various Report Completed Domain Name Sales Here

[RJ]

This thread is a central location to report domain name sales of any dollar amount.

As much information as you can include about the transaction is welcome, but at a bare minimum please include the domain name(s), the sale price, and whether you were the seller.

Good luck with your sales!

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• Discuss and Report Any Details of Domain Name Sales

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Suggested template (bold details are required):

Domain name:​

Sale venue:​

Listing type:​

Listing upgrades:​

Seller:​

Asking price:​

Sale price:​

Purchase venue:​

Purchase price:​

Details:​

Suggested values / explanations:

• Sale venue: Sold at NamePros, outbound direct, inbound direct, etc.
• Listing type: Make Offer, Fixed price, Auction, Auction with Buy-It-Now, Reverse auction, etc.
• Listing upgrades: Premium package, featured listing, etc.
• Seller: me, a friend, a friend of a friend, a colleague, someone else, unknown, etc.
• Purchase venue: Where (and the year) the seller purchased the domain name originally.
• Details: Any additional details or comments about the domain name like how you bought it (e.g., hand registration), how long you had it before it sold, its age, whether you did outbound, etc.

Examples:

Domain name: ThisDomain.com​

Sale venue: NamePros (2016)​

Listing type: Make offer with Buy-It-Now​

Listing upgrades: Featured listing​

Seller: Me​

Asking price: $950​

Sale price: $830​

Purchase venue: NamePros (2015)​

Purchase price: $25​

Details: Acquired from a reseller. 5 years old domain. Had for 1 year before resold.​

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Domain name: ThatDomain.com​

Sale venue: GoDaddy Auctions (2012)​

Listing type: 7-day Public Auction​

Listing upgrades: N/A​

Seller: Someone else​

Asking price: N/A​

Sale price: $60​

Purchase venue: Hand registration (2009)​

Purchase price: $8​

Details: I watched its auction. The auction description said it was hand-registered the same day it dropped (from expiration).​

Important:

• If you don't want to provide any other information about the sale besides what you've posted, then include "no further details" or "NFD" in your post.

 

[chandan]

TICK .in 2000 $ bodis contact and escrow via daaz. com hand reg in 2010

 

[scithe]

ZLZ in .org. $1888 at GoDaddy Auctions. Cost: $300ish plus renewal. $1416 payout after commission as I was using Sedo lander.

This domain had a surprise. I had this listed on DAN, Afternic, Sedo and GoDaddy auctions. I received an offer for $1000 through GDA but I was sleeping. By the time I woke up the buyer used the Buy now and paid the $1888. I didn't immediately remove it from the other marketplaces like I try to do and a few minutes later the sale came through on Sedo. Literally minutes. My BIN was priced at 1188 on Sedo instead of 1888 (woops!).

On the transaction page, Sedo told me I needed to print out and upload an invoice for the buyer (WTF, earn your commission. What business doesn't have invoices themselves). Anyway, I told Sedo the same buyer already paid for the domain on GoDaddy and the e-mail of the sale came through from GoDaddy and since they are also where the domain was located, I didn't see how to get out of it. Sedo said not to worry because the buyer was going to file a chargeback at GoDaddy. I contacted my GoDaddy rep as I had already received a payout to my Paypal and was wondering if there was a chance of a chargeback. He told me there was nothing to worry about since the deal was done. Sedo voided the sale a day or two after that.

I need to invest in some kind of portfolio manager. I've got 750ish domains (down from 900-1000 a year ago). I definitely don't want things like this to happen too often as I would hate to have an account closed because I couldn't fulfill my obligation.

Also, the domain is currently listed on Afternic for 8999 with a 3000 min. bid. It would be awesome if that guy or gal was able to sell it at that price.

 

[rumevic]

October sales

v o l t o z . c o m $1,000
i o n i z e . o r g $890

 

[singhhooda]

Acquisition Cost: Low xx
Hold Time: Few months

 

[Jim H]

V/R/Ai .a/p/p
Sale price: about $3500
Cost: about $35, handreg
Hold time: about 20 months
Venue: Dan

 

[Grego85]

DeFi (dot) Website
Sale Price: $550
Platform: Sedo
After Comm: $440

Hand reg catch from a few years ago. About $50 invested.

 

[Aneff]

Domain name : bitmap/market
Sale price : $4688
Purchase price : Hand reg
Venue : Dan.com
Holding time : 5 months

 

[wwwulff]

Domain name : PartnerPlace/com
Sale price : $6000
Venue : Afternic fast transfer (BB listed)

$10 closeout from 2013

 

[sellian]

Alpha / Prompting (.) com
Sale Price: $1000
Venue: Dan (Distribution network)
Handregged 10 months ago

Probably undersold this one.

Nameservers were pointing to Sedo with BIN at around $2500.
I totally forgot it stayed listed on Dan at $1000 BIN.

Happy to see that the term Prompting is getting some traction as I own a few

 

[OluMayor]

Purchase price: Hand reg
Hold time: 9 months

 

[Yusupbabay]

R/o/c/k/D/i/c/e.com

Sale price : $1700
Purchase price : $15
Hold time : 8 months
Venue : 4.cn

 

[twiki]

OK so I said I'm going to post more sales to cheer everyone up (who's not already happy, and maybe needs a bit of encouragement these days). Here's another (will come back with more later):

Afternic BIN, hold time 3 years (minus few days). Drop reg at Dynadot.

( Yeah, back in 2020 you could catch such stuff by hand... or simple API script.)

The story behind this domain and pricing is simple. I've repriced some of my domains to sell faster because I need a very good December in domain sales to cover some expenses in another business side. So it's the choice between good money now and great money sometimes (?) later. This month, I choose the former. This one is very well priced for current market.

... And I just renewed it. I guess that was the last straw for whoever has been watching it so they bought at BIN. Congrats to the buyer! They got a good name at a very reasonable price.

P.S. Important note, addressed to those following my sales and having less sales right now.

My experience is that XXX range discounts don't work anymore in 2023 (actually degraded much since 2022). I had lots of discounting this autumn and in December; and barely sold like 3 names or something.

That's not enough. I know that it did not boost sales ratio, basically at all. So I will not discount anything anymore to 3-fig. Maybe a just bit of, say a 1.5k domain will go down to 1k...1k+ but that's the bottom for me. I prefer to either renew or drop rather than go 3-fig. Oh and NP clearance sales are more disappointing than ever. Anyway.

If you still discount like that, at least from my perspective, you'll get some sales but my bet is on end customers with buying power getting them for too cheap, rather than some other investor taking them. Which means, you might actually lose money by discounting to XXX range - you sell them out too cheap as there's no major boost in sales by discounting.

I am pretty sure many cash strapped investors have been selling lots of stuff at XXX range lately and yet, you don't see much of that kind of sales here. What you continue to see is 4-fig sales and up. Whoever had money, good businesses, they still have and spend it I guess. Not the everyday Joe, not anymore.

By my measurement, STR used to grow like 3x at each 50% price reduction below $3K on my domains... say circa year 2020. So you made more money if discounting, at the expense of reducing your portfolio.

Well, not anymore. Overall I lose money doing that. I even discounted fabulous names to $199 and $299 and got almost zero sales on those. So yep, at least in the current market, my advice if you'd ask, is to not discount to xxx range - unless you feel like it's your last resort for food on the table today or whatnot.

It's not guaranteed you have the same results; but maybe you should look into this, and do your tests as well. Good luck!

 

[VadimK]

No sales reported since Saturday? I normally don't report xxx sales, but just to spark up the team, here is one from October.
HandReg from March 2021, was about to drop and discounted.

 

[love4ever]

** Sold BIN last week / Hand reg first of October 2023 .

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[AH555]

Domain: Translate.ninja
Sale price: $1088
Purchase price: Fresh Hand Reg from scratch
Hold time: 3 months

Has anyone else sold a .ninja before?
@Mr. Deleted LOOK I DID IT

 

[Yanosh]

Domain name : 0/2/1 (.) io
Sale price : 4000$
Purchase price : ~ 50$ namecheap auctions
Venue : Dan
Holding time : 3 months

Congratulations to the Buyer and thanks to Dan’s broker.
BIN was 5.4k , probably the highest reported NNN.io sale

Interesting : Not a Chinese buyer

 

[BrandingPro]

Domain: 49134 dot com

Buying price: $95.47
Venue: Godaddy auctions
Total cost: $95.47

Selling price: $395
Venue: Afternic
Hold period: 19 months approx

 

[BrandingPro]

Domain: VXG dot de

Buying price: $229
Total cost: $234
Venue: Sedo

Selling price: $559
Venue: Sedo
Hold period: 4 months approx

 

[BrandingPro]

Domain: MarriagePlanner dot net

Total cost: $13
Venue: Dynadot

Selling price: GBP 99 or $110
Venue: Sedo
Hold period: 16 months approx

 

[BrandingPro]

Domain: Drilled dot org

Total cost: $26
Venue: Flippa

Selling price: $300
Venue: Private
Hold period: 4 months approx