TBR Drop - Feb 11, 2026 (8.Viewing)

DomainRecap said:

It's now for sale on Spaceship for $10 million.

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I like the lease option. Is it the first domain that is listed at $10M?
Do you know of any other domains? I can splash out a little more.

What they need to do now is post a crappy domain for $11M and make fish look like a bargain. That'll make it sell for sure.

MapleDots said:

My wife and my son are acutely aware of the value of my domains, they know to continue and I have made arrangements for all renewals to be covered, there is a separate expense account with 10 years of renewals already funded. So giving the domains away is not in the cards for me and my family because a single hit with a million dollar sale will pay for everything many times over with all the other domains still in waiting for their pay day.

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Just be very careful with this, as people change as they get older, and often drastically.

I had an online friend with a very serious collection of coins, cards, comics, etc. from way back to his grandfather, and he kept telling us that he had no worries, and that he was willing it to his son (who apparently just loved collecting with him) and he would keep his collection going another generation. A few years later, he started typing gibberish on the forums and then dropped off, and from his wife, we found out he had experienced a stroke later that night and died at the hospital.

Not a week later his son starts posting online and asking what was "the best way to sell this stuff" and not long after that it started appearing at the major auction houses like Sotheby's and Heritage.

This is just a cautionary tale that as our families age and gain new perspectives and motivations, they may not always follow our wishes.

P.S. A substitute to your scenario would be your son needing quick cash for something and raiding the expense account.

DomainRecap said:

This is just a cautionary tale that as our families age and gain new perspectives and motivations, they may not always follow our wishes.

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I agree that anything could happen and people do change. It's all in the level of passion and vision one has about anything they do. I can only hope and pray that I have instilled enough passion and vision for my family to know what sacrifices were made in the process of collecting and paying for them over the many years.

Eby said:

I agree that anything could happen and people do change. It's all in the level of passion and vision one has about anything they do. I can only hope and pray that I have instilled enough passion and vision for my family to know what sacrifices were made in the process of collecting and paying for them over the many years.

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If a person is already working another full time job, got a wife/kids/etc..., then they just may not even have the bandwidth left in their life to be a domainer too, especially if they're not used to running the business already. So don't just set it up thinking someone will step in, force them to be actively involved now and give them a sales commission, make them do renewals, etc... Otherwise it will most likely just be a liquidation as @DomainRecap suggests.

rlm said:

If a person is already working another full time job, got a wife/kids/etc..., then they just may not even have the bandwidth left in their life to be a domainer too, especially if they're not used to running the business already. So don't just set it up thinking someone will step in, force them to be actively involved now and give them a sales commission, make them do renewals, etc... Otherwise it will most likely just be a liquidation as @DomainRecap suggests.

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Not for me, domaining has been a steady for over 20 years and with all the supper table stories they know the value, they know how to renew, the funding account is in place and they are told to hold on the ones in the PREMIUM folder until they get a good price for it.

My son knows how to look at comparable sales and such and we are financially stable so there is no reason to panic sell at any time.

I think my kids have literally grown up with domaining talk around the supper table and my wife probably knows more about domaining than some of our newer members. She is sharp as a whip and MapleDots will continue with or without me so don't go counting on any of my domains unintentionally dropping anytime soon