Comments on: Domainers Who Want to Develop Will FAIL

By: Lindsey Brook

Lindsey Brook — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 20:15:11 +0000

Nice post! I hope you give us more in the future.

By: Snoopy

Snoopy — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 23:00:52 +0000

“Are you currently less than satisfied with your parking revenue?”

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I think this is the major reason why the vast majority of domainer “development” projects won’t work out. Whereas successful developers are motivated to develop because they want to build a site in a prticular area domainers are motivated by something else not work out and development being the last resort. Except a very very low success rate even for those who do try multiple times. I think for most people it is throwing good money after bad.

By: Mojito Recipe

Mojito Recipe — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:43:11 +0000

Content and inbound links, both take time….but that is about all you really need to know nowadays.

By: Dummy-b

Dummy-b — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:28:52 +0000

Sorry for the sloppy writing. It should be ‘financially’ and ‘much my’… been a long day, so at least I have an excuse

By: Dummy-b

Dummy-b — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:27:16 +0000

My first sites didn’t cost me anything financilly but I put in probably more hours compared to anything else I did since then. Judging by how muchm y time is worth now, it would be a very good amount. Irony is I wouldn’t have been able to have enough experience to make as much as I’m making now without the lessons I learned as a beginner.

By: Nick

Nick — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:17:41 +0000

haha I remember how it felt when I registered my first couple of domains. I had this feeling that if I don’t buy them now, someone will snag them and I’ll lose a great opportunity. Now I wouldn’t even take them if someone wanted to push them to my account for free, not even worth the effort

By: Morgan

Morgan — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:16:46 +0000

Bingo! Great post and absolutely true – it takes trial and error to get it right! When we started-out in 2007 it was hard to get as much money as we expected out of our sites…but we pushed onwards and kept developing making small changes along the way. By the end of 2008 we had built-up a strong recurring revenue source!

Learning from your failures is the best way to learn – putting too much focus on what others have done will also prevent you from coming-up with an idea or technique of your own!

As Frederick Douglass said, “Without a struggle there is no progress”