Domaining is very similar to playing the lottery but ultimately the end-result depends on your ability to shop around the domain during a set time frame and hopefully get it sold one way or another. How much? Whatever you can get… The market will set the price. You always hear all this talk about end-users all the freakin time… Blah!!

They rarely come knocking on your door, and you simply cannot rely on that as your main source of income. Especially not for your hand regged domains. Those are long shots… Dude. Get real! Unless your name is Frank Schilling or Kevin Ham who got end-users all up their ass 24/7/365… Your domains are long-shot lottery tickets, and  not even the most promising ones at that 

Look, it does happen… You can get lucky a lot more than once or twice in this game if you have the right keyword domains, but you gotta put in the hard work to be truly successful. I see most domains exactly as lottery tickets, with yearly expiration dates and an easy given option to renew if so desired. Most domains I buy I usually try to flip within a couple of month’s nowadays. I am not in this for the long run.

So when I get an “end-user” contact me out of nowhere for a hand regged domain such as LAXSTORE DOT NET the other week, I say “$499 and it’s all yours” and a few days later we have a done deal. Literally 5 minutes of work involving a few e-mail communications… You take the money, forget about that domain and move on-to the next deal.

Then I had another “end-user” sale last week from a guy who inquired about AVVA DOT NET. We bargained a bit back and forth, but ultimately met somewhere in the middle and made the deal happen at $800. It took a bit of hand holding to get the transfer completed as it sometimes does with people who aren’t that technical or familiar with the process, but probably 20 mins total of work put in… Still, not a bad result right?

The end-users are definitely out there, for all kinds of domains… Even .net, which is often overlooked by many domainers who call themselves pros… Problem is I don’t know too many domainers that make a lot of money or most of their money on end user sales because there isn’t a ton of them.

It’s up-to you to make the most of your domains, and that is done by marketing and listing them everywhere where it makes sense to. So what that it didn’t sell first or second time around and it’s been a few month’s? You try again next month, and then next month… You have one year. It’s a different pool of buyers every day pretty much. So if you do have a good domain, keep going at it. Don’t give up… But if you do not get any action, in other words not even a lowball offer or maybe even a trade… Well, that means you got crap. When the renewal time comes around, you should know what to do