According to Marchex’ subsidiary MDNH Inc. which lists an inventory of high quality domain names for sale which are rumored to be from Yun Ye’s portfolio that was acquired by Marchex – it’ll cost you at least $25,000 for names like go-value.com, asiayellow.com, and bd-company.net.
Those names might sound extremely high-priced, but that’s the lowest suggested sale price listed on their domain marketplace.
Other $25,000 names include fedupfeds.org, goldmx.com, home2work.com, ingyenlogo.com, isale8.com, inboxgold.com, and alaak.com.
In many cases, the names listed for $25,000 redirect to Marchex’ directy and reference web site Ypeek.com – a Yellow pages online directory.
A Little About MDNH Inc.
Marchex Inc. purchased over 100,000 domain names from legendary domainer Yun Ye for the price of $164 million. While many of the names were premium names, according to web sites and blogs, a large percentage of the names listed on MDNH are straight out of Yun Ye’s old portfolio.
Times have changed. Marchex looks to be trying to unload several of their names including the bad names for extremely high prices through their subsidiary MDNH Inc.
While they have had some success recently with the sale of Dominio.com for $250,000, would you be willing to pay $25,000 for names like:
Bargin.net?
FitMundo?
Fufme.com?
Marchex does also list some Great Domains
Here’s a look at their top priced names on MDNH Inc.
matrimony.com $2,000,000
invitation.com $1,000,000
3g.com $1,000,000
pickup.com $500,000
criminals.com $500,000
hairstyler.com $500,000
loanfast.com $500,000
moneyorder.com $500,000
recyclers.com $500,000
tornado.com $500,000
drugfree.com $500,000
angry.com $500,000
jobonline.com $500,000
jobsource.com $500,000
livechat.com Personals $500,000
efaucet.com $500,000
decals.com $500,000
fleemarket.com $500,000
moneyclip.com $500,000
shoeoutlet.com $500,000
smoker.com $500,000
china.org $500,000
travelbiz.com $500,000
carkits.com $250,000
carseller.com $250,000
Granted all these prices are just initial asking prices, but it looks like in some cases Marchex may have overvalued many of their names – and now they’re hoping others will do the same. That is, unless $25,000 for esol-owc.net sounds like a bargain.
One reply on “Interested in buying one of Yun Ye’s Domains from Marchex? It’ll cost you at least $25,000”
The concept of asking a ton of money for low or moderate value names is used by both Marchex and Frank Schilling’s Name Administration. In the past I tried to buy a few names which if they were mine would be asking under 1k but Frank wanted a mimimum of 8k firm or even more and would not negotiate the price.
That is their business and business model but can’t see how Marchex or Frank could possibly be selling many domains since I feel the prices are actually even higher than end-user values. In addition, they make you jump thru a bunch of hoops, stumbling blocks and other complexities before you can even make an inquiry, making buying from NameAdmin even more unlikely even if pricing was lower or flexible.