Adventures with Sedo

I've spent the last few days completely immersed in the addiction of buying domains & posting them on Sedo.com. While initially a few others like Afternic & Pool.com caught my eye, there's just no comparison. Afternic's inflated prices & supposed "appraisals" are ridiculous, and Pool.com wants 60 buckolas just to register. While I don't rule out listing some things on both of these sites in the future, for now Sedo is the place to begin my venture into the domain speculation business.

First of all the traffic stats of both your parked pages & your Sedo listing views are totally invaluable as far as research goes. Who would even think that some dufases just type random words into their browser instead of a search engine! But this can give you a good idea of whether the term is something already commanding some traffic or not, and whether that extension only seems interesting to domain hoarders, or if it has real present value in the marketplace.

Domain hoarders is my new term for these assholes who seem to have bought up thousands upon thousands of domains just to prevent ordinary folks like you and me from ever having a SHOT at making a big score in the domain name market. Ha! Maybe that's a bit harsh, but heck I'm jealous that they got there before I did. Then you even have nic agencies themselves hoarding their OWN domains, I mean what is up w/ the .tv people? Verisign supposedly paid the Island of Tavula or whatever like 50 million bucks for all these names, or the right to be the broker of them - sounds like getting a license to print money if you ask me. Then they've snatched all the good ones already for themselves, using their ridiculous "Great Domains" website to hock them. Give me a break - totally generic domains like "beach.tv" and "caring.tv" are NOT worth $35K to $75K. They must be living in some kind of parallel universe where the whole dot.bomb thing never happened.