I had an interesting .com domain sale, thought I would share... (2.Viewing)

So, I owned two domains...

MapleName.com and NameMaple.com, both were the same except reversed.

Usually I prefer MapleName.com over NameMaple.com but in this case the NameMaple.com made much more sense and I only registered the MapleName.com as a defensive mechanism.

I have had nibbles only on the NameMaple.com which is what I expected because it made more sense but after 10 years I decided to drop the MapleName.com.

Sure enough, as expected, the MapleName.com bid up nicely in the aftermarket and eventually sold to an end user for a nominal amount. I figured that only happened because of the dropped auction scenario but nonetheless the domain ended up being put into use.

I figured on the aftermarket bidding it up and it was a calculated move by me hopping whoever bought it would eventually come after the NameMaple.com and last week I finally got the contact and the deal closed later in the week. I am happy with the sale and am able to renew a good portion of my catalog with the proceeds.

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The story above ties hand in hand with an article I had written previously: Why it's not a good idea to own a domain in all the matching extensions?

So just like NOT registering all extensions, try not to register all variations because it allows an end user to start small and work up to the cream .com or .ca once the company decides to make the move.

Congrats on the sale.

Congratulations on the sale. A sale is a sale. “A bunch could be renewed” is even better.

Congrats, it's nice when it all works out how you think it will!

Thank you for sharing and congratulations.

And a footnote, they committed to the matching NameMaple.ca from me today.

The MapleName.ca still makes no real sense for this domain and it remains free to hand register. If I were a betting man I would say the MapleName.com will soon be dropped now that they have the exact match they wanted.