NameTrader.com said:
Kev knows his stuff too people - I was in it before he went strong in it and it was stiff competition like him who were adamantly sniffing out all the good domains right away that got me out of it. It's the truth - it's no longer a non-competitive and treasure-filled niche of domaining.
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Back in 2006/2007, there was only maybe 3/4 avid followers of cctlds on Namepros. We basically controlled the market of cctlds on here. We set the prices high (i.e. min $1500 price tags for poker.ext and casino.ext names) and made some good profits.
Poker pk $2,250 May 06 Afternic
Poker md $2,000 May 05 Sedo
Poker vc $1,655 Apr 06 Afternic
Poker tc $1,575 Apr 06 Afternic
Poker sh $1,500 Apr 06 Afternic
Poker gs $1,500 Apr 05 Afternic
Poker bs $3,600 May 06 Ebay
Poker ug $1,500 Jun 06 Ebay
Now the market is saturated. I check some registrars to see if they have released names every 3 or 4 days and have been doing so since 2006. Ive spent ages trying to translate foreign registrar websites to see when they were allowing registrations. Take .cr as an example. I was up at 4am registering names at $100 a time on a spanish website during their landrush and still only managed to get 6/7 nice one letter names, only to find people like Sam were registering at the same time as me despite no publicity campaign by the NIC or a leak on Namepros.
You've got to be on the ball for cctlds and have years of experience if you want to make money. Typos are a different story all together. I spent $350 on a .com.pe which had no alexa rank and no obvious traffic signs but was a popular site in another country close to Peru. So I went for it. Turned out to have 100,000 uniques/month and made about 8 euros a day and I sold it for $7100. It was just a hunch and it paid off. But Ive spent a lot on really dodgy names aswell.
Im by no means rolling in it. I reckon I will be a millionaire sometime in the future if I play my cards right. $3000 a day is mind-boggling to me and if true, I dont know how you've done it!