I thought I could sell Exhibitionists.com for $45,000. Well, I was wrong. I’ve reduced the price and still no buyers. I am now going to liquidate this bad boy and sell Exhibitionists.com for the drop dead low price of just $17,800. First to post “sold” gets a helluva deal on this industry-defining domain name.
According to the weekly sales report distributed by DNJournal, last week saw some fairly strong deals. There were a few six figure deals, including the sale of Coffee.org, and the drop auction market was hot once again with some strong names fetching decent amounts. The real winner of the week was over at NameMedia.
Not only did NameMedia Senior VP Pete Lamson report to DNJournal that the company had a record first quarter, but May was also recorded as the best sales month in the company’s history. NameMedia’s Afternic DLS also closed 15 LLL.com domain names for $40,000/each last week. Personally, I don’t own any LLL.com domain names by choice, but I think the purchase shows that the market for these types of domain names are as strong as ever, even with the risk seeming to grow.
Interestingly enough, I had been in contact with Bigfoot about acquiring Let.com from them about 15 months ago, and they were only asking $50,000 for it at that time. It appears they have since sold the name, which is perplexing given the fact that they just jumped in feet first with the purchase of 15 LLL.com names at retail price. I do think it is a good sign for owners of LLL.com names though who are looking to sell their names.
Numeric domain names appear to be hot commodities as well. Because of their relative short supply coupled with the number of uses for these names throughout the world, they always seem to fetch strong prices. I like the fact that numbers transcend languages and are important in many cultures. It is important to research what numbers mean in other countries though! I owned a few numeric names a while ago, and one of them happened to have something to do with death. I sold it ASAP.
It does look like the aftermarket is fairly strong compared to the general economy. I have been and continue to be a buyer both for resale and for development. Hopefully these trends will continue through the summer.
A couple of weeks ago, I offered a few Celebrity Baby domain names for sale.
SOLD
According to an article I just read on Reve News, it looks like Coffee.org was recently acquired for $100,000 by Bill McClure, former Chairman of Traffic Strategies. McClure intends to build a coffee distribution website, and Coffee.org is certainly a great domain name to do that.
I’ve said in the past, there is a certain trust factor with the .org extension. While this may slightly work against McClure with a commercial enterprise, it would be easy to overcome if he also makes it a valuable informational resource all about coffee.
According to a quote from McClure in the Reve News post,
“Coffee is the second largest traded commodity, next to oil and has grown from $8 billion in sales in 2001 to over $ 13 billion today.” says McClure. “Studies show that throughout the world, people consume more than 330 million cups of coffee each and every day. This makes black coffee the most popular drink after water and even beats tea as people’s favorite drink.”
Thanks to Brad for sending the link to me!
I have decided to drastically reduce the price of Exhibitionists.com to make a quick sale. This is a great category killer niche domain name, and it does receive traffic. I am not sharing traffic or revenue stats, as I have the keyword set to something other than adult-related.
The original price of Exhibitionists.com was $45,000, but I am now reducing the price to just $24,750 for a quick sale. This is posted in a couple different areas, so the first to respond will get this great category killer domain name for a hell of a price. Names like these don’t come on the market often, and certainly not at a price like this.
To buy it now, either post “sold” in the comment section or drop me a note. We can finalize the payment after the Memorial Day holiday.
An acquaintance of mine is brokering the domain name Reseda.com, a great west-coast Geodomain. I would buy this name at this price, but am looking to invest in an east-coast city domain name. Reseda is a suburb/district of Los Angeles in an area called the San Fernando Valley. The BIN price for Reseda.com is just $25,000! To buy this great domain name, post “sold” in the comments section or send an email to Sally, who is brokering the name for her friend.
As reported in DNJournal a couple weeks ago, SimiValley.com recently sold for $90,000. Below is a comparison of key figures between Simi Valley and Reseda:
—-Comparison of Reseda, California to Simi Valley, California (courtesy of Sally)——
Population:
Reseda – 99,000 (Year 2008, Source: LA Times – 68,000 in 2000 according to Wikipedia)
Simi Valley – 118,687 (Year 2005, Source: Wikipedia)
Average Home Value:
Reseda- $550,000 (Year 2007, Source: BestPlaces.net)
Simi Valley – $545,000 (Year 2006, Source: CNN Money.com)
Median Household Income:
Reseda- $45,996 (Year 2007, Source: BestPlaces.net)
Simi Valley – $85,175 (Year 2006, Source: CNN Money.com)
