Domain Names – Picking The Low Hanging Fruit

Low Hanging Fruit

Like any industry or business in its infancy, domaining was jump-started by people and companies picking, selling and developing the low hanging fruit, those most obvious domain opportunities that people now consider legends of a bygone golden era, when supposedly all you had to do is reach up and pluck. Of course we say “obvious” now, but it is far too easy to blow off those early innovators as simply being in the right place at the right time and not credit them as creative geniuses with the moxie that it took to get this ball rolling.

Can you still succeed at domaining?

Domain name investing and domain name sales, domaining if you will, certainly isn’t for everyone. On not-so-wonderful days I can come up with a lot of choice adjectives for many of the behind the scenes research and tedious every day tasks and responsibilities that I contend with. Occasionally I may inwardly cringe or alternatively seethe at some of the inconsistencies I’m faced with in my domaining endeavors.

Bored with Domaining?

Have you ever heard someone say or write about being bored with domaining? I’ve read it, but I don’t get it. That’s like saying the lottery is boring, or that hunting for lost treasure is droll. Seriously, if domaining is boring then you might as well lump advertising, marketing and making money in the same category. Truly, is there any more exciting self-employment opportunity than domain investing, domain monetization and domain name sales? I don’t think so, but buying into the hype machine, positive and negative, has indeed been the downfall of many would be domainers.

Yeah sure, the low hanging fruit may be gone…and you personally may never have the opportunity to hand register a domain name for $8 and sell it for $100,000.  Boo hoo.  Wake up and smell the opportunity.  Just because the ripest, most succulent and sweetest domains were harvested first doesn’t mean there isn’t plenty of good fruit still higher up on the tree.  And the price and demand for them is going up.

Plus, if you pay attention you’ll find that plenty of that previously picked fruit is abandoned in the form of domain drops by early innovators or the disenchanted who underestimated the commitment necessary to succeed at domaining. Good drops are eagerly scooped up by entrepreneurs utilizing monetization methods that the original registrants never even considered or had at their disposal.

Let me leave you with these brief apple facts and an analogy between domains and apples.

Fact 1 :  The largest apple ever picked weighed 3 pounds.

Fact 2:  It takes two pounds of apples to make one 9 inch pie.

My domaining analogy?

It’s simple. You may never pick a 3 pound apple, but gather enough small ones and learn how to bake (develop and monetize your domains) and instead of selling second rate apples, start cashing in on tasty simple to bake pies.

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Apple facts courtesy of Mott’s Inc.

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