Is .net still a good investment? (16.Viewing)

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I purchased three catalogs and inherited hundreds of .net domains. I never set out to own them, they were just part of the catalogs which I cherry picked for the domains I wanted. I made sure to insist on the registrar login credentials when I purchased the catalogs because the last thing I ever wanted to do was renew the domains. This way I have control and can sell them if I get any inquiries.

Well.... Zero, Nadda, Zip, Zilch

Not one inquiry on the domains so I have steadily been giving the domains away. I did not want them to end up on the GoDaddy expiry auction so I gave a ton of them away to whoever would renew them. I found a community in India that was receptive and the count has steadily declined. I refused to do a push because I wanted to make sure the domains actually got renewed which will keep them out of expiry at least another year.

So I figure I will be completely .net free by the end of the year, if I never see another .net again it will be too soon.
 
I remember watching Elementary years ago and there was a website they were researching for a case. It t was a .NET, and the Captain says something like..

"A Dot-NET? .. well, I haven't seen one of those in a while". :LOL: :LOL:
 
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I just checked and out of hundreds of domain acquisition projects Name Ninja has worked on over the last 9-ish years, in only 1 or 2 cases (2 if I am being generous) was the primary domain target a .net. We of course brokered a few more .net acquisitions for brand protection, when the primary target was .com but client also wanted us to get the .net, but only 1-2 projects where the client wanted .net as their primary domain. That being said, I know that domainer Braden Pollock has made many sizeable .net domain sales, mainly one-word .net's, and very ironically the biggest dollar value sale I have ever made from my own small portfolio was an 8 letter, one-word .net domain which I sold for $40k about a decade ago ... to this day I still pinch myself that I sold that domain, no way would anyone buy it for that much in today's market. I always feel like a dodged a bullet with that one, since I paid $5k for it and worried if it would ever sell.
 
I know that domainer Braden Pollock has made many sizeable .net domain sales, mainly one-word .net's,
Shane Cultra was heavy into .Net domains too. He sold them pretty reasonably and was able to flip enough to keep moving unlike Drew who goes for the killing!!!!

and very ironically the biggest dollar value sale I have ever made from my own small portfolio was an 8 letter, one-word .net domain which I sold for $40k about a decade ago ... to this day I still pinch myself that I sold that domain, no way would anyone buy it for that much in today's market. I always feel like a dodged a bullet with that one, since I paid $5k for it and worried if it would ever sell.
Care to mention the name, if it's not too much to ask??
 
I only have 12 .net domains (out of approximately 500 domains). For 9 of those, I also own the .com, so the .net is even less important.

Of the 3 remaining:

tax.net
own.net
spainpoker.net

they're worth renewing, but not worth getting too excited about....
 

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