“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
— Mark Twain
Domain investing often begins quietly.
You register a few names, follow auctions, compare extensions, study sales, renew domains, make mistakes, and slowly build experience. For a long time, it can feel more like a personal activity than a real business.
My path was similar.
I had already spent years working with domain names, especially within the .md extension. But at some point, I started asking a more serious question:
Could domain investing become a real, structured, sustainable business rather than simply an interesting activity?
This article is a living calendar of that process.
It documents how I am building Pavel Domains, from the first doubts and calculations to company registration, accounting, banking, domain purchases, sales, mistakes, and future experiments.
The article will be updated as the business develops.
Before the Company
T1-T3 2025 — Learning More About the Domain Business
Action:
I continued developing my domain portfolio and studying how domain investors buy, hold, renew, price, and sell domain names.
Why it mattered:
Domain investing can look simple from the outside: buy a domain and sell it for more.
In reality, every domain carries costs:
- registration fees;
- annual renewals;
- marketplace commissions;
- payment processing;
- taxes;
- time spent researching and managing the portfolio;
- the risk that a domain may never sell.
At this stage, I was still operating primarily as an individual domain investor.
Status: Experience-building phase.
T4 2025 — Training with David Chelly
Action:
I enrolled in a domain investing training course with David Chelly, focusing on expired domain names and professional domain investing.
What changed:
The course introduced me to domain investing from a business perspective rather than simply as buying and selling domain names.
It covered topics such as:
- expired domain names;
- domain valuation;
- acquisition strategies;
- SEO opportunities;
- legal considerations;
- practical methods for finding and acquiring domains.
One discussion particularly stayed with me.
David explained that profits of €30, €50, or €60 per domain could still represent a successful business model when managing a very large portfolio and making regular sales.
The idea was simple:
Small profits, repeated consistently across thousands of domains, can build a sustainable business.
That made perfect sense.
However, it also raised an important question for me.
Would this model remain profitable under French taxation, renewal costs, marketplace commissions, and the legal structure available to me?
That question eventually led me to test the auto-entrepreneur model and, later, to create Pavel Domains.
Lesson:
Understanding a business model is only the first step. Determining whether it works in your own legal, financial, and tax environment is equally important.
I try to understand…
Turning domain investing into a business is not one decision.
It is a long sequence of calculations, administrative steps, mistakes, experiments, and adjustments.
The company now exists.
The business still has to prove itself.
And that is exactly what this calendar will document.
“I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.”
— Thomas A. Edison
This article will be updated as Pavel Domains develops.
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