sales Mike Mann reports selling 27 domains in his best month ever!

[lennco]

Mike Mann reported that he had his best month ever selling domain names. He reported selling 27 domain names in March for a total of $233,540. Mike had 7 5-figure sales.

Mike Mann said: “Ive been selling domains for 20 years. This is the best month yet.”

Highest reported sale was HealingHolidays.com that sold for $20k. The average price was $8,650 and the median was $8,000. That is substantially higher to some stats he posted in January.

He probably sold more domains as he is not reporting all his sales.

Mike Mann is the owner of DomainMarket.com that offers more than 260,000 premium domain names for sale.

Here is a look at some of Mike Mann’s domain acquisitions and sales from March 2017.

Domain name sales:

AKFX.com $17000. Purchased 3.30.2012 $84
HealingHolidays.com $20,000. Purchased 10/15/11 $74
TidyCleaning.com $7000. Purch. 4.29.11 $70
HelpASisterOut.com $1600
MichelleMason.com $13,000. Purchased 4/24/11 $70
IPRad.com for $8000. Purch 12/19/13 $7.50
CaribouCabin.com $5000 Purch 3/2/11 $7
SinAliento.com $15,000. Acqu 6.26.2012 $7
PropertyPhotos.com $15000. Purch. 3.12.07 $1000
fintechnology.com $5000. Purch 4.30.10 $7
CoverageComparison.com $4800. Purch. 8/1/13 $300
IntrinsicValuation.com is the $1888 I just sold it for, not the $20 I bought if for on 1/26/17.
GlobalBusinesForum.com $9,888. Purchased 6/13/2011 $7
ukcannabis.com $6000. Purchased 12/6/11 $7
FLInvestments.com $2888. Purch 12/4/09 $7
CrowdFarming.com $7900. Purch 5/16/11 $7
StudentLeadership.org $8500. Purchased 7/31/11 $350
HeliFotos.com $4800. Purch 8/7/09 $7
ahr.org $16,000. Purch 4/14/09 $787
BeerBear.com $4000. Purch 8/14/11 $9
AlwaysATreat.com $9888 Purch 7.4.10 $7
EnterStageLeft.com $6000. Purchased 1/25/10 $7
UniversityOfSuccess.com $7500, purchased 6/20/16 $70
ShantiYogaStudio.com $10,500. Purch 10/30/11 $7
ChelseaRose.com $8500. Purch. 2.17.11 $70
YourRentalCar.com $8000. Purch 6/17/10 $7.
Nanonets.com $9888. Purch. 11.9.08 $70

Domain name purchases:

LuluMelon.com $10
DoJew.com $10
insurerance.com $20
Purchased GrandesOrgues.com
MillionsOfMilf.com $8

(One thing to remember is that Mike Mann needs to sell about $2.5 million worth of domains per year to break even and that he is NOT a flipper. The average holding time for his sold domains is usually more than 5 years.)

Here is a couple of interesting comments that Mike did on Facebook:

“The domains lve been selling appear expensive to the untrained eye but in fact are incredible investments, too cheap. Most likely I could have got double if I held out and negotiated more, started higher.”
“Even while .Com is king, Cash is kinger”
“Perfect time to agree .Com is going up in value (not down like gtlds to <$0)”
“Im intending on taking all the best .Com from the domain auctions forever at a fair price, unless you intend on overpaying you can go home.”
“I have better info and can sell the domains faster at a higher price, so if you beat me on an auction you paid too much.”

“Using slick new software and 1000s of hours, I’m doing a massive asset revaluation to properly reflect the current fair value of 250,000 super premium .Com domains, which have old prices or no prices at all. The old retail value was around $1B and when I’m done appraising I expect it to be around $1.5B. For you 1.4.”

Mike Mann explained his crowdpricing domain appraisal system that will have 4 appraisers here.

Check out Mike Mann’s most trafficked domain names including Bali.com, Tasty.com and office.co.

Here are all the Mike Mann’s sold domain name reports published on OnlineDomain.com in 2016 and 2017:
February 2017
January 2017
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
August 2016
July 2016
May 2016
April 2016

https://onlinedomain.com/2017/04/11...month-ever-propertyphotos-com-ukcannabis-com/

 

[-EM-]

If $233k is the best month ever than $2.5m/yr seems to be unreachable. Something is not right

 

[Satyajit Adhikary]

There are a few domains in the list which I would have avoided buying even for reg fee.

Either I hav a lot to learn or the world is biased..!!

 

[Kingslayer]

Other than AKFX/ChelseaRose and AlwaysATreat I personally wouldn't even register any of those, so credit where credit is due, the mann (man) can sell ice to an eskimo.

After a quiet start to 2017, been a great few weeks for big domain sales

 

[-EM-]

Was thinking the same but then again the OP suggests that he's not reporting all sales. If you follow his sales, you notice that he only reports generic type of domains. Yet a bulk of his domains are of joespizzaplace.com, marysblog.com, brownandsons.com type of domains. And I think that he sells a lot of those as well. But doesn't report them because the first thought of gen pub is SQUATTER.

Totally agree this. I'm also sceptical for some of his sales too. I think big players like him always publish unreal sales, or speculate.

 

[nomen]

If $233k is the best month ever than $2.5m/yr seems to be unreachable. Something is not right

Was thinking the same but then again the OP suggests that he's not reporting all sales. If you follow his sales, you notice that he only reports generic type of domains. Yet a bulk of his domains are of joespizzaplace.com, marysblog.com, brownandsons.com type of domains. And I think that he sells a lot of those as well. But doesn't report them because the first thought of gen pub is SQUATTER.

 

[deez007]

In business 'all' depends on negotiation/s, so 'everything' is (can be) possible.

Yep, and when you own 260 000 domains it gives you very good leverage to negotiate.

 

[deez007]

only possible on those new tld-s. Maybe yes.
But not with .com
who gives hime that discount? fees are fixed, you think he can get better deal?

Fee's are fixed to the masses. Every single industry on this planet has preferential treatment and deals being done under the table that the majority has no clue about. Why would you assume domaining is any different? Do you think that the domaining industry is one that adheres to a high standard of morals and principles so there won't be any underhanded dealings?

 

[1Darko]

only possible on those new tld-s. Maybe yes.
But not with .com
who gives hime that discount? fees are fixed, you think he can get better deal?

As I understand ICANN fee is $0.18 per domain per year. The rest is negotiable. Somebody correct me please!?

 

[domeen]

You guys live in fantasy world, where everything is possible.
Reality is a little different.

 

[deez007]

You guys live in fantasy world, where everything is possible.
Reality is a little different.

Funny you should mention reality.... When you walk around with rose tinted glasses then you remain in the dark. Learn To Identify The Smoke & Mirrors Or Your Reality Will Be Dictated To You.

 

[anantj]

Registrars sell under theyre own price! its called marketing! And noone would sell year after year under own price. At least not for Mike Mann.

Exactly. And how do you know if MM does or does not have a quid pro quo arrangement with registrars? Simply saying that it is impossible without backing it up with solid evidence holds no value.

ICANN and VERISING fees are fixed. If registrar sells under this price, they are losing money. Or you can call it also investing into advertaising.

See comment above.

I mean you guys run for those cheap deals - $1 .com domains etc.. I mean nooone actually wants you as customer, if you are that cheap and do not buy any other service. Afterwards you cry, why they don´t let you transfre out the domain etc..

You might want to get off the high horse. I don't see what's wrong with looking for better value for money or deals. And a deal does not mean you can't expect some basic service standards. The "Crying" part you allude to typically happens when registrars don't explicitly call this out and keep critical information like this buried in layers or legalese/TnC or elsewhere. In the context of domain names, it does NOT matter whether you're paying full price or getting a domain at below cost or even free, encumbrances like this hamper managing and/or dealing with the domain name and will be called out.

If they did not want me as a customer, they have the full and perfect capability to NOT allow me to become one. They do, which obviously and directly means they DO want me as a customer. Whether I'm profitable for them or not is an entirely different matter altogether. Oh and go look at the directnic promo thread on this same forum (and several other registrars) - with the amount of praises and word of mouth advertising that DirectNic (and others generate) from this promo is worth it's weight in gold for the registrar. Even more so because the praise is coming from Domainers who have likely tried out several registrars, have a fair amount of knowledge and are recommending DirectNic. "Free" advertising. They can and might want me as a customer for this. This is one of the quid pro quo which incentivises them to run the promo in the first one.

Leaving aside scale, I'd be willing to wager that almost everyone in this world will go for a better deal when given the option.

The response turned out far longer than I intended. I'm not going to argue this further. In my opinion, MM might have better rates from his registrar partners, might not have. I don't know one way or the other and I fully suspect neither do you. So while we can all speculate and conjecture, it is all for nought unless MM himself states! And frankly, I don't even care as he knows what he's doing, seems to be doing very well and for him, that's all that matters

 

[Duncan729]

I was in fact just looking at HealingHolidays.com as research for what my own holiday domains could be worth and thought to myself that's gonna sell. What a coincidence.

 

[deez007]

Thats not possible.

Off course it is

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

You can negotiate everything, you just need the will / skill / patience to negotiate.
Apples, domains (every TLD), zips.

Domain registrars are offering 'custom bulk pricing', for example Uniregistry:
https://uniregistry.com/professionals
Scroll to the end at this site.

You can even negotiate the height of taxes (as politician, it needs just more will / skill / patience).

 

[deez007]

http://webmasters.stackexchange.com...harges-18¢-per-domain-name-why-am-i-paying-10

 

[anantj]

I know, belive me.
if you have other info you can show me.

Nope, I don't believe you. Show evidence for me to believe you. Or prove that you're MM himself...
And I already stated I don't. I'm speculating and conjecturing! I'm not in MM's inner circle (And I'm pretty certain he does not even know I exist on this planet )

 

[Jim Holleran]

If Mike Mann is doing so well, why is he charging for appraisals to list names on his site? Because he is not doing as well as you think

 

[-EM-]

https://www.namepros.com/blog/mike-...00-in-domain-sales.981749/page-2#post-5816515
"In the interview we conducted last year with him he told us he pays standard renewals"

As lots of deals are not reviled in public, why would this be true?

 

[frank-germany]

If $233k is the best month ever than $2.5m/yr seems to be unreachable. Something is not right

265.000 domains times $8 USD = $2.120.000 USD
$2.120.000 / 12 = $176.667 USD renewal / month

 

[Crysis]

Well.. Here is an article by CNET which says Mike makes around $400K a month.

"But as soon as he could, he jumped back in. That was about two years ago, and ever since, he's been buying an average of 300 names a day and selling them through his company, DomainMarket.com. That business, he said, brings in about $400,000 a month."

https://www.cnet.com/news/meet-the-mann-who-registered-14962-domains-in-24-hours/

 

[deez007]

If $233k is the best month ever than $2.5m/yr seems to be unreachable. Something is not right

I'm guessing he gets a heavily subsidised / discounted renewal price on his domains and I'm convinced he also gets financial incentives for registrars for all the Hype he creates in the industry...

 

[domeen]

I'm guessing he gets a heavily subsidised / discounted renewal price on his domains and I'm convinced he also gets financial incentives for registrars for all the Hype he creates in the industry...

Thats not possible.

 

[DOMAIN ILLUMINATI]

In business 'all' depends on negotiation/s, so 'everything' is (can be) possible.

 

[1Darko]

You can negotiate everything, you just need the will / skill / patience to negotiate.
Apples, domains (every TLD), zips.

Domain registrars are offering 'custom bulk pricing', for example Uniregistry:
https://uniregistry.com/professionals
Scroll to the end at this site.

You can even negotiate the height of taxes (as politician, it needs just more will / skill / patience).

Everything is negotiable... hehe