Band.com for sale

50 sold domains

Yea, I'd be willing to help whoever buys it run it. I have a lot of music industry contacts and I'd hate to see this site go to "the man".

great name

So how much did it end up going for?

This domains would probably work great if you make a portal for info about bands and stuff. Have a forum on it, wallpapers, lyrics... stuff like that and you can cash huge if you sell cds and bands merchandise on it. If you want to know more about what's in my head for you to profit see my sig...

I can't believe you let it sell that quick.I would've offered $25 G straight off if I had of seen it.

You sold Band.com for only $25K.

And marketed on GFY?

For goodness sakes man, have you gone totally insane?

That could have easily gone into the music industry for 6 to 7 figures easy easy.

You know how much cash those fuckers throw out the window on stupid stuff everyday? They drop $100K like it's monopoly money.

And you're in New York City on top of it where a ton of music money is.

Whoever snatched that you just made a fuck load of instant profits if you know how to market that to where it belongs.

Ahh yes, the usual "after-talk", once the domain is officially sold.

Prior to it, you do not hear a peep. After the sale, everyone was/wanted to offer you 3x your sale price. Because they're big time, and they throw caution to the wind.



C, why did you sell so quickly, you didn't know? I submitted a $48,000 offer, and just realized 3 minutes after you sold it, that my email bounced. Just my luck.

You should have grabbed that instantly Rick.

Yeh, I missed this one.

Whoever got it contact me. I've got a lot of music industry contacts and I'll help you move it.

[email protected]

damn, nice name

The fact is that selling a premium name like this in less tha 24 hours from offering it to the highest bidder is silly.You only get a name like that once in a blue moon and to sell it within a day is ludicrous.

Did EscortBiz get it???

I offer $35000 to the buyer .

KRL - Nope.

Shuki got it. Of which, I am surprised. This guy proposed massive amounts of development/leasing deals for a couple of my domains - Called me, validated/confirm his interest, and corresponded with me for well over a two or three week period. Then, completely stopped. Didn't even have the courtesy to email me to let me know he was no long interested. So I'm definitely surprised Shuki actually pursued this deal, considering he is all talk.

Do you know who he is or have his e-mail by any chance AVM??

Maybe this isn't a real deal then AVM. Nothing about it makes much sense.

Why would people in the music industry want to pay $25k for band.com?

KRL - Who knows, could be a different Shuki, but hell, how many Shuki's could be out there - That frequent GFY? Anyway his email is - shuki .AT. haiminis.com

there was quite a bit of "before-talk" as well. I advised him to hold out for much more. but doesn't matter now...


congrats to Shuki, I look forward to hearing more from you. I already sent you a reply.

Shit i was going to offer ten, my band is exit44 we are not known but could be

I've seen you post this quite a few times. I'm sending you an email now.

LOL, you guys are cards.

Yes, Taboo did dive in earlier to tell me what a fool I was for selling so cheap, but failed to actually come up with the $25k to put his five dollar words into action. Hmm, never seen that before in the domain game.

KRL "missed" it. Oops. Now he's slagging me because he "missed" it, though he seems to be on this board 24 hours a day. Hmm.

In fact, over the 24 hour period of the sale, I had dozens and dozens of offers, but 99% of the "players" in the industry were either remarkably silent or "absent". Elequa, the playboy with a lot of cash, but sometimes not much buying sense, was twice offered the name, but said it wasn't "worth it". That made me laugh.

The name was also posted on domainstate.com, and had hundreds of page views by lots of "players". The owner of dnforum, known for buying big names, contacted me, but also passed on the price.

Shall I continue? Why don't I?

In fact, prior to closing escrow, I preoffered the name to ten select people, some of the biggest "players" in the domain game. None of them were within $5k of the buy it now price. Hey, maybe they had their reasons.

Still.

I'm not here to embarass or hate unlike some of you, just pointing out that time and again when it come down to ponying up, most "players" in the domain trade are extremely conservative about spending money. People push out the three dollar press releases and talk about $1 million domain sales--and god bless 'em if they can pull it off--but amazingly when it comes down to actually buying really good names, very few "players" actually take big risks on domain names.

And then they can't wait to come onto public boards and tell you how stupid you are for selling. Nice.

I have never been a big fan of DK, but he was in early spending freely and with real money when no one knew these names were going to have value, and in that sense, he stands alone from the chatterers.

I contacted the seller of band.com nine months ago (!) through the whois. From then till now, not a single other "player" was even close to the finish line, with the exception of John Quail, a broker, who graciously bowed out when I was in escrow with the seller.

In fact, not a single other "player" even offered the seller anything north of $10k in that stretch of time. Most offered $3k or $5k.

We all have different ways to make money and different business plans. I don't develop, I do PPC. Band.com is useless to me as PPC. So I sold it, and made a nice one day profit.

I'll tell you guys what: I have a list of names that would make you blush. Ask AVM to give you a rundown. Next time I offer one up, I'll give you each a chance to pre-buy it, get on my short list, so to speak. Send me an email.

Until then, you can all run your mouth like Taboo. Money talks, bullshit walks.

Shuki ponied up. No one else did, except Hank from SexKey (with whom I'd like to do something in the future).

There's not enough respect on this board. Way too much bullshitting and slagging. Life is too precious.

Yeah ... I love American Pie

I have a lot of posts, they get a lot of attention so they stay high up, which is why it might seem like I'm here a lot. But in actuallity I'm not here 24/7 like you think.

Not slaggin you as you said, hey if you made a nice profit congrats and you are happy with it, so be it. There is certainly nothing wrong with that DB.

Yeh, players want everything on the cheap, at a deep discount, under market, etc.. That's how they became players, so nothing new there. We all know that.

On that one statement you made I look at it in reverse usually.

Bullshit talks, money walks.

Congratulations on your sale.

^ the first idea that came to mind for singular BAND.COM ^


If it was Bands.com... woo

DomBuyer,

email sent - pls add me to your domain list, I'm not a big talker so that could be a plus

They were offered the name, and amazingly, they passed. I tried to tell them that it was worth the asking on redirects alone, never mind blocking future competition and/or confusion in the marketplace.

Their site is disappointing, so it's perhaps not surprising.

That's all I'm saying.

Thanks.

You try to sell to other domain "players", but you never thought to contact ANYONE in the "music" industry? What if you had pushed out your own $3 press release asking for music industry partners, etc? Hmmm, $3, maybe could've turned that into 7 figures for yourself. But that's too much trouble and brainpower. Why do you think people issue press releases? LOL. Why sell the name for so cheap, when you could have issued a PR and sold "slices" of it.




I advised you to TARGET your suitors by picking up the PHONE before you flipped something so valuable to un-targeted buyers. I didn't fail to come up with the money... I just chose not to do business with you, this time. Plenty of domains out there. Just because people don't buy from you, doesn't mean people aren't buying! I'm still on my buying spree... Melon.com, Morale.com, AdvertiseHere.com (you probably can't understand why I bought this, right?)... In fact, my "bullshit" rant was positive for your domain, it may have helped you sell the domain quicker, moron. instead, you talk down about KRL (men.com) and Elequa/FMA (ai.com,February.com,July.com,etc..) because they also didn't buy it from you... all you do is prove yourself a rookie.

Any luck DUMPING Asteroids.com? even after your price drop? LOL.
http://bbs.gofuckyourself.com/showth...light=asteroid
god, that name is so good, you're right, I'm still blushing. But why do you need AVM to give us a "rundown", can't you? Oh, that's right... you don't have time for bull-shitters and slaggers. And yet you have no problem coming to gfy to SPAM your domain sales? I only told you to broaden your horizons, but you choose to unload domains by spamming domain message boards for 5 figure sales, when you don't understand the simple concept of flipping a domain to a targeted buyer. but i don't blame you for hating me, we're just different... best example is: you thought gray.com sucked. at this rate, you'll always be an also-ran. learn to look beyond selling domains to people that compete with you and focus on marketing them to the companies that want to dominate their industry. Sell category-killer domains to GIANTS of the industry. why? because even if they HATE your domain name, they will buy it to make sure their competitor doesn't buy it. Offer the domain for twice what you think they'll pay, then while they're fighting for it, slash the price in half for whoever buys it immediately. done deal. But since something like that takes more than 24 hours to flip (sometimes even 24 months), I guess it's too much trouble/work for you.

Taboo, can you send me the Cliff Notes on your post?

DB do you just buy and sell domains or acquire and hold for development?

Do you have any major domains you're hangin on to? If anything can tie in with what I'm doing for some of my bigger ones, let me know and maybe we can do some cross-promotions.

I'm mainly focusing on mainstream stuff now. Got loads of adult domains undeveloped also, but not doing them on a priority basis.

Ahaha

sure... as soon as I'm done reading your 1-sentence business plan:

"Buy domains and then spam non-targeted buyers, trying to sell for less money than I could potentially make."


ok, I'm done.

He's got some great adult domains.

As for elequa - Great guy, huge buyer. You can't knock him for passing on this deal. I had the money to buy as well, but couldn't see this domain fetching more than $20k (in hindsight). Thus passed on this deal as well. I think most full time domainers were in agreement on this one - And that is not to touch this domain for anything over $20k.

I mean, who were the top two bidders? Hank and Shuki. Both are not in the domain business.

Heh heh, everybody's so careful not to offend elequa.

Hey, make no mistake, elequa's a very nice guy and very bright. I've spoken to him on the phone a couple of times, done lots of deals with him and he's created lots of excitement in the domain world.

He does, however, have a somewhat erratic method of determining value, and if he was forced to have built his collection from scratch without a massive wad, he wouldn't have nearly the portfolio he has. That's just my opinion, and not a judgement of him personally.
His presence has been great for the business.

good flip dombuyer,

about the good domain situation for band.com

its an ok one word domain but as dombuyer said he's in the PPC business, 200 typeins won't do jack,

and for anybody else thats not in the music business, that is not a great start either .

band.com is not brandable, if you know what branding is.

we passed on this name 2 weeks ago as well.
we already have one great music name, not much interest for another name in music industry.

KRL, i'm gonna drop you an email about this to get your opinion

I don't develop, which is why I often shed names that I buy but don't fit with my pretty narrow agenda. A rare exception was AdultSearch.com which I bought to develop, but gave up as I'm just too damned lazy. It's one that begs for some serious development.

I had pursued sexsearch.com for some time, but as soon as I tipped them off by harassing them to sell, they decided to develop (hate that heh heh).

Hentai.com is another that begs for development, which probably should have been done some years back.

Anyway, I'll keep you in mind KRL. Send me a note where you can be reached.

If you are going to spend money on branding, it might be better to pick a domain that can be trademarked.

Re: elequa
I think his financial backing has helped him, but ele knows what he is doing, that I know.

He knows when to buy and when not to. Good friend of mine and great guy.

+++++++++++++

I was also after this name for around high 4 figures about a year ago.

In the end, I really don't think its worth so much, basically only its traffic is worth something.

Bands.com is another story.

I'm with DomBuyer on this on and I think he made a very nice sale.

I hear of these big time buyers with big time $ but in the end very few are ready to put up the $.

There are some people on this forum who talk big, but at least someone came up with the $ for this one.

Good Job DomBuyer

A big thank you goes out to Dombuyer for being such a class act throughout this transaction. Very smooth and a plesure to do business with. I wouldn't hesitate for a second to do business with him again in the future.

All in all I am very happy with my aquisition of Band.com and hope to work with people from GFY in the development of Band.com as a premier Music and Music Industry destination.

Shuki

So are you the new owner of band.com?

Yes I am the new owner of Band.com

shuki @ Haiminis.com

Heh heh, last call on this name. It appears I attracted attention faster than I wanted, but hey, I can continue to be lazy!

Edit: just realized people might think I mean band.com. I don't--it's sold. I'm referring to last call on adultsearch.com

Good for you... now

Thought I would bump this since Band.com is now for sale at http://www.greatdomains.com/ for $350k Will be interesting if this domain moves for that.

Could be good for a music label ... or puffy