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My advice is to put in a delete request and take the loss, and never register trademark domains again.

Drop them, delete them, or uncheck auto-renewal. These are trademark domains and will never sell unless they have traffic and revenue, and someone willing to take the risk. But, a lot of places prohibit the sale of TM domain names, so it's hard to find that buyer... you have to know who is into it and get in touch with them directly, The best you'll probably get for them is $20... the worst is a C&D and possible lawsuit if they're parked.

For the most part, it is. I have a couple domains that make $20/month, but it's nowhere near the $100/mo some EMDs could make before. I park to gauge traffic first, then go deeper to analyze the traffic to see how I can best utilize it. Or, I keep it parked because it just makes sense. One domain I recently moved out of parking to a forum isn't doing so great as a forum because it put it in content safe search on Google, and it was making $25-30/mo. I'm pulling a domain from parking that makes $1/mo (if that), but cost 4x ($4000) to own, and putting this one back into parking (it paid off itself and others throughout my ownership) to see if it does better, after I use it for a month 301 redirecting. I'll take lowball offers sometimes because it's what I need to break even due to reg fees on the rest. Otherwise, I'd have to contemplate cutting 10 domains that could sell for thousands or I won't profit at all. You gotta do what you gotta do to stay in business with domain name investing, even if that means taking an ego hit on a name or two here and there for the larger payout later. Renewal on 100 domains = $1000. You could easily have one domain that a business really wants and sell it for $10,000 to cover domain fees for a decade on the other 100 (or reinvest in 10 good ones) . You can easily see how 1000 domains can work out, for as long as you stand firm, and, sometimes teach them that the domain they want will be a value proposition to them no matter the cost. Sometimes you'll get what you ask, and sometimes you'll meet in the middle. Either way, if you manage the profit right, you have a portfolio that will be profitable. My last "big" sale was $400 to $7000, but I went lower because I saw the potential in what they were doing and asked for a premium-level account, no matter if they made another offering at a higher level, I'd get too, in perpetuity. Checking up on it, it looks like they made an Enterprise account with an API, which I cannot access. So, I'm checking in on that. Good thing I have email records, because this could go to court for the name back with the cash still in my pocket. I had to contact support just now and it looks like they know what they have to do. :p [ATTACH type=full" alt="1731974995604.webp]433[/ATTACH] Edit: Looks like my "trial period" ends in 20 years now. I'm sure they had to do it this way because they use a merchant for subscriptions, which my account does not go through.

I almost broke 10,000 domains (com, net, org, no cheap or freebies 99 cent xyzs) quite a few years ago, but I'm sitting under 1000 now, trimming the fat and selling way below asking to break even, as renewals were getting to me even with $1000~ sales. First park them. I would suggest Bodis. This can reveal if they make enough in the year to renew them. If they can make renewal fees, no reason to get rid of them when you can slap a $5000 price tag on them. If they don't get renewal, but still traffic, forward them to a project that you want traffic to go to with [iCODE]?utm_source=thedomain.com[/iCODE] affixed to it so that you can see if they convert on the project. Then, evaluate the conversion cost to see if $10/yr is worth it to renew as you could get 3 members a year from one domain, which could arguably be worth the $3.33 you "paid" for it.

I'm a domain name investor so my answer to this will be bias and on my anecdotes of turning $100s into $1000s buy buying and selling .coms to the most suitable buyer. .com is king.

I don't get the Deal?

Every now and then when I'm out grocery shopping, I'll buy 1000 yen of scratchers, or 5. I typically "win" 500-800 yen, but have had times I walked with nothing. One day will make up for it with the 1,000,000 yen prize (about $10,000) as each booth has a winning ticket at all times. I think they just replace the rolls/randomize them when someone wins. Obviously, the odds are still stacked from the beginning, and even more when they rotate out.

Did he have an e-tool? I think he dug with something else, but can't recall. [ATTACH type=full" size="380x380]408[/ATTACH]

An e-tool as it can also serve as a knife, weapon for hunting, and assist with shelter building, and a pan. Then I have food, shelter, and purified water covered as I could make fire one way or another.

I know I'm going to regret this... but Deal. Let's see what's in case 19 though.

Maybe I'm just a complete whackjob here. But, here it goes... What if OpenAI is pushing or manufacturing these trends to become popular? It reminds me of the previous prompt of something along the lines of, "Tell me something I don't know about myself," which was "liked" by Sam Altman. When we paste our results, OpenAI bot can now connect it to the username on this forum as it understands the context of the thread, which links it to other forums and can likely determine without certainty of a doubt that even if you use a different name, it's still you by the writing style. Now, they know 10 times more than they previously knew. 🤯

[ATTACH type=full" size="1792x1024]404[/ATTACH] That's eerie. It nailed everything, even the guitar. I put down the guitar after I tried to learn it, but wouldn't mind having a Gibson or something on display. I'm coding, and working on my website. It showcases my interest in music. It nailed my Oakley frames, which I don't use unless I'm at the gym (otherwise clear Ray-Bans). It got my beard and hairstyle right (a little shorter with a #1 fade). Except, I'm a little more muscular than that. I have pens because I write down my to-do lists as opposed to using a spreadsheet or something. I'm going to have to say that they have access to Pegasus and can see me through my webcam now. 🤣

I'm pissed off at myself because I didn't stay up till 5 AM to snipe an auction. I put in a proxy bid and it went over, but would've loved to chase it to see if it'd ever exceed my maximum. I snipe over putting in my max for a proxy bid cause I don't trust companies to not bid against you in auctions.

3, 6, 8, 14, 18

I started when I learned about domain investing, and the secondary market just so happened to be the strongest on forums.

It's too damn hot.

Open cases: 1, 2, 9, 13, 17

Alternatively, you could possibly make an Article thread type and the discussion tab's first post would be the full article (so it stays at top). That way they can still read it. But I don't know the implications of that as far as duplicate content goes.

4, 7, 11, 15, 20

If you're going to disable comments, I'd attempt a template edit that is really a "reply" macro (I'd need to check if the reply is a macro) and have it reply to the associated thread id, redirecting them to the last post (theirs). Pretty sure this is achievable, but I don't have an up to date AMS. If anyone is interested in something like that when I open my next forum in the following weeks, that relies on AMS as a main driver of traffic, I'll post the template edits.

You don't need to enable that feature. You can have a standalone blog without it. Bob just programs in line with 1st party add ons, which if you look at XFRM, allows for commenting and discussing.

Case 19

I'm in

I still haven't received the files. If you sent them, could you try to resend them? Might've missed an "S" or something.

This is what a dev board is for (duplicate accounts for testing as well as signing up new accounts to ensure functionality of that didn't break). You should have 2 instances at all times and copy/paste the files over after an upgrade to test new add ons and compatibility before upgrading them as they can, and often do, break things. Better to test them out on a dev than have to roll back. Such a waste of time. Sometimes, add ons do work, but you just haven't tested them enough to see, which kind of sucks. I had a recent add on that looked promising, tested it out, and it was working on the dev. So, I installed it on the live site. However, it took away the "quick reply" feature (as in when you type in a thread title, the message box wouldn't drop down, or the Elasticsearch similar threads wouldn't appear either), something that I didn't take notice of, but could have if I tested out forum posting, etc., more before pushing it live. I was posting threads to test it, as it was an add on that added to threads, but I used the button to post threads too. So, it's important to check every way that could effect your forum. It's now disabled and I hope it gets fixed because it's a good add on.