.com FingerPaint.com - Sold for $75K

[Ace3coiner]

Domain Price Date Venue
fingerpaint.com 75,000 USD 2018-10-18 Sedo

What's your opinion?

 

[cooljub]

A well-known phrase and with today's touchscreens this is a great emd

 

[carob]

 

[hookbox]

My guess is fingerpaintmarketing.com. 175 employees. 25 million per year in revenue. Owner has multiple companies producing 200 million annually. I would bet the house this is the buyer.

 

[TRY]

I wouldn't of bought it even for 1K. Way overpriced IMO.

Maybe you should have Googled the term first.

 

[Bob Hawkes]

Even though the term FingerPaint has never sold (exactly or not, any extension) prior (at least NameBio listed), I think there is a company that would benefit a lot from the name as an upgrade. Would not be surprised if they are the purchaser:
https://fingerpaintmarketing.com/

Of course this is possible too:
https://www.fingerpainting.de/

Re price, well it certainly isn't low, but it just demonstrates if you have one buyer who REALLY wants the domain name, you can end up with a good price.

Bob

 

[ThatNameGuy]

Domain Price Date Venue
fingerpaint.com 75,000 USD 2018-10-18 Sedo

What's your opinion?

Finger Painting is Modern Art, and with ModernArt(.)com being appraised at Estibot for 221K, I'd say fingerpaint.com for 75K is worth every penny....jmho.

 

[jstenn13]

Great name and a fair price imo

 

[alcy]

could be as simple as win win deal ...buyer and seller

some are

 

[BuyBrandWeb.com]

It's an exact matched domain and Fingerpaints will sell for thousands of dollars. I appreciate seller skills to quote and convince the buyer to 75k usd.

Smart seller!

 

[DomainBELL]

It will be interesting to see WHO got it and WHAT they DO with it...

 

[Furquan]

Of course this is possible too:
https://www.fingerpainting.de/

Re price, well it certainly isn't low, but it just demonstrates if you have one buyer who REALLY wants the domain name, you can end up with a good price.

Bob

As far as I knew before the .de they where using the .net version (don't know why they let dropped the name recently. Now the .net in my pocket for just $1 all thanks to NetSol)

 

[Grego85]

Another weird Godaddy glitch. When you type in the name it says the domain is expired but the expiration date is for next year.

I can definelty see a compnay like crayola picking up that domain, why not?

 

[DomainRecap]

You can justify the price by giving any reason but reality is it's not that good name for $75k price. "FingerArt.com" will be far better name.

If someone had offered me FingerPaint.com for $1500 yesterday I would have turned it down, honestly heck I'd still turn it down even after hearing the news.

I totally agree, and that domain name is only valuable to a company with "Finger Paint" in their brand name.

It's a new world out there, and EMDs like this are no longer useful to crafty companies like Crayola or Melissa & Doug or or Imaginarium or Hasbro, and the big market now is for companies looking to match or upgrade their brand name to an existing EMD.

I agree with the others on here, that the only rational reason to spend $75K on FingerPaint.com is if you're FingerPaintMarketing.com or similar.

 

[Rick Ace]

A wonderful deal for both sides. This is a great domain for investment or to develop. And it can sell for higher if the current owner finds the right buyer.

For those who don't know...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fingerpaint

A pleasant domain sale. I'm liking this one.

 

[FolioTeam]

This goes to show that a domain is worth the price anyone is willing to pay for it. Good name but a greater sale. Congrats to the seller.

 

[Kingslayer]

Awesome sale.

 

[YudiTayba]

Both of them are lucky

 

[BuyBrandWeb.com]

FingerPaint, not FingerPrints

Thanks. Corrected. My swiftkey keyword was preferred fingerprints more than Fingerpaints

 

[DomainRecap]

I think there is a company that would benefit a lot from the name as an upgrade. Would not be surprised if they are the purchaser:
https://fingerpaintmarketing.com/

Exactly, and I don't think anyone is spending $75K to sell finger-painting kits, but as a match to their brand name.

It's like Beer.com, no beer company will ever pay money for that, but there would be some interested buyers (albeit at a huge lose for the current owner) from something like Beer & Associates or Beer & Sons Lawyers.

Brand is King.

 

[DomainRecap]

I can definelty see a compnay like crayola picking up that domain, why not?

Because companies like Crayola are actually dropping EMDs like this, and concentrating on their core brand. After Google hammered down the search power of EMDs a decade+ ago, there is really no use to hold a pile of these on redirect, unless they include your brand.

Disney dropped a pile a EMDs over the past few years, so did Shell (including ShellOil.com - they are not just a fossil fuel company anymore), Scholastic, and a pile of others.

 

[frostify]

If someone had offered me FingerPaint.com for $1500 yesterday I would have turned it down, honestly heck I'd still turn it down even after hearing the news.

 

[.X.]

A good sale and good buy IMO, A solid deal for both parties.

 

[Blueforever]

How did they determine $75k?

 

[DomainRecap]

Why are EMDs like this no longer useful to crafty companies?

Because Google no longer gives any benefit to URL keyword-stuffing and hasn't for a long time. Search engines delve deep into your sitemaps, and your company name could be XUYESDRISUI at XUYESDRISUI.com but with the proper design, products, content, and SEO, you could rank at the top of Page 1 for any product.

Today, it's all about brand, but that doesn't mean the EMD domain market is dead, it's just changed focus. Now instead of Crayola buying FingerPaint.com, then it's (most likely) a company like FingerPaintMarketing.com, and they could potentially pay more to lock up their brand.

You see it all the time - a big sale for an EMD and everyone's wondering who bought it and the vast majority of the time it's EMD + media or EMD + marketing or EMD + design or EMD + TV, etc. that ends up being the end user.

There is the odd promotional or contest EMD URL being bought by a large corporation for short-term use, but they don't usually pay as much.