showcase First domain sale over $1,000?

[kaz2]

Hi, we are a mix of domainers here - some experienced, some not so experienced. What I'd love to know is who, if anyone, sold their FIRST domain name for over $1,000 and how much was it sold for?

I'll kick off by saying that I sold my first name for $11 so way below a grand - however, it was a thrilling feeling nonetheless.

It would be interesting to see who, whether by beginners luck or shrewd domain trading, had a first sale of over $1,000.

Look forward to hearing from you!

 

[TheLegendaryJP]

Fantastic reply Legendary full of great advice. You mentioned that it is more of a crap shoot - is this because the market for keyword domains has tanked?

Really interested to know how you bought Marilyn.com - was this a parked page and who owned it? I assume it was a non domainer. How did you go about approaching them?

Thanks.

I call combos a crap shoot because frankly what could have been a $15k-$25k name 7-8 years ago would struggle to see as much today if at all. Still worth thousands but resellers are not paying the big money for them over all (always exceptions to the rule). The smarter or should I say safer bets are acronyms and numbers. The good stuff, dot com, dot net, dot org. You can ride the wave of other extensions but staying power has not left the top three for the most part.

I acquired Marilyn.com many years ago by getting a list of the top 250 names or so over the last century and attacking it, one by one! I ended up getting around 12 or 13 "top" names, including Jacob.com and many more. In fact I would safely say no individual has sold more the last 10 years.

It was a risk but one I felt comfortable with when looking at the few past first name sales at the time...I think this was 2006ish or so.

All my generics, acronyms, numbers and first names I ever flipped for the best margins have NOT been purchased from other domainers, rather original owners usually and out of date sites or unused. Lots of tracking people down and offering good amounts but knowing I have room for profit. I have competed on a few with other known domainers and won out for peanuts...never give up! It only takes a handful a year to make you more than any 9-5 full time job you hate

 

[MisterSoft.com]

Hi, we are a mix of domainers here - some experienced, some not so experienced. What I'd love to know is who, if anyone, sold their FIRST domain name for over $1,000 and how much was it sold for?

I'll kick off by saying that I sold my first name for $11 so way below a grand - however, it was a thrilling feeling nonetheless.

It would be interesting to see who, whether by beginners luck or shrewd domain trading, had a first sale of over $1,000.

Look forward to hearing from you!

That's, one small step for @kaz2, one giant leap for domain industry

 

[LaunchUp.com]

My first 4 figure sale came few years back. I sold ClassBook.org for 1000 pounds via sedo... I think that was a little over $1300 US. But my lightbulb came on when I sold a domain for $500 via sedo.. I don't use sedo much these days though. It was those sales that really kept me in domaining this long.

 

[MisterSoft.com]

My biggest sale for the PinkNation.com for $17K few years back

 

[AndrewJK]

My first sale $2k a few days ago.

 

[Haroon Basha]

An interesting name, I would like to tell here, I hand registered one new domain name cheership.com for 99 cents with Godaddy. I totally forgotten it. Two months later, I got one email from Godaddy telling me that someone is interested in buying this domain offering $500, I told them I have no problem with the offer, just try to give me a net $ 500 for it. Two days later, I got another email from Godaddy, the domain is sold for $ 600. After a week I got payment $ 600. I dont know how much it was sold, but I got $600 net. Return On Investment (ROI) was 60,506%

 

[Sebastien Staub]

Hi, we are a mix of domainers here - some experienced, some not so experienced. What I'd love to know is who, if anyone, sold their FIRST domain name for over $1,000 and how much was it sold for?

I'll kick off by saying that I sold my first name for $11 so way below a grand - however, it was a thrilling feeling nonetheless.

It would be interesting to see who, whether by beginners luck or shrewd domain trading, had a first sale of over $1,000.

Look forward to hearing from you!

Hi I was lucky enough to pick up Tablet.io for $800 and sold it for $1500 a week later on flippa - !! It was a great feeling but I believe I should of waited and let the auction and bidders to go quiet. Anyhow it sold now to a lucky owner. I am expecting that eTech.io will also go for $1000 + this week currently sitting at $505. If you looking for great domains .IO I have some great one.

 

[GravityEleven]

first $1k plus sale was handregged GlobalContentSolutions dot com to a freelance writer in late 2013 afair.. afterwards never sold a domain for less than $1k anymore..

 

[MrComputerSaint]

Some good posts here. It's getting me fired up for flipping domains.
I'm very new to domain selling, I've owned several domains over the years, but not sold one. I have a few up for sale now though.
Yeah I'd love to sell one for 4 or 5 figures, don't know how good the domains are however.

I'm going to need to do a bit of searching for valuing a domain.

 

[BrandZen]

My first sale was for $3000 back in 2014. The name was r/e/n/e/w/m/y/p/a/s/s/p/o/r/t/./c/o/m

Purchased it on GoDaddy just a few weeks before for around $350 if I remember correctly.

 

[raubin]

I think very few people would able make $1000 on their first deal. Mine was after 15 deals.

My first deal was 1,000€ - the domain wasn't even for sale, it was going to be developed into a proper website but as most things ... time never allowed me to begin work on it. Within 12 months of registering the domain and being sat there on it's "under construction" page I received an email with an offer which was 250€ or 500€ which I went back to them and said I would only sell if it was 1,000€ or above. They agreed and domain was sold! Then I saw there was money to be made (and lost!) from buying and selling domains.

 

[TRY]

My first sale was a hand reg for $7500, was asking for more but the price and more importantly the timing was right. It was a suburban + Keyword in com.

 

[GetBigDomains]

I was offered 12K for a bet domain by the Vice President of 1-2-3 reg on behalf of a client
The email seamed fishy and I didn't accept.. If I wanted a higher amount use the valuation link..
Anyway I read a forum post if this was the same bloke he had ruinned several peoples businesses.
If it was a genuine offer - then I missed out! I guess I'll never know...

 

[vivaldi]

I was offered 12K for a bet domain by the Vice President of 1-2-3 reg on behalf of a client
The email seamed fishy and I didn't accept.. If I wanted a higher amount use the valuation link..
Anyway I read a forum post if this was the same bloke he had ruinned several peoples businesses.
If it was a genuine offer - then I missed out! I guess I'll never know...

It was a scam.

 

[GetBigDomains]

It was a scam.

Yes it was a rough start, getting me all excited..
Next I was offered £1K cash for a site (and turned that down).
That was an alright offer. So yes I reached a £1,000 as my first purchase offer!
But I didn't accept..

 

[kaz2]

first $1k plus sale was handregged GlobalContentSolutions dot com to a freelance writer in late 2013 afair.. afterwards never sold a domain for less than $1k anymore..

Great sale GravityEleven, a 3 word, 22 character domain name for over $1k!!An people often say that this is the sort of name to be avoided...

Is your strategy now to price all your domain names at over $1k? If so:

(1) do you list them as BIN or make offer?

(2) where do you promote or list your domains for sale?

Thanks!

 

[kaz2]

My first sale was for $3000 back in 2014. The name was r/e/n/e/w/m/y/p/a/s/s/p/o/r/t/./c/o/m

Purchased it on GoDaddy just a few weeks before for around $350 if I remember correctly.

Thanks hkermali, that is an impressive flip, selling a domain names for almost x10 in a matter of weeks.

Was this a hand registered domain name and how did the buyer get in touch?

 

[kaz2]

An interesting name, I would like to tell here, I hand registered one new domain name cheership.com for 99 cents with Godaddy. I totally forgotten it. Two months later, I got one email from Godaddy telling me that someone is interested in buying this domain offering $500, I told them I have no problem with the offer, just try to give me a net $ 500 for it. Two days later, I got another email from Godaddy, the domain is sold for $ 600. After a week I got payment $ 600. I dont know how much it was sold, but I got $600 net. Return On Investment (ROI) was 60,506%

Hi Haroon Basha, that was a great ROI for a hand registered domain name. Have you sold many domain names since then and how do you promote your names?

 

[main]

My first $1,000+ sale was a $5,000 sale of a .org. Bought it for $69. My first time in DNJournal. It was the domain that got me from dabbling in Internet marketing to focus on domains instead.

 

[kaz2]

Another amazing detailed reply LegendaryJP - showing that there are many different ways of selling domain names.

You said:

The good stuff, dot com, dot net, dot org.

Can I please ask if:

(1) what are your views on keyword .org's and .net's? Would you stick to 1 word names in these 2 extensions or would you go for 2 or more words if the keywords fit and have good search volume?

(2) you don't have to answer this one : ) - if you were starting out today as a newbie what strategy would you approach if you had a small budget of say $200?