I have received an offer for two of my domains, theroad one is a .us and the other a .mobi. I got the offer for both at the same time from sedo.
I checked out the .com/.net/.info does not look like someone is developing...but I can't help but think that would be the idea, especially receiving both offers @ the same time.
I thought these were good domains for maps.
One of the offers is for $60 and the other is $100. Should I send them to auction?
Any ideas of what to do would greatly be appreciated.
It is strange that I got both offers within 2 minutes of each other, that is why I would think that someone might have plans for it. All of the other (.com/.net/.info) do not have anything to do with mapping or have anything common.
I googled "The Road" and it comes up with 130,000,000 hits.
There is a book named "The Road" and is on Oprah's book club.
And then there is a movie in production called "The Road" starring Charlize Theron, Viggo Mortensen, Robert Duvall (rummored) and Guy Pearce http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001602/
I don't think that someone would be interested in it for this since they would do TheRoadthemovie.com...
sending to auction wouldnt make a difference on those names imo.
offers for 60 and 100 are respectively respectable, so there's more $ in there. i'd counter 150 for the us and 450 for the mobi. buyer might think you'd come meet halfway on mobi, i'd drop down to 350 final, after his/her counter.
You've done some good research already ... will countering (especially at $450 for the "dot Mobey" ) or sending them to auction put you in a better financial position, realistically speaking? IYHO. What is the likely upside, and at what potential costs?
-Jeff
By countering one always risks losing the buyer, but 100 starting offer might indicate that there is more money coming in. Besides, a $300 mobi sale may leave extra funds for 5-piece jazz ensemble mobi purchases
Back to reality, since you yourself here just went from $450, then to $350, and now to $300 (with non of these being likely to result in completed sales, IMHO) ...
I mentioned "realistically speaking" above ... if it's legit, accept the $60 offer for this "dot Mobey", IMHO.
And, more importantly, do NOT reinvest the proceeds into any more lowly "dot Mobey's", as well!