What to do with £25,000?

[TinkyWinky]

Okay I have decided to try and change tack on what I do to make a few sites do the work for me.

If you had £25,000 to spend ($35,000+) any suggestions on how you would place that money?

One domain with traffic, 20 domains with less traffic, one fantastic type in domain, 100 smaller .info's?

Am trying to spread risk and workload though... however one great domain with type in has to be a whole lot less than 100 smaller ones that you have to keep an eye on?

 

[J2theIZZO]

Buying domains from a reseller you are likely to see a much longer ROI than putting the hard work in yourself.

Depends how motivated you are.

If you are buying domains @ x years revenue i'd choose wisely and spread the money between 10-20 fairly decent earners with some inherant value in the keyword (IE Not TM'd names).

Either that or one really nice domain with good keyword value (Generic term) with type in traffic and develop it to a high standard (Which would probably yield more in the long run).

 

[furca]

Buy the remaining LLLL.com's that start with an A (500)

 

[drzhanga]

give it to me

 

[katherine]

If I were you I would purchase a few strong generic .com keywords on the aftermarket.
Even if it costs £5000 apiece you have can have 5 premium names. IMO you can't go wrong with .com. Prices are going up all the time, more and more businesses must have an online presence to compete on the marketplace. Names are important assets. With nearly 50M .com registered and growing, it's obvious scarcity is playing a role in the price hikes.
Next step is to build a business around your names, unless you are getting some huge PPC revenue. If you are too busy or lazy you could sit on your names for a few years and wait to resell at a profit.
TV.com sold for $7500 in the 90s I believe. Just imagine how much it would sell for nowadays.

 

[TinkyWinky]

TV.com sold for $7500 in the 90s

hmmmm... that would have been nice.

I can't believe I was at Uni surfing about in 1991 and didn't think to register all the best UK names...as most the biggies like casinos, loans, mortgages etc were all free then (and free to have - you just requested!!!! ) oh well.

Having shuffled about a bit - SEDO owners on the whole are askign unrealistic figures for pretty poor names, but maybe it's best to go after .com domains that are in the mix on various sites (or approach directly as and when I find).

You are right .com can only go up now...and am not sure about buying any other TLD to be honest - especially not .Us or .info where prices can be a bit roger-random.