Voice.com domain just sold for $30,000,000 & Casinos.org for $400,000

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Some notable domain name events just occurred. The $30 million sale for voice.com was a pure cash-for-domain sale. $400k for casinos.org sure makes me regret getting rid of a few a while ago when I was trimming the portfolio.

[ddm]

jeepers at that .org !

[yeahfree]

Some notable domain name events just occurred. The $30 million sale for voice.com was a pure cash-for-domain sale. $400k for casinos.org sure makes me regret getting rid of a few a while ago when I was trimming the portfolio.

source?

[big fish]

source?

https://domaininvesting.com/casinos-...0000-via-sedo/

seems legit. that's great news for gambling.org and some other domains that i have

[yeahfree]

good news indeed. as a buyer you must have balls if you spend such money on a domain which used to have a site before, with backlinks (and as far as i can see back in ahrefs no decent rankings). on other words, it's not clean, it has a history.

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Voice.com was big news so you can find it in many places, but in the domain name industry DNJ is considered the authoritative source when it comes to domain sales reporting. Publicly reported sales are published more or less every week, and nothing gets reported as a sale in the weekly list there unless it is proven to the publisher that it was a pure domain-name-only sale. Here's the current weekly list showing both at #1 and #2 for publicly reported:

https://www.dnjournal.com/archive/do...9/20190626.htm

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If you want to see the prices for all reported domain sales (does not include many private sales) try Namebio

https://namebio.com/

just search for "casino" and you will see the sale.

[big fish]

i've contacted sedo about brokering a sale for gambling.org

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i've contacted sedo about brokering a sale for gambling.org

Hey, it's the onlinecasinosuite guy (or girl?). Nice surprise. Long before I went on hiatus myself, I used to see your site dominating page 1 of Google for a very long time. Always used to amaze me. You were dominating page 1 for a search on either "casino" or "online casino" or both back in those days. It's been a while, but I think you were dominating for "online casino" and CasinoCity was dominating for "casino." You must be quite a super affiliate then. Then one day you were gone, and I stopped looking too.

So I started in domain names long before I got into affiliate marketing.

I strongly recommend you do not do that, or at least proceed with super extreme caution and safeguards in place. In general, there is always a conflict of interest concern with brokers. They have every incentive to just make a quick paycheck while not necessarily getting you great value, but while also aggressively trying to convince you your domain is not worth so much while trying to get that quick paycheck in some cases too.

Regarding Sedo specifically, I once even had a discussion with one of their people by email, and came away from it feeling pretty horrified at the attitude I encountered, and extremely "confident" that one would almost certainly lose a huge amount of money ever letting them get personally involved in brokering either as the seller yourself or selling to them if they are acting on behalf of a buyer.

But maybe using their platform if you could get a competitive bid auction going would be good. I've had multiple offers post on a domain far worse than yours at Sedo before, so maybe it could happen for yours.

As I recall one of their present or former people was even involved with the sale of gambling.com, and it sold for something I consider to be absolutely dirt cheap for a domain like that. And he was extremely aggressive and dogmatic in his attitude about that sale, and about the implications he believed it imposed on any other potential sale.

When was the last time anyone heard of a really great sale occurring through Sedo? None that I can recall in recent years, but you would think there would be many.

If you share the attitude about domain names I have encountered here, however, then perhaps you would just be very happy with whatever you got if you went that route. The attitude I have encountered here about top domain names is even why my signature is what it has been for a long time now in fact, though I just edited the text of the link within the last day or so.

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PS: it's also important to keep in mind that casino.com itself went for an absolute mind-boggling steal of a price. I believe the price of slots.com matching it was actually even at some level an unspoken partial recognition of how cheaply casino.com itself had sold.

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PS as well: expanding a bit upon the possible "conflict of interest" concern, with brokers in general there is also always the concern they could be playing both sides of the fence so to speak, i.e. really favoring a buyer if you're the seller or vice versa.

[zalozite]

Do you know, whats the highest price for gambling domain already sold?

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The highest reported price I'm aware of is the $5.5 million tie between casino.com and slots.com. That price for casino.com was a huge steal as mentioned above.

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In a private sale it was reported that sportsbook.com went for 10m but it has not been verified.

He is a list of casino related domain sales

https://www.gamblinginvest.com/resou...s-of-all-time/

[big fish]

This inspired me to put Gambling.org up for sale.

I created a thread about it here in case you're interested https://www.gpwa.org/forum/gambling-...le-249034.html

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This inspired me to put Gambling.org up for sale.

For a domain of this quality, I would suggest it would be worth it to spend a few hundred or so doing a press release or more than one. That is something that has been done for available domains a number of times before. Perhaps you could try PRWeb. If you set a firm minimum and perhaps other parameters, it might not be a bad idea to consider brokers too as long as you keep everything above in mind.

I would recommend not accepting less than 7 figures for this one, and would also remind that poker.org went for $1 million.

Ironically, it was apparently Sedo that brokered the poker.org sale. So you don't necessarily have to rule them out. I had a little Latin during school days, and there was a saying "cautus metuit foveam lupus." Just do everything as a cautious wolf "fearing" the pit. And who's familiar with wise as serpents, innocent as doves?

[big fish]

thanks for your post. i'll hold firm on gambling.org, otherwise i'll just develop it more and sell it further in the future at even better prices. things don't gt cheaper over time...

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Sounds good. I definitely still recommend doing a press release or two. Might even be able to do it for much less than $100 a pop but may make a huge difference.