.io Lucky.io sold $67000

[private123]

Who is lucky?
I think seller is very lucky

 

[Ace3coiner]

Why?

Please do your own research as I do not want to be quoted on this...

 

[3sixty]

I must be missing something too. But I think .io is a fad, just like .ai is now gaining some traction for certain types of projects. At some point .me was fashionable too (even .cc a very long time ago).
Personally, I would never use a .io knowing it's the TLD of Diego Garcia and it is a very sad story.

Absolutely.

We are going for .ai for a small project for example, because the .ai matches well with the name and what the site is offering. But make no mistakes, if .com is available (and we will likely matchup with keyworldAI.com (which you can't do with IO :D ), we would absolutely go with that. Same with .co. If the business takes off then let's go for .com then if the price is right and we haven't pumped it too much.

.IO screams "we are here because .com is currently taken and out of our budget" and we can get our single-word name here. The techies have adopted it so awesome, but as an aftermarket purchase for my company name? No thanks.

Is it giving customer confidence or domainer perceived confidence? That is the key question. Again, the tech crowd have started to use it but if they are my consumer, they may like .io for themselves, but they will not gave a crap if I approach them from .io or .am.

For a company starting up, that is absolutely fine and makes complete business sense if you don't have the initial budget. Go reg-fee in .me, .ai, .co, .io, .sh, .whatever and just get the friggin thing started. Once you have proof of concept then go for your .com and cross your fingers you haven't alerted the owner enough that the price has sky rocketed- or that the name has been sold to another business.

But as an aftermarket purchase to start the process.

Go to another extension for $50-$100 and spend that $67,000 USD on marketing for example so everyone is aware. Because you are going to have to create that awareness on .io anyways.

This is what I would advise in a name branding consultation anyways after looking at all aspects and budgets. But again, .com before release yourself to the world is the money play- if you got the startup budget.

 

[topdom]

Sell your domain to yourself at your platform and then any price becomes possible.This is just a guess, time may tell, I'm not against it, I hope park.info and park.biz sell some domains as well.

 

[Branded Domains]

imo Lucky can be a crypto game of slots...or jackpot...

 

[BRANDERX]

Nice name but if the buyer was a domainer, then this was probably their (mistake of a lifetime).

imo

 

[Terrains]

lucky.io is listed on GoDaddy for $88,888 - old listing?

https://www.godaddy.com/dpp/find?isc=cjcdplink&checkAvail=1&tmskey=&domainToCheck=lucky.io

 

[Keith]

Odds on it will be a crypto coin casino

I know you’re promoting your domain and all but I’ll be shocked if it’s a crypto co. The domain moved to name.com and I don’t see a multi million dollar company going that route. Let’s see...

 

[Domaineer1]

I always take any sale on park.io with a pinch of salt...

Why?

 

[Keith]

Could you tell me more about this? Who's Mike? Mike Mann?

The owner of Park...

 

[TrueDN]

Lucky.sh

Nice one :D

 

[anantj]

I always take any sale on park.io with a pinch of salt...

Why?

 

[polyromcom]

Ive long suspected the reason they don't allow other people to list domains for sale (which sounds like big business right?) is because they can't bid up other people's names without paying out of pocket. To include them therefore would poke holes in the prices they apparently fetch.

 

[polyromcom]

And Im nearly certain (you can ask me why) that park.io was the longtime owner of lucky.io before it sold.

 

[ResoluteDomains]

Ive long suspected the reason they don't allow other people to list domains for sale (which sounds like big business right?) is because they can't bid up other people's names without paying out of pocket. To include them therefore would poke holes in the prices they apparently fetch.

You may be on to something.... I really wish they'd permit outside .io listings. It could be a lot of income in fees and such for them.

 

[polyromcom]

or a loss in fees because it would be clear that outside domains didn't realize the prices that dropped domains get. And their business would be scrutinized.