As I do every morning, I was looking through a list of pending delete domain names on the first day of the year. I found a two word health .com domain name that caught my eye and backordered it at DropCatch.com. With a $59 bid, I was the only bidder and made my first purchase of the year.
Unfortunately, it was a typo. A rookie mistake. Not off to a good start on the domain name acquisition front.
Health was spelled without the “l.” It is a word – heath – but not the word that makes much sense for this domain name. There are a few other TLDs registered, but it doesn’t look like there is any development on them. I paid the $59 auction price, turned off auto-renew, listed the domain name for $997 on Afternic, and I will hope for the best.
I don’t even remember that last time I accidentally bought a typo domain name like this. It’s probably been a long time (I hope). It is a good reminder that you need to pay attention 100% of the time when looking through lists and buying domain names.
This is going to end up being a $59 write-off once the domain name expires. Fortunately, it wasn’t more money on the line.
yep –
every domain i am willing to make a bid on i copy it and then paste it into google AND THEN I put spaces where they are needed to split the words (if any) and DO NOT let google do it automatically.
If I get a “Did you you mean …..”
then i know what to do – nothing..
seems pretty rudamentary – but we all get lazy
Happens to everyone. Happy New Year!
In August last year NameJet:
pesonalinjurylawyer.com
went into auction and I was the high budder at $80 figuring I just blew $80.
After that I really stepped up doing a google search as prior mentioned.
Go figure the domain (minus the ‘R” in personal) sold for $1,000 USD – go figure
It is only a cheap mistake….the lessons learned are insurmountable…
I’m going to make an observation here that domain investors will NOT be happy about:
So… you bought a garbage domain for $59, and now you are trying to sell that garbage for $997 ?
Repeat for clarity: selling garbage for $1000?
This does not make domain investors look good.
Yeah, I see Brian’s comment above about selling his typo for that amount, but is that what people do – pass it on to another victim? Interesting.
I was chatting with a friend about this domain name today. He commented that the domain name isn’t actually bad at all, but it wasn’t what I expected to buy. In fact, one of the attributes of this domain name that caught my attention was that other TLDs were registered, in addition to longer domain names with these two words together.
This isn’t a worthless domain name, but it is worth less than I expected when I placed my backorder.
Also, I do see your point, but to be fair, I don’t have any domain names listed for less than $997.