ReviewPoker.com @ Sedo for $2613.
BilboCentral.com @ eBay for $1.04
A guy asked to see my list of poker domains and wanted the name. I offered it to him for $1500 and he said he couldn't afford to spend more than a couple hundred. It doesn't make it's reg fee for me me in parking, so I almost just sold it there... but I figured I'd try to get him to start a sedo auction with a $250 bid and see if it could fetch more. He said sure.
Once the auction started, I spent about an hour and a half running a DomainTools search for every domain name registered that included the words "review" and "poker". Then I snagged their email addresses with Domain Research Tool and sent them a little email with a link to the Sedo auction. I also posted here and on a poker affiliate forum.
Voila! 6 bidders get into a bidding war for 46 bids and run up the price to $2600.
BilboCentral.com was a huge disappointment, though, as I was selling it with a little mini-site that I also spent about an hour and a half on. I was running a little test to see if I could just slap up a template and get more than reg fee for certain sites. The answer is no. I can't.
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Excellent sales.
I think amatrice is notable as is a little town (2800 inhab.) around 150 km far from Rome, famous for an italian pasta sauce (amatriciana...) Wonder how it goes so high...
Anyway 3 Millions results ....
congrats!
I won each of these domains (aside from the ones I sold via NP) for either $7.50 (via drop-catch) or $15.00 (via cheap backorder).
I had some nice luck with film producers, a novelist, and selling graphic designers their own names. Much less good fortune with consulting firms, doctors, and hardware companies (suprisingly).
Doesn't quite match my $3500 for the last 2 weeks of August, but I do have another $1K in agreed-upon sales, which I can't publish quite yet.
I kind of wish I knew Federer's secret though.
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Hello JoshuaPz,
how do you find end user? what makes they are interested in your name? do yo always send email to end user for each of your name? how many % is your sold name to your inventory? we sometime offer to enduser for thousand usd, but when give up then sell at bottom price to reseller
* I catch all my domains on the drop, never hand-register. I VERY carefully pre-research each name I plug into my hand-made drop-catcher, never drop-catching a domain that I wouldn't have a least 4 *excellent*, *obvious* prospects to sell to.
* My domains are typically far more memorable and have keywords that receive more monthly searches than those of the end users I pitch to.
* Yes, I always e-mail pitch, but that's certainly not an optimal approach, especially for contacting large corporations. I hope to pull out the cold calling card as I develop a stronger domainer's phone presence.
* I successfully sell about a third of the domains I capture to end-users.
* From my experience, few end-users are willing to pay over $500 for any drop-caught or hand-reg'ed domain, and almost none over $1000. Don't use Sedo as your guide when choosing how to price your domain; domainers are infamous for inflating their prices to roughly 5-10x of what their names are actually worth.
Read some of the advice I've posted in the "Selling to End Users" thread. Best of luck.
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Frig man thats a nice story and I wish to make that amount,Iam only just starting I havent sold a domain yet ,But i still understand what you mean buy playing the Mom & Pop. Its funny companies that have heaps of money still want to riggle down the price.
But nice sale!.
thanks. I think it better strategy to get name by dropping name cathing then easily sold rather than many handreg name but difficult to sell. just need more money to start but if it still can sell at drop catch cost to reseller it means low risk.
,But i still understand what you mean buy playing the Mom & Pop. Its funny companies that have heaps of money still want to riggle down the price.