Quick Poll: Which Domain Priced at $100K Or More Will Sell At Domainfest?

2011 January 23
by Michael H. Berkens

On Feburary 3rd there will be a live domain name auction from the Domainfest show.

(Pre-bidding is already opened on Snapnames)

In the auction there are 33 domains with a reserve of $100,000 or more.

The question we have for you is which one of these domains do you think will sell?

You can place your votes in the poll on the right and your comments below

Since there are 33 choices we will let you pick three domains on this poll, but to do so you have to make all three selections at the same time.

Here are your choices:

Domain Name ReserveRange
advertisingagency.com $100,001 – $250,000
bootleg.com $100,001 – $250,000
bvi.com $100,001 – $250,000
chili.com $100,001 – $250,000
countries.com $100,001 – $250,000
dorms.com $100,001 – $250,000
dust.com $100,001 – $250,000
eel.com $100,001 – $250,000
filesharing.com $100,001 – $250,000
homeprices.com $100,001 – $250,000
insuranceproducts.com $100,001 – $250,000
p5.com $100,001 – $250,000
seasons.com $100,001 – $250,000
toasts.com $100,001 – $250,000
won.com $100,001 – $250,000
bankauctions.com $250,001 – $500,000
comicbook.com $250,001 – $500,000
exoticcars.com $250,001 – $500,000
hy.com $250,001 – $500,000
smoking.com $250,001 – $500,000
wirelessphone.com $250,001 – $500,000
joint.com $250,001 – $500,000
designers.com $500,001 – $750,000
homerefinancing.com $500,001 – $750,000
houseinsurance.com $500,001 – $750,000
pregnancytest.com $500,001 – $750,000
cotton.com $750,001 – $1MM
footwear.com $750,001 – $1MM
medicalbilling.com $750,001 – $1MM
insurancequote.com $1MM – $5MM
slotmachine.com $1MM – $5MM
vehicles.com $1MM – $5MM
girl.com $1MM – $5MM
27 Responses leave one →
  1. 2011 January 23
    Josh permalink

    Id say there are a handful of $100k names there however they are among many that are no were near $100k, kind of a mashup there of hopes, dreams and the real deal.

  2. 2011 January 23

    Raise your hand if you think you own a domain that is better than one listed here and you feel it would be difficult to sell for $100k+

  3. 2011 January 23
    Richard permalink

    *raises hand*

    I only voted on Hy, don’t ask me why, lol. Sounds like a nice social network name.
    A few nice commercial names there, who made these reserves and what were they smoking? :D

  4. 2011 January 23
    Josh permalink

    Hand raised, in fact make it two.

    I am discovering that what makes a $100k name among resellers today is more difficult than 2007. I am a little slow I know lol

  5. 2011 January 23

    We just submitted our domain Tortillas.com (in the $100,001 – $250,000) to the auction still waiting to here if it will make the list

    - Sumbini

  6. 2011 January 24

    As i think that everyone overvalues their own names i’d like to know what are the names of those that raised their hand?

  7. 2011 January 24

    In my opinion, whatever that’s worth, the mostly likely to sell taking into account the reserve would be HomePrices.com. Although, I like Chili.com too.

  8. 2011 January 24

    Um, didn’t see Won.com and it’s relatively low reserve, I think I just glanced and assumed it would be higher. That should sell.

  9. 2011 January 24
    Landon White permalink

    Good Branding:
    ( when it is made legal )

    From the Folks at …

    joint.com

    (1) Dealer Directory …
    (2) Free samples …
    (3) Product reviews …
    (4) Celebrity Head Interviews
    (5) Medical Research News

    We Guarantee Best Quality and
    and the lowest Prices

    and ….

    Um, Gee Wilkins, what was i just writing about ?

  10. 2011 January 24
    Philip permalink

    Won.com = international gambling
    HouseInsurance.com = cheap marketing = all mobile apps without explanation.
    Cotton.com = Brand

  11. 2011 January 24

    medicalbilling.com
    footwear.com …

    seem to have far too high a reserve at 750k

  12. 2011 January 24
    Josh permalink

    @Phil, I won’t use Michaels blog to whore names but can tell you after several 6 figure trades, I know what it takes among resellers, it has become very difficult. The easiest 6 figure deals I had consisted of several LL .com and NN .com, the generic one word world is much harder to peg.

  13. 2011 January 24

    advertisingagency.com and slotmachine.com

  14. 2011 January 24

    I’d say advertisingagency.com and girl.com. Smoking.com has a chance. It might have more luck taken as “attractive” rather than the habit.

  15. 2011 January 24

    AdvertisingAgency.co and Girl.com. Smoking .com has a chance taken as “attractive” rather than the habit.

  16. 2011 January 24

    chili.com,homeprices.com and won.com are likely to sell.

    comicbook.com, designers.com and footwear.com will sell if there are end-users in the room.

    rest are overpriced.

  17. 2011 January 24

    If it’s Domainer-to-Domainer Wholesale Pricing …many of the reserves may sound high.

    If it’s Non-Domainer-End-User Pricing …many of the reserves are not out of the question.

    One of these days, Non-Domainer-End-Users will realize the value of Good domains. They will also realize that it does not have to be a single word category killer to be a Good domain.

  18. 2011 January 24

    I will take a stab in the dark with insurance quote, although the range is the big question for reserve, if its close to 1 mil then it has a good shot as this is such a great name and clear route to monetization, with big players already paying premiums for the .com gems

  19. 2011 January 24

    my vote is for:
    won.com
    homerefinancing.com
    insurancequote.com

  20. 2011 January 24

    Those reserves are too high – all of ‘em.

    - TBC

  21. 2011 January 24
    LS Morgan permalink

    I’d guess HouseInsurance and InsuranceQuote

  22. 2011 January 24

    I like Chili.com and HomePrices.com.

  23. 2011 January 24
    Aggro permalink

    LOL

    —> AdvertisingAgency.com

    What an incredibly boring bland name.

    No doubt – certain domainers have a hard on over such names.

    In the real worl, no real advertising agency would be seen dead using it.

    The fact that this (and other names) are in an auction suggests no end user came knocking with bags of money (near the ir reserve price) in all the time they had it.
    Like most domains…

    As for Won,com…close but no cigar.
    Wrong tense..

    InsuranceProducts? Haha…almost the same quality as ‘InsuranceThings.com’

    Most of the others are the less desirable singular

    Yawn…a mish mash of mostly unremarkable domains..

  24. 2011 January 24
    LS Morgan permalink

    In the real worl, no real advertising agency would be seen dead using it.

    I shopped AdvertizingWizards.com recently and got some decent interest- since, ya know… That’s a pretty common colloquialism in that industry.

    I imagine AdvertisingAgency.com would be an easy sell, but not at the eleventy-bajillion dollar price point that all domainers seem to assign… Merlin Kauffman totally nailed it in the recent DNJournal piece…

    “… however, I think there are two challenges which still stand in between most domainers and these opportunities – these challenges are greed and overoptimistic valuation of your own domains. Domainers tend to think their $10,000 domains are worth $100,000, and their $100,000 domains are worth $1 million. If we keep thinking like this, we may never take money off the table from many domains.” -Merlin Kauffman, DNJournal’s The State of the Industry January 2011

  25. 2011 January 24
    LS Morgan permalink

    Oops, typo… AdvertisingWizards not AdvertiZingWizards…

  26. 2011 January 25

    smoking.com

    It will sell.

    Donny

  27. 2011 January 25

    I feel like of I owned HouseInsurance.com and I tired to sell it to a “domainer” for $100k the response would be, call me back when you have “HomeInsurance.com”

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