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I am always interested in every form of an investment.

How does one go about domain investing. This is my vision of what happens - Buy a smart domain that would be wanted in the future and keep it until somebody wants it and make profit? Am I right.

So if somebody could help me understand, I'd appreciate it.
 
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It works like that but it's not that simple actually. You need to understand what domain works and if it will sell in the future. You need a lot of investement and wait weeks/months/year to sell maybe 10% of your portfolio
 
The first year of a domain cost as little as 1$ but then it grows to 60-70$ and most of the domains you will hold won't sell.
So I doubt it if its a good investment.
I see many gurus for domain flipping. if they are so good. why do they need to be gurus? they can just make loads of money from domains no? so I'm confused.
Anyway, good luck with your choices
 
John Winter said:
I am always interested in every form of an investment.

How does one go about domain investing. This is my vision of what happens - Buy a smart domain that would be wanted in the future and keep it until somebody wants it and make profit? Am I right.

So if somebody could help me understand, I'd appreciate it.
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I think you need to spend a lot of time and money to research the names and invest into them. Sometimes it will take you very long time to sell a domain to the new owner
 
I'm a domain investor. I acquire names in several ways:
NameJet.com
GoDaddy.com Auctions
Finding valuable names that are not developed and not owned by an investor and offering them a price below market value.

I started roughly a year ago and I've acquired some very valuable domain names. I have about 150 domains in my portfolio now ranging in price from $500 - $25000. Over the past year I've sold 4 domains each of which I charged 10x what I acquired it for. Its very much so a long term investment both in terms of how long it will take to sell each domain and that the value of the domain will continue to rise each year.

I don't expect to start making money until 10-15 years from now when I'm hopefully selling more than I buy. This is essentially my retirement plan.
 
That's the strategy which is being used by multiple domain registrar. You need to be very careful while selecting the domain name for investment. Because if you will invest for the domain which is not catchy then it will just waste of your money. You need to study the SEO for domain name selection. You need to select the domain according to the market need. Else it is just waste of time and money so be careful.
 
Dagreyon said:
I'm a domain investor. I acquire names in several ways:
NameJet.com
GoDaddy.com Auctions
Finding valuable names that are not developed and not owned by an investor and offering them a price below market value.

I started roughly a year ago and I've acquired some very valuable domain names. I have about 150 domains in my portfolio now ranging in price from $500 - $25000. Over the past year I've sold 4 domains each of which I charged 10x what I acquired it for. Its very much so a long term investment both in terms of how long it will take to sell each domain and that the value of the domain will continue to rise each year.

I don't expect to start making money until 10-15 years from now when I'm hopefully selling more than I buy. This is essentially my retirement plan.
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How do you find buyers to pay 10X amount.
 
The domain should be small, catchy. Four letter domains make good amounts. You can search many websites and buy a 4 letter domain for under $100 and then resell it for $500 or put it in a auction. Easy profit there.
 
krishnaverma said:
How do you find buyers to pay 10X amount.
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I don't, I put a for sale form on each of the domains and wait for them to come to me and fill out the form with their offer and email. Example: yig.com is one of my domains, you can see the for sale on there.
 
@Dagreyon what tools do you use to determine a value for each domain?

I have sold domains for way too little. I sell domains by default, just because I end up with several of them and eventually someone makes an offer. I have not yet formalized it into a business, but perhaps I should.

So, what do you do to generate traffic to your domains, how do you determine your prices, and do you have a point where you will just dump the domain, as in, let it go?
 
Mark Eternally said:
@Dagreyon what tools do you use to determine a value for each domain?

I have sold domains for way too little. I sell domains by default, just because I end up with several of them and eventually someone makes an offer. I have not yet formalized it into a business, but perhaps I should.

So, what do you do to generate traffic to your domains, how do you determine your prices, and do you have a point where you will just dump the domain, as in, let it go?
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I don't generate traffic, I just buy domains which I think have future business potential and wait for them to come to me. I find domains and know what to pay just based off experience.
 
@Dagreyon so then, are you staying in a particular niche? How do you go about determining what domains work for you?

For instance, who is to say if 6d8.net is going to be worth anything in 2018, or 2022?
 
Mark Eternally said:
@Dagreyon so then, are you staying in a particular niche? How do you go about determining what domains work for you?

For instance, who is to say if 6d8.net is going to be worth anything in 2018, or 2022?
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Theres no way to know that for sure. I mostly buy 3 letter domains which will always go up in value. I go for 1 and 2 word business related domains too. I don't go for a specific niche, just anything that I know has value in any niche.
 
Do you try to stay in the primary trifecta of TLD's, or just within the dot com realm?

Also, you mentioned, "3 letter domains," which on the surface excludes numbers, and hyphens correct?

BTW, this is a very small pool of real estate... 3 *letter* domains in the trifecta.
 
Mark Eternally said:
Do you try to stay in the primary trifecta of TLD's, or just within the dot com realm?

Also, you mentioned, "3 letter domains," which on the surface excludes numbers, and hyphens correct?

BTW, this is a very small pool of real estate... 3 *letter* domains in the trifecta.
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Sometimes 3 letters does mean 3 letters but some people actually mean 3 character domains. With this sort of thing, if looking to purchase, it is important to find out if you are both talking about the same thing.
 
Mark Eternally said:
Do you try to stay in the primary trifecta of TLD's, or just within the dot com realm?

Also, you mentioned, "3 letter domains," which on the surface excludes numbers, and hyphens correct?

BTW, this is a very small pool of real estate... 3 *letter* domains in the trifecta.
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Yes, just letter, I own 5 right now which go up in value each year since there are only 14,000 of them. Also, I only invested in .com and the occasional .net but thats rare.
 
jimbobo2779 said:
Sometimes 3 letters does mean 3 letters but some people actually mean 3 character domains. With this sort of thing, if looking to purchase, it is important to find out if you are both talking about the same thing.
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Yes, I meant 3 letter, no characters or hyphens.


@Mark Eternally
Keep in mind they are very expensive though. The cheapest ones go for $12,000
 
Dagreyon said:
Yes, just letter, I own 5 right now which go up in value each year since there are only 14,000 of them. Also, I only invested in .com and the occasional .net but thats rare.
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You are a lucky man. Good on ya :)
 
Okay, so I made myself a list of several thousand domains I would be interested in purchasing, and now I am just going to check on them each day. If any of them become available, and by available I mean within my ability to purchase them, then I will start snagging some. I am not after 3 letter domains, as that is too rich for me ATM. I am after keywords. As I am typing this post, I am thinking it may be easier for me to just write a script to check these each day, perhaps a couple times a day, and email me when any domains are available. Hrm.
 
Mark Eternally said:
Okay, so I made myself a list of several thousand domains I would be interested in purchasing, and now I am just going to check on them each day. If any of them become available, and by available I mean within my ability to purchase them, then I will start snagging some. I am not after 3 letter domains, as that is too rich for me ATM. I am after keywords. As I am typing this post, I am thinking it may be easier for me to just write a script to check these each day, perhaps a couple times a day, and email me when any domains are available. Hrm.
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Anything valuable will not become available to free register, so don't waste your time. Just purchase domains you think have potential that you can get at a decent price at 1 of the 3 websites:
DropCatch.com
GoDaddy.com (Expired Auctions)
NameJet.com
 
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