SolarEnergy(.)com sold for $1,650,000

[namewaiter]

the difference between a domain and a baseball card, mortgage etc is that a domain represents both intellectual "property" but more significantly brand. So you don't value a domain in the same way that you value a baseball card or other hard asset. And when a domain is a feature of a premier brand then its value enters the stratosphere. google.com an otherwise mediocre domain. But as the key feature of a brand it is worth millions if not billions. cocacola.com a totally obscure domain with no substantial value outside of the brand that preceded even the Internet makes the domain enormously valuable (and they redirect the domain to an even less ineherently valuable coca-cola.com). "solarenergy.com" regardless of who owns it is part of the zeitgeist of the "solar" brand which at this time in history is worth trillions of dollars. The business leaders that invest heavily in this type of branding understand the power of the brand. "solarenergy" is a term that has enormous buzz surrounding it and is on the lips of people like Obama, the Royal Family of Saudi Arabia and Dubai, the heads of the EU and even the Pope. Not a stretch to say that this is one of the "hottest" and most important business sectors in the world and likely will be for the foreseeable future.

great post!

i do agree with pokerpie in his curiosity of how the negotiation went down ie. "no, 1.45 million just isn't going to get it done, i've received higher offers in the past", i would love to see the trascripts from the exchange!

[H2FC]

What makes this sale so spectacular to me is the selling price being over 20 times the highest price I've seen paid for any other alternative energy domain name to date that I'm aware of. In fact 2 great names together went for less than 1/20 of the selling price of SolarEnergy.com.

I think this sale will boost the price of all the other good premium alternative energy names, especially when these companies begin to show huge profits as I believe they will when lower cost of production is realized with larger sales.


Here are three of the largest prices I've found paid for other alternative energy domains.

• CleanEnergy.com $31,950
• AlternativeEnergy.com $50,138
• Wind.com and Wind.net $80,000.

[Compassion]

Wind.com and net may have been a bargain at $80,000

[PRED]

This whole area is going to be huge, and its great for us and our children and jobs that it will be.
Lets ditch oil and nuclear and all the other crap, not overnight, but it has to be the goal, and no dependancy on saudi , russia etc

recycling is already and will be monster monster also

see below

[Donald Aquilano]

They way over paid IMHO. Solar energy is highly subsidized by the US government and other countries so how good can it be if it can't stand on its own with say.......oil, natural gas, coal etc. For solar panels to be worth it the area its in has to have a certain amount of sunlight. Where I live it would take more than 30 years for me to make my money back. Not a good investment.

[PRED]

to be worth it the area its in has to have a certain amount of sunlight. Where I live it would take more than 30 years for me to make my money back.

time to move out of the cave

[DTalk]

For solar panels to be worth it the area its in has to have a certain amount of sunlight. Where I live it would take more than 30 years for me to make my money back. Not a good investment.

C'mon on down here to Sydney, Australia, bd.....More sunshine than than a solar panel's wettest dream....

You guys define value as 'the most I can get some idiot to pay for it'. I define value as 'the amount the name would fetch at an open auction'

Depends who's at the open auction....

...Put 5 of the world's largest green energy companies in the same auction room - watch the price of SolarEnergy.com power past $5m, imo...Its THE category killer for one of the largest slices of next generation industries on the planet...


Solar?....Think any place the sun shines....Think Africa, think Latin America, think much of Asia, think Australia....think Southern US States...And, that's BEFORE they figure out how to maximise solar power conversion through cloud & cold weather...

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[Gerry]

This industry is going to require a great deal of speculation and patience...alternative energy and domaining.

Many technologies are already in place. Many more are not.

Tech savvy domainers will have an edge on these future technologies.

Like everything else, it will be purely speculative.

One I recently regged as it was the first time I had ever seen the phrase mentioned was CarbonEconomics.com.

With the shift to move away from carbon emitting fossil fuels and tighter controls on emissions and industrial purchasing and swapping emission vouchers, we could be hearing and seeing this word used with regularity.

Again, wishful thinking and speculation.

One thing that can not be ignored is the alternatives fuels for everything and anything are in full gear.

I was watching a clip last night From the CES 2009 and the emphasis was clearly on greener, cleaner, clearer, and cheaper. There is so much coming that we are totally unaware of let alone that which we are aware of.

Wind.com and net may have been a bargain at $80,000

Where is that listed?

great post!

i do agree with pokerpie in his curiosity of how the negotiation went down ie. "no, 1.45 million just isn't going to get it done, i've received higher offers in the past", i would love to see the trascripts from the exchange!

Negotiating. Tough practice.

Circuit City was offered 3.5 billion one time not too far in the distant past. They turned it down.

Circuit City was later offered $5.4 billion in a buy out. Circuit City said no, we want more.

Today, Circuit City is a thing of the past. Reading an article last night regarding their unpublicized sales and discounts. One particular store was 30% off everything. They will not announce in advance the discounts.

Their web site is simply a statement now.

Total 100% Liquidation.

Point is, holding out for more is not a wise practice all the time.

[fab]

What makes this sale so spectacular to me is the selling price being over 20 times the highest price I've seen paid for any other alternative energy domain name to date that I'm aware of. In fact 2 great names together went for less than 1/20 of the selling price of SolarEnergy.com.

I think this sale will boost the price of all the other good premium alternative energy names, especially when these companies begin to show huge profits as I believe they will when lower cost of production is realized with larger sales.


Here are three of the largest prices I've found paid for other alternative energy domains.

• CleanEnergy.com $31,950
• AlternativeEnergy.com $50,138
• Wind.com and Wind.net $80,000.

SolarEnergy.com is by far a much better domain then the ones you've listed. It's a big and old industry. The other ones are not industry names. It's like comapring cellphones.com to wirelesscommunication.com.

[H2FC]

SolarEnergy.com is by far a much better domain then the ones you've listed. It's a big and old industry. The other ones are not industry names. It's like comapring cellphones.com to wirelesscommunication.com.

I agree SolarEnergy.com is much better than the 3 I listed but they were the highest priced ones I could find to compare.

I do believe tho they were sold for much less than what they're actually worth today.....BTW do you think Solar.com would be worth as much or more than SolarEnergy.com?

[PRED]

...Put 5 of the world's largest green energy companies in the same auction room - watch the price of SolarEnergy.com power past $5m, imo...Its THE category killer for one of the largest slices of next generation industries on the planet...

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I agree SolarEnergy.com is much better than the 3 I listed but they were the highest priced ones I could find to compare.

I do believe tho they were sold for much less than what they're actually worth today.....BTW do you think Solar.com would be worth as much or more than SolarEnergy.com?

it 'could' happen, if they all get it. a successful auction just needs 2 motivated buyers and anything can happen. remember tees.com at sedo?

my problem with this name is that there are 3 great names possible when we're talking category crunching.
solarpower.com
solarenergy.com
solar.com

for me solar.com is the daddy by a long chalk

[fab]

I do believe tho they were sold for much less than what they're actually worth today.....BTW do you think Solar.com would be worth as much or more than SolarEnergy.com?

for me solar.com is the daddy by a long chalk

Solar is one word, whereas solarenergy is two, but solar energy is an industry, so it should unquestionably be worth more. Comapare it to cell and cellphones, which is worth more?

solarpower.com

is not the common name for the industry.

Green names like:
HybridCars, electriccars, etc., should be worth alot, but lowering gas prices should slow down it's economic growth.