Televisions.com Sells for Six Figures
Monday, September 17th, 2007
NameDrive brokers sale of premium domain Televisions.com.
Domain name parking and sales company NameDrive has brokered the sale of Televisions.com for a substantial six figure price tag, Domain Name Wire has confirmed.
Jakob Knightly, VP Sales - North America for NameDrive, confirmed the sale in writing and indicates it is one of the largest scales brokered by NameDrive to date. The company has brokered over $10M in domains (including portfolios) in 2007.
Tom Carr of Las Vegas, Nevada sold the domain to Nathan Allen, also of Las Vegas.
Knightly says “NameDrive sees this as a great opportunity to locate and broker the sale of a generic domain for a buyer who intends to maximize its brand potential while providing a valuable service for online shoppers. With the changing scope of web traffic surrounding domain parking, developers and investors are seeing increasing value in generic domains — and prices for these names are indicative of that.”
Allen intends to develop the name, and Knightly will personally assist with the development. NameDrive offers a development service, but Knightly’s ongoing involvement with this domain will not be under the NameDrive umbrella.
“This will become a resource for shoppers to find televisions, cable, and related items,” explains Knightly. “We will be continuously developing and programming the site in the coming months, and it will start with normal affiliate links.”
Allen says, “After discussing some different prospects for developing the name with Jakob and gathering the requisite funding for development, I was excited to take on this project and look forward to growing a strong userbase from the strong existing traffic to this domain.”
Now that the value of generics is being recognized how long will it be until generic phrases catch on asks this owner of PriceQuotesDirect.com, PhotosQuick.com SexierSkin.com and other generic phrases?
Televisions.com what a great domain worth every penny, could be used as a portal for tv marketing and much more.
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[...] NameDrive ha mediado en la venta del dominio Televisions.com, que se vendió por una cantidad de 6 cifras, según confirmó Domain Name Wire. [...]
Televisions.com domain name fetches “substantial” six figure price tag…
Domain Name Wire reports: Domain name parking and sales company NameDrive has brokered the sale of Televisions.com for a substantial six figure price tag, Domain Name Wire has confirmed. Jakob Knightly, VP Sales - North America for NameDrive, confirmed…
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[...] Septiembre 18, 2007 Leo a través de Domain Name Wire que NameDrive ha confirmado una de las mayores ventas que ha mediado hasta la fecha (algunas de ellas han alcanzado los 10 Millones de dólares) [...]
Leasing domains ?
Give me a break, it’s just old-fashioned traffic-buying. Probably for their own arbitrage schemes. I’d call it domain-leasing when a third party uses the domain’s unique name cachet to market a product or service that they have developed. That’s when the domain-owner might get some long term value-adding benefit to their domain asset(s).
Traffic-buying cares not for the intrinsic value of a domain name, just the traffic.
[...] One of the largest sales brokered by NameDrive - premium domain Televisions.com was sold for substantial six-figure price tag, confirms Domain Name Wire. The sale was confirmed in writing by Jakob Knightly, VP Sales, North America for NameDrive, who also indicted it as the most priced dealing till date, with the company broking over $10M in domains (including portfolios) in 2007. The domain was sold by Tom Carr of Las Vegas, Nevada to Nathan Allen, of the same city. [via: Domain Name Wire] [...]