Hello and Assalamo Alaikum,
Back from six figure sale to a five figure sale for which I can’t reveal much info other than the sale amount which was $20,000 and it was .com. Once again it was brokered through Jessica Ebanks of DomainNameSales and the sale was completed through Escrow.com. Always pleasure working with DNS team specially Jessica and it was swiftly done with Escrow.com which is the best escrow service.
Coming back to parking revenue of July for which I am publishing the stats a bit late but this is the area which I must focus to achieve one of my another goal for this year. Previous month wasn’t impressive although I didn’t add that many domains to my portfolio. Below is some of the parking stats which might be helpful to you in some way. This time I have added top 5 niches and CTR which was suggested by one of my friend Mohammed Zaki.
Total visitors – 117,000+
Total clicks – 5,000+
Total parked domains – 700
Total revenue – $550
Top 5 niche which made the most – Games, Health, VPN, News, Music
$$ made on a single day – $30
RPM – $5.2
CTR – 5.62%
To add something on above stats, there is one domain which is banned by Google and that received 26,000+ visitors with zero clicks and it was all paid per visitor and I have added those visitors in the above stats and excluded RPM and CTR from that. Also found that clicks have gone up compare to June 2014.
Added few domains in the last month month but instead of improvement, I saw significant decline but I will take that since having a good sale this month. There could be one reason of revenue drop due to summer where possibly advertisers might be keeping their budget tight. Many people are on vacations. I am hopeful to have some improvement this month and if not, I will have to make some changes in categories/sub-categories of domains which receive decent traffic to see if anything gets better…
Have you seen any drop in the parking revenue for the last month? Made any sale recently which you would like to share with us?
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It was a pleasure working with you on yet another great sale, AbdulBasit! Don’t worry, there’s many more to come! I look forward to doing business with you again in the near future.
Take care,
Jessica Ebanks
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Thanks very much Jessica 🙂
Congrats for your “mysterious” 5 figures sale AbdulBasit! 🙂
Nice uniques stats, hope your fail-listed name is something resalable, since you can’t count on traffic revenue.
Thanks Andrea! 🙂
Yeah, they are resalable because at times there are domains which made $0-$2 p/year and sold in decent four figs. All in all, parking revenue is just a bonus for me and I mostly focus on type-in traffic domains which do sell some day…
Would like to know how many domains expiring a month 🙂
I normally cleanup my portfolio by 1-3 domains p/month.
If you don’t want to reveal Domain name than this blog is useless
That’s a bit harsh just because I am not disclosing the domain 😉
On almost all occasions I have reported the name and other info.
Sometimes, there is NDA associated with Domain sales and one should honour it. Even if NDA expire after years, i don’t think its right to disclose the price.
I quite agree with you Dheeru 🙂
Once again congrats on a great sale. Can you please tell about the niche in which it sold and the number of letters etc.. Only if you are comfortable with it.
Thanks Sameeruddin 🙂
It was *news* related name with 7 characters total.
Congratulations on the $20,000 sale AbdulBasit. And may there be many more such sales to come.
Thanks for coming and commenting Paul 🙂
Hello,
Congrats again for the 20k $ sale, it has become a routine sale for you, Keep Going. Good Luck
hey thanks for the mention and remembering the request. and adding the top 5 niche and CTR details.
It gives more clear view now for people to understand.
Excluding the G Banned Traffic or including it,
I will say its a very huge Traffic to own, for your portfolio.
its like 170 visitors per domain.
Thanks Zaki 🙂
Yeah, that will give some more insight and one can compare their traffic stats/revenue with mine to see how things are going for themselves.
I never thought of 170 visitors p/domain on average. That’s impressive but most don’t reach that number individually every month 😉
May i know whether the buyer approached u first, or you approached the buyer?
Is it a brandable domain? or is it really a keyword rich, generic domain which has decent search volume per month? or high Cpc?
The buyer approached first. It’s a generic word. Actually an upgrade domain for that company.
Can you say how old the domain was and where/when you bought it from w/o giving the purchase price away? 🙂
Reg since 2002 and bought from expiring auction several years back.
Congrats Abdul, your luck’s on a roll 🙂
Thanks Sunil 🙂
Congrats on this and your 6 figure sale. Seems that .com domain aftermarket prices are holding up despite the new gtlds.
What was the buyer’s first offer for this $20,000 sale? How did the negotiation go? Many thanks!
Rob
Thanks @Domains 🙂
I am sure .com will always have upper hand and none of the gTLDs can beat ever… at least in our lives…
The buyer’s first offer was 1k… Later they came up with 4k, 10k, 12k and finally 20k 😉
Great to see yet another grand sale from you my friend. I wish to see more of these posts on your blog.
Good day,
Thanks for your comment and it’s very much appreciated 🙂
Best wishes!
Abdul,
Have you ever sold any domian hacks for a good price or do you know anyone who has?
May be Jessica would like to chime in and tell us her thoughts on them?
Never bought/sold domain hacks. Not my type of names.
congrats abdul.
Thanks Jide 🙂
How can I get accepted at DNS? I keep getting declined and that has left me even more confused.
How do I reach Jessic Ebanks?
They require high quality domains and decent number of domains as well. That’s the only reason I can think of which is why they are declining your application.
However, you can find contact detail from the very first comment from Jessica 🙂
Congrats again! I’ve gone through all the comments and your responses to them. Nice to note that you’re sharing whatever info relevant to this name except the name itself which I understand is sometimes needed to protect the identity of the buyer. By the way your parking revenue has increased or decreased compare to your previous parking results?
Thanks for commenting and feedback 🙂
It has gone down for the month of July and whatever reasons I thought has been mentioned above. How was your parking revenue and have anything to say in this regard?
Hi Abdul,
When you send away emails to potential buyers, what email service do you normally use? Gmail, Yahoo or any other?
I reckon one major problem is our emails will not reach the person we send them to most of the time, so I would like to know what service others use, specifically those who are as active as yourself.
Rod,
Since the start of this year, I have stopped contacting to endusers and want them to approach me at first. I use Google Apps at my domain. For example @AbdulBasit Makrani.com instead of other free emails like @gmail/@yahoo/@live.com, etc.
For your second question, I would like you to read one of my older post – https://www.abdulbasit.com/domaining/the-sales-pitch-letter-i-usually-send-to-an-end-user-and-how-you-can-make-it-more-effective
Let me know your thoughts 🙂
Abdul, Yes, I can understand why you don’t send emails away any more, since you must be holding better quality names nowadays after many good sales you’ve had in recent months. But most of us have a bunch of ordinary names which we would like to flip for anything they’re worth. Your suggestion of using the format you’re using for your emails, I can say it can be effective if the end users look up your info on the whois records, otherwise it may even look more spammy in my opinion. Anyhow, this is a big issue which is a… Read more »
Yeah, I used to send emails in past but not now due to decent number of domains as well as inquiries every month. In beginning of domain business, I would suggest to send emails to endusers just to keep rolling and have cash flow going. But at one stage, one can think and decide where to stop and start playing waiting game… On what basis do you think my email format looks “more spammy”? Just curious to know… I used to call many potential endusers in the past while sending out emails but didn’t find it as effective as sending… Read more »
What I meant was if you used an unknown private domain name for your emails, it would definitely look more spammy, like the spam emails which try to sell viagra etc. But if your domain was called RichardBranson.com that would be a different matter! So emails sent from a well-known domain name (but not Yahoo, Gmail etc) would be read more often.
I quite agree with you. But since I use my personal name as primary email ID @AbdulBasit Makrani.com for email exchanges and if someone is curious to know who’s that, can simply visit the site and see it. That will definitely clear the doubts if there are any in someone’s mind.
Also it’s good to develop the domain from which a person is exchanging emails for the next person to understand who he is dealing with.
As it happens if you use emails attached to this site and the recipients of your emails checked the site, then that might go against you, since they may think, this guy is a flipper and he must have bought the domain very cheaply and he may be asking for too much profit margins. The example being the high profit margin you got from selling CuppyCakes. On the other hand if they don’t bother reading your posts, then that may help you sell the names a lot easier. Just a hypothetical question: If you had another CuppyCakes, who would you… Read more »
That’s the point as well. But so far none (enduser) has told me that I am asking for too much just because I might have bought for too low. But having such site clears the doubt in one mind that this person is serious and no scam.
For having another CuppyCakes, I would have waited for the right enduser to come in no matter who actually is. I don’t reach out to endusers myself and play waiting game 🙂
A few girls my dad used to know, played the same tactics as well, some of them are now in their late eighties and still not married – only kidding 🙂
Anyhow, my mission is to go and look for someone who’d be interested in Cuppy Cakes – I can’t say much more for now, except to the interested bodies!
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😀 That’s right. Using this tactic I have lost some nice deals and still have those names in my portfolio whereas I could have made greater returns. Sometimes it pay off and vice versa.
Good luck and keep us updated!