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
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
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
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
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
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...]
“please don’t buy any of these domains, they’re all terrible and you’d be supporting asshole domain squatters”
So a gentleman named Martin O'Leary, created a game based on an idea by Holly Gramazio. The site is very simple, it shows two names and it's your job to guess which one costs more? Most of the names I saw were owned by Huge Domains and one of them referring.com was owned by Frank Schilling. I went 8 rounds of the game and it's just meant to be a time waster, (no prizes or … [Read more...]