September 26, 2026
People sometimes imagine domain investing as a very clean business:
buy domain → sell domain → make profit → repeat.
My business account currently tells a slightly different story.
First, there is the beautiful part.
€5,000 coming in from my first domain sale.
One green line in the middle of the screen that makes everything suddenly look like a real business.
Then comes reality.
A few days later, I tried to fund my Netim account so I could continue buying domains.
The result?
Four failed €1,000 transactions.
For a moment, my accounting dashboard looked less like the finances of a domain investor and more like someone desperately trying to convince his bank that, yes, he really does want to give €1,000 to a domain registrar.
Eventually, smaller payments started going through:
€500.
€480.
€490.
€460.
And around all of this sits another feature of running a new company in France that I am slowly discovering:
“Non justifiée.”
One transaction.
Another transaction.
Another one.
Eleven of them at the moment.
Apparently, earning and spending money is only half the job. The other half is explaining to accounting software why every euro moved in the first place.
So this is what the bank account of a beginner domain investor looks like today:
one first serious sale, four failed attempts to spend the money, several successful registrar payments, and a growing collection of transactions that still need to be justified.
Not exactly the glamorous side of domain investing.
But perhaps this is the point where a hobby starts becoming a business.
You stop looking only at domain names.
You start looking at invoices, bank transfers, payment failures, accounting categories — and a surprisingly large number of buttons asking you to explain yourself.
And somewhere between €5,000 received and “Non justifiée”, you realize:
I guess I have a company now.
“Beware of little expenses; a small leak will sink a great ship.”
— Benjamin Franklin
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