Have you ever regretted buying a domain name?

So, for those that buy and resell domains - or get a new idea and decide on a new name to get - have you ever regretted buying a domain name? If so, why?

I had a number from when I was younger
gamemercenary.com (a game hosting site, a bad idea but the first site I ever had)
forum-resources.net (I abandoned the idea after a week)
img911.com (that entire site was a bad idea and a money pit)
6boards.com
7boards.com (tried selling this and the one above, couldnt even get reg fee, I think they dropped years ago; I dont remember).

There are at least few that I purchased that I cancelled few years later since I dropped the ideas and I couldn't sell the names either. Getting $5 for them and wasting time pushing them was not interesting, so I just cancelled them. I still have about 80 names I presume, I don't even know to be honest, and just few are used as active sites, most are used to protect key domains in different variations.

However, I never regret purchasing a domain at the time since there is usually a plan for it. Its a small price to pay to know the name will be secure for a while.

Oh yes! You "think" you have this great idea for a site or forum or whatever, than, and you spend a quick few bucks for the domain.... Get to work and realize it's not the idea you thought...More than once... Teaches you to think things all the way through before you bust out that credit card...

There are ones which I've bought and thought "Oh that would be a cool idea".

Things like blogs, forums etc.. Which I've never got round to starting, or even thinking about, other than a cool domain name...

I never regret after purchasing a domain, since there is a plan behind this domain name also domain name is not so costly. So I am keeping all my domains and hope one day I will use all of them.

Yes I do regret spending $80 each on an LLLL.com and an LLL.biz that I'm now having trouble finding buyers for! I was a new domainer back then, and it was a mistake to jump into something I do not know much about. It's not fun making a loss.

Originally Posted by crumblepie Yes I do regret spending $80 each on an LLLL.com and an LLL.biz that I'm now having trouble finding buyers for! I was a new domainer back then, and it was a mistake to jump into something I do not know much about. It's not fun making a loss.

Have you considered just cancelling the names as in dropping them and not renewing them anymore if they keep costing $80? Or you could just give them away as part of a contest through your site/newsletter - to gain at least SOME value for it.

It's not the renewals that cost me $80, it's the purchase price.. poor decision making on my part. Giving them away is an idea I hadn't thought of.. but I doubt they'd be of any value to anyone. The current reseller prices are around $15 for them. I'm thinking of just bundling them up with other (cheaper) domains and selling them together to minimize my losses.

I had an LLLL.com with Q in it. Thinking that the prices of LLLL.com might go up sooner or later I kept renewing it, 3 years on and the resale price still sucked.
Wish I had not purchased it and spent the $10 for renewal each year.