Vintners.com Sells for $45,000

[Charley]

Sonoma resident and Bulgarian wine importer Vance T. Petrunoff sold Vintners.com domain name and web site to a Pennsylvania web developer for $45,000.

With the opening up of direct sales after the last year Supreme Court ruling, sales of wine-related domain name sales have been bubbling: CabernetSauvignon.com sold for $20,000, WineList.com for $21,255, RedWines.com $19,500.

Vintners.com is one of the most unique domain names in the wine business. A Vintner is a wine merchant or a wine producer. In some cases the term is also applied, erroneously, to winemakers.

"It will be a great starting point for winery direct wine shopping for consumers," said previous owner Vance T. Petrunoff.

Vance T. Petrunoff also publishes BulgarianWine.com and is currently offering for sale GlassofWine.com, Wine-Sale.com, WineFair.com, WineShows.com, WineMagic.com, WineryVisit.com.

 

[gericsb]

Hopefully this will bode well for my wine-related .us's and .infos--> I have varietals.xxx (all but .com) and also almost every wine varietal in existense with the .us extension!

Unfortunately I was not on the 'wine' bandwagon early enogh to snap these same names up with the .com extensions

 

[accuname]

Well, I own "red-wines.net". Although not redwines.com which I would not have let go for 19,500, I think my hyphen net should fetch at least mid $xxx.

 

[gericsb]

I think so too, but after a brief spurt about 9 months where I sold two of my wine .us domains for xxxx, I havent had another sniff.

Maybe this latest purchase will help us unload our wine domains for a premium.

Good luck!

 

[wot]

FrenchWine.org - a vintage name :hi:

 

[airwav]

I am a wino

Missouri is now claiming fame to some top notch wineries and wines, so I recently purchased a few domains:

MissouriWines.US
MissouriWine.US
MissouriWinery.US
American-Wines.US
RegionalWines.US
BuyVino.US

I think these names will pay off and I will have nothing to wine about... :hehe:

 

[bobdigital]

A Vintner is a wine merchant or a wine producer

I thought it was one of the yellow properties on Monopoly. :hehe:

 

[Charley]

I think so too, but after a brief spurt about 9 months where I sold two of my wine .us domains for xxxx

Where did you sell them off?

 

[madawg]

wow, thats great to know!

 

[GoPC]

I own GERWURTRAMINER.COM for what it's worth.

Not that anyone can spell it. LOL!!!

I used to work in the "industry" along while ago. Ever seen a Big Gulp full of Pino Noir? I have! LOL!!!

GoPC

 

[gericsb]

Just two different private inviduals--no Escrow/Sedo or anything. Each just paypaled me the funds without even a second thought!--It's amazing how trusting and trustworthy some total strangers can be with each other.


GoPC--what happened with your domain--I was following your thread with great interest and last I saw you had rejected a 60K offer--did you ever sell GoPC.com?

 

[GoPC]

I still have it. YEah, I turned down the $60K offer (domain trafficer) in hopes to find and sell to an end user/brander for somewhere near the 4 times independentaly appraised Mid Six Figures the domain is worth.

Apparently I've made the right choice.

I have a Private Broker working on the deal now (as opposed to the park-n-wait pros) who have unearthed a few offers BETTER than the one I turned down, but still are telling me to hold out for that $250K - $400K deal.

I'm content to wait. The UMPC market is really heating up. Microsoft tipped their hat when they actually broght a PHYSICAL DEMO to a Patent Hearing (on the public record) that they introduced as the "MS GoPC" ultra mobile pc device. Can you BELIEVE that? !!! It's right there in black and white like 10 times... Public Record!

MS has also announced their "Pay-as-you-Go PC" program and put out an article entitled "XBox 360 to GoPC"

Other manufacturers are picking up on that too... the burner is on and the waters are coming to s slow boil. :D

Patience will pay off.

Thanks for remembering! I appreciate that.

GoPC

 

[accuname]

I still have it. YEah, I turned down the $60K offer (domain trafficer) in hopes to find and sell to an end user/brander for somewhere near the 4 times independentaly appraised Mid Six Figures the domain is worth.

Apparently I've made the right choice.

I have a Private Broker working on the deal now (as opposed to the park-n-wait pros) who have unearthed a few offers BETTER than the one I turned down, but still are telling me to hold out for that $250K - $400K deal.

How did you come by the domain name GoPC.com ?

 

[GoPC]

I am the original owner, some 10 year ago. My company built set-top and mobile Computers was called "GoPC". Actually had the trademark on it for a long time too. The company expanded into private develoment and eventually created a product that we sold to a big manufacturer and as part of the Non-Compete, my main company closed it's doors to selling computer hardware and accessories that might be considered "in competition" with the products we had sold.

So, the GoPC domain was put on the shelf and about 8 months ago I was going to let it expire and just disappear when somebody suggested that I might try to sell it on the domain aftermarket (of which I didn't know existed).

That's the whole story in a nutshell.

The GoPC.com domain has 10 years of presence, SEO, branding and top search position in the industry. Massive amounts of bookmarked customers, backlink traffic and brand recongnition.

Which ever manufacturer that grabs up the domain, need only to tell its customers what the product name is, the rest... is already done for them. $100,000s of bucks worth of branding and optimization... done!

Yes see, there's more to "valuating" a domain than just OVT scores! LOL!!!

So there, that's the story. Quaint, isn't it?

GoPC

 

[Damion]

So, the GoPC domain was put on the shelf and about 8 months ago I was going to let it expire and just disappear when somebody suggested that I might try to sell it on the domain aftermarket (of which I didn't know existed).

I got cold shivers reading that part just like if you see someone throwing away a rare painting because it doesn't look nice anymore with their new furniture.

Good thing someone mentioned to you the option of selling the domain

 

[GoPC]

It just goes to prove how many corporate entities just DON'T KNOW.

They see these unused domains as a annual registration and a hosting charge and nothing more. I was guilty of that.

You want chills?

I let FreeMoney.com go for that very reason!!!

Today, that domain is worth a Million EASY.

I still get sick to my stomach about that

GoPC

 

[Damion]

Aaack! That's tragic man!
Forget shivers, i just want to kick your ass right now :kickass: LOL

 

[GoPC]

I know... I know.

I've regretted it every day since I found out about the domain aftermarket.

GoPC

 

[Damion]

You win some...You lose some

 

[accuname]

I know... I know.

I've regretted it every day since I found out about the domain aftermarket.

GoPC

Who knows? Maybe whoever got it used it to pay for someone's kidney transplant or started an orphanage somewhere.