"A $10 domain sold for $3,500."
“I started using DHG four or five years ago, and I was mostly interested in PBN possibilities to boost my own websites.
I didn’t use a ‘formal’ domain-searching technique. I mainly did keyword searches and looked for expired domains that caught my eye.
Doing that a couple of years ago, I saw HelloTruly.com and liked the sound of it, so I bought it for $10. After the fact, I did a little research and found that it had been some sort of social platform with subscribers, an app and an active website. The hook was ‘know when to say hello’: you put the app on your phone, plug in the characteristics of the people you want to meet, and then—maybe through Bluetooth—if you are in a public setting and someone matching your profile is nearby, it alerts you to say hello. I don’t know what happened with that site or app, but the site went offline a few years ago and the domain became available. Due to the development that had been done on it and the fact that it appeared viable, I always suspected that one of the former owners might want it back. I listed it for sale and, after about 13 months, it sold for $3,500—not to an original owner or even to a social project, but to a dental practice called Truly Dental.
Using that same technique, I picked up QuotableBooks.com for $10 and later sold it for $350.
That’s when I bought a lifetime licence to DHG. I’m still using it mostly for domaining, but I’m about to work on some new sites and may revisit the PBN possibilities. Keep up the good work!”