What Has Been Your Best ROI On A Domain Nmae Sale ?

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    What has been your best ROI on a domain name sale,
     
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  2. Osensei

    Osensei Peon

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    Annualized or raw ROI?
     
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  3. ste1975

    ste1975 Well-Known Member

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    Raw please
     
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    I haven't had any big sales yet.

    One domain (a .com) I bought for $3.17 on eBay and sold it a week later for $500.00.

    My biggest sale so far would have been a .com that I paid $17.00 for and sold on eBay for $1,025.00

    I do have a few I am holding onto for my eventual early retirement and wouldn't sell for under $100,000. or more.


    Robert
     
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  5. Osensei

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    Not bad at all!

    $497 return on a $3.17 investment, realized in a week is of the order of 1,000,000% annualized ROI.

    That wouldn't really be the best measure of course, since it assumes you can reinvest the proceeds immediately at a similar rate of return.

    But the raw ROI is still pretty impressive, even in the world of domaining:
    15,673%.

    Congratulations, and double kudos for achieving spectacular results with a good old .com as opposed to one of those red chip tlds!
     
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    ivnj Banned

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    I've never sold any at all. But what is ROI?

    ivnj
     
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  7. ste1975

    ste1975 Well-Known Member

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    ROI - Return on Investment
     
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    craze3 Well-Known Member

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    You have to wait 60 days between each transfer, how is that possible?
     
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    Who the hell told you that?

    I've bought and sold within 2 hours. Transfers between accounts @ a registrar can happen the second after you purchase. Transfer to another registrar are allowed 60 days after purchase.
     
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    someone probably uses godaddy :p and their 60 day rule (not 6 month) and im just taking a guess
     
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    well my best is bought at $300 and sold at $6,000 (I knew the company which would be interested to get it since that was their name .com )

    Cheers,

    Venetsian.
     
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    Yeah I was thinking 60 days, thanks
     
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    After making a purchase in 20th august 2007, i sold that domain for a cool 350% profit after 3 months ........my best for the year 2007.:)
     
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    Haven't really been looking to sell any domains, so haven't had a decent ROI. Only really sold CCC.info domains that I bought for 99 cents for $5

    But this year, I'm looking to do some selling.
     
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