Ever Look At Recent Domain Sales?

[DomainVP]

Have you ever looked at recent domain sales, and just thought to yourself; what the?!!??!

http://www.thedomains.com/2015/01/0...ns-totaling-2-6-million-led-by-tv-ae-for-95k/

My personal favorite... $2k for NoBread [doxt] com

Most of these I would have easily passed on.

Congratulations to Sedo and the sellers.

*yes yes... a domains value is in the 'eye of the beholder' . But if you can honestly say you would have regged and held 'NoBread' or 'doonee', I still wouldn't believe you. Maybe it's time I started listing more on Sedo.

 

[nomen]

I can honestly say that I would reg nobread.com in a heart beat if it was available.

 

[DomainVP]

I can honestly say that I would reg nobread.com in a heart beat if it was available.

I don't believe you

[edit] Reg is one thing... a 4+ year hold is another. If you look on the comments someone made an interesting observation that a lot of the sales are aged domains, but they had 3 or 4 drops over the years.

 

[Nattydomain]

Well this does prove just like love beauty is in the eye of the beholder. If that person who bought nobread has a product or service with the same name then more then likely is a 1 in a million find. But for most domains that are not generic or make any sense that most of the time there will be only 1 person of interest. It just finding out when that 1 and only person wants the domain.

 

[biggie]

Have you ever looked at recent domain sales, and just thought to yourself; what the?!!??!


My personal favorite... $2k for NoBread [doxt] com

Most of these I would have easily passed on.

Congratulations to Sedo and the sellers.

*yes yes... a domains value is in the 'eye of the beholder' . But if you can honestly say you would have regged and held 'NoBread' or 'doonee', I still wouldn't believe you. Maybe it's time I started listing more on Sedo.

Hi

this is why, research is key

https://twitter.com/nobreadnyc

https://nobread.bandcamp.com/

http://onceinteractive.com/otw-portfolio/nobread-nyc/

http://www.zazzle.com/nobread+gifts

 

[DomainVP]

Hi

this is why, research is key

yeah, I can't say you are wrong on that one.

I looked at the metrics; Probably would have caught my interest then I would aIIin for the research.

Had this come up I probably would have bought it as a closeout or cheap DC w/ a 2-3 year hold. Nothing over $30 in investment.

 

[biggie]

in my book, "metrics" basically = useless information

why?

because eu's aren't interested in them....only domainers are.

which is why "subscription based" sites that provide such, make a lot of money from domainers.



imo...

 

[nomen]

Metrics are pretty irrelevant with this domain IMO, and the reason I like it is the following:

-It's dead simple
-A lot of stuff is branded as NO + keyword
-Bread is evil thinks gluten-free, anti-yeast nutrition fanatics.

 

[Name Trader]

Spoken like a true alien But, I'm just curious. Would they be actually be for something before being anti-bread?

 

[nomen]

Spoken like a true alien But, I'm just curious. Would they be actually be for something before being anti-bread?

For example?

 

[DomainVP]

Metrics matter.

Had this been a drop/expry
Domain age is a metric; its age would have caught my attention.
Domain length is a metric, it's length would have caught my attention.
SV is a metric; it warrants a second look in conjunction with the first two criteria.

Developers, marketers, businesses = End Users. They care about these things.

Yes yes, sometimes SV,PR,MOZ, etc doesn't matter at all, especially with brandables.

All metrics together would have warranted a deeper look, and again, I probably would have bought it had it been VERY cheap. But I wouldn't go to battle at auction for it for sure.

 

[nomen]

What I'm saying is that something being not-something is simple and effective branding.

 

[DomainVP]

What I'm saying is that something being not-something is simple and effective branding.

Not not being something? Or being not something thats not something?

 

[Bros]

It took me almost a half a year of being into domaining, before I realized that most end-users don't really seem to care about the search volume. I'm still bit surprised by that.

 

[biggie]

It took me almost a half a year of being into domaining, before I realized that most end-users don't really seem to care about the search volume. I'm still bit surprised by that.

in all the years I've been selling domains, no end-user (not disguised domainers) who have contacted me, has asked about traffic, length, cpc, google search volume, or age.

they just want know price.

my gut is the metric, if it says buy or sell, then that's what I do

 

[infosec3]

Well, in the case of NoBread.com, I think it is not bad and I also think I would have hand-registered it. But I get your point about once in a while finding names that are clearly bad names by almost everyone's standards and sell for a surprising amount. That brings us back to the point many here have made all the time that a domain name is worth what the buyer is willing to pay for it.

 

[biggie]

That brings us back to the point many here have made all the time that a domain name is worth what the buyer is willing to pay for it.

actually, that's only partially true.
simply because it does not take into account, of "who owns the domain".

as only experience and the gall to "ask" for 4 figures for that name, would have gotten you 4 figures.

while another domainer who may have owned it, may have sold for much less.....simply because they didn't do the research.

so, it's not about what a buyer is willing to pay, but what knowledge the seller has, along with the courage to ask how much "they" want for the domain.

imo...

 

[Name Trader]

For example?

You already mentioned some.. -Bread is evil thinks gluten-free, anti-yeast nutrition fanatics.

My point being they'd probably be searching for something, like "gluten free", rather than for something against like "No Bread". That doesn't make a lot of sense to me why they would be looking for "No Bread"

 

[domainhacks-931385]

LOL....

Actually NoBread.com is a valuable domain

Bread = Money

NoBread = No Money

Would make a great site for people trying to make $$$

 

[DomainVP]

Actually NoBread.com is a valuable domain

Then contact the owner and buy it for $5k. :P

It's a $20 closeout/dropcatch. If it were here on NP it would have sold for $2 - $6.

as only experience and the gall to "ask" for 4 figures for that name, would have gotten you 4 figures.

I would have asked for $15k and then just took whatever offer over $1000 they made.

You know the drill. You never truly know, maybe it was a huge brand and they were ready to shell out $30k.