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[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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Domain name:​

Sale venue:​

Listing type:​

Listing upgrades:​

Seller:​

Asking price:​

Sale price:​

Purchase venue:​

Purchase price:​

Details:​

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• 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.

 

[anantj]

I noticed there were a few decent sales from flippa in dnjournal this week

I am thinking about listing a domain on flippa as we speak or I text etc

Flippa released some previously unreleased sale data which is why they showed up in this week's DNJournal.

 

[Willox Perez]

Basically, it was a matter of standing strong in my boots right from the start. Here's how the process went...

It was a young lady who first emailed me with a very brief message: "would you consider selling this domain name?" That's all there was. This strongly indicated to me that this was a VERY serious, interested party. Why? Basic human psychology. Most offers that come through ramble on and either made an offer or ask for a price right from the start. I felt this was someone who knew how to play the game -- they wanted ME to make the first move in the price war.

I decided to NOT respond to that first email to test my theory. If they WERE as interested in the name as I suspected, they would ask again soon. Sure enough, 3 days later I received another email with another very brief message asking the same question as before. I waited 2 days this time then replied with "I wouldn't rule it out, but it would have to be a very substantial offer as I'm currently using this domain for my business. Have a nice day."

The next day, an even shorter email from her: "What is 'substantial?'" I replied the next day with "I would not consider any offers of less than $12,000."

Several days later she emailed me with: "Is there any way you could take $4,000 for it?" (Now mind you, I knew I had a serious buyer on my hands at this point, and it was time to really play the game). I waited several days to let them sweat a bit and let them wonder if I dropped the issue because of their low offer. I finally replied to the lady with: "I'm sorry, but as I mentioned last week, I can't consider any offers of less than $12,000 as I am using this for my business".

She replied within hours this time (I sensed she was growing impatient) and said: "Can I have my boyfriend call you? He's better at negotiating".

Now THERE'S a dead giveaway! I gave her my phone number, and the next day I got the call from a very friendly down-to-earth gentleman: "Hi Gene, me and my girlfriend are starting a business and we're interested in your domain name. I could pay you $5,000 right now... and use escrow.com for the transaction -- I'll even pay the fees".

At this point I acted like I was growing very impatient. I explained to him everything I told his 'girlfriend', and nicely said g'bye.

Because of many things he said in our conversation, I suspected that this 'couple' were actually working for a major corp somewhere, acting as a mom & pop business.

He called the next day and left a message on my answering machine (I was expecting this would happen, so I didn't pick up the phone). "Hey Gene, we've been thinking about it and we decided we could go up to $10,000. Please let me know if we can make a deal -- call me as soon as you can".

I waited 2 days, called him back and after a bit of small-talk I said "it's been nice talking with you and I really wish you well in your new venture, but $12,000 is my absolute lowest starting point". (notice the key words "starting point"... I intentionally used those words so as to give the impression that I may even try to negotiate a higher price if you gave me time to think about it!). I got off the phone quickly, and waited for him to make his last move. He called that evening and accepted the $12,000 price. He began the escrow, I transferred the domain and I had the bank-check in hand about 10 days later.

Patience is your best friend in this business!

Gene

Great post and congrats! I definitely needed this. I have some inbound inquiries that seem to go no where and I keep thinking I may be pricing too high but after reading this just makes me realize that if the buyer really wants the name he will be willing to negotiate just like they did in your story.

- Will

 

[alcy]

$500....makeoffer.... 30 day old handreg fee.

 

[1Darko]

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$500....makeoffer.... 30 day old handreg fee.

Congrats for this sale! How many domains do you hold?

 

[alcy]

Congrats for this sale! How many domains do you hold?

now maybe around 1k .com.... most of which are VR/holo domains.....then maybe another 1k in info/net/biz/co......but I don't really consider personally non .com extensions to be domains worth investing in as they do not sell often enough to be worthwhile investments.. for me....

regsrdless of extension my strategy is to reg on promos and drop most in same year....unless a transfer promo is around. of course I intend to keep what I like the most.. or things I got offers on and declined while awaiting better future (happened often enough with VR domains) ......... all in all I do my best only to reg on promos and my renewal % have not been very high so far... this year will be no exception. I think if you research and invest time before you reg (expired) domains, then your one year can often be enough time to get something back from it... most of my sales having happened within 1 year of regging, I think demonstrates this point... well.. to me.

cheers

 

[alcy]

Congrats ! I like the kw btw.

tnanks. I like the keyword Transit too. I could have had a bit more if I negotiated tougher.. or waited some more cauuse this is only year#1 for VR tech... so VR is all about the future not the past.. and not really the now either.... despites its 100s of sales already so far... but.. this is good roi for 30 day handreg. cheers.

 

[1Darko]

now maybe around 1k .com.... most of which are VR/holo domains.....then maybe another 1k in info/net/biz/co......but I don't really consider personally non .com extensions to be domains worth investing in as they do not sell often enough to be worthwhile investments.. for me....

regsrdless of extension my strategy is to reg on promos and drop most in same year....unless a transfer promo is around. of course I intend to keep what I like the most.. or things I got offers on and declined while awaiting better future (happened often enough with VR domains) ......... all in all I do my best only to reg on promos and my renewal % have not been very high so far... this year will be no exception. I think if you research and invest time before you reg (expired) domains, then your one year can often be enough time to get something back from it... most of my sales having happened within 1 year of regging, I think demonstrates this point... well.. to me.

cheers

Thanks for this info. My strategy is similar to yours. Currently I have around 90 domains. At the beginnng of the year I dropped around 50 domains. A few of them where caught by HugeDomains and one by Mike Mann. Therefor it is sometimes hard to decide what do drop. I'm slowly adding names to my portfolio. I think my comfort zone would be around 300 names. I hope to achive a sales rate of at least 2% to endusers! With 300 names that should be hopefully around 6 sales per year. With your experience do you think this is a realistic goal?

 

[TrueDN]

o\p\e\n\c\a\r\e\e\r .com
Sold $5000, Uni landing

 

[SellDomains.site]

o\p\e\n\c\a\r\e\e\r .com
Sold $5000, Uni landing

Make an offer or BIN sale ?

 

[TrueDN]

Make an offer or BIN sale ?

Offer/Counter. Thanks.

 

[alcy]

o\p\e\n\c\a\r\e\e\r .com
Sold $5000, Uni landing

what can you sharee about investmenrt cost and hold time? ty

 

[Asfas1000]

o\p\e\n\c\a\r\e\e\r .com
Sold $5000, Uni landing

Congarts ! Your first quote was ?

 

[TrueDN]

what can you sure about investmenrt cost and hold time? ty

cost $79 + 1 year renewal.

 

[TrueDN]

Congarts ! Your first quote was ?

15k

 

[DomainBarracksRob]

Another MR sale
M/R/C/R/I/M/I/N/A/L.C/O/M
Sale price : $4500
Escrow.com
Inbound or how you boys like to call it.
I got it in 2005 in drop I think.

Very Nice Sale congrats! After seeing the Sales of Mr. play and Mr. Criminal and the rise in all the Vr/virtual names! I regged askMrvr (dot) com today! Again Great sale and stuff like this is what helps create ideas for future names.

 

[Federer]

A few of my sales this week include:

IntellectualPropertyConsulting.com - $300 (outbound)
LuxuryHolidayApartments.co.uk - £300 (outbound)
FlashSport.co.uk - $1,200 (inbound, via Sedo)
Event-Waste-Management.co.uk - €200 (outbound)

WinchesterDentalClinic.co.uk (outbound)
HampshireDentalClinic.co.uk (€600 for the pair)

PremiumSites.co.uk - £900 (inbound, via Sedo)

LeadSmart.net - $750 (inbound, via Sedo)

 

[TexasDomainer]

Braanch.com $2870
Another brandbucket sale
Bought for $9 here on namepros in may
https://www.namepros.com/threads/braanch-com-5-15-months-left-in-expiry.1013722/

My bb dashboard says that my account ranks 100% above all brandbucket users! Lol

 

[Fuadiansyah]

Braanch.com $2870
Another brandbucket sale
Bought for $9 here on namepros in may
https://www.namepros.com/threads/braanch-com-5-15-months-left-in-expiry.1013722/

My bb dashboard says that my account ranks 100% above all brandbucket users! Lol

Wow, care to share number of your portfolio and sold domains at BB?
Thanks...

 

[Haris]

Braanch.com $2870
Another brandbucket sale
Bought for $9 here on namepros in may
https://www.namepros.com/threads/braanch-com-5-15-months-left-in-expiry.1013722/

My bb dashboard says that my account ranks 100% above all brandbucket users! Lol

That's what happens when you buy domains from me. Buy my domains guys

 

[Soofi]

Buyers opening offer was $5780. My listed asking price was $5750 (offers only, no buy-it-now option).
I wouldn't normally counter but:

• The offer was a tiny fraction above my asking price. A gesture for me that indicates the bidder has a desire to get the deal done fast.
  
• Bidder was from Australia - and I'd recently read about an Australian fintech startup called Spaceship who took $1m of funding from Peter Thiel. (Although, it may not be them!)
  
• Bidder had registered on Sedo in June 2017. Activity index scores were also null for buying and selling ratings. There was a probability they registered only to make an offer on this domain, so it signals as 'end-user'.

I took the risk and countered at $19750. Sedo Broker had reached out to me and said the buyer can do $7k maximum, else will pull out of negotiations. I gave it some thought and accepted. It was a little aggressive to counter in the first place, especially on an a good offer above asking price, so didn't feel right to push any harder.

Total time for negotiations was around 9 hours.

I believe you left some money on the table Nonetheless, good sale there bud!