SOLD! GREAT DOMAIN NAME SOLD BY LENN FOR $6,000.
FOR SALE: About 275 Great Domain Names for real estate web sites (and a few general titles).
IF YOU ARE A REAL ESTATE AGENT OR BROKER in Maryland or Virginia (most Northern Virginia), you may 
find a GREAT DOMAIN NAME FOR SALE HERE. There are also a number of domains that are not Maryland or Virginia oriented.
NO. Lenn isn't going out of the real estate business.
About 3 weeks ago, I got a short e-mail from a person interested in buying one of my domain names.
"IS THE DOMAIN NAME greatdomainname.com FOR SALE?"
"Yes, it is." I e-mailed back. He made an offer, I explained that the site had content and we negotiated an acceptable price. Sort of like negotiating the sale of a piece of real estate. Willing buyer and seller coming together on a price acceptable to both.
LENN HAS A NEW ADVENTURE. That was the beginning of a new adventure for me. Over the years, I've collected over 400 domain names, most real estate related and most oriented to Maryland or Virginia real estate. I paid the yearly maintenance fee knowing that one day. . . . THAT DAY IS HERE. I've had offers for domain names in the past, but the price offered was never serious. So, I just held on to them. When domains "yourtownrealestate" or "realestateyourtown" were becoming scarce, I bought every one I could.
THE FIRST LESSON IN SEARCH ENGINE OPTOMIZATION (SEO) is selecting a GREAT DOMAIN NAME. I wanted to make sure that, at any time, if I was inspired to add a new web site to my portfolio, I'd have a great domain name redily available. I always planned to sell a number of them. I just didn't know when. Do the math. I've paid about $4,200 each year to maintain them.
THE DOMAINS WERE SAFE. They ere all set to renew automatically. They just sat there, coming up for renewal on a regular basis. Enom, formerly Bulkregister, kept my domains well organized and when I wanted to launch a new web site or blog, I just went to the list and opened an account on my server to host that web site. Until I got the offer for one 3 weeks ago while I had sold a couple of domains to local agents, we handled the matter buyer to seller. Not too complicated. They pay, I give them the code for them to accept the domain. If there was content, I moved the content to other pages then deleted the account from my server. Since this was an out of the country buyer, we used the services of Escrow.com. Smooth.
"Mmmmm, I said to myself, perhaps it's time. . . . ."
CHECK FOR $6,000.
IF YOU'VE TRIED TO BUY A GREAT DOMAIN NAME IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, YOU KNOW HOW DIFFICULT IT IS. "But Lenn, I tried to buy a great domain name but every time I searched for my choice, it was
MORE ABOUT GREAT DOMAIN NAMES. I've just spent two days developing a web site to offer domain names for sale. Visit this web page and if you see a GREAT DOMAIN that interests you, just give me a call or send e-mail. 
taken." Here I am holding 423 mostly real estate domain names. Time to sell some of them.
Courtesy, Lenn Harley, Broker, Homefinders.com, 800-711-7988.
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