Francois, the owner of the popular Domaining.com site and PremiumDomains.com marketplace has unloaded another great sale announced today, by selling Optimize.com for $115,000 USD. This is a nice 6 figure sale but even better when you know the approximate profit!
Francois appears (based on whois records and a report on DnJournal.com) to have purchased Optimize.com via Moniker in Feb of 2008 for $24,650.
This would put the domain sale for Francois on Optimize.com around the $90K profit range or about $45K profit for each year he owned the domain name.
Francois also made news recently with the quick 3 month flip of Pepe.com, which he purchased for $15,000 and sold for about $61K. The Pepe.com sale brought in a $45K profit for 3 months of owning it.
Clearly it takes some cash to purchase quality domain names, but also shows that a nice profit can be made when you purchase the right ones for the right prices. I hope somebody sees the value in Plans.com, a domain I wrote about a little while back. Francois also owns Plans.com .
Congrats goes out to the buyer and Francois on this recent sale. If you have premium domain names you wish to offer for sale, stop by and check out PremiumDomains.com . If you have short and catchy domain names for sale, check out one of Francois other sites, Mocus.com .
As for me, I can’t seem to sell anything 
Even though we “can’t seem to sell anything,” it’s encouraging to hear some people are doing all right! It’s believing in yourself, so don’t let anybody talk you down . . .
There is a link to your site on my blogroll, so though I don’t post a comment often, I enjoy reading your blog . . .
March 17th, 2010