BikeAmsterdam.com: Trade a Domain Name for a Bike

In the last several months, I’ve picked up a new hobby – biking. Although it’s not easy biking around New York City (except in Central Park, which can also be a nightmare), I have enjoyed taking my bike out for long rides. As a result of this newish hobby, I’ve rented bikes on recent vacations as a way to explore a city.

After my last trip, I did a few searches for city-specific biking domain names, and I saw BikeAmsterdam.com had expired and was set to go to auction. I backordered it, and after a short three-day auction, I won the domain name. I don’t plan to develop it, but with biking being such a popular thing in Amsterdam, I think the name is valuable to any company that rents bikes or gives bike tours.

I sent out a number of emails to bike tour companies in Amsterdam last night, and I already received a couple of inquiries in response, so now it’s just about making a deal that works for both parties. I made a special offer to the bike companies who presumably have the ability to purchase bikes at their wholesale price:

BikeAmsterdam.com will either cost $3,000 USD or I will trade the domain name for a new road bike. The three choices are:

You may notice the MSRP is actually less than the $3,000 price for all three bikes. I know this, and it’s intentional. I want to see if I can trade a bike for a domain name. If anyone is interested in this opportunity, the domain name is still available until a deal is worked out.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

6 COMMENTS

  1. Not only the deal is creative, the domain makes a lot of sense. Amsterdam is packed with bikes all around. Great catch there.

    Interestingly, I also find great domain while searching self-interest keywords for a few weeks with no idea if I will develop them.

    Congrats, Elliot.

  2. Interesting to see you take my cycling table scrap and hopefully get a bike from it! Maybe next time I let a domain name drop I should talk to you first 🙂 Cheers, Frank

    Historical footnote: BikeAmsterdam.com was registered for $7.97 on May 12, 2009; submitted one week later to TRAFFIC Amsterdam for auction (at no reserve); rejected for auction, both live and silent – and then not renewed by the owner who, for fun and by instinct, still likes to register the occasional name; is focused more on extracting value from his circa 1996 hand-registered generic domains; and owns more than enough bikes.

    For those who want to follow Elliot’s lead in creative deal makingm I know for a fact that CycleSwitzerland.com and CycloTourism.com are available from the same ex-owner of BikeAmsterdam.com. Happy cycling, and creative deal making, to all.

  3. Hey Elliot,

    Just wanted to give you props for picking up cycling. It’s a wonderful hobby and boy is it addicting. As for those three bikes you’re looking at, I’d say the Specialized is the sexiest. 🙂

    Cheers,
    Lesley

  4. Bartering: an old idea with fresh life.

    I’ve bartered products and services for advertisements in my (60,000 parents) newsletter- it’s a win/win for both parties.

    Elliot, do let us know how this turns out!

    Ellen

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