.com Sold my first 5 figure USD name

[omelet]

The name was hand registered at netfirms.com, at price of $1.99 back in 2016 Fall. Sold in 2017 Oct. Buyer came in with offer $20,000 USD. Accepted. Escrow traded.

 

[drk_78]

congratulations

 

[noonoo1]

Thought i would grab the ......... dot moms, dads, date & dates

 

[frank-germany]

I list some of my name in my own store:


namesbuy.com

looks very nice to me
congrats

 

[frank-germany]

There must be only one reason why you are not sharing the domain name and that is....

You know what it is

I wouldn't share either
and the reason is
I wouldn' want to

 

[atinc]

I wouldn't share either
and the reason is
I wouldn' want to

That is just stupid frank germany.

So why the hell are you claiming a sale at the first place if you are not going to give any insights??

There are bunch of pathetic domainers come and share fake sales reports exactly the way you guys do, not sharing the domain name, not sharing the exact sales price but instead creating figures like xxxxx to mislead people. Total bullshit.

Next time I see you posting a sales report like this, you better understand that we don't buy your bullshit unless you provide insights about the sale.

Common sense...

 

[DNScholar]

Congrats!

 

[Amzymayor]

I just imagined myself having this kind of sale. Mehn! I won't sleep for days!

 

[frank-germany]

That is just stupid frank germany.

So why the hell are you claiming a sale at the first place if you are not going to give any insights??

There are bunch of pathetic domainers come and share fake sales reports exactly the way you guys do, not sharing the domain name, not sharing the exact sales price but instead creating figures like xxxxx to mislead people. Total bullsh*t.

Next time I see you posting a sales report like this, you better understand that we don't buy your bullsh*t unless you provide insights about the sale.

Common sense...

are you talking to me????

 

[Pepto]

Fantastic and hopefully many more to come

 

[Recons.Com]

KidsMessenger.com is a much better name IMO, and it's got a BIN price of $677 on Afternic.

FB have too much money.

Disagree.

MesengerKids -> Messenger, Kids
KidsMessenger -> Kid's Messenger

The first option makes more sense for Messenger service for Kids. MessengerForKids.com is also nice for this.

 

[MrOriginal]

The seller sold the undeveloped domain.

No I meant how are people finding his domains from his website namesbuy.com? Unless he is also listing them at auction simultaneously.

 

[xynames]

I get offers all the time from my landing pages, which are in turn connected to my domain URLs themselves, I doubt anyone found his domain on his website probably just landed on it.

It does all seem like a needle in a haystack to me, but for whatever reason and in whatever manner people are landing on my domains and sending me direct offers or inquiries daily. I asked one buyer who closed a deal with me once how he found my domain, and he just said "Google search."

So, these guys have an idea of what word or words they want in their domains, and then find our URLs / landing pages.

 

[DomainVP]

I think that if someone is contacting you with an offer, you should always counter.

Normally I agree with this. But I have been in situations where I counter slightly higher and the buyer goes cold.

same as @imadoer point. someone used to offer me $2500 in order to buy a name that featured on namesbuy.com, but when I counter $10000, he never came back

All great points, and it made me think of something that I don't think anyone has discussed yet @omelet did you do any research on the buyer/email/number when they contacted you?

I'm sure if it was FB they used some throwaway eMail address with little to trace, but maybe there were some breadcrumbs to be found.

I'm in negotiations right now with an inbound who is using a VPN and a garbage throwaway eMail address, but they didn't scrub their digital footprint well enough and it appears to be Best Buy Co., Inc. (more on that later if it converts). A buyer who hides themselves behind VPNs and gMail addresses might as well be Google to me, and the DN gets priced accordingly.

If you knew it was FB would you have rolled the dice for a higher price or still just accepted the $20k offer?

My personal perspective on negotiations is to always counter, because just accepting an offer might lead to someone backing out. Even if you counter @ $30k and they say no and stick to their initial price then at least they feel like winners and are committed to closing the transaction with you. They also might just say yes to your $30k and it's a win.

Regardless of anything else, in the end it's a great sale @omelet. Congratulations!

 

[toughdomains]

stories like this is why we are all in domaining. I have yet to personally break the 15k mark...never paid more than 9k for a name....well done.
getting my usually holiday low balls right now just turned down an offer from my landing page for 11k for smartdrones in king I have no issue sharing sales prices. Godaddy discloses all of their prices so I dont see a big deal in doing so. I think the name and price will help community and we always ask people who sold through our system if they want to be listed in namebio

 

[atinc]

are you talking to me????

Talking in general including you. Can't you read?

I wouldn't share either
and the reason is
I wouldn' want to

That is just stupid frank germany.

So why the hell are you claiming a sale at the first place if you are not going to give any insights??

There are bunch of pathetic domainers come and share fake sales reports exactly the way you guys do, not sharing the domain name, not sharing the exact sales price but instead creating figures like xxxxx to mislead people. Total bullsh*t.

Next time I see you posting a sales report like this, you better understand that we don't buy your bullsh*t unless you provide insights about the sale.

Common sense...

Do you get the point? No.

No sense, no logic? Am I talking to you?

 

[frank-germany]

Talking in general including you. Can't you read?






Do you get the point? No.

No sense, no logic? Am I talking to you?

you are right: I can't read

 

[-EM-]

The domain is like a winning ticket. The domain does not have any value to standard market, but only to someone with the exact keywords business. I wonder why did facebook go with a new domain when they could have used a subdomain like kids.facebook.com or even messangerkids.facebook.com
The don't need the domain in this case, they only need a url to push people to that app. An unusual way to spend $20K

 

[Recons.Com]

Could be for legal/accountancy etc. reasons.

They might have even created a new subsidiary LLC for this to handle the sensitivity that comes with offering a service to kids.

 

[Bullock]

I wonder why did facebook go with a new domain when they could have used a subdomain like kids.facebook.com or even messangerkids.facebook.com

B R A N D A B I L I T Y

 

[Gabriel.CWD]

Congrats on the sale.

 

[-EM-]

B R A N D A B I L I T Y

They don't need to stand out. The brand is there, it's facebook and they are using the messanger of facebook. I don't see anything to brand, but that is just me.

 

[Haris]

They don't need to stand out. The brand is there, it's facebook and they are using the messanger of facebook. I don't see anything to brand, but that is just me.

not just you

 

[slader23]

Well not sure if you guys realize this but FB also owns Messenger.com so to me MessengerKids.com makes sense since it's a seperate offering for children that provides parental controls to people with young children. One is meant for adults and the other is meant for children.

Go to the domain names and put them side by side and you will then understand Facebook's vision for this particular group of offerings. They will likely do more marketing on it as well so that they can capture the correct demographics and direct traffic to the domain name.

 

[Bullock]

They don't need to stand out. The brand is there, it's facebook and they are using the messanger of facebook. I don't see anything to brand, but that is just me.

It seems obvious that "MessengerKids.com" is a brand branch for an autonomous division service: customer mkt profiling & targeting .

 

[-EM-]

It seems obvious that "MessengerKids.com" is a brand branch for an autonomous division service: customer mkt profiling & targeting .

It is obvious it is a brand branch, but I am finding it hard to justify..
It would be similar if google creates a new brand searchkids (sounds weird) as a brand branch, instead of something like kids.google