Mar 24 2008
OklahomaCity.com For Sale, $800,000
It is very rare to find a big city.com domain come available on the market. This is a rare opportunity to own the 31st largest city in the United States. OklahomaCity.com is an outstanding geo domain that speaks volumes on its own. If you are interested in receiving more information on this domain, please send an email to info (@) simplygeo.com. Names like these will never be available again once sold.
I wonder how many, if any, Oklahoma City companies know about this. I would think very few know of its availability.
But I had a thought. What if the local chamber of commerce were brought in as a partner. And, for 10-15% of the sales price, would participate in the promotion of the sale of OklahomaCity.com. Announcements in Chamber meetings, on the chamber website, and/or listed Chamber members would receive a snail mail notification. To have a LOCAL business presence involved, who is motivated/rewarded to participate in the outcome, may be an effective marketing tool.
With a name like this, it’s about reaching the end user(s).
***SMO***
M. Menius,
Just contacted the Chamber, they will be in touch. Word will get out fast with a name like this. Just do not know if these companies know just how powerful this domain is for a bargain price of $800k. That is the most difficult part about selling domain names. The customer has to be educated on the power of the name to understand the price tag.
cool name…thats just it Steve…we’re used to seeing domains sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars but tell a local chamber 800k and they prolly all go “YEAH RIGHT”. Not many local businesses in ANY city could or would put that kind of money out unless they already had a deep understanding of the internet…most don’t.
speaking of the chamber, looks who owns OklahomaCity.TV
http://www.oklahomacity.tv
***SMO***
Yes, I saw this too. Very whitty.
You have a TOP domain name.
Good Luck with your sale
Doesn’t Skip own this domain? If so, shouldn’t that be disclosed?
***SMO**
Bill,
Skip does own this name, that information will be disclosed to those interested in acquiring the name. There is no need to post it, the name is for sale, not Skip
. Skip is satisfied with the post. Thanks.
I hadn’t noticed they have the dotTV. That’s good as they apparently are interested in creating a strong online presence and identity. On the price issue, I’m not so sure the $800k would be perceived as un-do-able. It’s the ultimate, once-in-a-lifetime opportunity and that is certainly how I would present it. A broker/seller could honestly offer this as an unparalleled internet opportunity. It’s the premium internet destination for their city and could spark some serious contemplation by media, local TV, advertising and marketing. The chamber may also act as an intermediary or broker assistant knowing which companies they could go to first that may have: 1. a genuine interest, 2. the ability to buy or finance the name. I wouldn’t rule out that the chamber could use this event as a business-building endeavor among their local members … such as asking member companies if they would like to form a co-op and go in together to buy the name. Pardon the brainstorming here.
This could become a very unique, ground breaking event if the Oklahoma City chamber were to get behind this. There is huge money in the collective businesses there. From Wikipedia (on Oklahoma City) …
“According to the Oklahoma City Chamber of Commerce, the Oklahoma City Metropolitan Area’s economic output grew by 33 percent between 2001 and 2005 due in large part to economic diversification. The area’s gross metropolitan product totaled $43.1 billion in 2005″.