Domain broker has solid Q3, but will have a huge Q4.
Domain name broker Sedo has released its third quarter Domain Market Study, reporting over $20 million USD in sales for the latest quarter. This is down slightly from the company’s results in the same quarter 2009, and is also lower than each of the first two quarters this year. (I’m sure the company is looking forward to its Q4 report, which will get a nice boost from the $13 million sale of Sex.com.)
However, the number of domains sold increased slightly year-over-year, from 9,928 domains sold in Q3 2009 10,085 sold in Q3 2010.
In a promising sign for the company, fixed price sales increased to 28% of total transactions at Sedo last quarter. Offer-counteroffer transactions accounted for the largest chunk of sales at 42%, and marketplace auctions accounted for 19%.
The full study (UK version) is available for online viewing (pdf).
Henry says
It is my belief and opinion that as end users buy up the cateogory killer domain names that command the high prices, more names will have to be sold to get higher earnings. And, as 3-4 word search term domain names come on board, average price of domain names sold will be getting lower especially with non dotcoms.
I don’t expect onlinedegreeprogram.info to sell at anywhere near degreeprogram.com nor accreditedonlineuniversities.org to come close to onlineuniversities.com.
Just my opinion and observation.
Henry.