[danielh]

I recently sold a five letter single word .io domain for 5k, which was the median of the estimated value according to various (free) appraisal services.

The person I sold it to immediately relisted it for 79k. That was a bit irritating.

[axiosgunnar]

Well, did he sell it for 79k? :)

[danielh]

No, not yet, but you can bet that I check on a regular basis, although I should know better :)

A little backstory: a friend of mine sold a five letter single word .com about a decade ago for a really low price, IIRC $500. The buyer turned out to be Electronic Arts (through a middleman, obviously) and they used the domain for one of their games.

Every time I was contemplating an offer for the domain, I was worried that I was getting EA'd :) When I saw the domain getting relisted, I felt like that's exactly what happened.

So, to answer the original question, my biggest gripe is probably that price finding is really difficult for non-professional players.

[byDezign]

as someone with a 4 letter .io domain & twitter name I'm also very curious..

I got all excited thinking it was worth a ton but the transaction history shows it at exactly what you got for it. But it all depends on the word too I suppose.

I had to put the highest possible security for the twitter account and If I make a post I get 1-3 requests a day to login/reset and if I'm willing to sell, maybe even for 6 figures. (Which if you didn't know, responding "yes" is a violation of The Bird Apps terms, and they have repeatedly yanked peoples names for soliciting a sale"

[angrais]

Perhaps the person that bought it from you also owns other domains with the same name, e.g., a .com domain.

That way, if they list one very high, perhaps they'll get an above average offer on the .com, then when they sell that, the same seller will buy the .Io for a cheaper price. Such as 10k.

[warrenm]

I'm happy he was able to do well with his purchase - you obviously did well selling it for 5k :)