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Haha.
In my opinion his opening offer of 15k is more appropriate than 500k..

It's all about making cents not sense, Uber could've bought Taxi.com or Cab.com but just look at those sites rotting away! Creative minds think outside of the box.
 
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Haha.
In my opinion his opening offer of 15k is more appropriate than 500k.... if you take out the Home.Loans sale, where are the comparables?

I was the highest bidder at Namescon for Business.Loans - 10k unsold.... Live auctions are subject to inflated prices as well.

I am not a supporter of new gtlds but I love it when people register them because it helps "us domainers" in terms of pigeon shi* theory :zippermouth:
 
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It's all about making cents not sense, Uber could've bought Taxi.com or Cab.com but just look at those sites rotting away! Creative minds think outside of the box.
Firstly they don't want to be associated with the "Taxi" or "Cab" business. They have a different business model.
Secondly, they wouldn't have been able to acquire those domains when they were a true startup anyway... Once they've developed a brand around "Uber" then nothing is more powerful than Uber.com....

Completely different situation.
 
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Firstly they don't want to be associated with the "Taxi" or "Cab" business. They have a different business model.
Secondly, they wouldn't have been able to acquire those domains when they were a true startup anyway.

Back to your question of Why? You just answered it! :woot:
 
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Back to your question of Why? You just answered it! :woot:
They created a great .com brand though. Uber is such a strong name... Completely different situation.
 
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They created a great .com brand though. Uber is such a strong name... Completely different situation.
Chances are VacationRentals.com will acquire Vacation.Rentals when they sense threat from a "True Visionary Startup" but that's just a speculation....
 
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They created a great .com brand though. Uber is such a strong name... Completely different situation.

BTW in reality Uber's 87% contract drivers are x-taxi drivers, sheep's in lions skin. First hand experience & knowledge in Uber Black, X, Taxi and Freight which I can't share on this forum. I totally agree with you on BRAND POWER!
 
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Thanks for the video and update! I've shared it on my Facebook and Twitter as well.

For me personally, these sales are such great news, as I have focused on new gTLDs since Feb 2014.
 
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15:10 if you can't afford a Ferrari you buy a Corolla. You'll cover the same distance but not as fast the Ferrari will.

You also won't get propositioned in your Corolla :)
 
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You also won't get propositioned in your Corolla :)

Ferrari attracts Gold Diggers and Corolla brings True love :xf.wink:

 
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I've already posted this Rick Schwartz post in another thread but it deserves to be here in this thread as well. I appreciate he's not to everyones taste. But he does seem to sum-up what is going to (and already is) undermining the whole Ntld perspective .. if domainers can't trust them, why should end business users feel more confident.


Rick Shwartz says

april 15th 2018

A lot of these companies have an interesting relationship with the truth and/or proof. These folks have been BS’ing us for many years for their own self absorbed financial interests at the expense of GULLIBLE domainers! Believe NOTHING!

Notice that very few domainers have ANY GTLD sales after how many years and 30 million registrations? Almost every sale is either a direct registry sale or a registry ordered auction. Some with questionable results.

They all wanted the same result as .com but these companies clawed back every possibly value combination they could think of. MANY after a DOMAINER actually registered the domain and the registry decided it was too valuable and clawed it back after the fact. After it was bought and paid for. DISGUSTING PRACTICE! These companies have no honor. If they make a mistake, YOU, the domainer are always the ones getting screwed. And even so, when combined they still sell very few!

They all want to be .com and not ONE has copied the .com playbook. Good luck with that. The only ones they are fooling are domainer wannabees and fools.

In time, these worthless gtld domains will just be redirected to a REAL .COM domain name! Just look at the history! They FAIL each and every time! GTLD’s should come with a warning label! Caution, you might lose MOST of your traffic to the .com counterpart. You may be building someone else’s business instead of your own!

Meanwhile what percentage of these reported sales are truly genuine? And genuine means, $$$ changed hands and if there were any other perks, ad dollars or ANY OTHER consideration, rebate, refund etc included in the deal that was not reported.

GTLD’s are an unwanted, unneeded product with virtually no market other than foolish domainers looking for the second coming and going broke! SAD!

Such anti-ngtld posts made by Rick Schwartz, Mike Mann as well as other big .com domainers resulted in losing the fortune in ngtld space to those who listened to them, and winning the fortune to those who didn't.
 
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Some folk will always say "content is king" So if you are able to create unique content and offer a viable service you are in with a shot. A couple of great sales do not make a trend at this point, However I do wish the buyer good luck and success!
 
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Interesting that the buyer owns Boat.Rentals and Land.Rentals... They don't seem to be ranking very high when I search the terms in google though...

Also sounds like a bit of an impulse buy. The buyer describes how he instantly picked up the phone and called Uniregistry upon notification that it was available... Within 5 minutes of knowing the domain was available he offered 15K, then Brooke countered at 650K... Within 30 seconds, and while still on the phone, the buyer then increased his offer to 500K!?! ... Brooke must have jumped out of her seat.

i bought

Stillage.rentals

For

£10
 
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Oh the joys

Already getting bods telling me my

Above mentioned .rentals gtld

Needs to get in the search engines

Lol

Doh

I should really reply back and say

How bout you actually understand what a long term domain name investor foes

Eg buys it and does absolutely nothing with it and just sits on it

And as such it does not need to appear in search engines

i dont need website design seo or logo design and all that rubbish

I may start using an email that charges website and seo and logo emails £50 per email to send the rubbish
 
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