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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• NamePros Lander

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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.

 

[Domain Monk]

There are tens of examples of domains bought for xxxx and even xxxxx, which were sold for up to 90% less...also as example, there was a guy Steve, who bought in 2014-2015 over 200 one word .co domains, paying xxx-xxxx for each of them, but lost over 100k because of this. So, you need to know what you buy, it's not 100% sure that if you pay xxxx you will make money.

A acquisition like ledger.org can never do wrong..... Top TLDs and ...if u can analyse the domain ...u can never be in loss

 

[boker]

A acquisition like ledger.org can never do wrong..... Top TLDs and ...if u can analyse the domain ...u can never be in loss

You could never know, sometimes it could take even 10 years to sell it at your desired price or you could never sell it at your desired price. I know at least 3 namepros users with xxxxx sales this year but who loosed money per total, so what I'm saying is that you have to be a good business man, a good accountant and a few other qualities to make it work.
I'm not saying that everybody is loosing money and I know that Nikul has some good names, I'm just curious how everybody is managing the revenue for the full portofolio and a for the full year.

 

[Nikul Sanghvi]

Congrats Nikul, I know that you have sold a few xxxxx domains this year, but in the same time I know that you have bough a few xxxx domains. I wonder if you want to share how this is working out for you, I mean that you could have easily xxxxxx profit in a year but in the same time you could loose money in a certain years, depending how much you pay for your names.

Your point is absolutely valid - looking at sales in isolation isn't necessarily a valid indicator of a successful domainer / portfolio. Happy to answer this but not sure this sales thread is the right place... let me write up something and post it on a new thread.

 

[ET76]

Ledger dot org ... $30k

Sharing my research process (for pre-purchase rationalisation) with everyone here:

- I downloaded the ICOTracker database from Coindesk to analyse the use of different TLDs and keywords within the crypto space (which gave me confidence to risk the .org extension)
- Manually scraped LinkedIn, Twitter and Crunchbase to reference the use of the term 'ledger' and 'distributed ledger' in company names and descriptions
- Used a keyword tool for search data and SERP ranking difficulty for those same terms
- Manual parse through Google using 'site: ledger' for existing domains that contain the word ledger
- Namebio, DnJournal and Namepros for seeing the crypto niche trending for domain sales.
- Usual searches to see what's happening on www.ledger.* (about 25 other extentions)
- A few days of deep reading, using CTRL+F to keep an eye out for the word (50+ articles across BBC, FT, Medium, Wired, Coindesk, Blockgeeks, etc)

My counterpoints for arguments against the investment (or for limiting the investment) mapped out as:
- Namebio data for .org sales (within the last year), showed low probability of selling above $15k.
- I had no experience of ever buying and selling .org beforehand. My early expectation was to hold the domain for at least a few years.
- The term ledger exists as a trademark within publishing - theledger//com (ledger media group), patriotledger//com, etc
- I was actually nervous that the company called Ledger was already using ledgerwallet//com. They also own ledger//fr and ledger//co. At the time, I saw this negatively as a potential UDRP threat and not as opportunity.
- Google Trends showed no significant uplift patterns for the search term over either the last 12 months or five years
- Although SERP difficulty was 59/100, KWFinder showed that PPC competition and resulting CPC were both very low.

Final profits also took a small hit because I hand-regged around 100 other related .COM and .CO domains throughout the above process.

Would love to claim some special intuition or foresight - but the truth is that I did a little bit of homework, took the chance and somehow got incredibly lucky on timing! Congrats to the buyer and a big thank you to the broker - not sure if I'm allowed to name them but they were super professional.

Congratulations and thanks for sharing research process

 

[Zameer24x7]

R e d R o s e . i o
Hand Reg: 23-Sep-17
BIN: $399
Platform: Efty
Payment: PayPal

 

[platey]

The idea is how many xxxx names you need to buy to have one xxxxx sale? If you buy 2 domains for which you pay 5k each and you sell one domain for 30k, than is great, instead if you buy 10 domains at 5k each and sell one domain for 30k than you loose money.

If you buy them for reg fee you make more lol

 

[varmuk]

If you buy them for reg fee you make more lol

until renewal comes :P

 

[NamesMax]

Rocket Coder /// .com $1,000.00

Negotiated an inquiry from my Efty Landing page. Finalized via Escrow.com.

I owned it for almost 2 years. Unfortunately my notes do not show how I acquired it.

Interesting note. I had this listed as Buy It Now for only $499 at Afternic and Sedo, but for some reason had not set it on the landing page. First offer was higher than the $499 so I immediately deleted those and finished the negotiations. You never know.....

 

[varmuk]

Domain name: Brandco*in
Sale venue: Sedo
Sale price: 500$
Purchase price: 5$

 

[AIS01]

Domain name: Brandco*in
Sale venue: Sedo
Sale price: 500$
Purchase price: 5$

BIN ??

 

[varmuk]

BIN ??

yes

 

[koti arun kumar]

dftv.org ( sold in april 2017)
720 usd
hand rig
didn't place anywhere
inbound mail from chinese buyer
paypal

 

[Sorror]

E/C/O - L/I/G/H/T . C/O/M

Sold trough SedoMLS, BIN $2950.

Bought it for $12 on GD Auctions in 2015.

 

[DaveX]

i/t/h/e/r/e/u/m/./c/o/m

- Inquiry to closed sale today
- Hand Regged May 2017 at GD for $8
- Direct Email Offer (Twitter > Prycr > Efty lander > Escrow.com)
- $850 Offer > $1500 Counter > $850 Max'd Out > $850 accepted

Revenue: $850 - $8 - $13 (half escrow)
Profit: $829

 

[varmuk]

i/t/h/e/r/e/u/m/./c/o/m

- Inquiry to closed sale today
- Hand Regged May 2017 at GD for $8
- Direct Email Offer (Twitter > Prycr > Efty lander > Escrow.com)
- $850 Offer > $1500 Counter > $850 Max'd Out > $850 accepted

Revenue: $850 - $8 - $13 (half escrow)
Profit: $829

buyer has got great deal here

 

[Nikul Sanghvi]

Your point is absolutely valid - looking at sales in isolation isn't necessarily a valid indicator of a successful domainer / portfolio. Happy to answer this but not sure this sales thread is the right place... let me write up something and post it on a new thread.

Have tried to answer in as much depth as possible. Post is here:

https://www.namepros.com/threads/almost-a-decade-of-domaining.1056328/

 

[Calvenor]

Haven't contributed to this thread in a while, so just reporting a few realized sales over last 6 months or so:

Domain name: E u p x ( d o t ) c o m
Sale venue: GoDaddy premium
Listing upgrades: None
Sale price: $450 ($360 after commission)
Total cost: $74.62
Details: Inquiry came through Bodis' lander. Managed to negotiate the price up from initial $300 to $450. No other interest in a few years time so I've decided to "call it a sale" and just let it go.

Domain name: H e a l G a r d e n ( d o t ) c o m
Sale venue: Brandroot
Listing upgrades: None
Sale price: not too low $x,xxx (low $x,xxx after all commissions subtracted)
Total cost: $24.94
Details: Initial offer came through Brandroot's website at $1800. Final price upped a bit through negotiations.

Domain name: S w e d ( d o t ) c o
Sale venue: NameSilo
Listing upgrades: None
Sale price: $1840 ($1682 in my PayPal after all commissions)
Total cost: $45.58
Details: Initial inquiry came through NameSilo's lander, without any concrete amount attached to it. Mid to high $xxx offer was mentioned as a possibility, but I insisted on $2xxx price pretty much all along the way. Ultimately, after few weeks long negotiations, I caved in somewhat and the aforementioned sale price was agreed upon. I rejected 4 offers for the same domain in the past, each of them lower than the selling price, so I felt it was right time to let go of this one since you can push your luck only so far.

All things considered, while my sales are few and far between and the whole domaining thing is truly nothing but a hobby for me, this is third consecutive year that I am ending a year in black after all the expenses and taxes factored in, with a little above hundred domains left to renew in entire 2018. (around 350 already renewed and not due until 2019.), so I'm looking forward to another year without worry and with a (very) slight hope for a first ever 5 figure sale.

 

[alcy]

mafioso.....net... $300..........gd makeoffr...... 2016 reg

 

[Satyajit Adhikary]

plus53.com
Price - $250, (Commission - $50) = $200
Venue - Afternic
Hand registered in early 2017

 

[CryptoInvestor]

Sold Apple-CryptoCurrency.com for $20

Hand Reg at Godaddy a week before sale (November 15th)

Sold on Ebay (surprisingly)

I’m such a pro, $9 Profit!!!!