Godaddy board. Also known as Online the Rapist
MenSpa.com Men don’t need their own spa but just in case the world doesn’t base everything on my thoughts
LaserTools.com Taken in 29 extensions. This one makes the cut
FaceGroup.com Facebookish name IMO
Trendle.com A British term but I think they are also seeing “Trend”
eGains.com Trading or investment domain all the way
OurAncestry.com Just too close to Ancestry.com but it looks good on you
ProChannel.com Pro sports. Taken in 19 extensions
KTMedia.com Pretty much buy any LLMedia name and you’ll be good
123Yes.com Sounds like a sales program
BumbleBean.com At least its memorable
ShouldIRefi.com Great buildout name. Let them type in rate and see if someone has a better rate and is worth refinancing
Godaddy Names With One or No Bids
The Rest of the Godaddy Names with Bids
046699.com
047799.com
064488.com
094488.com
111586.com
11348.com
1577.cc
1917.org
249000.com
407799.com
415599.com
417799.com
425599.com
427799.com
435599.com
437799.com
463399.com
467799.com
473399.com
483399.com
493399.com
585788.com
59119.com
843399.com
AARoadTrips.com
ABCCocinaNYC.com
AEForum.org
Any-Sound-Recorder.com
BeachHouseLinens.com
bsebregistration.com
bsebssresult.com
CourtyardDoro.com
CyberSiteSearch.com
DeadliftWorkouts.com
dlblog.org
DogsGossip.com
Emerge-Usa.org
ExpertWise.com
FatLossSupplement.com
fennesseyranch.com
Fly2u.com
GlideTrack.com
HearToftHeCity.com
HeatherSaundersPhotography.com
Javcccc.net
JuazzShop.com
KappaSails.com
Kenchikushinjinsen.com
LAChildrensFilm.org
LampWorks.com
LedFloodlights.com
LetsTravelTour.com
LiterOfIlia.com
Marmin.com
MotherAndBabySource.com
NEDK.com
niao2048.biz
Nnmpekprg.com
OhioCasinos.com
Onoly.com
PadAd.com
Pass2048.biz
PhilLyfreeStreets.com
PortlandFestivalSymphony.org
postektechnologies.com
RBNLve.com
Remonter.com
RodiautoSport.net
royskwikkorner.com
Skyble.com
SlickJobs.com
StoryOfLondon.com
StreamLaunch.com
StreamLicensing.com
SupergoodMovies.com
SurfingAccessories.com
SwipeTelecom.com
ThinkCat.com
TubeHold.com
tubeole.com
TumblingBones.com
UltraCo.com
UsaWriters.org
WebList.me
XXun.com
YouthPulse.com
yuey2048.net
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Whether your goal is 50 or 1000 domains, just make sure to get dotcoms in which the .net and .org are taken (not by you). Doesn’t matter if they are brandables, keyword domains, 1-word, 2-word, 3-word, 4-word, if they meet just that one criterion, chances are you will have an elite portfolio with high probability of sales.
Thanks Ben and Tony. Great points from both of you
I also think there should be a sales or cashflow goal, as well as understanding sunk cost. Some keep renewing bad domains when it would be wise to let them go, I have about 200 dropping in the next few weeks, and no bites at liquidation prices. Which leads to the other cost consideration, time. No matter how many you have, you have to manage them, and not having a good system in place to do so takes a lot of time, the one thing you can’t get back.