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I really love domaining, I love the passion of domainers when discussing the potential value of a domain, domain values are intangible, it is not like real real estate where you can get an appraisal based on other sales in the neighborhood and mortgage companies that will put a tangible loan value on your property.
Normally I don’t “get into it” with people on forums and blogs, sometimes I want to but I don’t because I honestly don’t care that much what others think of what I am doing and I am busy, and I have my version of reality and it has served me well so I usually go with it. But every once in a while I do, the other day I commented on a post somebody put on Elliot’s Weekly Brokerage Listing post, it was a funny post and it made me laugh so I commented “LOL”, a guy named Max listed 1WordDomain.com for sale at $6k that he had registered that day, he also said:
“This is my gift to domaining, since I am not a domainer and domainers are often lazy and confused, but they still deserved a gift, because domaining is also a battle for freedom, and they have been screwed a lot…”
I commented “LOL” because I really thought this was funny, and Max even commented that he was trying to be funny. I then listed my domain FashionSwimwear.com for $10k and some anonymous guy JJ posted:
“@Mark Hersisher you laugh at Max but your domains are as worse as his.”
So instead of ignoring this as I probably should have I responded with:
“I wasn’t laughing at the domain Max registered yesterday, I was laughing because I thought his post was funny.
And I like my domain, it pays for itself and gets inquiries, and all these are taken and more than half are working sites, I am not sure what you go by but based on my criteria it is a good domain:
Fashion-Swimwear(dot)com
Fashion-Swimwear(dot)net
FashionSwimwear(dot)net
FashionSwimwear(dot)org
EliteFashionSwimwear(dot)com
InFashionSwimwear(dot)com
LiteFashionSwimwear(dot)com
MensFashionSwimwear(dot)com
MyFashionSwimwear(dot)com
FashionSwimwear2u(dot)com
FashionSwimwearForMen(dot)com”
Then JJ responded with:
“I’ve just done a research through the sedo marketplace and this is what I just found:
FashionSwimWear.net available for purchase at a price of $79.At least he/she lives in the real world. Another thing I’ve seen: Several extensions available for registration:.co,.tv,.info,.me,.eu,.biz…”
Now this really made me laugh, WTF does the .net, .tv and .biz have to do with the value of my .com? Not much as far as I can see. I love when people say the .com sold for $100k so get my .tv today for only $10k. It also reinforced my confidence in my .com when I saw that somebody had registered the .net, I wouldn’t have. And if the real world is listing a name at Sedo for $79 minus the $50 Sedo commission then I am much happier living in my fantasy world version of reality. So again I commented “LOL”. And of course JJ that really seems to care about what I am doing commented:
“You can laugh as much as you want and continue to write in such a childish manner but reality is what it is,you’re not gonna sell it at that price.You’d have more chances with a more realistic sale price ($500?).”
So of course now that I have decided to “get into it” with JJ I responded:
“So your advice is I should price it at $500? I guess you will really think I am crazy and childish then to know I turned down a $2k offer on it.
I would be interested to see what you have for sale, seriously, I love buying domains from domainers that undervalue their domains. What do you have to offer besides what I would consider to be bad advice?”
Anyway, obviously I am now obsessed with it lol. I really have had dozens of inquiries on this domain and I did turn down a $2k offer on it so when somebody says the real world price is $500 on a domain that has received a $2k offer I have to question their judgement.
Here are the domain picks dropping on July 6th 2013:
AVShow.com – Audio Visual Show, it’s reg’d in many extension and even with a dash
BBModels.com – BBW is big beautiful women, so this would be big beautiful models
BodyBuildingPros.com – I am a skinny little rocker so I don’t know nothing bout this
DOKR.com – Do something?
EYOT.com – A small island in a river or lake is an eyot or ait
FarmAgriculture.com – Two words that seem to go together OK
HoroscopeApp.com – I see lots of daily horoscope apps
Partitioning.com – I remember when hard drives always had partitions, decent word
PenPaper.com – Here are a couple of words that go together also
Resourcers.com – It’s a word, I also see Resource RS and a site JobResourcers
SeedInvestment.com – Like seed money for start ups
ZenBlog.com – Are you zen? Blog about it
Britches.net
ChildrensBooks.net
EcommerceSoftware.net
Gouging.net
Playwright.net
SexClassifieds.net
Sunlight.net
ComputerWiz.org
Conviction.me
Drapery.me
Licorice.me
Mopeds.me
Motu.me
Paws.me
ShoeShine.me
SouthSudan.me
Andes.tv
Liberate.tv
Toker.tv
Make sure you also check out Domain Shane’s Big List of names.
Domain of the day: StringBikinis.com – Make me an Offer I can’t refuse!
Thanks for stopping by…
Hey, I think you are taking it too seriously and you fell for his bait.
I have said many times, giving opinions in this BS domaining world is pure BS and fun and games. It is like who can piss the furthest and the straightest.
Someone blog under BullS and do I really care? We all know she is a faker cos there was no site identity.
DYERISLAND.COM-make me an offer so I can go swimming with the sharks
Actually I was kind of having fun with it…
He didn’t fall under any bait, he has a nice domain, simply he is selling it too early 😉
Jokes aside, domainers have been selling Rolex and crap watches from China on the same shops for 12 years and more.
Sorry, but this is really ridiculous.
Launching a platfrom for 1 word domains only will benefit ALL, even the 2 word domains.
“domainers have been selling Rolex and crap watches from China on the same shops”
Great line Max. Thanks for commenting.
hopefully it will be helpful
Great post Mark, it gets the creative thoughts flowing. Honestly, for your domain, it can go both ways. I say this everyday, its all about the salesmanship. If you push and hustle it properly, you might get 10k. But on the other hand if you just put up a basic Ebay listing for a 3 day auction that is poorly written, it might only sell for 500 bucks. This is how I make my living….buying undervalued web properties and flipping them through an elaborate showcasing event! I dont care what ANY domainer says, a domain is worth what it sells for….period.
Thanks Mike. Wise words…
I dont care what ANY domainer says, “””
I NEVER CARE WHAT OTHERS SAY!!
JJ must be jealous to see FashionSwimwear.com is owned by you 😉
It’s a nice domain and can fetch more than $2k. Good luck
“I commented “LOL” because I really thought this was funny, and Max even commented that he was trying to be funny”
I commented that I was trying to be funny but I added that
I was extremely serious too:
“I wanted to be funny, but I can be extremely serious even when I am joking
) ”
(in fact to be funny was my purpose, but I didn’t use emoticons
Btw, of course FashionSwimwear is valued much more than $500
I really did think your comments were very funny, so much so that I just featured them on my site, hope that is OK with you…
No problem, it is OK (but my offer is going to expire….
)
No problem, it is OK (Hoka Hey!)
StringBikins.com?
Now that name really is crap
I think it’s StringBikinis.com, not StringBikins 😉
That is what happens when I drink and post, thanks for the heads up…
No problem Mark ;), I’m not correcting you, but the “unknown” guy above 😀
Your bikinis and swimwear .com names are good, surely not crappy, those critics are just jealous, as Abdul already said, just ignore them.
There I go trying to sell a crappy name I don’t even own…
Hi mark
I have below domain names
coupons4india.com
crickfreak.com
onlinesavvy.info
shhcamgirls.com
how much it could fetch me
Thanks in advance