The domain name ScreenSavers.com sold for $335,000 as part of the SnapNames.com March showcase auction although the sale occurred hours after the auction closed with no bidders.
John Mauriello of Moniker, in a comment to our post for the results of this auction, let us know that this domain sold just hours after the auction closed.
The reserve range was stated as between $250K-$500K so the Seller may have come off his initial reserve to get this deal done.
Congrats to the buyer and seller.
How does that even make sense?
Do people even buy screen savers?
http://www.screensaver.com/
🙂 🙂 🙂
“Do people even buy screen savers?”
probably, no… but many SEARCH screensavers, so, a website with this name has many commercial uses
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however… I hate ALL screensavers, I don’t use them on my PCs and I did not think they are useful to “save” the “screens” since, now, 99% of PC screens aren’t CRT
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“Congrats to the buyer and seller.”
MORE to seller… 🙂
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It would make for a fascinating blog post (or even a site unto itself) to list “whatever happened” to some of the more prominent, high dollar domain sales. There are many 6 figure sales over the past 3-7 years. Are they developed now, a parking page, redirected to another site? Do we know the buyer, and are they an investor or true end user? Would make for interesting reading.
Screensavers is a huge market to monetize. IAC will pay for every download for these types of things as it then gets their toolbar on your PC which they monetize via Google rev share. I did not research, but popularscreensavers.com I believe is the IAC solution which they tie in with cursormania, webfetti, zwinkys, etc. The market is not in the screensaver itself, but the downloaded toolbar that was included and its instant install and monetization via search. This domain realistically may be cash flow positive within 1 year with minimal development.
Max
Feel free to write it I’ll publish it as a guest post giving you credit for it
who the hell actually uses a screen saver anymore? they are not needed for lcd screens so who actually still uses a crt monitor? i can only see the number of searches for this term to go down.
“they are not needed for lcd screens so who actually still uses a crt monitor”
I agree, but they can use the site to advertise or sell many other things
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I’d probably use a phone book before I ever search for “screensavers”.
Not a good buy imo.
nobody buys weather forecasts either
Many still download screensavers. The money isn’t in selling them, but in bundling them with other applications, such as search toolbars. For those in the business it is a good buy, and while there was much more money in the past in this category, there still is some to certainly justify this amount.
Best,
Sahar
“Many still download screensavers.”
that’s probably the reason why someone have already taken also the iPadScreenSaver.com and iPadScreenSavers.com domains
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way too costly for me…
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if ScreenSavers.com has been sold for $335,000 … then … now that ALL screens are LCD … LCDwallpapers.com and LCDscreensavers.com should be sold for (at least) $1,000,000 🙂
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tp://domainnews.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=2349
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now I’ve seen the ScreenSavers.com site and it’s very poor in images but has lots of advertising and pop-up windows
dooooooooooooowhatever:
you wrote :
“LCDwallpapers.com and LCDscreensavers.com should be sold for (at least) $1,000,000 ”
Are you promoting your friend’s domains?
They are for sale at the forums for 1 Million USD…what a coincidence!