about 5-7 years ago Sex.com was sold for 9 million bux... i think it was an internal sale, like from entity to entity essentially owned by Stephen Cohen at the time.. maybe for publicity... not sure its current value...

as far as this walter guy not selling for 1mil... hey.. if he doesnt *need* the cash, im sure he realizes in 5-10 years it he'll be getting offers 4 times that amount...

I thought that guy stole it and was court ordered to return it.

I agree it probably will be worth more in time.. but then again alot can happen in 5-10 years and a million dollars seems like a fair shake for that name.

Exactly. There's no way you can look even five years down the road and safely assume type-in names will last that long.

Read your guide, was bored so I figured I'd send out some offers and try to make us some quick cash.... Offered a guy $500 for chinasex.com and he replied that he has had offers upwards of $100,000

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That's Borgos. Forget about him.

You offered him $500 on name that gets 833 in Overture with the .com??

Read my guide again, or apply for personal tutoring :helpme

Damn, 1 million dollars. That had to be hard.

Dont worry, I will read you guide 100 times, spend 8 hours a day, adopt, adapt and innovate till were both bringing in more money then ever :upsidedow

The only thing I need to workon is judging the value of the domains im trying for, so I can perfect my sales pitch to them :2 cents:

I believe it was stolen .. and it took something like 3 years for the company to get it back ..during that time the guy that stole it made 6 million from the domain traffic ... the judge put an estimated value on the URL of $40 million as a biz ... not bad . :thumbsup

You really have 1M$ to spend on a domain name ?

offer him 50!

:)

50........

DomBuyer,

email reply sent w/ Q re: Walter

I don't think he does :2 cents:

He must be joking in order to get views and sell his sig next month, he already made a thread looking for sponsors for his sig.

I see your point - but I've been able to turn deals in person that I've never would have been able to turn via phone, email, or IM

Its worth a shot - whats the worst that can happen a couple of wasted days for the effort :2 cents: :)

Well, yea, if I sell my cherished Coke sign and my Air Jordon collection. :thumbsup

C'mon Polish. Ya' turn on me as soon as I want to get paid? :upsidedow

:banana :banana :pimp :pimp

oh no... not the shoes. :1orglaugh

I'm sure you have the money to back up your offers. And trying to sell your sig is not a sign that you're desperate for money... it's just means you want more of it. :thumbsup

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The problem you run into dealing with owners of the big one word domains is that they often assess the "value potential" instead of the "current market value" when determining what they want for one of their gems.

Potential is the keyword and you'll hear stuff like "well that name has the potential to be worth tens of millions when its branded and fully developed."

And they are right to an extent. There are only a handful of companies out there though with the marketing resources to take a domain into the stratosphere.

I know several domain guys who think they are already Billionaires. And if you look at all the names they've got you'd say yep that portfolio has the "potential" to be worth a billion one day. Again "potential". Its not there yet because despite the immense wealth of the top several hundred domainers, none that I can see have the individual financial resources and people resources to take their portfolio from PPC landing pages to the fully developed and fully worldwide marketed level.

So there are some people with a bunch of good names that are just sitting on them instead of developing them.

This "sexy.com" domain being talked about would you sell it for a million if it was yours?

but sometimes meeting in person will help you seal the deal, other times it can backfire... seller may pre-judge you based on too many factors... may think you don't have money (scam?), or that you have too much money (moneybags?), etc... but sometimes it's worth the risk to meet up with them.

one example: PRO

we recently acquired a large blog network of sites + hundreds of targeted blog domains... and it was only because we used a two-prong attack... my partner (in the blog venture) met the seller for dinner and I spent nearly 12 hours on the phone after their meeting negotiating w/ the seller and secured the deal before our competition (M.C.) had a chance to wake up...they were planning on signing a deal at Noon. It was grueling but exciting. I do not think we could've closed the deal without first meeting the seller to show we were serious with contracts & money in hand. Our competitors have more funding then us because they are backed by a billionaire, but we took the extra step of meeting with seller the night before they were signing contracts and we made the seller an offer he could not refuse: win/win. And considering the value of blog domains right now, we're very happy with the deal. They were quite a few 5-6 figure domains in that portfolio. Funny part is we contacted him about 1 domain and was trying to beg him to separate it from his portfolio, but after seeing his whole portfolio and seeing who we were up against, we ended up acquiring the whole thing because we did not want our competitors to own these domains. :drinkup

another example: PRO

Another time, I refused to sell a domain name to a buyer from Iceland and then I got a phone call from the buyer saying he really had to have the domain and was going to personally bring me a contract+check... I laughed at him... but when I received a local phone call from him later that week and met with him (I brought a bodyguard just in case. LOL), we both got what we wanted. I signed the contract and he gave me the check. I was impressed by his persistence, determination and could see & feel that the offer was real.

last example: CON

Another time, I sent an email offer for a domain. I did not know the seller, or anything about him, but he had a domain I had to have to complement another domain I just acquired. After negotiating with seller over the phone and via email, I had no idea the seller knew exactly who I was, had seen me clubbing with my friends many times, met me before, possibly partied with us, etc... he judged me and re-priced his domain accordingly based on what he believed I was willing to spend taken many factors into account and other bullshit assumptions (most were true :)). A domain that should've cost me 1X cost me 5X because the seller had me pegged and met me before. LOL. He made it very clear he knew who I was and that my offer was generous but way too low considering it was coming from me and he was charging much more BECAUSE he met me. In the end, I still bought the domain but learned my lesson... always remain in stealth mode... always... even if meeting them in person.

...I've got a few more stories, but I'm saving them for my blog/book. :)

in a heartbeat.

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I would at a $1 Mil. Its a great name, but like I said in my post, without massive marketing investment, its just a great name and that is all.

I'd take the $1 million for sure... but then again I do not own sexy.com

Give me the one million and I will go buy it for you! :thumbsup

I would ... anytime .

very easy to do branding ... open a really big lingery shop in there ... make couple ads . easy to remember

sexy.com is extremely brandable and an amazing type-in. lol @ whoever said it didn't have marketing appeal. you won't be making a million dollars anytime soon.

it does not seem like walter's style to give you rights of publicity on gfy?

Wow Sexy.com is worth $1mil

man I have no idea what domains are worth because that seems a very good deal;-)

someone go reg sexy.jpn.com. it's worth atleast 5k

no, I wouldn't have turned down the million for sexy.com

Dombuyer, after reading all the domain threads lately, we've decided to get an appraisal on blowout.com
(not viewable browser side btw)
now I'll go back in the other thread and find the name of those websites for doing that lol

Take along a Luca Brasi, if you meet in person. :ak47:

Michael: ...Well when Johnny was first starting out, he was signed to this contract with a big-band leader. And as his career got better and better he wanted to get out of it. Now, Johnny is my father's godson. My father went to see the bandleader, with a contract for $10,000 to let Johnny go, but the bandleader said no. So the next day, my father went to see the bandleader again, only this time with Luca Brasi. Within an hour, the bandleader signed the release, with a certified check of $1000.

Kay Adams: How did he do that?

Michael: My father made him an offer he couldn't refuse.

Kay Adams: What was it?

Michael: Luca Brasi held a gun to his head, and my father assured the bandleader, that either his signature or his brains would be on the contract.

(from "The Godfather")

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ooops, wrong thread...

I don't think its worth a mil.

How much would swingers.com be worth ?

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I'd take the million bucks in a heartbeat and invest it.

See sig...time running out!