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Old 03-05-2010, 04:48 AM   #1

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Domain Buying/Selling Business

Anyone in the domain trading business? It's been my recent hobby collecting unique domain names. About $8 or so to register a .com and usually goes for multiples of it. My first sale recently netted 25x my initial investment. Just took part in a local auction and bought www.mobilenews.jp for about $300. Obviously looking to flip this domain a for a few thousand or more preferably to mobile related businesses in Japan.

Anyone have any experience with this?
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Re: Domain Buying/Selling Business

It definitly is an investment vehicle.
I realized this the first time I wanted to register a Domain. The domain name I wanted was listed for around 1K, I didnt want it that bad.

When cell phones first came out many were buying the easy to remebr (xxx-0000) number and then leasing or selling them. for example I have a phone number that ends with four zeros and back about 7 years ago I recieved offeres between 5K -10k for it... I still have the number.

With Domains I think there is still much potential out there, but it was a really good investment idea in the early 90's... that was when you could register some nice domains and make a killing on them.
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Re: Domain Buying/Selling Business

Nowadays people are just whoring the keywords for Google. The only decent ones left will be expiring without renewal or new products.

I'm tempted to bundle up a bunch of niche domains soon, but ultimately you have to build traffic and rank for anyone to raise an eye lid!

Glad you found some nice ones!
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Re: Domain Buying/Selling Business

Nowadays people are just whoring the keywords for Google. The only decent ones left will be expiring without renewal or new products.

I'm tempted to bundle up a bunch of niche domains soon, but ultimately you have to build traffic and rank for anyone to raise an eye lid!

Glad you found some nice ones!

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