OnlineCollegeDegrees.com and Net Selling for Big Bucks at Sedo
Wednesday, September 8th, 2010
Online education domain name auction ending shortly.
Separate auctions at Sedo for OnlineCollegeDegrees.com and OnlineCollegeDegrees.net will conclude overnight tonight and sell for at least $28,000 combined.
The auction for the .com is currently at $18,000 and the auction for .net is $10,000.
The .net domain name is an active web site with page rank. Compete.com shows it getting just over 1,000 uniques a month.
There are a number of uncertainties in the online education market, specifically surrounding financial aid and loans. This is putting some downward pressure on education lead gen, which some are calling a bubble. But that hasn’t dampened the selling prices of online degree related domain names.
Recent sales include AssociatesDegree.com for $32,000, DegreePrograms.com for $31,555, and BachelorsDegree.com for $62,500. (Source: NameBio).
Other active auctions at Sedo worth viewing are BailBonds.comorg at $8,500, SportsAds.com at $3,000, and Templates.biz at $600.
Further Reading:
there is one bidder only for the .com,
and then the owner pull this auction to public.
Those prices appear high for a three-word domain but in the end if the buyer pays they have their own rationale for why they are willing to spend X. I don’t focus on education domains but have a few decent ones. It will be interesting to see how they monetize these sites (lead gen I suppose).
Most good education keywords paired with “online” are usually worth a nice sum. The two domains have a high CPC due to the “online” leading the college degrees.
College degree and college degrees are names that stand alone as valuable online education real estate.
These domains can be used a number of ways. There’s big money in monetizing these, as there is with job domains.
$18,000 is a small sum to pay for onlinecollegedegrees.com. If I had the money, I would definitely invest into that domain. I would use the domain to lead my education domains.
As for the student loan anchor, there is still demand to seek online education. It is quickly becoming the preferred option, as opposed to traditional classroom education.
Although online colleges charge a fortune, they still manage to fill courses. Even traditional colleges have considered reducing their classroom through adding online courses, which will likely offset budget constraints.
High schools are also looking to online education due to California’s budget crisis.
“Online education” related domain names have always been good money makers. Their cpc rates speak for themselves. It’s not uncommon to see a consistent cpc of above $2.00, and up to $11.00 in limited occasions.
The niche is growing as many find it easy to manage their life style and advance their education at the same time. It was unfortunate that I unloaded a lot of the better ones before I realized their value.
I still own a lot of the 3 word categories which are mainly geared toward more targeted traffic. As a result, there a lot of the 3 word domain names in that category that do better than the 2 word domain names. For example, online degree vs online degree programs or online college degree.
Regards,
Henry.
Andrew, you have BailBonds.com and I think it was the .org
Thanks Jamie, fixed