DomainState.com domain forum being sold to Trellian (Above.com)

A few hours ago, the auction for DomainState.com domain forum was over and it was sold to the Trellian (Above.com) and I do believe that it would be a great acquisition for the Trellian because they could promote their domain related services such as KeywordDiscovery, Above.com etc… more effectively to the domainers.

I participated in the auction but it seemed the Trellian company was quite determined to acquire the domain forum.

I hope that the forum would grow even further and domainers would still get benefits from the shared knowledge of the current owners.

Domainstate.com is most likely going for $46,000

Many people earlier valuated DomainState.com domain forum for around xxxx and some disgracefully valued it in xxx range. But I didn’t think its value in xxxx range but rather like low to mid xx,xxx due to its potential if I could imply a business model.

Therefore I offer xx,xxx (more than $20,000 offer of Paul Shaul) for the domainstate.com domain forum and thanks to the owners of the forum, I involved in a three way auction which was transparent (we submit offers to let know others as well as the admin of domainstate forum). I am not going to mention the names here. There was $1,000 increment each time. I now gave up after my offer of $45,000 was outbid by a higher offer from the CEO from a big company and he offered $46,000. I thought it was not justifiable for me to go more than $46,000.

Unless there is another offer from the other bidder, it would be sold at $46,000.