Category Archives: 4-Letter

Widgets.com Bidding Peaks at $175,100 With No Sale

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The eBay auction for Widgets.com closed without meeting the reserved price. A total of 66 bids took place over the course of the 7-day auction, with the 66th bid coming in at $175,100. Since that wasn’t enough to surpass the reserve price the domain name went unsold. The auction drew an amazing 2,890 visits, so it was obvious the seller did a good job of pre-promoting his auction, as most domain auctions on Ebay attract less than 150 visitors.

In more news, my research project on determining the value of 4-letter domain names on Ebay versus Sedo and TDNAM.com is nearing an end. I’m choosing to keep great 4-letter domain names like PGAU.com and selling off 4-letter domains that contain an X, Y, Z, K, Q or V in them. Ten recent sales of these type of 4-letter dot com’s on TDNAM.com averaged only $60 each. Consistently, sales of similar 4-letter domain names on Ebay fetch $52 to $62 each, thus the market for these type of 4-letter domains in these two forum (i.e., Ebay and TDNAM), where domains get very little traffic exposure during a limited period of time, run in the $50 to $60 range. All of these domain names have a true value much greater than this, for there is only a limited number of 4-letter domain names.

An observation of sales on Sedo.com for similar domains reveals that the sellers are setting most of the domains that fall under this category (i.e., 4-letter dot coms with X, Y, Z, K, Q or V) create a reserve price of $60 (basically what the names go for on Ebay or TDNAM.com) and then once they get the $60 bid they decline the bid and push the domain name into a 7-day auction, whereby they gain much more exposure and end up going for a much higher selling price. It’s all about exposure and marketing baby, and this is one excellent way of doing it. For reference, and as a general footnote, you cannot put a domain name into a 7-day auction on Sedo until it receives a bid. An example of what I’m talking about can be seen in RZOR.com, which with 2 days remaining on its 7-day Sedo auction has 2 bids and is at $300. Examples of the $60 starting point can be found with NVMU.com and HXOE.com, which have 2 days remaining and are still at their single bid of $60 each. Both will likely go for more.

CUVW.com Sells for $129 on Ebay

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What a deal this 4-letter domain was.  Now this is a perfect example of what I’m talking about when I say check my eBay store often.  There is no way this great 4-letter domain name should have sold for $129 — but it did.  Why?  Because I had the “Buy it Now” set at $129.  I try to offer bargains like this all the time in my Ebay store.  If you’re not visiting it you are missing out on some really great deals.  InstantBidder.com sold for only $100 on my Sitepoint.com auction.  I don’t plan to go that route again.  On the other hand, some of my blogs are really pulling in the traffic these days.  Take my WatPros.com, eSalesman.com and WorkatHomePro.com domains.  They’re all pulling in a steady growth in traffic daily.  I’m considering the possibility of selling one of my oldest domain names, Tourette-Syndrome.com.  It has a Google Page Rank of 4 and flucuates between a PR 4 and PR 5 all the time.  With many people linking to it and all its pages in the index of Google, ASK, MSN and Yahoo, it draws between 12,000 and 20,000 visitors per month.  If you’re interested in making an offer, email it to me using the feedback form of this website.

YW.com Bids Hit $75,000 With 3 Days Remaining

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With 3 days and 13 hours remaining, bids for the 2-letter domain name YW.com hit $75,000. Both “Y” and “W” are considered difficult letters that normally taint the value of a 4-letter domain, but not so with this 2-letter domain name. It can mean many things to the successful winner of this auction. For example, it would stand for “Your Web,” “Young Women,” “Your Work,” “Yesterday’s Woman,” etc. I’m really pumped about this auction and looking forward to seeing just how high it will go. BCE.com, a sweet 3-letter domain with 6 days and 12 hours left on its 7-day auction, has already climbed to $9,800.

On a much smaller note I sold several 4-letter domain names today. One I was worried about on value that sold quickly with my EBay Buy it Now, or BIN, auction was IAQL.com. It went for $149. As noted yesterday, my Zoles.com sold for $1,250 on Sedo. A private sale of my TexasBreastImplants.com several months ago went for $2,250. All 3 of these domain names are fine examples of domains I picked up off a dropped, or expired domains, list and registered for $7.05 each. I also sold CUJT.com yesterday for $99 on a BIN auction. Bids for my InstantBidder.com have climbed to $100. A private offer for MillionaireAlliance.com, another domain name I own, was received yesterday for $500. I declined the sale and will hold out for a higher price.

GayWedding.com Sells for $10,000

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GayWedding.com, a two-word dot com focused on the theme of gay weddings, a topic in the news almost daily these days, sold on Sedo yesterday for $10,000. A one-word dictionary domain name, Persistent.com, sold for $6,100. Two 4-letter domain names went for above $800, with Xiny.com going for $1,000 and eluo.com going for $877. Two domains that went for more than I would have thought were a 3-letter .us domain name, ogc.us, that went for $751 and a 4-letter .net domain name, sagi.net, that went for $1,100. It goes to show that 3-letter domain names are valuable, regardless the extension and a 4-letter .net can be very valuable if it ends in an i — which could always stand for inc. or incorporated. Thus, more than likely sagi.net will be used for a company name one day.

Younger.com Sells for $75,000 on SEDO

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Wow! Younger.com, a single word dictionary word domain name, sold on Sedo.com today for $75,000. Two domain name auctions I’m watching right now at Sedo.com involve a rare 2-letter domain name, yw.com, which has skyrocketed today to $75,000 and still has 6 days and 14 hours before the 7-day auction expires. The second is a 3-letter domain name, lkd.com, which has shot to $12,005 today with 2 days and 13 hours remaining on its 7-day auction. Both domain names will obviously end up being sold for much more, depending on a host of variables, the mos important one being time.

My zoles.com has 15 hours remaining on the auction and its highest bid still stands at $1,200. I’ve had over 543 reviews of the domain name page over the past week. Although traffic has been amazing to this great domaiin name, only one bidder (who has bid twice) has bid on this great brandable 5-letter domain name thus far.