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8 years since Mike sold to GoDaddy, how has the sale aged in your opinion?

December 14, 2023 by Raymond Hackney

It has now been 8 years since Mike sold his portfolio of approximately 70,000 domain names. The sale price came in at $35.5M. 4 years ago we asked what readers thought of the sale? Another 4 years have passed, we have had a pandemic, NFTs, extensions like .IO and .xyz make some moves and now many are gaga over .Ai. Back in 2019 Andrew Rosener commented, The bulk of the value in that … [Read more...]

Uncle.com moves to the Cayman Islands has an asking price that will please some

November 2, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Back on October 18, the domain name Uncle.com sold for $66,002 at Sedo. The domain name registered since 1994 was owned by a Canadian IT specialist. Many believed the domain was a steal. It had to be noted it was a wholesale transaction, an auction at Sedo. The new buyer seems to agree with those that think it's a 7 figure name. The domain name moved to Uniregistry. The buyer as noted by … [Read more...]

Invest.com is running a private auction til the end of August

July 30, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

There is an article on AmericanThinker.com a publication I had never read before until Koolishman at Namepros published a link. Talks about how China is trying to muscle an American company out on the domain name Invest.com. When you go to invest.com you are redirected to thehelpingcompany.com. The domain Invest.com is owned  by The Helping Company and is currently being offered for … [Read more...]

GoDaddy valuations changed – they took $3k off one of my names

May 13, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

I was looking at GoDaddy valuations and I had a name in there of mine. I then was doing some stuff for a few hours and came back and hit refresh for whatever reason. The value of the name dropped by like $900, I was like that's weird not that automated appraisals mean much. In a poll I did on Namepros, 0 was the majority of votes given when asked their importance on a scale of 0 to 10. So … [Read more...]

How To Value Organic Traffic

November 2, 2019 by Raymond Hackney

Dan Fries wrote an interesting article on how to value organic traffic. Dan wrote the article with a slant on valuation as it pertains to a website acquisition. I think the article can benefit those that own traffic domains in helping to support their asking price. The article should benefit those that build websites too. From the article: Valuing organic traffic can be tricky, whether … [Read more...]

Berkens on getting valuations right a decade ago

October 23, 2019 by Raymond Hackney

Valuations: Get It Right You’ll Be A Multimillionaire, Get It Wrong You’ll Go Broke Mike wrote the following post in October of 2009, while it deals with other asset classes as well, here was the part on domain names. Domains like any other asset are going through a constant revaluation process. For domainers, your ability to correctly value a domain is going to be a huge factor in … [Read more...]

Fashion.com domain will be sold at auction this autumn

October 1, 2019 by Raymond Hackney

There is a press releases out today that Fashion.com one of the most valuable .coms on the net will be auctioned off. You see the news on Fashion.com as well as the press release below. Nice to see a lot of fanfare around one name at auction, not lost in the sea of competing names and diluted attention spans. Tip of the cap to Lox Here is the press release: On the final day of Paris … [Read more...]

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