various Report Completed Domain Name Sales Here

RJ · Apr 19, 2005

This thread is a central location to report domain name sales of any dollar amount.

As much information as you can include about the transaction is welcome, but at a bare minimum please include the domain name(s), the sale price, and whether you were the seller.

Good luck with your sales!

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Discuss and Report Any Details of Domain Name Sales

Suggested template (bold details are required):

Domain name:

Sale venue:

Listing type:

Listing upgrades:

Seller:

Asking price:

Sale price:

Purchase venue:

Purchase price:

Details:

Suggested values / explanations:

Sale venue: Sold at NamePros, outbound direct, inbound direct, etc.
Listing type: Make Offer, Fixed price, Auction, Auction with Buy-It-Now, Reverse auction, etc.
Listing upgrades: Premium package, featured listing, etc.
Seller: me, a friend, a friend of a friend, a colleague, someone else, unknown, etc.
Purchase venue: Where (and the year) the seller purchased the domain name originally.
Details: Any additional details about the domain name like how you bought it, how long you had it before it sold, its age, etc.

Examples:

Domain name: ThisDomain.com

Sale venue: NamePros (2016)

Listing type: Make offer with Buy-It-Now

Listing upgrades: Featured listing

Seller: Me

Asking price: $950

Sale price: $830

Purchase venue: NamePros (2015)

Purchase price: $25

Details: Acquired from a reseller. 5 years old domain. Had for 1 year before resold.

Domain name: ThatDomain.com

Sale venue: GoDaddy Auctions (2012)

Listing type: 7-day Public Auction

Listing upgrades: N/A

Seller: Someone else

Asking price: N/A

Sale price: $60

Purchase venue: Hand registration (2009)

Purchase price: $8

Details: I watched its auction. The auction description said it was hand-registered the same day it dropped (from expiration).

Important:

If you don't want to provide any other information about the sale besides what you've posted, then include "no further details" or "NFD" in your post.

ibidu · Jun 12, 2012

Federer said:
Fantastic sales there, congrats!
No bank on Earth can come anywhere close to that kind of ROI.

I agree if he's not spending his profit elsewhere by overpaying to buy names which he has not been able to sell.

In fact I've thought the same thing about you - do you find that apart from the good sales that you put on the board you're holding to names which you've paid good money for and you're now unable to sell?

.X. · Jun 12, 2012

JSY said:
Just made my first sale! I just learned about domaining about a week ago. And shortly after discovering this domaining world I hand reg'd this domain (I won't mention the actual domain due to not knowing if the buyer wants it as public information).

I sold the domain for only $59. Which sounds low but it was actually great for this domain considering there was basically only one potential end-user and they had mentioned to me that they had looked at the domain previously and decided not to register it. But I was still able to close the sale somehow and made a little over $50 in profit.

Congrats on your first sale! There is nothing wrong with a $50 ROI. Good Job!

GiftedDomains · Jun 12, 2012

mazkel said:
Tykos dot com

Sold for 1000
Bought for 10

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Auzio dot com

Sold for 1300
reg fee

Quixxer dot com

Sold for 1100
reg fee

Great sales of brandables. Congrats.
Did you actively promoted these names or were you just waiting for offers and did the buyer contacted you?

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JSY said:
Just made my first sale! I just learned about domaining about a week ago. And shortly after discovering this domaining world I hand reg'd this domain (I won't mention the actual domain due to not knowing if the buyer wants it as public information).

I sold the domain for only $59. Which sounds low but it was actually great for this domain considering there was basically only one potential end-user and they had mentioned to me that they had looked at the domain previously and decided not to register it. But I was still able to close the sale somehow and made a little over $50 in profit.

Nice Sale. Good ROI for first sale.
And good that you could convince the unmotivated buyer to pay 60 dollars

gerritd · Jun 12, 2012

Re: Report Completed Domain Name Sales Here

Gene said:
Basically, it was a matter of standing strong in my boots right from the start. Here's how the process went...

It was a young lady who first emailed me with a very brief message: "would you consider selling this domain name?" That's all there was. This strongly indicated to me that this was a VERY serious, interested party. Why? Basic human psychology. Most offers that come through ramble on and either made an offer or ask for a price right from the start. I felt this was someone who knew how to play the game -- they wanted ME to make the first move in the price war.

I decided to NOT respond to that first email to test my theory. If they WERE as interested in the name as I suspected, they would ask again soon. Sure enough, 3 days later I received another email with another very brief message asking the same question as before. I waited 2 days this time then replied with "I wouldn't rule it out, but it would have to be a very substantial offer as I'm currently using this domain for my business. Have a nice day."

The next day, an even shorter email from her: "What is 'substantial?'" I replied the next day with "I would not consider any offers of less than $12,000."

Several days later she emailed me with: "Is there any way you could take $4,000 for it?" (Now mind you, I knew I had a serious buyer on my hands at this point, and it was time to really play the game). I waited several days to let them sweat a bit and let them wonder if I dropped the issue because of their low offer. I finally replied to the lady with: "I'm sorry, but as I mentioned last week, I can't consider any offers of less than $12,000 as I am using this for my business".

She replied within hours this time (I sensed she was growing impatient) and said: "Can I have my boyfriend call you? He's better at negotiating".

Now THERE'S a dead giveaway! I gave her my phone number, and the next day I got the call from a very friendly down-to-earth gentleman: "Hi Gene, me and my girlfriend are starting a business and we're interested in your domain name. I could pay you $5,000 right now... and use escrow.com for the transaction -- I'll even pay the fees".

At this point I acted like I was growing very impatient. I explained to him everything I told his 'girlfriend', and nicely said g'bye.

Because of many things he said in our conversation, I suspected that this 'couple' were actually working for a major corp somewhere, acting as a mom & pop business.

He called the next day and left a message on my answering machine (I was expecting this would happen, so I didn't pick up the phone). "Hey Gene, we've been thinking about it and we decided we could go up to $10,000. Please let me know if we can make a deal -- call me as soon as you can".

I waited 2 days, called him back and after a bit of small-talk I said "it's been nice talking with you and I really wish you well in your new venture, but $12,000 is my absolute lowest starting point". (notice the key words "starting point"... I intentionally used those words so as to give the impression that I may even try to negotiate a higher price if you gave me time to think about it!). I got off the phone quickly, and waited for him to make his last move. He called that evening and accepted the $12,000 price. He began the escrow, I transferred the domain and I had the bank-check in hand about 10 days later.

Patience is your best friend in this business!

Gene

I probably learned more from this one post, than what I did from watching 10 hours of YouTube Videos, thanks. this was great

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Archangel said:
Here are some sales from NameJet.com from this past week:

DomainLoan.com $8,200

StyleMaker.com $6,756

AdultWebsites.com $4,655

RainDance.com $4,402

3dWorld.com $4,311

Ktec.com $4,200

DraftingTable.com $3,800

foreclosedrealestate.com $3,800

7833.com $3,600

LandscapeCompany.com $3,121

washingtongolf.com $2,988

BeachLiving.com $2,300

PCNN.com $1,710

ThePosse.com $1,211

ideaology.com $1,112

iRow.com $1,010

I just signed up for a Namejet account, because of this post. thanks

mazkel · Jun 12, 2012

busyj · Jun 13, 2012

I sold uTouch(dot) de for 550$ . I paid low xx reg fee last year

gerritd · Jun 13, 2012

busyj said:
I sold uTouch(dot) de for 550$ . I paid low xx reg fee last year

Well Done

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Best I have ever done was geezlist (dot) com - reg fee minus $3.oo haha

infmoney · Jun 13, 2012

Hey guys, I'm about to sell a domain but the enduser wants to transfer it to another registrar.

How would I do this and will it cost me $ ?

I've never transferred to another registrar out of all my sales.

Thanks in advance

Leole · Jun 13, 2012

infmoney said:
Hey guys, I'm about to sell a domain but the enduser wants to transfer it to another registrar.

How would I do this and will it cost me $ ?

I've never transferred to another registrar out of all my sales.

Thanks in advance

Send the AUTH CODE for the domain to the enduser and unlock your domain! Transfer will take about 5 days. You don´t have to pay any fees!

infmoney · Jun 13, 2012

Leole said:
Send the AUTH CODE for the domain to the enduser and unlock your domain! Transfer will take about 5 days. You don´t have to pay any fees!

So the enduser pays for the transfer at their registrar? Thanks a lot.

Leole · Jun 13, 2012

infmoney said:
So the enduser pays for the transfer at their registrar? Thanks a lot.

The enduser starts the transfer with the AuthCode you send at his registrar. The enduser has to pay one year renewal for this domain when he starts the transfer.

Soofi · Jun 13, 2012

busyj said:
I sold uTouch(dot) de for 550$ . I paid low xx reg fee last year

looks like you sold it to Scott C. Tippetts of utouch.com

good work!!

GiftedDomains · Jun 13, 2012

A little .com sale i can disclose:

Vuzk

i sold it today for $355
Bought it 2 weeks ago here on namepros for 12$

gerritd · Jun 13, 2012

GiftedDomains said:
A little .com sale i can disclose:

Vuzk

i sold it today for $355
Bought it 2 weeks ago here on namepros for 12$

How do you people do it? where? how? Let me in on this, I can’t even get $5 for any of mine... lol - Well Done!!

infmoney · Jun 13, 2012

GiftedDomains said:
A little .com sale i can disclose:

Vuzk

i sold it today for $355
Bought it 2 weeks ago here on namepros for 12$

Nice sale. I am in the process of selling a domain for low xxx.

mazkel · Jun 13, 2012

Sold A-M dot com through sedo (reported by dnjournal)

sold for 5k minus fees (about 60% ROI)

lennco · Jun 13, 2012

gerritd said:
How do you people do it? where? how? Let me in on this, I can’t even get $5 for any of mine... lol - Well Done!!

All the secrets are right here, but dont tell anyone

http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/68798-how-to-find-potential-end-users.html#post446965

gerritd · Jun 13, 2012

I would just love to have something to add to this thread.. Soon hopefully – well, maybe I should say, I worked my but off for 8 hours today, to make less then what most of you make with one quick sale..

GiftedDomains · Jun 13, 2012

It takes time to find out what to register/buy/ignore. You are new to this, so don't get frustrated. It took me almost one year to make my first xxxx sale. Others are faster. The first 6 months i didn't register or buy anything, but was only READING Forums and Blogs.

FX · Jun 13, 2012

finally completed taptopayit dot com today for $2500

infmoney · Jun 13, 2012

D-K said:
finally completed taptopayit dot com today for $2500

Nice sale!

lennco · Jun 13, 2012

D-K said:
finally completed taptopayit dot com today for $2500

Outstanding D-K!

Good job!

GiftedDomains · Jun 14, 2012

sold in .de extension: officeakademie
for 950 euros (i wrote them an email and they ansewerd the same day and were very interested, since .de is the best for german market).

akademie is academy in german.

i regged this domain also about 2 weeks ago from .de drops for Euro 4.50

Federer · Jun 14, 2012

sold mortgagerepaymentcalculator dot com - $2,850

lennco · Jun 14, 2012

Federer said:
sold mortgagerepaymentcalculator dot com - $2,850

Who says long tail domains are worthless.
27 letters, Nice

Great gob again Federer

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GiftedDomains said:
sold in .de extension: officeakademie
for 950 euros (i wrote them an email and they ansewerd the same day and were very interested, since .de is the best for german market).

akademie is academy in german.

i regged this domain also about 2 weeks ago from .de drops for Euro 4.50

Great ROI GD

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