EggZap

The five stages of Domainer Death!

Denial

I don’t care what Estibot says my domains are Epic!

OMGTHISDOMAINROCKS.com is very cool and some rock band or domain registry will buy this for like 10K

X7W9.com is an awesome 4 letter domain, you cant get these anymore. (only cost me 19.95 on Ebay: 28$ on Bido, 59$ on Snap)

TheGuitars.co.timbuktu is awesome, still cant believe I got that one.

Anger

WTF, Sedo, Afternic, sucks, I cant believe I did not get an offer in the last 9 months.

Bargaining

Crap, only 2 months before I have to renew 40 domains, that’s going to cost me $320.
I better put all this up on Ebay or Bido and get some money back.

Depression

WTF, I cant believe that no one bid on my auction on ebay!
WTF, I can’t believe that no one voted for my domain on Bido!

Acceptance

Screw it, let ‘em expire, I don’t want to pay ebay any more fees, and Bido took too much of my time.

The average sale of a domain on ebay 2$ (often domain lots go for .50 cents a domain)
The average sale of a domain on Bido 62$ (my estimate: of 50 domains listed only 1 gets voted for sale, out of 25 voted for sale, only 1 sells)

I think most domainers start like this, I know I did. The key is to stick with it, don’t spend too much money at once. Set yourself a spending limit and use Estibot as your guide.

Estbot is not 100% accurate and if it says you can sell a domain for 100$, I don’t think that’s going to happen, but as a rule if estibot says its worth less then 200$, I would not waist the money on the domain.)

Once you become an Epic domainer you can bash estibot all you want (a lot do), but think of them as your training wheels, especially in the years of domaining.

Algorithms (Estibot) although not always accurate, are more objective then our brains.