Mike Mann turns $20 into $10,000 in 3 day flip

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Mike Mann turned three very recent $20 purchases into $41,776. He tweeted within the last hour.

 

Earlier in the day he sold a domain that makes you just go what the ****?

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

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  3. Surya says

    He sold names that domainers don’t think to invest in with incredible good prices. He is the best domains marketer in the world.

  4. Mark White says

    is this man even human! simply mindboggling.. maybe ” MIKE MANN” is a code name for some type of app.. lol
    Congratulations! inspiration, and aspiration.

  7. Lrexor says

    Think about it. No one in their right mind would pay that much money to brand a name that doesn’t make sense and hard to remember. I challenge him to show proof of sale and who. Ought it that’s not his wife or some other related person?

  9. steve says

    Maybe I should get Mike to broker my domains — and give him a 30% commission.

    The Mann is the Man. Put that on a T-Shirt

  10. John says

    Such garbage domains that I wouldn’t even take for free, let alone pay reg fee for. That really strains credibility.

    No doubt many industry luminaries agree with that but would never say so publicly because of who it is.

    So that leaves me wondering if this is even true.

    Even if he could produce so called “proof,” would it be faked or phony in some way?

    On the other hand, the point has been made before that with 400k domains, a few of these kinds of insane anomalies are bound to occur. So then maybe they are real.

    Did anyone see the recent blog post about soliciting investors by the way?

    Is DomainMarket.com really better referred to as DomainMadoff.com?

  12. John says

    P.P.S. Go ahead and remove it if you want, btw. I’m a bit ambivalent about posting it anyway. But for the record, I would not even have shared these blunt honest thoughts here now were it not for how a domain I was paying for over 15 years ago got mysteriously stopped in the middle of payment, my best find of the day, completely disappeared from existence and became impossible to register for days, and then magically reappeared three days later with BuyDomains.com and a registration date three days after my blocked attempt and every attempt in the preceeding three days. That’s the kind of thing one sometimes still thinks about.

    • Lrexor says

      I agree with you John. Those of us that have been at this game for years know better.

  13. Paul Haughney says

    Maybe the guys who run SaltandPepperHome(dot)eu want the .com. Looks like Mike and his team have done their research to find potential buyers first before buying these names.

  15. Mark says

    Indeed suspicious. One week ago Mike Mann is looking for investments (http://www.domaininvesting.com/mike-mann-seeking-investment-capital/), and now he reveals these domain sales to attract/convince these investors?

    PS: Why would you need investors anyway if you are able to buy so cheap and sell for so much?

    PS2: On the other hand, it would hurt someone’s credibility in an irreversible way if something would be fishy with any of these sales

    • VR says

      Mann has always produced sales, on top of that, credibility with who? He doesn’t sell to domainers, I doubt he cares what the peanut gallery thinks.

      • Lrexor says

        Actually there’s a lot of experienced domainer’s here in “The Peanut Gallery” verses “Ass Kisser’s”

        • VR says

          Experienced domainers in what camp, you are nobody in this biz and I am pretty sure you know that. But who are the experienced domainers in these comments that are anywhere close to Mike Mann ? #crickets

          • Freddy Boom Boom says

            Mike Mann is the gold standard for this business. The guy is on his second time around, buy names was an incredible outfit he sold it and built domain market.

  16. John says

    Well look on the bright side, whether everything is legit or not, you have to admit “DomainMadoff.com” is pretty funny stuff. 😉

  19. Surya says

    One thing is obvious, he has shown that there are some patterns of Three Words dot com that work. In DomainMarket.com he said that CareYourWay.com is sold for 24,888 $. And two month ago another domainer follow him by selling HearYourWay.com for 10,000$ (Namebio). Both name will be considered as pigeon s*** for most of us..

    • John says

      Fact: many long multi-word domains are extremely valuable. Some worth a fortune.

      Fact #2: those particular three word domains really are pidgeon s–t.

      • wazza says

        Thingstodonearme.com

        “Things to do near me”
        Search volume: 550,000/mo | CPC: $1.93

        Hmm…doesn’t look like pigeon sh*t anymore.

  20. jose says

    all these kind of sales are inspiring and shows that there can be gems everywhere, but it hides the very important fact – that most seem to ignore or don’t want to see – that this is only possible if you have thousands and thousands of domains. and those thousands an thousands of domains that don’t get sold year after year will eat your profits to the bone.

    it is not an easy business and i am sure Mike Mann knows his stuff but I bet things are much more tough today than they were, say, 10 years ago. 10 years ago it would be more easy to get a better gems/to pigeon sh*t ratio, and there were other ways to finance the portfolio throw parking and affiliate marketing.

    those times are gone and competition is high. no wonder Mike Mann is looking for investors, or the Reberry Brothers have opened their drop catch system to the public, or even Frank Schilling lowering their average sales and going after more block sales than individual ones.

    remember also that most people fail and will continue to fail at this business, like in every other business. and about that silent majority rarely someone talks about it.

  21. STRIKER says

    I hand registered a gtld at 8:30am this morning for $25, immediately posted it to Sedo, and just five minutes ago sold it BIN for $1,488 (12 hours from when I registered it and posted to Sedo). Will post details once I get paid.

    Funny