PaintballGuns.com Auction Attracts Attention at eBay
Friday, March 27th, 2009
eBay domain name auction attracting lots of bids.
It’s unusual for a good domain name to be auctioned on eBay, but an auction for PaintballGuns.com has topped $20,000 with just three days to go.
There is a reserve on the domain name and no indication from the seller about what it is, which means the auction could be for naught. But the reserve has already been lowered once, and could be lowered again to strike a deal.
So how much is this domain name worth? Fortunately we have a pretty good comp in PaintballGun.com (the singular version). It has sold with a reported price three — yes, three — times in the past 5 years. First it sold at Pool in 2004 for $21,830. Then it sold for $15,000 at Sedo in 2007. Finally, this past December it sold for $10,299 on NameJet.
But the plural version of this domain name is worth much more than the singular (just like Camera.com and Cameras.com or Toy.com and Toys.com. Which would you prefer to have?). And the domain makes over $10 a day in parking revenue, according to the seller’s eBay ad.
The current owner appears to have purchased the domain name from iREIT late last year. A quick flip? We’ll find out Monday.
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Nice domain.
Any thoughts on what it will go for? I say between 27,000-33,000. I think that would be a great deal for the name.
$30,000 and you could build a business that was the authority for paintball gun sales online.
If the owner would let me make payments then I would love to buy it at that price.
paintballguns.com Auction Attracts Attention at ebay – Domain Name Wire http://ff.im/-1LMT4
Troy, if there were no reserve (or it had met the reserve already) I think it would easily clear that. But reserves keep some people away.
%147 CTR…..looks fishy….
Ross, not that fishy. Parked counts more than one click. I have some domains with high CTR there. But if you want to buy the domain, you should definitely verify stats.
So the auction ended with no sale…
Current bid:US $50,200.00
Reserve not met
Smells fishy to me, com prices haven’t exactly been on the rise lately.
I dont understand why owners of names like this don’t put $1K into a mini site instead of just parking them.