Domain Magnate

Sedo is notorious for making sellers pick low reserves to “encourage more bidders” and while it sometimes work, frequently there aren’t enough bidders in the first place, so names end up with low prices. This mostly refers to GreatDomains auctions.

Next GreatDomains event has these names in the list, among others:

Attended.com no reserve
Calcium.net $1-$499
Debbie.net no reserve
Doctor.net $5,000-$9,999
Illicit.com $1,000-$4,999
Doorway.com $1,000-$4,999

Now some of these reserves are just ridiculously low, someone will get bargains!
I think low reserves only hurt the sale, there should be either no reserve at all, like on snapnames and bido, or a fair reserve like there is usually in TRAFFIC auctions and good sedo auctions. Low reserves will just reduce the domain’s value in the eyes of the buyer. A quick example is when I recently sold my coriander.com for just $5100 on greatdomains auction with reserve $5k, after it went up to $9k on a sedo auction previously, shy of reaching its reserve. There are simply not enough bidders to create a bidding war to get the price up, especially now due to summer, recession, election, global warming..

Pizza.net “auction” on TDNAM ended at $1,150,000 the highest reported .net sale yet if it gets confirmed.

Lets look at the previous high sales:

Porn.net $400,000 Jan 08 SnapNames/DomainFest
RealEstate.net $300,000 Feb 07 Private
Sex.net $450,000 May 06 Moniker/Traffic

and then we get that

Pizza.net = Porn.net + RealEstate.net + Sex.net read more »

Another sales compilation here from the last 3 days. It looks the prices in the lower end LLLL.com are stabilizing and starting to grow once again.

Sedo

VUFI.com $1,390
LETP.com $800
YASM.com $850
witu.com $5,100
cstw.com $125
rrzz.com $410
qmen.com $1,510
jomv.com $90
uaau.com $610
vvww.com $650
vudi.com $1,550
wouu.com $500
PLLP.com $500
lypi.com $500
OXYF.com $499
fela.com $6,700
Exam.com $75,000 read more »

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 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 »

Here is a list of 28 NNNNN.com I’ve researched with all the 5 number domains ending within 24 hours on snapnames and the current min bids to enter:

12735.com $18.00
25622.com $16.00
31861.com $14.00
35383.com $17.00
41405.com $12.00
44664.com $41.00
51655.com $14.00
51935.com $16.00
56749.com $16.00
60066.com $47.00
66702.com $16.00
67727.com $16.00
67933.com $16.00
68223.com $16.00
69623.com $14.00
70318.com $16.00
70688.com $16.00
77570.com $17.00
85968.com $14.00
86050.com $14.00
86090.com $16.00
86127.com $16.00
86161.com $17.00
86377.com $16.00
86727.com $16.00
87756.com $16.00
91251.com $16.00

Expect the biding to go up near the last 5 minutes as usually on snapnames, but few of these are pretty good.

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 »

DNJournal reported today a bunch of new high $$ sales, among them 173.com which sold for an astonishing $302,790 through Moniker! Big news for numeric domains.

Other significant sales: read more »

I’m preparing to unload a part of my portfolio and I was recently wondering where is the best place to auction them.

While the two main venues are sedo and snanames, to my surprise the replies varied.

Those in favor of sedo are saying that:

• sedo has larger audience
• sedo’s fees are lower - indeed snapnames charges up to 20%, while at sedo it’s only 10% read more »
  

Few facts first:

- LLL.ca were bought out on 10-10-2007 and now go for low $xxx min in snapnames
- NNN.ca were bought out around the same time
- There are currently 273 L-L.ca available out of 676
- LL.ca’s are now selling for $x,xxx-$xx,xxx
- You need to have Canadian presence to register .ca - e.g. be a Canadian resident, have a Canadian company, or have someone in Canada register these for you.

Here’s the list, many of these are premiums
a-q.ca
a-u.ca
a-x.ca
a-y.ca
b-g.ca
b-h.ca
b-q.ca
b-u.ca
b-x.ca
b-y.ca
b-z.ca read more »