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tranxo:
Testimony time. Alert just entered. Jesus thank you!

3 word USA geo domain (real estate industry)

Bought at Netsol for $1 on Dec. 23 2018 and set BIN $2,300 on Undeveloped

Outbounded on 26th night to more than 20 end users (Facebook and direct email)

Woke up around 3am on Dec. 27th to see an offer of $1,500

I immediately countered $2,000

Buyer countered $1,500 again and said (Unfortunately that's as high as I can go. Thank you for the consideration.)

I come think am. Sleep no gree come again. I say weda to use delay tactics. My church mind tell me say I dey greedy. $1500!!!

I accept fasssssttttt!!!Dec 27th

The waiting game don start be that.

I took the liberty to search the buyer on Facebook. Saw her and noticed she is a very big realtor in that particular real estate subniche I targeted. (Meanwhile name was gotten from Expireddomains)

I added her as a friend and introduced myself. (Reason for this was to get her to know I am real ..... probably worked)

She was on vacation so communication was hell. But I kept communicating. Answering her many questions about her being skeptical about Undeveloped as a trustworthy company, transfer process, how she will get the domain etc.

This went on till Dec 31st when the buyer sent me a mail from Undeveloped that almost gave me heart attack LOL.

Undeveloped in their payment reminder to her spelt the domain name (the name of the city) wrongly TWICE in the same mail. Chai.

She said her trust don vanish that professionals cannot make such a mistake. Wahala. My brain went into overdrive.

I had to allay her fears by letting her understand that Undeveloped being a European country may sometimes get foreign names wrong. I agreed with her that it was unprofessional and that I will contact Undeveloped to correct the mistake.

She was happy.

I contacted Undeveloped and apologies were poured out with promises to rectify the issue.

I purposely didn't bombard buyer with mails so that she will not feel too pressured and back off, but I remember asking her when she intended to pay, cos with the landing page showing "Domain Sold", I may lose other prospects.

She totally understood my concerns and said she was on vacation and cannot do much until she gets back home. That if I want to back off from the deal she will understand...WHAAAATTT!!! Back off wetin!!! God forbid. I told her I will wait ooo.

Undeveloped sent second payment reminder to her on Jan 3.

Buyer assumed that she will pay extra VAT and started developing cold feet.

Those current with Namepros will remember the thread where Undeveloped explained thoroughly their VAT methods.

I smiled and explained the much I can to her that since she is from outside Europe, she won't have to pay any VAT. I also told her that I will tell Undeveloped to explain this to her. Undeveloped did and everyone was happy. LOL

Friday Jan 4th buyer paid. Praise God!

Undeveloped contacted me for domain transfer. Which I completed later in the day. But it was until Monday 7th that Undeveloped acknowledged it (they don't communicated weekends from my experience).

However, it was only on last Wednesday Jan. 9th that they sent the money ($1,365) to my dom account. They said ordinarily they ought to have sent it out within 1 business day from the time buyer paid, but because it was my first transaction, they had to make sure of certain things. They also rejected my request for Bitcoin payout because of the same reason. I can however request for Bitcoin payout from my second transaction.

Wire transfer takes 3-5 business days to hit your account.

Today is the 3rd day. Alert received around 1pm.

I had to write this long epistle not just our of joy, but to chronicle what it looks like dealing with Undeveloped.

Some sales may go smoother than mine, but this goes to show that if I never thought of searching this buyer on Facebook, probability of losing this sale would be high.

I registered 12 names with the $1 promo. Praying and hoping few more in same real estate subniche (sorry - won't reveal it for now) will sell.

As a newbie, and still learning. Try and target cities with population above 100,000

If you are searching your keyword on Google for endusers, if you see adverts appearing at the top of the serach engine results, that's a good sign that people want that keyword. So an enduser may like to have an EMD as his/her domain name.

Another tip. If you are setting your filters on Expireddomains, under Additional tab, at the bottom, tick the box that says Facebook Taken

It will show you domains that have Facebook Pages with the same names. For instance, if it lists lagosvetservices .com, it means you MAY see a Facebook Page with the handle @lagosvetservices

It doesn't always work but when it does, it is a plus. Just check if the FB Page is active. If the business has a website. Even if it has a website that goes by another/similar name, the business MAY want to own a name that matches their FB Page.

$1 promo give us a lot of room to lower our risks.

Meanwhile my alert says $1,345 instead of $1,365. I guess $20 has gone towards unexplained bank charges. Different story with different companies. When I sold some names on Namejet last year, I got the exact amount in my dom account.

Nothing spoil. To God be the Glory. More sales to us all!

PS: any typo? Pardon. Too happy to proofread. LOL.

39th like damn! people are no reading this thread.... keep the testimony coming ooo

paulsir:
congrats @ tranxo, I don't know geo domain can make x,Bleep. I thought its in a range of lower Bleep. Time to up my game is now.

CaliforniaEggDonors dot com sold for $999 by me, it was a hand reg... if the niche is hot and HIGH CPC, it could work...

congrats @Tranxo.

Lordbellish:
Hello Nairalanders, please I'm in serious Situation right now... There's this girl (my girl friend) that I proposed to, she accepted that we will spend the rest of our lives together..

But there's this thing I noticed about her, strange numbers (men) do call her and they call in odd times (late nights and early morning)...

I have asked her, why will she give out her number to any random man that demands for her number and she will boldly answer the call... I'm just so tired of this calling of a thing.

what should I do

I love her and I want to marry her. we have even fixed date for wine carrying

I have sat her down countless time telling her that I'm not comfortable with that call stuff but she just won't stop.

I came late...

but let me drop my message... postpone the introduction and watch her. That girl never ready to marry ooo. bros, better start looking elsewhere.

What can you learn from this sales?

Top 100 brandable domain name sales for 2018
January 9, 2019 Doron Vermaat brandable domains
Four years ago I compiled a list of the top 100 brandable domain name sales during 2014 which planted the seed for a weekly blog series on the highest, reported, brandable domain name sales all throughout 2015, 2016, 2017 and now 2018. Based on more than 1000 reported brandables sales this year I have once again compiled a list of the top 100 brandable domain name sales for 2018.

The criteria for inclusion in the list remain the same as previous years.

No numeric domains
Dotcom only
No 2L & 3L domains (as they are a breed on their own)
No one-word dictionary domains (in any language). This means the sale of Hora.com is not included for example as it’s the Spanish word for Hour.
Unless a word has an alternative spelling such as No 98 on the list, Chipz.com
No 4-letter acronyms unless they are pronounceable and used as a brand name instead of an acronym (many examples of those on this list!)
Two keyword domains can qualify. No 47, MoneySmart.com, for example, is a brandable domain name while MoneyLender.com would not have made this list.
Variation on words are allowed, such as No 1, Jobster.com
The 100 biggest sales this year account for $3,079,880 in sales compared to
$4,516,680 in 2017, $3,343,894 in 2016, $3,168,440 in 2015 and $2,989,652 in 2014.

Sedo is the dominating sales venue this year claiming 50% of all sales on the list with Uniregistry as the runner-up, accounting for 23% of sales. Unfortunately, Afternic, GoDaddy, Undeveloped and niche marketplaces such as BrandBucket and BrandRoot.com do not share sales data and sales made through platforms such as Efty remain private unless a seller decides to report a sale to DNJournal or NameBio.

Here’s this years list:

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Domain Name Price Where
Jobster.com $200,000 Sedo
CryptoWorld.com $195,000 DomainMarket
Mappa.com $127,400 Sedo
DollarCity.com $90,000 DomainMarket
MyVid.com $75,000 Uniregistry
BetterFuture.com $65,000 DomainMarket
Looka.com $65,000 Sedo
Hubi.com $63,000 Uniregistry
TotalDesign.com $60,000 DomainMarket
YCoin.com $50,000 Sedo
SportLine.com $50,000 Sedo
Okdo.com $45,850 Sedo
UniMoney.com $45,011 Uniregistry
ViaOne.com $45,000 Afternic
Homi.com $40,000 Uniregistry
Finx.com $40,000 Sedo
Zamp.com $39,997 Uniregistry
DuoLab.com $38,280 Sedo
StoryKids.com $37,500 XYNames.com
Hemper.com $36,150 DropCatch
HappyMath.com $35,000 Sedo
Ooni.com $35,000 Sedo
Viomi.com $30,716 DropCatch
Skinte.com $30,000 DomainMarket
KnowYourMoney.com $30,000 Sedo
SecureChain.com $30,000 Sedo
Aumo.com $29,990 Uniregistry
DotData.com $29,888 Sedo
Ulao.com $29,000 Uniregistry
BlockSize.com $28,600 Sedo
Payen.com $28,250 Sedo
eKing.com $28,000 Sedo
Esenses.com $27,999 Sedo
eFounders.com $27,500 Sedo
Kugga.com $26,888 DomainMarket
CannaClub.com $26,722 GoDaddy
CamTrack.com $26,000 Sedo
Mopa.com $25,000 Uniregistry
Primon.com $24,700 Sedo
BetterLove.com $22,500 Uniregistry
Stayable.com $22,499 GenericDomainMarket
HomeCloud.com $22,250 GoDaddy
CoinLink.com $22,000 Sedo
IvyPay.com $22,000 Sedo
uMedia.com $21,250 GoDaddy
MoneySmart.com $21,100 NameJet
WellZone.com $20,500 Sedo
RedCoral.com $20,375 GoDaddy
iStyle.com $20,251 DropCatch
Ayde.com $20,118 Sedo
TopMall.com $20,050 GoDaddy
KiwiPlus.com $20,049 DropCatch
Cloudo.com $20,000 Undeveloped
MissMary.com $20,000 Sedo
GrabFood.com $20,000 Uniregistry
ConnectMedia.com $20,000 Uniregistry
Eligma.com $20,000 Uniregistry
FeelTheLove.com $20,000 Uniregistry
Qare.com $20,000 Uniregistry
RocketX.com $20,000 Uniregistry
CandyPay.com $20,000 Sedo
DirectBooks.com $20,000 Sedo
Usme.com $20,000 Lumis
Betiq.com $19,999 Sedo
Viagio.com $19,888 Sedo
LawLeader.com $19,888 Sedo
Hexacom.com $19,500 Sedo
Styrosoft.com $19,376 Sedo
ExpertMatch.com $19,000 Sedo
NinjaSports.com $19,000 Sedo
WePower.com $19,000 GoDaddy
Fiera.com $18,750 GoDaddy
LocalHero.com $18,720 Sedo
Equila.com $18,600 Sedo
Otravo.com $18,500 Sedo
CloudBasket.com $18,432 Sedo
Wiise.com $18,000 Sedo
VipMom.com $17,500 Sedo
Meia.com $17,338 GoDaddy
Esop.com $17,000 GoDaddy
Verway.com $16,950 Sedo
HiChat.com $16,800 Sedo
LittleBean.com $16,500 Uniregistry
CannaCorp.com $16,500 GoDaddy
Nuze.com $16,037 Uniregistry
MonkeyCasino.com $15,510 Sedo
Coba.com $15,500 Sedo
Muhu.com $15,200 NameJet
RushBet.com $15,009 Uniregistry
Silubi.com $15,000 Sedo
DoBox.com $15,000 Sedo
BlueChew.com $15,000 Sedo
PayClub.com $15,000 Sedo
Agila.com $15,000 Uniregistry
Bisq.com $15,000 Uniregistry
Carium.com $15,000 Uniregistry
Chipz.com $15,000 Uniregistry
MrFrosty.com $15,000 Uniregistry
Fidens.com $15,000 Sedo
Dynamind.com $15,000 Sedo

golamike:
Good morning domainers. Please I need help with my Gmail account. I got a message from Google last night that my account has been disabled Cos there was some activity done with it against Google's policy (spamming). This is the mail I use for my domaining bizz. Registered it with all the registrars I use and also use it for all my outbounding. The surprising thing is that I've done a few spamming tests with the email and passed all. I don't know why google still disabled the account. Please has anyone experienced this before? What could be done. I will appreciate prompt answers/suggestions please. Thanks

were you mass mailing?

Qulink1:
Morning fams,
I need your help
An enduser just messaged me this
*Hello,

please feel free to call me anytime in reference to this site domain name
How best can I reply cause this phonecall of a thing has cost me a sale sometimes ago.
Thanks so much
cc
Iykepromotions
Haykay2005
Expertix
Awesomeduru
Farouksenior
2sexycom
et all

follow HayKay2005 suggestion

africanman85:
My domain is showing €350 instead of $350 in undeveloped. That is euro instead of dollar. How do I correct that ?

lol.. euro is higher than dollar ooo. if na good domain and u know u can get offer, just leave am.

edeXede:
This is the new link netsol $1

https://www.networksolutions.com/network-solutions-domains.jsp?siteid=8&channelid=P99C8S570N0B9A1D38E0000V150&promo=PROMONA100PROMONUAQ99&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIwIahjJLb3wIV2FmGCh00cA54EAAYASAAEgI8yvD_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

Thanks.

edeXede:
New netsol $1 link

https://www.networksolutions.com/network-solutions-domains.jsp?siteid=8&channelid=P99C8S570N0B9A1D38E0000V150&promo=NACQ100&gclid=EAIaIQobChMIzJu4ouTC3wIVCsZkCh0wnQqEEAAYAiAAEgIDz_D_BwE&gclsrc=aw.ds

seems like the party is over again o. I am seeing $34.99 when i clicked

gabazin080:
I have heard people saying one has to love his kids equally or don't show it even if you love one more, but I find it hard to pretend .

I have 3 kids, a boy and twin girls. I love the 1st born more than the rest because he is a boy and love one of the twins more than the other.
I place the male as the number in the home even ahead of the mom. he is very smart for his age and resembles me 100 percent. and for the twins, I love the one that looks like my late mom and very smart than the other.


help I find it hard to love them equally or even pretend to love them equally and it's causing division in my home

That is very bad of you!

iykepromotion, can you put someone of these answered questions on the front page as FAQ? this will make information easily accessible.

Flexherbal:
When you hear of these billions, you will be asking yourself, where they spend the money.

If u come up with a nice proposal and irresistible product offer, you will eat out that money but bros, u need long leg to make that happen.

Heyzee5:
USE A PROFESSIONAL MAIL BRO. ENDUSERS WILL TAKE YOU MORE SERIOUSLY THAT WAY.
BUT MORE IMPORTANTLY, ENSURE YOU HAVE QUALITY DOMAIN NAMES TO OFFER........THEY WILL BE FORCED TO REPLY IF YOU ARE OFFERING THEM QUAITY NAMES EVEN IF YOU CONTACT THEM WITH A GMAIL A/C

it is not email that will make them take you serious bros. HayKay2008 said same thing a few post ago. if you domain no good, e no good be that bros... it is not email that will make them buy your email.

give me a good domain name, I will craft nice formal letter and outbound with a close deal sealed.

Atouke:
How many industries did Akpabio build in 8yrs?
How many jobs did Akpabio create in 8yrs?
Udom had built 15 functional manufacturing ventures in 3.5yrs with attendant jobs.

Akpabio did well with infrastructures. Udom is building on the foundation that Akpabio started.
Govt. Is a continuum. Lean to give credit where it is due.

If udom had the kind of money Akpabio had in his first 4 yrs the whole akwa ibo. Will have been dubai by now.

okay thanks for the education. I am not from there, neither do I live there. Akpabio did well, even though I do not like his recent romance with APC and I hope Akwa Ibomites do not give APC the chance to get hold of that state.

to be honest, Udom is far behind in terms of what Akpabio did in his first 4 years. This was exactly my worry when Akpabio was there; who will take over from him and do twice or as much has he did.

300wayne:
miamideliveryservices.com
sellstockphotography.com
nashvillemovingcompany.net
greencleancarpet.com
bostonjetcharter.com
ohioeggfarm.com
iowaeggs.com
Dailup.info
autotech247.com
Guys what do you think?
2sexy
Haykay
Otoboson
Promzy

I think you have gotten the hang of it, your domains are a bit okay, one or two things marred it for you, but even a good names end up not being sold in this business.... send out a few emails and see who bites. cheers.

DonX001:
So you don dey chop clean/green/sustainable energy money tey tey sef...lol. Its a good niche to be if you have good domain names there.

I absolutely agree with the bolded, though all join sha, yours is still a win even though its USA instead of US.
Cos once a niche becomes a hot cake/starts trending, every sensible name there will fetch you some good dough whether its US or USA. Though US will be definitely juicier.

sure bro. The domain name has dropped a couple of times based on my background checks.

Sirheny007:
Clearly, the side chick is more beautiful.


The wife is a fool for coming out to social media to rant about her marriage.
If you treated your husband well, he'd never have had a side chick.

so why did he marry if she wasn't as beautiful to his taste?

Tinyemeka:
Keep the shame please.

you are ignorant and you should get some education. it is not my fault if you can't do research despite having internet to cure your disease.

DonX001:
You don't have to flip it soon after buying o!
There are names I buy for the purpose of flipping (and quick returns), and there are some I buy to hold because I believe the value would go up very significantly as time progresses.

This is the kind of domain name I like to own, and keep for a long time.
Cos it will invariably get more and more valuable with time.
Because the world discussion is moving more and more towards clean energy, as the effects of global warming become more and more apparent.

Eventually names that have to do with clean energy, sustainable energy, and other global trends will become more and more valuable with time, even though it may appear not to be very valuable now.

Don't be surprised if in 5-10 years time you see a buyer appear from nowhere agreeing to pay tens of thousands of dollars for it, or even hundreds of thousands of dollars.

That's exactly how some of the names being sold for crazy sums today, looked like about 10years ago.

And what does it cost me? Patapata renewal frees of $7 a year with NameSilo, that's $70 for 10 years.

Summary:
As long as its a good name in a niche I see huge long term potential because of global trends, I wouldn't mind keeping it if it doesn't sell now.
In fact, I would actually prefer to hold on to it unless I see a really interesting offer right now.

sure bro. thanks for the insight. I am keeping it for long. I was only saying that right now it is not an easy sell...

besides I had already registered it before I posted it here I just wanted to see people's reactions to it and yes, there was a spike in visit when I posted it.

though USGreenEnergy.com was sold by me for low 4 figs I think.

USCleanEnergy.com would have been a better choice to own.

or USGreenPower.com

DonX001:
Hope you eventually regged this name. Its a nice domain, very nice IMO.

Yeah, I did. but not an easy sell. USACleanPower.com is registered till 2020

javaRookie:
I thought bots do ban for links?

it is not clickable without www. and that makes you immune to the ban.

Promxy94:
Yeap they own more of a autorepair or auto body

My mechanic domains are in autobody or autorepair

cool.

contact undeveloped to delete it for you.

iCauseTrouble:
Hello Guys. I bought a domain that expired yesterday and am trying to list it on undeveloped. But it is not successful because the former owner of the domain listed it there and has not deleted it. What can I do?

javaRookie:
sorry, my typos.
Dossierc/com

why use slash if it is site that will benefit everyone? u should have just typed Dossierc.com

lekemon:
DetroitMechanic dot com. Been trying to sell this for sometime now. Any heads up would be largely appreciated.

Americans don't say mechanic, they say Auto Repair. You will sell DetroitAutoRepair.com and DetroitMechanic.com will be gathering dust.

Tinyemeka:
You still promote ponzi schemes despite the havoc wreaked by Mavrodi?

shame dey catch me for u

Farouksenior:
Y u dey ask us? Na we go buy am?


Wey my beer oga?

u dey Dia, Chibenze called me and did Me Xmas... Mschwwweee

I saw USACleanEnergy dot com on drop but was wondering I should register it cos not many end users... what do you think?

tranxo:
Lol. Oyibo take their holidays seriously. Not like we wey carry Christmas chicken for one hand dey do outbound with the other hand.

0ubenji:
resolving?(I honestly have no idea what exactly u mean)
What happens to the ones without d colored P sign. Thanks

did u change the nameserver of the said domain name from that of the registrar to undeveloped's?

0ubenji:
my domain listing on undeveloped has a blue colored P sign affixed to some, plz what does this mean?

it means it is now resolving on the name server of undeveloped