Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm(elliotsblog.com)
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Domaining - Insure.com sells for $16mm
http://www.elliotsblog.com/insure-com-sells-for-16-million-7361
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you should go through a list of companies with WW in them and start pitching them to buy your company + domain. Get them to do an auction to drive up the price
Weight Watchers
WW Grainger, Inc
William Wrigley Jr. Company
Watson Wyatt Worldwide
W_____ W____ _________This first part is pretty obvious, I have a long list of such names, but I'm not sure how to go about an actual sale, the auction sounds like a good idea, thank you!
Look for the email I just sent you if you're interested in trying to get it auctioned off.
Could you tell me too, please? A friend of mine has asked me to help him sell a three character .com domain name and I don't know how. What do you think it would go for?
I know that Moniker does this exact kind of auctions. You could just start at http://domainauctions.moniker.com/how_to_sell and try to find them through their website. Or email my user name at gmail.com and I can ask internally (they are owned by the same company that owns my employer) for who you can get in contact with there behind the scenes. Of course I may be told that people are supposed to go through the website, though that is less likely if the domain name is a really good one. :-)
Thank you!
what do you have?
edit: oh, ya ww.com! How on earth did you pick that up? I thought two letter .coms were reserved.
edit: oh, ya ww.com! How on earth did you pick that up? I thought two letter .coms were reserved.
> How on earth did you pick that up?
I paid a boatload of money for it. It's actually a funny story because 'weight watchers' wanted it too and I was just a bit quicker. They had to have a few meetings to get the deal done and the seller was under quite a bit of pressure, I was ready cash in hand so I got it.
> I thought two letter .coms were reserved.
One letter domains are, two letter domains are just like any other.
I paid a boatload of money for it. It's actually a funny story because 'weight watchers' wanted it too and I was just a bit quicker. They had to have a few meetings to get the deal done and the seller was under quite a bit of pressure, I was ready cash in hand so I got it.
> I thought two letter .coms were reserved.
One letter domains are, two letter domains are just like any other.
has the domain made a difference to your website?
can I have [email protected]?
can I have [email protected]?
It basically generates a continuous stream of new people to the site that we can sell to. When we bought it camarades.com was on the way out, ww.com was launched first as a generalized webcam search engine, then we merged the 'corpse' of camarades.com and ww.com together and blew new life in to it. It has made some serious money since then. But I am kind of tired of the whole webcam thing.
Sure you can have [email protected], but please note two things:
- if the domain ever sells I can't guarantee that the buyer would let you keep that address
- you need a good spam filter because short emails are used plenty of time for people in 'bugmenot' situations
Where do you want the mail forwarded to ?
Sure you can have [email protected], but please note two things:
- if the domain ever sells I can't guarantee that the buyer would let you keep that address
- you need a good spam filter because short emails are used plenty of time for people in 'bugmenot' situations
Where do you want the mail forwarded to ?
pinged you an email (my email is peter /at] broadersheet.com - if you could forward it there?) also be good to connect via email anyway :)
Anybody interested in a nice two letter domain for a fraction of that ;) ?