Comments on: NameMedia Sells Flying.com, Racks up $600k Domain Sales

By: name removed

name removed — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 01:17:49 +0000

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it’s strange that a so good domain like Flying.com hasn’t been sold before to a BIG airline company
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By: Domain Investor

Domain Investor — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:47:15 +0000

Pete quote in another thread -
“With respect to overall saleable inventory, we currently have approximately 2M names listed on AfternicDLS that are not owned by NameMedia.”

Pete,

If you said 30% of the this weeks sales were non-BuyDomain, the world’s best statistician could not get any proprietary information from that.

Realistically, you don’t want to say because it does not work in your favor. It will confirm what we have always known, the majority of the sales are NameMedia’s domains.

By: Domain Investor

Domain Investor — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 19:34:14 +0000

This is the thread referenced above that Andrew released more comments.

http://domainnamewire.com/2009/09/24/selling-your-domain-names-fast-good-tips/#comments

By: Andrew Allemann

Andrew Allemann — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 18:32:21 +0000

I think some of Pete’s comments got stuck in the spam filter on the last post. I have approve them.

By: Patrick McDermott

Patrick McDermott — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:36:57 +0000

“wellthen.com $13,200″

Okay, I admit upfront I do not understand
the value of this domain, commercial or otherwise, and how/why it could sell for so much.

When I see a sale like this I want to cry…
out of envy.

But I am happy for the Seller…and the Buyer too if he/she is happy.

By: Patrick McDermott

Patrick McDermott — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:33:06 +0000

“We also never include information on who the seller or buyer of a domain is â€“ also for privacy purposes…”

Pete,

How would it possibly violate anyone’s privacy to aggregate and report Seller based vs Name Media based sales data percentages?

No one’s I.D. would be revealed.

No actual domain names would be listed.

Just percentages.

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By: Pete Lamson

Pete Lamson — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 17:05:40 +0000

Domain Investor:

I actually tried to respond several times, however for some reason had difficulty getting my response to take on DNW. Likely operator error …..

OK – to respond to last week’s thread:

Each week, AfternicDLS provides a sales report recap to several of the industry’s leading blogs and forums (including DNW).

While many of our sales are reported, many are not as we maintain confidentiality on all sales where either the buyer or seller requests we do so. This generally takes place on the higher end sales, although not exclusively so.

We also never include information on who the seller or buyer of a domain is – also for privacy purposes (on occasion there is an exception to this policy, usually when a press release is involved).

For this reason we also do not report aggregate seller based sales data, other than the type of information included in last week’s “How To …” webinar.

I hope this answers your question.

All the best,

Pete