Re:Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
by swinnipeg on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @09:26PM
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Read more of his site. He is legit, builds out domains into great products. DudeRanch.com / VidaliaOnions.com. His onion business blog posts are great, and provide real insight into his approach.
I consider the extra domains he is selling to just be table stakes. You buy the domain, have big ideas, but then realize your time is better spent on another project.
Re:Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
by eightturn on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @05:25PM
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author here. I sell onions on the internet. does that qualify? Check out my homepage for other developed domain projects.
Re:Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
by JasonCEC on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:30PM
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And damn good onions to boot. I'm a very happy customer.
Re:Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
by kovacs on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @11:07PM
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Just got this year's 10lb box about a week ago or so. He does old school postcard mailers to remind you the upcoming season is arriving. Nice way to cut through the noise. It worked on me.
Re:Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
by eightturn on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:14PM
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many many thanks for your business, kovacs. Postcards FTW! -Peter
Re:Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
by eightturn on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @05:13PM
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thanks a ton for the business, Jason.. it means a lot. -Peter
Re:Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
by christopoulos on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @08:24PM
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Depends if you have the ISellOnions.com website...
Re:Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
by csa on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @10:06PM
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Even better... he has vidaliaonions.com.
Re:Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
by sebastiangraef on Tuesday May 19, 2020 @11:14PM
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He has onions.com
Re:Want to build a side business? buy a great domain name
by ackbar03 on Wednesday May 20, 2020 @03:21AM
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Hang on... Does he run that news network channel on YouTube as well?
Of the examples he gave – ComputerCamp.com, ShippingSupply.com, KobeBeef.com, CameraBag.com, Pacifiers.com, ZoysiaGrass.com, SouthernCookbook.com, Ziplines.com, CannedHam.com, SexyBastard.com – every one of them except ShippingSupply is a parked domain, spam site, or fails to resolve. Since the article is from January 2017, it seems like the average price of $5388 that people paid at auction for the 9 unproductive sites has been wasted for the last 3+ years.
As far as I can tell, his business is buying and selling domain names. (ShippingSupply, although it looks real enough, does not belong to the author; he writes "sell shipping supplies [is] exactly what this buyer did".) I can believe that the author has a profitable business doing what he does (buying & selling domains), but the artilce does not convince me that building a business around nice-sounding but arbitary domain names with no expertise in that business is a good idea. It doesn't seem like he's doing that.