advice needed:How would you invest $10000 into domains?

[labrocca]

As with any investment...diversification is key.

How I would do it.

Obtain 1 LLL.com for 3-4k
Obtain 2-3 LLL.net's for 1-2k
Obtain 5 parked domains that are revenue earners $2-3k
Use $1k for drops (not a lot but drops are risky)
Use $500 to buy new reg names (research research)

Save whatevers left any future investments.

Also do this slowly except for the buying of the LLL's. Get those asap.

 

[ThisDot]

As with any investment...diversification is key.

How I would do it.

Obtain 1 LLL.com for 3-4k
Obtain 2-3 LLL.net's for 1-2k
Obtain 5 parked domains that are revenue earners $2-3k
Use $1k for drops (not a lot but drops are risky)
Use $500 to buy new reg names (research research)

Save whatevers left any future investments.

Also do this slowly except for the buying of the LLL's. Get those asap.

Pretty solid advice in a general sense, without knowing how much risk you are willing to take or not take.

 

[Duckinla]

Your objectives are important and until you have that figured out you should put the money in a bank. Since I focus on revenue and cash flow, here's a couple suggestions along those lines.

You need about $250 a month net incometo get a good return on $10K investment,

You can buy for $10K a portfolio of revenue domains making about $250 to $600 per month, based on quality. You might want to mix it up a bit with some in all price ranges. Having 150 revenue domains can be much safer than just 2 or 3.

You could also register 150 domains and put up templates for Google Adsense. This would cost about $4,000 at $7 per registration and $20 per template. You would have hosting costs and would want to pay someone to SEO optimize them and submit to search engines unless you can do that yourself. If you could earn $5 per name per month, you would come out ahead at $750 per month revenue. This is not too hard to do.

 

[mvl]

If unexperienced: spend your money with your head, not with your heart.

 

[H2FC]

It's almost impossible to find great names for low prices now-a-days. So here's what I would suggest...direct your time and energy to finding and registering some great alternative energy domains for the future profits. The majority of the world (including me) believes we have a serious global warming problem that must be overcome before its too late. Alternate energy names with hydrogen (H2) and fuelcells (FC) words will be in big demand before much longer. Now is the time to locate and register these names before they're too expensive to touch. We are moving to a hydrogen economy faster than most of us realize and just like its happened so many times in the past, we will have new domain websites and new names to identify those new websites. It's bound to happen and it won't be a long time coming. Now is the time to get ready for it.

 

[lukeeales]

Dale, you forget to mention finding a programmer who can build you software that leaves you with any hope of competing with tagnames

 

[Dale Hubbard]

Dale, you forget to mention finding a programmer who can build you software that leaves you with any hope of competing with tagnames

Luke, I know what you mean, but I have caught stuff that Tagnames were after. If you go with rtl.co.uk, you don't need to write anything :greencool:

 

[Jacksplat]

with ten k.... first step is be careful what people are feeding you. Read alot, user experiences in various forums can help, dont limit yourself to one forum. For domain value, watch all the sales first hand. Look at a domain going for sale in any forum, and watch for how much interest it gets, then the final sale price. Be careful what your read in articles, this market is full of misleading material and needs fresh money everyday. Basically use your head and don't trust anyone. Carefull about who approaches you in pm, even if their exclusive and verified.

Good Luck and Welcome to the Club.

Jack

At this point I realize that there is no need to own thousands of names to be successful in that business.

I agree with you on that one, and with only ten k id suggest staying away from quantity. But me, I'm a numbers man. I find the eggs are better spread out over several baskets. If i can make 25 cents a day on a domain, I'm cool wth it, so long as i can do it a few thousand times a day. Just so happens you get lucky (or made a good call) and get $$$ a day here and there for one.

 

[stockshark]

then again not so long ago there was another thread about the recent standstill in domain trade

Standstill in the domain trade? Do you know which thread this is in? I didn't realize there was a standstill.... :huh:

 

[denny007]

Question was: "How would you invest $10000 into domains?"

If I would have enough time I would be doing drops, no crazy bidding, only sure things, mostly TM typos. This way I would spend 8K, buy nothing big, max. $300 per single domain. This should bring about $500 regular monthly earnings. Rest of the money I would invest into new regs - every day there is chance some new youtube has been born, some new service is starting. And would keep reinvesting all earnings.

 

[stockshark]

I haven't been in this business very long, but i've already made quite a few mistakes. I've wasted lots of money regging crap names, and I waaaay overpaid for a couple of .com domains because I didn't really know how to properly value them. If I have to sell them at some point I will probably take a loss.

It's kind of interesting reading these posts and how different the opinions are on what you should or should not do. In fact from reading them, it looks like what I am doing now is the complete opposite of what several people here are doing, so I guess it just goes to show you there's not really any one way that works for everyone. Personally I prefer the newer tld's, I think they have much greater growth potential than .com's (with the exception of LLL.com). And .net and .org I don't really like too much, I think they have stigma issues from their past that may stick in the minds of end-users for a long time to come (there are still many end-users that think .net is reserved for networking and .org is reserved for non-profit....and that might be a tough nut to crack). I probably can't really advise you other than to say I am accumulating .us and .info domains. Some people like them and some people hate them, but I love them personally...

 

[VirtualT]

I haven't been in this business very long, but i've already made quite a few mistakes. I've wasted lots of money regging crap names, and I waaaay overpaid for a couple of .com domains because I didn't really know how to properly value them.

My favourite quote from this forum:

"You never pay too much for a good domain, you just pay too early"

 

[Sinfully Wicked]

Learn and read as much as you can before making any investment into domains.

Most important - think before you buy.

Thank you

Sin

 

[gmac17]

it also depends on what your plans are, do you want to:

1) Buy and sell names
2) Buy names and make money from parking
3) Buy names and develop

You can make money from all 3 of these. I personally focus on #3, so when I am buying names as an investment I am buying a piece of land to build my "store" on down the road. There are others here who you will see buy a name and resell it a month later for twice as much. Different strokes....

 

[stockshark]

My favourite quote from this forum:

"You never pay too much for a good domain, you just pay too early"

Well I hop that quote is right!

 

[sellingonline]

I would buy income earners, not TM, both parked and web-sites, then reinvest the money.

I 100% agree, don't focus on domainnames only, I would prefer complete developed sites too, may take longer for profit, but just may... and at the end it mostly will, finding cheap (in regards to value, not absolute price) premium names is, well, not easy

 

[4u-domains]

personally:

1 reasonable LLL.com at $5000

5 decent .info at $2000 total

5 quality .us at $2000 total

1 reasonable website/income domain at $1000


Park then and lock them all away for a couple of years unless you receive an offer you cannot refuse.
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