Last year was a great year for sales totals but by far the least amount of names I’ve sold in a year. Most likely the least in my 10 plus years of domains. I still did over six figures in sales but it was just a handful of names. All that being said, I wasn’t happy with my domaining year. I priced things too high. I got caught up in the rhetoric of Rick Schwartz and Mike Mann who are positive in thought but not right for every domain. I made my way here with cash flow and smaller profits and got a little greedy in hindsite. Again, I was lucky enough to have some good sales but it was luck. Take a few out and my year would have been disappointing. It hindered my domain investing. I turned down $50K in profits. I do feel I will get all of it and more in the future but there are a few that I may have made a mistake not taking it and squeezing a little too hard.
I’m going to drop my prices back a little this year to move a few so I can get some cash flow again. We’ll see how it goes. That’s why I love domain investing, investing in general. It’s not all always constant and you have good years and bad years. I haven’t had a bad year but my boss got on me for not hitting my numbers
Quote of the Day:
Domain of the Day:
Namejet, Sedo, Snap, and other Names Up for Auction
Premium.tax 4 bids and met reserve. A term used for money/credit you can use to offset health insurance at the US marketplaces
Analit.com to a few companies and entities they used the name to represent analytics
Zudick.com A common last name which means eventually its going to be a product or company name. 18 years old and no bids
BeMyBoss.com A new site like SugarDaddy. No bids
Econojob.com Probably the least amount of results I’ve ever seen for a word. Means you can absolutely dominate the search results
LocalShip.com Shipping is the key part of commerce right now. And local is where it ends
HigherThought.com Maybe not as good as Calm but a nice name for a meditation app
ThunderCell.com No bidders. I don’t know what this would be good for but I like names with thunder in them. Sounds strong
Knowbotics.com Great combo of knowledge and robotics
Pokeful.com Pokeman fansite?
GunMaker.com There are few groups more passionate than the gun community
Voices.cc Its a dot cc so cheap and hard to sell
Godaddy Domains With Bids
Zozi.com Biggest price and the most bids on the Godaddy board today
VeganFootwear.com No animals were harmed in the making of this footwear. Only humans
Floxx.com These types are great adds to the portfolio if the price is right. So far the price is. My opinion only, use your own for your own money
OrchardBees.com Unfortunately bee names are doing well right at the time I started paying attention and adding them
SlimShape.com Huge money in getting people skinnier and doubling up by making clothes that are for large people because they never stay that way
TheLobbyist.com The real people that run Washington
Small.info Small price
RentalAgent.com Too generic for me but someone will buy it
SmartVibe.com buzzword overload……I love it
PrivateSafe.com Makes me feel like that can’t really steal my bitcoin here
TradeApps.com Makes no sense to me but there are bids. How do you trade apps? Sell them, buy them…sure. Bid away
Avovo.com Fits in the buy all 5L that are pronouceable rule. I used to say under $50, then under $100, now I’m up to $200 for most
TribalCare.com Godaddy values this over $4000 probably because there is a company that operates with a dash that could really use it. Native American oriented
MilitaryBrats.com The term used for children of people in the armed forces
Godaddy Names With One of No Bids
The Rest of the Godaddy Names With Bids
70468.com
773776.com
AgileRetail.com
AlcoholTreatment.org
Asadorizarra.com
Aviatime.com
Best-Movies.com
BlueEyesWebsite.com
Bostonrb.org
Carolbly.com
CharityCapital.com
ColonyBeachResort.com
dcbikramyoga.com
E338.com
E418.com
Exceer.com
FashionFiles.com
FebInc.com
Fotoport.com
Fuentesanta.com
GameHolds.com
Gilang.com
GolfConcierge.com
GuinGuinBali.com
HandsomeNakedHunks.com
HighTouchWeb.com
HorselessCarriage.net
InstaPhenomenons.me
IsOlenElmOndo.com
KCV.net
KitchenTaps.com
LoslunasChamber.com
MMGSports.com
NetNess.com
OneCall.net
PickMyBabyCrib.com
ProtectingOurWater.org
Revealytics.com
SayNotOpalMoil.com
Sembeo.com
Senoyna.com
SeoWebDirectory.info
ShanghaiCasino.com
Site2Templates.com
SlimmingBody.com
studioj.com
SubtitlesPlus.com
SurgeCapital.com
TapeHairExtensions.com
ViaspecuariasDeMadrid.org
wachabuy.com
Why-Not.com
xm20.com
Have a name at auction and need more exposure? Send me an email. We Charge $10 per name per day. We may be able to help. If you have an auction you want to promote, email us for details.*All names chosen by us, Shane and Josh . (ie you click through and purchase a name you like) or an occasional paid listing. Everything we say is based on our own research or is opinion. Do your own due diligence. That means look it up yourself if you don’t think the stats or our opinion is correct. We hand choose the names but we are paid to make this list by both the auction houses, individuals that are auctioning names, and Godaddy affiliate links. Keep that in mind and only buy names that YOU think are good.
“I still did over six figures in sales….”
Prove it! Be transparent with your blog readers.
Domains? Sold For ?
Watch Sherpa. Read the blog. I talk about them all the time, often with prices. Just because you are anonymous and lazy means I have to list them all again? I still don’t understand why someone can’t ask a question with their real name. But just for you here are some of the names that I sold in 2019
Ethical. com
70A.com
70X.com
Gardenist.com
Chozn.com
Yardz.com
Weedgrower.com
Facedrop.com
30 LLLL at auctions that are small from $500 to 1000 for cash flow
365.ws Yup I even sold a .ws for $1000
That’s $90K just off the top of my head. Don’t fuck with me on being open.
Prove it Shane!
I’ve wasted all my money buying hand-regged new gTLDs that no one will ever buy. I haven’t made a penny. Prove to me that domain investing isn’t a scam! Waaaaah
Shane is the most transparent blogger in the domain industry. You don’t have the right to demand anything from him.
Thank you Michael and Bar
Another successful year Shane and always learning – congrats. And thank you for always keeping it real, happy new year and all the best for 2020!
Thanks Nate, Declan, and Tal. And yes Tal, Zudick is too easy 🙂
Happy new year Shane! I too am going to reprice some and try not to be greedy this year… I feel like I also left money on the table for trying to squeeze a bit too hard on some sales this past year. We learn from both our successes and failures. Peace!
Ethical.com. That’s an awesome domain. I missed that one since I started coming here only later in the year. I guess I have to thank the anonymous troll for making you mention it? Anyway… happy new year and to many more sales and puns. I was sure you’d make a field day out of Zudick…
I find that most people find the buy side tempting and spend about 90% or more picking up domains,when most of the time should be spent trying to sell them. godaddy pushes for sellers to list buy it now prices instead of a range, decent domains should sell at 3 to 5 percent they claim,but the appraisals are based on what similar domains have sold ,someone has to want them,the more end users the more likely of a sale ,but they are not looking so I am finding coldcalling does get good results. I bypass the actual person now and just tell them via vm godaddy is auctioning off their domain in dot com ,so if interested theses a reasonable offer for it and johnscatering.com (example )will take you to an afternic/godaddy broker with a free 800 number it’s a numbers game but it works.
Ben,
Makes sense. And I 100% agree on the buy vs sell. People should be trying to sell their domains but instead they generally just wait. I like how you don’t actual do the direct sale but remind them where they could buy the domain. Good advice
I forgot to add that buying good domains are pretty easy now,there is only a hand of buyers out there now ,compared to other industries,I try to stay away from good domains and go for the great ones now,I do have a couple thousand that still get bid up in expiring auctions ,but now in order for me to buy a domain I mine for or pick up in auction,I have to have panic in my body ,so even if I pick up a domain that was dropped 3 years ago and I’m wondering why this domain I sold 5 years ago for 4K has been just sitting there unregged again, frantically rushed to buy it heart beating out of my chest,these are the domains that they will come looking for oh buy the way that domain was BettingInSports.com