Domain Spotlight:

Below is another look at a few recent domain flips and flops, with data courtesy of the smart guys over at NameBio.

Flips

  • Keyboards.net sold for $4,500 USD recently at Flippa, vs $1,001 USD on a few weeks earlier at GoDaddy. This is an interesting one to see a tech-related domain being picked up and then immediately flipped for over 4x to the historically techie crowd at Flippa. Last week I talked about a similar attempt with Matinee.com, but that didn’t go nearly as well as Keyboards.net.
  • FOJ.com sold for $11,200 USD recently at NameJet, vs $4,500 USD on 2005-03-24 at Afternic.
  • 6un.com sold for $999 USD recently at NameJet, vs $449 USD on 2008-08-16 at Sedo. As far as CCC.com domains go, this is a relatively small profit for a 6 year hold.
  • Satisfying.com sold for $3,500 USD recently at Flippa, vs $2,139 USD on 2014-06-11 at NameJet. A nearly 50% profit in less than a year is pretty satisfying.
  • NaturalSkin.com sold for $7,700 USD recently at Sedo, vs $4,250 USD on 2013-01-06 at Afternic. Screenshot below.

natural skin

Flops

  • Faru.com sold for $3,900 USD recently at NameJet, vs $4,199 USD last year at NameJet. Assuming 15% commissions, that’s nearly a $900 loss on this CVCV.
  • Zoops.com sold for $1,525 USD recently at GoDaddy, vs $1,725 USD on 2014-02-24 at GoDaddy.
  • Hairsprays.com sold for $2,075 USD recently at NameJet, vs $3,000 USD on 2011-06-25 at Sedo. The poor product domains are getting abandoned by domain investors in favor of brandables.
  • MIB.net sold for $1,000 USD recently at NameJet, vs $4,045 USD on 2013-07-08 at Afternic. Product domains are getting abandoned in favor of brandables, and .net’s continue to get abandoned for .com’s.
  • Rigs.net sold for $351 USD recently at NameJet, vs $1,850 USD on 2008-02-28 at Sedo. Example #2 for the .net’s.
  • Kut.net sold for $510 USD recently at NameJet, vs $1,602 USD on 2006-04-11 at SnapNames. Example #3 for the .net’s, and I could probably keep going……

Note: I didn’t do an exhaustive search of the ownership history of each domain. There are likely cases where there were multiple owners between the sales prices I list.

You can find past Flips and Flops posts here.

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One Reply to “Domain Flips (FOJ.com, 6UN.com, Keyboards.net) and Flops (Faru.com, Hairsprays.com) from NameBio”

  1. Looks like 12 year old KeyBoards.info is up for sale on flippa there as well.
    Will be interesting to see if and what that sells for
    I don’t own it and I don;t know the owner

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