Daily Poll

In 2009, Toys.com was sold at auction for $5.1 million. TechCrunch noted that there were two bidders at $3 million plus -Toys R Us and National A-1. According to GoDaddy, Toys.com is one of the top 20 publicly reported domain name sales of all time.

It looks like Toys R Us has fallen on some hard times lately and may be contemplating bankruptcy. According to USA Today, “Toys R Us is preparing for liquidation.” If that happens, I would imagine it is possible (or even likely) that the company’s Toys.com domain name will be sold. I don’t know if it would be auctioned or sold privately, but I wouldn’t be surprised if it goes up for sale again given the news. If the Toys.com domain name does go up for sale, I would imagine there could be several deep pocketed suitors for this domain name, including Amazon and Walmart.

Today’s poll asks if you think the Toys.com domain name is worth more or less today than the $5.1 million it was bought for in 2009. Vote in the poll below and feel free to share additional thoughts in the comment section:

March Madness is here. The annual NCAA men’s college basketball tournament is set to begin this week, and millions of people from around the country and the world will fill out brackets trying to win a March Madness pool. Some people fill out their brackets for the fun of it and others wager big money on the tournament.

I enjoy gambling (primarily blackjack) but I haven’t participated in a real bracket pool in a few years. I don’t really follow college basketball (not like it matters to many), but I will watch my fair share of the games during tournament time. Having a bracket makes games more interesting, especially in the early rounds.

Today’s daily poll asks if you participate in a March Madness pool and fill out a tournament bracket. Vote in the poll below:

I had been involved in domain investing for several years before attending my first conference. Over the years, I have attended quite a few conferences (TRAFFIC, DomainFest, NamesCon, The Domain Conference…etc). I have also attended a few domain investor meetups in New York and Boston. I think meeting up with a group of people in the domain space can be helpful and it’s a good way to get to know others in the domain space.

Despite the fact that there are industry events around the world now, I would bet that the majority of people who invest in domain names have never attended an event. Have you attended a domain industry conference or local meetup of domain investors? Vote in the poll below. If you haven’t attended an event, I would be curious to know why, so feel free to share a comment.

In a press release yesterday afternoon, VIPBrokerage.com and DomainAssets.com announced that they are co-brokering the valuable EE.com domain name. The press release did not mention the asking price, but it is obviously a valuable domain name asset.

For today’s daily poll, I am curious what you think EE.com is worth. If you have an interest in buying the domain name, you should get in touch with the brokers directly.

So far to date, the $1.2 million sale of Super.com is the largest public domain name sale of 2018. Super.com sold via the NamesCon auction at the end of January, and the sale closed a few days ago, as reported on TheDomains.com.

The largest public domain name sale of 2017 was the $2.89 million sale of Fly.com. There were five other public sales for $1 million or larger in 2017.

Today’s daily poll asks if you think the $1.2 million sale of Super.com will be the largest of the year. Vote in the poll below and feel free to share additional thoughts in the comment section.

I receive many emails from domain owners trying to sell me their domain names. 99% of the time, the domain names are not of interest to me at all. Almost all the time, I respond to let the person know. I think it is courteous. The downside to responding is that some people think this opens the door to sending me many other domain names to review. Occasionally, people will respond by asking why I don’t want the name or are otherwise rude to me for having the gall of not wanting to buy their domain name.

When you receive an outbound email offering to sell you a domain name, do you usually respond?