If you don’t know domains well, you might end up getting chump change.
A very nice lady blogger wrote about her “unexpected windfall“, after selling a pair of aged domain names to a person who inquired about them.
Registered in 2001 by Ms. Roz Rogoff, the pair of domains GoVocal.com and GoVocal.net remained unused, despite spending money for the design of a logo.
Ms. Rogoff intended to give the domains away for free, but the buyer – who most likely could not believe his luck – paid an unspecified amount of money, “more than $100 and less than $1,000“, according to Ms. Rogoff.
The new owner walks away with what appears to be a nice pair of short, clean, memorable brandables and despite Ms. Rogoff being content with whatever money she received, the general consensus appears to be that she left quite a chunk of money on the proverbial table.
Short brandable .com domains don’t go for cheap these days; domain investor Mike Mann sells average domains for high four figures, and good domains for up to mid five figures.
If GoVocal.com were owned by a savvy domain investor such as Mike Berkens, we are certain the selling price would have been in the $30,000+ range.
Some domain owners can obviously be persuaded to hand over valuable assets on the cheap. It seems that GoVocal.com is destined to become a major brand in the future, all thanks to the kindness and apparent lack of domain business acumen of its seller.
