The reality of domain investing is that even profitable domain investors fail 98% of the time on the way to selling 2% of their inventory each year. Domaining is a highly speculative endeavor. To be profitable means walking a virtual tightrope of income, expenses and probabilities.
(more…)A timely follow up analysis of the 13 domains Margot Bushnaq reviewed with me last week. This episode tracks the progress of each domain and compares Margot’s analysis with the wholesale selling price and the retail asking price on each domain’s newly created landing page.
(more…)In this epic episode I take a deep, conversational dive with Margot Bushnaq the founder and CEO of BrandBucket. Together we sneak under the hood of her curated marketplace and explore the crazy world of naming conventions, frothy aftermarkets, pricing trends and the future of modern technology. PLUS….. a live review of current trends, keywords and valuations based on recently dropped domains.
This is one you don’t want to miss!!
(more…)I’m super excited to share with you this in-depth interview with DnGeek and Efty founder, Doron Vermaat. In this episode Doron reveals his secret formula for selling brandables in alternative extensions. Then, Doron and I discuss his Top Ten end-user sales of the year!
Don’t miss it!
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Today’s episode is devoted entirely to end user sales. I’ll be discussing 15 domains sales from Sedo, BuyDomains, BrandBucket, Efty, BrandPa, SquadHelp and Dan.com.
(more…)Most investors across their entire portfolio, would say their average is 2% – 3%. They’ll sell 2% to 3% of their domain names per year.
– Michael Cyger
This past week Andrew Allemann at Domain Name Wire did a great interview with veteran domainer, Mark Levine, about his 2018 brandable domain sales. In the interview Mark lays out his domain acquisition strategy and sales philosophy as well as sample sale details, his portfolio size, acquisition costs and other items you don’t often hear in this type of discussion. So I highly recommend it.
At the same time, despite his best efforts, Andrew may have left many readers with a skewed picture of Mark’s actual bottom line profit on the 48 domains that he sold this year through Afternic, BrandBucket and Efty landing pages. Some might think that Mark’s $114,000 in sales minus the $3,400 he paid for those domains would mean a 97% profit. Right?
Nope. Not even close.
I would estimate his bottom line profit at 50%.
Here’s why.
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