Ingles.com Auction Was Interesting to Me

A little over a week ago, I saw that Ingles.com was coming up for auction at NameJet, and I placed a backorder on it. When I initially saw the domain name coming up for sale, my first thought was that “ingles” means “English” in Spanish. As such, I thought Ingles.com would be a good domain name for English classes targeting the Spanish-speaking market.

A few days before Ingles.com was entered into an auction, my family took a trip to the North Carolina mountains for a long weekend. On the drive from the Charlotte airport, we passed a few  large supermarkets named  Ingles. After spending the next morning on the lake, we went to Ingles to pick up some food for lunch, and we went back for a couple of additional things the following morning.

Up until this trip, I had never even heard of Ingles, and on the day we returned from our trip, I was involved in the auction for Ingles.com. It’s funny how a change of scenery, even one that is brief, can change your perspective about something. I didn’t end up winning the auction.

Raymond Hackney, whose birthday was yesterday (happy birthday!), reported that Ingles.com ended up selling yesterday for $49,899. Ingles supermarket currently uses Ingles-Markets.com for its website domain name. Perhaps the company is behind the acquisition of Ingles.com. We shall see.

Elliot Silver
Elliot Silver
About The Author: Elliot Silver is an Internet entrepreneur and publisher of DomainInvesting.com. Elliot is also the founder and President of Top Notch Domains, LLC, a company that has closed eight figures in deals. Please read the DomainInvesting.com Terms of Use page for additional information about the publisher, website comment policy, disclosures, and conflicts of interest. Reach out to Elliot: Twitter | Facebook | LinkedIn

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