Bankrate, Inc. announced on June 24 they will acquire CreditCards.com and NetQuote for a combined $350 million. This is a monster deal (and not a domain sale for you blokes who think every company sold with a .com is a domain sale). According to compete these 2 sites have over 2,000,000 unique visitors a month [...]

Forget about sex.com – some of the most valuable domains in this world surround lead generation. Ask any developer and you will get the most common 5-10 categories as the most valuable. Insurance, Mortgage, Weight Loss, Finance, Debt and others. One of the biggest domains sought after by hordes of people over the years has [...]

Another domain which was developed but would probably see no more than a couple hundred in auction is ReliableRemodeler.com According to Quinstreet’s SEC filing “In February 2008, we acquired ReliableRemodeler.com, Inc., or ReliableRemodeler, an Oregon-based company specializing in online home renovation and contractor referrals for $17.5 million in cash and $8.0 million in non-interest-bearing, unsecured [...]

I love hearding stories about development especially with domains most domainers would never bid on. As the mammoth Quinstreet filed to go public more of thier purchases are now public. CardRatings.com – a site with just under 100,000 visitors a month (not an enormous amount of traffic by any measure) was sold for $10.2 million in [...]

I have little desire to blog these days but every now and then a sale is published and I say to myself – seriously, who  sold that name at such a crazy give-away price or (probably more times) who is the crazy person who just paid XXXXXX for that name. Not a day goes by [...]

The last few posts I’ve made have been related to domain sales and topics other people started so its time to give more information to those of you looking for end users. We have our own black book of buyers and only a few people actually know how much business we do (yes, the numbers [...]

At some point every business owner (not just domainers) look to sell or “exit” the business. In this industry it seems many people are building and building portfolios so someday they will “exit” by selling the entire portfolio to a buyer. Is this really a valid exit strategy? It certainly sounds great but it’s also the [...]

100,000 good names. Not a chance. When a large portfolio owner announces the sale of 100,000 names it sounds like jumping ship but it’s not like that – in any way, shape or form. As I said in an earlier post: “Over 98% of the portfolio just added to Afternic by iReit is JUNK! – Complete and useless [...]

Namebio recently posted an article about iReit’s decision to sell a large chunk of their portfolio and Dark Blue Seas deal with Godaddy. One of the interesting quotes was: “it may suggest that both companies are seeing major drops in revenue and are cleaning house and changing monetization strategies” I really like Namebio so proper credit is given [...]

Most of us who have been in this industry for a while have a story (or two) about the domain(s) that we let get away. Ours was PrimeRate.com Like others we were watching this name sit on Afternic with a domain sponsor page for years. $100,000 was the minimum offer. Every now and then I [...]