Ever Buy Domains then Let them Rot?

[Bloggeries]

I do it all the time and I have to stop so I thought I'd rant about it.

Just recently I bought one for $150 and I haven't even put it online yet. Sigh.

Anyone else?

[MarketLeverage]

I haven't ever purchased one for that much! I went to a domain auction at the T.R.A.F.F.I.C show last month and I saw some domains sell for a lot of money. Ones that you wouldn't think would be worth money went for a few thousand bucks.

Do you re-sell your domains or hang on to them?

[Bloggeries]

I'd like to resell or build them. I just buy them then forget. The one I paid $150 for isn't the best domain in the world but it's from 1997 and I always wanted an 1990's domain lol.

[Sneakyheathen]

I always build on them. Why buy a domain and not use it?

[Bloggeries]

@Corey - It's not on purpose. I'm just really more ambitious then practical sometimes I guess. I have a great idea but it never gets off the ground type deal.

[CountryBoy]

No, I never do. I'm too tight to spend the registration fee and then not bother using them!

[MarketLeverage]

There are parking services that you can make money from. You may want to check them out if you don't plan on building a website anytime soon.

[sukosaki]

I have too many and yes there are about 5 with projects "in mind", but it's cheap enough to hold on to until I have time.

[Skolor]

I've never done anything quite like that. I did buy a domain at one point and the concept for it never got on the ground.

Since it wasn't going to work I did the only sensible thing- threw blog software on it, grabbed a theme designed for SEO, shoved Adsense, PW and EC on it (EC to get some minimum traffic going), and then paid someone $10 to write a handful of posts on whatever they thought fit the domain. Set them to go up once a week for the next month, and it more or less paid for itself that way.

[Katalina]

Skolor, Nice idea! I'll have to try that on a few of my domains! See if it works.

I buy domains all the time that I have some great idea for, and then they sit. I think I have more ideas than I have time!

I tend to buy cheap domains in lots, just made a bid over at DP for 34 domains. Don't know what I was thinking, but fortunately I have already been outbid!