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Not many great .com’s expiring these days but there are still a few worth going for if the price is right. In more domain news, Elliot wrote a post the other day “Don’t Buy a Domain Name on Behalf of Someone Else“, it made me laugh because I have got and ended up paying for so many domains for friends and family over the years.
I am constantly talking about domains and selling them and most my regular friends don’t have a clue about the domain investing business, so they are always just amazed when I tell them “I sold a domain today for $10k, just the domain, not a website, not a business, just the words”, that usually gets even more blank stares, but I am always so enthusiastic and excited they want to get in on it.
So they start thinking up stuff, “How about skiresort.com? How about smokepot.com? How about travel.com? I have to explain if they can think of it probably somebody else has also and it is GONE, so then they start thinking up crazy stuff that isn’t taken yet, usually not taken for good reason, and they ask me to register it for them, half the time I am able to talk them out of it, half the time I can’t and when this happens I usually end up paying for it because it’s my credit card at the registrar and they don’t have any cash on them and blah blah blah.
I got mitzyspoodlesanddoodles.com for a friend last year and she never paid me or did anything with it, her name is Mitzy and she breeds labradoodles so she was really excited about the domain a year ago when I hand reg’d it for her, she was going to “make a site”, but I recently asked her if she wanted to cough up the renewal fees and she didn’t care anymore so it is expiring now.
I see vonpatpress.com is expiring now also, that is another one, my friends Vonnie and Pat use VonPat.com (I got that for them also lol) and one day last year Pat had a brainstorm and suggested I get vonpatpress.com also, I will ask if he wants to pay the renewal fees on it this year but I am pretty sure he won’t care anymore, and I am remembering I paid the first year lol.
I did just hit a friend up for about $200 in renewal fees on a dozen domains he wanted me to get for him, I told him I didn’t like the domains from an investment point of view but he has a business and wanted them for his biz so he told me to get them for him anyway, stuff like warriorbelts.com, warchiefbags.com, etc, his family does make real Native American products and they really do dance at Pow Wows so someday they may use these domains but they don’t yet and they have had them for a few years, at least he did pay me for them so that is good…
Here are the domain picks dropping on July 15th 2014:
ArtSticker.com – I am an art lover, even art on stickers
CorporateClean.com – Sounds like a cleaning service for big corporate offices
EcoPals.com – It’s better than toxic buddies lol
FXMA.com – Forex Managed Accounts?
GreenCoffeeSupplement.com – Dr. Oz said it was magic, he got in trouble obviously
Guardia.com – It’s a name and its Spanish and Italian for guard, it’s a good domain
HerbExtraction.com – I have herbextract and plantextract, maybe I will try for this
LowFatDessertRecipes.com – It’s long but it will keep you thin and $2.6k Estibot
vParis.com – I like the letter V, Virtual Paris? Vacation Paris?
GreenBean.net
PornNews.net
RateExchange.net
EuropeCasino.org
Gelatin.me
Teacup.me
Convention.tv
GayCam.tv
Giveaway.tv
Immortal.tv
iSale.tv
Runway.tv
Sinsemilla.tv
StreamingMedia.tv
Kabuki.info
Expressive.biz
FreeEnergy.biz
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: Utensils.net – Make me an Offer!
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That could be the script of my life. I often give EMD baby gifts or gifts to clients of siblings names. They say “what am I going to do with that they are just a kid?’ I tell them ok you won’t renew it and when your kid grows up and runs for Senate he can hit you up for the millions iyt would take to buy it.
Next time send them an affiliate link!
When a friend of mine opened a new hair saloon few months ago, I sent him a surprise gift. I registered a .com after the name of his hair saloon and made a basic website with a slideshow of his store photos. He was very excited, but the domain name is still sitting in my Godaddy account as he is still “learning” how to transfer and manage domain names.
Never gives investment advice to relatives and friends
Never never ever register domain names for friends and relatives.
Never discuss politics over the dinner table.
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