Let’s See, What Mistakes Domainers Are Doing !
Nov.07, 2009 in
Domain Guide
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Hi People !
Seven Days ago (Nov 1), I started an interesting thread on NamePros.com, The thread title was “What Is The Biggest Mistake You Did” ?
After 1,291 views and 58 replies, I decided to bring you a summary of all the mistakes domainers did.
You can learn a lot from others, so i really recommend to read all of them.
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18 times – Buying up all those shitty domains. |
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3 times – Not developing the domains into sites. |
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3 times – Not doing research before I dove into domaining. |
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3 times – Sold a keyword .com with no reserve. |
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3 times – Not having a clear idea or plan as to how I would attack it…just buy in bulk and hope. |
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2 times – CyberSquatting. |
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2 times – I didn’t check for coupons , so I register my first 100 domains in full price…
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2 times – Failing to reg lots of valuable names that were available back in those days. |
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2 times – Didn’t find Namepros until 6 months into buying my first 100+. |
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2 times – Not fully understanding the real metrics that constitute a good domain name. |
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2 times – Spending $$$’s on appraisals and selling too quickly. |
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2 times – Trusting a member I met on these boards too soon and partnering with him. |
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Paid over US$10k to a ‘professional’ marketing consultant. |
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Go Daddy’s Premium Listing recommendations screwed me big-time. |
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Keeping secrets from the wife was very stupid. |
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Buy domains that I didn’t want to keep to make other similar domains seem more rare. |
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Trusting nicedomains. |
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I overslept an auction I was saving for, it was a really good name & sale imho. |
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Got caught in some of the domain hypes without doing my own due diligence. |
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Regged my first 100+ names through 1and1. |
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Buying domains when tired. |
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Trying to flip hand regs, now I still reg them but am trying to develop. |
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Listening to the guy interested in buying my domains. |
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Making decisions while sick (flu). |
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I haven’t figured out what my worst mistake is yet. |
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Not being clear about whether any given domain is an investment or a business. |
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Not Staying Focused. |
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Trying To Do Everything Myself. |
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Not Having A Blog Directed At My Target Audience. |
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Underselling A Domain Name. |
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Paying For Traffic. |
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Selling valuable names for too little on eBay and other places. |
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Premium auction listing service at Sedo .. waste of money. |
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Registered domains at crappy registrar cause they were cheap. |
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Getting caught up in the LLLL.com (and .net!) thing. |
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My biggest mistake.. selling a name for 1,000 bux to a multi millionaire. |
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Using RegisterFly. |
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Taking advice in the appraisal thread. |
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Starting out with too much capital [yes, you read that correctly]. |
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Thank you for NamePros readers for the cooperation.
To see the original thread – Click Here.
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November 8th, 2009 at 12:45 am
The top ten should be the domaining commandments of every new domain investors.
November 8th, 2009 at 1:14 am
Hi Dan, Thank you for the comment.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:22 am
Follow some marketing on new extentions hoping that they will boom after the land rush like the .asia and .mobi
i bought http://www.Buy.asia and other premiums for big portion of money expecting an increase in their value. What happened is that the value goes until the land rush ends and after prices of these land rush domains is sleeping down and i think for the next 5 years like the .eu extention.
November 8th, 2009 at 2:25 am
Hi Nidal !
Thank you for sharing…
November 8th, 2009 at 2:48 am
Your ranking for your particular keyword or words in search engines will depend on a great many variables.
November 8th, 2009 at 5:51 am
I feel so much better. I have done 1-10 myself. Good to know I’m not alone. The positive is I’m not going to make the same mistake twice. As for finding Namepros, nice site, good people on it, but definitely much more full of newbies that dnforum.
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