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New/Jersey/Brewery(dot)com for $100.

Someone will say: not worth mentioning…
As long as you feel positive after the sale, its worth mentioning. They all cant be $xxxx sales and every sale makes you want to work harder and get more domains.... :xf.smile:
 
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Every end user sale is worth mentioning even if a name is sold for a loss, unless ofcourse there is an NDA.


not really.. if the domain sold for cheap when it was actually worth 5 times or more of the sales price, then you are essentially devaluing the market because of a hasty decision or small quick profit..
 
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MegaScreens.com, sold at undeveloped (make offer) for $390 to a guy for his start-up, $347 after commission and held for just a few months

probaby worth $2000 - 3500 buddy... sometimes it's worth holding for 1-2 years and getting 10 times the amount.. that was a great name
 
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probaby worth $2000 - 3500 buddy... sometimes it's worth holding for 1-2 years and getting 10 times the amount.. that was a great name
Exactly, try to buy it back from the "startup "you will understand better.
 
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probaby worth $2000 - 3500 buddy... sometimes it's worth holding for 1-2 years and getting 10 times the amount.. that was a great name

Exactly, try to buy it back from the "startup "you will understand better.

I'll definitely learn a lesson from this. I'm a relatively new domainer with quite a small portfolio, so sales don't come very often, and $350 is money in the bank that can churn out new and hopefulley better names.
P.s I wanted to research the buyer, but that isn't that easy if they don't contact you by email or something similar. On undeveloped you only get their username when they make an inquiry
 
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....sales don't come very often, and $350 is money in the bank that can churn out new and hopefulley better names.

Exactly. Don't beat yourself up over this low sale, you did good, you got a real sale, so many domainers never make one. Move on to the next one with knowledge from this sale.
 
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MegaScreens.com, sold at undeveloped (make offer) for $390 to a guy for his start-up, $347 after commission and held for just a few months
Well...for such a good name this sold really cheap. You should set your default starting offer to $500+ for your good names, and learn to hold longer.
 
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I'll definitely learn a lesson from this. I'm a relatively new domainer with quite a small portfolio, so sales don't come very often, and $350 is money in the bank that can churn out new and hopefulley better names.
P.s I wanted to research the buyer, but that isn't that easy if they don't contact you by email or something similar. On undeveloped you only get their username when they make an inquiry

That's one more reason for you to not use undeveloped.com's landing pages. use efty or bodis or above.com
 
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That's one more reason for you to not use undeveloped.com's landing pages. use efty or bodis or above.com
Are you saying more sale comes from efty, bodis or above.com?
 
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Are you saying more sale comes from efty, bodis or above.com?

Nope. Sent the text below to another member, pasting here for you.

Undeveloped takes 10% commission for nothing.. you can use any free landing page service and then use any escrow service and in the end you will pay no more than 3.25%. Why pay 10% to undeveloped for nothing? except not being able to see the buyer's email leading to no research on who the buyer is.

Efty is a landing page + marketplace service charging $84/year only. It doesn't take any commission on sales and shows IP address and email of the buyer

If you don't want to pay $84/year for efty you can use the awesome above.com landing pages too. But I need a marketplace/website to create trust with buyers so I have to use efty. If I could create a wordpress site I would do that but maybe that'll cost more than $84 + time consuming.

btw I myself have never tried above.com so I am unaware of any hidden costs, do your research.. Bodis.com on the other hand charges 0 fees, and it's very fast too.
 
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Nice domain name, Bi is great keyword for Chinese as its means to "Coin".

I used to own a 5L. com with the first 4 letters of this domain with an a on the end

I let it expire

lol

it has since been bought and is now in use
 
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I disagree on the purchase price; I think it was/is a bargain at $300 as well at $500.
This domain sold for 10k in 2012 and is registered in over 100 extensions.
I should have renewed it to 2025 and sit on it instead of (impulsivly) throwing it on Flippa.

I agree that you should have sat on it for a while.. and wait for offers or set higher bin price.. if you believed it could fetch more down the road.

sometimes past sales will not guarantee future sales though. it happens often enough.

personally I'd not have paid it $300. some will agree, some will not.

but perhaps if you auction it, and add 250$ in list fees, and still end up with $500 final price.. it could go more toward showing its value is currently very far from the 10k it once sold for.

but even then, doesn't mean some enduser down the line, who needs this specific name, would not pay thousands for it. via buynow or makeoffer.. which I assume is how it sold for 10k in 2012.

I think lesson to learn from this for me at least would be to not always rely on past sales when buying a name again.

jmo

gl
 
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I was not sure whether I should put it in news or in domain sales, but I have uncovered prices for 5 of the 6 sales in the package of .news names announced last month. They sold for $19,166 each, registry sale from Donuts to WebSeed. The details, including how I found the unannounced prices, are in this link:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/prices-for-news-domains-in-webseed-package-deal-uncovered.1094561/

The names were science, food, health, medicine, pollution, climate and cancer all in the .news extension. I was not able to confirm the price of medicine, but all of the others were within a dollar of each other.
 
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I was not sure whether I should put it in news or in domain sales, but I have uncovered prices for 5 of the 6 sales in the package of .news names announced last month. They sold for $19,166 each, registry sale from Donuts to WebSeed. The details, including how I found the unannounced prices, are in this link:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/prices-for-news-domains-in-webseed-package-deal-uncovered.1094561/

The names were science, food, health, medicine, pollution, climate and cancer all in the .news extension. I was not able to confirm the price of medicine, but all of the others were within a dollar of each other.
Sounds like a speculator wasting their money.
 
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Sounds like a speculator wasting their money.

Well it is not a domain speculator, all of the sites are fully operational and purchased by an end user. However, with the questionable authority of the information on them it is not obvious to me that they will attract significant traffic and make economic sense, so in that I agree paying this much was speculative.
 
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bmf.............biz

gd makeoffer 250$.....

I regged this on gd 1$ biz promo 2 weeks ago..
from expired daily lists I check regularly
How did you know that 3L.biz sells? I've seen these in auction here and they go unbidded.
 
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How did you know that 3L.biz sells? I've seen these in auction here and they go unbidded.
Most domains auctioned here go unbidded.:-P
 
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How did you know that 3L.biz sells? I've seen these in auction here and they go unbidded.

if you check sales.. 3l.biz does not really sell. and my sale does nothing to change those poor overall selling averages of 3l.biz... I just liked the letters in this one. but in all honesty, I would have passed right by it 100%... if it was not 1$ promo... this is definitely not the kind of stuff I'd reg for full price around $10 or so..

there are some names you can buy or reg where potential of sale can be a bit more.. predictable.. with enough domaining experience on your side etc.. but for something like 3l.biz .. its really not predictable at all.. unless its something like big.biz top.biz... etc... but thats a whole different story....

hope this helps.
cheers
 
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Two keywords quite appealing separately but, when brought together seems counter-productive.
I suppose it's for a fin. company that grows and protects investments but, from a branding point of view it seems suggestive of 'Shields you from Growth'.

it could mean that... or imo it means the shield that protects your growth.. making it bigger and stronger. I actually quite like it.. but.. as you implied... there was also a reason why it was just a relatively recent handreg... rather than a 10-20 year old name..
 
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I just liked the letters
You liked the letter & you win. There was another person who liked that letter & paid you $250.

Thats how domaining work, Congrats!
 
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it could mean that... or imo it means the shield that protects your growth.. making it bigger and stronger. I actually quite like it.. but.. as you implied... there was also a reason why it was just a relatively recent handreg... rather than a 10-20 year old name..
Whichever way we choose to look at it, the idea is to take the guesswork out of the equation.
When i looked for similar brands i found PestShield, DroneShield, which ironically provides protection from drones and not the other way around and there was also MyLandlordShield, which is funny coz for a sec i wanted to think that it was a service which provided protection for defaulting tenants and tips on how to dodge the landlord.haha
 
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