Chris.C
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I have been trawling through these forums of late and have been reading a lot about people's investments and plans etc and reflecting on a lot of these posts along with the fact that I'm in the middle of reading a personal development book that spoke about "angry" and if utilise can be a driving force for progress in ones life which got me thinking some of my missed opportunities and regrets.
The two biggest that jump out at me are:
Back in 2007 when I had only recently gone full time with my online ventures I still didn't have an ABN (like a typical young entrepreneur focussed completely on business I was very poorly organised) and I was very much into SEO back then and I had only recently worked out the benefit of exact match domains. So I for shits and giggles started just searching random Australian based domain names (I had never bought an Australia domain at this point) and there were a LOT of available domains - including my favourite "buyviagra.com.au" of course without an ABN I didn't buy any, but it gave me a reason to organise myself and I had an ABN within the month (may have coincided with it being the EOFY) went back to see if the domain was still available but alas someone had picked it up.
It didn't worry me too much at the time because I wasn't a domainer at all back then, I was more focused on website development and AdSense income, but it highlighted the point of being organised and ready to take opportunities. Though I do cringe at the thought of all the wonderful domains that were available back then.
But three years later (July this year) I was finally savvy to the domaining game and had begun looking for Australian based domains, when an employee who I was getting to do research for me stumbled across medical.com.au, medicalsupplies.com.au and medicalequipment.com.au all being available and forwarded me the report, which I read and at the time went "nice domains, I'll by those later" of course later was 4 or 5 days later (turns out I'm still unorganised) I went to buy them and someone had snapped the up 2 days earlier.
*tears*
I learned a very valuable less that day, prioritise priorities. And take action immediately.
Rest assured that after my initial ranting and raving and general self disgust I used that new found angry as my motivation to never let that happen again and worked double time to find and invest in as many quality domains as I could find.
So anyone else have any domaining stories of missed opportunities or regrets? I'd love to hear them.
The two biggest that jump out at me are:
Back in 2007 when I had only recently gone full time with my online ventures I still didn't have an ABN (like a typical young entrepreneur focussed completely on business I was very poorly organised) and I was very much into SEO back then and I had only recently worked out the benefit of exact match domains. So I for shits and giggles started just searching random Australian based domain names (I had never bought an Australia domain at this point) and there were a LOT of available domains - including my favourite "buyviagra.com.au" of course without an ABN I didn't buy any, but it gave me a reason to organise myself and I had an ABN within the month (may have coincided with it being the EOFY) went back to see if the domain was still available but alas someone had picked it up.
It didn't worry me too much at the time because I wasn't a domainer at all back then, I was more focused on website development and AdSense income, but it highlighted the point of being organised and ready to take opportunities. Though I do cringe at the thought of all the wonderful domains that were available back then.
But three years later (July this year) I was finally savvy to the domaining game and had begun looking for Australian based domains, when an employee who I was getting to do research for me stumbled across medical.com.au, medicalsupplies.com.au and medicalequipment.com.au all being available and forwarded me the report, which I read and at the time went "nice domains, I'll by those later" of course later was 4 or 5 days later (turns out I'm still unorganised) I went to buy them and someone had snapped the up 2 days earlier.
*tears*
I learned a very valuable less that day, prioritise priorities. And take action immediately.
Rest assured that after my initial ranting and raving and general self disgust I used that new found angry as my motivation to never let that happen again and worked double time to find and invest in as many quality domains as I could find.
So anyone else have any domaining stories of missed opportunities or regrets? I'd love to hear them.
