discuss Shoes.com sold for $9M and doesn't resolve!

It depends on your IP location.

EU got cut off of many US websites due to GDPR, but some are getting back, for example BestBuy.com, most recently I was able to visit the US site. Before I could visit just Canadian or Mexican site. Another examples Lowes.com - access denied, Homedepot.com - works fine from EU.

They probably block ip’s from countries they don’t do business in. Makes sense, they dont do business where I am at the moment, so I get forbidden also.

Bob Hawkes said:

I think there are legitimate cases where a major sale is made for protective or long term uncertain plans, but still I am surprised how many domain names are sold and not used. This is by no means restricted to high value sales. A surprising number of domain names sold in $$$$ don't seem to get used in a 12 month period (I have run a bit of data but not yet ready to write it up, but vast majority are not in use).
Bob

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It would sure be interesting to know more about the number of defensive style registrations that take place, but I don’t know how you would research that!

Your comment reminded me of the case of the acquisition of vacation.rentals.

The new owner, Mike Kugler faced a challenge. HomeAway, probably his main competitor, had previously acquired the category killer name VacationRentals.com (as part of buying the established business.) So he needed a super premium domain to be in the game.

Domain Name Wire said this about HomeAway buying the dot COM:

“The CEO of the company in 2007, Brian Sharples, indicated that it was mostly to keep it out of its competitor’s hands and a big part of that was the domain name.”

Vacation.rentals domain name sells for record $500,300

https://domainnamewire.com/2018/04/11/vacation-rentals-domain-name-sells-for-record-500300/

Look forward to the write up about unused domains.

BrandableDomain said:

Look forward to the write up about unused domains.

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T A X E S dot com 250k January sale parked

O N C O L O G I S T dot com 14k parked

I N S P E C T I O N dot com. 300k reported as sold to end user and parked one year recently explained for a future project? Was redirected for a short time to buyer.

L E A D S dot com 435k parked

S T O P dot com 110k does not resolve

C R E T E dot com parking page

I N V E S T I N G M O N E Y dot com does not resolve 55k

T R A V E L dot A G E N C Y gd parking page

C H O C O L A T E dot C o m reported sold recently 7 figure but still points to brokers ad page.

C H A T S I T E S dot com 21k. Parked.

At least C A L I F O R N I A dot com has a coming soon page.

O L dot com 900k a resolves to a string of a bunch of stupid betting redirects.

S M A R T D R U G S, C O O R D I N A T I ON, A B S ENC E, w i p e o u t,
r e p o s s e s s i o n, t r a c e r o u t e, a b d u l, m y w e b s i t e, etc. parked or for resale. H o l o f o r m, a r c u s, s e o s e r v i c e, b a t t a l i o n, d o w n s i z e

S U P E R resolves but a game place holder like website
F I L E S placeholder non working splash page, launching 2019

I n c e p t i o n parked 550k

S t r e n g th has site, but every product seems to be out of stock. Clicked on 5.

K u s h 500k, has a coming soon page, the smoking graphic is cool.

P l a n t s coming soon

C a l c u l a t o r 250k, and has a 1990’s look with calculators says 1996-current

H y b r i d 190 parked for sale

D E P O S I T 170k brokerage listed for sale

S o u l m a t e 160k over a year ago. Coming soon!

i do not like the godaddy and afternic site. i have a diverse portfolio any suggestions where I should list them?

Shoes.com has a website in it now.