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1. Kevin Chicotsky says

   July 5, 2016 at 1:47 pm

   Also, enjoy these post . Noticeably absent from this post of SEDO Sales , were 3L Dot Coms, which reflects the recent past to the current sales for SEDO and other Auctions, 3L Dot Com are not selling as prevalently as they were last year. If, the last few year’s historic sales of 3L Dot COM repeat again (over reaction to slow sales 3L DOT COM) then we should see in late 2016, early 2017, robust sales on 3L DOT Com , i.e., at the end of this year -through the beginning of next year…but, who knows , the unpredictability of ‘domaining’ makes it so interesting .

2. Tom says

   July 5, 2016 at 3:25 pm

   I wonder if the buyer for v2v was the same person who tried to purchase v2x from us last week.

3. Joseph Peterson says

   July 5, 2016 at 7:06 pm

   StopTheHate.org for nearly $25k … Yikes! In a good way.

   There are a few sellers who consistently raise the bar. Mike Mann is one of them.

4. Ramahn says

   July 5, 2016 at 7:25 pm

   Tom congrats.

   Joseph, agreed.

5. Ramahn says

   July 5, 2016 at 7:26 pm

   Mike, I wish we could edit posts.
   Tom, my bad, some how I read that as you being the seller for v2v.

   • Tom says

     July 6, 2016 at 12:11 pm

     No problem. Hopefully, mine will move soon. lol

6. steve says

   July 5, 2016 at 9:13 pm

   @joseph

   Michael Mann will hold out for the prices he wants. I should know, as I’ve tried to bargain with him on a few names. & more power to him, and Michael B and Rick S.

   I’m taking the same approach these days. I won’t even consider an offer less than $2500, and no more outbound marketing and/or using brokers. Besides, my day job is building software, and I can’t lose focus on what pays the bills and my kids’ tuition(s).

   One thing I noticed about recent sales. Appears the LLL & NNN & GTLD aftermarket frenzy has cooled considerably.

   Stopthehate.org for $25 K is amazing.

   Also saw where Rate.com sold for $750 K, which is much less than the $30 million valuation put on each premium name in the “$1.2 Billion portfolio” of 40 domains.

   & I thought Rate.com was one of the top 5 domains in that portfolio. Looks like a great deal for the buyer.

7. Tom says

   July 7, 2016 at 9:37 am

   The same company who purchased v2v.com also owns v2g.com and vxb.com. It also appears that they’re still shopping other v2_ domains.

8. scrivener says

   July 7, 2016 at 5:03 pm

   Many good com’s are selling for 20-30K and under. Dotcoms that make sense, are short and can be used in business. My take is they are being valued as if domains are going the way of the Kodak camera, to be replaced by social media and apps or something else.

   I believe either the replacement of domains with another way of locating internet resources is true and domains will become relatively unimportant, or it is a mistaken perception and domains will bounce back. In the latter case they will be much more valuable than the way they are changing hands right now. $30K for a large business is below notice, something a line manager can spend on his own authority on a whim.

   • Scotland says

     July 8, 2016 at 11:09 am

     My speculation is that end users are waking up to the new gTLDS and there are fewer shoppers in the aisles these days. Perhaps the flooding of newer resources with high availability and lowered pricing is beginning to dilute the .com market, and these are the early signs of it. Why pay 1 million for keyword llll.com when same keyword can be had in .xyz for 10k, and Google will treat it no differently than .com?

     Domain speculators think they control the markets flows, but in the end it will be the end users who ultimately do. Now that the Chinese liquid market and falsely inflated values of those domains exchanging hands last year has ebbed, and new gTLDS are settling in more, the market is beginning to balance and reshape.

     750k for rate.com in recent time would be a steal, but perhaps it’s just the first warning of things to come.

     • Domain says

       July 8, 2016 at 12:42 pm

       Yeah no. There is no great uptake of new gtlds and the majority of all sales and new registrations are .com.

       • Scotland says

         July 8, 2016 at 3:17 pm

         My point wasn’t a comparison of new gTLDS to coms, or a reference of ongoing investor sales, it was relative to the decline of .com values lately. If users are starting to weigh options outside the .com market, or hand reg other extensions because of availability, it could result in lowered pricing in historic markets such as .com

         But I’m just speculating why a domain like rate.com would only clear at 750K when 2 mil would have been doable last year. I’m open to hearing opinions on that.

     • Joseph Peterson says

       July 8, 2016 at 5:53 pm

       “Domain speculators think they control the markets flows, but in the end it will be the end users who ultimately do.”

       We do? Very few domainers are arrogant enough to think THEY control market demand. Most of us would say we try to anticipate the way individual buyers and markets behave. Planning and predicting – that’s quite different from forcing an outcome.

       Some registries and individual domainers DO try to manipulate the market. They do this by inflating registration numbers, arranging sham sales, hyping on blogs that aim at a domainer audience, shill bidding, etc. But even those guys know they can only influence prices and registration patterns in the short term or in isolated auctions. In the long run, real market demand always asserts itself.