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I am really at a crossroads with all these new TLD’s, it’s an interesting time to be in domaining for sure, I have been doing this for 15 years and have never seen so much talk about and money spent on domain names as now with the rollout of all these new G’s, that is good.
I have actually had some decent offers on my old domains in the last few weeks, more than usual, not just $100 offers, some half serious offers on a few .tv’s and .me’s, also on my .com’s and a few .net’s, maybe it’s all this “new?” money in domaining?
The crossroads is what do I invest in new TLDs, and should I sell some of my other, older investments now while there is increased interest, and there will be so many other choices soon? A friend asked me, “Do you think that .net of your’s will be worth as much when there is a .web and a .blah and a .blahblah and a .blahblahblah? “Will your WordDirectory.com be as rare and desirable when there is a Word.Directory? Hmmm, good questions, I am not sure…
here are the domain picks dropping on February 19th 2014:
AnimeRemix.com – The dash and the .org are sites, I like anime
ArizonaBusinessDirectory.com – Long, is ArizonaBusiness.Directory better lol
ArticlePublisher.com – Do you publish articles?
AshIsland.com – An uninhabited island in Oregon
ChicagoInvestigators.com – The governors alone could keep you busy with this one
CreativeWorkspace.com – Sounds great, Google is a creative place to work I hear
CubanRecipe.com – This one is making me hungry
EZTrack.com – Not sure about TM’s but sounds like an EZ name for something
FatWeightLoss.com – Good keywords, lose that fat
HoangViet.com – A Vietnamese composer, he passed away
ItsAnIllusion.com – Here is one for you magicians, and most domain investors lol
PrimeForce.com – Two big powerful words
Retiling.com – Don’t remind me, I think I need to retile
Setop.com – 5L looks like acronyms for some things
SexyBusiness.com – Two of my favorite words, do they go together? Sure they do
Trashiest.com – I’ll take it, I love the trashiest stuff, if you didn’t notice
WorldWithoutCancer.com – Start in West Virgina with the water and go from there
XTramp.com – Another nice short trashy name, I like this one too lol
Approach.net
Monetizing.net
PetShow.net
PharmacyRX.net
CaliforniaProperties.org
CorporateRealEstate.org
GaySexCams.org
iLeak.org
JRT.org
MiamiHotel.org
MilkShake.org
Conceiving.me
Kaleidoscope.me
PEL.me
Sommelier.me
Contractor.tv
Counsel.tv
Count.tv
Cultivate.tv
Log.tv
Message.tv
Nip.tv
Quad.tv
Quick.tv
Cybersquatter.info
Cybersquatting.info
Pinot.info
Make sure you also check out Domain Shane’s Big List of names and Domaining.com for some other great domain blogs and domain name lists.
Domain of the day: DotServices.com – Make me an Offer!
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Dropping most .nets like they are the plague, will be to many choices going forward, unless it is one word generic why keep paying renewals.
Don’t take the bait, Mark or get caught up n the “rush” (like the auction rush where you get head strung and have to beat the other guy and over pay)
99% of what you already own is better than anything you can buy non dotcom and it will go up in value while new gs will have to establish value.
DotNets are a great bet. Frank is buying them all. That speaks volumes. Verisign has 10 million $$ dot net ad campaign on cnn and in Forbes claiming 15 million sold and running something valuable on them. No one els’s marketing has even come close.
Frank stated on a blog he is culling his portfolio of names, I would assume he would choose .com over .net. Anything other than .com gets grouped in with the new Gtlds.
I am sure 9 out 10 domain professionals would tell you .net has taken a backseat with the new extensions.
I don’t have many .net’s but I sold 2 recently, I am not getting rich on them but still a decent profit, I can’t imagine dropping names like furnishings.net, utensils.net, smoothies.net, etc, I suppose it depends on your .net’s?
Exactly. It all depends on what keywords you have in .net
And I just realized you used the word Backseat and I have Backseat.com, not .net, so that made me feel good lol…
Great keyword .net are still a valuable assets, also because often are the best alternative, in terms of costs/benefits, together with .org.
And they are selling for good bucks, just check DN Journal.
For ex., last December Adam Dicker sold Download.net for 6 figures.
So it’s just a question of quality of the .net, as Mark and Owen are saying.
From now on, it’s important that a keyword together with its extension must mean something for it to be valuable. Richard Lau said in a Domain Sherpa interview that he owned a lot of .net such as ocean.net and model.net, which make sense if you want to refer to some sort of network.
One word .net’s are no brainers to hold onto for $8 a year, it is the compound keyword .net’s which become difficult to hold if you have a large portfolio. You will have to give a year to see your sell thru rate, and that will give you your answers. If the end user is going to the .net or going after their gtld phrase.
quick note Contractor.Tv is a chunkyy $1200 up front bingo, but then regular renewals.
How is this one:-
Flipodds.com
Dealscurry.com
Any worth in these?
for those who miss the important stuff:
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/2012/06/frank-schillings-big-time-plunge-into.html
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/2012/08/frank-schilling-buying-and-selling.html
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/2012/10/frank-schillings-dotnet-gamble-pays-off.html
That was almost 2 years ago. The same thing is not going on today from what I see. On top of that, a guy that has millions of dollars more than you’ll ever have also has a lot more cushion to make big mistakes.
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/2013/09/cctld-upgrades-to-dotcom-dotnet-and-far.html
A: It was from two years ago because google alto change is making it hard to find my own content, but with an hour’s more research I put this together and if I had another hour I could triple the examples
http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/2014/02/from-gtld-spoils-arrives-sure-winner.html
For example we know that Marchex unloaded 260 domains for $1.6 million aprox $266 each. But do we know how many of those were dotNet’s Frank bought and is comfortably reselling for $5-25K? As I once blogged, Oversee, IReits scraps are HIS feast. Predictable domain flipper addictive behavior and going with the roar of the crowd is his best weapon for throwing other hunters off the REAL prize.
I’m with you Owen, I like .net, as a matter of fact I just bought another one…