Give me a huge name, a $100,000 to $10,000,000 name to sell for you at TRAFFIC Las Vegas. I am looking for a challenge.
I’ve told my staff that if I devoted my time to it I could get any name sold. Challenge me! Submit your incredible category killer domain name to me personally and let me take on the cause.
Challenge me so I can show them why I have the big office.
Please don’t post the name here. Submit the name through my contact form or through the submission form on TRAFFIC’s website.
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Here’s a challenge for you, Rick. Take one of my not so “category killer” names and sell it for $XX,XXX to $XXX,XXX…Now that would really, really be showin’ em! *lol*
Amy, I agree..I say take a “reg fee” domain and shop it around for even low $x,xxx. That will impress us more then an already good domain that could be had at anytime for a large price.
Or take a good .us and sell it for $20,000
Thats the only thing that will impress me
1 of my names to be precise
Good luck.
lol, you guys want Rick to see if he can sell a turd instead of a diamond for big bucks?
Why put the poor guy through that?
Eh, why not? He DID say ANY name, hehe.
Selling a turd is a bigger challenge than selling a diamond.
Why would it be a challenge to sell a huge .com name, Rick?
I have some “category killer” .tels. Why don’t you take on that challenge? I would be TOTALLY impressed, as would everyone else.
You guys are pretty harsh! If it was easy to sell great .com names for bunches of money than most would have done it already. It is always a challenge, trust me.
As for selling hand regs and .tel names for a boat load, let’s be a little realistic please. For one thing, I’m a business man and it has to be worth my time to take on the challenge.
Either way, thank you for the comments.
No harshness intended, Rick, just thought I’d up the ante and throw a real challenge into the ring for you. Good luck with your category killers
Challenge accepted, and contact form filled out. I will post an update of the results, if comments are still open for this thread. Note to the wise-guys: The domains in question are not “edge” cases specifically designed to defeat the challenge… they are interesting .com (mostly) names, some dating back to 1997.
Rick,
Is it supposed to be .com only or any other extension like .net is acceptable?
Hi Rick,
Here’s a little rant about how I’d like to see somebody take on the challenge of selling really high-end names. It’ll only work on an expensive name because this process is too expensive to be warranted on anything less than a seven-figure deal.
– do marketing first (what’s the problem that this generic name solves, what’s the profile/motivation of the best end-user buyers of such a name?)
– build a “book” about the name that makes the end-user business-case (from the perspectives of finance, ops, marketing, sales, revenue, profit, etc)
– identify the individual decision-makers in the top 20-100 companies that would be prospects for the name
– send copies of the book to those people, with a promise to follow up soon with a phone call
– have a gaggle of smart/articulate folks call up those suspects with the goal of finding the 3-8 qualified prospects for the name (“qualified” = company is interested, they have the money, decision-making is not going to get in the way, they want to act soon, etc.)
– go into “broker” mode — bring those 3-8 prospects together and conduct an auction with the goal of getting the best price for the domain
As a seller, I’m willing to incent you to get the best price rather than the quickest payoff, we just have to figure out an incentive structure that will do that.
Want to take a crack at this? How about one of these names?
*names edited out by Rick
You want a true challenge? Sell one of my domain hack for +100K and you get to have 50% of the end price plus the price for best domain innovator of the year.
Well, selling a cat killer is also a challenge. How many of you (including me) could have succeeded in selling Candy.com for 3million PLUS?
It’s an art not science. Rick thinks he has mastered it and now want to prove it!
Rick, check my portfolio and if you find one then let me know.
tks
I do realize that you see no value in the .tv extension, but I throw out this challenge to you at any rate because I myself see potential in these select names that I will submit to you under contact form.
These names fit the extension to a high degree and should you have any serious media connections may actually find some that have interest in them.
Should this be too challenging for you at this time I definitely will understand as I intend to maintain these names for as long as it may take.
Thanks for the offer either way and I wish you a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to you and yours.
Ken
rick how about a cctld , .es name maybe?
.es domains are really kicking in hard and have revalorized itself the last year in 30%
And spanish businesses are starting to be aware of this vehicle more and more everyday.
and dont forget the com.es , last weeks apuestas.com.es sold on SEDO around 60 K USD !!
Hi Rick,
Just submitted my challenge a great .com for a mobile video website.
Take a look and contact me if this is a challenge you can get done.
i also submitted a couple of domains. Let’s see what you can do!
Rick, if you can sell my brandable .com domain to Akio Toyoda for at least x,xxx,xxx and 2 more category killer cctld’s, yes, 50% is all yours. i’m not kidding.
Rick, if you can sell my wife I’ll give you 50%. She is very ugly though.
Candy.com didn’t even sell for $3m in cash. Rev share plus the $3m paid OVER TIME. That is how hard it is to sell a category killer – that you can’t get buyers to pay upfront for huge names. Rick is in for a challenge…it is not easy. That is why deals like Candy.com aren’t what they seem. Buyers do not want to shell out $3m in cash right away and sellers do not want to give up the name. That is why they need to come up with creative deals like candy.com where the seller can claw back the name if things don’t work out. Similar thing happened with property.com and it is a good thing the “price” wasn’t published.
One category killer .com domain submitted through your contact form (no way to tell if the contact actually got submitted, so I’m assuming it worked).
I sent you one through your contact form Rick… might have twisted potential.
Thanks
Glad to see you are taking on a challenge like this, Rick!
Submitted 3 category killer .com’s for you through your contact form. What would be particularly impressive if you chose one of these names is that while they are literally category killing domain names (i.e., HomeBusinessOpportunities.com), they are on the longer side. Yet they define their industries exactly.
Hope you’re willing to take one of mine on in your challenge. It would be a way to do a category killing domain name that would also be viewed as ‘extra impressive’ (as the comments on this post reflect the community seems to want to see). LOL
Either way, I am excited to see the results that you are sure to get from this personal challenge!
Rick, I sent you a message in your contact form page.
I just hope it worked since it cleared the form when I clicked send.
Happy Holidays Rick and good luck with this new challenge.
Hello Rick. While most posters seem determined to manipulate you into some course other than your stated one, I’d rather just submit a name and take my chances.
I’m not clear whether you’re willing to look at multiple names but have listed a few anyway. You obviously have the options of only considering the top one, versus looking at them all,
Here goes and good luck
Carl
realrealties.com
mobilerealties.com
101toppings.com
3ggay.com
4grx.com (4th generation wireless research or recipe or prescription)
bankcetera.com
drugcetera.com
biolithics.com
biotechcetera.com
chemicality.com
cougarcougar.com
ebankcity.com
enzymagic.com (biotech)
I’ll stop here, rather than wearing out my welcome, Rick.