1GamblingCasino.com & other domains

So NetBet.org reportedly just sold for $16,005. I’ll offer a BIN of $1,000 for a limited time here on NetGamblingCasinos.com, featured on the “Online Casino Domains” section at casinodn.com. You can post “sold” to claim here, pm or email.

Well, Tarzan , you get a lot of the best premium generically descriptive .com’s for the industry available, including ones that are also far better than some or most gaming domains that make the DN Journal sales report. Notwithstanding the current state of the site since last week’s report, all indications are that the NetBet.org sale was for the domain only and not the site or any content, too, based on the reported location of the sale being “TDNAM,” and that DN Journal will only allow domain-only sales to appear in the report and not ones that include anything else. That’s why, for instance, you won’t find the sale of Business.com for around $300,000,000 listed, and many others. If it turns out to not really have been a domain-only sale after all for some reason, the publisher of DNJ will probably want to know and issue a revision.

As for “old and established,” that’s also really a bit of a myth and dose of hype when it comes to domain investment. You’re far better off buying a quality .com that was registered more recently than any not so great domain that comes with the nice little spin line “Continuously registered since 1997…” Moreover, it’s an even bigger myth and misconception one would want to avoid being taken in by that a domain is “new” if the registration start date is fairly recent, or that date even matters compared to “old,” as many great domains have been dropping for years and being reregistered all the time, sometimes for many thousands of dollars by those who know all too well just how valuable they are, whether it says 12/2/1996 or 12/2/2008. Good “new” trumps bad or average “old” every time and all the time. So, in reality, a domain that looks “new” may have been registered before, perhaps even years before a more lofty looking start date. And even though age means nothing, domains like that are in reality not even “new” to begin with. No matter how amazingly valuable a domain is, they can go unused, underused, or expire and drop for a whole host of reasons any time basically, and those fortunate enough to get the gems get exactly that – gems, whether “vintage” looking gems or ones that appear to have been born only yesterday. And since even “new” gems that really are new can be far more valuable for your business than a “vintage” gem, let alone a “vintage” rust bucket, both real and merely apparent age mean nothing, and “gem quality” means everything in the long run.

@Tarzan 189841 wrote:

Get ready for it would be my net bet.

lol. Wouldn’t surprise with a .org domain like that. The .com would be good, and in this case even the .net because of the fun double “net,” but…

Before you posted it occurred to me that something appears to be wrong with this picture, though. For instance, if the site is so “old,” and more importantly, “established,” why on earth would anyone sell out for a mere $16,005? The site has tons and tons of content, and tons and tons of links, most of which I expect are for the purpose of producing income. While not as colorful, it even reminds me a bit of World Casino Directory. At the “old and established” level for a site like that, I would expect that $16,000 might not even be within a mile of the monthly income being earned because of the site and it’s many links by now. But just for the sake of argument, let’s pretend that, being “old and established” since way back in 1998, the income resulting from the site is a mere $1,000 per month. If the domain and all that content are behind a minimum of only $1,000 per month in income, which does sure seem an amazingly small hypothetical starting point for “old and established,” who on earth would sell even a revenue engine like that for a mere $16,005, let alone if it were associated with more like $5,000 to $10,000 or much more per month, which certainly seems more realistic for “old and established”? If you had an investment of any kind earning even a steady $1K per month with potential for more, would you sell so low? Hmm.

So, in a sense, I would certainly tend to agree with your sentiment here, Tarzan – that perhaps the site content should be included for a domain like that. But it still may not have been. If this were just a domain for sale without the history, I would never even look twice at it or be interested at $100; with the history but buying only the domain, I might perhaps be willing to go to $200-$500 just to see how long I could ride the wave of any benefits that might possibly come with the history. But to begin with, what I’d really be looking for in this industry is simply a good domain with real potential and real investment value, and not an “old and established” so-so .org that can only go for $16K ten years down the road if your lucky and it’s loaded with content. Like I said, gem quality is what matters. Nobody will ever care if your 1 ct. white diamond has been circulating for ten years when a fine 25 ct. blue diamond gets discovered just yesterday. More importantly, people will line up and come from miles around to check out your blue diamond, and not even be thinking about the other.

@Tarzan 189886 wrote:

That is kind of strange… someone got a good/fair deal?

Strange? lol. Maybe in Never Land, but that wouldn’t be my net bet here. No, looks more like someone either got taken in by the very kind of “Continuously registered since ancient times…” spin job I’ve already mentioned, or – surprise, surprise – the little “old” and “established” buggy isn’t getting anything even within a mile of $1,000 per month, despite being so exquisitely “old” and supposedly “established.” Hard to build a resort complex on a bad foundation, old or new, and “old” doesn’t make a good foundation any more than road dust makes chocolate. Gem quality…