Comments on: IREIT/NameJet Proves Domains Are Liquid Assets

By: MHB

MHB — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 14:27:42 +0000

Acro

I no at least 1 of the big money domains won’t be coming back because I bought it.

By: Acro

Acro — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 08:19:56 +0000

Hold your horses until next week; quite often there are deadbeat winners at NameJet. I’ve been compiling a list of usernames to uncover repeat offenders as some auctions go into the 5 figures and yet the names get re-auctioned due to lack of payment.

By: jp

jp — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 22:20:46 +0000

Why is iREIT selling all these domain names right now?

By: MHB

MHB — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:47:30 +0000

Chris

Then that would be an additional story, but the bottom line is if you need to sell domains, you can do some in short order for decent money

By: C_Sivertsen

C_Sivertsen — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 19:07:17 +0000

Mike,
I believe there is another party in between iREIT and namejet, thus the privacy on many of the domains. So this is more a story of successful flipping than anything else.

By: MHB

MHB — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:52:38 +0000

Too Many

Agree I it was a good buy. Actually I was the one the winner outbid.

Think its a very good thing that some of these domains wind up with end users rather than domainers.

We always talk about opening up our auctions to end user and as end users start learning about domains, it can only help our industry

By: Too Many Secrets

Too Many Secrets — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:10:23 +0000

Mike,

Hey coronadobeach.com was a great deal for the buyer. Looks like a local realtor picked it up.

By: RKB

RKB — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:49:44 +0000

$69 reserve is good if minimum NameJet commission is like $20 or so.

What if a domains sells at $69?

How much is the seller paid?

Thanks.

By: Steve M

Steve M — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 16:26:53 +0000

A good way of looking at the total market; not just “slivers” talked about here and there.

When aggregated as you’ve done; and this doesn’t even include the many 100′s of weekly sales at the other venues or all the many undisclosed sales; the domain market is actually quite robust.

While arguably not at the same price level of 2007/ early 2008, it’s far more active than many other markets in today’s economy.