So we got a glimpse into the portfolio of Mike Mann when he sought out investors in his company. He sent out a deck to people for them to take a look. I won’t say the actual details, you’ll have to ask for the deck yourself, but I can say one stat. .2 % sell through rate. Yes Point Two. By the time you add in renewal costs, and any commissions that may had to be paid if the names were sold through a third party, and you have a cash flow negative aka losing money portfolio. And at scale. If you invest in something, anything, you invest because of three reasons.
- Its profitable and you want to be a part
- It could become profitable if it were scaled
- Something could be fixed to make it profitable
None of these appear to be the case to me. I would love to hear from anyone that saw the deck to give me their opinions. To me there were some star assets by the dozens and some pretty bad ones by the millions. The good news is based on stats, most of us have as good of a portfolio as the Real Domain King 🙂
Domain of the Day: BetterRecipes.com The name alone would be worth a grand or so but add in the head start given with the history and you can see why the price is where its at.
Quote of the Day: “Do not give someone a luxury which they would never give unto you.”
Park.io Names at Auction or Dropping
Mountain.vc A lot of VC money in Denver and Boulder
Doctors.to I think it could be a good teledoc name
Med.to Same with this one
DomainName.ly I figured you all may like this one
SHT.io I bet this has a few bidders
Namejet and Sedo & More Domains at Action
CoolWaves.com 22 years old. Taken in 18 other extensions
FaithDriven.com Those that know know. Taken in 24 other extensions
OOQ.com At the lower end of the value. Could sell if reserve is low enough
CarPricing.com and VehiclePricing.com A bit generic but its better than Kelly’s Blue Book
ThePanic.com Under $500 reserve. Some would say its what we’re in now
Sedo’s Keyword Auction starts today. Could be a few .net deals in there
Godaddy Domains With Bids
Brazil.org Top price and top number of bids on the Godaddy board today. Get a whole country for one low….or high, price
Aluno.com Speaking of Portuguese, this means “student” in it
ILoveGifs.com We all do, but would someone pay good money for the name that exudes it?
Somebody let their canna names drop
CannaDo.com
CannaFactory.com
CannaGold.com
CannaKitchen.com
CannaTreat.com
CannaVita.com taken in 35 other extensions
Attaching.com Tool or dating site
5tk.com NLL.com. Its been a great store of value
BitcoinConsultant.com and BitcoinConsultants.com Great pair of names for someone that wants to self label themselves as experts
PoliticalForecast.com Stormy
BabyDog.com Used to be known as puppies
AnyShop.com Seems boring to me but bidders seem to like it
SafeSanitize.com A perfect example of a name that wouldn’t have had much value in January but now its perfect for the time
AkronMarbles.com Is this a new marble racing team?
ColorWire.com Color plus noun = good brand
Takit.com 5L with 27 million results and taken in 28 other extensions
Dweebs.com If nerd and geek names are popular then this should do well
Bit123.com You all know I like 123 names. They’re memorable
CloudScrub.com clean up the nudes
Homsi.com I’m long any home improvement names right now
DrivingPlus.com What goes with driving?
Knuckler.com Scary or fighting
GIL.net 25 years old and taken in pretty much every extension
3883.cc Ha. Godaddy says its worth $78
ConnectedDevice.com Because nobody cares or knows what IOT is but they understand this term
iFilmFestival.com How all the film festivals are going to be for a while. Online
Godaddy Names With One or No Bids
The Rest of the Godaddy Names with Bids
123cm.com
365420.com
74166.com
AddHelium.com
AFamxnxx.com
Agriturismoilcatrino.com
AllNepal-Trekking.com
AmericanAssociation.com
ArtemPus.com
AssistanceBureau.com
atigs2018.com
AutomotiveMegaTrends.com
AVBI.org
AzarmWrestling.com
BCSportsHallOfFame.com
BetKafasi.com
bicirunsalamanca.com
BillForFirstLady2016.com
Bioer.com
Campeonato.com
CarLossaStre.com
Clype.com
CompassMe.com
Creative-grp.com
DashCloud.com
DayBird.com
DaycareCentersSite.com
delegatebob.com
Duunia.net
Extreme-gamerz.org
Fallabella.com
FlyHeightVideos.com
FNANaturesearch.org
FuelClean.com
FundStrategy.com
GetSetPaint.com
GreenCoffeecup.com
GreenStaff.com
HalloweenBash.com
HardLuckStories.com
HiFamily.com
hotel-sault-ventoux.com
Incredible-People.com
KirlingRoup.com
Konglan.com
lccai.com
LeonaVenice.com
ListeningProject.info
LitterButt.com
LutheranHighSandiego.org
MajariMagazine.com
MaxDent.com
MemeCaptain.com
mexikosher.com
MortgageHQ.com
NasraniFoundation.org
NewSnow7.com
NGHoldings.com
NTKNetwork.com
ObserveTheMoonNight.org
PersecutedChurch.org
PestControlDirectory.com
Petsmao.com
PrintMagazine.com
Psychoanalytic-Council.org
RabbitFarming.net
RefinanceOne.com
Sardu.net
Screamer.net
SirVan.com
SnapPow.com
StarPhotoBooth.com
StudioStorehouse.com
SuccessOne.com
TercelOnline.com
Thair.com
ThisIsAWar.com
TNache.com
Tottori-Bird.com
Towelling.com
UpDance.com
UZManreklam.com
Vadimg.com
VideoSync.com
Voileenligne.com
WeightLossZoom.com
WhiteoakNursery.com
WorldDoMeters.com
WowLet.com
YorkMexico.org
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Are some or most of those names Parked and making dividends while waiting to sell?
I would assume many of them are. Parking is not what it used to be but times a million there is probably some decent revenue there. But has to be decreasing year after year
Why would you do it if it loses money? 🤷🏽♂️🤦🏽♂️
You’ve said for years it’s a money losing portfolio and I’ve always agreed based on the quality of the sold names.
Was phones.com and some of his other gems part of the deck or just the garbage hand regs?
I’ve never been very impressed by most of the names we’ve seen him sell honestly. In fact, many of them I feel like are hand reg level type names. I’ve always thought it had to be a money losing portfolio as well.
I personally would much rather have a smaller portfolio of maybe 50-200 domains of higher quality, but everyone’s strategy is different.
Brazil.org is a weird domain for me. I’m an American that has lived there before, and will likely be moving there for good later this year.
With that being said in Brazil they spell their country “Brasil” with a S.
So, I think this would need to be like an American charity or something? I don’t know.
You could turn it into a tourism focused site for english speaking people looking to visit….
A .org for tourism seems like a weird extension to me. Maybe to the average person it’s irrelevant though as most at least have heard of .org before.
He may be losing money or maybe breaking even somehow or making a little if that’s a reason to do it but there are 2 points that come to mind:
1. MM’s tweets/blog posts about the outlier sales – what’s the point? When the dead weight and renewals make that profit disappear. Showboating?
2. When you have such a large domain portfolio, even if you are comfortably breaking even or making a little there is still a serious risk that the tide turns especially as new domains continue to gain traction. What is he going to do when he is caught with his pants down?
There is going to be one year when his names all start dropping.