Comments on: Master stroke or just mad to turn down a $57,000 profit!

By: Anders Saugstrup

Anders Saugstrup — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:45:26 +0000

Ed, I got ledbulbs.in and ledlamps.in (what a fight to get that registration to work in India.)

Did not start development yet.

You are welcome to contact me if you have any ideas or just want to exchange thoughts.

Hope to hear from you.

/Anders
http://www.saugstrup.org/kontakt/

By: Ed Keay-Smith

Ed Keay-Smith — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 01:11:01 +0000

Hi Scott,

Long time no speak.

Congrats on the sale and sticking to your guns for the long term on ledbulbs.co.uk

I hand registered ledlightbulb.co.in, ledlightbulb.in, ledlightbulbs.co.in & ledlightbulbs.in in August 2007
(Why the heck I didnt get the ledbulb/s versions I will never know LOL)

I agree it may be a few years before these domains see their true potential being reached, but I am also in the process of development for them in the Indian market place and think they will do well long term.

Perhaps we can have a chat sometime.

Regards

Ed Keay-Smith
http://www.ozdomainer.com

Ed Keay-Smith’s last blog post..Traffic DownUnder coming up fast.

By: Whats missing in the great domain valuation debate?

Whats missing in the great domain valuation debate? — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 21:18:37 +0000

[...] In January 2008, top domainer and industry expert Rick Schwartz negotiated the sale of iReport.com, a domain possibly worth “four or five figures” for a jaw dropping $750,000. Or read how a UK based entrepreneur entered into negotiations that led to him rejecting a $57,000 profit. [...]

By: Daniel Ryan

Daniel Ryan — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 15:22:39 +0000

Maybe we should all be targeting Scottish investors – seems to be where the money is for domain names!

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 10 Feb 2008 00:40:58 +0000

I did the deal in person for the domain sale Greg, cash, so no need for a contract.

By: Greg

Greg — Sat, 09 Feb 2008 22:31:00 +0000

Thanks for sharing.

What kind of contract did you have drawn up….Was it a gentleman’s agreement or did you go through a uk solicitor?

Cheers, Greg

By: Scott

Scott — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:29:45 +0000

It really depend on how strong the top 10 sites are, whether there are 8 million or 2 million results. Usually if it isn’t too competitive ytou only need a few good quality links and some time/patience.

By: Lukep

Lukep — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 01:04:22 +0000

Thanks for that Scott, will definately be buying keyword rich domains from now on.

Would you say this is competitive in google for a domain keyword: 8.4million normal results and 15,600 results with quotation marks(”")?

What would you say is low compeition or easy to rank for competition?
Any quick methods of getting a domain keyword ranked high in google for a low competition keyword?

Keep up the good work!

By: Anders

Anders — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:37:10 +0000

Thanks!

Reason I asked is that I am not sure if it is easy to wake up a domain that has been 301′ed for 2 years – wake up in the search engines I mean. Probably you’re right though. I’ll try the 301′ing.

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:32:00 +0000

Nice one Anders, personally I forwarded the other domains on to my main site, concentrate on ranking one at the top and make sure the others are not dead so forward them on in case they are manually checked – you could 301 them to be safe but sometimes I don’t bother as they don’t get indexed or lnked to. I wish you every success with them.