So as 2018 winds down, what kinds of names are you looking to buy in 2019 and what kind do you hope to liquidate from your current portfolio?
Over the last few years we have seen the run up in Chips and then watch them come back down to earth. There was a speculative surge in emojis after Michael Cyger published his guide on everything emoji.
Of course new gtlds have people with opinions all over the spectrum.
Numerics have been an area that has seen a resurgence in 5N.com, (3N and 4N have too few sales, to really discuss trends). Over 3500 5N.com sales reported by Namebio as compared to a little over 2,400 the previous two years.
Crypto and Marijuana related names have been popular keywords over the last couple years. Will you be adding or selling in 2019?
I exited all my crypto names recently, looking for some new tech type names.
Wow, all? I’ve exited some, but definitely not all.
“exited” names…is this a Trumpism…bigly 😉
I missed this run up in five number coms. I might jump back in. I want some western four letter coms as well.
This is a question I will never answer because the World is my competition.
And it is beyond radically competitive in this space as it is.
I continue to focus on emerging tech, etc. but even that is super challenging as that is where many domainers focus inherently.
Without fail, i see emerging tech domains that I am looking to purchase ALREADY registered.
To be a real gamer, you have to have capital to buy Premium and then sit on such domains and wait for your day to come (startup).
Btw, I am still waiting for a whale to get involved in this space. As far as I know, there are no ultra high net worth individuals acquiring domain names.
In the alternative space, the assets of choice remain jewelry, art, high end wines/spirits, watches, etc.
When the hell are billionaires going to start buying Domains (other than Elon Musk)???????????????
Stick to what sells best: Short, powerful one word .com domains with positive connotations. My guess is 2019 will be a tougher year than the record breaking 2018.
Some nTLD strings probably won’t survive or will have to increase prices.
Really hard to gauge.
Take a look at the weekly sales:
The usual super premium sales — they will always be strong
Then the stray .com names (2 words) that many would consider “pigeon shit: selling for 10 K or more
I almost dropped a name, then a week later it sold via Godaddy for 15 K
I don’t own any super premium domains like Ring.com, Translate.com, Files.com, so I’m not too optimistic.
I agree with Rick – the domain industry is in a bit of a funk. I feel after the GTLDs clear out or drop away, there will be greater demand for ,com domains in the price range of 5-15 K (right now there’s way too much confusion in the marketplace and the paradox of choice has had a negative effect on domainers who do not own high 6 or 7 figure domains)
Cannabis.
Do you think that Facebook and twitter decreases the sales of domains?
Nowadays everybody has a facebook page for free and I think ruins the 1000 / 2500 usd webpage business sales.
Regards
I will continue to buy hiqh quality new gTLDs with low renewal fees.
Will get rid of some new gTLDs with high renewal fees.
And will get rid of some of my crypto/blockchain domains, while trying to buy more of cannabis related ones 🙂
the super premiums one words will COME down in prices way over valued now.
best off buying into LLL.com best deals right now.
Buying GTLDS would be insane. Like buying .mobi after it crashed.
I own 5 premium.app domains — zero offers
If I had a dollar for every person who has succumbed to the Sunk Cost Fallacy per investing over the centuries, I’d be a billionaire. That’s the only possible way I see how people still believe in GTLDS. Sunk Cost Fallacy, Cognitive Dissonance, or pure lunacy.
The best domain investments I’ve ever made have been in industries I understood well.
Even a little proprietary knowledge of a lucrative industry, applied to domaining, can put you WAY ahead of the curve. By the time the basement-dwellers and get-rich-quick types flock to a ‘domain trend’, it’s way too late. How do you get ahead of them?
Understand what an industry is doing, understand what that industry needs, understand what words and terms most strongly correlate to businesses in that industry and get there before everyone else.
Remember Joe granville “sell everything” Im letting some good stuff expire ,only because there is better crap expiring every day. I recently bought back by hand reg a domain I sold for 5 grand that the buyer never renewed.,Guess what no one even backordered it, Basically all you have to do is look at a domain and if you have to think about it for 10 seconds ,,,its a drop
NONE – never again
Cannabis most lucrative investment opportunity of our time. Surpasses the crypto bubble.