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Domain investor Mike Mann is back, posting new details of high value domain sales this week, and has revealed over $70,000 worth of sales publicly. Mr Mann has been in the news recently after publishing his views on new gTLDs and their worth in relation to .COM domain names; something that has sparked debate throughout social media and domain blogs.

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Posting to his Twitter account this week, Mike revealed a total of three domain names that have sold for a combined total of $77,776, with the total acquisition price being $915.50 for the three domains.

The largest sale of the three is that of PersonalPlanner.com for $43,000, which Mike purchased in November 2008 for $900. According to WHOIS, this domain name sold via Sedo and is currently in Sedo's Escrow account.

There is one likely buyer for this domain name - a Swedish company called Personlig Almanacka, which operates a popular site on Personal-Planner.com. I wouldn't be surprised to see this company taking action and upgrading their domain name.

The second largest sale is that of a three-word .COM, which Mann hand registered in 2010 for $8. The domain, CareYourWay.com, was sold for $24,888 and looks to have been transferred to its new owners already, as it's under privacy at GoDaddy.

The phrase "CareYourWay" has been registered in all major gTLD variants that are listed on DomainTools.com. The .ORG is actively used by St Luke's University Health Network, and both the .NET and .US were registered by a company called Rockwell Financial LLC in 2015.

The third sale that Mike announced is WorldsBestVideo.com, which he sold for $9,888 after registering it in 2009 for $7.50. While Mike sold this name, he still owns WorldsBestVideos.com, which has a Buy Now price of $24,888.

The name was acquired by an individual from Texas who has also registered a number of related domains recently, including GreatestOnlineVideo.us and UniverseGreatestVideos.info.

Alongside the news of these three sales, Mike also revealed this week that the average sales price on his marketplace, DomainMarket.com, has increased and is now around the $3,000 mark.
 
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What?!...

With those names?

Magic I tell you, Magic!
 
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Mike Mann is a truly inspirational icon who shows us that any domainer can get ridiculously high prices for mediocre domains if they can afford to sit on hundreds of thousands of domain names for many years.
 
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It comes down to patience and belief that the domain will get end user. That's what new domainer needs.
 
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Can you imagine the high of selling CareYourWay.com for $25k, essentially a lottery ticket
 
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Well done that MaNN. Most of us wouldn't even look twice at a three word .com
Which teaches us a valuable lesson on insight.

Lets all take a moment and look at the domains we have in our possession.
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I took a look at mine, and iam sure it will sell(and the cycle repeats...)
 
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I may be wrong but I think he leases/runs a few sites and names to cover costs
 
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He is great Mike Mann.
All you need is super duper marketing skills, time & patience.
 
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CareYourWay.com for $25K, enough said he is the MANN

I don't think he has a million domains, close to 300,000

That's correct, he has 268,146 domains currently (assuming his excel sheet is up to date) ;)
268,146 domains equals around 2.3 million in renewal costs each year. Since his average sales price is $3,000 that means he needs to sell around 760 domains each year simply to break even. That boils down to 63 domain sales per month or at least two $3K domain sales each day. I'm sure he still makes a profit though (but I doubt he'll ever share how much).
 
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I think Mr Mann has some help from above in finding buyers for his domains.
I have some reasonable .coms and i cannot even get 1 bid

domainflippr.com
browserbuyers.com
makeitbrandable.com
thesocialsingles.com
midlifeflatmates.com
thelaunderer.com
plonkd.com
jennerr.com
wepayyoutolose.com
theultimatebid.com
mobilevideoads.com
howtobrandyourname.com
terump.com
 
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Domaining is a numbers game, folks. The more domain names you have registered, the greater the odds you are going to make a sale each day. It's not magic, it's probability.
 
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he has over a million domains; so he needs 40k sales in order to pay for renewals; If you had a million domains you would be getting multiple mid five figure sales as well. Take into consideration he also sells names for few grand as well.

As far as I know, he owns around 275K domain names and not into millions.
 
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Domaining is a numbers game, folks. The more domain names you have registered, the greater the odds you are going to make a sale each day. It's not magic, it's probability.
As long as there are enough quality names in the portfolio... Many newbies fall into the lottery trap, thinking they will increase the odds of making a sale if they buy hundreds or thousands of domains.

But it's hard to compare an average domainer with Mann or Schilling who run large-scale but well-oiled operations. I just wanted to add a word of caution so that people don't take the advice literally.
 
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Not a big profit for him when compared to the amount of domains he has 300,000 and what he pays for renewals 30,00,000 $

Thousands of domains ..and only limited sales

But the sale was good
 
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I noticed most of the high dollar sales are from holdings of 5+years.
Nice sales!
 
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careyourway.com for $24k is impressive.

I think if I was the buyer of worldsbestvideo.com, I'd have wanted the plural as well, as a bundle.
 
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So crappy names :) If someone posted them here in the appraisal section, everyone would tell the guy "grace delete it", "zero value", "regfee imo". The beauty of domaining is that you never know which name sells :)
 
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Does he ever broker for other sellers, say for a 10% cut or whatever? If he is that good, then losing 10% of the sale might be worth it if he can get you twice the price.
 
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Great news

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Brandingjet.com - 500 great single word domains for sale
 
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There is so much talk about renewing a million domains every year. Keep in mind, rich domainers don't bother renewing domains every year, when they can renew domains for 5 - 10 years in advance. Everyone money is not the same folks.
 
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