I give up

[fatter]

I am tired of trying to help new people who dont want to listen, no matter how many times we tell them in the appraissal section on what to avoid and what names have the potential to be money makers they just dont listen. After detailed explanations on how to reg decent names they continue to reg junk, whats worse is they reg names that would barely be worth reg fee in the dotcom, and reg the org's ,nets, and infos. Maybe i am being to hard but It just tears me up to see people wasting hard earned money on these domains because i know they havent earned a nickle in domaining so they probably had to work for an hour at a traditional job to reg each domain. I went to a different board and out of 100's of domains there was only a few worth reg fee and none that i would reg if available. I dont claim to be a domain expert, just one that hates to see so much misinformation, Maybe its because they got started by reading one of these get rich quick schemes.
Is it me or is it now the norm for people to disregard sound advice from members who have been at this for years

 

[petrosc]

It is mostly because newbies underestimate the difficulty of this business and they first reg domains, and after they see that they can't sell them, then they try to actually learn how to do it right.

From personal experience, the most valuable piece of advice for a newbie would be: When you decide to get into the domain business, read and learn first and don't spend a single dime on registering/buying domains until months have passed and you have had enough time to accumulate the information

 

[fatter]

but how many times have we told them use overture and vurr and other traffic sources to see what people are searching for and they just ignore it. while i have a few generic terms that dont get much traffic its only 1 percent of my portfolio. They make these terms 100 percent of their portfolios and ignore the very thing that would cause them to be a success. I am not in the drop business so I probably am extremely close to being a newbee, nor do i buy domains. I just reg them, so it is still possible to be a success if they just listen for 5 minutes. I just regged a 3 word dotcom that makes 1.50 a day my goal is to reg 100/200 of these names and am on the way. is it because they are shooting for a million instead of a slow build up.

 

[gawnd]

all of our failures are training grounds. you can't and probably shouldn't even try to protect people from learning certain things the hard way. the smart ones will learn from their mistakes - the rest will move on to the next get rich quick scheme - success always alluding them.

 

[dolansco]

IAmDomainNames.com

$60k++ a year in renewals ???

 

[PRED]

IAmDomainNames.com

$60k++ a year in renewals ???

:jaw: God! They are truly terrible! LOL

It is mostly because newbies underestimate the difficulty of this business and they first reg domains, and after they see that they can't sell them, then they try to actually learn how to do it right.

From personal experience, the most valuable piece of advice for a newbie would be: When you decide to get into the domain business, read and learn first and don't spend a single dime on registering/buying domains until months have passed and you have had enough time to accumulate the information

Sound advice!
BTW, how are you Petros? How is the Doctor training?

 

[fatter]

IAmDomainNames.com

$60k++ a year in renewals ???

I would hope this person has money to burn

 

[GAMEFINEST]

I was a offical newbie a year ago, and learned my way thru dnforum, and other forums reading, posting, asking questions, and learning the ropes, reg some names that are making good amount of cash a month, buying names that i know are great investments, and ofcourse meeting great buyers and sellers , i think it has to do with motivation and the passion of the domain/internet biz.

 

[jasdon11]

IAmDomainNames.com

$60k++ a year in renewals ???

What a way to spunk away $60k!!!!

Developing a $200 a day drug habit seems like a more sensible route to getting rid of the cash.

I mean...what were they thinking?

Amazingly, they don't appear to own 'WeAreStupid.com' unless they are saving that one for a personal site....

 

[copper]

IAmDomainNames.com

$60k++ a year in renewals ???

Many of them don't even make any sense.
IamADULTDIAPERS.com
IamTHEADULTDIAPERS.com
WeAreADULTDIAPERS.com
WeAreTHEADULTDIAPERS.com
IamADDITIONS.com
WeAreADDITIONS.com
WeAreALLERGIES.com

I am adult diapers?
I am THE adult diapers?

Would he renew them ALL by the end of this year?
Or he'll say I GIVE UP

I wonder if he sold any and for how much:?:

 

[Seraphim]

IAmDomainNames.com

$60k++ a year in renewals ???

Holy crap!

 

[hugegrowth]

IAmDomainNames.com

$60k++ a year in renewals ???

That's the kind of thing a lot of people start off doing, thinking waaay outside the box and ending up with too many 'theme' names like that.

I did it.

Maybe the theory of regging decent domains is too easy - the idea of regging domains of terms that people are already searching for, and using better extensions, seems just too simple to possibly work.

I know when I learned about overture results it was a big 'aha'. I really miss overture every month.

 

[Seraphim]

Anyone know this guy, is he a member here? Did he sell one of these type of domains for seven figures?

 

[copper]

Anyone know this guy, is he a member here? Did he sell one of these type of domains for seven figures?

You are kidding, right?
seven figures for Iam.... or WeAre...

 

[Tia Wood]

I am tired of trying to help new people who dont want to listen

Don't take it personal. It's the way its going to be, the way it is and the way it's always going to be in any industry. People start in this business for several reasons: right or wrong. Many people who begin believe they will make millions offhand by any name they register.

Domaining is a learning process that you must go through. Only the people who truly want to get somewhere in this business will "shut up and listen" to their seniors. Then you have clashing personalities who believe they know better than everyone else and continue to buy crappy names. Then you have the true innovators who "shut up and listen" but go with their intuition.

Whatever the reasons, don't take it personal. Help people who need help. It will be up to them if they choose to value and apply your advice. The great thing about this community (and the internet) is that anyone who wants to view the page, can. So you might be personally replying to a poster but someone else is going to come along and read your advice and probably apply it.

After awhile, you can tell who is serious about being here and who isn't. Then you can become selective about who to give advice to. But again, don't take it personal and don't let it frustrate you.

It isn't going to go away. And I don't want it to go away. If it wasn't for me asking stupid questions and making a gazillion mistakes (big financial ones too), I wouldn't be where I'm at today or heading in the future that I am.

Today, I still ask stupid questions and make financial oopsies but I listen to my seniors. Thank God for them! But that's the point! This industry is still new enough where it's okay to make mistakes, try different things and let yourself fail. There are no set methods or rules. You just have to try something and see if it works. Sometimes it's a financial loss, sometimes its a time loss but the point is to learn and grow. Some people do learn and grow here. But they need a chance to make a few financial oopsies of their own. Even if they are stubborn.

Tia Wood

 

[domainah]

I don't even mind people that don't take the advice, I only mind if they get pissed when you tell them that their new domain such as myhiphopidols.com is not worth $1 million, although they think its a trillion dollar industry.. there should be a permanent 1 page post to point people to what things are irrelevant when regging names and that 3 name .orgs are probably not a good idea
...not that this would help because there are still people that appraise garbage at $$$ or $$$$ although they themselves would never pay that...I think that is just as problematic...

 

[Seraphim]

You are kidding, right?
seven figures for Iam.... or WeAre...

IAmKidding.com

 

[Keynes]

IAmDomainNames.com

$60k++ a year in renewals ???

iWasDomainNames.com?

 

[MacyT.]

Hi - I'm a newbie, though definitely not coming from the adult diaper side of the fence. I agree with all of you as it's amazing to me what I see people out there registering.

I'd like to think I've made some wise choices (along with definite overzealous mistakes) that will eventually pay off. But I will say that some of the challenges out there at least for me, and I'm assuming other newbies, is that there is SO much advice floating around the internet, you actually need to be well versed in it enough before reading blogs and forums it seems.

I have seen so many different opinions on basics like whether page rank matters these days or not, whether traffic matters to an end user, and even whether hyphens are that bad. It is confusing! And one quickly realizes that probably 75% of the stuff out there is coming from people who are either full of it, don't know what they are talking about, or are hyping up certain aspects of the biz for their own purposes. So it is really tough, I think to sift through the good and bad advice before just relying on hopefully accurate reports and mixing it with intuition.

I will say that I have seen what seems like the most trustworthy advice coming from all of you on this forum. However at the same time, I am one of those people who have asked several very stupid questions - and have repeatedly gotten ignored. :disappointed:

I eventually learn the answer on my own...and I guess that's fine. So, I guess my whole point is the frustration can go both ways

 

[cursal]

IAMOutOfControl.com

man that is pretty wild to see.

We live and learn....