Today: BIN versus Make Offer options / Get ready for the .finance explosion / .IE – The Discussion, Showcase and Sales Report Thread / and more…

Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today:

Buying 3L+4L dot com and one word domains. Budget 250K total – Do you have a three-letter or four-letter .com or maybe a single-word .com like this buyer outlined in their specified criteria? If so, this could be your opportunity at some reinvestment capital.

Buying dot coms 1-2 words Godaddy appraisal $3,000+ Budget $20,000 – If you have one of these Godaddy appraised single or two-word .com domains that this buyer wants, it could lead to some money in your pocket.

Buying squad help premium names you own. Budget $7,000 total – Be sure to check your domain name portfolio for one of these SquadHelp premium domains that this buyer needs. This could be a chance at some fast spending cash in your wallet.

Get ready for the .finance explosion – Have you been researching the new gTLD .finance? Is it worth the investment? Check out what some .finance ngTLD investors are saying about the extension.

.IE – The Discussion, Showcase and Sales Report Thread – Are you investing into any .ie ccTLD’s? Which one would you say is your best? Share your best .ie ccTLD and check out what other .ie domain investors own.

BIN versus Make Offer options – When it comes selling your domain name assets, do you prefer using a BIN (Buy it now) or Make Offer format? Take a look at what other domain resellers are saying they use and compare notes.

Most-Wanted.com sold for $20,000 – That’s not a bad domain name sales report for a four-letter-word + hyphen + six-letter-word, eleven-character, .com domain for five-figures. Do you think it should have sold for more or less than what it sold for?

Today: Maxim.xyz sold for $9,888 / Buying pronounceable 4L.com and one word English .com – Budget: Up to $4,000.00 / Buying trust + money related word – Budget: Up to $201.00 / and more…

Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today:

Your BEST: EXACT-MATCH Product Domains (.COM – ONLY!) – Budget: Up to $10,000.00 – If you have one of these exact match product domains that this buyer needs, it could result in some liquid reinvestment cash in your pocket.

The Appraisal Of AllSeasonAC.com – That’s an interesting eleven-letter, three-word, long-tail, .com domain, but is it good enough to have some liquid value in today’s market? What would you appraise it for?

Buying pronounceable 4L.com and one word English .com – Budget: Up to $4,000.00 – Do you have one of these pronounceable four-letter .com domains in your portfolio? If so, this might be a chance for you to make some quick reinvestment capital.

Buying trust + money related word – Budget: Up to $201.00 – Be sure to check your domain name portfolio for one of these trust + money related domains that this buyer needs. This could be an opportunity to liquidate.

Maxim.xyz sold for $9,888 – That’s not a bad domain name sales report for a five-letter, single-word, brandable, .xyz for a high-four-figures. Do you think it should have sold for more or less than what it sold for?

Inside the box, Outside the box, and Creative side strategies – When it comes to marketing your domain name for sale, have you ever used any of the strategies listed by this domain investor? Check out what’s being said and compare notes.

Today: What do you say to business owners so they don’t just delete your email? / Novara.com sold for $9,200 /Buying 4L .com – Pronounceable, Brandable – Budget: Up to $1,500.000 / and more…

Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today:

Buying .com ending in 360 or 365 ($50-$1000) – Do you have any .com domains that end with 360 or 365 and meet the specified criteria this buyer outlined? If so, this could be an opportunity to liquidate.

Buying dot xyz domain name – Budget: Up to $15.00 ea. – If you have any of these .xyz domains this buyer wants collecting dust and you’re willing to liquidate them for wholesale spending cash, this could be your opportunity.

Buying 4L .com – Pronounceable, Brandable – Budget: Up to $1,500.00 – Be sure to check your domain name portfolio for one of these four-letter, pronounceable, brandable, .com domains that this buyer needs. This could be an opportunity at some fast reinvestment cash.

Novara.com sold for $9,200 – That’s not a bad domain name sales report for a six-letter, pronounceable, brandable .com domain. Do you think it should have sold for more or less than what it sold for?

What do you say to business owners so they don’t just delete your email? – Everyone’s a little different when it comes to outbound marketing. Do you have a flawless email title that gets passed the gatekeeper and some content that gets the decision maker more curious? Share yours and compare notes with others.

.ai Sales In Today’s Market – Are you investing in .ai ccTLD’s in today’s market? How have they been doing for you? Check out how .ai domain assets are doing for other investors today.

Today: Domains ending with “elk” / Top three things to do to earn $10k a month from domaining / DogGroomers.com sold for $104,000 / and more…

Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today:

Buying Sleep, anxiety relief, destress, pain management/relief domains WITH TRAFFIC, BACKLINKS & DR – If you are holding any of these sleep, anxiety, destress, pain management or relief domain with verifiable traffic and backlinks, this could be your chance at some quick cash in your pocket.

Buying Previously Developed news site – Budget: Up to $500.00 – Be sure to check your domain name portfolio for one of these previously developed news sites that this buyer is looking for. This could be an opportunity to liquidate.

DogGroomers.com sold for $104,000 – Wow! It’s always nice to see a motivational six-figure two-word domain sale. This is the kind of stuff that will get your blood pumping and heart racing.

Top three things to do to earn $10k a month from domaining – Do you agree or disagree with these top three things to generate five-figures a month investing in domain names?

Domains ending with “elk” – Are you investing into any domain name assets ending in the word Elk? Take a look at what some domain investors are saying about that niche and compare notes.

MyBasis.com sold for $17,000 – That’s not a bad domain name sales report for a seven-letter, two-word, .com domain for five-figures. Do you think it should have sold for more or less than what it sold for?

Today: Added domain protection and security / The appraisal of JustSupports.com / .IN for ONLY $0.99 / and more…

Here are the new discussions that caught my eye in the domain community today:

Cv19.net appraisal – Are domain names like Cv19 (A play off of Covid-19) worth anything in today’s market in the ,net extension? What do you think it’s worth?

The appraisal of JustSupports.com – This is an interesting two-word, twelve-letter, .com domain, but is it interesting enough to have some liquid value in today’s market? What would you appraise it for?

Added domain protection and security – How important is it to get one year protection and security when you register a new domain name? Does it really help or add any value? Take a look at what some investors are saying.

.IN for ONLY $0.99 – If you have been on the fence and debating on investing into a new .in ccTLD, but didn’t like the price-point, this new promotion might help you save a few bucks.

MikeBrownsPlanets.com sold for $5,100 – That’s not a bad domain name sales report for a seventeen-letter, three-word, .com domain for a mid-four-figures. Do you think it should have sold for more or less than what it sold for?

After launching in April 2014, 2years later registrations had shot up to over 20 million. Move on another 3 years to February 2019 and that growth has stalled to zero.

The 5th anniversary was met with no fanfare, no proclamations of .com being resigned to the dustbin, like AM radio, which in hindsight looks silly. We domainers love domains and that love can be miss-placed, I’m sure we have all loved a domain too much only to find we are the only ones to see the beauty in the name. That’s what has happened to the buyers of dot horse, dot blue and dot kiwi they fell in love with them but no one else did.

MMX owners of a portfolio including.VIP the most successful nGTLD launch in my opinion and .horse the most ridiculed, have been in merger/buyout talks for 18 months. That tells me no one is in a huge hurry to invest. So many corporations have not used their dot brand notably Fox TV who made a big issue of the transfer from Fox.com to the URL dot fox but it never happened. Now it’s a sport to spot one in the wild, like spotting a rare bird, something to be noted and recorded.

So what’s next. Slow death by confusion. The single biggest reason for the failure has been the sheer numbers at launch with plurals and variations such as photo, photos, photography, pictures, pics and it just goes on. Foretold by many domainers notably Berkins that the madness of this will cause confusion and the public won’t be bothered to understand it.

TLD .IO extension has been successful, built on by a community which wants to identify themselves as geniuses, cutting edge and new which demonstrates there always were enough naming options and pure domainers have made more money on that one extension than all the nGTLDs.

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MMX is the owner of .vip .work .horse amongst others including .xxx which they recently acquired from ICM. It’s getting messy at MMX (Minds and Machines) as their share price drops nearly 70% from a high of 15p.  Arguments between the bulls and bears on their share chat board is getting nasty.

http://www.lse.co.uk/ShareChat.asp?ShareTicker=MMX&share=minds+mach

What is clear, they know the machination of investing in public listed companies but have very little knowledge of domains.

None of the private shareholders can understand the fall given they are posting profits and growth. From a domainers point of view, it is abundantly clear MMX are window dressing the figures to be brought out and the underlying picture is ugly. Take dot work, not any of the investors realise they are being sold at the lowest price for a domain in the universe right now at LESS than one cent and the growth in numbers they extol can all be explained away by this. MMX is not coming clean with investors that this is their strategy, and they believe they are getting $5 – $8 a name.

It is shocking their lack of knowledge of costings. The ICANN fees of $0.25 per registration and Nominet registry fees of at least $4. Given that XYZ experienced over 90% drop rate after the giveaway period, they will never be able to recover the sunken costs of the giveaway period, in the following years at $10 -20 renewal.

1 Japanese yen 0.009 dollars

The other blind spot they all have is the broader performance of new GTLDs, they still believe its a young, nascent industry and they are waiting for greater public awareness. Instead, with a little digging, it is evident that least 80% of registrations are domain speculators, especially Chinese and they are haemorrhaging money. The public has rejected them on the whole. It’s a precarious business with little upside and a lot of risks. I’m expecting the share price to drop further as domainers abandon ship for the legacy domains. Even Uniregistry the champions of nGTLDs in their State of the Industry 2019 commented ‘.com will continue to rule supreme’.

They need to be aware the SP is a reflection of the fact if you stripped out names sold for less than a cent their overall portfolio is shrinking in numbers and furthermore the market is in steady decline and still got a way to go. Maybe the SP is a little high at 5p.

For transparency, I don’t own shares in MMX and never have worked or involved in any business with them, all opinions are my own, do your own research.

X hits the mark for Chinese CHIP investors.

I have been an investor in 3L.coms since 2000 and have carried a portfolio since then selling and buying over 100 along the way. My work colleagues used to think that I had an unhealthy obsession with them in the early days and I am still able to bore anyone to sleep talking about 3L.com trends. Times have so changed and now my work colleagues think I was lucky or a genius but mainly it’s envy tinged with hate.
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Domainers are doomed

Since NamesCon 2018 the blogs and Namepros have been a washed with negative comments about the state of the industry. China crash, nGTLDs, poor auction results, Crypto coins sucking in dollars. A general malaise of depression.
I am much more optimistic because the underlying values are stronger than ever. Let’s take China
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If you ever want an example of how the news dictates our thinking, Hurricane Irma and Harvey are your touch stones.
Think of the biggest weather disaster in the last 14 days and most would think of the two hurricanes hitting the US but both pale into insignificance to the recent Moonson floods in South Asia, death toll now over 1,200, 1.5 million buildings destroyed, 10s thousands of schools and hospitals have gone and 40 million people affected. It hardly gets a mention on the mainstream news in Europe or US.
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