The hand registration contest was held last week, and due to the holidays, only 7 domain investors were able to participate. Please review the 7 lists of 10 domain names each, and vote for the list you think is “best.” Although “best” is somewhat subjective, I would define “best” as the most valuable and saleable.
Voting is open through Friday, January 10 at around 11:00pm EST (or when I shut it down around then). I will announce the winner on Monday and will include a screenshot of the poll results for verification. There is no prize for this contest other than personal pride.
Your comments are welcome as well, so feel free to share why you voted for the list you think is best. The lists are below:
LIST 1:
- DefenseShotgun.com
- 3DPrintingLocations.com
- CarbFreeDietPlan.com
- PupDayCare.com
- LongBeachVegan.com
- LocalPuppyFinder.com
- BlockChainLog.com
- AccompanyMusic.com
- DietCarbCounter.com
- CallingCoyote.com
LIST 2:
- AtlantaTraveler.com
- DateMommy.com
- DirtMotors.com
- EduScholarships.com
- LaredoAccidentAttorney.com
- NetworkTelecommunication.com
- OpticMD.com
- PestControlStPetersburg.com
- TargetHackers.com
- WifiServers.com
LIST 3:
- AssistingCare.com
- BulkWhoisSearches.com
- CollegeFootballBowlTickets.com
- DrivewayRenovations.com
- GreenBayDoctor.com
- HomeHealthAssistant.com
- MedicalSchoolTutoring.com
- Peanutrition.com
- RugbyVacations.com
- SantaClaraDoctor.com
LIST 4:
- 3DPrinterContent.com
- 3DPrintMedias.com
- 3DPrinterMedias.com
- DigitalExperienceDelivery.com
- CrowdsourceLawyer.com
- CrowdsourceLawyers.com
- CrowdsourcedLawyer.com
- CrowdsourcedLawyers.com
- CrowdsourcingLawyer.com
- CrowdsourcingLawyers.com
LIST 5:
- AboutMexicoCity.com
- BrooklynAttractions.com
- VisitMainland.com
- BodySunscreen.com
- NewJerseyInsuranceFinder.com
- AboutgTLDs.com
- AboutgTLD.com
- InteractiveSurveillance.com
- ParentCookbook.com
- ParentsCookbook.com
LIST 6:
- mindsnuggle.com
- friendsdontletfriendsdrivedrunk.com
- everybodyknowsthat.com
- donthatetheplayerhatethegame.com
- coinscon.com
- coinalingus.com
- coinsbot.com
- coinbacked.com
- coldhardcoin.com
- coldhardcoins.com
LIST 7:
- TransplantDatabase.com
- CycleMonitoring.com
- BannedIPs.com
- NewClinical.com
- RiskVerification.com
- SummerDeco.com
- BowelTransplant.com
- WinterExploration.com
- TransplantMedications.com
- OrganRejection.com
I think my list is 1 of the top 2.
What happened to the other 3 people?
Unfortunately, they couldn’t do it due to the holidays. Instead of scrambling to ask 3 others, I just kept it at 7 participants.
I am pretty sure they saw their competition included the 2 of us and backed out 😉
OpticMD is the best one out of the entire bunch IMO
I would probably dive at list #2 as OpticMD seems to be a good pick. Quite a few GeoBusiness.com domains on the other lists too.
I thought list 3 was by far the easiest list to find end user buyers who would quickly understand the value to them if they owned the domains to use in their business.
Suggestion: Have a contest where each list owner now try to sell their domains over the next 60 days and report back the number of domains sold and the total money received for those names.
Great suggestion.
Once the contest is over, I am going to try to sell the names I hand registered. I’ll probably wait until the 60 day ICANN-required lock is removed so there aren’t transfer issues.
Wonderful idea dimester.
I like the idea to continue the competition until the domains are sold.
But the market would be different today to say 1 yr from today. Someone might not want a domain name listed above today but would be willing to buy in the future when things change for them.
Maybe a 1 year look back after a year would be nice.
Once sold, just push them to the end users registrar account. If they dont have one, have them open one. If they want to transfer, they’ll wait… I do it everyday.
It was a tough call for me between 3/5/7 but I went with 7. I thought lists 4 and 6 were failures, and 1 and 2 were decent but nothing really jumped out at me.
Are you going to reveal who submitted each list once the voting is over, or just say who the winner was?
I am going to reveal the top 3. I’ll post a screenshot of the PollDaddy results as well. I will let the other participants decide whether or not to share their names.
woof. not pretty
Would love for you to share a few of your recent hand registrations to see what you find “pretty.”
I don’t hand-register names and there reason can’t be more obvious. There’s like 1-2 in each list I’d say are decent. I’m not sure why people would double down on plural/singular stuff though . I gotta admint Coinalingus.com cracked me up though
Based on overall performance of bought domains (IMHO) I like the most the set #7 and then #5. Others have less potential to be sold or be developed in something bigger than mini site.
some good names there, done my voting
It would be nice if the bigger players in the industry would share their opinion on this contest as well.
Who are big players, they are big players because they own one word .com’s etc… they are in the same boat when it comes to hand reg’s, you have a brain, and millions of search tools, use them…
Hot off the press from CES 2014!
FoldableTech.com
2Ksmartphone(s).com
InternetOfSex.com
DigitallyManufactured.com
3Dprintered.com
I picked #3. Amazing that you can still find decent drops today. What’s the drop time (UTC/GMT) for .com domain names?
List 3 gets my vote, five on the list are group sportive.
I commend you all, hand registering domains is tricky business, I can’t do it. I have not voted yet because I am still trying to decide but I will say I had no idea BowelTransplants.com were something, I had to go look them up, apparently intestinal transplantation happens, what a fun site for development.
For a comparison I thought I would list the 6 names I got in the one day Sherpa Challenge for $180, that is what kind of started these name games:
AboutCraps.com
SolarGlassWindows.com
EnhancePotency.com
WestCoastBrew.com
NewFarming.com
Reunion.me
Also I have already received a $200 offer on one of these domains, I won’t be selling it for that and it doesn’t look like I will be getting a higher offer from this party but that sale could pay for all these domains for this year anyway. Happy Hunting…
My pending delete hand regs blow these lists out of the water.
What exactly is your point?
Would you like a high five or a pat on the back?
🙂
My point is how do you know none of these lists was from pending delete regs?
I guess I totally missed your point and thought you were gloating.
this is a fun contest with nothing at stake, so I can only assume the rules were followed. If not, c’est la vie.
Nah, if I were gloating, I would’ve listed said domains that blew these lists out of the water.
I like list 7 most because it most resembles a pending delete list.
You did post your domain. You included it in the Website field for a free backlink on a nofollow site. I would love to enter this contest with you. Can we get a round number 2?
I think that was the best compliment I got!
Thanks
Love the contest. List 7 gets my vote.
WinterExploration.com is certainly on the minds of most North Americans right now!
Just on gut instinct and some experience, I like 3 and 7 but voted for 3.
Fun project Elliot.
Definitely list 2 – most salable, well-rounded list
Cheers and Good Luck to the other six participants!!!… I already want to buy some of their domains so I won’t have to hand register for awhile………….Again, Good luck y’all!
List 5 for me.
Just got some:
DNLeader.com
DNBrief.com
DNBulletin.com
DNChronicle.com
DNCitizen.com
DNDiscovery.com
DNExaminer.com
DNInquirer.com
DNVisionary.com
DNVoice.com
I like and voted for List 5, List 2 comes a close second with EduScholarships.com probably the best domain in all the lists.
Like a couple from each of the lists but best overall IMO is List 3, which I’m guessing is Elliot’s.
I like 2 and 3. I tried to see how hard it was to come up with some good names and it only took me a couple of hours to come up with these that I just hand registered tonight. Tried to keep it simple by just looking at GEO’s.
MiamiEngineer.com
DenverOptician.com
BostonNeurologist.com
PhiladelphiaCouriers.com
DetroitPsychiatrist.com
LasVegasGynecology.com
All are major U.S. markets and only cost me less than 18 bucks total with Godaddy coupons. LOL
Impressive list Todd, your list could win imo. I like geo plus service/product names, I picked up a geo product domain yesterday also, ColoradoGanja.com lol…
I found that NameTumbler.com is great to search for geokeyword domain names.
Agree with Mark, if Todd’s list were in the contest, it would get my vote.
Are you the same Todd that agreed with me about sale.com going for too cheap?
Thanks Mark and Tony and yes I am the one that agreed with you on sale.com. I wanted to be in this contest but names are hard enough to sell and having to put privacy on them would have made it even harder so I decided not to join the contest.
I will come up with 4 more so I have an even 10 like everyone else.
Here is my top 10 list registered last night and today. Total time less than 4 hours at a total cost of less than 30 bucks.
MiamiEngineer.com
DenverOptician.com
BostonNeurologist.com
PhiladelphiaCouriers.com
DetroitPsychiatrist.com
LasVegasGynecology.com
LAbodyguards.com
SanAntonioOrthodontics.com
MemphisTherapist.com
ChicagoNeurosurgeon.com
todd @ those are very good names.
I like them
Thanks Rich
Like VisitMainland.com list 5. Sounds like visit Mainland China!
Bought some new domains lately using GD codes $2.17 each:
PotToursUSA.com
UsaPotTours.com
MarijuanaToursUSA.com
MarijuanaShopsUSA.com
8bit8.com
Bit4Us.com
Bits247.com
BitcoinFinanceNews.com
BitcoiningNews.com
BreakingNewsBitcoin.com
BreakingBitcoinNews.com
Hi all!
My recently hand-picked domain names:
ACTIVEPICKS.COM
BUSINESSANDSALE.COM
CHAMPION11.COM
DISCOUNTTRAVELINFO.COM
ELITEDATINGSITE.COM
ENDCUP.COM
FASHIONPETSHOP.COM
GMONEYCARDS.COM
HOUSELIFEINSURANCE.COM
NEONMODEL.COM
RELEASEMIX.COM
SEPARATEHOME.COM
SPORTINGHILL.COM
TRADERSSQUARE.COM
what good in endcups, where do you see a use or need for it, not picking on you your list is as good or better than the so called experts.
Chris, I consider endcup.com is great for sport, gambling or gaming website.
My initial shortlist was 2,3,5 & 7 but voted on list 3. I also took up the challenge myself and came up with a list of 10, posted on my blog, that I purchased earlier this week.
I voted for list 3.
I don’t hand register many domains anymore but in 2013 I picked up the following:
UltraParanoidComputing.com
LithiumBolivia.com
BritishBeerFestivals.com
GermanBeerFestivals.com
BelgianBeerFestivals.com
I’ve voted 🙂
Some of the better domains form all listings no particular order:
BannedIPs.com
OrganRejection.com
DateMommy.com
TransplantMedications.com
WifiServers.com
RiskVerification.com
BulkWhoisSearches.com
MedicalSchoolTutoring.com
MHO
of the 70 there is only one or two that i would consider buying:
friendsdontletfriendsdrivedrunk.com
and the santa clara and green bay doctors from list 3
this is an example of what is wrong with the domain market, would be investors buying and selling useless domains to each others, like a game of old maid where the one left holding the baby is the loser.
if there isn’t any end user value then the only value is investor trading, when the last trade is made there is no value just a loss.
This was a contest where people had to register 10 names. As such, I do not believe it is any type of indicator of an issue within the domain market. Perhaps an issue exists, but this contest wouldn’t be a good example to illustrate your concern.
Personally, I probably hand register fewer than 25 domain names per year because I don’t think there is much money in that channel. This was a fun challenge for me and got me thinking about something different. There’s a massive difference between researching unregistered domain names and negotiating / bidding on higher value names that definitely have aftermarket value.
What you are referring to is not the domain market. I don’t buy and especially I never sell to domainers.
I only sell to end users.
The 10 domains I bought I would have bought them anyway. I didn’t waste any of my money for this contest. And I only plan to sell to end users.
I would like to comment on a few domains but since I am part of the contest I will not until the voting is over.
I promised myself after reading to not look at the comments below to sway my own legitimate response. Seems many were across the board on on 1,2,3,5,7. Which is good though since it should probably be a competition and not a slaughter… although, one does always like to see a Seabiscuit.
However, there were only seven (7) and with ten (10) there may have been even more variance voting.
The problem with these votes however is that many domainers who really do not have experience are making votes on what they believe and 5 inexperience green newby’s or unsuccessful domainers can sway a win or second place. This leads many of your followers who read for education to believe something false. IMHO.
It is my suggestion that you Elliot, provide the poll results and then your pick and reason and this will provide better insight as to why, coming from a respected, experienced domainer.
Great fun and learning experience for many. Congrats on the extending the idea and initial credit to Michael Cyger whose DomainSherpa is also a 1 out of my only 3 domain blog favorites.
As I mentioned in the initial post, I got the idea for the contest from Mark of DomainPicks.com, and he said it was cool for me to go ahead with it. Just giving credit where credit is due. I think DomainSherpa has some excellent interviews and I think he asks very good questions.
I am not going to give my pick because I am obviously biased towards my list. I might offer commentary on what other names I liked though. It’s tough to give valuable feedback because frankly, none of these names compares to what I generally buy in the aftermarket and it’s tough for me to fawn over hand registered names.
This was a fun contest to see who can grab the 10 best names. I don’t necessarily think it’s any type of educational experience, aside from the fact that there are still some decent saleable names available to hand register. None of these names may sell for big $$$, but I do think several are worth much more than the registration fee – perhaps 4 figures.
Yes, dont want to skip credit due. re:”I got the idea for the contest from Mark of DomainPicks.com”
re:”I don’t necessarily think it’s any type of educational experience” I would however disagree. Reason being many learn from due diligence, studies, and from professiojnal or expert/reading such mainstream domainer blogs. Meaning results of the contest (all-be-it results of other domainers) still carry responsibility to your followers to supply your expert honest opinion of those results.
I dont think you run the risk of being biased if you found your list to be better, as you may choose another’s list…again, imo.
Great fun either way-and thanks for the response!
None worth mentioning.
Some of the names posted in the comments are far better than those in the competition.
AD
I wish I could have voted for Todd or Mark’s original list. Next step, have one of the pros at Sherpa compete against the winner here
Some of my hand registered domains:
BarsByCity.com
BarsByRank.com
BeerDebate.com
BluntRoll.com
BrewRating.com
CarServiceGuy.com
ComputerScienceWork.com
CrossFitGuides.com
EatMoreNow.com
FeministGroup.com
FeministSociety.com
ICanType.com
K12Studies.com
LocalClunkers.com
LustfulTouch.com
LustNovels.com
MuscleGoal.com
MuscleGoals.com
NextGenCellPhones.com
NextGenSmartPhones.com
Politicalmission.com
RankMyBar.com
RuthlessLife.com
SeasonBeer.com
ShopgTLD.com
StarSoBright.com
StickThin.com
StrengthGoals.com
StrengthMuscle.com
WeedTheory.com
WorldNetWorth.com
WTFBrowser.com
YourCarManual.com
Not all for resale, some going to be used for actual websites. Some I was just drunk.. like when registering MileySucks.com and MileyCyrusSucks.com….
List 6 definitely! EverybodyKnowsThat.com love it. Could be a hilarious site. Would have chosen DontHateThePlayaHateTheGame.com but that’s a good one too. Mindsnuggle great brand if you find the right buyer too. Brands are the way to go with .com now that all gTLD hell is gonna break loose.
My latest hand reg’s the past few days. All were previously reg’d. The good ones are out there if you put your mind to it.
TitsForTats.com (my personal favorite now)
DialADrunk.com
1800ASSHOLE.com
TatRats.com
WrongFuck.com
HotMamaz.com
BabyMamaz.com
MyCatsHateMe.com
My latest hand reg $2.17-$3.15 bitcoin collections:
BitcoinATMusa.com
BitcoinATMcanada.com
BitcoinATMchina.com
BitcoinATMeurope.com
BitcoinATMglobal.com
Date Mommy? – Yes please!
Coinalingus? – What’s that, I want one.
List #2 Wins IMHO. Almost all 2-word combos, but lots of creativity and interesting on almost every one.
Voted!. Apologies again for not being able to participate while being one of the 10 shortlisted participants. Good effort from those who did participated although i’m a bit disappointed to only see lists of keyword domains. Would had been nice to see at least one domainer going for brandables.
Choosing amongst lists that are more or less equal in quality is an invidious responsibility. It’s like that old chestnut on dating site questionnaires – what is your favorite book. After the first 1,000 books one has read, who the heck knows which one is the favorite – there might be dozens (like FIVE FINGERS by Gayle Rivers [with a ghost writer] – arguably the best book ever written on special forces ops)
The bottom line is that there are some amazingly good names here – atlantatraveler.com is just one of several that looks pretty good at a registration price of $9/10 or whatever. Congratulations.
Carl
Just a brief update.
Well over 200 votes received and the first and second place lists are separated by just 2 votes.
List #3. Like you said, the most salable and valuable. That’s what matters.
@Elliot Silver re:Just a brief update
It’s going to be a close call indeed!
I haven’t hand regged in a while (I profit more from aftermarket to aftermarket arbitrage)
These are my last most recent handreg, no particular order on reg times,
Sinistress.com 😈
LeapBot.com
MarsLanding.tv
WebsiteRetriever.com
Yogoe.com
NewlyAdded.com
SeoPipes.com
Createables.com
BloggingCart.com
ArticleBot.net
Yelps.org (Sold $130)
Arc.cc (sold $450)
Each one has a business idea behind them, it’s just a matter of time until I’m able to launch some of them, if not all.
😀
I like #2 because diversification. It has some health, Attorney, Service related names. High CPC.
My list was #7. Thanks to those who voted for me.
I wrote an article with my chronicle in the contest.
My adventures in “Domain Name Hand Registration” circa 2014:
http://onlinedomain.com/2014/01/14/news/my-adventures-in-domain-name-hand-registration-circa-2014/
sucrosebattery.com
dyo3d.com
3ddyo.com
toolkit3d.com
3dconfectionary.com
3djobmarket.com
3dcreativecloud.com
consumer3delectronics.com
consumer3dfashion.com
jobs3dprinting.com
here are my most recent hand registrations