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Permalink Reply by Carl Chapman on October 3, 2008 at 11:37am

Sure am... one day I might even make some money at it

Permalink Reply by Harvey Clay on October 3, 2008 at 2:35pm

I haven't in about 2 months. For a while I was actively marketing a few names I thought were cool, but had no takers. How can an amateur like me learn to make some profit buying and selling domain names?

Permalink Reply by Slouch on October 3, 2008 at 2:49pm

it's not easy. Much easier to do if you have scripts to catch expired names. The best thing is only buy names you think can be developed and then develop them. I have lots that just sit but most of them have been owned for almost 10 years so i am the original buyer.

what names were you trying to sell?

Harvey Clay said:

I haven't in about 2 months. For a while I was actively marketing a few names I thought were cool, but had no takers. How can an amateur like me learn to make some profit buying and selling domain names?

Permalink Reply by Harvey Clay on October 3, 2008 at 2:57pm

I found out "The Mergis Group" was going to be buying one of my local competitors, Spherion, so I bought MergisGroup.net and a few other similar names. I contacted the principals of the Companies and offered to sell the names, but never heard back. (I tried repeatedly, too)
I am at work now and don't have access to my folders or my account with godaddy, so I can't get any more specific right now. I'll get back to you with some other examples over the weekend.
Slouch said:

it's not easy. Much easier to do if you have scripts to catch expired names. The best thing is only buy names you think can be developed and then develop them. I have lots that just sit but most of them have been owned for almost 10 years so i am the original buyer.

what names were you trying to sell?

Harvey Clay said:

I haven't in about 2 months. For a while I was actively marketing a few names I thought were cool, but had no takers. How can an amateur like me learn to make some profit buying and selling domain names?

Permalink Reply by Ivan Stojanovic on October 3, 2008 at 5:43pm

I found www.JobsBoard.ie available earlier this year (Yes, I am Irish :) ), and decided to stop buying but to make a brand of this one. Then the recruitment is not in the best shape at teh moment, so I guess I wil launch in Januarry 2009.

Ivan
www.JobsBlog.ie & www.SeoConsultant.ie

Permalink Reply by Harvey Clay on October 3, 2008 at 7:15pm

Hi Jason.
At one time I co-owned about 400 Domain names with a business partner. We were developing a web portal based on health and wellness, so all the URLs were iterations of Health or Healthy, or Organic. I have 10 names in a separate account (including harveyclay.com) and a couple of them are pretty good: buyhealthysnacks.com, eathealthfood.com, and a few others. I would love to buy and sell more, but I have never successfully sold even 1 domain. Can you provide some advice or tips?
Thanks.
Harvey

Harvey Clay said:

I found out "The Mergis Group" was going to be buying one of my local competitors, Spherion, so I bought MergisGroup.net and a few other similar names. I contacted the principals of the Companies and offered to sell the names, but never heard back. (I tried repeatedly, too)
I am at work now and don't have access to my folders or my account with godaddy, so I can't get any more specific right now. I'll get back to you with some other examples over the weekend.
Slouch said:

it's not easy. Much easier to do if you have scripts to catch expired names. The best thing is only buy names you think can be developed and then develop them. I have lots that just sit but most of them have been owned for almost 10 years so i am the original buyer.

what names were you trying to sell?

Harvey Clay said:

I haven't in about 2 months. For a while I was actively marketing a few names I thought were cool, but had no takers. How can an amateur like me learn to make some profit buying and selling domain names?