Something fishy going on?

[liquidcherry]

I just head over to dnjournal.com and would like to have your take on this:

"Their roster was led by an unlikely candidate, a domain with not one, not two, but three hyphens in it! #3 Entre-Midi-Et-2.com changed hands for $35,100 in the highest sale we have ever seen for a triple hyphenated domain. "

wtf?? ll, is it just me or is there something fishy going on?

(and newbies, pleeeaaassseeee refrain from jumping on the 3 hyphen bandwagon lol)

Cheers

Liquid

 

[Dorkside]

Seems fishy, but it appears to be a developed site with a large amount of traffic from Germany. I guess that's where the value lies.

 

[johname]

"Between Noon And 2" ? in French?

 

[MicroGuy]

Great point! and I don't buy it. IMO.

Not sure if this is what's happening here, but I read a few months ago about how crime syndicates are using domain auctions to launder money. In these cases the domain quality is of no importance. The money passes through Sedo and comes out clean on the other end.

 

[Vito]

"Their roster was led by an unlikely candidate, a domain with not one, not two, but three hyphens in it! #3 Entre-Midi-Et-2.com changed hands for $35,100 in the highest sale we have ever seen for a triple hyphenated domain. "

wtf?? ll, is it just me or is there something fishy going on?

Un-Believ-a-ble.com!

Great point! and I don't buy it. IMO.

Not sure if this is what's happening here, but I read a few months ago about how crime syndicates are using domain auctions to launder money. In these cases the domain quality is of no importance. The money passes through Sedo and comes out clean on the other end.

haha, that actually makes a LOT of sense!

 

[ToryC103]

Ok, I just regged google-yahoo-bing-facebook.com!!! I'm gonna be rich!:gn:

LOL :lol:

But really, it's hard for a person to even fathom a triple hyphenated domain name selling for almost any amount!

As someone said above, it may get high traffic and essentially the buyer bought not just the domain, but the whole idea/business model. Or it's the mob laundering money.

Either way works for me. I'm gonna be rich!

 

[lll]

just looking around sedo auction,

location-de-voiture.com 3d 5h 12,500 EUR 1 13



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Ermm didn't realize the name I posted was only 2 hyphens. I'm tired :P

 

[Jeff]

Perhaps Duke from DNJournal.com can shed some insight on the recently reported sale; "Entre-Midi-Et-2.com changed hands for $35,100 in the highest sale we have ever seen for a triple hyphenated domain." :gl:

Kind regards,
Jeff

 

[Ms Domainer]

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Evidently, it's a popular French slogan and a popular website.

Try not to view everything through an egocentric US/English lens.

It's a big world out there, where, in some places, hyphens rule.



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[snoop]

It's a big world out there, where, in some places, hyphens rule.

The don't really "rule" anywhere, but if you build a successful site it is going to be valuable regardless of the domain.

 

[RogueWriter]

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Try not to view everything through an egocentric US/English lens.

And who is assuming egocentric us/english lens has remotely anything to do with it?

 

[Jeff]

Evidently, it's a popular French slogan and a popular website.

If true, and it's an existing popular website ... it should be qualified as such rather than being reported as a straight domain name sale IMHO. :gl:

Depending, perhaps it was even sold too cheaply? :blink:

Just my two sense,
Jeff

 

[Ms Domainer]

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The site is currently under construction, but it was a working site, supposedly with 25 million visitors. I don't know if the site goes with the domain.

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[liquidcherry]

Seems fishy, but it appears to be a developed site with a large amount of traffic from Germany. I guess that's where the value lies.

Why would Germans visit a french site? (even it is a .com) LOL

cheers

Liquid

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Great point! and I don't buy it. IMO.

Not sure if this is what's happening here, but I read a few months ago about how crime syndicates are using domain auctions to launder money. In these cases the domain quality is of no importance. The money passes through Sedo and comes out clean on the other end.

Micro, please stop the conspiracy thingy, would you...LOL

If this would be a money laundering sting, how in this world would that work....money laundering basically works like'mafia dude buys expensive car, mafia dude sells expensive car" right away with a minor loss=tschatsching, dirty money is gone!...could you(or anyone in this case) imagine that someone would pay even more for this name(and hey if it would be less it would be probably 99% less) lol

Cheers

Liquid

 

[DU]

Amazingly, for the last month or so I was wondering how it could be that

entre-midi-et-2.de

Was unregistered. (And still is. 20% finders fee.)

Can you "launder" electronic money? I tried laundering some electronics once and it didn't work very well.

 

[liquidcherry]

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Evidently, it's a popular French slogan and a popular website.

Try not to view everything through an egocentric US/English lens.

It's a big world out there, where, in some places, hyphens rule.



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Hi Ms,

You might be right with the popular slogan but a 3 hyphen? no way......(maybe yes if they where all killer keywords)

And even Microguy came up with some money laundering sting theory, i rather would say it went probably like a shill ebay sale, seller is friends with buyer and the money got back into buyers pocket to hype up things(ooops, did i just say that??)

Cheers

Liquid

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Amazingly, for the last month or so I was wondering how it could be that

entre-midi-et-2.de

Was unregistered. (And still is. 20% finders fee.)

Can you "launder" electronic money? I tried laundering some electronics once and it didn't work very well.

Can you "launder" electronic money? I tried laundering some electronics once and it didn't work very well.

LOOOOL, post of the evening/night...reminds me on last evening when a client told me he spilled some wine over his laptop and to rescue it, he put it in the freezer(he heard rumors that this would help)

Cheers

Liquid

P.S: good find with the .de still available...

 

[johname]

I heard about putting hard drives in the freezer

"e"laundering is like regular money laundering, dirty eletronic dollars go in and come out as a "clean" online business site lol

 

[DU]

I heard about putting hard drives in the freezer

"e"laundering is like regular money laundering, dirty eletronic dollars go in and come out as a "clean" online business site lol

I believe that Microguy recommends that many people elaunder one domain at a time. It goes under the euphemism of "grace delete".

 

[liquidcherry]

I believe that Microguy recommends that many people elaunder one domain at a time. It goes under the euphemism of "grace delete".

loool, triedd to rep you for that but i am not allowed to

Cheers

Liquid

P.S Johname, it actually works.....1 out of 15 times if you know what you are doing...and it depends on the freezer make and model...and the constellation of the sun and moon....lol

 

[slumdog]

1 year old domain, alexa 4mn ? very suspicious indeed !