Since you started domaining what has been your biggest regret?

[Infoproliferati]

I'd also handregged a good many crappy names. But I wouldn't file that in the regret cabinet. I feel that the worthless regs helped me to valuate domains better.

I do regret dropping a few names, now that I think of it.

 

[dn-101]

There r advantages and disadvantages being early to the party.
Some of my buddies operated servers out of their bedrooms at 56k speeds, and made a killing selling their operations.
I regged and dropped several short .coms

 

[hugegrowth]

another one, I caught on to Twitter pretty early on and could have regged some really nice usernames. lots of good stuff was available, big city names and so on. I regged a few back then but really should have taken a great deal more. Good usernames for a network like Twitter have similar qualities to a domain name, there is a demand for them.

 

[hawkeye]

One of a few - taking DBA.com out of my shopping cart because - it was another $100 and I couldn't/didn't see value in 3L's back in 1999. Que Sera... :sigh2:

 

[Melly]

Wasting my time working for a certain domain company : )

 

[Maxwell]

another one, I caught on to Twitter pretty early on and could have regged some really nice usernames. lots of good stuff was available, big city names and so on. I regged a few back then but really should have taken a great deal more. Good usernames for a network like Twitter have similar qualities to a domain name, there is a demand for them.

2007 for twitter was like 1995 for .com. We all wish we could have been there had we known what the future would hold :sigh2:

 

[Tia Wood]

What are your biggest regrets?

Allowing one of my top sites to drop long before I realized what the traffic was worth.

Selling off one of my old sites which had decent traffic because it was something I enjoyed keeping up with.

 

[irongloves]

I guess my biggest regret was to not win a domain name on NameJet.

It was one of those domains that comes on auction probably once a year or a couple of years. A category defining domain name. It's related to "business men looking for leasing an apartment overseas for a couple of months" (prefer not to say the domain name).

The domain has 8K exact on a global basis but worth it all.

Find out the buyer is another domainer (developer, not parking) with way too deep pockets I cannot compete with.

 

[panago]

Too many domains in portfolio given time constraints.

 

[Infoproliferati]

another one, I caught on to Twitter pretty early on and could have regged some really nice usernames. lots of good stuff was available, big city names and so on. I regged a few back then but really should have taken a great deal more. Good usernames for a network like Twitter have similar qualities to a domain name, there is a demand for them.

Last year I was unhappy with my Twitter name. So I began searching for a better username. Without much thought I typed "domaininvestor" and bam the name was available.

I've gotten followers because of the username. And of course they unfollowed me when I didn't tweet often.

 

[allis]

Last year I was unhappy with my Twitter name. So I began searching for a better username. Without much thought I typed "domaininvestor" and bam the name was available.

I've gotten followers because of the username. And of course they unfollowed me when I didn't tweet often.

i just recently noticed the same thing on my twitter account.

even if i just retweet, lots of followers, but if i don't stay active on it, they drop off.

 

[DomainMagnate]

i just recently noticed the same thing on my twitter account.

even if i just retweet, lots of followers, but if i don't stay active on it, they drop off.

most of them just follow because they want you to follow them back, they drop after you don't

 

[Mr.Domains]

did you ever recover them?

No, it was about a month before I noticed, and when I did, they had already been resold several times, and even ended up in the hands of exclusive members on here. I couldn't trace it back to the original theif, and you can't exactly take your domain back of someone who has bought it in good faith... :-(

 

[BobDiGiTaL]

- not realizing the value of domains in 1998 when I worked for Verio, a web hosting company.
- not buying BOB.org for a grand when I saw it for sale on this forum.

 

[spriggy]

One regret was letting my very first domain drop. its been sold a few times. Mindless.com

 

[Ulysses]

Hand reg iCloud.mobi and the selling it last year for $60, it sold for $2,500 just recently.
I did reg about 30 twitter names in 2007 and i still have them, the problem is you cant sell the username openly.

 

[Aristo]

Same here: wasting time on poor regs and not aiming for high quality domain acquisitions from the very start

Also wasting few bucks on TM names or similar crap

 

[stock_post]

I have a big one - Never actually became a domainer as of now..

Had lot of domains that I am dropping constantly.. never sold one.. that I can say I did.

Glad I had some websites that covered by Butt..

 

[katherine]

I began searching for a better username. Without much thought I typed "domaininvestor" and bam the name was available.

I've gotten followers because of the username.

So twitter handles can get 'tire-kick' traffic. Amazing :smilewinkgrin:

 

[Gerry]

Not selling a large part of my portfolio back when the market was high! Lost a ton of money by keeping them as the prices fell down.

Quite amazing that domains mirror the stock market. Then again, if people are making money in the stock market then they have disposable income and look at other venues.