On Feburary 3rd there will be a live domain name auction from the Domainfest show.
(Pre-bidding is already opened on Snapnames)
In the auction there are 33 domains with a reserve of $100,000 or more.
The question we have for you is which one of these domains do you think will sell?
You can place your votes in the poll on the right and your comments below
Since there are 33 choices we will let you pick three domains on this poll, but to do so you have to make all three selections at the same time.
Here are your choices:
| Domain Name | ReserveRange |
| advertisingagency.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| bootleg.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| bvi.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| chili.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| countries.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| dorms.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| dust.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| eel.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| filesharing.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| homeprices.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| insuranceproducts.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| p5.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| seasons.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| toasts.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| won.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| bankauctions.com | $250,001 – $500,000 |
| comicbook.com | $250,001 – $500,000 |
| exoticcars.com | $250,001 – $500,000 |
| hy.com | $250,001 – $500,000 |
| smoking.com | $250,001 – $500,000 |
| wirelessphone.com | $250,001 – $500,000 |
| joint.com | $250,001 – $500,000 |
| designers.com | $500,001 – $750,000 |
| homerefinancing.com | $500,001 – $750,000 |
| houseinsurance.com | $500,001 – $750,000 |
| pregnancytest.com | $500,001 – $750,000 |
| cotton.com | $750,001 – $1MM |
| footwear.com | $750,001 – $1MM |
| medicalbilling.com | $750,001 – $1MM |
| insurancequote.com | $1MM – $5MM |
| slotmachine.com | $1MM – $5MM |
| vehicles.com | $1MM – $5MM |
| girl.com | $1MM – $5MM |
Id say there are a handful of $100k names there however they are among many that are no were near $100k, kind of a mashup there of hopes, dreams and the real deal.
Raise your hand if you think you own a domain that is better than one listed here and you feel it would be difficult to sell for $100k+
*raises hand*
I only voted on Hy, don’t ask me why, lol. Sounds like a nice social network name.
A few nice commercial names there, who made these reserves and what were they smoking? 😀
Hand raised, in fact make it two.
I am discovering that what makes a $100k name among resellers today is more difficult than 2007. I am a little slow I know lol
We just submitted our domain Tortillas.com (in the $100,001 – $250,000) to the auction still waiting to here if it will make the list
– Sumbini
As i think that everyone overvalues their own names i’d like to know what are the names of those that raised their hand?
In my opinion, whatever that’s worth, the mostly likely to sell taking into account the reserve would be HomePrices.com. Although, I like Chili.com too.
Um, didn’t see Won.com and it’s relatively low reserve, I think I just glanced and assumed it would be higher. That should sell.
Good Branding:
( when it is made legal )
From the Folks at …
joint.com
(1) Dealer Directory …
(2) Free samples …
(3) Product reviews …
(4) Celebrity Head Interviews
(5) Medical Research News
We Guarantee Best Quality and
and the lowest Prices
and ….
Um, Gee Wilkins, what was i just writing about ?
Won.com = international gambling
HouseInsurance.com = cheap marketing = all mobile apps without explanation.
Cotton.com = Brand
medicalbilling.com
footwear.com …
seem to have far too high a reserve at 750k
@Phil, I won’t use Michaels blog to whore names but can tell you after several 6 figure trades, I know what it takes among resellers, it has become very difficult. The easiest 6 figure deals I had consisted of several LL .com and NN .com, the generic one word world is much harder to peg.
advertisingagency.com and slotmachine.com
I’d say advertisingagency.com and girl.com. Smoking.com has a chance. It might have more luck taken as “attractive” rather than the habit.
AdvertisingAgency.co and Girl.com. Smoking .com has a chance taken as “attractive” rather than the habit.
chili.com,homeprices.com and won.com are likely to sell.
comicbook.com, designers.com and footwear.com will sell if there are end-users in the room.
rest are overpriced.
If it’s Domainer-to-Domainer Wholesale Pricing …many of the reserves may sound high.
If it’s Non-Domainer-End-User Pricing …many of the reserves are not out of the question.
One of these days, Non-Domainer-End-Users will realize the value of Good domains. They will also realize that it does not have to be a single word category killer to be a Good domain.
I will take a stab in the dark with insurance quote, although the range is the big question for reserve, if its close to 1 mil then it has a good shot as this is such a great name and clear route to monetization, with big players already paying premiums for the .com gems
my vote is for:
won.com
homerefinancing.com
insurancequote.com
Those reserves are too high – all of ’em.
– TBC
I’d guess HouseInsurance and InsuranceQuote
I like Chili.com and HomePrices.com.
LOL
—> AdvertisingAgency.com
What an incredibly boring bland name.
No doubt – certain domainers have a hard on over such names.
In the real worl, no real advertising agency would be seen dead using it.
The fact that this (and other names) are in an auction suggests no end user came knocking with bags of money (near the ir reserve price) in all the time they had it.
Like most domains…
As for Won,com…close but no cigar.
Wrong tense..
InsuranceProducts? Haha…almost the same quality as ‘InsuranceThings.com’
Most of the others are the less desirable singular
Yawn…a mish mash of mostly unremarkable domains..
In the real worl, no real advertising agency would be seen dead using it.
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I shopped AdvertizingWizards.com recently and got some decent interest- since, ya know… That’s a pretty common colloquialism in that industry.
I imagine AdvertisingAgency.com would be an easy sell, but not at the eleventy-bajillion dollar price point that all domainers seem to assign… Merlin Kauffman totally nailed it in the recent DNJournal piece…
“… however, I think there are two challenges which still stand in between most domainers and these opportunities – these challenges are greed and overoptimistic valuation of your own domains. Domainers tend to think their $10,000 domains are worth $100,000, and their $100,000 domains are worth $1 million. If we keep thinking like this, we may never take money off the table from many domains.” -Merlin Kauffman, DNJournal’s The State of the Industry January 2011
Oops, typo… AdvertisingWizards not AdvertiZingWizards…
smoking.com
It will sell.
Donny
I feel like of I owned HouseInsurance.com and I tired to sell it to a “domainer” for $100k the response would be, call me back when you have “HomeInsurance.com”