ebru.com has a bid 1,200,000 euros!

Jurgen Wolf said:

Usually, in most cases, companies spend $500K+ for the domains where type-in traffic is high or very high...
Ebru.com monthly traffic is just ~250 visits (with all bots) according to Sedo stats...
1.25M EUR - TRUE waste of money for such domain. But I agree, all rules have exceptions.

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ebru is similar to anna, emma, lucy and other 4L female names. Type-in traffic can be misleading. You should check how many extensions are taken, how old the domain is.

Just a few extensions are taken... and some of them are taken today.
Can't be comparable to Anna at all. As dog and Elephant.

Jurgen Wolf said:

Usually, in most cases, companies spend $500K+ for the domains where type-in traffic is high or very high...
Ebru.com monthly traffic is just ~250 visits (with all bots) according to Sedo stats...
1.25M EUR - TRUE waste of money for such domain. But I agree, all rules have exceptions.

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So here goes....

List a domain for 1 million

Buy it from yourself and give about 100k to market place for commission.

Resell it two years later for 900k and someone will snap it up as a bargain, based on previous sales history.

Net profit about 800k

Pretty smart when you think about it !!!!!

How much you want to bet its been done?

MapleDots said:

So here goes....

List a domain for 1 million

Buy it from yourself and give about 100k to market place for commission.

Resell it two years later for 900k and someone will snap it up as a bargain, based on previous sales history.

Net profit about 800k

Pretty smart when you think about it !!!!!

How much you want to bet its been done?

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You can do it to some extent, within a reasonable margin. In the end it's not a random domain, is a 20 years old 4L .com.

Plus, most domainers take publicly disclosed sales very seriously. But noone knows undisclosed, private sales. The biggest misleading info is the past sales info open to the public. Namebio shows that the most expensive 4L domain is fund.com with $10M. Do you really believe it? I mean do you really believe there is no 4L that was sold for $11 million or more?

Nowadays .com sales are significantly lower (on average) than the past sales.
It is trending down... slowly but surely...

Nobody has really explained why someone would push an almost $1.5M offer into auction for a week, and not close, and get paid immediately.

I have seen one word .com's, like True.com sell for a fraction of this, something does not add up here.

We will see in June... "who" and "why"...

wwwweb said:

Nobody has really explained why someone would push an almost $1.5M offer into auction for a week, and not close, and get paid immediately.

I have seen one word .com's, like True.com sell for a fraction of this, something does not add up here.

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I offered 25k for a pronounceable 4 letter .com via namepros not too long ago and was turned down. No offer anywhere near since.

MapleDots said:

I offered 25k for a pronounceable 4 letter .com via namepros not too long ago and was turned down. No offer anywhere near since.

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$25K is a respectable offer for namepros, but we are talking $1.5M here, the seller had the option to accept, and start the payment process, or push it to auction for a week in hopes someone will pay higher.

Given the seller of the domain has their domains listed on sedo, I wouldn't classify them as an end user, sure their have been points made about the geo value of this specific word, but I am skeptical.

I hope it goes thru, will only increase values, and is a great comp story to tell low ballers.

wwwweb said:

Nobody has really explained why someone would push an almost $1.5M offer into auction for a week, and not close, and get paid immediately.

I have seen one word .com's, like True.com sell for a fraction of this, something does not add up here.

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I tried to explain it. The buyer can be an end user with lots of money. As to other domains like true.com, it depends on market conditions during the auction and how many potential end-users were informed about the auction. I visited true.com, it was developed as a part of a car company. "True" and "car", does it really sound relevant? So I can assume not all possible end users were informed about the sales of true.com, therefore the end price was low.

If this domain was on namepros, It would be lucky to get $1.5K, let alone $1.5M

I had an aggressive godaddy broker ask about FCNI in King, end letter is i... his offer was $1K, I replied back with like $18K, and he told me to counter back with something more reasonable...I was like sorry, your buyer is not being realistic, obviously nothing got done, as it wasn't happening, so many of us who have some 4L's, it's really hard to understand, why someone wouldn't want to wrap it up, and close the deal.

Majority of end users have lots of money, but it is not solely for the purpose of acquiring domain names.

Yes, but even endusers with lots of money are NOT full idiots...
I don't believe in theory that someone suddenly decided to risk on 1.25M EUR when already exists another serious company with TM on this name...

I think I will list all my 4L's on sedo with a BIN of $1M, and just let it ride.

Abnormal sales are happening yearly...
They have no any impact on the aftermarket overall... and should be not considered as benchmark.

wwwweb said:

I think I will list all my 4L's on sedo with a BIN of $1M, and just let it ride.

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Max. allowed BIN at Sedo is $50K, as I know.
Higher BINs only after ordering their appraisal.

wwwweb said:

If this domain was on namepros, It would be lucky to get $1.5K, let alone $1.5M

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1.5k is high a lot of them can be picked up around 2-3 hundred bucks

Except .TV, another possible buyer ebru.com.tr
But I'm not sure that they can spend 1.25M EUR...

1.2 million dollar is very little price for most medium to big companies. They will never try to buy cheap price lll, different extensions or another awkward domain that a domainer think best for them. This is one of reasons they are different, they are brand.

Galaxy Traveller said:

1.2 million dollar is very little price for most medium to big companies. They will never try to buy cheap price lll, different extensions or another awkward domain that a domainer think best for them. This is one of reasons they are different, they are brand.

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$10K - standard price (budget) per domain for Google.
If seller rejects - then UDRP or regular court, or bye-bye.

Regarding Facebook...
~ the same policy... but slightly higher than Google... up to $25K per domain.

Jurgen Wolf said:

Regarding Facebook...
~ the same policy... but slightly higher than Google... up to $25K per domain.

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Facebook paid $50K for work.place

Yes, they can pay more... if their motivation is high and no any chances to dispute the targeted domain.
But usually (majority of their purchases) - within ranges I mentioned above.

Jurgen Wolf said:

Yes, they can pay more... if their motivation is high and no any chances to dispute the targeted domain.
But usually (majority of their purchases) - within ranges I mentioned above.

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Facebook only bother if the word Facebook on it. Google even allow adsense for domain which contains the word Google.

I'm not talking about "Facebook/Google" domains...
These 2 companies are buying various domains according to their goals and projects... and in many TLDs.

The same can be said about Microsoft portfolio.

Jurgen Wolf said:

$10K - standard price (budget) per domain for Google.
If seller rejects - then UDRP or regular court, or bye-bye.

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If they try to protect their brand from evil hand, why not? By the way Facebook bought fb.com and the deal was millions dollar.