Incoming Offers?

[ealfert]

To you "non-believers",

...to show that new gTLDs are desired by businesses, I wanted to start a thread to document incoming offers. Please post your own incoming offers.

I'll start... just received inquiry about..

c a s i n o (d o t) c a s h

...from a large player in the casino/poker industry.

Still think businesses don't want the new gTLDs?

 

[vivaldi]

Good for you but there is no proof really just reporting incoming offers, people with interest might as well just fake them. Better to look at the actual sales. And no I don't hate new gTLD's got plenty of them.

 

[Nattydomain]

Could be a nice thread to prove others wrong but to make your case it would be nice to see the offer AND to know what it sells for. Hell I get offers all the time but $10 dont mean shit if that is the offer.

 

[ealfert]

offer AND to know what it sells for

I definitely understand the difference between offers and sales. If not bound by non-disclosure clause, I will reveal sale prices.

 

[amirp]

i sold few gtld domains all over 8k, and i got few offers for newyork.cab ,highest being 50k. and no i am working for donut
whoever interested I to see I am willing to show your my escrow invoice with extensions on the domains.
not allowed to shared the actual domain name.

 

[venturefile.com]

Offers don't equal sales.. Sure you can make a pretty penny now when the hype is on the new gtlds, but what will happen when the hype settles? A similar thing was going on with .mobi in the start and I remember reading about a guy who didn't take a $3 million dollar for his .mobi portfolio when he had the chance.. He ended dropping a lot of the names and never making anything close to it again.

More power to you for making money with the new gtlds and I wish you good luck with it, but I prefer to stick to .com any day.

 

[rh2000]

i sold few gtld domains all over 8k, and i got few offers for newyork.cab ,highest being 50k. and no i am working for donut
whoever interested I to see I am willing to show your my escrow invoice with extensions on the domains.
not allowed to shared the actual domain name.

I want to see proof.

 

[amirp]

be my guest

 

[matrigaldo]

i sold few gtld domains all over 8k, and i got few offers for newyork.cab ,highest being 50k. and no i am working for donut
whoever interested I to see I am willing to show your my escrow invoice with extensions on the domains.
not allowed to shared the actual domain name.

Wait, you received 50k offer for newyork.cab and not willing to sell?

 

[amirp]

no i live only once.

 

[matrigaldo]

Yes, i surely believe in these kind of offers and decisions.

 

[amirp]

not sure if you are being sarcastic or not, but either way, wont make any diff to me.
i have so many gtld domains, most of these domains are my long term investment, so i am not in rush to sell if I don't get the price that I have in mind.

 

[matrigaldo]

History teaches you should take advantage of the initial rush for all these new gTLDs.
Not only the @venturefile.com's example, the guy with $3,000,000 offer for his .mobi portfolio who had to let most of his domains expire after a while, but i remember a lot of similar cases for .mobi , .biz , .ws , .pro .
I remember a lot of .pro investors declining $x,xxx offers for generic keywords during first months, looking for $200 offers the year after.
I remember i bought a LLL.mobi for $80 just few days after the release, and sold it for $200 the next month. Then I saw that exact LLL.mobi for sale on forums for $30 some months later , then for $15, then expired in 2 years.
I think if you look for early threads on this forum, and spent hours reading them, you would better understand how this kind of "economical fluctuation" works, and why you should accept with closed eyes this $50k offer, if it's real.

 

[amirp]

well, I am sure , value is much higher in future, I am willing to take my chances.

 

[Kate]

Sales happen in almost every TLD.

That doesn't mean there is an established market, just scattered sales.

I am not saying new extensions won't be used at all, but that there will be (imo) little adoption by big players. There may be exceptions of course. But I predict that many domains will probably used as redirects.

 

[drissesco]

woah that was quick.... just registered the same three letter word in three different gtld extentions for a promo price like a hour ago. I got a offer for the 3...

 

[bmugford]

It always amazes me how many people seem to be bound by non-disclosure agreements when the subject of actual sales comes up. I sell domains to end users quite often and it is very rare that a NDA is even mentioned.

Also, the "proof" does not include either an escrow transaction # or the domain name itself.

I am sorry if I am skeptical. With all these offers for new gTLD it sounds more like the appraisal scammers have found some fresh new targets.

Brad

 

[amirp]

Brad, I have mentioned that I cannot give out which domain i have sold based on my buyers request but i can send you another screenshot with transaction number
check the attachment
maybe it is time for you to look at gtld in a different way.
good luck

 

[vivaldi]

And yeah you guys should check the top 10 aftermarket sales of these new gTLD's, a lot of them are just transferred to stakeholders other companies like the .club sales except maybe one of them, just saying until the sale occur on a well known marketplace and above all after checked who bought it then there is reliable proof.

 

[biggie]

It always amazes me how many people seem to be bound by non-disclosure agreements when the subject of actual sales comes up. I sell domains to end users quite often and it is very rare that a NDA is even mentioned.

Also, the "proof" does not include either an escrow transaction # or the domain name itself.

I am sorry if I am skeptical. With all these offers for new gTLD it sounds more like the appraisal scammers have found some fresh new targets.

Brad

totally agree Brad, you said same thing I was thinking