Fruit and Vegetable.com Domain Name Sale Prices

Elliot Silver
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My company owns two fruit .com domain names that regularly receive inquiries and offers. It seems like most people who submit an offer or make a purchase inquiry don’t know a whole lot about the value of domain names. To help them understand how much similar domain names sell for, I send them a list of publicly reported comparable fruit and vegetable .com domain name sales.

I thought I would share my findings publicly, like I did when I wrote about color .com domain name sales. I know of a few other privately reported sales, but when I am using the data to illustrate the value of one of my domain names, I would prefer to only share public sales recorded on NameBio. If you know of other fruit .com domain name sales, I invite you to share them in the comment section.

Publicly reported fruit .com domain name sales:

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What is Fund.com Worth Today?

Elliot Silver
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The 2008 sale of Fund.com is one of the largest reported domain name sales of all time. Last week, there was an article that discussed the Fund.com domain name published on Seeking Alpha. The article discussed the history of the domain name and company that owns Fund.com. Interestingly, if you visit Fund.com, you will be forwarded to an offer page via Igloo.com stating “This domain may be available for sale.”

This morning, Rick Schwartz posted a question on Twitter asking about the value of Fund.com:

I think Fund.com is an exceptional domain name and also a great brand name. If it were to be sold, I could see it being used as a brand in the

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Email is the Domain Name X Factor

Elliot Silver
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When it comes to domain names, I think email is the x factor that is not always considered. For companies that don’t have their exact match .com domain names, I think email can be a big problem. For those who are fortunate, the email issue will be understood, although it can go undetected.

On one of my domain deals, the buyer may have been a bit too honest with me. His company was using a non-.com domain name, and he told me they were having email deliverability issues. Apparently, some of the emails that his employees were sending to partners, contractors, and others were not being received. This was a big reason he reignited a conversation that died on the vine. We were able to work out a deal, but if it weren’t for the email troubles, I think their team was content using their non .com domain name until a later date.

Last week, Alan Dunn shared this tweet:

People regularly assume a company uses the exact match .com domain name. When it comes to searching for the company, Google and Bing make it

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Aron Meystedt Acquires OC.com

Elliot Silver
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Heritage AuctionsHeritage Auctions (HA) had been brokering the OC.com domain name on behalf of a Dallas company called Open Connect. HA received some good publicity for OC.com, but the domain name was not sold until this week. The Whois record was updated, and the new owner of the domain name is Aron Meystedt’s XF.com Company. As you likely know, Aron also works for Heritage Auctions.

I asked Aron if he could share some insight about how the deal came about since people might be curious about how the person responsible for brokering the domain name ended up acquiring it. Here’s what Aron told me about this:

“We had a 3 month timeline for Heritage to sell the name. They (seller) understood that getting top dollar takes time, but they were really interested in moving the name by the end of July. As our three month deadline approached, and after extensive outreach, we had yet to see a buyer produce a fair offer. It was decided that Heritage and I would give the seller liquidity and purchase the name ourselves.

I’d love to build something for Orange County, CA – a major destination for tourism and a place with a booming real estate market.”

Aron didn’t

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BitcoinCash.org Sold for Nearly $50k, Already Developed

Elliot Silver
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In last week’s DNJournal weekly sales report, BitcoinCash.org was reported as sold at a $48,888 sale price via Rupii/GoDaddy. This sale ranks on DNJournal as the 56th largest public domain name sale of the year, and it is the seventh largest public non-.com domain name sale of the year so far.

Interestingly, it looks like the BitcoinCash.org domain name was hand registered in March of this year. Based on a DomainTools Whois Historical Whois search, it looks like the domain name had previously been registered to someone else, but it expired and was re-registered in March. Obviously, this is a fantastic return for the seller (identified by Ron Jackson as Rupii’s Christina Thorpe).

This morning, Mike Berkens retweeted a tweet from Bitcoin News, which discussed “Bitcoin Cash:”

When I saw the tweet, I immediately thought about Ron’s sales report and

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‘There is Only Value if They Are Used’

Elliot Silver
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While looking through my Twitter feed this morning, I saw that  Alan Dunn posted a link to an article that I bookmarked and will share with people who inquire about my “unused” domain names:

For those with limited time, the article is about singer Julio Iglesias listing 4 connected waterfront lots on the Miami Beach island of Indian Creek Village for sale for $150 million. There are no houses or buildings on these undeveloped lots, but the large property would be a fantastic spot to build a huge home with a couple of smaller villas for family and friends.  I think this is a perfect illustration of the value of a great undeveloped domain name.

In between the time I saw the article and my wife and I got the kids ready for the day, I received a serendipitous domain name inquiry that

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