NameFind Premiums Forwarding to Afternic Inquiry Form

Elliot Silver
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Every once in a while, I check out the landing pages for various high value domain names owned by GoDaddy via its NameFind portfolio company. Because GoDaddy has one of the largest domain name portfolios and probably sells more aftermarket domain names than anyone else, I visit their landing pages to see if I can learn anything valuable to help me sell my domain names.

In June of last year, I noticed quite a few of their valuable one word .com domain names had a different domain for sale landing page. The company appeared to take many of them off of a parking PPC landing page and used a different style of landing page to make it clear that the domain name was for sale.

This morning, I noticed the landing page for some of the premium names changed again. The company is no longer using the landing page that had been used before, but is now forward the domain names to what I believe is the longstanding Afternic inquiry form:

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Hybrid.com Sold for $190,000

Elliot Silver
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Another large domain name sale closed this week. Hybrid.com was sold in a deal brokered by Joe Uddeme of NameExperts.com, which he shared via Twitter:

Although Joe did not share the sale price via Twitter, I can exclusively report that the price was $190,000 (plus escrow fees). The domain name was acquired by Brent Oxley, the founder of HostGator, who also owns a stellar portfolio of one word .com domain names. I am not sure what Brent’s plan is for Hybrid.com, or if the domain name was purchased as an investment.

This sale currently ranks

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Strength.com Sold for $300,001 at Flippa

Elliot Silver
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According to a report on NameBio’s blog this morning, the Strength.com domain name sold for $300,001 at Flippa yesterday. It was the largest publicly reported sale of the day, as reported by NameBio in its morning sales report tweet:

A representative from Flippa confirmed that the Strength.com domain name was sold via its platform and shared a link to the listing.

Because the domain name was just sold yesterday, I presume the deal has not yet closed. The listing states “Strength.com – Sports Nutrition and Dietary Supplements Brand Online Business.” This sale appears to be a business in addition to the domain name, so I assume Ron Jackson will not be able to list this as a domain sale. If he did, it would surpass the $300,000 sales of Signet.com, The.Club, and EEN.com.

Also according to NameBio, this

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Report: IRS.com Sold for $600,000

Elliot Silver
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In a deal uncovered by George Kirikos and shared on Twitter, the IRS.com domain name was reportedly sold for $600,000:

In the SEC filing noted by George, the company stated the following about IRS.com:

“On June 11, 2018, we sold the IRS.com web domain to a company in which our former CFO has a significant ownership interest. The consideration consisted of a cash payment of approximately $0.6 million and assumed liabilities of approximately $0.1 million. We recognized a gain of approximately $0.6 million on the transaction which is reported in Other gain (loss) on our Condensed Consolidated Statement of Operations and Comprehensive Income (Loss).”

I am not exactly sure what the assumed liabilities of $100,000 are, but if I am reading it correctly, it would seem that the buyer paid $600,000 to buy IRS.com. It is unclear to me if the purchase

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Look at the Other Extensions

Elliot Silver
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When I receive an offer or inquiry, I tend to do a little research before replying. I want to see who is interested in acquiring my domain name, and I also want to see why they might be interested in buying the domain name.

To do this cursory research, Google, LinkedIn, and even Facebook are the primary tools I use. Typically, I can find out all I need to know within a few minutes of searching.

One of the best tools that can be used though, is one I use every day: Whois searches. Despite GDPR being in effect rendering this tool less useful, it can still be helpful.

A Whois search is helpful because it

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Christian.com Sold for $600,000 via Sedo

Elliot Silver
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Sedo broker Dave Evanson just announced via Twitter that he brokered the sale of Christian.com for $600,000:

Once the sale is archived on DNJournal by Ron Jackson, it will rank as the fifth largest sale of the year (to date). The sale will rank above the $550,000 sale of Inception.com and below the $750,000 sale of Liquid.com.

According to NameBio, Christian.com last publicly sold in 2009 for

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