Comments on: Lead, Don’t Follow Domain Trends

By: Pat Walker

Pat Walker — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:43:58 +0000

Andrew – Thanks very much for the info on Pizza.com – that really proves that many buyers or maybe most believe what they read
in papers and/or hear thru the grapevine as all being 100 percent true. Also thanks for the Great story – The Last 2 paragraphs are Incredible and I wished I would have known these facts a long time ago…

By: Andrew

Andrew — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:58:38 +0000

Pat – you’re correct. The domain didn’t sell to the original buyer and my understanding is it sold for a lot less.

By: Pat Walker

Pat Walker — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 08:57:12 +0000

This was an excellent story on Pizza.com and
Bankaholic.com and Clearly shows what “Herd Mentality” can cause in “Buying & Selling”.
Pizza.com was listed in many newspapers as being sold for $2.5 dollars – I may be wrong on this but I did earlier research on this and could not find any Clear Evidence that Athe Seller was ever paid for PIZZA.COM.
If this is the case it proves even more how
careless investors will be…

By: ZeRohiLL

ZeRohiLL — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 16:01:40 +0000

You couldn’t be more spot on with this post.

As a new domainer, its easy to “follow the trends” and lose a lot of cash quick.

I think everyone new gets in and thinks this is a get rich quick scheme, but they couldn’t be farther from the real truth of the matter.

It takes time. It takes passion. It takes brains.

Setting a trend is much easier and inexpensive than following a trend and getting behind the true members of our community that set the trends.

By: Lizzy

Lizzy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 12:05:20 +0000

So true.

By: Shlomi k.

Shlomi k. — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 10:14:40 +0000

I totally agree with that, people create your own trends, that where the big money is

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:45:59 +0000

Good tips. Sometimes timing is very important as well but if you are passionate about something…it is only a matter of time before things start happening.

Mike