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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.

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Domain name:

Sale venue:​
Listing type:​
Listing upgrades:​
Seller:​
Asking price:​
Sale price:​
Purchase venue:​
Purchase price:​
Details:​


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.​

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.
 
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Domain name:C/V/P/ dot biz
Sale Venue:Afternic
Listing Type:BIN
Asking Price:$400
Sale price :$400
Purchase $59 through namepros BIN auction 2nd April
Details :Apollo Listed same name on bido price of 235 but offer was low and i refused.Then relisted on afternic as it was trending in sales thread and I listed for $400 BIN & GD.

Domain name:A/u/t/o/M/o/v/e/r dot o r g
Sale Venue:GD
Listing Type:offer/counter
Asking Price:$500
Sale price :$500
Purchase $19.17 through closeout
Details :Buyer offered $50,I countered with 500,then he offered 225,and I responded but as soon as I saw he was interested but offering lower I went to adjust price but he already clicked sold ;).
 
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Domain name:Relicense.com
Sale Venue:Godaddy
Listing type:7 Days auction
Listing upgrades: Featured Home page
Sale price:$1525
Purchase price:low xxx
Details: Apollo buyer

Domain name:Swingtrades.com
Sale Venue:Godaddy
Listing type:7 Days auction
Listing upgrades: Featured Home page
Sale price:$395
Purchase price:low xxx
Details: Apollo buyer
 
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Contacted about 25-30 key prospects/domain via email, with BIN price mentioned in the opening email.
 
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Domain name:Relicense.com
Sale Venue:Godaddy
Listing type:7 Days auction
Listing upgrades: Featured Home page
Sale price:$1525
Purchase price:low xxx
Details: Apollo buyer

Domain name:Swingtrades.com
Sale Venue:Godaddy
Listing type:7 Days auction
Listing upgrades: Featured Home page
Sale price:$395
Purchase price:low xxx
Details: Apollo buyer

I was one of the high bidders on relicense.com and stopped when I checked namebio and realised you paid around $200 or so a year ago on it lol. Seriously thought it's a good name even at $1500. Someone else wanted it more than me it seems :)

Congrats!
 
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Regarding apollo......that might be some kind of "standard buyer name" as we sold at Afternic domains from completely unrelated niches and I think apollo was stated as a buyer each time.
 
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Regarding apollo......that might be some kind of "standard buyer name" as we sold at Afternic domains from completely unrelated niches and I think apollo was stated as a buyer each time.
What is apollo?

When somebody buys a domain from Godaddy, the escrow transaction is done by Apollo at Afternic since most buyers don't own an Afternic account. It's basically Godaddy only.
 
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Domain name: pskc.org
Sale Venue: Sedo
Listing type: BIN
Listing upgrades: --
Sale price: $365
Purchase price: I won in some funny game last december and got it for free from @iAchilles :)
Thank you, mate!
 
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Domain name: Khiladi.org (Means "Player" in Hindi)
Sale Venue: Afternic
Listing type: BIN
Listing upgrades: --
Sale price: $1000
Commission : $200
$800 in Bank!
Purchase price: $11
 
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Domain name: orn / net
Sale Venue: afternic
Listing type: BIN
Listing upgrades: none
Asking price: $8000
Sale price: $8000
Purchase price: $1250
Details: they mean fast transfer, got e-mail this afternoon, domain is already at netsol.
 
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Just sold ExamTek.com
reg $12 two weeks ago
outbound, the owner of the .net extension
for $425
Congrats! Good thought to sell to .net owner.
 
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Yellowstone/-/cabin/com - $500 outband, bought for $2 (promotion domain.com)
Chopin/com/pl - 4000 zł ca. $1000 via dominios.pl
Magnacarta/fr - 399 Euro via undeveloped / BIN/ (regfree $6 couple months ago)
 
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Domain name: NE8(net)
Sale Venue: GD
Listing type: Premium Listings
Listing upgrades: NA
Asking price:$199
Sale price:$199
Purchase price:$4 when discount codes worked at GD.
Details: Hand reg 2 years ago 2 x renewal. Sold yesterday.

Domain name: 966H(com)
Sale Venue: GD
Listing type: Premium Listings
Listing upgrades: NA
Asking price:$58
Sale price:$58
Purchase price:$8
Details: Hand reg 1 year ago with no renewal. Sold under $100 as condensing my portfolio. Sold a few days ago. I noticed purchased by someone in China with a random registrant name?
 
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Domain name: B///I///O///F///E///N///S///E
Sale Venue: Brandbucket
Sale price: Around mid X,XXX$ - 30% commission to BB - 200$ logo design
Purchase price: Hand Reg + cost 10$ to list on BB
Details: Bought it 2 months ago.
NO FURTHER DETAILS
 
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Domain name: D///U///U///R///A
Sale Venue: Brandbucket
Sale price: Low X,XXX$ - 30% commission to BB - 100$ logo design
Purchase price: Hand Reg + cost 10$ to list on BB
Details: Bought it 1 month ago.
NO FURTHER DETAILS


Domain name: F///U///N///D///A///M///E///N///T///A///L///.///X///Y///Z
Sale Venue: GD
Sale price: 7/9/5 $ - 20% GD Commision
Purchase price: 1 USD
Details: Bought it 9 month ago.
NO FURTHER DETAILS
 
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Basically, it was a matter of standing strong in my boots right from the start. Here's how the process went...

It was a young lady who first emailed me with a very brief message: "would you consider selling this domain name?" That's all there was. This strongly indicated to me that this was a VERY serious, interested party. Why? Basic human psychology. Most offers that come through ramble on and either made an offer or ask for a price right from the start. I felt this was someone who knew how to play the game -- they wanted ME to make the first move in the price war.

I decided to NOT respond to that first email to test my theory. If they WERE as interested in the name as I suspected, they would ask again soon. Sure enough, 3 days later I received another email with another very brief message asking the same question as before. I waited 2 days this time then replied with "I wouldn't rule it out, but it would have to be a very substantial offer as I'm currently using this domain for my business. Have a nice day."

The next day, an even shorter email from her: "What is 'substantial?'" I replied the next day with "I would not consider any offers of less than $12,000."

Several days later she emailed me with: "Is there any way you could take $4,000 for it?" (Now mind you, I knew I had a serious buyer on my hands at this point, and it was time to really play the game). I waited several days to let them sweat a bit and let them wonder if I dropped the issue because of their low offer. I finally replied to the lady with: "I'm sorry, but as I mentioned last week, I can't consider any offers of less than $12,000 as I am using this for my business".

She replied within hours this time (I sensed she was growing impatient) and said: "Can I have my boyfriend call you? He's better at negotiating".

Now THERE'S a dead giveaway! I gave her my phone number, and the next day I got the call from a very friendly down-to-earth gentleman: "Hi Gene, me and my girlfriend are starting a business and we're interested in your domain name. I could pay you $5,000 right now... and use escrow.com for the transaction -- I'll even pay the fees".

At this point I acted like I was growing very impatient. I explained to him everything I told his 'girlfriend', and nicely said g'bye.

Because of many things he said in our conversation, I suspected that this 'couple' were actually working for a major corp somewhere, acting as a mom & pop business.

He called the next day and left a message on my answering machine (I was expecting this would happen, so I didn't pick up the phone). "Hey Gene, we've been thinking about it and we decided we could go up to $10,000. Please let me know if we can make a deal -- call me as soon as you can".

I waited 2 days, called him back and after a bit of small-talk I said "it's been nice talking with you and I really wish you well in your new venture, but $12,000 is my absolute lowest starting point". (notice the key words "starting point"... I intentionally used those words so as to give the impression that I may even try to negotiate a higher price if you gave me time to think about it!). I got off the phone quickly, and waited for him to make his last move. He called that evening and accepted the $12,000 price. He began the escrow, I transferred the domain and I had the bank-check in hand about 10 days later.

Patience is your best friend in this business!

Gene

which proves the phrase right - you dont start to earn money until you say no

in a sales situation its knowing how to ask for the order and then say absolutely nothing and see how long that the silence lasts because the first person to speak after the silence that follows asking for the order loses eg if sales guy {lost the sale} if customer {customer signs order and a sale is made}

in your case saying no earnt you $8000 well done
 
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A few domains we have sold (reaching out via outbound) over the past 48 hours, include the following:

FleetManagementService.co.uk - £200
TaxResolutionServices.net - $200
ContractorLeads.net - $250
BusinessPhoneNumbers.co.uk - £200

Acquisition cost of names: under $40.

the fleet one and business domains are worth considerably more i reckon

someone got themselves a couple of bargains

but they are the sort of domain names i tend to buy { but i do like to buy them at £6.99 tho lol
 
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MakeupInstructions/dot/com $180 Flippa

Bought for $10 on godaddy auctions
 
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Congrats!
Did you done any marketing or just put the domain at Flippa?

Thanks! I attempted some outbound, however I don't think it had much effect. Also no premium listings but the auction got a lot of natural traction to my surprise.
 
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Thanks! I attempted some outbound, however I don't think it had much effect. Also no premium listings but the auction got a lot of natural traction to my surprise.
That will help :$:
 
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Domain name: D/Q/N/O.com
Sale Venue: Godaddy
Listing type: BIN
Listing upgrades: --
Sale price: $500
Purchase price: $92
 
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Domain name: D/Q/N/O.com
Sale Venue: Godaddy
Listing type: BIN
Listing upgrades: --
Sale price: $500
Purchase price: $92

You got a good deal purchasing that! Where did you pick it up?
 
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