I recently completed my first sale of an internet domain name.
I was originally contacted about selling in January, but the email was sent to an address I rarely check(I use it just to register new names) so it sat on my email server until a few weeks ago. But by that time the domain brokerage company, Sedo, sent another message informing my the prospective buyer increased their offer by nearly 67%. I accepted. 4 figures for something I paid nine dollars for.
Not too shabby, eh?
But I didn’t do my homework.
After a simple search on the name, I found that there is a good chance that the buyer was a video game start-up company and had a project in the works with the same name as former my domain name. I almost certainly could have held out for more if I had known, but I doubt would. I wasn’t doing anything with the name, and this company at least had a plan. They would do more and I didn’t want to be THAT guy, the one that holds on to a domain name and rides the coat tail of someone else’s success. The offer was more than fair, so I don’t regret not asking for more. Besides, I still have the dot org version too, heh.
But now that I think about it, the buyer could have been one of THOSE guys. Someone who’ll hold out for a lot more. Probably not though… too much to pay when the video game company could go another route.
So if it was the video game company, Freeze Interactive, good luck with your project, I look forward to playing the game when it comes out.