Rick Schwartz Agrees to Sell GoBet.com for $850,000

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Rick Schwartz has been tweeting about his negotiation to sell the GoBet.com domain name. The prospective buyer started with an offer of $70,000 in June of 2019, and the buyer incrementally improved the offer since then. This morning, Rick announced that GoBet.com is “now in Escrow for $850,000 AFTER commissions!!”

Rick initially tweeted about the state of the negotiation to sell GoBet.com back in November of this year when the high offer was $280,000:

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Blade Acquires Blade.com

Elliot Silver
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Blade is “global urban air mobility platform” that offers private jet flights and private helicopter service, primarily in the New York region. If you are looking to leave from Manhattan to spend the weekend in the Hamptons and you want the the most efficient way to travel, Blade is the way to go. Blade has seen considerable growth, and according to a news release on its website from earlier this week, Blade is preparing to be listed on the NASDAQ market.

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Teams.com Sold by Anything.com to Microsoft (Updated)

Elliot Silver
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The high value Teams.com domain name has been sold by Anything.com, a domain investment company that owns many exceptional domain names. According to Whois records, Teams.com is now registered to DNStination Inc., the privacy proxy service operated by corporate brand protection service, MarkMonitor.

I reached out to representatives from Anything.com, and the sale of the domain name was confirmed but the sale price will remain private. My guess is that this was a mid 7 figure sale, and it would likely be the largest domain name sale of 2020 if reported publicly. The company has a history of keeping its sale prices private.

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Hand Off Your Lead to a Pro Broker

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Rick Schwartz shared some sage advice today, and I think domain investors should consider taking it, especially when they may be their own worst enemy in a negotiation:

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Why I Use “Make Offer” on Most of My Domain Names

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Approximately 80% of my domain name portfolio is now parked for sale via DAN.com landing pages. I’ve had success selling via DAN this year, and I have continued to move domain names to their landing pages throughout the year. I have played around with the sales options options, and I have settled on one – the older BIN price (with a 12 month payment plan option) + Make Offer option.

Many people are critical of a “Make Offer” field on domain name landing pages. If a domain name has a Make Offer field, people tend to utilize it rather than simply hitting the Buy Now button. I thought I would share my rationale for offering it on my domain names, despite the fact that it is likely leaving money on the table.

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Could a Confusing Credit Card Charge Lead to a $10,000 Sale?

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Yesterday afternoon, someone emailed me to ask about a credit card charge that came from a merchant with the 2 keywords that make up one of my .com domain names. He thought my company, vis a vis this domain name, had charged his credit card. I told him that he had the wrong business and thought nothing more of it because this happens on occasion. People usually realize their mistake when I show them that the domain name is not being used as a commercial website and they go off to figure out who charged their credit card.

The domain name that matches the merchant name forwards to a DAN.com landing page, where it is listed with a buy it now price of $8,999. The domain name is also listed for sale on Afternic for just shy of $10,000.

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