.io .io Thread and Showcase

[mrcurly]

Bought a new .io domain through sedo last week a NN.io , bit of an investment and gamble but worth a shot in my opinion.

Anyone investing in .io domains? please feel free to share your investments.

Cheers

 

[wcpthree]

Who says they do? I get lots of "failed to meet reserve" emails and offers from sellers asking me if I want buy a name for more than the final auction price.

Agreed. I saw cops.io hit $405. What kind of business could you build around that?.. I bought a product.io with almost a half mil exact matches and high competition and got completely shit on on this site by appraisers. These indeed are selling. So either the market makers are dumb or the pros are wrong

 

[Sam]

Dang, I really should have registered premium names when I had the chance back in the day.

 

[Sam]

Keep in mind .io names were at around $100 USD reg fee, probably why .IO took off in the first place.

 

[Beezy]

Airforce.io finished at $210 on Flippa.

 

[UltraNames.com]

Airforce.io finished at $210 on Flippa.

Still too much...

 

[DU]

Airforce.io finished at $210 on Flippa.

Odd that someone who originally bid $x,xxx also bid this time around but gave up at $150 dollars.

Or not.

 

[Keith]

Art.io is listed on flippa. I'm not going to post a link but y'all should check it out. A masterpiece of a domain awaits your bid!

 

[wcpthree]

Airforce.io finished at $210 on Flippa.

Still could be fake bids though. But $210 is more realistic. I'm sure there there is lots of cake to be made with (US GOV property).io. Air force shoes, air force hot dogs, air force tickets, what a lucky buyer.

 

[wickedcool88]

I have sold a couple of .io domains for a good ROI on Flippa -
Photos.io - $1300 (8 months ago! If I had waited till now, this could have sold for way more)
Discounts.io - $560
Productivity.io - $500
Opinion.io - $750
Crazy.io - $110

:D Good Profit!

 

[wickedcool88]

Thinking of selling - Popularity.io now..
Let's see how it goes..

 

[createmx]

otaku.io

 

[JayJay]

update on CC .io's
all LN are taken here are the 43 remaining NL if anyone cares..

update: all CC.io are gone

 

[vibed.net]

I bought a few io's 2-3 months ago. I also left some names I didn't like that much and almost all of them are gone by now. I made $XXXX with rue.io, vga.io, hdmi.io and hdr.io. Funny, coz they were all available 3 months ago!

I think .io is a nice extension, but resellers will not sell them for big cash imo (ofc not speaking for superb names like seo.io or php.io).

 

[Kate]

update: all CC.io are gone

Proof that domainers are always burning money ablaze...

 

[Wisename]

sorry if this question may have some skeptical..
just want to ask.. is that the highest bidder on .io auction really end user or just reseller?

 

[Federer]

It seems that close to 50% of bids on .IO domain names at Flippa are fake.
To say that there is a trainload of fake bidding going on is an understatment. Some auctions are ending at low to mid $x,xxx, only for the bidders to move on without paying. When re-listed, they are selling alot lower with some of the same bidders not going above 10% of their previous bids. The fake sales are creating hype, a boatload of new listings with many, many disapointed sellers that were hoping to replicate the success of these deadbeat auctions. Some of those that actually go through, get pushed to friends/contacts.
The real auctions that go through to real buyers and the good .IO terms selling for mid $xxx to low $x,xxx. The fake auctions are easy to spot - they are average terms selling for crazy prices - high $xxx to mid $x,xxx.

 

[Mister Liquid]

I'd like to get some input from other members on this.... Why do you think .IO domains go for so much on Flippa? If you look at NameBio you'll notice this extension sells virtually nowhere else (except maybe a half dozen sales on Sedo this entire year so far).

Some might say the same thing about .INFO domains on Flippa, but at least we see those showing up other places like Afternic and DomainNameSales.

Sold 2 of my 12 privately (via WHOIS) in the past 3 months while my listings on Flippa went no where.

The ones selling on Flippa are probably priced reasonably enough for resellers to be interested in them.

True. Its not a place to sell to end-users - IMO. I am looking for end-users only.

 

[Domains56]

Great thread guys. I like .io Domains.
My contribution to this thread is that I just saw a nice .io domain that listed on flippa- - Honduras.io (not mine). It's can be a nice one.

 

[vccground]

Registered these -

Glory.io
NightVision.io

 

[Keith]

Art.io is currently at $4,000 on Flippa. The reserve is close to being met. One of the first .io ever registered!