information Detected: Andrew Rosener Buys Unchained.com; Nat Cohen Sells PartyNow.com...

Bros said:

Unchained.com is awesome, the value of that domain has probably increased massively over the last couple years.

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James Iles said:

James Booth sold the three-letter domain FNE.com. According to WHOIS, the new owner is an Estonian investor.

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tonecas said:

Flippa:

FNE.com seems to have been sold by BIN for $26,000 after several unsuccessful auctions.
https://flippa.com/auctions/8975808/bids

Strangely, the WHOIS for the domain shows James Booth as the owner, but the seller on Flippa is Daniel Errecart from DomainHoldings. Possibly a brokered sale.

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James Iles said:

Braden Pollock acquired Motorized.com and Curlers.com to add to his portfolio of one-word .COM domain names.

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http://www.namejet.com/Pages/Auctions/StandardDetails.aspx?auctionid=3993543

Sold from featured account: http://www.namejet.com/featuredauctions/7pbv4ugj

James Iles said:

Andrew Rosener may have sold the domain Harbor.com after it moved under privacy protection at Uniregistry.

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Andrew: I mean, the only objection I get is price. Ultimately, it always comes down to price. I mean, we were talking to Harbor Freight this morning, trying to sell them Harbor.com. And you know, they’re like…I rarely will tell people the price of a domain when we first solicit them. And so, we’ve got some software that tracks how many times a domain…you know, an email gets looked at, if it gets forwarded, where it goes. And so, it’s like, we sent them, “Hi, we’re bringing Harbor.com to market. Are you interested in buying this domain? Blah, blah, blah.”

And it was like boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. The domain was sent all over the ——- world and 45 people looked at it in the course of two hours in three continents and 400 IP addresses. And it was like…

Michael: Yeah, because you’re tracking it every time you send out the email?

Andrew: Yeah, that’s what I like to see. That’s engagement, right? So good, bad or otherwise, those people got engaged. They were like, “Oh, this is interesting enough to forward to 400 people.” So it’s like okay, boom, they’re interested. Then, they’re like…okay, so ultimately, they come back, “What’s the price?” And I’m straightforward. Ali, in his interview about Freedom.com the other day, said…you know, very…identical strategy to what we do. It’s like, “Put the domain out there, if they’re interested, they’re going to come back and they’re going to say, “What’s the price?”

And then, I go back and very simply, “Here’s the price. If you’ve got any questions or want to make an offer, or…I’m here. If you want to hop on the phone about the…chat for a few minutes, let me know when’s a good time for you.” And sometimes, you never hear from them again. A lot of times, they’re just like, “We’re not even close.” And so, basically like, you know, Harbor…coming back to the example of Harbor Freight, it was like…they were like, “Sorry, we’re way off. We’d pay like $5000 or $10,000.”

And you’re like, “But what are you…?” So the second part of the question is, how do you…you know?

Michael: Right, how do you tackle it?

Andrew: …how do you tackle that?

Michael: How do you educate them that they’re not buying Harbor.com for $5000?

Andrew: So it comes back to what I said earlier, like, only one person online can own the Harbor brand and it’s the guy that’s on Harbor.com. And so, “You guys are a billion-dollar company, you should own your…you should own that brand. You should own Harbor, because you move…” you know, they’re far beyond just freight. They’re in many different things, now. And so, that allows them to not be so pigeon-holed, have a little bit more broader brand.

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James Iles said:

Andrew’s company, Media Options, bought Unchained.com. The domain currently has obvious connotations to blockchain and cryptocurrency technology.

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James Iles said:

Rick Schwartz purchase SelectCoin.com. According to DomainIQ, the name was acquired via a Pheenix auction.

As announced on Twitter, Rick also sold ten three-number .COM domains in a multi-million sale. These domains are:

• 346.com
• 348.com
• 238.com
• 975.com
• 750.com
• 243.com
• 295.com
• 969.com
• 239.com
• 977.com

According to Rick, these domains were purchased for a combined total of $700 in the late 1990s.

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Grilled said:

A few months ago @tonecas wrote about FNE.com selling for $26k on Flippa...





Curlers.com sold for $2,501 via NameJet last month. http://www.namejet.com/Pages/Auctions/StandardDetails.aspx?auctionid=3992099

Motorized.com sold for $2,700 via NameJet earlier this month. http://www.namejet.com/Pages/Auctions/StandardDetails.aspx?auctionid=3993543

Show attachment 73507 Sold from featured account: http://www.namejet.com/featuredauctions/7pbv4ugj



Cool sales @Nat Cohen !



The make offer page hasn't been removed from MO. https://www.mediaoptions.com/brokered-domains/harbor-com

Harbor.com had been discussed on Sherpa HERE



@James Iles - do you know anything else about the sale, or are you just reporting on the WHOIS change?



October 2016 Unchained.com redirected to the below screenshot (courtesy of DomainTools)
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Looking at the historical WHOIS, the owner of Unchained.com was Lendvo LLC on September 15th, 2017. Lendvo.com is in the domain capital business. I don't know much about Lendvo.com. I noticed Lend.me had a Lendvo.com WHOIS in September of 2016.

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Kudos to @Rick Schwartz !

What does one do after making a few million bucks? Go to Disney Land or go on a mission to combat questionable domain auctions? :]

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Grilled said:

@James Iles - do you know anything else about the sale, or are you just reporting on the WHOIS change?

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Bros said:

Unchained.com is awesome, the value of that domain has probably increased massively over the last couple years.

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