$350,000 Deal at NoktaDomains Tops New Weekly Domain Sales Chart at DNJournal.com

[Ron Jackson]

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. The final week of the 2009 sales season saw the kind of light overall activity you expect over the holidays but it still produced a pair of impressive six-figure sales. Setting the pace was a $350,000 blockbuster handled by NoktaDomains and another solid six-figure sale from Sedo. Three country code domains and a pair of non .com gTLDs joined the usual complement of .coms on our new Top 20 Sales chart. You can get all of the details here: CookingGames.com Serves Up $350,000 Sale at NoktaDomains as 2009 Domain Sales Season Comes to a Close

Our final Top 100 sales chart for 2009 was also completed this week – you can check it out here: DNJournal.com Year to Date Domain Sales Charts

 

[labrocca]

wtf is this real? CookingGames.com $350k!!! I don't even see this as a $xx,xxx domain. One has to wonder about this one. It could be an attempt by noktadomains to drum up hype.

 

[wwwweb]

Come on with cookinggames.com lets do some homework before we publish, you have leisure.com selling for 150k, more to this story.

 

[DigiNames]

$350K for CookingGames.com? I don't believe it... Maybe Cooking.com OR Games.com, but CookingGames.com?

 

[SpareDomains]

Nokta has bought a few of my domains and I have picked up a few of their drops, they seem to hold out for big money like I do but $350k on this one has me scratching my head, guessing stats played a part but site doesn't even appear to be indexed.

cookinggames.com - Site Info from Alexa
Site Profile for cookinggames.com (rank #199,237) | Compete
cookinggames.com - Quantcast Audience Profile

 

[mis_chiff]

I can't believe I googled the phrase "cooking games"

and I can't believe what it showed me

and I can't believe estibot - either of them

and I really can't believe I checked the availability of the .ca

off to delete every single domain I own - I quit!


j/k :hehe:


It must be true, there is a life outside of domaining and it's called COOKINGGAMES

 

[exsedo]

Look at the other 3 they sold between 6- 9K. 3word, 31 letter .com ?
The domains are all owned by them, i think.


Halvarez got a new job ?

 

[SpareDomains]

This is the last week of 2009 report so either the perfect end user came around or someone wanted to spend some profits for tax purposes before the end of the year, I would bet on option 2 here, to anyone that want's to lose 6 figures at the end of 2010 or at anytime please keep me in mind as I actually own a few that are worth 6 figures. :hehe:

 

[exsedo]

Just checked at my registrar,
all cooking and baking domains are going like hotcakes :lol:

 

[netfleet]

Just checked at my registrar,
all cooking and baking domains are going like hotcakes :lol:

LOL

i have cookinggames.com.au - registered it a few years ago.

Search volume is incredible... not sure it justifies $350K though!!

 

[globegenius]

And here I thought my reg vegecooks (dot) com for vegeterians awhile ago was probally lame. Geesh it might be worth something after all. :imho:

 

[dag]

This might shed some light on the situation:

Cookinggames.com sells for $350,000 – WTF ? | DirectNavigation.com

As you'll see, the new owner explains...

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Just checked at my registrar,
all cooking and baking domains are going like hotcakes :lol:

As you'll read at the link I posted above, it ought to be that all girls' games domains go like hotcakes. It's not about the "cooking" part of it...

 

[SpareDomains]

This might shed some light on the situation:

Cookinggames.com sells for $350,000 – WTF ? | DirectNavigation.com

As you'll see, the new owner explains...

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As you'll read at the link I posted above, it ought to be that all girls' games domains go like hotcakes. It's not about the "cooking" part of it...

funny he posted the same quantcast link I did, definitely about the traffic then, guess I need a chick around to go after girly domains

 

[maxeaus]

The world works in mysterious ways, domains are no exception to this. Good luck to the seller.

 

[SpareDomains]

I just bought 2 game domains, did a quick scan found one that had a 2000 history available so grabbed the singular & plural, not looking to sell just always interested to test niches of domains I never bothered with before.

 

[exsedo]

This might shed some light on the situation:

Cookinggames.com sells for $350,000 – WTF ? | DirectNavigation.com

As you'll see, the new owner explains...

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As you'll read at the link I posted above, it ought to be that all girls' games domains go like hotcakes. It's not about the "cooking" part of it...

Thanks for sharing the link Dag. After getting over the initial shock and then reading the link it's all becoming clearer. I would love to know where else, apart from Noktadomains, these buyers look for their domains. But so would everyone I suppose.

 

[the_poet]

Sorry, but the sale is still obscure to me... What are 'cooking games'?

 

[DubDubDubDot]

I'm calling BS on this.

Yes, I read the new owner's comments. I'm still calling BS.

If this figure is accurate, that was a real stupid move unless it was just a "because I can" purchase. He has some nice domains, but the development on them leaves a lot to be desired. This is very typical of people who pay a lot for domains, so who knows......

 

[mjbenterprises]

Not sure what all the surprise is here.... the domain was simply bought at 8Xyearly PPC revenue....Yes, a little high, the general unwritten "rule" used to be about 3-7 times yearly revenue, but 10X is not unheard of...

Inspired by this story, I regged SearchCookingGames.com, It has a nice Keyword tool Exact search of 1600/mo...and certainly worth the $7.00 to me....

 

[akcampbell]

On HallpassMedia.com, Bill Karamouzis says he "owns one of the highest quality domain portfolios ever assembled". DollDressup.com was registered in Jul 02, if this is so valuable how come the .info and .biz aren't registered? If BakingGames.com, registered in Jul 04, is part of this highest quality portfolio ever assembled, why are the .org, .biz and .org domains not registered? In fact, only the .co.uk and .net are registered for BakingGames.