What is the highest cost/profit ratio you have obtained from a domain ?

[NameWolf]

Question ;

Do we always need to pay top dollars for good names ?

Have you ever acquired a great name for a low dollar value and sold it to an end user or a reseller at a value which was costx50 or costx100 ?

Thanks for sharing.

NW

 

[jane118]

bought a .info couple of months ago at ev1 for $5.00
Sold on sedo for 700 Euros

 

[GT Web]

I bought a name for $100 DNF and sold it for $100 USD, thats the best 1:1 ratio ever, haha

 

[darrenl]

Registered for $8 sold for $250

 

[sasquatch]

In spring of 2000, I registered "HollywoodLifestyle dot com" for $15 Canadian.

In late summer of 2000, sold it for $ 1,000 US.

And, I wasn't even into it, like I am now.

Interestly enough, the domain was purchased by Stan Lee Media (Stan Lee is founder of Marvel Comics and creator of Spiderman & Hulk) but I didn't wanna push my luck and ask for more and riks to turn them off, as I wasn't so sure that the name is that great.

Sure enough, months later the name expired. They never did anything with it.

P.S.

Bought myself a nice, cushy, one of them great-for-your-back king size beds. Still sleeping on it.

Thanks for "sweet dreams", Stan.

 

[insomnia]

Registered 4 domain names at $8.88, made me $800 with adsense in a few months.

Best investment ever

 

[RMF]

Got a domain through snapnames back when they cost $35..or maybe $45. (Can't remember). 6 months later I sold it for 12k back to the company that USE to own it

What's funny is that the company still hasn't done anything with it.

RMF

 

[Jack Gordon]

sold a $35 snap for $1500, and two $8 namewinners for another $1000 all in one transaction.

 

[Bob]

$10 registration sold for $10,000 three weeks later.

-Bob

 

[TexasFilly]

nice Bob.. what name, if you don't mind sharing..

 

[Bob]

nice Bob.. what name, if you don't mind sharing..

StaffordLoans.com

Sold to FinancialAid.com. :bandit:

Also had these:

$10 to $1300
$10 to $3500
$100 to $2500

And cannot forget the famous $1 Staples / Register.com deal. I picked one up there for $1 and sold it for $1000.

-Bob

 

[cyphix]

Hand-regged a .org & first time I promoted it to end-users had several interested parties & sold it for $1100 but most likely would have got more from one of the others but didn't wanna lose the sale.

Also, godaddy backordered a name the night of the drop & sold for $675 a week later.

 

[NameWolf]

Well once again all the above experiences show that there are a lot of gems out there and you do not need a killer bankroll to get results in this industry.

Thank you for sharing your experiences folks, keep them coming.

Regards,

NW

 

[stuff]

reg one .net for $6.95 and sold it for $1400

 

[yesonline]

Regged one with $7.1 and sold it for $6k 10 months later last year.

 

[NameTower]

i think time is a major factor in transactions

8k to 18k 2 days
3k to 6k 1 day
4k to 13k 1 week
$5 to $250 a week
2k to 5k 1 week
$250 to $1250 2 hours

way more though

just too lazy to think em all up

 

[Togoodhlth]

Reg'd one for $8 and sold it for $5000
Reg'd one for $8 and sold for $7500
Those are my two best profit percentage wise.

 

[DotLeader]

i dont really buy and sell domains much
so my highest is $120 - 2k

but have lots of domains on PPC ready to make a few thousand a year each

 

[NameTower]

people with the $8 regs and high sales bear in mind that I registered my first domain just over 6 months ago

Is it fair to assume these were sales during/before the 2000 bust?

 

[beatz]

Bought wwf.com through Namewinner for $8.75 and sold it for waaay more :-D

Still the buyer got an unbelievable bargain - i wish i would have never sold it.