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WTF: Wehr.com Sells for $74,000 On Afternic While Aone.com Sells For Just $10K

December 28, 2010 by Michael Berkens

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

Filed Under: Domain Sales

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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Comments

  1. BullS says

    December 28, 2010 at 9:22 pm

    That the beauty of this business.
    Nobody knows the value of the domains until the money changes hand.

  2. Gnanes says

    December 28, 2010 at 9:59 pm

    It’s all about end users budget.

  3. Soc.TV says

    December 28, 2010 at 11:14 pm

    Wehr.TV is unregistered…I wonder what this sale makes it worth on the aftermarket?

  4. Gnanes says

    December 28, 2010 at 11:37 pm

    Website for WEHR is already launched (atleast a coming soon page).

  5. Mike says

    December 28, 2010 at 11:51 pm

    @Bulls: Or that the industry is one large black hole with zero transparency.

  6. WQ says

    December 29, 2010 at 2:09 am

    If 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

  7. Brad says

    December 29, 2010 at 2:40 am

    Congrats 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

  8. 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.

  9. 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

  10. WQ says

    December 29, 2010 at 2:55 am

    I disagree that you need to be a big dog to do this but hey, no sweat man.

  11. Hal says

    December 29, 2010 at 10:08 am

    Setting 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.

  12. 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.

  13. Hal says

    December 29, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    I 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).

  14. WQ says

    December 29, 2010 at 3:29 pm

    Hal, how much would you have sold WEHR.com for?

  15. MHB says

    December 29, 2010 at 3:32 pm

    Hal

    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

  16. Hal says

    December 29, 2010 at 4:25 pm

    My 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.

  17. sherali says

    June 16, 2011 at 3:04 am

    74$


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