Domain Magnate

Despite the recession in US economy and a certain amount of uncertainty in the domaining market July 08 have been pretty good for me. I had around $50k in sales, with over 2/3 of it being profit. While most sales were private and the buyers preferred to keep them confidential, couple of the top sales are through public auctions so I can mention them here:

Dickinson.com $12K on Bido
Krom.com $5,5k through AfterNic
Harlot.com $5145 on Bido (I owned 50% of this one)

I rarely disclose my earnings and report sales, however I feel this is needed to encourage others to see the hidden opportunities in domaining. What I like most about the industry are the large gaps. Appraisals always range widely and so do auctions and sales, it’s not unusual to see domains being resold for 2x and more shortly after. read more »

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 read more »

Domain News reports:

The .Asia Landrush start is a huge success (see DotASIA’s Press-release)! For those who missed the first day Landrush Promo, now is the chance to catch up with a new promotional code offered by ASIADNS/EURODNS that allows you to get the .ASIA for only 6 Euros* and this for the next 7 days.

The Promo Code is: 6ASIA21 (valid from now till only the 28th February 10AM UTC). Application for .ASIA domains can only be submitted via the new read more »

There are many NNNNN.com auctions ending in the following few days on snapnames:

Domain Current bid End date
12830.com $24.00 02/21/2008
55699.com $22.00 02/21/2008
18681.com $21.00 02/21/2008
12488.com $19.00 02/21/2008
58820.com $19.00 02/21/2008
74512.com $19.00 02/21/2008
80388.com $19.00 02/21/2008
99465.com $19.00 02/21/2008
23770.com $18.00 02/21/2008
28942.com $18.00 02/21/2008
36389.com $18.00 02/21/2008
56869.com $18.00 02/21/2008
68586.com $18.00 02/21/2008
76881.com $18.00 02/21/2008
82544.com $18.00 02/21/2008
87071.com $18.00 02/21/2008
58877.com $23.00 02/22/2008
21166.com $21.00 02/22/2008
77116.com $21.00 02/22/2008
11584.com $19.00 02/22/2008 read more »

Few days after the buyout NNNNN.com sales are heating up.

Update: I’ve received reports of some random NNNNN.com’s sold in bulk privately for $8.5-10 each. Get those bargains while you still can

Several sales have been reported so far on the forums.

I’ve sold 5 random NNNNN.com’s for $12.5 each (not selling that cheap anymore):

87816.com
87826.com
37535.com
37675.com
38417.com

Another sale reported here:

These 5 sold for $15 each:
72252.com
82292.com
71131.com
75525.com
72292.com

Another sale here

37467.com $15 Spells Eshop.com

More sales from SnapNames

01140.com $22
00108.com $29
05211.com $22

$10-15 or about twice the reg fee is the minimum anyone would sell NNNNN.com’s. But for now, while they are still fresh you can choose the better ones.

Now is a very good time to buy some good NNNNN.com’s for cheap before the prices rise and stabilize.

A few notable previous sales:

46000.com $299 2007-12-25 SEDO.com
34000.com $1,050 2007-11-21 SEDO.com
84444.com $500 2007-11-06 AfterNic.com

Domains ending with a few zeros and with many repeating digits are obviously more memorable and thus more valuable.

Sedo has some big names at auctions closing within a few days

urlaub.com 700,000 EUR 9 3d 21h 46m
iraq.com 400,000 EUR 8 3d 21h 46m
arabia.com 350,000 $US 3 3d 21h 46m
iran.com 300,000 $US 11 3d 21h 46m
kosovo.com 150,000 $US 3 3d 21h 46m
dubai.net 140,000 EUR 12 3d 21h 46m
sevilla.com 110,000 EUR 7 3d 21h 46m
glasgow.com 78,000 EUR 5 3d 21h 46m

Now it’s official

ALL NNNNN.com Have Been Registered

The registrations rates were crazy in the past few days, even higher than with LLLL.com

Lets see how the prices rise now and how fast we can get to a minimum of $20-$25 for NNNNN.com. If there will be enough trading activity going then probably within a few weeks!

I’m going to start a priceguide on NNNNN.com’s soon.

See the historical countdown here

Yes it’s happening! For all the non believers, recent count shows only 1829 NNNN.com’s available only. The buyout is very close and it might happen within a few hours to a few days. After that it will be hard to find NNNNN.com’s at reg fee..

Half of the remaining NNNNN.com are starting with 0 and many contain 4.

Already sales are picking up. Here is a recent sale of NNNNN.com which appears to be a ZIP code for $40 on DP.

update: 982 remaining:


02037.com
02039.com
02057.com
02069.com
02075.com
02076.com
02079.com
02087.com
02091.com
02097.com
02219.com
02231.com
02253.com
02257.com
02263.com read more »