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Renew or Drop

by Escalante
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I had this stupid idea about building a travel site. Lace it with affiliate offers.

thingstodos.com

I thought it would be a good key word domain. Never did anything with it.
It has gotten 800 hits with parking. Estibot is $60.

What do you do with this?

Drop it
Renew
List at flippa
#drop #renew
  • Profile picture of the author Rich Struck
    thingstodo.com would be good
    thingstodos.com uh, not so good.

    Unless you are really gung-ho about it I'd let it drop. It's really not a very good domain.
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  • Profile picture of the author WebRank1
    Create a desktop app that will allow the user to create a to-do list that they can sync with a web based version that syncs with their smart phones.
    Create revenue, run it for 1,5 years and put it up for sale

    All kidding aside, if you have no concrete plans with it I would just drop it because with the flippa fees and all you are going to lose money
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    • Profile picture of the author Dan C. Rinnert
      There may be some people still using DOS. Maybe you could offer a service to convert modern tech into something they can use under MS-DOS.

      That could be cool.

      Then, you'd call it ThingsToDOS.com, and people would be like, wow! I never knew that existed!

      And then you could possibly find someone who still believes in "DOS Forever!" and wants to keep hope alive, and might possibly buy the site from you for a couple hundred bucks.
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  • Profile picture of the author ajrocks
    Drop it for sure.
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    • Profile picture of the author Escalante
      Thanks for the honest insight.

      It made $ .63 parked on google adwords domains.

      Lesson Learned!
      Dropped!
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  • Profile picture of the author DireStraits
    Originally Posted by Escalante View Post

    I had this stupid idea about building a travel site. Lace it with affiliate offers.

    thingstodos.com

    I thought it would be a good key word domain. Never did anything with it.
    It has gotten 800 hits with parking. Estibot is $60.

    What do you do with this?

    Drop it
    Renew
    List at flippa
    The domain, to me, doesn't come across as though it has the potential to fetch much more than reg-fee, if sold (and that's if you can even find an interested buyer).

    And I don't believe the 800 hits it's had (over the course of an entire year?) are necessarily indicative of any further, intrinsic potential (where did they even come from? It seems unlikely they'd just be from intentional type-ins?). How much you can earn from it, essentially, would be dependent on how much effort you put into it, and what you do with it.

    And if you're not going to do much with it, then I see no point in renewing it.

    Your call, in the end. I know that given the low-cost of domains these days, many people are reluctant to part with any they've registered, even if they have zero intention of doing anything with them; but I guess it just depends on whether you can afford it and whether hoarding domains is of any interest to you.

    I've recently let a few decent exact-match-keyword domains expire which I felt had the potential to sell for a little more than reg-fee, but to be honest I just couldn't be bothered with the hassle and had no intention of ever doing anything with them.

    Sometimes the whole malarky of hoarding domains "just in case" (in case they ever become valuable; just in case you decide to do something with them; just in case someone, for some reason, decides to offer you a crazy sum for them) reminds me a little bit of those people who never throw anything away in their homes - "just in case - what's the harm?" - and end up, years later, sitting on a huge steaming pile of cockroach-infested garbage that actually has been (or begins) costing them dearly.
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    • Profile picture of the author Escalante
      Originally Posted by DireStraits View Post

      The domain, to me, doesn't come across as though it has the potential to fetch much more than reg-fee, if sold (and that's if you can even find an interested buyer).

      Sometimes the whole malarky of hoarding domains "just in case" (in case they ever become valuable; just in case you decide to do something with them; just in case someone, for some reason, decides to offer you a crazy sum for them) reminds me a little bit of those people who never throw anything away in their homes - "just in case - what's the harm?" - and end up, years later, sitting on a huge steaming pile of cockroach-infested garbage that actually has been (or begins) costing them dearly.
      Its a mind game. I catch myself thinking about ideas to build on crap domains just so i wont have to admit its a crap domain.

      Waisting energy on my loosers vs building my winners.
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