NameMedia sells Claim.com for $80,000.
NameMedia, parent company of BuyDomains and Afternic, has completed the sale of Claim.com for $80,000. The buyer is unknown but appears to have used domain financing service Domain Capital to complete the transaction.
Claim.com was just one of over 400 reported domain names NameMedia sold last week. Many of the domain names the company sells are subject to non-disclosure agreements, so the total sales numbers are much higher. For example, the company recently sold a domain for $750,000 and just last week sold one for over $200,000.
What’s interesting about NameMedia’s sales is that they are a time capsule for what’s going on in the world. For example, last week the company sold Weatherize.com for $6,688. Home weatherization is part of the United States stimulus package. Another sale was SmokeBan.com for $2,788. As smoking bans permeate across the United States and world, this domain was probably picked up by someone on one side of the issue. Or how about FiscalResponsibility.com for $2,300? We could sure use some of that these days.
The company sells mostly to end users for a median price of $1,200. Here are some of this week’s NameMedia sales that caught my attention:
counselingdegree.com $11,000
regattas.com $10,000
Freebay.com $10,000
liberalartsdegree.com $8,000
furnitureplace.com $7,500
kosmik.com $7,150
weatherize.com $6,688
managementdegree.com $5,130
whats4sale.com $5,000
mersi.com $5,000
ipersuade.com $3,080
suggestive.com $3,000
divorceattorneyatlaw.com $3,000
englishdegree.com $2,788
startafresh.com $2,710
hollywoodlimos.com $2,700
medicalliabilityinsurance.com $2,500
cvsc.com $2,500
advancedcarpetcare.com $2,500
nightclubtickets.com $2,500
customhotrods.com $2,500
earthtoearth.com $2,500
LiberalArtsDegrees.com $2,388
bemyhero.com $2,300
biocommunications.com $2,300
itanswers.com $2,288
spiralnotebook.com $2,272
EastBatonRouge.com $2,250
Andrew
FiscalResponsibility.com for $2,300
We bought this one.
@ Michael – nice pick up. I hope you set up a financial blog there…
Dub-A, I’m going to do something I never do, which is give my own opinion on the results you posted on domain sales results. Why? Because most of these domains represent “mid-level” domains the majority of domainers own. The results of these sales give a general idea of what to expect for many educated domainers.
@Mikey-B – FiscalResponsibility.com – $2300. Nice pick bro… jumping off on that one dude. Are you going to flip or develop? I think all of your readers, including myself, are wondering and watching…
I didn’t think any of the other domains in the list were knockouts, but some halfway-intelligent marketing director at a company looking to come into the 21st Century searched for a prodserv domain they needed, and actually UNDERSTOOD that they needed the domain. With BuyDomains inventory, they better be hoping they keep getting this type of marketing director education…
But first, let’s talk about the train wreck: What was this: divorceattorneyatlaw.com $3,000?
Is this a longtailed happy ending? Ummm… must be, because this domain is TWENTY CHARACTERS LONG and INCLUDES A PREPOSITION! Google result count? 35 as in (thirty-five and I wish I could bold that here).
Top-reach websites for the domain phrase “divorce attorney at law”?
1) A Craigslist ad: http://detroit.craigslist.org/lgs/1037939137.html
2) A joke ad (which appeared in about four other results out of the 35 results from the quoted search of “divorce attorney at law”:
http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/672b3b4cd0/trex-divorce-attorney-at-law-from-pasteyboy
There were a few remaining Quoted Phrase Search Results (QPSR) on the domain phrase, which referred to historical records on Abraham Lincoln.
So, question is to the buyer of this domain: “WHHHUUUUUUUUT!!????”
And the comment to the seller is: “Oh Yeah, you ROCKED that one, bro!”
Okay, the Varangian’s take on the best of the rest of the domains that sold:
Excellent Prices For Domains That Will Make Big Money for the buyer:
regattas.com $10,000 (what a sweet domain, and prestigious too!)
Freebay.com $10,000 (I hope the buyer has a good attorney and a lot of money when Ebay files a TM lawsuit, and if he wins, he’s gold)
liberalartsdegree.com $8,000 (a no-brainer – this domain is worth $20k min)
furnitureplace.com $7,500 (nice price, hope it was an enduser)
kosmik.com $7,150 (can be a killer memorable brand for something lame we all will be doing soon, like twittering)
weatherize.com $6,688 (Newsworthy – for about three months)
managementdegree.com $5,130 (no brainer for an end user)
englishdegree.com $2,788 (no brainer for an end user)
hollywoodlimos.com $2,700 (no brainer for an end user)
medicalliabilityinsurance.com $2,500 (no brainer for an end user, but watch out for those double “L’s”!!!)
nightclubtickets.com $2,500 (Didn’t know night clubs needed tickets, but it’s a good idea if you’re starting up a new company pushing this…)
customhotrods.com $2,500 (If I had paid attention to this domain name being sold, I would have immediately paid $5000 and thought I scored)
biocommunications.com $2,300 (really? People don’t know about the future? THIS DOMAIN WILL BE WORTH 100 times this price within five years)
itanswers.com $2,288 (current, relevant, hopefully an enduser. nice price)
Right now, I’m tempted to throw out a similar domain that I own that meets or beats the value of these above domains. However, that would be cheesy and disgusting, and Dub-A would probably send me a “naughty boy” email which would shame me! Discretion is the better part of valor… but I still hope Brian Carr and Pete Lamson are reading this and are curious how I can bring them better prices with my clients’ and my domains… as long as BD isn’t doing the “wow, nice domain, we’ll buy it from you for $20” schtick.
Steve
I don’t flip domains.
I have a couple of others that go right along with like financialstability.com, will do something with them.
Dang, there’s some serious keystrokes in some of those names. Taking a zero off all those numbers I think would be a fairer indication of value. I mean, why on earth would you buy fiscalresponsibility – its neither brandable, memorable or has a chance of a type in.
No disrespect, but what a waste of money!
Claim on the other hand is a steal at $80k. I prefer the plural [durr…clearly] but nevertheless its a nice capture. Especially bearing in mind that the plural version of the co.uk sold for similar very recently.
e-politics.com.
how much is that worth?
huh? Where am I?
oh, sorry Dub-A. 😉