DomainPros.com announced today that it just acquired 260 five number domain names (NNNNN.com) for $1,000,000 That works out to just over $3,800 per domain name. "Most of those 260 domains originally belonged to Marchex’s portfolio of 5 digit domains" which Godaddy bought from Marchex. Back in April we announced that Godaddy paid $26.2 Million dollars for Marchex's portfolio of over … [Read more...]
Owner of Houses.co.uk Who Paid £40,000 Blames Sedo For Auction Price of £2,999
Remember the story a few weeks ago about the domain name Houses.co.uk which was purchased a few years ago for £40,000 was on sale for £2,999 on Sedo? The owner of the domain name blames Sedo and its automated valuation tool. Peter Thornton told SellingUp.com, that the domain name Houses.Co.Uk is for sale but it was never actually available for £2,999. "Instead, he has … [Read more...]
The Psychology of Pricing
For many domain investors negotiation and pricing is some of the trickiest and hardest things to learn. While there is no exact science, experience and a ton of previous transactions help the most, there are strategies you can employ to help with your negotiation and pricing. Mike stumbled across a very extensive article from Nick Kolenda that deals with the psychological aspects of pricing. … [Read more...]
Tnooz “Travel domains going for (not exactly) a song”
Linda Fox wrote a piece today on Tnooz.com about Tour.com being put up for sale for $3million. Tnooz is a global provider of news, analysis, commentary, education, data and business services to the travel, tourism and hospitality industry. It is the leading voice to the industry for all areas related to travel technology. So travel related domains are something they might like to write about … [Read more...]
Schwartz Sells eBet.com For $1,350,000: 5 Online Appraisal Services Value it From $40K to $55
I thought it would be interesting to see what the automated appraisal services had to say about the value of the domain king, Rick Schwartz $1,350,000 Million dollar sale of eBet.com If your a frequent reader of thedomains.com you know I'm not a huge fan of the online appraisal services but pretty surprised when I checked this domain today and found only 2 of 5 gave it a value in the five … [Read more...]
CircleId Post Rips The Domain Name IDNX Pricing Index
Alex Tajirian, CEO of DomainMart in a post on CircleID.com just ripped into the IDNX domain name index backed by Thies Lindenthal and Sedo. "The index is intended to be a benchmark for domain owners and investors. " "But it's out of line with other studies and the common sense of how a market operates. A much better barometer to follow is average prices for groups of domain names with similar … [Read more...]
FAIL: DomainIndex.com Releases 8 Million Appraisals For New gTLD’s Domain Names
DomainIndex.com has released 8 Million Appraisals for new gTLD domain names those including trademarks and those with just generic terms and the results are pretty interesting. Mt first observation is that of the new gTLD domain names with the highest valuation, only 1 non-trademarked term has a value in the six figures, Car.Insurance (which may not even be available to be registered depending … [Read more...]