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LasVegas.com deal has been abandoned I readThe $90 million for LasVegas.com would top it, but it's still in progress (spread over 35 years):
https://www.thedomains.com/2015/11/...gas-com-in-2005-for-up-to-90-million-dollars/
The $872 million valuation for Cars.com tops them all, but it wasn't a pure domain name sale:
https://www.namepros.com/threads/cars-com-is-the-largest-domain-sale-in-history.1019533/
https://www.DNAcademy/the-definitive-guide-to-the-worlds-largest-domain-sale
Really? I was reading about this deal recently. The site's still on it. Do you have a link?LasVegas.com deal has been abandoned I read
Seller was a company so buyer's agent most probably MarkMonitor went up highAmazing sale, I don’t think people understand how hard it would have been to get a sale like this, Imagine negotiations for it.
To get $30 million, previous owner/s may have had to turn down other monstrous offers before they agreed to this price.
This 30million Voice.com sales confirms my point, that Crypto.com owner should have demanded for more than 12million. After all the years of rejecting offers, 25-30million would have been a worthy bargain.
It was a fair market price because that is what Microstrategy demanded and that is what Block.One paid. Great deal for the domain speculation industry.
They might have some issues trade marking it. Are they going to tell all the people with voice in their trademark already that they can not use voice. Not likely. They might get the "naked" voice trade marked. Highly used word. I think trying to trade mark it a waste of time and money. They already paid a fortune for it.The buyer of the Voice.com domain name, namely block.one, has already filed multiple trademark applications incorporating the term "voice", so we can get a sense of how they plan to use it:
1) Voice: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=88461547&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
2) Voice.com: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=88461546&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
3) Voice logo/figurative mark: http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=88461543&caseType=SERIAL_NO&searchType=statusSearch
They might have some issues trade marking it. Are they going to tell all the people with voice in their trademark already that they can not use voice. Not likely. They might get the "naked" voice trade marked. Highly used word. I think trying to trade mark it a waste of time and money. They already paid a fortune for it.
Trade marked names containg voice. 7205 trade marks already.
http://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4804:vqkwau.1.1&p_search=searchss&p_L=50&BackReference=&p_plural=yes&p_s_PARA1=&p_tagrepl~:=PARA1$LD&expr=PARA1+AND+PARA2&p_s_PARA2=voice&p_tagrepl~:=PARA2$COMB&p_op_ALL=AND&a_default=search&a_search=Submit+Query&a_search=Submit+Query
Looking at voice dot com does give me an idea for voiceox though. Make a blog and let people voice what they want. I had a blog before with socialspat but the problem is maintenance and monitoring all the replies. You also get some A-holes you have to watch or eventually block. Takes up a lot of time. You need an IT team to run it properly.
that is not the question that i asked.
but you indirectly answered my questing by dodging my question.
it was clearly a massive overpay. no domainer would pay anything close to that if they were buying it as an investment.
you know why this industry is dying? because the culture of domainers is one of trying to fleece idiots. 'sure someone wants to pay $500,000,000 for turtle-drawings.mobi? fair price! that's the market value! by the way i own horse-drawings-night.network, only $1,500!"
The sell-off of Voice.com was a voluntary exchange, between Microstrategy and Block.One. There was no overpay, because there are 1,000 GTLDs that Block.One could have used (Voice.Horse anyone?), but they made the cost-benefit analysis that the Voice.com asset value iwas at least $30M for them; they made a calculation. Obviously, what a wholeseller pays for an asset or good, has little bearing on what the retail value is to the right buyer.
When you are talking about premium 1-2 word dot-Coms with commercial and/or dictionary meaning, scarcity and use plays a HUGE role in valuation.
The domain speculation industry isn't dying, its being bought out as the premium assets are finite; there are only so many 1-2 word premium dot-Coms with commercial and/or dictionary meaning to go around. For that reason, Block.One was willing to make the $30M purchase because they know more about their business than you do.
Notice the false analogy you use, "I own horse-drawings-night.network" to compare to a digital blue diamond like Voice.com. That is why Microstrategy earned $30 million, and you are stuck playing armchair domain valuation expert.
Lesson in there...
ok boss, i'll make a less hyperbolic analogy. say frogs.com sold for $300 billion.
everything you are saying would also apply to that 'digital blue diamond'
you're pretending that because something is valuable, there is no such thing as an overpay. that's not how valuation works.