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Top Sedo Sales Last Week

Wednesday, May 14th, 2008

Top sedo sales publiched by domainnamenews:

taz.com 		40,000	USD GreatDomains
chianti.com		28,500	USD GreatDomains
posse.com 		24,500	USD
diw.com 		12,500	USD
ylc.com 		10,100	USD
textr.com 		8,750	USD
yachtshop.com 		7,600	USD
wzb.com 		7,100	USD GreatDomains
gonk.com 		7,000	USD
motionsports.com	6,700	USD
vko.com 		6,100	EUR
zoyo.com 		6,000	EUR

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TRAFFIC Auction List - Moniker

Friday, May 9th, 2008

Moniker.com has released the list for the domains to be auctioned off at live auction at the TRAFFIC Orlando show on Friday May 24.

Remote live bidding will be available through snapnames.com.

There are some great names on the list.

As usual moniker.com lists a range of reserve for each domain rather than an actual reserve price

20.net $25,001 - $50,000

360.ORG $5,001 - $10,000

action.com $250,001 - $500,000

Affect.com $10,001 - $25,000

affiliateprogram.com $1MM - $5MM

Afghanistan.net $10,001 - $25,000

airforcebase.com $1 - $5,000

airlines.mobi $5,001 - $10,000

airports.info $1 - $5,000

Anger.com $25,001 - $50,000

Ankle.com $25,001 - $50,000

armtattoos.com $1 - $5,000 (more…)

Frequency Analysis of Top LLLL.com Sales

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Letter quality brings up heated discussions every time on domaining forums and that’s not surprising since this is one of the top indicators for LLLL.com pricing.

In this post I’ve done some frequency analysis on the 200 top LLLL.com sales from last 4 months. These are all the reported sales above $2000 so it should shed more light on the subject.

As expected ‘q’ is the worst letter, but so is ‘j’ and ‘z’ is very close. The 4 premium vowels are the more popular letters and together make up almost 1/3 of all letters used there, so you better have one of them if you want your LLLL.com domain to sell for $2k+ .. can’t argue with the numbers ;)

And the results are..

a 9.25%
o 8.75%
e 7.00%
i 6.50%
s 6.13%
n 5.38%
m 5.00% (more…)

Recent LLLL.com Sales Compilation - 4

Tuesday, April 29th, 2008

Here is the forth monthly Recent LLLL.com Sales compilation. LLLL.com’s are the most frequently traded domaining commodity on all forums and auctions and it’s thus crucial to be up to date with the quickly changing prices.

The list includes last 3-5 days of sales on different venues based on TDVR database

Many nice end user value sales on afternic this week. There is a growing demand on CVCV.com domains and it’s rare to see sales below $1k in this area, while the quality of cvcv’s being sold is lower. Premium cvcv are rarely put for sale.

Many bargains can still be found on different auction houses.

SnapNames

cqsv.com     $41
dqhz.com     $41
dyqa.com     $106
hovp.com     $60
hprq.com     $41
jztw.com     $41
mvyx.com     $40 (more…)

The Hidden Potential of CVCV.com

Friday, April 18th, 2008

visa_logo.jpgThis posts discusses the unique potential of the top quality CVCV.com names and provides valuable tips and updates on where to get them at bargain prices.

LLLL.com remains the most frequently traded type of domains between domainers on the forums and it’s thus important to know the prices and be aware of the market trends and potential.

High end 4L.com’s names, mostly cvcv.com had the highest increase as of lately and it’s not surprising. There are only 2500 quad premium (e.g. only containing the premium letters: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T) CVCV.com domains (consonant, vowel, consonant, vowel, e.g. topa.com, dola.com, nama.com etc.). Out of these names containing H and F are lesser quality. Another 2100 cvcv domains consist of the above letters and one of: U, K; which are considered the best of the non premium letters. And add to these another 1500 domains including V, or W and some of the above mentioned letters. In my opinion these 2500+2100+1500 = 6100 names are the top of the creme 4 letter domains. Other letters: Z,X,Y,J,Q are usually harder to make a brand of and are less attractive to a western, English speaking person. (more…)

Top .in Domains Owners

Sunday, April 13th, 2008

flag-india.jpgHere is some interesting information about the .in domaining space. .in domains became available for registration only in 2005 (there was .co.in before that, which is less popular now) and all the top names are taken by several individuals/organizations.

There are currently around 400k-500K .in domains registered. For comparison .asia which just started recently has a similar number of registrations and is perceived by many domainers as “quite useless” and .ca domains have just crossed 1 Million registrations.

Indian economy is growing fast and many companies are eager to establish their online presence. Only about 6% of Indian population have internet access and the potential for growth here is enormous. While the prices are still quite low it provides an excellent investment opportunity.

.in domains can be registered by anyone, no Indian presence required (in contrary to for example .ca domains, which are only for Canadian residents).

Cybersquatters beware .in registry imposes very strict rules to protect trademark owners. Offenders may face very high legal charges and fees.

The highest reported sale for .in domain so far was poker.in for $60K (check other high sales here), which to a western person makes perfect sense, but in fact poker is not popular at all in India so the may actually be much harder to monetize than it seems. As usually there are many high value unreported .in sales and the end user interest is quite high in these.

There are no 1-2 character .in domains, but the LLL.in and NNN.in are quite popular and are traded a lot. Premium LLL.in domains reach around $60-100 minimum prices and in my opinion they represent one of the best investment opportunities now. We’ve seen in .com, net, .org and even in .ca domains how 3 letter domains grow in price on the reseller market and have very good end user potential due to many possible acronyms. Indian domaining space is expected to grow significantly over the years and the value of these names should skyrocket!

Some historical registrations figures, available from INregistry

  • Feb 17, 2005 - 24,000 domain names registered on first day
  • Feb 21, 2005 - 75,000
  • April 05, 2005 - 100,000
  • Nov 7, 2006 - 200,000


Generic and GEO .in domains are almost impossible to get now as most are owned by several entities below.

  • Indiaportals.org own an amazing portfolio, including some of the best generics. The best among these can easily go for 5 and even low 6 figures.
    bakery.in
    bank.in
    bar.in
    beauty.in
    books.in
    box.in
    buy.in
    call.in
    card.in
    care.in
    casino.in
    casinos.in

    cell.in
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Recent High Value LLLL.com Sales

Wednesday, March 26th, 2008

A short sales report here on recent premium LLLL.com sales above $1k from last 10 days:

Aido.com $6,000.00 03/26/2008 Afternic
pcga.com $6,750.00 03/26/2008 Sedo
foqa.com $1,301.00 03/24/2008 NameJet
HIQI.com $1,055.00 03/22/2008 SnapNames
JAPS.com $8,200.00 03/22/2008 NameJet
ogit.com $1,038.00 03/22/2008 TDNAM
cozu.com $1,801.00 03/21/2008 Sedo
gmix.com $1,850.00 03/21/2008 Sedo
wuge.com $1,050.00 03/21/2008 Sedo (more…)

Latest NNNNN.com and Other Numeric Sales

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

It’s been a while since I posted anything about the 5 digit domains and that was mostly because there are not many sales and even those get unnoticed since they are rarely reported outside of snapnames and namejet.

But here they are:

Sedo

92629.com $650
92624.com $360
10323.com $60

Snapnames

65588.com $110.00
53788.com $59.00
22877.com $50.00
88820.com $60.00 (more…)

Latest Namejet Sales

Sunday, March 23rd, 2008

A few latest sales from namejet, borrowed from thedomains

jogger.com $25,201

careerplan.com $22,700

healthcaresolutions.com $10,700

dmvrecords.com $ 8,664

japs.com $ 8,200 (more…)

Tucows Reveals Key Domain Name Portfolio Assets

Saturday, March 15th, 2008

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After their previous note a month ago a new press release by Tucows reveals some interesting details including part of their domain portfolio:

TORONTO, February 20, 2008 – Tucows Inc., (AMEX:TCX, TSX:TC) a leading provider of Internet services to web hosting companies and ISPs worldwide, today announced that as of February 14, 2008 the Company had over 150,000 Internet domain names in its private domain name portfolio, including the following:

  • Over 1,000 “Gems.” These domain names are considered to have the highest potential value in the portfolio. A sample of 100 of these names is included below.
  • 39,000 Surnames. Tucows owns over 65 percent of North American’s surnames as domain names. These surnames form the foundation of Tucows’ Personal Names Service, a recently launched service that allows users to obtain their personal name, for example amy@smith.net for email and amy.smith.net for a web address. (more…)