Do you hate domainers?

[secretagentdad]

I wanted to register fartjar.com for my seo advice blog.
But some squatters want 4 figures for it.

Domainers suck. Go park your crapital in shit coins or something.
Also what kinda low rent domain club domainer uses godaddy.

 

[Satvrn]

yes

 

[chubes]

My dad told me a story once about a guy he knew who registered a bunch of .com domains under the names of Wall Street executives back in the 90s and made a killing selling them their own domain names.

 

[Ryuzaki]

The worst part is most domainers make no money. They collect a portfolio they aren’t equipped to qualify, lose money on renewals, lose sales by holding out and sucking at negotiations and then raising the prices because someone validated the domain by showing interest, then ultimately offload their portfolios for pennies on the dollar to the next sucker to get into “the game”.

As far as most of them should be concerned, domaining is a casino, and the registrar always wins. It’s all speculation and exploitation. There isn’t even a supply and demand mechanism to bring prices into balance because there’s no real apples-to-apples comparison to make. So they start to treat it like Pokémon cards and rarity levels based on the number of characters, letters, numbers, extension, pronouncability, radio call signs, and other rarity indicators that have nothing to do with value.

Which is why it’s always a treat when you hear about one of them falling for the “my wife wants to get her Etsy store going, we can scrape up $1,200 if you can give us a payment plan” scheme by a group that just raised their third round of funding.

 

[eliquid]

I wanted to register fartjar.com for my seo advice blog.
But some squatters want 4 figures for it.

Domainers suck. Go park your crapital in shit coins or something.
Also what kinda low rent domain club domainer uses godaddy.

serious question, no joke.

but with kw shitter, fart jar, and Im sure there are others....

you got a butt fetish?

are you suddenlyass from wf?

 

[tyealia]

I remember about five years ago when my uncle enthusiastically registered around 15 Bitcoin-related domains. He snapped up just about any common word you could think of that involved Bitcoin, both before and after it. Some of these domains were a bit unusual and not particularly marketable, but he was thrilled with his collection.

He came to me, super impressed with himself, and asked, "Look at all these domains I'm holding! How much do you think they'll be worth in five years when Bitcoin really takes off?" I told him that even at the peak of the market, I didn't think those domains would hold much value. He scoffed at my opinion, as if I didn't know what I was talking about.

Well, now it's been five years, and he's still paying the hosting fees for those domains. They haven't really turned out to be the goldmine he envisioned. FYI the hosting fees for 15 domains on godaddy over 5 years = 1,125. Bitcoin was worth 3,600 then, if he had just bought more bitcoin with those 5 years of hosting fees lol

 

[CCarter]

I remember at one point I had near 500+ domains, ridiculous thinking back. We all have "ideas" that just never quite get there, but we go as far as registering the domain. I just decided to start deleting everything, not waiting till they expire, but just deleting.

At some point we all might be accidentally domainers. Just let go guys, it ain't going to happen if you didn't make a move yet.

 

[secretagentdad]

I got up into the low hundreds spread across 10 registrars in the blog network days.
Still ended up with like a 5 to 1 undeveloped and just eating reg fee's situation.
I was just addicted to registering names for any fantasy project that crossed my mind, never really did domaining for the sake of it other than accepting offers unsolicited.
What a waste of money.
The only undeveloped domains that ever paid more than their reg fee's were keyword.coms and 4 letter shorts. I'm under 20 domains atm. Feels amazing.