A great post from Lord:

This is My True Story

There was a time when I was extremely frustrated with my domaining business. I was seeing people sell domains for hundreds of thousands of dollars and yet I had so many domains which no one was willing to pay even registration fee for, let aside thousands. What was worse was that I was not making much money in parking either.

Whenever I saw the domain-sales charts I would cringe. What was I doing wrong? Was there a fault in my investment strategy? I had to do something about it or simply get out of domaining business. It was a do-or-die situation for me.

There is another thing — I hate failing.

So, I sat-back to take a rational look at my investment strategy and find out what was wrong with it. And very soon I did. (more…)

Check out this recent DNF thread

Who Really Knows?
I go against all the “rules” here for buying domain names. I get super long names (3-4 words my norm), often with hyphens and always a .org or .net. In the appraisal section, my names always get no response, 0 or “reg fee” values.

For instance, I offer up my watch-videos.net, a name everyone here said was a dog. And I agree. What’s to like? But somehow, someway…well, here are its last 6-month stats at parked.com:
Domain Name Clicks Revenue
watch-videos.net 2,751 $196.75

And I’ll share these few more examples of modest parking successes.
Domain Name Clicks Revenue (6-month parking stats)
stateboardofequalization.org 184 $209.58
equalemploymentopportunitycommission.org 61 $194.58 (more…)

Update: bidding up to $500K now, reserve seems to be $800K

Pizza.net at TDNam at 420K, 4 days left and reserve not met yet.

I do NOT believe this.. I could see the .com going at that price, but the .net? Looks much like shill bidders trying to capitalize on the big pizza.com slice. As long as the reserve not met it doesn’t count. We’ll see if it’s true or not, my bet is it won’t sell. The description also says:

The ORIGINAL Pizza Search Engine It includes 60k pizza restaurants, Prior art to Microsoft’s zip code patent

But that doesn’t add much value. The site looks quite simple, you could get a similar one built for a couple hundred bucks with the ready database.

View the pizza.net discussion on DNF for more info

Either way good luck to the seller.

Just saw this:

08.com + 22.com + 34.com + 44.com + 55.com + 84.com + 85.com + 92.com

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Hello to all numeric lovers !

We are selling the nicest NN.COM portfolio in the world !

08.com + 22.com + 34.com + 44.com + 55.com + 84.com + 85.com + 92.com as a package.

Minimal offer for consideration : $ 5,000,000

That’s 8 NN.com out of 100 in total possible, you don’t see a sale like that every day!

Previous this dnf member also sold 30.net and 79.net

Good luck with the sale

Our programmers just finished this, check out the new small site on Mind Reading

Nothing big yet, just a flash game, but I have bigger development plans for it so this is just a placeholder.

Eventually I’d like to build it into a Mind Reading related community, with discussion boards, lots of free material and selling ebooks and other stuff. Hopefully I can get to it soon.

Any suggestions and comments are welcome.

Another sales compilation here from the last 3 days. It looks the prices in the lower end LLLL.com are stabilizing and starting to grow once again.

Sedo

VUFI.com $1,390
LETP.com $800
YASM.com $850
witu.com $5,100
cstw.com $125
rrzz.com $410
qmen.com $1,510
jomv.com $90
uaau.com $610
vvww.com $650
vudi.com $1,550
wouu.com $500
PLLP.com $500
lypi.com $500
OXYF.com $499
fela.com $6,700
Exam.com $75,000 (more…)

Hey all,

If you haven’t noticed I’ve been adding and testing some wordpress plugins and additions to the blog.

So far added:

• Related posts plugin to show related posts under each post with excerpt
• Show Top Commentators - to show top visitors of the blog that left most comments this month
• Subscribe to comments - to let my readers subscribe to comments for individual posts in order to track responses to their comments.
• AutoTag - creates tags based on yahoo keywords. These tags are then used to extract the related posts.

I’d appreciate any feedback and tips on new plugins to add.

Some more amazing sales were reported through afternic, but not the kind of amazing we used to. This time one lucky guy got a hell of a deal!

Say.org - $500
WJA.com - $735
ZLI.com - $500
PQT.com - $571
RLU.com - $900 (more…)

TheDomains reports

 

The CAC auction held by Moniker today from Amsterdam just ending resulting in a lack luster $108,000 in sales.

The sales are were as follows, anything with a 0 was a pass.

All names that failed in the live auction along with over 1,000 new names will be in the silent auction which will close next week.

 

winnings.com $27,000

roulette.mobi $15,000 (more…)

This is the first of a series of interviews with different domainers intended to let everyone express their views, opinions and share their experience.

I think it will be interesting for most domainers to see how their fellows are doing. If you’d like to get interviewed feel free to contact. Domainers with all levels of experience will be given an equal chance here. (more…)