Comments on: Did Somebody Really Pay $150K For RockRose.com?

By: Harris

Harris — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:49:41 +0000

Rock Rose has an enormous portfolio of prime Manahhtan real estate. If these brothers aren’t billionaires, they are close to it. $150,000 to you an I is chump change to these guys.

By: Rafael

Rafael — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 13:14:03 +0000

I agree with Steve M. You may have an unattractive and worthless domain name in the domain industry but if an end user with capital determines that that domain name fits their business model perfectly, it will sell.

So, always look outside the domain industry for potential clients. You never know who may want your domain name.

Go find them!
Rafael

By: kenson

kenson — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 11:03:19 +0000

ok everybody!

its time to start selling domains to end users, and make big money! GO GO GO

By: Adam

Adam — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:20:01 +0000

Read that today too . . . Ironic that a firm like this would say something like “there’s a whole industry of people who just claim names.” Aren’t they just a group that just “claims a bunch of property assets” ?

By: Steve Morales

Steve Morales — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:51:33 +0000

MHB,

Not so surprising. These type of sales happen all the time unreported. A good friend of mine sold a good name for $100K last year that most would have thought was worth $10K-$30K. Hell, The domain king sold iReport.com for $750,000 to CNN for the same reason. They had to have it. No matter how you look at iReport.com, it is a substandard domain, even if has been registered for years. Would you have believed it if it was never made public and CNN.com later admitted to paying $750K?

End users determine what they are willing to pay for the domain that delivers success to their business online. If they can’t negotiate a price, they simply file a WIPO or UDRP….lol

I agree with you, one hell of a profit for the domain RockRose.com. But really, all domains that sell are at one hell of a profit when you consider it was only registered for the max of $100.

By: jeff

jeff — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:53:31 +0000

Rock Rose is a huge Manhattan real estate company. They obviously forgot to register it and they got pretty big. Fortunate for the seller the buyer must have forgotten about his TM rights LOL…

The rents here are still pretty crazy and they’ll make it back quickly.

<- Manhattan real estate broker

By: Jon

Jon — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:31:07 +0000

Any good size and profitable company should be willing to pay that much for their name .com, particularly payable over 10 years. What’s $15K a year to any real company comparable to the value of having their name .com.