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Originally Posted by tldrental  Icome on guys, how many of you would have registered a domain name or purchased aftermarket www.plentoffish.com, I can promise you no one here in this forum. This guy registered a dumb name and made his million. |
But I think that's a great name, and perfect for a dating site! It's what every mother or granny used to say to a dumped son or daughter - 'There's plenty more fish in the sea.'
I'm a newbie domainer, but have been writing all my life (since age 5) and that's an industry where it's really is hard to make it. I've seen statistics stating that of the 10% of writers who ever have anything published (including a letter to a newspaper), only 1% ever earn enough to make a living from it, and of that 1% an even tinier number become wealthy through writing. And up to now (that is, pre-Internet days) you've had to have your work accepted not only by a publisher but before that by an agent, before the general public were able to pass judgement on it.
Domaining is certainly hard, but you feel more in control of your own destiny. However, I have to admit that I can see where the original poster is coming from. Sometimes it seems to me that the whole domaining world is one big hustle with very little hard information behind it.