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Old 05-14-2010, 12:06 PM  
PornMD
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I sell domains mainstream. Adult domain sales make up maybe 10% of what I do if that. Besides that occasionally I develop mainstream sites too, but am looking to get more into that especially given the kinds of domains I've been able to add to the portfolio lately. Exact matching term domains that with some content and a bit of time would be shoo-ins for #1 rankings and little/no-work for nice income thereafter.

I've had ideas for grand sites before and still do...a lot of times when I get particular domains, I have a pretty strong idea about what would go on it. One of my somewhat recent bigger sales was ByYou.com...the price I had originally paid for it given I'm a domainer was way too much, but at the time I had the idea of getting another short brandable (the one I targeted at the time was Qool.com but turns out Sedo had erroneously put it into auction when it was no longer for sale, d'oh!) and building a site on it entirely by user vote/survey on what it should be, selection of colors/layouts, etc. Then doing it for another short brandable and so on until a network of sites "By You" were up, running, and popular. Then had a later idea of simply a social network on it given how the subdomains would rock (Videos.ByYou.com, Music.ByYou.com, Blogs.ByYou.com, etc.). I ultimately sold it for a nice profit at a time when I needed the sale.

It's easy to have the ideas, hard to bring reality into them and face what time/money/other resources are needed to make them happen, or worse yet, overcome obstacles like fucking developers flaking out or doing a shitty job, hence why I've stuck with what I'm good at for the most part - buying and reselling domains.
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