domain Offer made on 39 domains as package deal - please help me decide

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I have , myself, said warnings against newbies taking appraisals as if they were written in stone. However, I am no newbie here, but this is a bit above me, as a domainer. Here, I find myself in a real quandary. I would HIGHLY appreciate ANY opinions. I received an offer for all the domains listed at the link below, as a package-deal. Do to whom made the offer, and conditions of the deal if I accept it, I can't say who or for how much the offer was for - I just know this person is a major player who sometimes parks domains for his/her own use and often sells names that regularly make DNJournal's top list, but I have no idea how "fair" the deal is to me or if they want any of these domains particularly for developing or resell. Therein lies my problem, however. I don't want to turn away good money if I could get more (atleast without waiting till I'm too old to care:p); and, on the flip-side, I surely don't want to turn down the hand that is feeding me if odds are I can't. Any honest appraisals, with reasoning, would be greatly appreciated.

List: https://certifieddomainoffers.com/list.txt

Thanks for your time, in advance

 

[srisri24]

If i am you, i would try to close the deal. You got decent domains. But many are .net,.or and info. Some 3 word domains.
Though decent, not Great or premium domains. so, sell them.

The entire set of rootwhois domains may be worth $100. Others are reg fee to Low-med XX. Thats my opinion. I could be wrong as well.
But if i am you, i will sell them

 

[John Doe]

I think few of them (for instance JavaScriptFAQ, RootWhois, SecureContactForm or WebsiteStatusMonitor) can be easily sold for around $2,000 each to enduser. Some of them could even reach more, if you are superior salesman and/or lucky enough. So, let`s say your realistic enduser sales expectations for all of them can be low $XX,XXX. But you never know how much time and effort it takes to sell them one by one. I would consider fair enough anything starting from around $1.500 for bunch. Try to counter offer and negotiate, maybe he has special motivation and is ready to go up to mid-high $X,XXX.

Just opinion, not expert opinion

Good luck!

 

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srisri24 & John Doe,

Thank you both for your time and opinions

If i am you, i would try to close the deal. You got decent domains. But many are .net,.or and info. Some 3 word domains.
Though decent, not Great or premium domains. so, sell them.

That is what had me wondering (some of the .info's and odd-balls). But has to be some reason they wanted them as a package.

The entire set of rootwhois domains may be worth $100.

Happens to be oldest domain (rootwhois.com), and was formerly used by ICANN's first Spanish-language accredited registrar, so went for it. And, oddly, other than JavascriptFAQ.com, RootWhois.com is the only other domain on the list to recieve an offer. The offer was for low x,xxx, but I (not thinking at the time :? ) turned it down. Sadly, it was through Network Solutions certified offer service, so no way to know who made the offer - can't go back and try to counter-offer or accept original offer now (albeit, not sure I would)

I think few of them (for instance JavaScriptFAQ, RootWhois, SecureContactForm or WebsiteStatusMonitor) can be easily sold for around $2,000 each to enduser. Some of them could even reach more, if you are superior salesman and/or lucky enough. So, let`s say your realistic enduser sales expectations for all of them can be low $XX,XXX. But you never know how much time and effort it takes to sell them one by one. I would consider fair enough anything starting from around $1.500 for bunch. Try to counter offer and negotiate, maybe he has special motivation and is ready to go up to mid-high $X,XXX.

Therein lies the trouble Some, if pushed enough, could be nice figures to end-users. But, how hard do I care to push (I never have time, sadly)?

I was given a few days to "think on the offer", so guess I'll do just that :gl: Once again, thank you both for your time and opinions. Rep added for your input.

Anyone else care to offer an opinion? All input would be appreciated :tu:

 

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All input would be appreciated

Okay, since it's now a free for all, not just experts, here's my opinion.

There are certainly some names in there which seem like excellent end user names. But I'm not sure how many of them I would count as being particularly liquid, as in, easy to offload to resellers for profit.

If I were you, I would start making some estimates:
- how much time did you spend finding them? ( put a value on your time )
- how much did you spend purchasing them?
- how much have you paid in renewals?

Once you've got some rough figures on how much you've invested there, I'd try to bargain for maybe 10x that, but not drop below 2x that.

UNLESS: you are one of those domainers who regularly sells to end users, and you're confident you can get end user prices for all of them ( or even for one or two )

:imho:

 

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OK, I edited original post. Maybe asking for "expert" opinions made it so many would not give their opinion :p

If I were you, I would start making some estimates:
- how much time did you spend finding them? ( put a value on your time )
- how much did you spend purchasing them?
- how much have you paid in renewals?

1) Time spent finding them...for them all, maybe less than an 8-hour work day. Some were drops no one noticed, others never regged. "Creative thinking" with searching (mainly Moniker's batch-reg search). Albeit, my time trying to sell them...a few times that
2) Spent purchasing them...ALL regfee. I hand-reg names, rarely buy them.
3) Only 2-3 so-far have had to renew...and only done for a year.

UNLESS: you are one of those domainers who regularly sells to end users, and you're confident you can get end user prices for all of them ( or even for one or two )

That's the thing...I am not :p

-NC-: Thanks for your input into the matter

 

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Going to go try (atleast temporarily) to sell them one-by-one Thanks for your input, srisri24, John Doe, & -NC- :tu:

 

[CHILLY]

1. How did they come to know of this list? By what means

2. The first thing that pops up in my mind is that if this person is a major player that parks and sells high priced domains to end users regularly then I would think that somebody knows something about something and one of those names hits the mark.

3. take rootwhois, if i said 5k right now, would you take it 10k 8k ect..match that logic to each name and add up what the offer is. You said most of them are hand regs, so in that regard you can't go wrong.

4. "Therein lies the trouble Some, if pushed enough, could be nice figures to end-users. But, how hard do I care to push (I never have time, sadly)?" This answers one question.

5. "The offer was for low x,xxx, but I (not thinking at the time ) turned it down" just for roowhois, does this offer come close, it seems like you are saying that you would have sold it.

6. What kind of time limit if any is on the offer, perhaps you have the time to research a litttle and pay someone whom you trust and respect as knowledgeable to give you good sound advice about worth and insight into future plans companies may have that fit one of your names.

If you don't have time to really push for an end-user, if you can really use the money now and you hand reg'd most of them and you like the offer, do it.

If you have some leads or feel that you can find end-users, and that would most likely be one by one, if you don't need the money so bad right now and you think the offer is too low as compared to what you feel you can get, then hold on to them.

 

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1. How did they come to know of this list? By what means

The term "CertifiedDomainOffers.com (This domain for sale at Sedo.com)" appears in whois for all but 3 or 4 of those names. I assume they either went to one of them in address bar (most redirect to CertifiedDomainsOffers.com...others to Sedo.com) or did a whois search, and in either case didn't want to go the Sedo route.

2. The first thing that pops up in my mind is that if this person is a major player that parks and sells high priced domains to end users regularly then I would think that somebody knows something about something and one of those names hits the mark.

Reason I almost jumped on it. But then, got thinking if this person saw a reason to jump there, I might be missing an opportunity for more with a few of the big boys seeing whatever name caught his eye in the first place. If I'm mistaken, cost me nothing but a little time that I would otherwise be wasting, like sitting in the middle of the night in NamePros chat :p If I'm not mistake, I could end-up very lucky here...Time will tell

3. take rootwhois, if i said 5k right now, would you take it 10k 8k ect..match that logic to each name and add up what the offer is. You said most of them are hand regs, so in that regard you can't go wrong.

After all the fuss I went through with rootwhois and its other TDL's - actually, I would take the first offer in the upper-x,xxx for it, right here and now, if I wasn't now trying it in auction (albeit, few NPer's I've asked think it worth much at all...but, reason I first mentioned not taking appraisals as being written in stone) Sure, its the IANA/ICANN/Internic term for whois searches and the TDL/ccTDL lists, and was owned for a few years by what I think was the first ICANN-accredited Spanish registrar just for whois searches for some 8 years. It has a hidden little history as part of the internet's terminology and structure. That was the name, I take it, this person wanted (based off odd comment in email about the list as a whole). But, darn it, while I could probably get more (wait for the right big fish), I'm tired of pushing that particular domain, to be honest. BUT, I'll patiently wait. It is not like its costing me money now. Come to think of it, I don't think a single name on that list did I pay more than regfee for. Rootwhois.com, JavascriptFAQ.com, and others, drops no one noticed :tri: Some whould argue most on that list not worth much, but hard to argue only regfee-value on a single one of them, and that's all they cost me. So, as you put it, I "can't go wrong" I know you were just making a point about x,xxx for rootwhois, but its that point that made me not take the offer in the end...I see more in it, in the end.

4. "Therein lies the trouble Some, if pushed enough, could be nice figures to end-users. But, how hard do I care to push (I never have time, sadly)?" This answers one question.

You're right. I have an odd habit of answering my own questions, while asking them

5. "The offer was for low x,xxx, but I (not thinking at the time ) turned it down" just for roowhois, does this offer come close, it seems like you are saying that you would have sold it.

For that name, do to the hassles trying to sell it, yes...stupid mistake is how I saw it at first...NOW, I think it has more to it that someone knows (your "somebody knows something about something")..So, I'm glad I turned it down. For the package, worth more I believe (initial reason I said no to the offer, after first got opinions on this message thread)....Going to find out for sure the hard way. And, while both you and I have already said it, it all comes down to the fact that since they all cost me regfee, I have nothing to loose by taking the time to go for even bigger deal(s). If get them, great for me. If not, pocketchange and a few hours here and there wasted + lesson learned.

6. What kind of time limit if any is on the offer, perhaps you have the time to research a litttle and pay someone whom you trust and respect as knowledgeable to give you good sound advice about worth and insight into future plans companies may have that fit one of your names.

If you don't have time to really push for an end-user, if you can really use the money now and you hand reg'd most of them and you like the offer, do it.

When tried to counter, they backed out of the deal...I think an opporunity for me that I might have passed-up had I taken it.

If you have some leads or feel that you can find end-users, and that would most likely be one by one, if you don't need the money so bad right now and you think the offer is too low as compared to what you feel you can get, then hold on to them.

My plans

CHILLY, THANK YOU for your VERY INSIGHTFUL input