Would it be appropriate for experienced domainers to criticize heavily?

August 7, 2010 by  
Filed under Domain News

I have reguarly read the blogs and posts from experienced domainers and I find them quite insightful. But some experienced domainers criticize domain newbies heavily and I found it a bit strange. In every field, there are newbies and we couldn’t expect them to know all the things in a very short period of time. I am a medical professional and I got medical students and junior doctors all the time under myself. I couldn’t expect them to know all the things and it takes a few years to learn skills to be more and more competent. We have to guide them in a supportive manner and it would be unfair to criticize our junior colleagues for not having confidence to handle difficult cases.

I really think this also applies to domaining. I believe I have read that even Frank Schilling registered very crappy domains during his initial few years. In our medical field, there is established textbooks, medical schools, training institutes etc… and it takes usually 7 years to finish medical training and another 7 to 10 years to  become a consultant. In domaining world, many experienced domainers usually keep their ways of success to themselves and it makes more difficult for domain newbies to learn from their mistakes and so on. But over the years, if any newbie is persistant enough to pursue his or her interest, the skills & knowledge would improve over time assuming that there isn’t anything wrong with the newbie mentally.

Don’t get me wrong. I am not a domain expert. I am still a domain newbie.

May 15, 2010 by  
Filed under Domain Sales

Some people might think that I started this website because I thought I am a domain expert. No where near that. I am still a domain newbie and as a part-time domainer (full time as a doctor) and I know domaining is too much to learn. When I started domaining in around 2007, I registered about 100 domains as bad as theGoodFriday.co.uk which I thought would be worth x,xxx range or so. I was so wrong. I dropped over 95% of those domains.

Apart from a few xx,xxx range domain sales, there is nothing much going on with my domaining. I am more towards acquiring domains rather than focussing on selling domains. I started this domain news website to share some domain latest news on domain sales, auctions etc…

I am still a domain newbie and I recently acquired the following domains. 

FootballScore.com,

WhatisMyCreditScore.com

MyPokerTour.com ,

OurCasinos.com,

HospitalDoctor.com,

PuzzleNetwork.com,

Jigsaws.net,

Fridge.net,

FirstBlackjack.com,

Weirdly.com,

ProjectManagementCourses.com

SofaSite.com

LostTheories.com

CornerSuite.com

PropertyMaintenance.net

WeirdHolidays.com

BestBuyPhones.com

CaseFan.com

RecoveryVehicle.com

past few days or so. I would welcome any comments on my domain acquisition. (if comment is not working, you could always contact me via email : admin (at) deliciousnames.com .

Below is the Valuate.com valuation which is very rough. (but still quite smart for an automatic appraisal tool) e.g. MyPokerTour.com for $50 is a bit too low, I think.

Domain Appraisal Freq. Searches Comp. CPC
fridge.net $47,000 23,900,000 448,960 high $1.53
footballscore.com $17,000 255,000 18,500 high $2.04
projectmanagementcourses.com $17,000 74,800 14,762 high $7.6
casefan.com $8,300 579,000 5,500 high $0.78
hospitaldoctor.com $2,600 426,000 487 medium $0.86
whatismycreditscore.com $2,100 302,000 3,625 high $16.4
weirdholidays.com $2,000 95,700 5,500 low $1.01
recoveryvehicle.com $1,600 136,000 175 high $3.62
propertymaintenance.net $1,300 1,900,000 18,500 high $2
bestbuyphones.com $1,200 29,500 3,000 medium $2.07
jigsaws.net $1,000 326,000 3,596 high $1.35
losttheories.com $850 111,000 33,875 low $0.47
cornersuite.com $650 218,000 44 low $2.95
sofasite.com $510 20,000 0 low $0.05
weirdly.com $380 1,110,000 600 medium $0.05
ourcasinos.com $290 28,300 0 low $0.05
puzzlenetwork.com $290 9,140 27 low $0.05
firstblackjack.com $250 29,500 0 low $0.05
mypokertour.com $40 1,910,000 0 low $0.05