While I love to see a domain investor sell a name, I hate new domain investors seeing this and thinking they are going to hand register a name and sell it for six figures.
https://x.com/ishmilly/status/2035698527310123390?s=20
These are lottery tickets and nothing more. There will be a person who wins a billion dollars in the Mega Millions lottery every year. Maybe even a few. That does not change the odds that you are probably not going to win. You have a better statistical chance of falling in your shower and dying. Those odds don’t make me avoid showers.
This doesn’t mean you can’t have a hand registration business model and plan. It can work. It will most likely never work if you price them at 100K. They see that sale above and think “that can be me”. I’m all for aspirations and dreams. This is a dream. In my opinion, there are better opportunities in a little higher quality than hand registrations and then selling them for 2-3K. Which is an incredible return. Great keywords in alt TLDs are doing quite well if you research the keyword. Companies love their brands and often choose keywords taken in all the major TLDs so the go with something else that works and defines. Find the TLDs that do that. I’ll give an example. Orion Capital. Made up. Yet we know Orion is taken in hundreds of keywords. My guess is even OrionCapital.com is taken. Look at Orion.capital. I am seeing quite a bit of success in this strategy
The key here is strategy. Shooting for the moon on hand regs is not a strategy
Quote of the Day: “Investing is about stacking small advantages over time. A lottery ticket is hoping for one big break.” — Nick Maggiulli
Domain of the Day:SocialAgents.com Wouldn’t expect anything but a big price on a quality agent name like this
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Dynadot
Soup.org Great keyword. Has meaning above the food
ChenJun.com Popular Chinese first name
Silverbend.com Sounds like a golf course, a neighborhood, or a VC firm
MyQD.com My Quantum Desk
VCC.xyz $15 regular renewal
AgentFork.com Let them eat
Stablecoin.ac Stablecoins are certainly the future of crypto
ChatGPT.ws This ChatGPT thing is catching on
Namejet
OCSC.com Great letters for a 4L. Especially ending in C
OrchidEnergy.com These energy dot coms always sell in expiry. Always for $100 or more
PrestigeEnergy.com
TheStick.com As seen on Domain Sherpa
RERO.com Everyone needs a good CVCV.com in their catalog
Orab.com Same with a pronounceable 4L.com
Donate.net Solid fundraising name
Datium.com Pretty cool made up brandable
Carvest.com This is really odd. On Godaddy’s list AND Namejet’s list. Never see that
Grinding.org Stumps or working hard
Atom – Active Auctions
WZAA.com Z brings down the value greatly for the English language but more than English in this world
Misses.com Teen clothing comes to mind
TheWord.com Reserve is probably too high based on super high retail price, but like the domain for AI
CuteStuff.com Fun name and females will like it
SendMail.ai Reserve almost met at $650
Sarah.net People like these for just a personalized email
Sedo
Judicial.com This is going to sell to an AI company at some point
Paperly.com No reserve. At $2K with multiple bids
Zenp.com Most bids on the Sedo board at $250. Met reserve
Super.es Super in any TLD has good value and many languages say “super” because it has no translation
GUB.com Reserve 25-50K but like the name
Pickup.net Almost met reserve at $750.
RUSI.ai Getting a few bids. CVCV is a leading category in dot com. Starting to see some tracking in .ai
CYTC.com C at end is great, Y in middle hurts a little
NonCode.ai No code creation
XKE.com Reserve under $27K
Catched
LAgent.net It’s a net but it has agent in it
Status: Active, Price: $14.00, Bids: 2, Ends: Soon
J.fr Regular renewal of $8
Status: Active, Price: $1,250.00, Bids: 82, Ends: 10 days
Hike.shoes Hiking makes more sense but has a few bids
Status: Active, Price: $81.00, Bids: 2, Ends: 8 days
Lesson.es English words on .es always sell here
Status: Active, Price: $29.00, Bids: 2, Ends: 7 days
Longevity.care Elderly care rebranded . No bids
Status: Active, Price: $0.00, Bids: 0, Ends: 2 days
Fit.house No bids. I think it makes a great name for gym or personal training app
Status: Active, Price: $0.00, Bids: 0, Ends: Soon
WorkVisa.ai . Quick application process using AI
Status: Active, Price: $511.00, Bids: 8, Ends: Soon
Godaddy Domains With Bids
ParentingPro.com Almost everyone wants to be a good parent
ProductionPros.com Can be pros in a lot of things
FloralPrints.com Grandma had them but they will come back in style. Really never out of style
AnyGood.com “is that any good?” Yes, it is
Amace.com I’ll just call this a 5L.com but in use for a few companies
HealingWithFood.com Millions of Americans are healing the heck out of themselves
PCAW.com Great letters, W for Worldwide
CaliGold.com Cannibis all the way
LongStride.com Exudes moving forward efficiently
Kodi.co Taken in 144 extensions
StyleKing.com Sounds like a 1980s brand but something will always be in style and people want what is in style
AxisTherapy.com Upgrade for a handful of companies
HubMarketing.com Rather have MarketingHub but that’s not up for auction is it?
iTokenized.com Haven’t you heard? Its the future
YogaForRunners.com Runners are always extremely stiff and not flexible
FirstDubai.com Domainers LOVE Dubai names
CryptoHub.io Get the pair. Lost some value over the last few years but not worthless
CryptoHub.net
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entallergy.com
ferrarospizzakitchen.com
FillYourHome.com
FoliumBiosciences.com
fraicheurquebec.com
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idesignarch.com
LagAllEriaNaziOnAle.com
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livingid.com
LosangelesAngels.com
MaxFrost.net
MedIsHield.com
MesoMind.com
MinDeals.com
MintTool.com
mismas.com
MomCheck.com
NewReview.com
NoWandGen.com
nypolicesupply.com
PhilBrook.com
PhoenixTypewriter.com
picster.co
PlazaInn.net
PodcastBlastoff.com
PowerhouseFitness.com
RacksDelray.com
RendezvousCafeAndWineBar.com
Restaurant-Ours.com
RetailForum.com
ScotlandCoastToCoast.com
SideStreetDiner.com
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There’s a lot of truth in what you’re saying, Shane, but your qualifier is important, i.e., “new domain investors….”
For those of us who have been playing this game for decades, you tend to develop a sixth sense for good names.
The interesting lessons from this, particular, sale are: (1) That Elon, who could afford anything, chose to go with a dot-AI extension – NOT a dot-Com; (2) For tech/AI use cases, it’s clear that the price gap between dot-Com and dot-AI is closing; and (3) language, because of technology, is changing so rapidly that sales like this are actually possible for the first time in history.
Just my 2 cents.
Gene,
The ONLY thing that proves you have a “sixth sense” are sales. Everyone overvalues their own assets and how well they are doing. It’s human nature