What percent of domain sales do you estimate go unreported?
Top 10 Public Sales
To the right is a list that shows the top 10 public sales over Sedo’s Domain Marketplace in 2011. Over 80% of Sedo’s sales revenue during the year is private, and is not included on this list. Sales prices are in the currency that the sale took place in]
I knew I had read the 80% figure in a Sedo doc - here it is:
https://sedo.com/fileadmin/documents/pressdownload/Q4_2011_Domain-Market-Study-Sedo_US_1_.pdf
Here is another old report - I had no idea Sedo had over 300 staff, amazing none work weekends:
http://www.equitystory.com/Download/Companies/adlink/Annual Reports/DE0005490155-JA-2010-EQ-E-00.pdf
This is the one and only reason why I don't report my sales anymore.- Vulture investors that will bombard your buyer with junk that they think should be of interest
There are many reasons not to report sale:
- financial/accounting
- confidentiality/NDA
- Vulture investors that will bombard your buyer with junk that they think should be of interest
- GD/other appraisals going up, if you found a good niche and increasing your cost of acquisition in future
- More competition from others going for the same pattern, also adding to the cost of acquisition.
I would add one more reason. A professional seller may simply feel that reporting a sale would not benefit his business in any aspect. Nor would it harm in many cases, but why bother? Just to satisfy one's ego?There are many reasons not to report sale:
- financial/accounting
- confidentiality/NDA
- Vulture investors that will bombard your buyer with junk that they think should be of interest
- GD/other appraisals going up, if you found a good niche and increasing your cost of acquisition in future
- More competition from others going for the same pattern, also adding to the cost of acquisition
Totally agreed. There is so much hassle and potential complications, that I never ever have reported any sale, and will never do. It is simply safest just to keep everything confidential between seller and buyer, unless you are 100% sure that buyer would actually enjoy you publicly saying how much ROI you did on the particular domain name you sold to himThere are many reasons not to report sale:
- financial/accounting
- confidentiality/NDA
- Vulture investors that will bombard your buyer with junk that they think should be of interest
- GD/other appraisals going up, if you found a good niche and increasing your cost of acquisition in future
- More competition from others going for the same pattern, also adding to the cost of acquisition.