sales NDA Keeps Multi-Million $ Sale of Chocolate.com from Topping New Chart But It's a Big Win for KB

MapleDots said:

I know something else that looks a bit like chocolate

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Please elaborate

offthehandle said:

Please elaborate

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Now that type of shit would really be off topic

Seriously though.... I think most of us are suspecting this so called super sale might be a load of bull crap.

MapleDots said:

Now that type of sh*t would really be off topic

Seriously though.... I think most of us are suspecting this so called super sale might be a load of bull crap.

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Its not the only one unfortunately, what about inspection that was explained away yet the reported customer who owns many domains for their business segments and according to archive held it briefly but later then parked it at Godaddy, I called it out. Then the broker attempted to explain it away, and act as some special person posted here as though “being above” being questioned. “I will only explain it once”.. lol crap. Was that also a sale that failed? Or did the end user buyers who supposedly dumped $300k use the corp owners of the name use it for tax purposes or to divert funds away from their country, or rebranding? $300,000. Is peanuts perhaps to that company, but what I found strange was the australian registrant whoxy nameserver records were wiped clean once I wrote about it here too!. Haha. Strange behavior. Yet the domains for sleeping appear legit and pointed 301’s to a major company, which appear at face value as legit. The price paid I question though.

To my knowledge, there is No written evidence of these large sales ever being audited before publishing, no peer or external review like say with corporate annual reports or medical journals.

So, who says it isn’t tainted by certain “Trusted sources”?

These large sales except the auction sales, have nothing but publisher trust to go on. “Trusted sources” or some other verbage is in the disclaimer, pointed out by others here too. No written escrow funds documents are ever divulged, fair enough if its a secret or NDA, but I am not buying some of what is published and at risk of being called a conspiracy theorist, I dont care and do have the balls to question it all. Some of these large sales are simply fake news.

To my knowledge, Nobody audited the underbelly of the namejet 2017 scandal, and it blew over after a year. To be forgotten by most.

And much of the whois data on large transactions is hidden under privacy it seems on many large transactions, which doesn’t bode well for credible reporting.

Maybe in another decade Hershey's, Godiva, Lindt or Nestle's will buy it for $20k.

That "7 figure NDA Sale" is finally "developed", lol. Now is hosting free youtube recipe videos instead of selling chocolate. So is that a phony news release? Well, finally an actual parking website. lol.
No commerce going on it seems. Grabbing recipes and random peoples names posting articles, no CMS plain php 7. Can you believe that?

Somebody actually spent 7 figures to post free videos and recipes for chocolate desserts!

offthehandle said:

Maybe in another decade Hershey's, Godiva, Lindt or Nestle's will buy it for $20k.

That "7 figure NDA Sale" is finally "developed", lol. Now is hosting free youtube recipe videos instead of selling chocolate. So is that a phony news release? Well, finally an actual parking website. lol.
No commerce going on it seems. Grabbing recipes and random peoples names posting articles, no CMS plain php 7. Can you believe that?

Somebody actually spent 7 figures to post free videos and recipes for chocolate desserts!

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Their about us page says it's these people - https://www.linkedin.com/company/wazimo/

So somebody could ask them.

Look at the domains on the home page of their site - https://www.wazimo.com/

basketball.com

football.com

trivia.com

chocolate.com is on that page as well, the logo for chocolate.com on the wazimo site matches the logo on chocolate.com

nice names

Just checking them out some more, same layout. If you look at Football.com, Basketball.com, Chocolate.com, they all have the same links in the same order in the Nav Bar - Home, Latest, About. The About Page the same on each site.

So there's your buyer. Maybe somebody with a blog will contact them and ask for an interview/story behind the purchase.

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Wazimo is a full-service, pioneering digital media company creating some of the web’s most entertaining and engaging premium websites.

Our websites are our pride and joy. We have developed high-impact platforms that present a range of lifestyle content - from news to entertainment, sports to fashion, food to travel.

JB Lions said:

Their about us page says it's these people - https://www.linkedin.com/company/wazimo/

So somebody could ask them.

Look at the domains on the home page of their site - https://www.wazimo.com/

basketball.com

football.com

trivia.com

chocolate.com is on that page as well, the logo for chocolate.com on the wazimo site matches the logo on chocolate.com

nice names

Just checking them out some more, same layout. If you look at Football.com, Basketball.com, Chocolate.com, they all have the same links in the same order in the Nav Bar - Home, Latest, About. The About Page the same on each site.

So there's your buyer. Maybe somebody with a blog will contact them and ask for an interview/story behind the purchase.

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Wazimo is a full-service, pioneering digital media company creating some of the web’s most entertaining and engaging premium websites.

Our websites are our pride and joy. We have developed high-impact platforms that present a range of lifestyle content - from news to entertainment, sports to fashion, food to travel.

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Pride and joy? Lol. Look at the websites effort, and php. YouTube videos.
I call it b.s. every post I made about this, coincidently something on the domain changed too. The latest the removed the brokers favicon after I mention that it was showing still after another server change.

Buyer? Sure. Maybe as an investor. But I say a new reseller, or still the seller, they are the co-seller or parking associate. If it was an ecommerce site selling something no question. But if you can’t sell the domain, and solicited to get publicity imo, this is the game.

Old news to me, for sake of argument prove me wrong. I posted all that Aug 21 on another thread. Looked at the placeholder, non income producing sites before you mentioned.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/wh...-and-rob-monster.1128748/page-91#post-7362114

None of those cheapo sites look like they make money like trivia btw make any money supporting the value, they were probably the original registrant all along who allowed the broker to play around for 6 months and attempted to sell it pointed to their website. Look at nameservers history too. Prove me wrong and I will shut up. I don’t have much on the way of paid domain tools, maybe you do. Under NDA, allows such things to be hidden. Escrow didnt see the sale price to record it. I maintain, its another price discovery game by certain people in this industry.

If you bought a couple Bentley’s and a Ferrari would you keep them parked in the garage? Perhaps if you had money to simply collect cars.

There are plenty of high dollar sales reported that do in fact immediately and regularily get turned into real websites. Many do, no question.

Unless proven otherwise, I say this was Price discovery. Period. Stay tuned to see if a real well known company buys it.

It is a Sedo landing page and when you go to sedo it has the below description......am I missing something?

Description

Bid of $,0500 or more starts 7 day, no reserve price auction. Highest bid of $5,000 or more wins auction.

...many of top level # dn’s change hands similar to this one. This month f.e. Highway com or metal com (till now19 in total) did a whale dance. Nothing new , move on. Regards

MrAcidic said:

It is a Sedo landing page and when you go to sedo it has the below description......am I missing something?

Description

Bid of $,0500 or more starts 7 day, no reserve price auction. Highest bid of $5,000 or more wins auction.

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Where do you see that for what name?

equity78 said:

Where do you see that for what name?

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Argghhhh!!

Went to double check just now and it is...........http://chocloate.com

Sorry about that - nice typo though.....

BTW - I do not own it

offthehandle said:

Pride and joy? Lol. Look at the websites effort, and php. YouTube videos.
I call it b.s. every post I made about this, coincidently something on the domain changed too. The latest the removed the brokers favicon after I mention that it was showing still after another server change.

Buyer? Sure. Maybe as an investor. But I say a new reseller, or still the seller, they are the co-seller or parking associate. If it was an ecommerce site selling something no question. But if you can’t sell the domain, and solicited to get publicity imo, this is the game.

Old news to me, for sake of argument prove me wrong. I posted all that Aug 21 on another thread. Looked at the placeholder, non income producing sites before you mentioned.

https://www.namepros.com/threads/wh...-and-rob-monster.1128748/page-91#post-7362114

None of those cheapo sites look like they make money like trivia btw make any money supporting the value, they were probably the original registrant all along who allowed the broker to play around for 6 months and attempted to sell it pointed to their website. Look at nameservers history too. Prove me wrong and I will shut up. I don’t have much on the way of paid domain tools, maybe you do. Under NDA, allows such things to be hidden. Escrow didnt see the sale price to record it. I maintain, its another price discovery game by certain people in this industry.

If you bought a couple Bentley’s and a Ferrari would you keep them parked in the garage? Perhaps if you had money to simply collect cars.

There are plenty of high dollar sales reported that do in fact immediately and regularily get turned into real websites. Many do, no question.

Unless proven otherwise, I say this was Price discovery. Period. Stay tuned to see if a real well known company buys it.

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It's all in the last post. I also searched this forum, the owner has posted here before. It seems they give a little insight to what they're thinking:

"We are looking at one of 2 options:

- Fixed price lease - we are open to offers and are happy to explore a fixed price lease for one or both of the domains - you could do whatever you want with them for a fixed cost per year - we're open to medium-long term proposals. We aren't interested in anything that involves short-term/months.

- B2B Deal - Revenue share - we are open to offers of a partner(s) to take one or both.... Develop them into an asset (news site, affiliate site), whatever is proposed to us, it has to generate significant revenues. We would take a cut of the revenue/profit and we would be happy to lend you the domains so to speak. I guess it's a lease without the upfront cost."

https://www.namepros.com/threads/offer-football-com-basketball-com-lease-or-b2b-deal.1108681/

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"We own these domains and we're looking to do something with them. Currently the sites are just a placeholder and they haven't done anything in years.

We know the value of them. We're looking for a company/media group to either lease them or we'd possibly look at a B2B/rev share deal."

Football.com, Basketball.com & Trivia.com
https://www.namepros.com/threads/football-com-basketball-com-trivia-com.1104282/

As written in a good article today by @equity78 today on thedomains blog, there is no registration system on domains to confirm title changes like Real Estate. There is still is no proof of current ownership. Claiming 100% it was sold, since it now has content, abeit flimsy content, that amuses me really. Does anyone have proof of a sale? It could be leased, parked for future brokerage, moved to not have anyone like me questioning it, etc. Time will tell. Maybe Warren Buffet will buy it for selling See’s Candy.

For some Media Ad company with major clients supposedly, posting they want to find somebody to populate Football, Basketball valuable domains here, seems hokey too. Real Ad agencies afaik, don’t come on this forum- they would be networked into major buyers and real corporate clients, seem desperate if you ask me to make such a post as you linked to, who knows.

However, after further digging, I did confirm the company listed above whose founder it appears sold out another startup for major $$$ so does potentially have such funds so, certainly not disqualified as to have purchased it over time, payments or lump sum. Congratulations to them if they do own it, at whatever price as it’s a mega industry- and it's one of the best category of consumer oriented domains I seen sold, hence my interest in seeing it being used.

The domain while developed at IREG was operating as a drop shipping business and had grown to 21,000 backlinks, nice and spread out on numerous unique IP’s. The most authoritative one was from ICANN, it was used as an example by a well known person as to describing the value of domain names.

One link has the asking price which I found but will intentionally leave out here (as I don’t want to give out any free publicity for them) and can be dug up for anyone who has tools and cares to be playing along at home.

It is an important link(s) as they had the actual asking price of close to $5 million, yet that was over 7 years ago. Further, it remains listed on that other brokers website from years back, another broker who is I suppose had it listed or sold it, or not, and they are most likely unrelated to this thread.