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Re: Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm

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Post by btilly » Sun, Oct 11, 2009, 9:44 PM UTC

jacquesm wrote: post #10

vaksel wrote: post #8

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you should go through a list of companies with WW in them and start pitching them to buy your company + domain. Get them to do an auction to drive up the price Weight Watchers WW Grainger, Inc William Wrigley Jr. Company Watson Wyatt Worldwide W_____ W____ _________

This first part is pretty obvious, I have a long list of such names, but I'm not sure how to go about an actual sale, the auction sounds like a good idea, thank you!

Look for the email I just sent you if you're interested in trying to get it auctioned off.

Re: Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm

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Post by jacquesm » Sun, Oct 11, 2009, 10:05 PM UTC

quizbiz wrote: post #9

jacquesm wrote: post #6

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It basically generates a continuous stream of new people to the site that we can sell to. When we bought it camarades.com was on the way out, ww.com was launched first as a generalized webcam search engine, then we merged the 'corpse' of camarades.com and ww.com together and blew new life in to it. It has made some serious money since then. But I am kind of tired of the whole webcam thing. Sure you can have p@ww.com,…

What a nice gesture. You could try monetizing the domain name that way. Branded emails. Or even sell the sub domain, w.ww.com, for big bucks.

There's a plan!

Re: Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm

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Post by kirubakaran » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 12:04 AM UTC

btilly wrote: post #11

jacquesm wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This first part is pretty obvious, I have a long list of such names, but I'm not sure how to go about an actual sale, the auction sounds like a good idea, thank you!

Look for the email I just sent you if you're interested in trying to get it auctioned off.

Could you tell me too, please? A friend of mine has asked me to help him sell a three character .com domain name and I don't know how. What do you think it would go for?

Re: Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm

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Post by btilly » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 12:44 AM UTC

kirubakaran wrote: post #13

btilly wrote: post #11

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Look for the email I just sent you if you're interested in trying to get it auctioned off.

Could you tell me too, please? A friend of mine has asked me to help him sell a three character .com domain name and I don't know how. What do you think it would go for?

I know that Moniker does this exact kind of auctions. You could just start at http://domainauctions.moniker.com/how_to_sell and try to find them through their website. Or email my user name at gmail.com and I can ask internally (they are owned by the same company that owns my employer) for who you can get in contact with there behind the scenes. Of course I may be told that people are supposed to go through the website, though that is less likely if the domain name is a really good one. :-)

Re: Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm

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Post by kirubakaran » Mon, Oct 12, 2009, 1:01 AM UTC

btilly wrote: post #14

kirubakaran wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you tell me too, please? A friend of mine has asked me to help him sell a three character .com domain name and I don't know how. What do you think it would go for?

I know that Moniker does this exact kind of auctions. You could just start at http://domainauctions.moniker.com/how_to_sell and try to find them through their website. Or email my user name at gmail.com and I can ask internally (they are owned by the same company that owns my employer) for who you can get in contact with there behind the scenes. Of course I may be told that people are supposed to go through the websi…

Thank you!