Publicly traded company Autodesk, Inc. has purchased the premium generic domain name Graphic.com from another public company, GoDaddy.com.
GoDaddy is listed on NYSE: GDDY with a market cap of $3.99 Billion. Autodesk is listed on NASDAQ: ADSK which has a $9.95 Billion market cap.
The domain name was part of the domain name portfolio GoDaddy acquired from Marchex in a $28.1 Million dollar deal in April 2015.
How much did Graphic.com sell for? That is a good question but not something disclosed at this point.
IMO, it was likely six figures but GoDaddy hasn’t been publicly releasing sales prices of the domains they have been selling out of the Marchex portfolio.
GoDaddy has sold several high-profile domain names like Beijing.com as TheDomains broke the news on which had a reported $3M offering price (in the comment section) and many others like Futbol.com and more domains as I often report in the Domain Movers series.
Estibot.com appraises the domain name Graphic.com at $310,000.
Autodesk, Inc. is “an American multinational software corporation that makes software for the architecture, engineering, construction, manufacturing, media, and entertainment industries” according to Wikipedia.org.
The domain name Graphic.com doesn’t resolve yet at time of publication, but here is the latest whois records showing Autodesk as the owners:
I have reached out to GoDaddy once again, in an effort to publicly release some of these sales prices… but at time of publication I did not hear back yet. I will update when and if I do.
Are you another domaining blogger nut who is using Estibot’s non-sense information?
Their estimates are bullshits (e.g. 360.com has a value of $108k), and whoever uses their information as reference makes himself silly, very unprofessional and unreliable.
@Mike,
Feel free to provide me with something that I could use as some kind of reference and I will gladly check it out. I well know that Estibot is an algorithm based tool that often doesn’t reflect what a domain name may or may not sell for… or its “value”. From a writers point of view, when a sales price is not publicly available for a domain sale, I think it’s important to give readers a generalized value of the domain name. Including nothing related to price/value leaves an empty feeling. Estibot is the only source that has something in place that uses data to come up with a number.
Estibot is so simple and dumb algorithm, that it’s unable even recognize a difference between blocked/restricted and available status. Check the value for US.com and this pigeon-shit tool will tell you that US is not so popular keyword, because US.info, US.biz and US.us are all still available for registration. And as related sales it will show you 5 (probably ) lowest LL.com sales since 2012. Useful? Maybe to you, not to me…
I too find it humorous when domainers refer to estibot for value information
It’s akin to referencing the national enquirer as a news source
No, you are wrong! Providing incorrect and/or misleading information is much worse choice than offering no information. Period.
For your next date, forget about your girlfriend or wife, but pick some cheap microprocessor from eBay. Enjoy 😉
@Mike
I also believe Estibot a joke. But please note Jamie is merely providing the Estibot valuation, as it’s the most popular domain valuation tool on the web (albeit a terrible tool). I’m sure Jamie realizes this as well, as he does a super job of providing domain moves/transactions.
If Rich or Michael Berkins self-brokered this sale, I’d say at least a cool million. (They’re both great negotiators). However, GoDaddy is more interested in quick sales to show positive revenues on the books, so I’d say high 6 figures, and possibly 1 million. But this is all guess.
It’s a great name — and a good one for Autodesk.com
Thanks, Jamie, for the update
Without posts like this one, it wouldn’t be popular tool. I respect Jamie, I like his posts, but I would like him to understand that misleading information are the worst ones he can offer to readers. Thank you.
Jamie,
Next time, you should just put this guy named Mike and his estimate. I’m sure more people will appreciate that. Thanks for your posts Jamie
I found Mike’s opinion reasonable.
Jamie, what you are doing is somewhat of a thankless job. I absolutely enjoy the content you put forward. It’s original and needed in the domain community. Please keep up the good work!
Jamie,
Rick is right! Keep up the good work!
@Mike Since you cannot provide an alternative to Estibot, we have to rely on them for an estimate so that we can have a price-range picture in mind. Good report, Jamie.
Sales history, recent sales, current trends, demand/liquidity, and common sense are way better alternatives.
Mike,
In fact, Estibot uses nearly ALL of what you have mentioned in its algorithm : Sales history/Recent Sales, Search volume (current trends/demand) and they also use categories, which can show if a domain is liquid or not (LL, LLL, NNN, dictionary word etc.). Again, as I have said, is it the perfect / answer all blue book value for domain names? No! There will never be such a tool, ever. A domain name is only worth what somebody is willing to pay for it. The metrics may show a valuation at $310K but it may be worth way more to somebody or much less to another. Is the tool useless? No! Is it perfect? No.
Good find Jamie, keep it up.
Congrats to the seller/buyer.
Ignore the trolls Jamie you are way better than them.
I do understand the desire to post something, and I find Jamie’s work here the best information available on domain market activity anywhere. I actually rely on it. So many thanks!
However, there does need to be a better reference tool than Estibot, and maybe someone should build one.
Three years ago this blog did a study and found that Estibot only estimated about 5% of the actual value of over 200 hundred domains that Marchex had sold…
“Marchex’s Sales Prove It: Estibot Appraisals Are Worthless
NOVEMBER 2, 2012 BY MICHAEL BERKENS”
Estibot values = curiosity
If Estibot values were 10-20x what they are now (hint hint Luc) every domainer would be saying to buyers, hey look Estibot says…..