My Recent Acquisitions

Unless you are a rookie, you should have figured it out in the last two years of posts like this. Nevertheless, with the amount of auctions that seem to repeat themselves (probably because of non-paying bidders), I edited your comment because I don’t need my alias to be public 😉

Probably going to hold until people inquire directly. Not worth all that much and it’s not worth spending time finding buyers for them.

Precisely… There are hundreds of people and companies in the space. I think a domain name like this is authoritative, which can lead to more business.

There’s a chance I’d sell one and keep one for a directory website. We’ll see though because the last thing I want right now is additional work 🙂

Only comment is that I think this will impact mini sites and other sites light on content. You really need to have good quality content and information on your EMD to get good rankings, especially in competitive verticals.

Hello Adam,

Sorry to add but I thought you might like to hear this.

I recently acquired a seven year old .com in a medium competitive term with well established sites competing for my exact match term on Google. I am waiting for the content to be completed but in the interim I though I would put up the premium wordpress theme with zero content.

Week one and I appear on page 1 of google, 10 days later and I am moving up the rankings. Its a gambling term no less.

From what I understand, there are times where Google will rank a new website well and it will soon drop in rankings. Not a SEO or search expert, but that’s what I’ve heard.

Google gives new domains/websites an initial boost only to make it drop down the SERPs in the next weeks/months.

Elliot,

100% agreed however your first point about content is also correct. What an exact match domain gives you is the initial positioning which you will not get, and may chase forever, with a lesser domain name. Maintaining the position will be down to, as you said, good content.

The problem Google has in trying to lessen the power of exact match domains is, no matter how many MIT degrees you have in a room, how do you write an algorithm that knows Facebook is a brand and yellow widgets isnt. Whats worse is that yellow widgets can now have all the social media traffic and activity too which only makes it even harder to know the difference.

Yes, Elliot . You are right . Its call the honeymoon period 🙂
where Google will make it visible on the 1 page or so, then it will drop it and see how dip will it sink or raise again. Which means Back links contents should be relevance and its up to the webmaster how fast he makes his way up from the sink hole.

The domain of course will still have a power of jack to lift the domain better if complemented by relevance post/article/goods whatever..

Thanks, but not interested in either of those names.

You know I don’t like brandable names… those are confusing, hard to remember, and tough to spell.

Just an opinion on brandables…..
I’ve sold quite a few lately for a handsome profit. I see a trend in short brandables by startups and end users.

My portfolio consists of all sorts of domain names, which is both good and bad- the diversity that is. The short, brandables have been on FIRE. Just my experience. I know Geo’s and solid one word .coms and all that fair much better in the market and are easier to develop most of the time.

The downside to a nice brandable is, normally you have to wait for that company to come along, and that could take some time. Further, if you plan on building a brand yourself, you better be in it for the long haul and be ready for some hard work.

I like these threads, they engage your readers, Elliot.

Sidenote- the “brandables” I’m talking about are a bit different then Uzoma’s, let that be said. I’m going to side with Elliot on this one, that those would be hard to remember brandnames.

Simplicity = $.

I don’t disagree, but I want to keep a small portfolio, and it’s difficult to find buyers for brandables. When they find you, there’s good money to be made, but you need to own quite a bit.

It’s kind of like finding oil. Sure, if you own an 10 acres of land in Texas, perhaps you will find some oil. If you own one million acres, you will likely have some on your land.

If you can spell acquisition.com, you can spell acqztion.com, that’s why I did defensive reg of all its alternatives; besides, it’s fun. Web 3.0 companies will like it some day or I will develop it myself.

Spell check won’t help you if you make the mistake, and Google would likely return “Did you mean acquisition?”

Sure, someone might want to buy it, or you could keep renewing at $30/year for 20 years and not get a single bite or visit 🙂

Brandables don’t give Google that much thought. It’s based just on the sound of the name, or wit, or something magical, something indescribable. If you are looking for natural page rank mobility alone, or ad sense clicks, brandables are not for you, I agree. That way, you should buy my DebitGoldCard.com

I agree with you here as well. I am semi-heavy on brandables, like I said, and the offers come in fairly consistently. To agree with you again- you need quite a few to have an influx of offers.

Never been asked. I rarely try to sell hand registered domain names anymore. Most of my sales of hand registered names come from direct inquiries, and if someone were to mention it, I would tell them they can either pay my asking price or registered something else. I have little patience dealing with people who want to buy my name but don’t want to pay my asking prices.

I registered RaceSuspension.com two years ago and let it drop last year. Didn’t get much interest from buyers. Maybe I should have kept it a little longer though. Live and learn. LOL

Eh it’s probably my inexperience and the domain will go no where. But I’ll try and market it to some suspension manufacturers for a small profit and see what happens. I gotta learn by doing and it didn’t cost very much.

Thanks for the compliment and thanks for reading.

I didn’t promote anything on Domaining.com. The only sponsored listings I pay for are my own sales threads.

Purchases are one thing, but sales are what matter 🙂

Coffee is for CLOSERS, Adi. Cmonnnn now. Hahaa : )

Purchases are only half the battle and surely dont pay the bills and can become a hefty monthly bill if you don’t know what you’re doing.

I guess it depends who is doing the purchasing 🙂 Remember that we had a conversation a while back when you commented on some of the domains some of your readers bought?

best way is to go to LongIslandYellowPages.com/contact and submit the contact form

I am not very familiar with the .mx market.

Thanks for being a regular visitor!

ComeDrink.com is kinda cool/

I’m really not a fan of the .co’s here….
You know its “Prague”, right?

Unless “Prag me” is a real thing. : /

Domain retails? I don’t get the combo.

Elliot,

I don’t like it as much, that’s why I’m selling it, and for $250. Some people like names like that, for retailing products, in this case domains. But, you’re right, it’s not for me.

One thing to keep in mind when pricing names that low is the time it will take you to complete the sale (especially the transfer). I’ve found it to be burdensome, especially when dealing with end users who don’t know much about transfers.

1 vote for Likes/dislikes per IP.

Here’s a list of select domain names I have owned and sold: http://www.topnotchdomains.com/sales.html

Not sure why it matters, but here are a few that have been developed:

FrenchRiviera.com
CallCenters.com
Devices.com
Newburyport.com
NightLights.com
FlightDelays.com

I don’t really care what the buyer does with the name as long as the wire clears.

Impressive. I like the fact that you answered the question with solid names that have been developed, but I’m disappointed in your conclusion that you “don’t really care what the buyer does with the name as long as the wire clears”, that is not good “customer care” attitude. It’s true that a buyer is at liberty to do as they please with their product after purchase, still, a seller should care after the wire clears, and should be available to render support if one is needed. All the same, thanks for answering my question. Good bye.

Once the name is transferred it’s out of my hands and I have nothing to do it anymore.

If you sell a home, do you care if the buyer adds a bathroom or tears it down to build a nicer home? I don’t think so.

In the past, when I sold a home, I do follow up calls to see if they moved in okay. Ascertain if the plumbing and electrical are working just fine, and I also add them to my portfolio for prospective buyers. You got me?

I don’t know why you would ever want to do that. What if they tell you that the SubZero just broke down or the AC isn’t working and they want you to pay for it? I am sure you aren’t going to give them money back if your hands are clean and all was in good shape when you left, right?

When I sell a domain name, I am just selling an empty piece of land (aside from Newburyport.com which was developed). There is no reason to call and see how things are going. It’s none of my business.

I don’t recall a seller ever emailing me after selling me a name to ask how things are going.

I also don’t want to hear a sob story about a failed project asking for their money back if they scraped development plans. Why would you or I ever want to deal with that?

The only reason to be in touch with a past buyer is to sell other inventory if you have something of interest.

P.S. Your acquisitions are amazing, including your hand regs – wow! Especially SocialMediaConsultant and DDOSMitigation – timely topics with a future trend leaning!

Thanks… just closed on another name and am waiting the transfer.

Did it transfer okay? Want to share?

The phrase, “tablet hybrid” – which I registered over a year ago – is in the news sometimes as “tablet hybrid,” in that order, though tablethybrid dot com is criticized as the lesser choice after “hybridtablet,” according to critics of my portfolio:

Pansonic’s foldable Windows 8 tablet hybrid

QOTW: who will win the Windows 8 tablet/hybrid war?

hey mike thx for that, im not currently buying, these were purchased before i had seen any of the blog posts.

Thanks for your comments.