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[evvo]

Good morning, afternoon, evening!!!
Sorry for bugging you guys again but can you please help me with appraisals for this domains.
you guys are great! thanks!

 

[WhoDatDog]

I like your energy and enthusiasm. I see that you just joined this month. You need to take a step back and do some more reading. It will be tough to do, but if you can show some restraint and not register any names for six months, you will be better off. You are going to spend a lot of time and money, and that time and money will be wasted if you don't change focus a bit.

Just so you know, when I registered my first names in the spring of 2005, I registered far far far far far worse names than you are listing. I got started when I saw a news item about how the Watergate leaker had been found out. The guy's name was Mark Felt, so I asked a friend how to register MarkFelt.com. He said it was already taken. That piqued my interest a bit, so I decided to figure out how to register names, and I proceeded to register some of the most worthless names on the planet. Names like WatergateBooks.com and DeepthroatWatergate.com were included in the $600 or so I spent on similarly horrible names. Fortunately for me, one of those first names I registered was also CarlBernstein.com, who was the Bernstein of Woodward and Bernstein. About a year later he decided to write a book, and I miraculously sold him the name for 2K, turning a profit on my initial names.

But the moral of the story is that very few people start out registering good names. It is human nature to want to get aggressive and try to be creative and come up with good names, but the odds of success are close to zero for people trying to do it right off the bat. The best thing to do is to read a lot, and then read some more.

You are on the right track by sticking with dotcom. My advice to all new domainers is to start with dotcom only, and then only after making six figures in profit on dotcom names should you consider registering/buying anything else. At that point, you should still stick with dotcom.

I would study actual sales, even low dollar amount sales. Even though most of the sales threads here are filled with people talking to themselves, there are enough sales that you can get an idea of the types of names that have value, even if it is a very low amount.

Good luck