Color .com Domain Name Sale Prices (Updated)

Elliot Silver
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I regularly receive offers and inquiries for Lilac.com. As you probably know, lilac is a color in the purple family in addition to being a shrub / flower.

Just like every other type of domain name, most offers I receive for this domain name aren’t even close to being in the ballpark of value or previous offers. To avoid annoying back and forth discussions with buyers who don’t know much about domain names, I regularly share the reported sale prices of other color related domain names. I thought I would share this list here to give people an idea of how color-related domain names sell, but perhaps selfishly, to also see if readers know about other documented color .com sales.

Here is a compiled list of color .com domain names that I found that have been sold and reported publicly. If you know of any other color .com domain name sales, please share them in the comment section along with the source of the sale information and I will add them to the list.

Note: This color .com sale list is regularly updated.

Publicly reported color .com domain name sales:

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George Kirikos Finds 7 Figure Sale of Vivo.com (Updated)

Elliot Silver
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When it comes to researching “hidden” or hard to find domain name sales, nobody finds them as well as George Kirikos. According to his Twitter feed, George is getting ready to report another 7 figure domain name sale:

George is waiting until 15 retweets are achieved, and then he intends to publicly share the sale he found. Since it is a Sunday afternoon and getting to 15 RTs might prove to be a difficult task, I am sharing this information to help get to that goal. Once George shares information about the sale, I will post it here.

George shared a few hints about the domain name that was sold, although it is not quite enough to know what sold. Here’s what George has shared so far:

  • 4 letter .com domain name
  • All 4 letters are non “CHIPS” meaning the letters are either A, E, I, O, U, or V.
  • The domain name is a word
  • The seller is based in the US
  • The buyer is based in China

I searched a Scrabble dictionary with those parameters, and I only found 6 words (only one in the English dictionary and George said that wasn’t it). It doesn’t look like any of those 6 words in .com that I found has moved recently, so we shall see. On second thought, it didn’t count words that had a repeating letter.

Update: I think I found it… Vivo.com. The domain name was owned by RealNetworks, Inc and is now owned by vivo Mobile Communication Co., Ltd in China. George has confirmed that this is the sale he was referencing.

An Amusing Offer

Elliot Silver
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I regularly receive uneducated offers that some might consider “lowball” offers. I don’t take them personally, and I don’t respond rudely (if I respond at all) because I don’t generally find that to be productive. Most of the time when I respond, I simply tell the person their offer is far too low.

I recently received an offer for Lilac.com that I thought was amusing enough to share. The prospective buyer offered to pay me $1.99/year for Lilac.com. I assume the buyer was interested in leasing the name for that price.

Nevermind that I turned down

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Good Domain Names on the Market Right Now

Elliot Silver
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Over the past couple of weeks, I have received several emails from domain brokers offering some excellent domain names for sale. In addition, I have seen some press releases announcing valuable domain names for sale. It’s good to see domain marketing in action.

Since I don’t do the weekly brokerage listings any longer, I thought  I would highlight  a few of these domain names that I noticed that are being offered for sale or up for auction.

Texas.com – eNaming (Tracy Fogarty) – I would say Texas is probably one of the 5 most well known “brand” locations in the United States. The population of Texas is quite large, and there are several tourist destinations in the state.

Bride.com – Name Experts (Joe Uddeme) –

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Do You Hate The 2 Candidates?

Elliot Silver
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I saw an amusing tweet from Igloo last night during the Presidential election debate:

The brokerage, known for its brokering of high value domain names, is looking to sell two political domain names: IHateDonaldTrump.com and IHateHillaryClinton.com. Interestingly, the Clinton domain name was registered back in 2012 and the Trump domain name was registered in 2015. It looks like both domain names have domain name inquiry forms on their landing pages right now.

Although time is running out on this Presidential election (THANKFULLY), I have a feeling that these domain names will keep their meaning for a long time considering how polarizing Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton are.

I have no idea what the prices for these domain names are, but I thought it was a bit amusing to see during last night’s debate.

You Might Want to Accept the First Counter Offer

Elliot Silver
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One of the most exciting aspects of buying and selling domain names is the negotiation. You have a purchase or sale price in mind, the other party has their price in mind, and you go back and forth in the hopes of closing a deal. Based on my experience, sometimes it is better to accept the first counter offer and just close the deal than risk losing the deal by counter offering.

Let’s say I want to buy a domain name I think has a wholesale value of $20,000, so I kick things off with a reasonable offer of $10,000. Sure, the offer may be a bit low, but it isn’t a $100 offer that the seller probably sees every week, and it is strong enough to show the seller that I am serious. Being a reasonable domain owner, the seller counters at $15,000. The hard part is deciding whether to try and save some money by either sticking to my offer or improving it. Alternatively, I can simply say “deal,” and get it done.

I have regularly gone back to try and get a better deal. Domain investing is part speculation, and I think an investor makes his money on the buy-side. Sometimes the market is weak or a domain name isn’t as valuable as I might expect, so getting a good deal is important. There is a big risk to going back and countering the counter offer though.

A seller may begin to re-think things. He may realize he isn’t likely to get what he wants on the name and try to find another buyer for the domain name. This can drive up the price. The seller may simply say “no thanks” and take the domain name off the market.

When I counter offer, I am effectively

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