Comments on: 2o.com was Fair Deal, Jury Still Out on .com.au Domains

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:04:20 +0000

I work part time for the co that sold some of the Aussie doms in the auctions like StockExchange.com.au ($7,500), Jeweller.com.au ($9,200), History.com.au ($8,500) and Snowboards.com.au ($6,000) – In particular I think the buyer of StockExchange.com.au got a great deal as this domain received a few hundred type-ins and earned low $XXX/month parked at Sedo.
I tend to agree, “most buyers in the auction will be happy with their purchases in the long run.” Congrats to them!

By: belshass

belshass — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:26:51 +0000

“I believe there’s a story to c4.com as well”

oh yes,.

Citroen C4,
Channel 4,in the UK , often referred to as C4
c4 is (an) explosive ..
and many others..

lots of use for this one

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 16:12:27 +0000

Ricardo, I analyzed but didn’t include all of the details. Unless these exact domains were sold in the past publicly, it’s hard to tell for sure. But what I found was that “drastic” certainly wasn’t the case. Here’s some more of the data:

Exhilarating.com sold for $3500, last year exhilarate.com sold for $3530

The domain I sold went for about 5 times what I paid for it on a public site 2 or 3 years ago.

I don’t think you’ll find many domains that sold here for less than they were purchased in the past couple years, let alone for 10 or 20 cents on the dollar.

By: Ricardo

Ricardo — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:55:25 +0000

(DNW statement)
“But many of the domains didn’t sell at drastic discounts to what we’ve seen in the market over the past few years.”

You only analyzed one out of all that sold.

And, your rebuttal to the statements by myself and others
that domains sold low, you had to go back a couple years
to find similar sales. That alone confirms our observation.

However, many things are selling a past years’ prices
which were lower than a few months ago.
Oil, stocks, cars, houses, etc.