Domain Buying/Selling Business

[Soultrader 12]

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 http://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?

[Zunaa 10]

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.

[Waterfield 10]

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!

[Waterfield 10]

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!

 

Phil.

[peterfred 10]

Hi my best wishes for your domain trading business. I am also have involved in this trading for past couple of years.

[Lavazza 10]

AFAIK people who register sound domain names are called cybersquatters.

 

I think the main wave of such operations already gone but if anyone manages to think off a good name and register it through DNS the profit from this idea can be quite large,