Domain Name Investing Tips

Are you interested in side hustles?

Jonathan R. Holeton
3 min readAug 14, 2024

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One side hustle many people aren’t aware of is:
Investing in Domain Names/Online Properties.

About 5 or so years ago I sold one of my domains for around $18,000 Canadian and another domain for around $5,000.

I’ll share a few tips for this kind of investing.

Choose domain names that you would genuinely consider using for your own business.

This way, if someone approaches you about purchasing the domain, you can honestly say you’re not eager to sell because you plan to develop it into a business.

Then, you can name your price, making it clear that you’d only part with the domain for a specific amount.

The possible buyer will come back with a lower number than that, and then you can tell them you could sell it for a number closer to their number, and do this negotiating until you the seller, and the buyer are both ok with the number you chose.

I use GoDaddy because I like it and I’m used to it.

How do you choose domain names?

There are a few ways, such as catchy song titles and/or music lyrics.

I also think of popular sayings such as “Catch two birds with one Stone” and reword it in a shorter domain name like twostonedbirds.com or twostonedbirds.io, etc.

That could be a great business for pot products…I will be implementing that into our feature film that’s in development, PotHoles. :)

Every so often, I’ll be struck by inspiration from either a song on the radio in the car or just out of the blue with catchy domain names… if this happens to you as well… make sure to write them down or save them as a note on your computer or cell phone.

For the most part, most of these domains, I think the best ones end with .io, or .com… if it’s an App, .app is good… if you think of a music title or lyric that has the word “me” in it like:
dontforgetabout.me

That’s a cool domain name and business name… I saw that this domain name is selling for C$2,741.22

I don’t usually buy higher-priced domain names like that because I don’t usually have that amount. I usually find different extensions that cost less. For the most part, you can pay around $20 to $50 or so per year, which isn’t that much.

I hope you found this to be helpful advice. :D

Good luck with your investments in online properties/domain names.

Comment below if you have more advice on this matter and/or if you have questions. I’m no expert on this, but I’m learning and like to share what I’m learning.

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Jonathan R. Holeton
Jonathan R. Holeton

Written by Jonathan R. Holeton

#CEO of MindWave Studios Ltd, DriveBuy, Second Nature & VP of BBQ Pic. Love Innovation, Creativity and Enthusiasm. #AI #AR #360video #branding #marketing

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