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Most domain investors focus on names, buyers, pricing, sales. That is where the money is. But there are organizations and policy frameworks operating in the background that can affect whether you actually own what you bought, and whether you can move it when you want to. That matters more than people realize. The question is whether any of these groups actually serve investors in a meaningful way.
March ended up being one of those months where the individual articles were about different things on the surface, but underneath they were all circling the same issue. Clarity. Not tools. Not marketplaces. Not more options. Clarity about what you own, why you own it, what the market is actually telling you, and when it's time to stop protecting a narrative that stopped being true a while ago.
A few weeks ago I launched NotRenewing.com , and I'll be honest. I wasn't totally sure what I was going to get. The premise is simple enough. Every domain investor has names they're not going to renew. That doesn't automatically make those names worthless. Sometimes they don't fit the portfolio anymore. Sometimes the timing's off. Sometimes you're just tired of carrying them.
Patience gets a lot of credit in this industry. You hear it constantly. Hold long enough and the right buyer will come. Good names take time. The best sales are years in the making. And honestly, that's not wrong. Some of the best outcomes I've seen, including ones I've had, came from holding longer than felt comfortable. But I've also held names that had no business being in my portfolio for as long as they were.
Some domain names support a business. Others become the business. That is what makes the journey of David Timmis especially interesting. He founded the company that would become Leasing.com in 2000 and spent years building real traction on the long, descriptive domain ContractHireAndLeasing.com . The business grew, the market matured, and eventually the name caught up with the ambition.
I should know better. And yet I still catch myself making the same mistake. I buy a name that feels right. Clean. Logical. Real industry. Nothing embarrassing about it. I'd show it to another investor and they'd probably nod and say that's a good name. And then it sits. Not because it's bad. Because it's mismatched. That's the thing nobody really talks about when they're honest about their portfolio.
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A generic top-level domain suitable for any internet-based business or presence.
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