Analyzing the $30 million deal + thoughts on one-word .com domains.
It’s a record-breaker: Voice.com sold for $30 million cash! On today’s show, domain investor Adam Strong helps me break down the deal. We also talk about the market for one-word .com domains (he has a brokerage, Evergreen, that specializes in these great domains). Finally, Adam closes with an update on his success using Afternic to sell his domains.
Also: Welcome DAN.com, Donuts’ big number, Missed Connections and more.
This week’s sponsor: Name.com.
Apologies for the sound quality during the news segment. It will be fixed next time.
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Duh says
Short domains — always better.
John says
Stupid comment.
Durp says
Have ever even sold a domain for more than $1,000? Highly doubtful.
John says
LOL, you obviously haven’t seen my comments for very long, but can’t imagine what that has to do with anything anyway, troll. The comment was a stupid comment that works against everyone, plain and simple. Wake up and get out of the Matrix.
Now troll me again and I’ll decide whether to say anything more.
Durp says
What are your top three domains?
snoopy1267 says
Durp, don’t ask unless you are into 4 word .com’s.
John says
I have one that’s worth in the mid 9 to 10 figure range, but I’d only be looking for the mid 9 zone now, and another that’s more famous. Third would be a total toss up. They are not all longer than a word either.
Durp says
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!
John says
You can “lol” all you want. 😉
Richard says
Short one word .com = money in the bank.
Longer than two words and / or new gTLD = broke like John.
John says
Is anyone even stupid enough to not be able to name short one word .com’s that are worthless compared to better longer ones?
Richard says
What are your 3 best domain names?
John says
Answered above. But just to clarify a bit more, the more famous one is not nearly as valuable as the first. Only worth a max of seven now perhaps, maybe more later only if certain variables change. Not counting on it, but never say never.
John says
Oh and nobody’s talking about new gTLDs here, lol.
Richard says
No John, not answered. What are the actual names? No appraisal, just the names.
steve says
I have a premium account exec at GD, but I wish Afternic offered a Domain Selling Guru to help price all my domains on Afternic, for a price of course.
Also, interesting, as I own Emma in a few extensions, as we’ve been building a voice assistant and we’ve code named it/her Emma. We tried to buy Emma.com, but 3 million was too high, at least for us. I believe MyEmma contacted us about wishing to acquire one of our Emma domains, but we weren’t interested in selling.
John says
I haven’t listened to it yet. Is Adam a strong voice for Voice.com? Is Adam’s voice strong?
John says
Btw, in light of somebody’s stupid comment above, I wanted to point out again the extremely comical irony that the category killer term for our entire industry is the two word DomainNames.com. The regular public and the real target market of real world end users knows “domain names,” but they do not know “domain” or “domains” by comparison.
Smell My Finga' says
Tell us all again about your Top Secret, 10-billion-dollar, long-tailed domain that you’ve been stalking for 10 years — LOL!
John says
Well I decided to make a lowball offer recently and not surprisingly didn’t even get a response. And for those who don’t know what this anonymous troll is referring to, I’m talking about an extremely valuable three word .com.
You trolls are really stupid though and never even understand a word I say.
Smell My Finga' says
Most of your domains are hand-registered, right?
John says
My most valuable domains were purchased.
One that’s a bit famous was acquired through a backorder I guess probably right around the time backorders were even invented. I do also have a number of great and valuable regs though.
John says
PS, and did I mention the category owning term for our entire industry is DomainNames.com? 😉
Brain says
Actually, both Domain.com and Name.com are worth 10,000 times more than domainnames.com. Short domains are always the best choice!
John says
Name.com is incredibly valuable for a vast diversity of reasons, including this business, but you’re wrong about Domain.com. DomainNames.com beats that one. And is also the category owning term in case you didn’t get the memo.
Moran says
You are wrong.
John says
Nope, you guys are. You lack basic sense about it and only exhibit the symptoms of mindless bias.