Geofavor:
@ y'all squadhelp gurus and fellow learners,

do you bother adding description when you submit your names for review or you only add description if the name is accepted? Do you think the acceptability of a name is partly a function of its description?

If the domain is from a registrar that they don't own account with and still under transfer lock it will be rejected.

Merry Christmas! May this Yuletide season bring us all more fulfillment, fruitfulness... And of course, more sales!





Some name ideas from my SquadHelp rejected list:

Simpsonrocket:

If the domain is from a registrar that they don't own account with and still under transfer lock it will be rejected.

Which registrars do they own an account with?

Hello house..
My afternic acct got suspended because i didnt verify that i own the name i listed..
I then took a screenshot of the domain in my portfolio and sent to
Service@afternic.com since on monday the account has not been restored..
My question is how long does it take

[quote author=EGUNSOLA14 post=85196161] that's why I quoted that to bypass the 2% on luno, you must familiar yourself very well with the platform and not untill you do that please don't try it. Thanks so much

Merry Christmas family.

What will be the next option if a buyer want to buy a domain listed on Dan and its still under 60days lock with 123reg. Bosses in the house what should I do?

Season greetings from all of us at Epik Nigeria

May this festive season sparkle and shine, may all of your wishes and dreams come true, and may you feel this happiness all year round. Merry Christmas!

#Compliment of the season
#Epik season greetings
#Epik Nigeria

cdor777:
Season greetings from all of us at Epik Nigeria

May this festive season sparkle and shine, may all of your wishes and dreams come true, and may you feel this happiness all year round. Merry Christmas!

#Compliment of the season
#Epik season greetings
#Epik Nigeria

No Xmas promo for epik?

Merry Christmas Fellas....

Oya lemme do a small Appreciation Post


It's been an Amazing year. 2019 was a good year for me in the domain biz and I'll give God all the Glory for the milestones achieved. I know I'm not the only one and many booses in the biz and newbies has some taste of successes too. It can only be God that made all those possible.

Well to round up the year I'll be doing a brief review on my domaining journey this year and what i learnt. (This will basically be in the Brandable names space as i am more a brandable name investor and analyst than any other type of domain names category.) i hope someone might be willing to come up and do same for geo names space and share some experience too so that everyone can learn.


Honorary thanks to the bosses in the house for keeping this thread alive with motivational guides, sharing from their wealth of knowledge and experience and answering all the questions asked here (Believe me your contributions has been of immense help to many)

Special Thanks to Mr Iykepromotions the Converner / Initiator and Founder of this thread. Sir your contributions has blessed many lives and helped many Nigeria youths find a path in the online wealth space (Many are doing a Legitimate business online because of you sir)

To all the other bosses i don't want to mention names, your contributions has made significant impact and will continually do. Just know that you're changing lives with each contribution you make on this thread. Thank you Sir's


To all the newbies (Thank you for for skeptical hard questions continually asked here, i hope many learnt well this year and i believe next year will be a step to another level. Most importantly be humble and teachable(Staying appreciative is key to faster learning), you guys will become bosses too someday. Some are already are pros sef, I've observed some successes obtained and it can only get better.

For those who didn't have a great year, don't worry next year is for you. The world will hear your success story soon as you are next in line.


All in All, i appreciate God Almighty for the strength of steel he has granted us along the way through the ups and downs, disappointment and frustrations, successes and smiles. It has been God all the way.

Thank you Everyone.

Peace

Please house, how long does it take squadhelp to approve names?

ajog1:
Please house, how long does it take squadhelp to approve names?

Depends.
Just chill, las las it's either they accept it or reject it

Teekzel:
What will be the next option if a buyer want to buy a domain listed on Dan and its still under 60days lock with 123reg. Bosses in the house what should I do?

Ask opens account with them (123reg), or he waits 60days for auth code

beckplanet:
Merry Christmas Fellas....

Oya lemme do a small Appreciation Post


Peace

Much respect sir.
The house will forever be grateful for all the contributions.

Enjoy the holidays.
And we all pray for a better year in the business!

beckplanet:
Merry Christmas Fellas....

Oya lemme do a small Appreciation Post


It's been an Amazing year. 2019 was a good year for me in the domain biz and I'll give God all the Glory for the milestones achieved. I know I'm not the only one and many booses in the biz and newbies has some taste of successes too. It can only be God that made all those possible.

Well to round up the year I'll be doing a brief review on my domaining journey this year and what i learnt.
Thank you Everyone.

Peace

Boss, you did not say anything about the coloured part.

Heyzee5:

Boss, you did not say anything about the coloured part.

Lol, Read carefully boss statement is a future tense with will (i.e I'll) in it. Meaning I'm working to put things together.

Don't worry I'll drop it when it's ready. On the next post

Peace

Geofavor:

The reason why I'm asking is not domaining related. Just wanna know which is the best way to receive money from someone abroad ( US/Europe/Asia) at the moment, and how the sender processes it.
I thought some of us here might have an experience with that.

It is still same thing. I am guessing you are asking for freelance purpose.

Geofavor:

Which registrars do they own an account with?

Im sure of GoDaddy, dynadot, maybe namesilo. My 123-reg Domain was rejected a couple of time but was approved after the transfer lock was over.

Teekzel:
What will be the next option if a buyer want to buy a domain listed on Dan and its still under 60days lock with 123reg. Bosses in the house what should I do?

Tell buyer to open an account with 123reg so you can push domain to him. Then inform Dan of this process. After domain has been successfully pushed, inform buyer to confirm with Dan via email and inform Dan also to confirm. Ciao

Teekzel:
What will be the next option if a buyer want to buy a domain listed on Dan and its still under 60days lock with 123reg. Bosses in the house what should I do?

Tell the buyer if he cares to receive the domain under 123-reg . You I'll explain to him that it is under lock and he can move it when the lock is over to his preferred registrar. If he accepts, tell him to create an account with them, make payment in Dan and you push the domain to him. tell him to acknowledge the receipt of the domain with Dan so they'll release your money.

pwetie:


Sweet name. List @Afternic, Sedo, dan and of course epik for $1999+ or make offer. Prepare to do waiting game and possible renewals. The only draw back is d 3 words...but d power word "get" should suffice.

The stuff nor gree me list on afternic ooo

My account barred

GLO BULK AIRTIME FOR SALE!!!

I have 50k worth of Glo airtime for sale at extremely cheap price. If anyone is interested, you can go through my nairaland profile and posts to know how legit I am.

My contact is on my signature.

IdeasPro:


My big friend, I wrote that post based on real life examples. I have been in every legitimate online business since 2007. Now on some ocassions between 2010 and 2012, I almost lost 3 to 4 sales on domain names I didn't intend to renew. Just out of the blue, end users came to me asking to buy these domains and the sales were successfully closed.

The domain investing can be trickish to undiscerning minds. This was why I devised an angle to domain name investing that produces thousands of dollars in profits every time I buy domain name to resell. My advice to everyone is NOT TO GIVE UP. Learn on the job and begin to evolve your own domain strategy. It is difficult to teach and learn everything in one course.

Just few years ago, I bought a course in domain investing and I discovered a simple way to quickly find and register keyword domain names. I was amazed what the whites know that we don't. Since then, I always assume I don't know anything and buy every course to tap into new knowledge and tactics in buying and selling domain names.

The high dose of grace will really work like charm for you when you have the right product for a willing and able buyer.

Well stated, sire.

By the way, I don sharpaly tap the domain name material in your siggy. Sharp village man like moi. Thanks for sharing.

mayorj:


Hello UI,

Congratulations on your sales! $8.49 is the regular price for .com for now. Do well to check https://www.epik.com/promos/
for promotional pricing. Also check this: https://registrar.epik.com/prices/registration/toplevel

Happy Christmas and a Glorious year ahead!

EpikNigeria.
Facebook page: epiknigeria
twitter: @epiknigeria

I claimed the 'sales' in Jesus' name. I didn't report any.

Thanks for the info, though.

My Domaining Experience 2019


Well i started this year 2019 with lots of anticipation and expectations having a feeling that time was ripe for me to start earning like a boss after some rough experience, in depth researches and learning process, accumulating knowledge here and there and making some really crazy investments into building a portfolio. It there is one thing that i do really well in this business, that is reinvesting heavily into my portfolio each time i make a sale.
This I see as a sacrifice as i treats domaining as my self owned business.

Example of the aforementioned :
Let's say i sold a name for $399 at Dan and after commissions deducted I'm left with a net proceed of $340 then after bitcoin conversations (339 x 355 = #120,245)
This is a rough estimate an might not be constant due to changes and fluctuations in the exchange market.
Let's see after the sale my net proceed is 120k i wouldn't mind reinvesting at least 70k back to purchasing/registrating new names and upgrading my portfolio.

Hence i started 2019 with a portfolio at around 300 names (heavily helped by the networksolutions promo period)
*My portfolio was Mostly hand regs picked from expireddomains (note because by now with 6 years of Domaining experience i now know what to reg to some extent)
*Again my portfolio was Mostly made up of Brandable names. This is largely because i fancied the niche more than geo niche or any other niche in the industry and this is down to my creative side of making names and i see coming up with brand / made up names more as a hobby than a trade. It was something i enjoyed doing. And having admired the successes of people like Keith de boer, AbdulBasit and Doron at namepros. There talents and craft in the brandable niche together with the knowledge from written articles by them inspired me to focus fully on the brandable space rather than Other domain name categories/types.

* Finally, starting 2019 i had accounts with Brandbucket and Brandpa as little was known about Squadhelp. With 25names at Brandbucket at that time and 40 at Brandpa.

Most of my names were listed at Afternic and Dan pointed to Undeveloped now DAN.

with little successes from Godaddy / Sedo and didn't bother much about listing there.

Hence the Journey began.......Next post coming soon...

Peace

beckplanet:
My Domaining Experience 2019


Well i started this year 2019 with lots of anticipation and expectations having a feeling that time was ripe for me to start earning like a boss after some rough experience, in depth researches and learning process, accumulating knowledge here and there and making some really crazy investments into building a portfolio. It there is one thing that i do really well in this business, that is reinvesting heavily into my portfolio each time i make a sale.
This I see as a sacrifice as i treats domaining as my self owned business.

Example of the aforementioned :
Let's say i sold a name for $399 at Dan and after commissions deducted I'm left with a net proceed of $340 then after bitcoin conversations (339 x 355 = #120,245)
This is a rough estimate an might not be constant due to changes and fluctuations in the exchange market.
Let's see after the sale my net proceed is 120k i wouldn't mind reinvesting at least 70k back to purchasing/registrating new names and upgrading my portfolio.

Hence i started 2019 with a portfolio at around 300 names (heavily helped by the networksolutions promo period)
*My portfolio was Mostly hand regs picked from expireddomains (note because by now with 6 years of Domaining experience i now know what to reg to some extent)
*Again my portfolio was Mostly made up of Brandable names. This is largely because i fancied the niche more than geo niche or any other niche in the industry and this is down to my creative side of making names and i see coming up with brand / made up names more as a hobby than a trade. It was something i enjoyed doing. And having admired the successes of people like Keith de boer, AbdulBasit and Doron at namepros. There talents and craft in the brandable niche together with the knowledge from written articles by them inspired me to focus fully on the brandable space rather than Other domain name categories/types.

* Finally, starting 2019 i had accounts with Brandbucket and Brandpa as little was known about Squadhelp. With 25names at Brandbucket at that time and 40 at Brandpa.

Most of my names were listed at Afternic and Dan pointed to Undeveloped now DAN.

with little successes from Godaddy / Sedo and didn't bother much about listing there.

Hence the Journey began.......Next post coming soon...

Peace

following

Hence the journey began continuation.....
Hence with a portfolio of 300 names the journey commenced in 2019.


January :
2019 began with 7 sales in January from Afternic

Sold names like

Hempita dot com $299
Herbalbaba dot com $199
BuildLuxe dot com $150
Gildchain dot com $199
Robotionary dot com $150
Fiatluxe Dot com $195
Nutricoins dot com $399 (maybe because of the crypto craze)


Netted around $1800 from sales in this month from afternic and few other sales from namepros auction sales.
January Verdict : January was by far my best month so far in terms of turn over but not profit. Some of the sales maybe inspired by start ups starting the year with fresh ideas or acquiring a name for there upcoming businesses.


February :

Had 3 sales in February 2 at afternic one at Dan

HempCircus dot com $250
Hollandlabs dot com $200

Oscarautosales dot com $125 (@DAN)

February Verdict : I noticed a continuous interest and demand in CBD/Hemp names due to the growing popularity of the cannabis industry but unfortunately i had few names in that space hence my interest increased as I monitored the space.

Net proceed for February : $575


March

Had 4 sales in March at afternic and 2 major sales at namepros through selling 2 BB published names to brandable investors


SwiftRestore dot com $750
Mediaviser dot com $350
Duratoken dot com $250 (BB published name sold at namepros)
Duracurrency dot com $100 (BB published name sold at namepros)

March Verdict :
Pretty a solid month considering a slight rise in price of sales. Started building a squadhelp portfolio in this month.

Net proceed for March : $1450

April

Lol April was a quite month no sales at major marketplaces. Accept a few namepros sales as i already built a strong network of domain investor friends there. So i sold a bulk portfolio of 10 BP(Brandpa) accepted name for $250 mind you this was when Brandpa names was in demand not anymore and another bulk of 10 Brandbucket accepted names for $200

April Verdict :

Really a slow month but i still managed to make a turn over to steady the ship. And liquidated roughly 25 names at namepros for $500 in total.

Net proceed for April : $500

May :

May was blank inside and out as i reduced my activity in Domaining to focus on other issues of life majorly on a program i was working on. Though i manage to have one sale at Dan for a geo name i almost forgot exist in my portfolio.

Net proceed for May : $150

June :

I returned back to business in June. Had a few unlucky offers $1500 and another $750 where buyer disappeared after i agreed to their offer. Well i move on.

Had 2 sales in June at afternic

Digitlytic dot com $ 350
Suitefy dot com $799

Verdict for June

Well a few disappointments but it was all good the sales made up for the loss.

Net proceed for June : $1150




July

3 sales in July.
July hit me with 2 major sales in brandable marketplaces and a sale at afternic


Kanibi dot com $1700 (Brandpa)

SavvyCBD dot com $1799 (Squadhelp)

Advviser dot com $300 (Afternic)


July Verdict
July became the strongest month for me in net profit as i also sold names at namepros too, to domain name investors.

Net proceed for July $4200


August

August was fairly good month too and strong month from afternic at i sold 4 names there and a further 2 names sold at Dan.

Exolytics dot com $350
CbdsupplyUSA dot com $305
HealthViser dot com $795
CBDpura dot com $400
Remedycleaning dot com $50
Gracefinancialservices dot com $350



August Verdict :

In one word "Strong August".

Net proceed for August $2250



September

September was pretty good as August with one major brandable marketplace sale at squadhelp and 2 afternic sales

Apexster dot com $1799 (Squadhelp)
RipeCoin dot com $350 (Afternic)
NeuroArmor dot com $300

September verdict :
September was nice as August

Net proceed for August : $2450


October :

October was fairly quite at afternic though i managed to have a sale there. And a couple of low sales at epik as i was trying out there bargain marketplace

NexaCBD dot com $1400 (Afternic)
ChimpHero dot com $79 (Epik)
CBDtraffic dot com $79 (Epik)
FuturePays dot com $79 (Epik)

October Verdict :
Well October surprised me with surprise sales. But it was all good as a learnt a few things like tasting epik out and then pointing more names there although I've not heard from epik again after then. But a few offers and nothing more.

Net proceed for October : $1670


November :

2 sales in November at afternic

KeepSwift dot com $350
Blockvera dot com $495


November verdict : Fairly good month.

Net proceed for November : $845

December

Ongoing though 2 sales so far at afternic

Drcanna dot Co $295

Kreditwallet dot com $150 (well i don't like typos or mispelt names and was surprised this name sold. With my wealth of knowledge in this niche i will pass on this name if i have the chance to register it today. Creditwallet is definitely a better name)

December Verdict : slow month and not what i expected as resulting to my portfolio growth so far in the last quarter of the year. But generally all good as some couple of sales happened regardless.

Net so far in December : $450


Conclusion :

In conclusion i had in total of 37 major marketplace sale from a portfolio that started the year with 300 names that roughly more than 10% sales through rate and judging from a sales point of view the sale ratio is impressive considering all the sales are mostly from passive sales (inbound) and i had little work to do as to how to sale the names but much work to do as to how and what name to buy/register.

Fact stat : Afternic was the strongest sales venue for me racking up close to 90% of my portfolio sales.

Hence
Total names sold : 37 name
Total Net proceed : $17,335
Net profit after commission deduction : $13,000
Investment amount : Roughly $1000 (Due to netsol promo)
Further Investment was made after sales. To close up for names dropped and renewals plus acquiring new names.

Current portfolio size : 525 names

Squadhelp portfolio currently : 105 names ( 5 of those belongs to squadhelp while the other 100 are owned by me)
Brandpa portfolio size currently : 30 names
Brandbucket portfolio currently : 7 names

Although I'm looking to build a Brandbucket portfolio again but that will be pretty hard considering their length of review time. I currently have names there submitting for review for 4 weeks and counting.
Brandpa has not lived up to the hype although i managed to renew a few names there to give them another year and see what happens.

What i have learnt this year :

Making better decisions while registering or buying names. Instead of registering shopavio dot com or shopically dot com for cheap I'd rather got for shopsy dot com and pay more. In Domaining the more Quailty your names the better. I learnt this the hard way and I'm now gradually making better judgment in what i add to my portfolio and what to evict.

Renewal times gives you a better idea of whether you have good names or not. Don't ask me how it's better you experience it yourself and learn.

I still sucks at pricing names and still have alot to learn in negotiating and closing a deal. Although I'm learning gradually.

Namepros is still a great place to start as a newbie. Nairaland also a vital tool to hear and pick invaluable experience from fellow countrymen.

Lastly with God all things are possible.


I hope you learnt a thing or two from my experience.

2020 will be great for Everyone.

Peace

What a great peace of journey

Simpsonrocket:

Im sure of GoDaddy, dynadot, maybe namesilo. My 123-reg Domain was rejected a couple of time but was approved after the transfer lock was over.

I have 2 domains approved and hand regged, they ain't up to a week old.

Registrer doesn't matter as long it's a name they think is good for them.

Ramon92:
I have 2 domains approved and hand regged, they ain't up to a week old.

Registrer doesn't matter as long it's a name they think is good for them.

I personally believe registrar ain't a deciding factor for acceptance too.
SH clearly know the average time for sale on their platform is 6months, so u see they won't consider registrar factor.

Just keep learning and improving ur brandable skills and keep submitting. It will be better for us all

beckplanet:
Hence the journey began continuation.....
Hence with a portfolio of 300 names the journey commenced in 2019.


Peace

Wow! This is a great achievement boss. I will maintain focus on geo domains for now and I look forward to increasing my portfolio size to over 200 names from the current 54 in the coming year. I pray the Lord helps me to accomplish this. But why do you target investors in your pricing? The majority of the names you sold on Afternic look like they could have sold for much more to end-users!!

Avast:


What a great peace of journey

Hi. Please kindly edit your last post. There is no point quoting beckplanet's entire post. It makes scrolling hard. Thanks.

beckplanet:
Hence the journey began continuation.....

First of all, I want to show appreciation for this wonderful write up, indeed only a few will take their time to provide this information.

I've always been a fan of ur post, thou u are not a regular 'poster', but whenever u make one its very educative and beneficial.

Indeed u have had a wonderful 2019 with almost 5mill naira net gains from what i believe is your side hustle. It's wonderful indeed considering most of the sales are inbound as you mentioned.

Also, I believe you everybody that reads this with a mind of understanding will benefit from at least one thing, and if he integrates it properly, will gain practically from it.

what I learn from ur post...
Your brandable journey has also given me hope that the time i invest on learning brandables lately is not going to be a waste God's Willing. I hardly register or outbound recently cos of my inclination to studying brandables. From my little experience, indeed it's not easy coming up with brandables whether u are using tools or just cracking ur brain to do that, so Kudos to u for the excellent job well done.

If i have any question it will be,
1.What is the AVERAGE hold time for the whole sale u made in 2019?

2. % of outbound sales?

3. % of non handreg

4. Any special method of selling to investors? And do u only sale names on NP u don't feel like renewing or u sale anytime u feel like doing so?


I hope u won't mind addressing the questions.

Congratulations! And more sales to us all!