Why hasn't anyone made a LaunchRock.com landing page for collecting bids on parked domains. I have my fair share of names- a lot just bought on a whim - that I'd happily offload- just waiting for some to expire. Am I missing something out there that exists to do this?
How we got the Hall.com domain
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Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#72Earlier quoted context omitted.
a domain is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. i'm in the process of selling a 4 letter domain name, that stands for a major financial product, that gets 20-30K searches a month, and that's currently ranking #1 for that keyword in Google...and the most I was able to get from the 40 companies I contacted is $7,500(estibot value is at $15K). And that's for a product, that has a transaction fee based mod…
If you've got such an awesome domain, that others are valuing, why not build your own company on that domain? Busy? Hire someone to build something that gets you even 2-3x your adwords revenue - and you'll no longer care that you can't sell the domain.
it's a very high end B2B financial service. i.e. your customers would need to be huge(i.e. energy companies)...so selling would be a bit complicated...+ it's a mature service, so it's pretty saturated with competition.
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#73Earlier quoted context omitted.
a domain is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. i'm in the process of selling a 4 letter domain name, that stands for a major financial product, that gets 20-30K searches a month, and that's currently ranking #1 for that keyword in Google...and the most I was able to get from the 40 companies I contacted is $7,500(estibot value is at $15K). And that's for a product, that has a transaction fee based mod…
Did you sell it already? if not I'm interested in the details
it's ebpp.com
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#74Earlier quoted context omitted.
So you have a dictionary word that is 3 letters long .com domain and nobody has offered $200k? or is it a colloquialism like "wut"?
No, it's a common English word that I believe would be excellent for many different concepts. I had one serious offer at 40k which I turned down. They were wanting to use it for some kind of music sharing site for musicians.
You have a domain you are trying to sell, people are asking about it on an entrepreneurial news board, and you won't say what it is? Free press man. Unless you got a real good reason to keep it a secret (how can you if you want to sell it), you should be name dropping that domain as much as possible when you have a captive audience
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#75Why hasn't anyone made a LaunchRock.com landing page for collecting bids on parked domains. I have my fair share of names- a lot just bought on a whim - that I'd happily offload- just waiting for some to expire. Am I missing something out there that exists to do this?
there are a bunch of domain parking services like sedo.com that will host a parked domain, give you advertising revenue from the ads shown on it, and handle buy offers that come in from it.
http://hntrades.com has quite a few domains from other hacker newsers for sale or trade. i could probably extend it to also serve as a domain park page if anyone wanted it.
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
a domain is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it. i'm in the process of selling a 4 letter domain name, that stands for a major financial product, that gets 20-30K searches a month, and that's currently ranking #1 for that keyword in Google...and the most I was able to get from the 40 companies I contacted is $7,500(estibot value is at $15K). And that's for a product, that has a transaction fee based mod…
"and the most I was able to get from the 40 companies I contacted is $7,500" Can't sell names outbound. Someone has to come to you. So this doesn't surprise me at all. "estibot value for the hall.com domain is $294,000" Estibot means almost literally nothing. As you said "a domain is worth as much as someone is willing to pay for it" There is no correlation whatsoever between any domain I have sold and what estibot o…
Can't sell names outbound? Not sure if I believe that one bit. It's just a lot more work, like selling anything really. Sure it's infinitely easier when they want to buy something from you, but you can definitely convince people they need to buy something, be it domains or otherwise.
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#77Why hasn't anyone made a LaunchRock.com landing page for collecting bids on parked domains. I have my fair share of names- a lot just bought on a whim - that I'd happily offload- just waiting for some to expire. Am I missing something out there that exists to do this?
Almost all give you the option to post it for sale. You must have bought names nobody wants to buy.
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#78From someone who also works with and helps entrepreneurs to acquire domains, I think you got a great score here Brett and your persistence has to be noted. I'm sure it didn't take 1 email Only one question I'm curious what your "non-low-ball" initial offer was if you got it for such a reasonable price.
Before we even had the idea for "HALL" we tried medium.com, foundation.com etc... to explore the possibility. We were never really excited about these names. We started the conversation off by offering $5k. That didn't work out well. The owner essentially blocked us after emailing back w no thanks. We even considered the idea of leasing a domain which is doable.
Clearly you didn't research the owners well. They are owned by some of the savviest guys in the domain business. They are also sitting on some of the best portfolios of names and have very little incentive to sell for anything but a really high price.
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#79Earlier quoted context omitted.
rsiqueira you're not missing much. Check out the live version :)
Are you specifically concerned about the site's past history being available, and/or do you want to block the current version from being archived for the future? To give a chance to the crawls which feed the Wayback Machine (and drop your de facto veto of showing any prior crawls), you could whitelist 'ia_archiver' and 'archive.org_bot'. To give a chance to up-and-coming search engines where competition is sorely nee…
yeah that's a pretty restrictive robots.txt
Re: How we got the Hall.com domain
#80Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you've got such an awesome domain, that others are valuing, why not build your own company on that domain? Busy? Hire someone to build something that gets you even 2-3x your adwords revenue - and you'll no longer care that you can't sell the domain.
it's a very high end B2B financial service. i.e. your customers would need to be huge(i.e. energy companies)...so selling would be a bit complicated...+ it's a mature service, so it's pretty saturated with competition.
You could build a website just for lead gen, and then call up the financial companies to buy the data from you. B2B financials like you describe could easily fetch $xxx per lead.