Congrats!

How much was the site earning on a monthly basis?

Congrats. Hard work and some luck works wonders!!!!

Great job! I have seen some celeb fansites being flipped for good money but that was a while ago, good to see that is still alive!
It's an evergreen niche I guess, with all the new 'stars' popping up all day?
I might register 'whichseatcoulditake.com'

It was an Amazon site....here you can see it, I don't care:

Peter Criss is the former Drummer of KISS | Merchandise, Toys, Collectibles, Shirts

He is the former, original drummer of KISS and I was selling KISS merch on it. All of my traffic is typein traffic, no SERP results and I get about 100 uniques a day.

That's awesome. How old was the site? And where did you sell it, Flippa?

Wow, 11+ years - that's quite a long time. I notice the official website of Peter Criss has a .net extension and you had the .com. That's nice! Also, your site is on the first page of Google, although most searchers for the phrase 'Peter Criss' would obviously go to the official site. Still, good deal!

Congratulations and keep it up!

To success,

I remember this being discussed heavily in this thread below.

http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...7TWpd4BWim8yOg

I guess you never heard back from Peter then?

congrats... I need to sell some domains soon too that is a lot of money

Awesome!!! Congratulations on your success : )

Congrats - that's awesome! An inspiration to those of us who are deciding whether or not to start playing around in the website flipping business.

Thanks for sharing!!! I'm happy for you... Keep up the good work!

Congratulation for your great success. This is really fantastic.

congratulations. lol that is good work and good luck!!

Congratulations jennifer. I't great that you were able to keep that site going for so long.

It goes to show that much interest is out there in cyberspace.

I have never tried flipping sites only pancakes. However another resource to attach to my Internet Marketing belt.

Thanks for inspiring us all

Congrats AFI
Thats a nice little lift for you.

Wow, It feels good doesn't? Rinse and REPEAT, that's my advice to you.

Hope that Helps
De'Juan Collins
internet marketing coach

Well had I been you (I wouldn't have celebrity squatted in the first place, but assuming I did) the last thing I would do is announce on a public forum openly that you profited off a celebrity domain name which you used solely for money making purposes.

That is against WIPO code of conduct, and had he decided to take this to court you would have stood no chance, even now you better hope the new guy doesn't do anything silly to the name which causes it to be traced back to you and this thread where you openly announce how much you made and the domain name in question.

No such thing as easy money, Bruce Springsteen worked hard for it, and you profited from his hard work...

On occasions like this, a site is worth what someone is willing to pay for it. It means more than what it is earning or how many visitors it is getting.

They buy it for the name and what they can do with it.

Congrats BTW

Tony

Congratulations on the sale! I have a couple of sites available for sale, I don't have them listed anywhere - just have a notice on page one that the site is available. That's great someone contacted you!

How much of that was profit? i.e. how much did you pay to start it up, time invested, etc.?

Awesome! That's a nice chunk of quick cash. Congrats!

woah. i need to get into the flippa business too

I wonder actually if you could have tried to sell it to Peter Himself, because his official site had to use .net instead.

Great Job... Congrats...
Do you have other similar sites?

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Also, I thought the term "flipping" was buying a site, quickly value adding, then onselling. Not holding for 10 years.

Nice and very lucky too.

Win / Win From both sides.

great AFI, i need to start learning stuff like this,$3k sale is incredible.

congrats!!!

Nice work dude.

I'll reveal one of the most important secrets to site flipping.. ignore Flippa.com and eBay auctions when looking to buy a site.. e-mail site owners directly!

The deals you can get this way are incredible!

TARATATATATATATANNNNNNNNNNNNN!Congratulations on your success!Thanks for sharing with us Keep up the good work!

i would say that you are lucky. Someone contacted you directly to purchase your site is either you are lucky or your site has a lot of potential. Initially i thought you sell through flippa!

Congratulations on the sale! still good luck

I've seen these go both ways (good and ugly)

Nice to hear someone came out on top every once in awhile

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I am so happy to see this happening...

Just wonder how to scale it up to made more money

wow that's awesome... flipping sites is probably the fast's way to make money online if your not one of them guru dudes..

can you tell us if you did anything special to get the sale?

Congrats! Nice change for what seems like a simple website.

It does happen. Hows that for motivation!

Well done! Congrats on your sell, are you able to tell me what site you used to sell it?

Thanks

Waoo great job; I too have different sites and want to sell them. These are full of valuable contents.

Congratulations! Thanks for the inspirational story and good luck on your next project

congrats Afi but I wouldn't give details about the site

That is awesome! Congrats. Makes me want to do something with the 80+ domains I'm sitting on. Right now there just parked at sedo waiting for offers. I suppose there's a proactive way to find buyers. Just haven't had the time.

Oh thats awesome, I am glad that there is people out there looking for exact domains and they would pay a lot of money or it ;O

Congratulations! That was a very good sale.
If you don't mind, I would like to make a comment here as soon
as you stop "runs around in circles screaming head off".
Go back and read posting # 30.
You're a smart person and you know how to handle it.
Meharis

wow !
Congratulations

11 years to make 3k... hmmm... I hope you didn't put any time into this and have more of these nice old domains.

The site you sold for $3000 was it unique? Tells us how you do it!

That's awesome! Congratulations

Congrats on your success...

Hello AFI,

I'm trying to follow in your footsteps with my "first" website sales on Flippa. I've just uploaded my auction: https://flippa.com/132220-89month---...#comment491009

It's a small network of AdSense site I created back in December. If anyone's interested...can you take a look at the copy/auction and let me know what I'm doing right/wrong? I've been reading FlipFilter.com and FlipWebsites.com recently and picked up a few tips from them...

That was smart! Congrats!!

Congrats,

Love stories like this!

Thats a great bargain. I say this because the "general rule of flipping thumb" is sell the site at a price close to what it produces in clean profit annually. So you got winner, enjoy and expand!!

cheers

Rich

Great flipping, congratulations!

Congratulations!

It seems that you already figured out how to successfully flip sites .

So , why not rinse and repeat in every way possible .

good work

Congrats! I'm currently working on selling my first site on flippa. According to Webtrafficagents website value, your site was worth $3,579.86,.. So great job Hopefully I'll have half that success some day.

That is pretty cool. I have read a bit about using sites for trending celebs but I haven't seen it in action.

I have just started reading flipping sites and am dying to get started but my bank has run dry until the end of the month for new ideas

Congratulations. That's highly motivating.

But, it's vital to be careful with domains that are ordinarily copyright protected, and those that may lead to law suits. There's a lot of money to be made in buying and selling websites -- on flipppa.com, average total sales is a little over 1 million dollars each month! There are opportunities for everyone ($200 sites to $60k sites...). Newbies and masters can play.

Checking the listings, and the ''just sold'' sections on www.flippa.com shows how huge the model is.

And, I suspect some savvy marketers are building digital assets that they plan to sell down the line. It's a lovely exit strategy. That's one of my criteria, now-- build assets that can bring recurring income, and that can fetch good money, in a year, or a few years from now.

Lot's of info on flippa and on FlippingPlanet - The Site Flipping Forum

Congratulations. That's highly motivating.

But, it's vital to be careful with domains that are ordinarily copyright protected, and those that may lead to law suits. There's a lot of money to be made in buying and selling websites -- on flipppa.com, average total sales is a little over 1 million dollars each month! There are opportunities for everyone ($200 sites to $60k sites...). Newbies and masters can play.

Checking the listings, and the ''just sold'' sections on www.flippa.com shows how huge the model is.

And, I suspect some savvy marketers are building digital assets that they plan to sell down the line. It's a lovely exit strategy. That's one of my criteria, now-- build assets that can bring recurring income, and that can fetch good money, in a year, or a few years from now.

Lots of info on flippa and on FlippingPlanet - The Site Flipping Forum

You just found a Rembrandt in your attic, and sold it to the pawn-shop. Whoever bought it is going to make a mint, so long as they steer clear of a lawsuit as you have.

Congratulations on the sale.

good to hear you're having great success!

you might sold a domain for $3k, domain market is huge these days,
Believe if or not, domaining market is more lucrative than IM market, if you truly know how to do it. I sold dozens of domains over $10k. , For some domains, i received low six figures before, like voiphone (dot com).
Plus do you believe a domain can gain you $1k without any promoting? hehe ,you won't believe it, seldom people know that. That's called domain parking.
Take a look at sedo, you'll be shocked at the domain price. Many domains sold over 10 million, like insurance.com, sex.com,...