various Report Completed Domain Name Sales Here

RJ · Apr 19, 2005

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

Suggested template (bold details are required):

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.

GoWebnames.com · Oct 24, 2016

JudgeMind said:
Or is owner of site guuru.io

Yup, that seems to be the case. thx

Arca · Oct 25, 2016

iTerminal said:
Great name, great sale! If you don't mind me asking, how did you acquire the domain? Was there an auction?

I discovered the domain when it was in “pre-release” status at NameJet.com, where it had 0 bids. I was going to place an order for the domain in the last 10 seconds of the pre-release period, in order to get it without anyone else noticing/also backordering it. If you place an order in advance with NameJet, 10-40 other bidders are, on average, going to place an order for it too (depending on how far in advance you place the backorder). Since NJ backorders are public to everyone, and lots of domainers backorder (and later bid on) every single domain that someone else has already backordered at NameJet, it's nearly impossible to get a good price in this way.

However, it turned out that I wouldn't be free to “snipe” backorder the domain just before the end of the pre-release period on that day, so I decided to take my chances and bet that nobody else would backorder it, so that it would go to "pending delete" instead. If I had place a backorder in advance, I would have to bid against a bunch of other bidders, and probably wouldn’t have won the name anyway.

Eventually nobody backordered the domain when it was in pre-release at NJ, and when it went to pending delete I placed backorders for it and caught it on the drop. Apparently I was the only one who discovered/saw value in the name as it went through two rounds of availability without anyone else backordering it at either stage!

DnSpy · Oct 25, 2016

W/A/L/L/E/T/S. INFO - $600
E/PI/C/G/U/I/D/E. C/O/M - $365

Sold on Flippa

AlokDomain · Oct 25, 2016

Arca said:
I discovered the domain when it was in “pre-release” status at NameJet.com, where it had 0 bids. I was going to place an order for the domain in the last 10 seconds of the pre-release period, in order to get it without anyone else noticing/also backordering it. If you place an order in advance with NameJet, 10-40 other bidders are, on average, going to place an order for it too (depending on how far in advance you place the backorder). Since NJ backorders are public to everyone, and lots of domainers backorder (and later bid on) every single domain that someone else has already backordered at NameJet, it's nearly impossible to get a good price in this way.

However, it turned out that I wouldn't be free to “snipe” backorder the domain just before the end of the pre-release period on that day, so I decided to take my chances and bet that nobody else would backorder it, so that it would go to "pending delete" instead. If I had place a backorder in advance, I would have to bid against a bunch of other bidders, and probably wouldn’t have won the name anyway.

Eventually nobody backordered the domain when it was in pre-release at NJ, and when it went to pending delete I placed backorders for it and caught it on the drop. Apparently I was the only one who discovered/saw value in the name as it went through two rounds of availability without anyone else backordering it at either stage!

Excellent...

JudgeMind · Oct 25, 2016

DnSpy said:
W/A/L/L/E/T/S. INFO - $600
E/PI/C/G/U/I/D/E. C/O/M - $365

Sold on Flippa

Buy any upgrades?

DnSpy · Oct 25, 2016

Yeah . Purchased ads on Namebio for one week each ($70)

mattG · Oct 25, 2016

Volted (.) com

Sale Price: $2499 at Afternic

Asking Price: BIN of $3595 with a minimum offer of $1500
Purchase price: Low $xxx here (Name Pros) about 6 weeks ago.

Details: The name was forwarded to my Afternic BIN/make offer page. I sent out a few (maybe 10) outbound emails. The message was very simple and instructed the party to visit Afternic if they had interest in acquiring the name.

pchip · Oct 25, 2016

mattG said:
Volted (.) com

Sale Price: $2499 at Afternic

Asking Price: BIN of $3595 with a minimum offer of $1500
Purchase price: Low $xxx here (Name Pros) about 6 weeks ago.

Details: The name was forwarded to my Afternic BIN/make offer page. I sent out a few (maybe 10) outbound emails. The message was very simple and instructed the party to visit Afternic if they had interest in acquiring the name.

Congrats on the great flip! Although, I don't really understand your logic in directing people to Afternic - why not an escrow page. You did all of the work and now you want to share your revenue with someone else. If you bring the end user to the table, Afternic/Sedo/etc... provide no real value in scenarios like this IMO.

dnsolutions · Oct 25, 2016

Sold: Studio360VR.com
Price: 500 USD
Platform: GoDaddy Premium Listings

thekiller · Oct 25, 2016

pchip said:
Congrats on the great flip! Although, I don't really understand your logic in directing people to Afternic - why not an escrow page. You did all of the work and now you want to share your revenue with someone else. If you bring the end user to the table, Afternic/Sedo/etc... provide no real value in scenarios like this IMO.

Probably people will trust the US company than individual?

mattG · Oct 25, 2016

pchip said:
Congrats on the great flip! Although, I don't really understand your logic in directing people to Afternic - why not an escrow page. You did all of the work and now you want to share your revenue with someone else. If you bring the end user to the table, Afternic/Sedo/etc... provide no real value in scenarios like this IMO.

Afternic makes the transfer process extremely easy for the buyer and seller. For those buyers who are unfamiliar with the process, knowing that the payment and transfer process is very simple, might make their decision to buy a little bit easier IMO.

Also, I spent very little time on the outbound, maybe an 30-45mins. The domain was within the 60day transfer lock and with a registrar that is not part of their network. Afternic handled all of this, no questions asked and I had $ in my account in less than 1 week.

DnSpy · Oct 26, 2016

mattG said:
Afternic makes the transfer process extremely easy for the buyer and seller. For those buyers who are unfamiliar with the process, knowing that the payment and transfer process is very simple, might make their decision to buy a little bit easier IMO.

Also, I spent very little time on the outbound, maybe an 30-45mins. The domain was within the 60day transfer lock and with a registrar that is not part of their network. Afternic handled all of this, no questions asked and I had $ in my account in less than 1 week.

Why not your own landing page like efty ? You are driving the traffic to your page. So you can negotiate yourself and could have saved $500 commission

Dimitris · Oct 26, 2016

Dimitris said:
3 more sales, all this and last week, I will update the names soon, stay tuned

1 name for $3,500 via DomainNameSales / Uniregistry - B l a c k H a t S e c u r i t y com
1 name for $3,695 via BB - pending complete
1 name for $1,995 via BB - V O H U B com

HankTheAngryDwarf · Oct 26, 2016

mymed.com $25,000
sedo.com
cost a xxx few years ago

CakeCode · Oct 26, 2016

HankTheAngryDwarf said:
mymed.com $25,000
sedo.com
cost a xxx few years ago

Great Sale bud
did you do any promotional upgrades for the domain ?
was it sold at BIN or Offers
Also how long have you listed it with SEDO before the sale happend

iTerminal · Oct 26, 2016

HankTheAngryDwarf said:
mymed.com $25,000
sedo.com
cost a xxx few years ago

Fantastic sale! Two questions for you...how long was the negotiation process, and were there other offers which you declined in the years you held the domain? This is the kind of information we can learn from.

Al Cohol · Oct 27, 2016

HankTheAngryDwarf said:
mymed.com $25,000
sedo.com
cost a xxx few years ago

Everything about that post from your username to your sale is a grand slam.

Awesome job!

tvanrijt · Oct 27, 2016

Sold: D/o/c/t/o.org
Purchase price: reg fee august 2016
Sale platform: Outbound emails
Quoted price: $190
Final price: $190

This to me was the best lead so I didnt want to lose it by quoting a price too high. I did 1 outbound round in early august, forgot about it, suddenly got a reply a few days ago with a price request.

I might have been able to get a higher price, but in fairness this domain was mainly useful to refer to their current website and this price was a good price for both me and the buyer.

Buyer was very happy with the sale and how the transaction went and hoped to do business in the future. Always good to hear people think positive about us domainers.

platey · Oct 27, 2016

mattG said:
Afternic makes the transfer process extremely easy for the buyer and seller. For those buyers who are unfamiliar with the
process, knowing that the payment and transfer process is very simple, might make their decision to buy a little bit easier IMO.

Also, I spent very little time on the outbound, maybe an 30-45mins. The domain was within the 60day transfer lock and with a registrar that is not part of their network. Afternic handled all of this, no questions asked and I had $ in my account in less than 1 week.

what are after fees?

Although transferring within 60 lock and short process is sometimes worth paying extra for

mattG · Oct 27, 2016

platey said:
what are after fees?

Although transferring within 60 lock and short process is sometimes worth paying extra for

20%

TheFifty9Sound · Oct 27, 2016

(Also posted this in the wearable tech niche thread.)

alcy · Oct 28, 2016

just a little quick flip sale on a $1 recent buy domain

hempdot(.com)

$100.. inbound email contact

JudgeMind · Oct 28, 2016

alcy said:
just a little quick flip sale on a $1 recent buy domain

hempdot(.com)

$100.. inbound email contact

Decent ROI

alcy · Oct 28, 2016

JudgeMind said:
Decent ROI

hehehe

I'd say roi is above decent
maybe decent or below decent is the domain name
imo

but you never shy away from quick flips either I think so thanks for the note of approval

far as I know... not many keywordDot.com sales around.. from a quick namebio check I did.
can't get too greedy about this syntax imo

cheers, thanks.

Haris · Oct 28, 2016

Domain name: Revolution/Drone dot com
Sale venue: Sedo
Listing type: BIN
Listing upgrades: None
Seller: Me
Asking price: $199
Sale price: $199
Purchase venue: Newbie handreg
Purchase price: regfee + transfer out fees

Details: This is my first Sedo sale. The domain along with 100+ domains in my portfolio were listed with BIN for about 9 months. The domain was a newbie handreg at Names.co.uk registrar. It was going to expire in less than a month and I would've let it expire. The domain was forwarding to AfterNic, the BIN at AfterNic was $99 while the BIN at Sedo was $199. The buyer didn't ever cared to visit the domain. The domain sold through Tucows (Sedo MLS Partner).

The domain was handregged but cost me more than regfee. As Names.co.uk doesn't unlock the domain and doesn't gives the authorization code unless we pay a 12 GBP transfer out fees. After Sedo's $60 commission I received $139. Congrats @Haris100

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