Afternic.com sale prices

[parkingpartners.com]

The sale prices on afternic.com are quite interesting. Phoenix24.com for $200. Yet if you asked for an appraisal on here or on any other board, I highly doubt if you'd get that figure.

Rentall.com for $500 suprised me. It wouldn't pass the radio test, is it suppose to be a misspell. Yet how many people would misspell rental? Any explanations?

SongDemos.com for $500 seemed like a bargain.

What do you make of the prices on here? A true reflection of the domain business or a blip on the radar?

 

[CenterPoint]

Re: Afternic.com sale prices

Originally posted by jbtrader23

Rentall.com for $500 suprised me. It wouldn't pass the radio test, is it suppose to be a misspell. Yet how many people would misspell rental? Any explanations?

AfterNic prices are more for the End User rather than a wholesale market

I think rentall.com is meant to be Rent All.com

 

[RJ]

Re: Afternic.com sale prices

Originally posted by jbtrader23

Rentall.com for $500 suprised me. It wouldn't pass the radio test, is it suppose to be a misspell. Yet how many people would misspell rental? Any explanations?

Judging from the overture results for the domain, I'd guestimate around 30-40 people every day are typing that domain in.

Here's the sames list from Afternic so far for June:

pellegrini.net 500.00 06/14/2003 1
notredameacademyva.com 200.00 06/14/2003 1
discoversouthdakota.com 350.00 06/13/2003 1
beckham.net 1,000.00 06/13/2003 1
drug.us 2,000.00 06/12/2003 3
phoenix24.com 200.00 06/12/2003 1
AdsPay.com 250.00 06/11/2003 1
london.cn 500.00 06/11/2003 1
gaydownloads.com 1,200.00 06/11/2003 1
SportPal.com 2,000.00 06/11/2003 1
kfk.com 1,300.00 06/10/2003 5
Lightheart.com 300.00 06/10/2003 1
RapidMan.com 160.00 06/09/2003 2
netstorm.com 5,000.00 06/06/2003 10
VentureConnections.com 480.00 06/06/2003 6
RESERVATIONS.ws 500.00 06/04/2003 1
songdemos.com 500.00 06/04/2003 1
BizFixer.com 975.00 06/04/2003 3
aima.com 750.00 06/04/2003 2
wbix.com 1,000.00 06/03/2003 2
rentall.com 500.00 06/03/2003 1
ninepin.com 400.00 06/03/2003 1
MarketingIQ.Com 300.00 06/02/2003 1

The most interesting one for me to see is reservations.ws which sold for $500. That's a positive sign for .ws domains. Sedo sold Realty.Ws for $2000 not too long ago.

Everything else looks about right. I agree with CP, that these look like end user sales.

 

[parkingpartners.com]

Netstorm.com at $5k. Overture, only 54 searches done for it, zero for the .com type in. Hmmm.

 

[wyvern]

Not sure why everybody worries so much about how many OVT typeins these domains might get.....Centerpoint is right when he says these are mostly endusers, rather than resellers.....the enduser wants to develop and bought the domain to do just that, not because it gets 10 or 20 typeins per day.

If you're worried about that number of visits, then you certainly wouldn't be buying on Sedo or Afternic. JMHO.

 

[CenterPoint]

Originally posted by wyvern
Not sure why everybody worries so much about how many OVT typeins these domains might get.....

Well said, actually in my opinion it is harder to sell domains that have traffic to an end user. Many end users that know anything about the net realize there is an enourmous difference between traffic and quality traffic.

With previously developed domains being purchased for new development purposes there is always the consideration of what was there before? has the domain been banned or punished by the SE's? or was it used for Porn or as a SPAM URL?

3-4k uniques per month mean nothing when the users are looking for free stuff and you are trying to develop a new e-commerce site

 

[BatRastard]

YOu have to remember that AfterNic is the people who passed the Engineering.org name sale off as being a legit sale. These guys are a bunch of crooks and never did an honest thing in their lives. The name and site 'sold' recently but the neew group did not 'buy' existing membership from the previous owners. BTW the new owner group smells so much like the old one that it is hard to believe that there was a real sale. Bottom line is that you can't trust a thing that has AfterNic associated with it in any way. All hype and mostly crap names. The names they list as showcase are a pure joke.

 

[lotsofissues]

I've known the new group to have a lot better communication with domainers. They've professionally and elborately responded to every post at DS about Afternic.