Some domains that sold over the past week
Matt.net – $11,501 – Three bidders active above $6,000. I’m curious to see who picked it up……the guy pictured to the right surely wouldn’t settle for a .net?
Pronounce.com – $5,501 – Similar to PokerApp.com last week, the seller lowered the reserve to the current bidding level with less than an hour to go. In the case of Pronounce.com, bidding was at $5,500 when the reserve was lowered, and closed at $5,501. I think last minute reserve reductions are a big mistake….there is often additional action when prospective buyers know the reserve has been met and a domain will sell.
Critic.net – $5,100
Mega.ly – $800
Expert.io – $655
Speeding.net – $500
CTips.com – $211
1P.tv – $205
ILearnedThat.com – $200
LA-Clippers.com – $200
Some websites that sold
ShaverList.com – $27,700 – Monthly net profit of $2,200 stated, on uniques of 24,800. A shaver review site, monetized by the Amazon affiliate program.
DatingScripts.co.uk – $17,220 – Monthly net profit of $5,000 stated, on uniques of 2,750. “Complete dating software business is up for sale: eMeeting Dating Software”
DollarSignup.com – $15,000 – Monthly net profit of $3,500 stated, on uniques of 65,600. “Grab the opportunity to own a flagship GPT/PTC (Get Paid To/Paid to Click) site!”
Some domains with bids that didn’t sell
Portfolio of 240 .LY Domains – $100,500 – Since I’m personally not a fan of hacks, I would have taken the money and run for the hills…..but that’s just me.
BYE.com – $30,500
Weights.com – $27,000
Physical.com – $21,500
Monitoring.com – $18,000
Powerful.com – $15,000
Tourism.com – $10,100
Again.com- $9,500
Yields.com – $6,550
Ailments.com – $5,000
Hoaxes.com – $4,500
Slouch.com – $3,100
Delusion.com – $3,000
Hows.com – $1,500
SanAntonioBasketball.com – $1,500 – Congrats to the Spurs!
MiamiBasketball.com – $1,500
Dirt.net – $1,100
Terminals.com – $750
StorageUnits.net – $505
Champs.net – $500
Autopsies.com – $400
By the prices of the domains that didn’t sell seems like they’d
do better on sedo or posting on Facebook. Those seem really low for solid
names IMHO.
Interestingly, Terminals.com – $750 that didn’t sell on Flippa, are valued at $48,000 by Estibot.
Somebody is right, somebody (or something) is wrong…
None – do better by “posting on Facebook”? Please elaborate.
Sure. Maybe posting on Facebook wasn’t the best example. I was just searching for an arbitrary communications outlet to compare the prices flippa was able to command on those domains vs. just posting the names to Facebook saying for sale.
Tourism.com in particular at 10k seems low for such a monstrous industry.
None – Thanks, I get what you’re saying.
Domains are still very much illiquid investments, so if a seller “needs” to sell their asset quickly, they’re not going to get the top dollar they might receive if a seller is patient and an end user approaches them 1, 5 or 10 years down the road.
Flippa, NameJet and GoDaddy do a great job of providing liquidity for people that need to sell. Each platform reaches out to end users, but end users buy on their own timeframe….when they want to buy, vs when a seller wants to sell.
Great explanation. Sometimes it is easy to forget about how non liquid assets trade. It can be overclouded when one can see the potential of an EMD.
On Flippa the bidders often know the reserve price, so they tend not to bid if they know they can’t reach the reserve. The result is low final bids.
Matt.net is acquired by a Software/Web Developer. It looks like he closed this sale pretty quickly and already have his website up.
http://www.matt.net/the-fun-of-buying-domain-names/
Thanks Sameh, the last time I checked back there he just had a placeholder. It appears he has been busy on the site.