After Passing On Flowers.Mobi, 1-800-Flowers Grabs Flowers.Me

2011 November 15
by Michael H. Berkens

In the Sedo.com report for the week the domain name Flowers.Me sold for $9K

Thanks to the quick eye of a reader to theDomains.com 1-800-Flowers.com which passed on buying Flowers.mobi when it was at the TRAFFIC auction just picked up Flowers.Me for $9K when it was put up for sale on the .Me registry auction that ended last week.

Great end user purchase.

Congrats to the buyer and registry that sold the domain

19 Responses leave one →
  1. 2011 November 15
    Who cares permalink

    I think deflower.me is better

  2. 2011 November 15

    Mike, how do we buy a .me from the registry?

    Thanks!

  3. 2011 November 15
    Not I permalink

    i thought the buyer was a prominent montenegro florist.

  4. 2011 November 15

    Flowers.Me sold for $9K

    very very very lucky buyer :)

  5. 2011 November 15
    Snoopy permalink

    “Flowers.Me sold for $9K

    very very very lucky buyer”

    ///////////////////////////

    In what way? You consider the price low?

  6. 2011 November 15
    Ellis Cheeseburger permalink

    $9k is dirt cheap.

  7. 2011 November 16

    Flowers is one of the top product related keywords, but I think $9K is a reasonable price.

    .ME just works much better with verbs than products.

    Brad

  8. 2011 November 16

    Mike

    I was the other bidder on flowers.me, I walked away with deals.me

    Lonnie

  9. 2011 November 16
    Amr permalink

    Lonnie

    I was the 2nd highest bidder for deals.me, lucky you I placed proxy bid and went out :)

    I won other 7 .ME names from the auction
    HealthCare.me, shoes.me, copmany.me, server.me, and others

  10. 2011 November 16

    Hoorayyyy…YESSSSSS….My domain name Flowers.mobi made the news!!!!!

  11. 2011 November 16

    “You consider the price low?”

    yes, it’s low, because it can be used for a profitable website

  12. 2011 November 16
    Aggro permalink

    By passing on Flowers.mobi, 1800flowers proved themselves obviously smarter than Schwartz

    For sure they win Schwartz’s ‘they get it’ award

    LOL

  13. 2011 November 16
    Michael H. Berkens permalink

    Lonnie

    Congrats

    I own deals.tv

  14. 2011 November 16

    With over 65% of Internet access now conducted via mobile phones and other mobile devices, its obvious that Flowers.mobi still represents the premium access mechanism to mobile content.

    And 4g technology, which is now sweeping the world, only aids .mobi; so its hard to see how does this .me sale represents a blow to Schwartz’s smarts.

    ‘If you wait long enough by the river, eventually the bodies of your enemies will float by.’

  15. 2011 November 16

    With 65% of all Internet access conducted via mobile phones and mobile devices, and with 4g mobile phone technology sweeping the world, .mobi and its relentless progress seems to be assured.

    So thinking that this .me sale is a blow to Schwartz’s smarts, is premature to say the least.

    “If you wait by the river long enough, the bodies of your enemies will float by.”

  16. 2011 November 19

    good buy cus i would not sell my flowers.com.pk for less than million dollar!

  17. 2011 November 19

    1800flowers.com also owns flowers.pk, they are planning to buy all extentions … period!

  18. 2011 November 20

    Possibly they saw this domain as a credible threat if used by a competitor. Anecdotally it does seem a lot of .me names get developed and turn up in search results. There is a strong upward trend in .me registrations and if it continues this could look cheap in a few years time.

  19. 2011 November 21

    I never knew .me domains hold such big value. Anyone aware why .me domains are being sold for such high price?

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