Mike Mann’s Latest Domain Acquisitions & Sales

[Arpit131]

Here is a look at some of Mike Mann’s domain acquisitions and sales from the last month or so. Mike Mann is the owner of DomainMarket.com that offers more than 250,000 premium domain names for sale.

Domain name purchases:

Facetimer.com $8
TwitterNames.com $70
EyePhone.com $1,000

Domain name sales:

MagicLens.com $19,000 (purchased for $166)
ProtectYourMind.com $2,000 (purchased for $7.50)
HelpSomeone.com $4,000 (purchased for $350)
GoodbyeFat.com $4,000 (purchased for $80)
RockinOn.com $9,888 (purchased for $7.50)
SalonTime.com $8,500 (purchased for $200)
EqualityHealth.com $30,000 (purchased for for $200)
ExecutiveAdvertising.com $25,000 (purchased for $1,800)


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[ZapNano]

Maybe that is why he's looking for $400K for EarthDay.com, when EarthDay.org are trying to save the world from people like you.

NO people like YOU!!

 

[gilescoley]

It's funny, everyone is only talking about the TM names and not the fact that many times Mann buys names for nothing and sells them for Thousands.

EqualityHealth.com $30,000 (purchased for for $200)
MagicLens.com $19,000 (purchased for $166)

^For me that is the real story here

I agree, he has made some nice sales..I remember some fantastic .CO sales, the one I remember was Jazz.co for $22,000, but there were a lot more

http://fusible.com/2010/07/the-co-d...-has-100-co-domains-as-much-as-350k-per-name/

The thing is, people dont remember the few good sales you made, the bad press is what sticks in peoples mind, I know I will certainly remember TMs names rather than a some sales he made 7 years ago

As I have said before, your reputation is everything in this business and bad news travels quicker than good news. It can years to build a good rep and one thread can do a lot of damage. For someone in his position, its just plain stupid to register TM names

 

[CamMK27]

It's funny, everyone is only talking about the TM names and not the fact that many times Mann buys names for nothing and sells them for Thousands.

EqualityHealth.com $30,000 (purchased for for $200)
MagicLens.com $19,000 (purchased for $166)

^For me that is the real story here

Exactly. I was thinking the same, how is he able to sell names for such high prices. Some of these names are not even high caliber.

RockinOn.com? Bought for $7.50 and sold for $9888.....How was he able to sell that for almost $xx,xxx

I don't see anything special about RockinOn.com? Maybe some one is going to build a Porn site and they will be able to make the money back + profit...

 

[Arca]

It's funny, everyone is only talking about the TM names and not the fact that many times Mann buys names for nothing and sells them for Thousands.

EqualityHealth.com $30,000 (purchased for for $200)
MagicLens.com $19,000 (purchased for $166)

^For me that is the real story here

Any regular NP member intentionally holding TM infringing names gets widely denounced by everyone on here.

But when Mike Mann does it, it's more noteworthy that he “buys names for nothing and sells them for Thousands”, than the fact that he intentional cybersquats?

Exactly. I was thinking the same, how is he able to sell names for such high prices. Some of these names are not even high caliber.

RockinOn.com? Bought for $7.50 and sold for $9888.....How was he able to sell that for almost $xx,xxx

I don't see anything special about RockinOn.com? Maybe some one is going to build a Porn site and they will be able to make the money back + profit...

When you have a portfolio of 350,000 names, it's easier to make outlier sales like that...

 

[Kate]

As I have said before, your reputation is everything in this business and bad news travels quicker than good news. It can years to build a good rep and one thread can do a lot of damage. For someone in his position, its just plain stupid to register TM names

And we foot the bill too.

Any regular NP member intentionally holding TM infringing names gets widely denounced by everyone on here.

But when Mike Mann does it, it's more noteworthy that he “buys names for nothing and sells them for Thousands”, than the fact that he intentional cybersquats?

And he lost a couple UDRPs, so it's not like he has not been warned he should review and clean up his portfolio. Nobody is going to do it for him. By contrast, Buydomains (which he founded) has always been careful about TMs.

 

[Winfluence]

Mann is rich. If he gets sued he can take the blow. Simply said, don't do what Mann does if you're not rich...

 

[CrazyChicken]

Lol but if I was the owner of that name, you and every other NP member would think otherwise.

exactly. Biased and ok with it i think.

 

[frank-germany]

Any regular NP member intentionally holding TM infringing names gets widely denounced by everyone on here.

But when Mike Mann does it, it's more noteworthy that he “buys names for nothing and sells them for Thousands”, than the fact that he intentional cybersquats?
...

you all seem to be lawyers
and very very knowledgable when it comes to trademarks


you really better ask a specialist lawyer
and do due dilligence
before you start talking about such a complex law
as trademark law is


the realy question here is :
how can mike sell so many domains for such a high price?

 

[frank-germany]

According to the Washington Post article, Mann’s company DomainMarket.com owns 350,000 domain names. He grosses $4 million a year from selling domains from the portfolio.

350.000 x what do you pay for a domain = ??

http://domainnamewire.com/2014/11/17/mike-mann-economics-domain-name-portfolios/

 

[bigbagofbricks]

If you look at their copyright
© 2016
It means the sites still active.

Well that's not true. Many sites have that generated using php automatically.

 

[disaac81]

When the most famous domainers buy trademarked terms it really makes this industry look like a pile of ****.

And not all trademark owners are super-rich, we should respect THEIR trademark and the hard work that went into making it valuable.

Really not a good move.

 

[frank-germany]

Well that's not true. Many sites have that generated using php automatically.

©

doesn't make a trademark

 

[pchip]

the realy question here is :
how can mike sell so many domains for such a high price?

Simple.
Step 1: Have thousands of decent quality domains (not talking about high quality names)
Step 2: Ask for 50k+ on all domain inquires

Statistically speaking, some of those inquires will be end users willing to pay that kind of cash, regardless of the name itself.

How do you think DomainNameSales does it? It's not magic.