Over the past coupla years, I’ve bid on *alot* of domains at auction. A majority I lose, I’ll admit it.
I do step back, after a month or so, and think.. “sun of a gun, I should have just ponied up the cash and bought it”.
Here’s a quick sampling of the domains I’ve been in auctions for, and have chickened out. (Live and learn)
trixie.com
sold for $9,655
some hooker (pardon my french), or strip joint - at some point - would have paid me double for it.
lakeguide.com
sold for $1,461
could have easily built a lake reference guide for the US.. then AdSense’d it.
westgeorgia.com
sold for $3,455
Was a total moron on this one. I live in GA. There’s a college in W GA. Should own this one right now.
(kevin ham won it, btw)
kimballs.com
sold for $2,395
just a nice generic domain name. The current owner has it for sale at BuyDomains for $26K
computercamp.com
sold for $15,500
computer camp? c’mon. A slam dunk of a domain to own. Every kid from now own’ll probably be going to computer camps in the summer. I bid this one up to around $10K, then bailed. Was a bad idea in hindsight.
else.com
sold for $8,200
A 4 letter .com. And one that acually spells something. I shoulda been throwing money around like Yosemite Sam throwing money on the fireplace to keep warm.
sexybastard.com
sold for $61
just so I could make my homepage: iama.sexybastard.com
futoncovers.com
sold for $7,210
still mad I didn’t beat out Kevin Ham on this one..
golfclubreview.com
sold for $55,350
I bid up to $10K on this one, and was surprised to see it go as high as it did. I wanted it, but honestly, that price was waaay to high.
du.org
sold for $28,500
I didn’t even bid, which is sad. Now, looking back, I shoulda had an investor behind me to acquire this one.
kobebeef.com
sold for $5,725
I shake my head on this one. An entire, very profitbale business could have been built around this…oye.
lawyersearch.com
sold for $22,261
the cpc for lawyers terms in ppc is insane. This one would have churned cash. Idiot me didn’t buy it.
iteam.com
sold for $10,650
every news channel in the US has an undercover iTeam it seems. me=Dumb.
iab.com
sold for $67,250
cheap selling price in my opinion. Run a quick search on google for ‘iab’, see how many companies come up. Those’ll be the companies who’ll want to buy that name 2 or 3 years from now … for about 10x that price.
rubberneck.com
sold for $3,076
I simply wanted this cause there’s a lot of rubbernecking drivers here in the ATL.
tuxshop.com
sold for $9,100
the tuxedo rental business is big. This could have been my entrance into that field.
eclass.com
sold for $31,000
at some point in time, all classes are gonna be held online.. why couldn’t they be held here?
sundaybrunch.com
sold for $12,025
I envisioned a sunday brunch directory listing site. Now it’s parked.
yeah, I do beat myself up on the ones I’ve lost.. but it’s only to teach myself to identify the domains of value when they appear in the future.
And it’s seemed to help, as I’ve made some pretty darn good grabs here as of late.
Cash reserves were my main hindrance back in those days, and - Lord willing - I’m making strides now where, if a domain comes up I want, price won’t be an issue.
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Wow, you are right… some great names there. eClass.com especially, a steal at $31k in my opinion. I find myself looking back on past domain sales and having a similar feeling that I should of held on to some names.
“if a domain comes up I want, price won’t be an issue.”
I wish I could say the same
All in good time…
Cheers,
Mark Fulton
http://www.DotSauce.com
Mmm.. SundayBrunch.com would have been excellent.
My girlfriend and I always like to try and find somewhere new in the city for Sunday breakfast/brunch each week. It’d be cool to know which places served it!
There are lots of good tuxes available now with WT, choose your color:
browntux.com
beigetux.com
tantux.com
mahoganytux.com
camoflaugetux.com (classy!)
More people search for “rental” than “shop”, but why not put your chips on both? So, I got the bargain domains tuxshop.us and tuxrental.us… know when to hold’em!
Don’t kill yourself over it. I always beat myself up for selling a domain and then seeing it sell again for many times that a couple months later.
But KobeBeef.com? Maybe you should beat yourself up over that one
Ouch… Definitely some good deals in there. But on the other hand I’ve seen plenty of auctions go much higher than they were worth.
“trixie.com
sold for $9,655
some hooker …would have paid me double for it.”
Would that have been an all cash trade?
Or part cash, part trade?
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“iab.com
sold for $67,250
cheap selling price in my opinion. Run a quick search on google for ‘iab’, see how many companies come up.”
This would have been a risky domain purchase. IMHO
Some covetous late comer or over-reaching TM holder could try to take this domain away.
I read a lot of UDRP and ARB decisions.
I’ve seen it happen many times.
Company “proves” it’s known by IAB and that you’re not .
You lose!
Goodbye iab.com.
Goodbye $67,250!
Patrick
Agree with you on iab.com Patrick..would have been risky, but - in the long run - quite possibly worth the risk..
“Agree with you on iab.com Patrick..would have been risky, but - in the long run - quite possibly worth the risk.”
Agreed!
And anyone that can spend $67,250 or more could afford to hire a good domain lawyer so
you don’t have to do battle alone.
Patrick
haha i was in the snapnames auction for eclass.com too