Buying, Valuating, & Trading Domains

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We’ve brought you not one, but two magical domains today: IllusionStudio.com and MagicTricksBlog.com. Both have 1 bid at $10 and more than 24 hours remaining to bid.

We think both names could be fairly profitable. A lot of people turn to the web to see how particular magic trick is performed or to watch videos of some really magic tricks. It’s definately a “niche” market, but with the right audience, we could see both of these domains disappear quickly.

We’re a little late on this one, but it sits with 1 hour left and a ten dollar price tag. We are thinking that just about ANY church would like to have this little gem. It is generic enough to be used for almost any religious establishment, and with the current price and time left… it should be a great bargain!

Good luck!

Update: SOLD for $20! Not a bad price for an “easy-to-remember” website that could EASILY be bounced to any existing church or worship service site. We did bid on this domain, we didn’t win it though, and we chose not to run the price up on it for someone else. We think they got a great bargain… congrats!

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Came across this today, currently at $15 with five days to go. We think this would be an awesome name for a number of wind products or at the very minimum a great site for kite surfing.

Wind is suppose to be the next “big” thing, but we’ll really have to wait and see. For now, we’re definately watching this one.

Update: This auction closed at $239 on 14 bids…

Lately we’ve been a little lax in the auction department, we’ve got all kinds of summer things going on, and we’re basically going to admit that we’re a little lazy. That said, we’re still watching the auctions, we’re just not giving you the updates that we should be…   sorry.

Today we received an email from ShowTheWorld.com with a listing of their domains. It cracked us up, so we’ve decided to share. We particularly like: BitchyWoman.com, ClinicallyDead.com, and WetMatches.com. Why? We don’t know… but those were the ones we laughed at…

Also, on a cool note, somehow we were contacted that we might still obtain GetOffYourFatAss.com. We’ll find out in the next few days if we get it or not, but the fact that we have a second chance at it is kind of like this special omen. It kinda slaps in you in the face and says… “HEY, GET TO WORK!”

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We know people in Florida, specifically Jacksonville. They’re probably not the skydiving type, but as we’ve mentioned before most of our site investments are for possible future retirement plans. Maybe we can pay a visit and scope out a possible business venture. We understand that Jacksonville is a beautiful area, and retiring in Florida wouldn’t mean the end of the world.

All that said, we’ve never been skydiving before, but we’ll try anything once. We think this name is a little “specific”… not as good as FloridaSkydiving or SkydivingFlorida, but a good name none-the-less as Jacksonville has an estimated population of more than 800,000 people.

Update: This auction closed at $120. We were hoping this domain would free fall into our lap, but that wasn’t the case. Congrats to whomever pulled the rip cord on that price tag.

The perfect name for a motivational website is out on auction starting at $10. We couldn’t help but chuckle when we came across this one. It should serve as a giant message to all of us “lazy” people whenever we procrastinate and don’t do what we’re suppose to do (reads - like posting/updating this website)

Update: This auction closed with at $50. We had some devious ideas for this little domain name… guess we’ll have to move along. Congrats to the winner.

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The perfect domain name for a limo or courier service is on auction now. Not only that, but it has a bid price of $50 (buy now at $250). We think this price is an absolute steal… if you can getaway with it.

We took a “LONG” weekend here at BVTD and enjoyed the Fourth of July holiday (we’re pretty sure you didn’t miss us much). We watched several auction boards over the weekend, and we are not really excited about much that is out there right now. We did come across “IPhoneExperts.com” which is sitting on a $10 bid with four days remaining. We think this is a great name, and whomever is selling it, is selling it at a great time. Four days from now, Apple is expected to release the first “Major” update for the IPhone.

This update will include the ability for the phone to receive third party applications. As these applications are developed, resources and sites will be need to feed the development and user base around this great device. We think IPhoneExperts.com would be a great name for something like that…  Of course there are possible copyright issues around a name like this… but if you’re offering a knowledge based service which promotes Apple’s product, we’re not sure they would really want to shut you down.  BTW, if you don’t own an IPhone, and you’re in the market for one, they’re pretty darn cool. Especially when you can write a post like this one from one.

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Googling “Sport Flyers” returns almost 400,000 results. Most of these belong to radio controlled groups for various locations. The model airplane industry is fairly popular, and even if this name isn’t used for that purpose, it is generic enough to belong in the aviation industry. The FAA now offers a “Sport Flying” license that is not as expensive and less technical than a regular aviation pilot’s license. We ourselves would LOVE to own one of these.

That said, we expect this domain to go for a lot more than our budget allows, but we’ll be watching closely.

Maybe it was the fact that their soccer team came up short against Germany, or perhaps it was the fact that they don’t want to pay $100,000 to own the domain extension “.Turkey”…  but Turkish hackers kidnapped the ICANN.com website today. They placed the message:

“You think that you control the domains but you don’t! Everybody knows wrong. We control the domains including ICANN! Don’t you believe us? haha (Lovable Turkish hackers group)”

Long story short… looks like Turkish men make better hackers than soccer players. Something tells us that we might be seeing the “NetDevilz” group in the news again in our future. While we don’t condone hacking, we did kind of have to chuckle a bit since we’re semi disgusted with yesterday’s ICANN announcement.