Sold a domain for 10k and its now a godaddy holding page

[AdminAdmin is verified member.]

One of my highlight sales was a few years back when I sold resveratrol.info for 10,000 usd. It was free to reg not long before i sold it. The buyer offered 5k quite quick and so I thought ...well he really wants it so Im holding out for 10k. He agreed subject to me building a website with 10 pages of unique content and then doing a quantifiable amount of SEO. I sub-contracted the writing for a couple hundred bucks. I then charged for hosting lol for years. He put affiliate banners all over the site and Im pretty sure he made a profit on the deal, he was getting some really good traffic volumes. Its now a godaddy holding page! Funny old game.

 

[dnauctions]

Always good to look back on things years later and see what they are doing now.

My very first domain sale was simplefruit.com but only for a few hundred dollars. Yet that domain has never been used, and still has a coming soon site up.

 

[ian]

Sure is, a certain domain I sold for high 4 figures still links back to the same auction page 18 months later.

 

[bluerockbluerock is verified member.]

I sold a high £xx,xxx website 10 years ago. After a few years they didn't use it anymore and let the domain lapse recently. It dropped and got caught.
The domain is still relevant as well.

It got sold on Domainlore for £1k ish Strange world!

 

[ELIFE-MZELIFE-MZ is verified member.]

Sold one in June 2014 for £20K ... it took them 2 years and half a dozen reminders to change the nameservers. Just checked, its pointing to 123reg holding page. Similar story to above .. sold 1 for £10k, they forgot to renew it and it sold for around £500 on domainlore. Its back in their name so it looks like they paid for it again the second time.

 

[Adam HAdam H is verified member.]

Similar to @bluerock I've sold sites in £xx,xxx ranges, the owners either never touch again or let the domains expire a year or two later. I assume its a tax thing, let the milk run dry to claw some cash back from the existing revenue while it lasts and then consider it a viable write off. Madness to me, but then again I'm not made of money, and im as tight as old boots

 

[bluerockbluerock is verified member.]

Similar thing but smaller scale. I caught Shackleton co.uk yesterday 2 years after selling it for nearly £700 on Sedo.

Welcome back

 

[matmat is verified member.]

I sold a domain name to someone who ended up in prison. It expired.

 

[EdwinEdwin is verified member.]

Odd, isn’t it? I know of dozens and dozens of domains that have been very successfully developed, but our 3 largest sales either don’t resolve, or resolve to parking pages. Seems like something of a trend...

 

[BREWSTERS]

I sold a domain name to someone who ended up in prison. It expired.

This gentleman...was he in a French prison by any chance?

 

[dog]

None of this makes sense to me.

I'm not a big and stupid company though.

Sold one in June 2014 for £20K ... it took them 2 years and half a dozen reminders to change the nameservers. Just checked, its pointing to 123reg holding page. Similar story to above .. sold 1 for £10k, they forgot to renew it and it sold for around £500 on domainlore. Its back in their name so it looks like they paid for it again the second time.

Similar to @bluerock I've sold sites in £xx,xxx ranges, the owners either never touch again or let the domains expire a year or two later. I assume its a tax thing, let the milk run dry to claw some cash back from the existing revenue while it lasts and then consider it a viable write off. Madness to me, but then again I'm not made of money, and im as tight as old boots

Odd, isn’t it? I know of dozens and dozens of domains that have been very successfully developed, but our 3 largest sales either don’t resolve, or resolve to parking pages. Seems like something of a trend...