various Report Completed Domain Name Sales Here

[RJ]

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

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Suggested template (bold details are required):

Domain name:

Sale venue:​

Listing type:​

Listing upgrades:​

Seller:​

Asking price:​

Sale price:​

Purchase venue:​

Purchase price:​

Details:​

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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.​

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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.

 

[Wings]

TV/BOX/.ORG $199
Venue: dan.com

 

[Omit]

Domain name : TRHX.COM
Sale price : 4988$
Purchase price : 270$ , Dropcatch
Venue : Dan
Holding time : 6 m

 

[DomainFQ.com]

ALHAMDULLILLAH

SOLD Mygate.app
Sale price: $4995 / $4,245
Purchase price: Hand Reg
Hold time: 10 month
Venue: Afternic

 

[twiki]

Discounted sale (end of line) . Afternic BIN, hold time 11 months. Drop reg / hand reg.

Not a bad name at all (worth more) but I decided to discount several to 3-fig for some cashflow before renewal. And this one sold. I'm happy with it, there's still too many to renew in that pile I have.

 

[ClankityClack]

Domain name : EinsteinWasWrong .com
Sale price : 500$
Purchase price : Hand Reg
Venue : Afternic
Holding time : Approx 10 years?

I originally bought it for my own use, but never got around to using it. Someone offered to buy, so...

Sold May 2023.

 

[damance]

Registered: 12th October 2023
Registrar: GoDaddy.com
Price: $1

 

[Domainication]

P / R / O / V / A / B / L / E .org

sold for 4.288 € (round about $4,600) via SedoMLS

Holdtime was 3 month / aquired at an expired auction for $29

Little background story up here

 

[twiki]

I guess things have been kind of mostly stalled here lately ( ? - or am I wrong ). So I will post some sales these days, high and low value, to cheer everyone up (hopefully).

Here we go:

I got this domain in 2021, and got tired to renew it. It's a great name if you're a DAPP believer (I'm not). So, hold time 2 years. (Note: who knows, might be great in the future, maybe someone took it as an investment)

I was already expired (2 weeks+), yet somehow sold at Afternic - BIN.

Hand reg at drop.

( Edit: I will come back with more sales these days if NP would like that )

 

[alcy]

gd offer ...rare sale on gd... used to be main venue for me... not sure what they changed but I'm sure I'm not only one.. no outbound .. few renews went into this sucker.. $500 minus 20% fee..

magickian,,,,,,com

 

[oant]

legendary dot gg

Bought for $500 @ park.io auction in January 2023
Accepted $3000 inbound offer @ Dan last week (waited for funds confirmation from Dan to report)

Feel like I could have gotten more by holding longer, but I'm fine with it also considering the valuations in my appraisal thread earlier this year.
A couple notes on Dan: it was a weird experience with them this time, like they never sold a gg domain. Told me there was a transferlock on the domain, there wasn't, then they started the transfer after I provided the auth code and told me I had to authorize it, but I didn't have to authorize anything (checked with Park.io about this).

(Most likely) closing the year with 23 domains in my portfolio, and 3 sold ones this year for a total of $5200 with net profit of roughly $4000.

 

[twiki]

I promised I'm gonna post more sales to cheer everyone up (those who aren't all cheered up already - by their lots of sales! )

Anyway. This newcomer is drop reg /hand reg from April this year. 8 months hold. Afternic BIN, FT sale.

Why did I get it at drop? Well, not many investors get into acronyms - and to be honest, for the right reasons. But this one just seemed right to me. Turns out I was correct.

Why now: Somebody might have been watching, it because I just decreased price and it sold within days.

Price Note: Yes - it could be sold for more / worth more, if held longer (I know). But: One, I am a discount domainer and I generally made more discounting rather than sticking to what I think is full retail so... here it goes. And two, I have an important cashflow to solve this month (unrelated) so I will be flipping several names and it goes as expected so far. More sales to be posted next.

Oh and my actual limitation seems to be rather the total amount of $ I can invest overall, so... happy to flip this one for this amount. It adds up.

P.S. I don't discount my best domains, except for maybe 10-15% tops.

 

[chandan]

TICK .in 2000 $ bodis contact and escrow via daaz. com hand reg in 2010

 

[scithe]

ZLZ in .org. $1888 at GoDaddy Auctions. Cost: $300ish plus renewal. $1416 payout after commission as I was using Sedo lander.

This domain had a surprise. I had this listed on DAN, Afternic, Sedo and GoDaddy auctions. I received an offer for $1000 through GDA but I was sleeping. By the time I woke up the buyer used the Buy now and paid the $1888. I didn't immediately remove it from the other marketplaces like I try to do and a few minutes later the sale came through on Sedo. Literally minutes. My BIN was priced at 1188 on Sedo instead of 1888 (woops!).

On the transaction page, Sedo told me I needed to print out and upload an invoice for the buyer (WTF, earn your commission. What business doesn't have invoices themselves). Anyway, I told Sedo the same buyer already paid for the domain on GoDaddy and the e-mail of the sale came through from GoDaddy and since they are also where the domain was located, I didn't see how to get out of it. Sedo said not to worry because the buyer was going to file a chargeback at GoDaddy. I contacted my GoDaddy rep as I had already received a payout to my Paypal and was wondering if there was a chance of a chargeback. He told me there was nothing to worry about since the deal was done. Sedo voided the sale a day or two after that.

I need to invest in some kind of portfolio manager. I've got 750ish domains (down from 900-1000 a year ago). I definitely don't want things like this to happen too often as I would hate to have an account closed because I couldn't fulfill my obligation.

Also, the domain is currently listed on Afternic for 8999 with a 3000 min. bid. It would be awesome if that guy or gal was able to sell it at that price.

 

[rumevic]

October sales

v o l t o z . c o m $1,000
i o n i z e . o r g $890

 

[singhhooda]

Acquisition Cost: Low xx
Hold Time: Few months

 

[jim h]

V/R/Ai .a/p/p
Sale price: about $3500
Cost: about $35, handreg
Hold time: about 20 months
Venue: Dan

 

[Grego85]

DeFi (dot) Website
Sale Price: $550
Platform: Sedo
After Comm: $440

Hand reg catch from a few years ago. About $50 invested.

 

[Hanef Fatima]

Domain name : bitmap/market
Sale price : $4688
Purchase price : Hand reg
Venue : Dan.com
Holding time : 5 months

 

[wwwulff]

Domain name : PartnerPlace/com
Sale price : $6000
Venue : Afternic fast transfer (BB listed)

$10 closeout from 2013

 

[sellian]

Alpha / Prompting (.) com
Sale Price: $1000
Venue: Dan (Distribution network)
Handregged 10 months ago

Probably undersold this one.

Nameservers were pointing to Sedo with BIN at around $2500.
I totally forgot it stayed listed on Dan at $1000 BIN.

Happy to see that the term Prompting is getting some traction as I own a few

 

[OluMayor]

Purchase price: Hand reg
Hold time: 9 months

 

[Yusupbabay]

R/o/c/k/D/i/c/e.com

Sale price : $1700
Purchase price : $15
Hold time : 8 months
Venue : 4.cn

 

[twiki]

OK so I said I'm going to post more sales to cheer everyone up (who's not already happy, and maybe needs a bit of encouragement these days). Here's another (will come back with more later):

Afternic BIN, hold time 3 years (minus few days). Drop reg at Dynadot.

( Yeah, back in 2020 you could catch such stuff by hand... or simple API script.)

The story behind this domain and pricing is simple. I've repriced some of my domains to sell faster because I need a very good December in domain sales to cover some expenses in another business side. So it's the choice between good money now and great money sometimes (?) later. This month, I choose the former. This one is very well priced for current market.

... And I just renewed it. I guess that was the last straw for whoever has been watching it so they bought at BIN. Congrats to the buyer! They got a good name at a very reasonable price.

P.S. Important note, addressed to those following my sales and having less sales right now.

My experience is that XXX range discounts don't work anymore in 2023 (actually degraded much since 2022). I had lots of discounting this autumn and in December; and barely sold like 3 names or something.

That's not enough. I know that it did not boost sales ratio, basically at all. So I will not discount anything anymore to 3-fig. Maybe a just bit of, say a 1.5k domain will go down to 1k...1k+ but that's the bottom for me. I prefer to either renew or drop rather than go 3-fig. Oh and NP clearance sales are more disappointing than ever. Anyway.

If you still discount like that, at least from my perspective, you'll get some sales but my bet is on end customers with buying power getting them for too cheap, rather than some other investor taking them. Which means, you might actually lose money by discounting to XXX range - you sell them out too cheap as there's no major boost in sales by discounting.

I am pretty sure many cash strapped investors have been selling lots of stuff at XXX range lately and yet, you don't see much of that kind of sales here. What you continue to see is 4-fig sales and up. Whoever had money, good businesses, they still have and spend it I guess. Not the everyday Joe, not anymore.

By my measurement, STR used to grow like 3x at each 50% price reduction below $3K on my domains... say circa year 2020. So you made more money if discounting, at the expense of reducing your portfolio.

Well, not anymore. Overall I lose money doing that. I even discounted fabulous names to $199 and $299 and got almost zero sales on those. So yep, at least in the current market, my advice if you'd ask, is to not discount to xxx range - unless you feel like it's your last resort for food on the table today or whatnot.

It's not guaranteed you have the same results; but maybe you should look into this, and do your tests as well. Good luck!

 

[VadimK]

No sales reported since Saturday? I normally don't report xxx sales, but just to spark up the team, here is one from October.
HandReg from March 2021, was about to drop and discounted.

 

[lovely4ever]

** Sold BIN last week / Hand reg first of October 2023 .

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