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Originally Posted by CunningStunt
Nice domains. You seem to know a lot about poker and gambling names, is 72off.com worth anything? It's a poker phrase of course. The domain is more or less sitting idle, I've done nothing with it in years.
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That's an example of a brandable name (as opposed to generic). Someone could want it for a blog or brand, but a generic name would have more liquid value ergo be easier to evaluate and sell. I could see a motivated buyer paying $xxx for that but chances of finding a motivated buyer or that motivated buyer not buying something else instead would be slim.
While I've sold some brandable gambling domains from time to time (DrPoker.com being an example of one, and that sold for a few thou), most of my gambling domain sales are generic domains and in general those are what I go after because it's less reliant on what human eyes see name quality wise and more on search #s for the term of the domains, type-in traffic, etc.
I do a lot of adult domain biz here obviously, but the other big area I've dealt with in the past and still do a bit now is gambling...while 80+% of my domains have generally been mainstream and not gambling/adult, the two have combined for probably close to half the biz I do. Besides the aforementioned names, I had and sold VegasCasinos.net, CasinosGratis.com ("free casinos" in Spanish and a couple other languages), FreeBlackjack.net, a few other Poker.ext domains, a couple Casino.ext domains, and a bunch more. I was very close to spending $xx,xxx on a Poker.ext too, but in retrospect I'm glad I didn't because the extension isn't as strong these days.
Btw, another "defining moment" which solidified me wanting to get involved into domains more than a career was actually my 2nd sale, SixDegrees.org, in early 2005. Sold through Sedo and for a long time there was nothing on it but later on, came to find out Kevin Bacon bought it and set up a charity on it. The sale put me in the black for the first time since beginning domaining and the rest is history.
