16 year old domain sold for "pocket money"?

[dax]

When i was reading other thread about SEDO (one which says they finally removed commerce.com and single.co.uk from "sold" list: http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=107889) i was so curious that i went to sedo.com to see that.
:lol:

But there in the same list was another surprise for me: "sei.com" is declared sold at SEDO for ONLY 4,000$ ??? I find that a little bit TOO LOW! And the bigger surprise to me was when i discovered that this domain was registered back in 1989: Creation Date: 20-jan-1989!

Now, who would sell 16 year old domain for only $4k? And with "good letters".
On Archive.org i found out that domain belonged to Silicon Engineering Inc, and recently to Creative (you know, that soundblaster manufacturer)...

Do you think something smells here?

 

[GeneCosta]

Maybe they just wanted it off their hands? I don't know. That sounds pretty stupid.

 

[l0zo]

it does seem fishy, they could of easily fetched a higher price for that!

 

[slaughterbeck]

I saw that and cannot figure it out myself.

 

[CrazyTech]

I'm at a loss on that one - smells a bit fishy to me but perhaps they really needed the money quickly?

 

[worldstar]

Yes a little strange to hear this news!

 

[Michelle]

Yep does seem alittle strange but then so did emails.in

 

[ThreeD]

maybe they are partowners of Creative now as part of the deal :D

 

[RJ]

Just goes to show you there are still deals to be found. If you have $4k laying around I bet you could find an equally good one if you contacted enough domain owners.

 

[JoshHendo]

Maybe there wern't any higher offers and they had to accept the offer?

 

[ThreeD]

Maybe the owners of fr.com have a good day one day and sell me their domain for $4k :D

 

[andrewc]

yeah...but think about it ..although short in letters...sei means absolutely zero??!!!
On that reasoning I think $4k is more than fair

Now www.seo.com

That would be a different story!!

 

[capiche]

sei means absolutely zero??!!!

Huh? It's an acronym. It could mean anything. I should have went for more. But he probably needed the money.

 

[linker]

yeah...but think about it ..although short in letters...sei means absolutely zero??!!!
On that reasoning I think $4k is more than fair

Now www.seo.com

That would be a different story!!

Actually, sei gets decent OVT numbers:

Searches done in December 2005
Count Search Term
4209 sei
1359 sei investment
462 eu sei que vou te amar
359 sei cmm
265 sei scrapbook
216 sei cmmi
205 sei whale
196 psp sei tool
192 ja sei namorar
168 sei shonagon
158 sei investment company
146 sei scrapbooking
144 eu sei
132 sei paper
117 nada sei
116 sei la
113 sei funds
112 pillow book of sei shonagon
107 nao sei
103 offesa scusa se sei ti
99 sei inc
97 sei resistor
90 sei data
89 electronics sei
88 sei scrapbook paper
81 sei solo tu
76 sei industry
72 sei que
71 nã o sei viver sem ter vocã
70 psp sei
67 amar assim eu sei site spaces.msn.com só
65 sushi sei
62 sei company
62 sei furniture
61 sei site myspace.com
59 download psp sei tool
59 essi sei
57 sei mutual funds
57 opus sei
56 retirement sei
54 sei bella
54 sei tomoko
52 holiday hoopla sei
50 nao sei viver sem ter voce
49 sei private trust company
47 ci sei
47 sei 에셋
46 sei corporation
44 forum sei teki
43 sei information technology
43 tribalistas ja sei namorar
43 ryoku sei yo zen
43 sei scrapbook supply
41 chemical sei
39 sei communication
38 sei album
36 chou sei shin gransazer
36 **** ng sei sen woman
36 sei private trust
34 sei cmm certification
33 ovunque sei
32 tu sei lunica donna per me
32 sei ryoku zen yo karate
32 sei sports
31 ja sei namorar lyric
31 sei reiki
30 bag in scrapbook sei
30 fireplace gel sei
29 sei trust company
29 cor de sei te
29 sei salon
29 sei trust
28 sei certified helmet
28 sei he ki
28 lamore sei tu
27 alem mais que sei vou
27 sei bass
27 sei group inc
27 sei hair salon
27 sei stackpole
26 angel burst sei
25 hong sei hee
25 sei level

I am not about to add all that up

And Google returns:

Results 1 - 10 of about 40,100,000 for sei

And , Sei is actually a species of Whale so there is some meaning...

All that doesn't necessarily make it worth, say, $100,000 or anything, but, with some three letter .orgs and .nets getting about $2,000, and a three letter .de (Ich.de - a very good domain, mind you) getting about $48,000... one would think that sei.com would be worth at least $25,000...

I recall seeing a 3 letter .com on DNjournal that sold for $60,000 (I think - can't rememebr it or find it now...)

 

[fonzie_007]

Would have expected that domain to go for at least 7-10 times more...

 

[Peter]

this is a 6 month old thread!!

 

[ilcesco]

... who knows, i think sedo sales reports are pretty weird sometimes. Today in recent sales there's a "online-roulette-0.com" sold for $400. :o ... two hypens, a meaningless 0 in the end, no developed website, no ovt, no traffic, nothing.. $400..

 

[slaughterbeck]

Old is the new "New".

 

[MadAboutDomains]

Maybe they had a challenge of show can spend the most on a pointless domain - Their entry was "online-roulette-0.com", haha

 

[sunken]

While it was probably too low for the crowd here, it's hard to know why the person sold it for $4000. Perhaps they needed the money pretty bad. Not everybody in the business can afford to pass that up, hoping for something higher later on. Perhaps the person had medical bills, etc. Or maybe they just didn't realize the value. I don't think it's fishy though...