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Writing this, as it took me an hour to find out how to cancel my Zoho account, so that I wasn’t charged my subscription.

The subscription was only $12 a year so it wasn’t worth the time really, but I also knew that if I didn’t do it now, then it could go on for many years more.

Do NOT follow the help center as their instructions refer to areas of the screen that don’t exist.

A cynic may say that they purposefully make it hard to cancel.

Anyway, here is a way which is working:

1. Go to: https://mailadmin.zoho.com/cpanel/home.do#dashboard
2. Click on subscriptions on the left menu:
   
3. Click on Manage Subscription
   
4. Click on Change Plan
5. This gets weird, because sometimes the correct screen will now come up and sometimes it wont. Try clicking on the words rather than the icon and vice-versa.
6. Eventually this screen should show up with the words cancel your subscription on the bottom left:
   
7. A screen will then popup to ask why downgrading.
8. IMPORTANT: Another screen will then come up confirming that you do really want to cancel. It may not cancel if you don’t confirm. So be careful to follow through on this.

 

…and there is the big secret on canceling your Zoho Workspace and Email subscription!

I have been having doubts over the last couple of days about the tactics I have been using in order to buy domain names. Firstly, whether the $100 price point is giving me enough access to domains that I will be able to resell. Secondly, whether I should tighten up a bit on the search and (also) look for domain names that don’t currently have any bids.

One of my other worries is that I am bidding too far in advance and therefore encouraging further bids. A better tactic would be to always bid in the last few minutes. This is not a foolproof tactic but does give less time for more bidders to become involved.

So, here are the domain names that I have bidded on and lost over the last couple of days:

The domain that ended selling for the most was hbstc.com . I can’t personally see that value there, but perhaps I am missing something.

It is hard to choose my favorites as there were quite a few of them, but I did like:

omgkids.com – highly brandable
surfdudes.com – brandable and easily memorable.
earninbitcoin.com – good name for a startup?
juicepowder.com – if someone is selling powdered juice then this is THE domain to have. Easily memorable.

So, the good news is, that I did win some auctions!

Actually won 4 auctions, all from yesterday. The domains are (without yyy):

cryptobidderyyy.com $128
mobilityactionyyy.com $70
virtualjewyyy.com $23
extremeenglishyyy.com $17

Would it surprise you to know, that I actually rate them in value in the order that I paid.

I really like cryptobidderyyy.com as crypto is a hot market for domain names. And there is plenty of hype and excitement around bots and bidding. Also, NFT auctions. Although I paid more than my $100 average, I’m still pleased with the price that I got.

On the other end, I’m not really sure why I bought extremeenglishyyy.com . Not quite sure who would buy it. Was probably too much of an impulse buy.

Love virtualjewyyy.com as I think will be desirable to the right person. Or possibly someone writing a book.

And mobilityactionyyy.com is also a solid domain name. The main worry is that a potential buyer would probably be a charity who could use the .org and may not want to spend the extra premium to get this particular name.

If you remember, I already have otcinvestmentsyyy.com ($20), so I now have 5 domain names in my portfolio. None of them have been transferred yet, so no sales and not listed.

$258 for domains

$19.17 * 5 = $95.85 for the registration

=$353.85 spent

Leaving a budget left:

$10,000

– $353.85

= $9646.15