First up, happy new year to every one reading my blog. Secondly, thanks to all my visitors and loyal readers, commenters who gave their precious time and feedback and I have made some good friends out of this small domain community.
As I posted in March last year about my goals so I wanted to share what I accomplished and what’s my focus for this new year 2015.
I wanted to have 1,000 domains under my belt and I was short of 150 domains at the end.
To make $1,000 every month from parking on consistent basis and here $350 was short in achieving four figure mark.
I decided to sell at least one domain for six figures which I was able to successfully achieve and that was the most important and difficult goal to pull off. You can read more about that here.
Last couple of goals for the last year were on light note which I honestly took it lightly and both were not done. I had to publish 200 posts by the end of 31st December 2014 but finally I made 141 and was well short of 200. Last one was a personal one… To gain weight from 63 kgs to 72 but at the end I made it 69 which wasn’t too bad 😉
After going through my last year performance I wanted to share what I have planned for 2015 and set up some new and exciting goals to achieve.
1) To have 1,200 domains by the end of 2015. As usual I will be focusing on quality rather than quantity which was the main reason not to achieve 1k mark last year.
2) To make $1,000 p/month in domain parking. It’s the same one what I set last year but looking at the parking revenue of last year I think this will still be a challenge to make on regular basis.
3) Looking at my portfolio growing in number and renewals are climbing high so I have decided to liquidate some number of domains as compare to previous year and make at least $5,000 sale in total every month.
4) Last year I have sold 9-12 domains and this year I will be selling 20-24 domains which will roll on my portfolio and I won’t feel any pressure of paying renewals. To date, I have moved most of my domains to Uniregistry, automatically one year is extended so there isn’t much to think about renewals this year but I normally renew most of my domains a year before they hit renewals to keep things smooth and tension free…
5) Last one is a personal goal which is to move out of this city or country mainly due to safety concerns and several other factors. I had already decided to be shifting in mid 2015 couple of years back and time has come up. I will either be moving to Dubai or Islamabad (capital city of Pakistan) which is still better than my city (Karachi) where I live. I pray to ALLAH to show me right path and guidance which will help me in deciding where I should be moving.
Feel free to share your own goals set for year 2015.
Happy New Year, Abdul! 🙂
Thanks Diego and I hope you will have a better this year.
Have fun and enjoy yourself! 🙂
All the best Abdul n may ur wishes will be fullfilled very soon …. U said that u r gonna change city or country right…. Why don’t u come to India 🙂
Thanks Vijay and I hope you achieve many more successes and break all previous records specially in domains.
Not easy to move in India due to IndoPak relations which is sad to see. These politicians have ruined common people lives just for the sake of power and money. I agree India is better place to live than Pakistan but won’t be an easy life to live there for a Pakistani shifting from Pakistan… But thanks for inviting Vijay 🙂
Thanks for sharing the interesting info for 2014 and goals for 2015. keep us posted on how things go this year and obviously we hope and pray things in PK start improving fast.
Sure, will definitely keep you guys updated. In Sha ALLAH things will get better if we as nation get united and do good things and get rid of current politicians who are in power to make money and destroy our country at every possible cost.
Thanks for coming and commenting. Have a great time ahead! 🙂
Hi Abdulbasit,
Why not come to my city Istanbul?
ICANN chose us remember .:)
Thanks Fatih for your suggestion but after considering several other factors too I have come to the conclusion for those couple of places. I said about Dubai as one of the place because I used to live there for 10 years but later back to Pakistan…
But I agree that Istanbul is better in terms of safety/security point of view than Karachi which is very much unstable.
Happy New Year AbdulBasit! 🙂
Keep up your great work and have a good time!
Thanks Andrea and I wish you the same bro 🙂
Keep up the great work Abdul and good for you for setting those goals! Happy New Year…I have a feeling it’s going to be a good one!
Thanks Vincent for your kind words and wish you Happy New Year as well. I am sure you will do well as you already did fantastic in very short period of domaining career as far as I have watched out 🙂
AbdulBasit thanks for sharing your new year resolutions. I hope it will be good too like the 2014 for you. Keep faith!
Thanks Tauseef for your wishes and I am sure you will see much improved results in this year 🙂
Thank you for your thoughts AbdulBasit.
I hope you find a good place to live.
I can’t even imagine how difficult it is to leave your city and country.
Thanks Konstantinos 🙂
I agree with you. I feel that’s the most difficult goal for this year but I have to achieve it for me and my family.
Happy New Year Abdul,
100 names of mine only get revenue of $ 20/month and you really get my respect when your 850 names bring to you $ 650/month …my best wishes to your 2015 plan
Not bad either Picas if you have just started domaining in recent time. Just keep trimming your portfolio with low quality names and try to bring in better names which you will eventually learn as the time goes on…
Happy new year and congrats for achieving most of your goals in 2014. May Allah helps you find a best place to move. The good part of domaining business is that we can buy and sell domains from any part of this world. Hope you will have the best things in 2015.
Thanks Sameeruddin for your kind words which motivated me more. Absolutely spot on about domain business which has a big plus point as we can operate domaining from any part of the world any much hassle. Just need the sales on consistent basis to keep everything on right track.
Best wishes 🙂
Happy New Year & I wish you to reach your goal quickly.
Please add some more goals related with Social Responsibility like, helping atleast 2 poor children’s study etc.,
I will pray for peaceful life in Pakistan.
All is well.
Thanks very much Ram 🙂
That’s what I believe we are born to help others and it’s my main goal of my life but for that I have to settle down first and make myself much stronger before I start helping others on mass scale and I have been planning for that and In Sha ALLAH will start in coming years.
I appreciate your suggestion which is already under progress and I will definitely keep updated about that as well in future 🙂
May I wish you every success in reaching your goals in 2015 and I am sure your move to either Dubai or Islamabad will turn out to be a very exciting and happy new adventure for you too. All the very best for 2015.
Thanks for taking a moment to post a comment Paul 🙂
I hope so too and that’s going to very exciting and at the same time lot of hard work 😉
Wish you all the very best and eagerly waiting to see some big sale from your side 🙂
Let’s hope 2015 is a great year for everyone.
Thanks for coming and yes, let’s hope for the best for everyone 🙂
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