Fly.com Planet.com on auction

[Domainut]

I just noticed that Fly.com and Planet.com are for sale, I doubt that fly will sell with the reserve that it has listed on it, but I think Planet.com would be a great buy for The Planet Hosting company.

[exponent]

Planet.com would be great for a lot of things: Hosting, online newspaper, astronomy publication, etc.

I cant believe an airline hasn't picked up fly.com

[Domainut]

I meant that Planet.com would be great for the company The Planet formerly Ev1 servers, currently they use ThePlanet.com

[allanh]

their reserve are set too high (although I think the domains are worth what they are asking). Maybe a big player will jump in, who knows?
any idea who "Flycor" or "Mcdonnell, Paul " are?
Both are parked at Networksolution

[PRED]

they have to set a high reserve for fly.com
it sold to them in 1999 for $1.5 million

[TechQueen]

Both this domains are worth several million dollars, but i think to get that kind of amount they should go for some live auctions like T.R.A.F.F.I.C.

[Yusio]

Both this domains are worth several million dollars, but i think to get that kind of amount they should go for some live auctions like T.R.A.F.F.I.C.

Agreed, they can easily get 10mill a piece if they get the right buyer.

[Domainut]

I don't think a live auction will make much difference. I think these names should be marketed to the best potential buyer rather than auctioned off.

[dominator]

yes, fly.com is a great domain
no doubt about it

but planet.com is not so hot
nobody sells planets (yet)

[Domainut]

Here is a list of domains that have met their reserve price already and will be sold

659.com $7,600
address.net $7,600
wnf.com $7,001
brews.com $5,099
bananasplit.com $3,100
fifties.com $2,500
ppl.net $1,284
foi.net $850
lsl.net $601
daddies.net $510
exercising.net $510
elw.net $343
ecw.net $310
yfj.net $310
cfq.net $260
cjq.net $260
akf.net $220
jlq.net $210
qhj.net $130
singlecentral.com $110
vxh.net $110
xcz.net $110
scold.net $80
abet.net $70
brownie.net $70
freeclimbing.net $70
scheming.com $70

[Credit]

I'll tell you right now, if I had the money, I would pay the reserve price for Fly.com without a second thought. The domain is priceless.

[Yusio]

I'll tell you right now, if I had the money, I would pay the reserve price for Fly.com without a second thought. The domain is priceless.

Agreed, but who has 2mil to toss around... (not me anyway)

[Nova]

Fly.com is at least a $5 - XX million domain in terms of worth. $5 million would even be a last minute bargain price.

[DNP]

If Fly.com won't reach it's reserve 2 Mil+ - I would say that the domain market really stinks!

[NetworkMsia]

Fly.com is a great domain, it could be developed into some online airline ticketing system.

[dominator]

If Fly.com won't reach it's reserve 2 Mil+ - I would say that the domain market really stinks!

it stinks

and btw, address.net is a very nice domain
of course, the market doesn't like .net's
but it's a great keyword

[DTalk]

As a domainer, I'd love to see Fly.com reach reserve, and more...


But, in today's economy & market - sadly, I doubt Fly.com will get anywhere near that reserve....All the natural constituencies for that name are struggling these days.


On the other hand, there may be someone out there that has a lazy $50m lying around that might snap it up....lol

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[000]

Fly dot com is a great name but it doesn't exclusively define a category, so it's not a must have generic name for businesses operating in that category. Fly has multiple meanings including urban slang and a flying insect, not helpful to a travel business. An airline or travel business could use instead:
flying (parked) - weaker search/cpc metrics
flight (redirects to travelocity) - similar search/cpc metrics
flights (developed) - stronger search/cpc metrics
The airline business is brutal in good times, tougher today. Gordon Gekko summed it up best: "Fuel could go up. Unions are killers."

Recent completed sales of category defining generic names with search/cpc metrics stronger than "fly":
cameras $1.5M 2006
software $3.2M 2005
pizza $2.6M 2008
Less focused and weaker search/cpc names have a history of selling for less. Strong focus can overcome weak search/cpc, for example vodka dot com exclusively defines a category of distilled spirits. It has weaker search/cpc metrics than fly and sold for $3M in 2006.

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[Vijaya]

FLY.COM Offer Description
"Fly.com is a profitable online affiliate travel business generating in excess of $400-600K gross travel bookings per year and attracting 30-45K unique website visits per month on a consistent monthly basis. High 15-20% conversions. Source: Google Analytics, Webalizer internal stats."

$400-600K very good profit for a small side