Comments on: Yahoo Domain Sale was Win-Win

By: NameDrive Blog » Blog Archive » ND Weekly #88

NameDrive Blog » Blog Archive » ND Weekly #88 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 14:55:13 +0000

[...] Yahoo set a reserve of $150,000 and was willing to take that much. The buyer was determined and probably would have gone higher had an internet bidder not pulled out at $360,000. But is $380,000 that bad for this domain? More… [...]

By: Eric Borgos

Eric Borgos — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 12:28:58 +0000

It is hard to compare contests.com to a domain like Toys.com, because in my opinion I don’t think people who enter contests care that much what domain they are on. I have a bunch of good contest domains like WinContests.com, BigContests.com, EnterContests.com, PrizeWinner.com, etc.) and I think those would do just as well for a big contest site. I am not saying they are worth anything near the price of Contests.com, but they sound just as good to the end user. Yes, Contests.com would do better in the search engines, and yes it has built in traffic, but those factors are only worth so much. I suppose contests.com would be an industry leading domain for a business to business company that provides contest related services, but there are much fewer of those types of companies out there than there are toy companies. Also keep in mind there is a big difference between sweepstakes (like Publishers Clearinghouse) and contests (contests require skill, they don’t just have a random winner). End users usually don’t know the difference or care, but this distinction would be very important to a company buying the domain.

By: D

Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:51:54 +0000

It’s not difficult to buy domain for 50~100 years of PPC revenue like this one ($10~$20 per day). In every auction there are some domains like this. What’s difficult is to buy domain for under 10 years PPC revenue…

By: Francois

Francois — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:13:47 +0000

Ok guys, make sense.

By: larry fischer

larry fischer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:55:19 +0000

Domain Investor,

thank you for writing what I was thinking.

By: larry fischer

larry fischer — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 00:54:27 +0000

Francois,

A kid in a candy store wants to buy every piece of candy, however, that doesn’t mean he does.

By: Domain Investor

Domain Investor — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 23:37:52 +0000

Francois, maybe it is none of your business?