The domain name WEHR.com lead the way for the week ending on December 26th on Afternic.com Selling for hefty $74K.
It looks like the buyer is “World Energy Holdings and Research”.
I’m sure there are plenty of domainers who would have sold this domain for 10% or less than what it sold for, but its another example of realizing who the potential buyer of a domain might be before quoting a price.
Its certainly a huge dollar sale for a LLLL.com with no obvious meaning besides being a last name and a small village in Germany.
Another LLLL.com made the list AONE.com. That domain sold for just $10K and may well be the owner of the .Org which upgraded to the .com.
Aone.org belongs to a American Organization of Nurse Executives which is a Subsidiary of the American Hospital Association (AHA)
AONE is also the stock symbol of A123 Systems, Inc. a public company traded on the NASDAQ.
So as far as I can tell there may not be a logical reason why WEHR.com is worth 7x more than AONE.com.
It could just be a demonstration of the difference between different the sellers and buyers.
Here is the total list of reportable sales for all .com over $2K and all non-com’s $1K and over which totaled $400K for the week
| wehr.com | $73,700 |
| onlinebanks.com | $30,000 |
| BusinessPlanet.com | $22,500 |
| aone.com | $10,000 |
| dayBUYday.com | $10,000 |
| surveyreport.com | $7,200 |
| calgarycanada.com | $6,500 |
| filetaxreturn.com | $6,400 |
| drtea.com | $6,160 |
| nyack.com | $6,000 |
| propertymanagementservices.com | $5,188 |
| leadking.com | $5,000 |
| merla.com | $5,000 |
| plazaonline.com | $4,388 |
| kluane.com | $4,300 |
| thedreamcatcher.com | $4,300 |
| telecell.com | $4,188 |
| preferredprovider.com | $3,810 |
| publici.com | $3,700 |
| webtome.com | $3,688 |
| officekit.com | $3,588 |
| mercurycommunications.com | $3,300 |
| typesafe.com | $3,288 |
| airad.com | $3,188 |
| ibunker.com | $3,188 |
| sweettempered.com | $3,188 |
| neuralinterface.com | $3,110 |
| glowstudios.com | $3,088 |
| coloni.com | $3,000 |
| dlogic.com | $2,988 |
| exclusivehawaii.com | $2,988 |
| magicgifts.com | $2,890 |
| starofasia.com | $2,800 |
| dreamcommerce.com | $2,788 |
| unionassurance.com | $2,788 |
| mygocon.com | $2,750 |
| drivechain.com | $2,700 |
| vevie.com | $2,691 |
| telelive.com | $2,655 |
| getpersonalized.com | $2,600 |
| influentialthinking.com | $2,588 |
| spiritentertainment.com | $2,588 |
| webhostingserver.com | $2,500 |
| zorgeloos.com | $2,500 |
| groceryshoppers.com | $2,488 |
| gifthint.com | $2,475 |
| equalweight.com | $2,400 |
| studioprints.com | $2,397 |
| heyladies.com | $2,388 |
| fashionjewelrywholesale.com | $2,288 |
| tigercool.com | $2,277 |
| yourpaintings.com | $2,239 |
| airwireless.com | $2,200 |
| hostgeneral.com | $2,188 |
| learnbeyond.com | $2,154 |
| onlinespot.com | $2,088 |
| theuniversalgroup.com | $2,088 |
| independenthotel.com | $2,077 |
| kosherwholesale.com | $2,012 |
| 22u.com | $2,000 |
| ahcv.com | $2,000 |
| flowingstreams.com | $2,000 |
| javateak.com | $2,000 |
| nyhair.com | $2,000 |
| preferredcontractor.com | $2,000 |
| salestechnologies.com | $2,000 |
| tekstream.com | $2,000 |
| westkingdom.com | $2,000 |
| NON-Com’s | |
| gamesonline.org | $6,988 |
| optex.net | $4,188 |
| uploads.org | $3,988 |
| homeservice.net | $3,500 |
| autoinsurances.net | $3,400 |
| bookbank.net | $2,612 |
| netprice.org | $2,588 |
| theprogram.org | $2,588 |
| fotolibro.net | $2,488 |
| stopit.net | $2,488 |
| myword.net | $2,388 |
| nakamura.net | $2,300 |
| carforsale.net | $2,088 |
| notme.net | $2,088 |
| otava.net | $2,088 |
| thinkaboutit.net | $2,088 |
| lifeplanner.net | $1,888 |
| linkwell.net | $1,888 |
| zelos.net | $1,888 |
| degustar.net | $1,688 |
| wheatgrass.org | $1,500 |
| globalsales.net | $1,488 |
| tezuka.net | $1,488 |
| discoverdesign.org | $1,416 |
| therivers.net | $1,288 |
| psychological.net | $1,280 |
| ipaymobile.net | $1,177 |
| digitalshowroom.net | $1,100 |
| collegeknowledge.org | $1,088 |
| oneinchrist.org | $1,088 |
| thedreamcatcher.net | $1,088 |
| worldartgallery.org | $1,088 |
| yellowsea.net | $1,088 |
| businesscreditcard.org | $1,000 |
| taillight.org | $1,000 |
BullS says
December 28, 2010 at 9:22 pmThat the beauty of this business.
Nobody knows the value of the domains until the money changes hand.
Gnanes says
December 28, 2010 at 9:59 pmIt’s all about end users budget.
Soc.TV says
December 28, 2010 at 11:14 pmWehr.TV is unregistered…I wonder what this sale makes it worth on the aftermarket?
Gnanes says
December 28, 2010 at 11:37 pmWebsite for WEHR is already launched (atleast a coming soon page).
Mike says
December 28, 2010 at 11:51 pm@Bulls: Or that the industry is one large black hole with zero transparency.
WQ says
December 29, 2010 at 2:09 amIf you don’t ask for big money you won’t get big money. Shoot for the stars…and if you miss bring it back to reality.
Win – Win
Brad says
December 29, 2010 at 2:40 amCongrats to the WEHR.com seller, but you can’t build a business on fluke sales.
99 times out of 100 asking a ridiculous number is not going to get a sale. Turning away reasonable buyers with ridiculous asking prices is not a great business model IMO.
Brad
WQ says
December 29, 2010 at 2:41 am>>Turning away reasonable buyers with ridiculous asking prices is not a great business model IMO.<<
Tell that to those who make millions doing it.
Brad says
December 29, 2010 at 2:45 am@ WQ
The average domainer is not Kevin Ham, Frank Schilling, Rick Schwartz, etc and can’t just afford to sit on their domains with millions in the bank.
Selling a domain for a reasonable price and reinvesting in better domains is a better long term model that holding out for that one perfect end user on a mediocre domain.
Brad
WQ says
December 29, 2010 at 2:55 amI disagree that you need to be a big dog to do this but hey, no sweat man.
Hal says
December 29, 2010 at 10:08 amSetting a ludicrous asking price to see whether the buyer is stupid enough to want to pay it without negotiating is perhaps forgivable.
But the moment a buyer points out that the domain is vastly overpriced , continuing to demand such a price is despicable in my opinion. Unclear what happened in the case of wehr.
WQ says
December 29, 2010 at 1:49 pm>>Unclear what happened in the case of wehr.
They asked for a high price and got it is what happened.
Pretty clear.
Hal says
December 29, 2010 at 2:49 pmI mean unclear whether $74k was the asking price and the buyer ‘generously’ paid up, or whether the buyer pleaded for a more reasonable price but was ignored – in which case a sad misallocation of resources from productive company to good-for-nothing domainer has taken place (not that all domainers deserve this tag of course).
WQ says
December 29, 2010 at 3:29 pmHal, how much would you have sold WEHR.com for?
MHB says
December 29, 2010 at 3:32 pmHal
Of course we are not privy to negotiations but I would say that the Sellers had a lot to do with the prices achieved for these 2 domains
Hal says
December 29, 2010 at 4:25 pmMy price would be guided by the level of interest. The fair price for an asset is a dollar more than whatever the second highest bidder will pay.
If I’d owned the domain for a year or more, with no offer above a few k, then the fair price is unlikely to be more than $10k, so I’d set the asking price around there, though try to work out a deal at a lower price if necessary.
Can there be any other asset where the highest bidder may be willing to pay ten times or more as much as the second highest bidder. With it being so easy for a seller to get away with extracting the full amount. Domains present an extraordinary opportunity for meanness.
If I needed the cash perhaps I’d be a bit more mean myself but luckily I don’t.
sherali says
June 16, 2011 at 3:04 am74$