one ugly domain - trading domains from ugly to $1 million: Late post, but we've got one juicy German .com in to get the party started!

Trading internet real estate from worthless to $1 million.

On Sept. 29, 06 I traded my one ugly domain for ReleaseParty.com with Geoffrey McGill
On Oct. 23, 06 I traded ReleaseParty.com for CelebrityAffairs.com with Brian Raymond
On Nov. 14, 06 I traded CelebrityAffairs.com for VoiceTone.mobi with Ross Alden
On Dec. 8, 06 I traded VoiceTone.mobi for RealitySeries.tv with Tom Rice
On Jan. 1, 07 I traded RealitySeries.tv for YoG.mobi with Ross Alden
On Feb. 8, 07 I traded YoG.mobi for F9Y.com (.net, .org, .biz, .info) with Randy Pendleton
On Feb. 23, 07 I traded F9Y.com for the TriGuard.com set with Dan Mortensen
On Mar. 5, 07 I traded the TriGuard.com set for Consolidate.biz with Andy Kelly
On Apr. 13, 07 I traded Consolidate.biz for 354.net with Simon Moxon
On Apr. 25, 07 I traded 354.net for Casino.rw with Alex Simon
On May 7, 07 I traded Casino.rw for OnlineCasino.im set with Brian Raymond
On July 04, 07 I traded the OnlineCasino.im Set for the Months.us set with Rom
On July 17, 07 I traded the Months.us Set for LBAB.com with Tristan Perry
On July 30, 07 I traded LBAB.com for NQT.us with Brian Raymond
On October 31, 07 I traded NQT.us for DeluxeBurger.com with Dan Mortensen
On November 14, 07 I traded DeluxeBurger.com for MotorizedHome.com with Tom Rice

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Hello. My name is Andres Kello and I'm trying to break the world record for the most expensive domain by selling TheRecordBreakingDomain.com for $12,000,001. The problem is, I've been criticized for choosing such a "long" and "ugly" domain. I naturally disagree, but that criticism, together with one red paperclip, has given me yet another idea that's never been tried before. I'm going to show my critics that it's not about the domain; it's about the idea! So this time I'm going to start with an unquestionably ugly domain, oneuglydomain.net, and I'm going to trade it up for prettier and better domains until I end up with a beautiful domain worth $1 million. But here's the best part: I'm going to share 50% of the wealth with every single trader, ensuring the final trader gets $100,000 and every other trader gets 10% more than the previous trader, totaling $500,000!

OK, so this is how it's going to work. The offering period for each domain will last either 1 week or until I receive 11 offers to give everyone a chance to submit their offers. But here's the twist: YOU are going to decide which offer I accept. See, at the end of the 1-week offering period, I will be putting every single offer up for a 24-hour vote on the NamePros.com domain forum. The winner will trade their domain with mine and then I will rinse and repeat the whole process with my new domain. Sound simple enough? Cool, anyone can offer any domain they own, no matter how ugly, but you're limited to 1 offer per round, so always choose your best one. I will continue to do this until someone is willing to buy my current domain on offer for $1 million. Who the heck knows what domain that will be, but that's what makes this fun.

Saturday, November 17, 2007

Late post, but we've got one juicy German .com in to get the party started!

Sorry about the delay in posting folks, but I had to oversee the transfer of 6-figures worth of domains that I won at the last Sedo dotMobi auction and it needed my undivided attention. Anyway, I had received a .info offer in the first day of this round, but I asked the owner, a cool Portuguese by the name of Jonas, if he had any .com's to offer. He sent me a list and I sifted through it and selected a German word I had never heard of (ok, let' s be honest, I haven't heard of most German words since, well, I don't speak German!). Anyway, it means "Exclusively" in German (and Swiss German!) and has over 60 million Google results for it:

Ausschliesslich.com ("Exclusively.com" in German with over 60 million Google results...by the way, in German, the letters ß and ss are interchangeable, thank you Wikipedia)

I thought that was a pretty juicy offer and one of the first foreign domains I can remember receiving here at OUD. Let's face it, if the domain were Exclusively.com, it'd be a definite trade up, no questions asked. Now, consider that Germany is the 3rd largest economy in the world with a very large internet presence and active .de ccTLD...yup, I think this German .com is a pretty damn good offer too.

Can you beat it? Then show me your stuff and send in an offer!

Auf Wiedersehen!
Andres

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