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In my opinion, most people here should probably quit domaining right now. By most I mean 95% - 98% people.
You guys must be massively loosing money. Why I think so:
Recently I opened WLTB request, with budget $50-$1000.
What I had to go through: I got ~90 mesages so far. I can responsibly say, that all of them except 1 (from alcy, got bless him!) offered me names which I would describe as domain liabilities. They are certainly not domain investment by any means, and certainly not something I would even register for reg fee. You also sent me lot of names in other extensions then I asked, and you sent me lot of domains way above budget. I am not here to report 90 people, as I would need to spend all my time reporting, but this experience for me as buyer is totally pathetic.
It does not help either that Namepros still do not have top new gTLDs in Top Domain section. I mean, how difficult is to learn after 7 years what top new gTLD is, and accomodate it? Particularly when we have .xyz trend ongoing, so if (whoever is selecting names there) is not expert in new gTLDs, and is in doubt if, lets say, name like crypto.market belongs there, you might still recognise that name like (example again) crypto.xyz can make it there (...why? as it is "trending term crypto", and it is .xyz, and there are already enough reported sales by now to establish that wholesale price is more then 1000 usd. This is really not that difficult). Maybe you already recognise it, I do not know, maybe people stopped submitting their new gTLDs into this section, but whatever it is, you still do not cater for new gTLD buyers in a more inclusive manner as there are no new gTLD names in that section. I know that I stopped submitting my names there long time ago, after years of trying. Just my 2 cents.
Anyway, in general, there are now better opportunities comparing to domains for most of you guys, like NFTs (and blockchain as such). Most of you missed train in .com, and most of you missed train in new gTLDs as well. That is a fact, particularly if you are newer. I do of course understand that we can discuss what "missed train means", but I can assure you you can do 1000x better in crypto areas these days, if you just apply intelectual traits you are using in domaining into NFTs, for example.
If you DMed me names and you do not think they are garbage-ous, and you think I am somehow harsh here, post them and there can be discussion. I would just like to remind that I asked for highest quality new gTLDs and had pretty generous budget (for wholesale transaction at least). I got nothing, and it is total waste of my time and energy. It is also total waste of your time and energy, but you might be unaware of it as of now.
To finish this rant: those were sweet times few years ago when good unique new domain names were obtainable here for $50
You guys must be massively loosing money. Why I think so:
Recently I opened WLTB request, with budget $50-$1000.
What I had to go through: I got ~90 mesages so far. I can responsibly say, that all of them except 1 (from alcy, got bless him!) offered me names which I would describe as domain liabilities. They are certainly not domain investment by any means, and certainly not something I would even register for reg fee. You also sent me lot of names in other extensions then I asked, and you sent me lot of domains way above budget. I am not here to report 90 people, as I would need to spend all my time reporting, but this experience for me as buyer is totally pathetic.
It does not help either that Namepros still do not have top new gTLDs in Top Domain section. I mean, how difficult is to learn after 7 years what top new gTLD is, and accomodate it? Particularly when we have .xyz trend ongoing, so if (whoever is selecting names there) is not expert in new gTLDs, and is in doubt if, lets say, name like crypto.market belongs there, you might still recognise that name like (example again) crypto.xyz can make it there (...why? as it is "trending term crypto", and it is .xyz, and there are already enough reported sales by now to establish that wholesale price is more then 1000 usd. This is really not that difficult). Maybe you already recognise it, I do not know, maybe people stopped submitting their new gTLDs into this section, but whatever it is, you still do not cater for new gTLD buyers in a more inclusive manner as there are no new gTLD names in that section. I know that I stopped submitting my names there long time ago, after years of trying. Just my 2 cents.
Anyway, in general, there are now better opportunities comparing to domains for most of you guys, like NFTs (and blockchain as such). Most of you missed train in .com, and most of you missed train in new gTLDs as well. That is a fact, particularly if you are newer. I do of course understand that we can discuss what "missed train means", but I can assure you you can do 1000x better in crypto areas these days, if you just apply intelectual traits you are using in domaining into NFTs, for example.
If you DMed me names and you do not think they are garbage-ous, and you think I am somehow harsh here, post them and there can be discussion. I would just like to remind that I asked for highest quality new gTLDs and had pretty generous budget (for wholesale transaction at least). I got nothing, and it is total waste of my time and energy. It is also total waste of your time and energy, but you might be unaware of it as of now.
To finish this rant: those were sweet times few years ago when good unique new domain names were obtainable here for $50