spyware.com being auctioned

**revolution1** · 12-14-2007, 02:34 PM

Sahar Sarid is auctioning his name spyware.com off at the next traffic conference. He has set a reserve at 995 000k and says he thinks that it will sell in the 3-5 million range. Great name. Thoughts?

**Acro** · 12-14-2007, 02:51 PM

I'd like to know if he spent more than $50k buying it.

**sashas** · 12-14-2007, 02:55 PM

for all you know, he might've hand regged it. Its got a 2000 creation date, and spyware is a relatively new phenomenon on the internet. Before that, they restricted themselves to just trojans and viruses.

**intellect** · 12-14-2007, 03:00 PM

My Opinion is the prior buy amount is not even relevant. You should make any purchase on current market values.

**DomainsInc** · 12-14-2007, 03:05 PM

He'll never get that much. Even wallstreet.com couldn't sell for that amount at the last auction.

**Acro** · 12-14-2007, 03:06 PM

Some prices are over-inflated. I doubt the reserve will be met, unless it's a well-designed PR stunt and the deal is already sealed.

**katherine** · 12-14-2007, 03:31 PM

I doubt he will get 3-5M for it. 1M would be nice.
Good name though.

**H2FC** · 12-14-2007, 03:52 PM

Spyware.com was registered august 2000......apparently it was available when I registered SpyBugs.com in january of 2000.

I guess thats another million or two I lost out on....oh well its only money

**GAMEFINEST** · 12-14-2007, 05:49 PM

Not bad for a 2000 reg...

**dcristo** · 12-14-2007, 06:19 PM

3-5M WTF just slightly optimistic

**loscocco** · 12-14-2007, 06:24 PM

yeah thats a bit stretching it.. i say about 1.2m

**revolution1** · 12-14-2007, 06:28 PM

its a great name i do think that comparing it to many other 1mil plus names that it ranks up there.

**Seraphim** · 12-14-2007, 07:55 PM

Originally Posted by revolution1

Sahar Sarid is auctioning his name spyware.com off at the next traffic conference. He has set a reserve at 995 000k and says he thinks that it will sell in the 3-5 million range. Great name. Thoughts?

Spyware.com should be ranked #1 in Google for it's keyword, period. Drive up those earnings before the auction, and market it for sale with x 100 current revenue levels. If I emailed Sahar telling him I could do it within a reasonable amount of time, I doubt he would respond to my email.

Back in the old school days, I used to make X,XXX per day off this keyword doing arbitrage. Too bad I don't have a mill to invest.

**wangjinhk** · 12-14-2007, 09:23 PM

Maybe $x,xxx,xxx?

**Domainator** · 12-14-2007, 09:58 PM

Absolutely agree with Acro on this!

Originally Posted by Acroplex

Some prices are over-inflated. I doubt the reserve will be met, unless it's a well-designed PR stunt and the deal is already sealed.

**acronym007** · 12-15-2007, 01:56 PM

It's better than all the .mobi names combined.

**Acro** · 12-15-2007, 01:57 PM

Originally Posted by acronym007

It's better than all the .mobi names combined.

How can you say that, spyware.mobi looks like the sheeeet

**acronym007** · 12-15-2007, 02:00 PM

Originally Posted by Acroplex

How can you say that, spyware.mobi looks like the sheeeet

Ooops, meant to exclude that one.

**revolution1** · 12-15-2007, 02:54 PM

if previous sales are any indicator of the value of this name then i think it should be one of the tops of all time. I am still in disbelief about the sale price of seniors.com even if we have an aging population that name sold for quadruple of what i think it is worth.

My 2 cents.