Sold Names

17 Responses to “Sold Names”

1. Steve Morales on June 11th, 2008 10:49 pm
   

   Very Nice Rick! I agree, this would make a very nice portfolio. Great names, and I am sure there are many more impressive sales to come from your portfolio. I will hit you up this weekend.
2. Anthony Lam on June 11th, 2008 11:19 pm
   

   That is a portfolio of a lifetime right there. All I can say is it must be REALLY good to be Rick Latona!
3. Kariander on June 12th, 2008 3:07 am
   

   SkiResorts.com is the amazing one.
   Care to share how to achieve such a magnificent sale ?
4. ViralKing Dot Com on June 12th, 2008 4:04 am
   

   Awesome portfolio, Will you announce your total income from sales at some stage too? That would be great to see.
5. bryan on June 12th, 2008 12:15 pm
   

   The list of area codes alone is a small fortune. As a resident of northeast Florida, I really hate to see SaintAugstine.com sold and then parked.
6. Mike on June 12th, 2008 12:38 pm
   

   ridiculous list

   rick-

   are you the orig owner for the majority of the names listed?

   thx,

   mike
7. Ethan on June 12th, 2008 1:54 pm
   

   Those are some superb names.

   Would any experienced domainers (Rick and others) be so kind as to answer a hypothetical question?
   Imagine you were thinking of getting started with domaining now, with the goal of making a living through selling domain names. If you only had $1000 to initially invest, knowing all you know about the domain industry, would you take the plunge?

   I know it’s become somewhat cliche and maybe it’s my pessimistic side speaking, but in the large scale it seems to me that “most of the great names are already taken,” and it will probably be exponentially more difficult to make a living buying and selling domain names starting now with only $1000 to work with compared to already being an established domainer like Rick. Correct me if I am wrong, but does it not seem like “the rich get richer” in the domaining industry?
8. Greg Nelson on June 13th, 2008 12:24 am
   

   @Ethan - you need vision. Most likely, you will waste your initial $1000 in the learning curve of figuring out which drop names actually have value and those that should never have been reg’d. But, you are not without hope. I believe the difference between you and someone like Rick is Zeros and Dollar returns that you look at versus percent returns, which make the equation equal again.

   If you have $1000 and can pick up 20 solid dropped names (be selective as it is clear you have a limited budget, you will find good ones for this or less with patience) and you can sell all of them for $100 each, would you be happy with a $1000 gain? It is 100% ROI.

   You have to know what you are buying and what you are reselling. We get many domains on drops that we have offers for $500-$2500. It is dumb luck to get a drop and sell it for 6-figures. Not impossible, but not what you should be thinking either.

   To start and learn, I would consider 1 or 2 strategies…bet it all on 1-2 domains (no my choice) or bet on many, market them, sell them - with any profit, stay active, learn. Patience and knowing when to sell seem to be huge keys in this business. Knowing what to buy though is step 1 - you can learn much of this from reading the solid domainer blogs and sites.
9. Parminder on June 13th, 2008 6:26 am
   

   Wow - what a list! Great foresight, in hindsight.
10. Mike on June 13th, 2008 7:18 am
    

    @ethan:
    i’m sure it is very difficult to make a living simply buying/selling domain names (i won’t be quitting my day job any time soon) - but i will say there are many opportunities out there - do your research, select a niche and your $1k investment will pay dividends, imo.

    the rich do get richer but it’s not just the domain industry (real estate, hedge funds, etc)
11. Bruno F. on June 13th, 2008 3:19 pm
    

    Very nice list of names indeed. How many out of the list were you the original owner?
12. Bill on June 13th, 2008 4:58 pm
    

    Congrats Rick, those are some GREAT names!
13. Ethan on June 14th, 2008 3:11 am
    

    @Greg:
    Thanks for sharing perspective. You are right about my narrow vision. One of my goals is to become better at evaluating a domain’s value, and agree that besides me reading domainer blogs and researching previous domain name sales, I’ll have to actually get out there and try buying and reselling domains myself. Perhaps a $1000 learning experience is worth it. Who’s to say that I will lose it all anyways
14. Mak Ossa on June 16th, 2008 9:37 am
    

    Hi Rick, Those are nice domains, and I agree with some of the posters above who are asking how much the names cost. At least to have a ballpack figure - just to have some idea on pricing. Or some of the sellers are afraid of IRS ? ah! Seriously the figs would be helpful..
15. Scott Fish on June 16th, 2008 10:31 am
    

    Great list of names that you’ve Sold Rick. I look forward to seeing your sales emails just to see what’s in your portfolio. Nice job on creating your own sales channel!
16. Puranjay Singh on June 16th, 2008 12:00 pm
    

    I usually never read any domaining blogs. I find most of the big industry players too full of themselves to even consider seriously. Many of them have ridden to where they are by exploiting typos and tms.

    I find your views, however, the most refreshing of any domainer I know. Yours is an interesting blog….and I’ll definitely be back here
17. Frank on July 16th, 2008 2:08 am
    

    I concur with you P Singh. You read about these “great gurus” of domaining and a simple cursory search shows most of their original/current income came/comes from 1/ PPC traffic on the massive numbers of typo domains they have 2/ using the typo revenue to build their premium domain portfolio.

    Do a search on google.cm <– note the missing o. Yeah, that’s the game they play. Their game makes so much money that even Bill gates would be envious. That’s why they can drop 10 million on a domain and not think twice about parking it to make 0.01% ROI.

    Don’t let their “I made money selling/developing premium domains” talk fool you. In 20 years, a couple of these typo kings are going to be richer than bill gates.

    For those new to the game; there is still immense opportunity for those who can create value for the end user. Develop one good idea and you can make more than someone with 100,000 parked sites.

    I like Ricks site, he says it like it is.

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