Premium domain name changes hands and springs into developed web site.
Domain name monetization company Dotzup has sold Stockbrokers.com for $185,000 in cash to Reink Media Group.
The deal was closed last week via Escrow.com.
Reink Media Group owns a handful of other investing sites including StockTradingToGo.com, tradeWISER.com, and TraderMike.net. But Stockbrokers.com is certainly a crown jewel for the company. In fact, much of tradeWISER.com has already moved to the new domain name.
Stockbrokers.com will be a comparison site for brokers. It includes reviews, trade cost comparisons, and a trade calculator.
According to DNSalePrice, StockBroker.org sold for $1,834 in 2006 and the plural version sold for $1,793.
Jim says
Awesome name and great sale price, although to be honest I would’ve thought that a domain in such a strong financial niche could have commanded a higher price. Awesome nonetheless.
Andrew Allemann says
@ Jim – I wonder if the single version would have sold for more?
M. Menius says
Stockbrokers. Almost a little like “8 track”. Maybe not quite yet, 😉
Nice sale though.
Meyer says
The media company should have checked
what ‘valuate’ thought it was worth.
Full retail value $ 63k.
Does that mean Stockbrokers,com sold for
3 times its retail value?
🙂
ValuateSucks says
@meyer, No it means, Valuate has NO CLUE what so ever on how to put a value on domains.
Some of my best revenue domains are said to be worth less than $1,000 even though it makes more than 1k per year.
So with a valuate, and a 50 cents, you can get a cup of coffee not much more.
J says
Every time I see people quoting valuate.com I know I’m dealing with people who haven’t got a clue.
Karl Jackson says
Yes, I agree. Valuate goes far off the mark on most. For instance it says for one of my for sale domains, BrokersCom.com $950. But it is worth more than that.
Or let’s say for instance an example of them being light-years off the mark. The Hearst Corporation’s domain that I own, NationalMagazineCompany.com (By the way my attorney says I own it legally due 2 primary factors). Valuate software cannot recognize it accurately for what the domain really stands for.