Selling and buying domain names as an investment?

Eh, unless it is an already established business I would say your domain names are useless.

If people are smart, they'll just come up with another name that requires a domain name that's not already taken.

That's why you see so many new businesses with strange names.

People made money off buying up domain names off already established preinternet businesses like pizzahut.com, etc

We used Snap Names for this like a decade ago. May be better ways to do it now. You can auction off domain names.

No one is going to pay you much for a name. Too many options.

This seems like it's in line with the ambulance chasers, patent hawks, and pyramid scheme business vibe. Just kinda looking for a way to make money a slimy way.

There is an industry around domain names and registering them and selling them.

I have had a couple I wanted to buy that the broker wanted six figures for. Sometimes there can be homeruns in that but most of the time not so much and I would guess if they are BR specific they are not worth much.

Give me your email address and I'll send a link to my online seminar that tells you all about it.

in the early days maybe it was a good way to make money. buy p all of the big company domain names and celeb domain names and sell them at a profit.

if you didn't do this in the '90s, that ship has sailed, baw

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Point being he actually had a company called Nissan and wasn’t just domain grabbing other people’s company names.

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What’s wrong with ‘domain grabbing’, as you put it? If a technology is in it’s infancy, like domain names and company internet sites were 25 yrs ago, and i had the ingenuity and foresight to register a name (and spend money to do so, btw)- then how am i at fault? If i registered Dr Pepper.com in 1993 and Dr Pepper didn’t have anyone smart enough to do it first amongst their 50,000 employees, who would have ascertained that they might want to have that website and make money off of it- then why should i be penalized for that?

Again, all of this is a moot point now since those days are long gone, but if i had been smart enough as a college student back then to spend what little disposable income i had to register domains, then you bet your *** i’d feel entitled to compensation from ANYONE who wanted to use the domain i’d Legally purchased.