Comments on: DBS: Domain Parking Continues Downward Spiral

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NameDrive Blog » Blog Archive » ND Weekly — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 12:29:45 +0000

[...] To be sure, Fabulous sells a lot of domain names in any given quarter, but it is very apparent that its revenue per domain is falling. The company blames a number of factors for this fall… More… [...]

By: Bill

Bill — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:40:41 +0000

All this means is that private domain sales are getting hotter because more and
more people are buying up the .com’s that
are still un-registered,even the crappy ones.
That naturally increases the value of the good names.I own over 2000 names and i’m
experiencing a huge increase in e-mails from
people and companies interested in buying my undeveloped names.Parking is old news,either develop or sell outright.I’m doing both.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:43:08 +0000

Rob, it’s interesting, but I don’t think it’s all that relevant to most domainers. DBS sold more domains because

-its distribution partners (including GoDaddy) are going “online”
-It sold one domain for $250,000
-It sold portfolios of domains to investors

Obviously good news, but I don’t know many people who have 600k domains to sell off

By: Adam

Adam — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:36:39 +0000

I’d say the news is far from bad!! Not a bad increase at all..!

By: Rob Sequin

Rob Sequin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 14:12:19 +0000

Andrew,

I think you missed the story here.

Headline should have been domain sales up over 400%

“It also sold $2,779,000 worth of domains last quarter compared to only $638,000 the same quarter last year.”

I mean really? You buried this on the last line of the story?

That’s HUGE news.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 03:19:49 +0000

@ Johnny – they’re parking more and more domains on their service to make up for the drop in earnings per domain.

Many of their domains are long-tail. Even though they get less traffic the should convert fairly well.

By: Johnny B. Good

Johnny B. Good — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 02:05:17 +0000

It seems to me that many of Fabulous’ domains are not that fabulous – so to speak, and thus may the real reason for the downward spiral, meaning Google is further “Smart Pricing” their domains down.

If this is not true, then why did their client’s domains not spiral downward as well, given all their reasons for the downturn?