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Would you turn down $200,000 because of an NDA ?

April 29, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

So a posted on Namepros @MapleDots, made an interesting post about NDA’s and sales confidentiality. The initial post: Confidentiality Sucks I have had 3 big sales at 75k each and in each case I signed a confidentiality clause which prohibited me from talking about the domain. In retrospect I find this really hampers my domaining […]

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Filed Under: Domain Sales, Domaining 101, Namepros

Travelzoo sold Fly.com for $2.89 million

April 27, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

It looks like Fly.com may have sold for $2.89 million George Kirikos highlighted SEC filings of Travelzoo, who sold the domain name. Tech Crunch reported, back in 2009 that they purchased the name for $1.8 million.

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5111.com closes at $218,000

April 23, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 3 Comments

So 5111.com closed at $218,000 with bidder 19 winning the auction. Bidders 13,14 and 15 dropped out once 16 came on the scene. At the end it was bidder 17 vs 19. If the auction is paid for and not renewed it will be the third highest 4N.com sale reported at Namebio. For our little […]

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Filed Under: Auctions, Domain Sales

CloudLand.com closes at $3,750 and we have a winner

April 12, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 5 Comments

CloudLand.com closed at $3,750 on GoDaddy Auctions today, a couple readers were in the running for the $20 prize on where the auction would close. Adam guessed $3,450 was only $300 off, but the winner was Zameer with a guess of $4,000. The post was written when the auction was at $27. With 9 days […]

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It ain’t your booty, it’s your beauty

April 6, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

The story of BootyBeauty.com How does that headline end up on a domain investment blog ? Well that line in that movie (Friday After Next) led to a joke, that led to an idea for a T-shirt website, that resulted in a domain registration. That has now resulted in a domain sale. Back in 2003 […]

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You have to know what you own

March 28, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 10 Comments

You have to know what you own, or ask someone. What in my opinion is the best value buy of the year took place on Sedo this week. DWN.com listed as buy it now for 2,999 Euros was scooped up quickly by a Chinese registrant. I verified this with Sedo for 100% accuracy. So there […]

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There is more than one right way to sell

March 26, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 2 Comments

At the start of last week Chris Gimmer the co-founder of Snappa, published an article on how his company acquired the .com for his company. Snappa is used to create a wide range of graphics for social media, display ads, blog posts, and more. Here is an excerpt from his post: Why we did it […]

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Filed Under: Brand Bucket, Brandable Domains, Domain Sales

Michael Bilde sells another cvcv.com at BrandBucket for close to $70K

February 16, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 9 Comments

Back on January 7th I wrote about two four letter cvcv.coms selling at BrandBucket. Teso.com sold for $69,995 and Mino.com sold for $64,995. The one thing those names had in common was that they both moved to privacy at Safenames. DNBolt reported over at Namepros that another CVCV.com sold, Nelo.com and the price was $69,995. […]

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Filed Under: 4 letter domains, Brand Bucket, Domain Sales, Domain trends

Podcast gives details into Sumo.com deal $1m to be paid over 5 years

February 8, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

Stitcher.com has a podcast today about the Sumo.com purchase. As was reported everywhere today, SumoMe.com purchases Sumo.com for $1.5 million. In the podcast it is revealed that $500 k was paid upfront and $1 million over the next five years. Noah Kagan explains that paying over 5 years made sense to him, 16,000 a month, […]

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A look at how many non .com sales made the top 100 for the last 5 years

January 29, 2017 by Raymond Hackney 1 Comment

It’s the three year anniversary of the launch of the first 7 new strings to be launched. .bike, .clothing, .guru, .holdings, .plumbing, .singles, and .ventures. Some believe that all the new gtlds will affect the value and sales for .com. Will .com sales eventually only become 60% of the top 100 ? (I don’t think […]

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