Wayne
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My name is Wayne. I'm a full time IT professional and part time domainer, with an entrepreneurial spirit.
I got into the domain name business by happenstance.
I decided to try my hand at affiliate marketing in the newly regulated Ontario gaming industry and I purchased several relevant domain names and a VPS server to host them on. My goal was to put some useful content on the domains, and let them 'gestate' in the search engines for a few years, and flip the server - including content and domains - for a profit.
One day I received an email from Godaddy stating that someone was interested in purchasing one of my domain names. They didn't say who. I told them I wasn't interested in selling as the domains were for a project, and thanked them for the offer. The Godaddy representative then emailed me back, stating "Everyone has a price. Name yours". I laughed, and didn't think too much of it. Long story short, I ended up selling the domain for an excellent return on investment. I did not realize that domains were as valuable as they are without website content and/or traffic.
Although the ROI was excellent, in retrospect I could have sold it for a lot more money. However, what I didn't get financially I certainly made up for in education. Not only did I learn that domain names were very valuable assets (more valuable than I had previously thought), but I also learned a lot about trademarks, how they work, how to search them and how to file my own. I also learned about cybersquatting and UDRP. This knowledge will probably save me much trouble in the future, as far as registering trademarked domains go.
Since I got the best ROI I have ever made without trying, I decided to try.
I re-invested in domain names, and currently have a portfolio of Canadian gaming domains, as well as some others - such as financial, business and crypto domains. My niche is the Canadian market, although I do have a few dot com's that I recently listed on Dynadot/Afternic/Sedo.
I am currently building a website called Wayne's Domains (waynesdomains.com), complete with escrow.com buttons for checkout to sell aftermarket domains on. The site should be up by the end of the month.
I have been lurking around the DN.ca forum for a few weeks now and really like the fact that it is a Canadian-specific domain name forum. Kudos to the founder for setting it up! There are some great online resources for domainers, and this is certainly one of them.
While I am not one to post very often online, I do look forward to being a part of the community and contributing to it in my own small way.
Thanks for viewing my post!
Cheers!
Wayne
I got into the domain name business by happenstance.
I decided to try my hand at affiliate marketing in the newly regulated Ontario gaming industry and I purchased several relevant domain names and a VPS server to host them on. My goal was to put some useful content on the domains, and let them 'gestate' in the search engines for a few years, and flip the server - including content and domains - for a profit.
One day I received an email from Godaddy stating that someone was interested in purchasing one of my domain names. They didn't say who. I told them I wasn't interested in selling as the domains were for a project, and thanked them for the offer. The Godaddy representative then emailed me back, stating "Everyone has a price. Name yours". I laughed, and didn't think too much of it. Long story short, I ended up selling the domain for an excellent return on investment. I did not realize that domains were as valuable as they are without website content and/or traffic.
Although the ROI was excellent, in retrospect I could have sold it for a lot more money. However, what I didn't get financially I certainly made up for in education. Not only did I learn that domain names were very valuable assets (more valuable than I had previously thought), but I also learned a lot about trademarks, how they work, how to search them and how to file my own. I also learned about cybersquatting and UDRP. This knowledge will probably save me much trouble in the future, as far as registering trademarked domains go.
Since I got the best ROI I have ever made without trying, I decided to try.
I re-invested in domain names, and currently have a portfolio of Canadian gaming domains, as well as some others - such as financial, business and crypto domains. My niche is the Canadian market, although I do have a few dot com's that I recently listed on Dynadot/Afternic/Sedo.
I am currently building a website called Wayne's Domains (waynesdomains.com), complete with escrow.com buttons for checkout to sell aftermarket domains on. The site should be up by the end of the month.
I have been lurking around the DN.ca forum for a few weeks now and really like the fact that it is a Canadian-specific domain name forum. Kudos to the founder for setting it up! There are some great online resources for domainers, and this is certainly one of them.
While I am not one to post very often online, I do look forward to being a part of the community and contributing to it in my own small way.
Thanks for viewing my post!
Cheers!
Wayne
