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information Avoid.com Sells for $117,500

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Yesterday, we noticed the domain name Avoid.com entered into Escrow.com's holding account. This usually confirms that the domain name has been sold.

This morning, we have received confirmation from the seller that Avoid.com had indeed been sold for $117,500.

This one-word .COM was sold by Nametra.com, who own around 1,000 domain names in their portfolio.

At the moment, it is unclear who the buyer is, but given the fact that this is a six figure sale, it is likely to be an end user sale.

The sale of Avoid.com for $117,500 would* place it as the seventh largest domain sale of this year at DNJournal, just behind the $125,000 sale of Emeralds.com.

Congratulations to Nametra.com on this sale, and thanks to DomainIQ for alerting us to the sale.

*Update: DNJournal confirms the sale, but it cannot be charted since the domain is being paid in instalments.
 
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Would be a great name for project promoting ngtlds.

Avoid dotcom; -)
 
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We've finally got round to announcing a launch date for the 1st of January. OK, this is where everyone thinks we are mad (y).

We have Avoid.com Avoid.co.uk Avoid.uk

The plan for this name is that we are going to be a negative only travel review website, flights, cruises, hotels, airbnb, - no good reviews allowed.

There is a bit more to it including a dispute resolution system in there, but we believe that users will visit other sites, find their hotels etc and then the last place they will view before booking is Avoid.com

Our background is in finance, though we are leaving this. We believe a lot of positive reviews are fake (certainly in our industry), many sites delete negative reviews because it harms bookings. We have huge safeguards built into this to prevent fake negative reviews.

Oh, one last thing to confirm that we are a bit bonkers. We are banning Google from indexing the site, we don't trust them in either free speech or the stability to build a business on. We think this brand will be powerful enough to exclude Google.

MadorNot.com?
 
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A decent price for a name with a somewhat ”negative meaning”.

It will be interesting to see the future website and its theme...
 
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We've finally got round to announcing a launch date for the 1st of January. OK, this is where everyone thinks we are mad (y).

We have Avoid.com Avoid.co.uk Avoid.uk

The plan for this name is that we are going to be a negative only travel review website, flights, cruises, hotels, airbnb, - no good reviews allowed.

There is a bit more to it including a dispute resolution system in there, but we believe that users will visit other sites, find their hotels etc and then the last place they will view before booking is Avoid.com

Our background is in finance, though we are leaving this. We believe a lot of positive reviews are fake (certainly in our industry), many sites delete negative reviews because it harms bookings. We have huge safeguards built into this to prevent fake negative reviews.

Oh, one last thing to confirm that we are a bit bonkers. We are banning Google from indexing the site, we don't trust them in either free speech or the stability to build a business on. We think this brand will be powerful enough to exclude Google.

MadorNot.com?

Personally I would have saved myself a lot of cash and gone with something in the lines of...

RealReviews.com or something similar. Would probably have picked it up for a lot less and still been a decent review site.
 
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We believe a lot of positive reviews are fake

Yes, lot's of fake everything- look at Fiverr for all the desperate people doing stupid "work" making fake things up for a living. Yelp isn't reliable either.

I wish you and your partners the best in this niche, it could be a winner. If Audited correctly and both sides respond to negative situations. Ripoff Report is b.s., we had an incident earlier this year that fell on deaf ears with the bad review being unable to be erased. Mug shots too, another bad web site.
 
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Not sure it is a good idea.

Reviews have to be balanced. Of course, bigger businesses, retailers will have lots of negative reviews, even if they provide 99% positive experience and going to that website will be like attending a swamp.

When I look for reviews, I want to see both sides and see the ratio of positive to negative. I stopped using yelp, because it is mostly negative and yours is going to be 100% negative.

Avoid.com is a great name, but you need a better concept.

Also, not being on google is suicidal.

You'd need a tonne of promo to compensate and I don't see that advertisers will be eager to be associated with a negative website.
 
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