Buying Anyone sell a domain for profit lately?

I haven't sold a domain in years! They added so many TLD extensions I think the whole thing became kinda pointless... Don't you?

Anyway I was finishing up my Christmas shopping tonight on Ebay and for the hell of it I started looking for domains that might be for sale.

There were several listed for 10+ million that All just seemed downright DUMB!

So again I gotta ask anyone sold a domain for profit lately? Maybe I am missing something?

 

Hey Webcabbie,

For sure I know people are selling names for profit. I've sold domains for profit. Sold 830 names over the past 18 months.

Some were to the scavengers that only pay $1.50 per name, but the names were expiring soon anyway.

I would have to go through each record to verify, but I think about 40 - 50% were sold for profit and perhaps 10% were for very nice profit. Over all, I'm doing a little better than break-even.

I only do .COMs -- no other TLDs. Most are keywords. A few are brandable.

I've noticed a trend, especially on this forum, of people wanting Aged keyword .COMs with PR4 for $20. I never bother with those requests, because my names are worth far more than that.

On several occasions, someone has turned down paying $45 for a name saying it was not worth that and then I sold it for $150 or $400 (or more) to someone else.

So my advice is to hang in there. Sometimes it is all about timing.

Invest in names you have faith in. And give them a chance to age. Hopefully you can park or minimally develop them to add value.

Best,

Victoria

 

Nice one, cheers

 

what are some of the names you have?

 

Hi Toria,

Did you ever heard a .info tld sold higher than $200 ?
I ask you that question since I've just tried price suggestion tools on SEDO - where my .info domain worth almost $5,000
What do you think? is it miscalculation or what...

 

Were you asking that question of Webcabbie, or of people in general?

 

You are right that it is extremely rare for .infos to sell for a lot of money but, I did hear of a .info that sold for more than than $200. A woman I sold a name to told me the story of a name she sold.

It was a 4 letter .info (don't remember the name exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was vpro.info). She was approached by a domain buying agent and asked what she wanted for the name. The domain agent did not reveal the name of the person or company wanting the name.

She told me that she replied to them rather flippantly that she could not sell for less than $3500. Much to her surprise, they bought it for her asking price!

It was a unique situation because the name happened to be the name of a new computer chip or program or something that was being developed by a major chip maker and they were buying all TLDs before they went public with the program. If you go to vpro.info you will see that it now forwards to a major chip maker's site.

Like I said, it is extremely rare, but it does happen once in a blue moon as they say.

BTW, there will be a blue moon on December 31st!!

Best,

Victoria