I bought a pretty good domain name the other day. I talk about it on today’s Domain Sherpa show. The domain is YourLogoHere.com. Some question why I talk about it publicly. There are three reasons. One, its public info. If you want to find out how much I paid for it you merely have to go to Namebio or Travis’ Auction Roundup that he posts each day. Both of those have most of the auction results and I bought this at auction. Two, I have been open and honest on this blog for 9 years and 5 months. I have pretty much posted everything I am buying and why I am buying it every single day. It has opened me up to criticism over the years because many of my purchases have been losers. But that’s part of learning and the journey. How can I tell my story if I leave the details out? It makes no sense to me why a blogger would try and tell you a story and leave all the important data out. All we really care about is the name and the price. It would be like a football game that went like this
A guy ran forward some distance. It was a nice run. Good blocking is an important part of a good run. The left tackle is one of the first people you want to draft because he protects the blind side of a right handed quarterback. If he is left handed then the RIGHT tackle become more important. One of the teams is now winning. The game will end at some point in time.
That’s what my domain stories look like without names and prices. And finally, if the buyer knows what I paid I don’t really care. I own the domain and if they want it I am allowed to price it however I want. If I find a rare bowl at a house sale and I buy it for $12 and I can resell it for $10,000 then what I paid has no relevance. I feel the same way here. I found the name. I spent the time bidding in the auction and now its mine to do with it whatever I choose. I cannot lose leverage in a domain negotiation if I own the domain. The battle for final price is a battle with myself on what I am willing to let it go for. Some times the guy that wants to sell at a lesser price and to move on wins and some times the guy that loves the domain too much and won’t let it go for anything but a great price wins. Either way, the buyer knowing the last sale price doesn’t effect anything than his initial feeling that he might get it cheaper than it really is. And I may throw a wrench in this one because I am thinking about teaming up with a promotional product manufacturer locally and rebranding the company. Of course I’ll blog about it when we do it. Here are today’s names. Click through to see the current price
Quote of the Day: “Give a man a fish and you can feed him for a day. Deport him and you will never have to feed him again” -Donald Trump
Domain of the Day: Mobb.com It’s funny because one B and its kind of an organized crime feel to it. Two Bs and its a cool group of people online.
Namejet and Sedo Names and Others
DTDA.com Reserve under $1000 so it has a chance to sell
BearCan.com If I sold bear proof canisters I would want to own this one. No bids, expiry name
CarPatch.com As seen on Tv. Have a hole in you car? Better than duct tape
Habar.com No reserve. Means “Scramble” in Romanian if that means anything
FeminineTouch.com All things could use a little of this. Met reserve
UrbanJewelry.com Don’t have to sell many pieces to pay for the domain. Closes today
FKB.com Met reserve at $6,000
Godaddy Domains That I Like With Multiple Bids
BeerPage.com 1996 birthday. I can’t think of a better thing to have a page about
Brainwasher.com Reformat the hard drive so you can start learning again
YoungDesigns.com Young as in youthful or as in the designer’s last name
WhoLinksToMe.com Getting bids for the 1.3 million backlinks
Twirlers.com We can them baton girls but we can’t use the word girls any more so we’ve gone to twirlers. So yes, it will be an adult name eventually
BeHealthyNow.com Godaddy sure does love healthy names. Always values them high. Must have sold enough that the history knocks the value up
Godaddy Domains With One or No Bids
Revoo.com Nice little 5L.com with no bids
VPATrading.com A type of trading called Value Price Analysis
Weltro.com An easy to say, spell brand
XChocolate.com Who doesn’t love chocolate
BritishMilitaria.com Highly collectible area
CharmShop.com Billions spent on charms and knick knacks
NameStory.com Blog name or domain brand site
BloomingColors.com The green industry is full of brands like this one. no bids
SexOrMoney.com Yes
SleepAndFood.com Yes
SweetOutdoors.com It’s a saying in the US, “the sweet outdoors” . People have taken it on as a brand as well
PerfectNature.com Since we’re on the outdoors and nature
PotTreats.com The treats sell as well if not better than the bud
The Rest of the Names With Bids
05712.com
1283305.com
1283306.com
275073.com
290376.com
3dtoad.com
515fanli.com
762097.com
769027.com
769037.com
8865378.com
888290.com
AdultCyberSites.com
AlphabetOfManliness.com
AmericanImmigrationCouncil.com
BayPay.com
BCCns.com
BJLAquascapes.com
Bole300.com
BuzzStarter.com
CashmereBeach.com
CedarFinance.com
CincinnatiSkeptics.org
CompareHomeInsuranceQuotes.net
CovenantMarriage.com
CryptoApplet.com
DerekTime.com
eInstaller.com
Elixir-Memory.com
FineArtShow.com
FlavrVapor.com
FN55.com
FoxySisLandWalks.com
FR93.com
FR97.com
FundamentalResearch.com
gdmtex.com
GetCodePro.com
gh2w.com
goutimes.com
HappierMe.com
hc7788.com
ITZX.com
jz598.com
Kamkk.com
LankaxCam.com
Leibb.com
LingerieServer.com
LukesUltraLite.com
LXUK.com
Maijiula.com
MarbleThings.com
MiddletownPlumbingAndHeating.com
Mieti.com
NavyThemes.com
OneLinerTees.com
Pifanahuo.com
ProtectInternetFreedom.net
RiverMall.com
Sattakalyan.net
SeedStrainingAndConsultancy.org
SelfStorageCenturion.com
Senxinlm.com
SherwoodFloristAndGifts.net
Shidonni.com
SistersUnited.com
Skcocoa.com
SleePinSicily.com
StartSavingOnInsurance.com
StinsonBandOrgans.com
StonedImmaculateVintage.com
StyleMantra.com
SullivanDanceCentre.com
SwigMartini.com
TecHeTheatre.org
TecLogic.com
The-Jokes.com
Top-Fashion-Models.info
Tricen.com
TricksLoad.com
tzxydnjsxh.com
Ubuntu-es.org
UXDN.com
VinylFabric.com
Vuurtorens.net
WahmeiChineseFood.com
WensFire.com
WinkLashes.com
Wizard-Soft.com
WKMedia.com
WomenShoesBook.com
Xiapei.com
Yuduclub.com
Nice domain Shane! Good call to action .com’s are a wise investment.
Shane,
IMO you made a good buy with yourlogohere.com. If I recall the domain sold on a Friday and I was in the middle of working on that weekends football games. I had the domain on my watch list but I still missed the auction. I’m curious what you would have paid because my max was more than you paid for it. If you would like to flip it for a quick profit please let me know.
Cheers
Shane, your transparency is much appreciated. YourLogoHere.com is an upgrade for several sites, of course, so you have a built in insurance policy. Screw any critics. Good buy.
Hi Shane. I guess this is one of your few lengthy post. Sometimes I wonder, how would investors gauge numerical dot com. You are the expert. YourLogoHere.com is bludy good for branding. Simple and memorable.
Anyway, Shane, how about you give some thoughts of one domain I bought? degloving.com ? Looking forward to your comments. Thanks.
Robin
Robin,
It’s awful. Degloving is a terrible injury. Also known as an avulsion. I hope buy bought you meant hand regged
Yes Shane. It’s a terrible injury. When I saw the graphic, to be shocked was an understatement. Hey but it is one word, and I have always wished for a one-word dictionary word and its a dot com. May not come to much, maybe some NGO might find some use for it, I’ll give it to them. Thanks for the comment!
As for gauging numerical dot com values, give shortnames.com a look. Lots of sales history and charts for 2N – 7N+. And yea, degloving… I had no idea what it was and wish I still didn’t.
One-word dictionary names are not hard to come by. There are many you can hand-reg, and they drop every day and can be had for $8. That’s because the dictionary is filled with words that no business would ever use. Unfortunately, degloving is probably one of those words. Even if it might logically have some secondary use with something like baseball gloves, the real definition will prevent anyone from using it. Your best bet is going to be a death metal band, and that’s about it. Time to find a new word.
Hi Shane,
Everyday I read your blog, I’ve been doing this for years, of course I will keep doing it and it helps me a lot in many ways. Thanks.
Anyways, I really don’t think that Today’s “Quote of the day” was a good one, in fact I think it was a very bad one.
Have a nice day.
Juan,
That was making fun of Donald Trump. I am not a big fan and especially his immigration policies. Not meant to be hurtful
Hi Shane, sorry I didn’t get it. Thanks!
Hey, it IS funny.