In this week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR), Joseph Peterson takes a look at renewals of domains including the term “guru”, hits and misses in this week’s expired domain sales, and some domains to backorder for next week.
Probably the most significant recent news for the expired domain market has been the emergence of DropCatch.com. The previously closed system instrumental in building HugeDomains’s massive portfolio is now open for backorders. Some domainers say too open. But that’s all discussed in an earlier article.
I’m no guru, and crystal balls are inexact at best. However, today is yesterday’s future. So I wanted to see what happens to 2013 gurus in 2014. Specifically, I tallied up all the expiring “guru” suffix .COMs as a way to anticipate what might happen to .GURUs expiring next year. This week, I can report on the outcomes.
Last week at GoDaddy, I found 65 [keyword]Guru.COMs in expired auctions and 33 in post-auction closeout bins. After tracking those 98 gurus, I counted only 3 sales: PricesGuru.com ($28), Hitel-Guru.com ($25), and HeathcareGuru.com ($5). Another 5 were either renewed or purchased after deletion: CouponsGuru.com, MyStaffingGuru.com, SMSJokesGuru.com, SunroomGuru.com, and WSGuru.com.
By the way, that wasn’t a typo for “Healthcare”; it was indeed “Heathcare” [sic]. A more expensive typo purchase was WordNewsOnline.com for $262. Slow down or invest in glasses, guys!
NameJet auctions last week included some good items:
Domain Name | End Price | Domain Name | End Price |
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Amador.com | 5101 | ePrinting.com | 4544 |
RehabClinic.com | 4355 | CallCenter.net | 3355 |
GreatOne.com | 2404 | CommercialPainter.com | 1700 |
Zatoo.com | 1600 | GlobalBooksInPrint.com | 1550 |
Coasting.com | 890 | ColoradoAIM.org | 760 |
WorldArtAntiques.com | 710 | DJO.org | 676 |
BestPath.com | 670 | UnionCredit.com | 665 |
RSJames.com | 610 | Levanta.com | 586 |
Filmes.org | 585 | SouthSeattle.com | 575 |
GaryHartNews.com | 551 | Ordinances.com | 510 |
GoodPasture.com | 510 | ModerateLeft.com | 421 |
Emanuelle.com | 400 | Yuggle.com | 389 |
LFY.org | 351 | About.tv | 345 |
Siteius.com | 310 | CHCR.com | 295 |
HMSPortugal.org | 291 | FMBR.com | 270 |
Artifara.com | 260 | Night.tv | 215 |
Pronetos.com | 200 | YourHospital.com | 173 |
JudgeThis.com | 171 | MHEF.com | 155 |
AboutDomaining.com | 110 | GTMTravel.com | 101 |
LoveYou.tv | 100 | ProgrammingTools.com | 79 |
Transvestite.org | 79 | 41196.com | 70 |
“Amador” is Spanish for lover / suitor … and a county in California. So it will be interesting to see whether it is developed as, say, a dating website or a local directory.
Equally ambiguous is HMSPortugal.org. “HMS” is a common title for British vessels — “Her Majesty’s Ship”, as in the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta, “HMS Pinafore”. However, this domain was actually used for a Harvard Medical School program until 2011. Given the extra weight given to .EDU backlinks, I expect this $291 purchase was SEO-motivated.
While I’ve seen fewer 5-digit numerical domain selling at auction for significant prices this week, I am seeing more .TVs. The 4 here averaged $250 apiece.
Domains like RehabClinic.com and CommercialPainter.com have clear applications. Other sectors tend to be less obvious to buyers. For example, lobbyists spend more than $510 to shape city ordinances; so Ordinances.com is more important than its purchase price. Transvestite.org and ProgrammingTools.com were dirt cheap at $79 apiece. But the best buy in this list? SouthSeattle.com. The buyer is lucky I forgot to bid.
GoDaddy was active too:
Domain Name | End Price | Bids | Domain Name | End Price | Bids |
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Tago.com | 13250 | 131 | JulioCesar.com | 4550 | 56 |
IAPPHacks.com | 4051 | 67 | 16n.com | 3050 | 77 |
Series-Cravings.info | 1819 | 123 | ArtsAndMusicPA.com | 1775 | 54 |
TheNextGalaxy.com | 1575 | 52 | FinancialWealth.com | 1526 | 50 |
URLO.com | 1275 | 60 | RSSDay.org | 1236 | 39 |
KeyLogger.net | 1225 | 75 | EmploymentTimesOnline.com | 1225 | 45 |
Teshe.com | 1151 | 70 | 11330.com | 1085 | 78 |
OnlineMoviesPlayer.com | 1025 | 26 | GetURGoodOn.org | 1025 | 34 |
TaleWins.com | 1024 | 48 | DougDavies.com | 921 | 31 |
RideTheShuttle.com | 910 | 67 | PlumbLibrary.org | 885 | 52 |
PressOKEntertainment.com | 810 | 35 | StartMyRipple.com | 810 | 39 |
FESSriLanka.org | 810 | 56 | Gold-Today.com | 800 | 64 |
5imdc.org | 735 | 37 | eReporter.com | 717 | 21 |
ClawHammer.com | 680 | 33 | ITHO.com | 676 | 34 |
ShipCenter.com | 651 | 45 | Maraja.com | 640 | 48 |
NakedAndAfraid.com | 626 | 17 | SLDBrass.com | 610 | 35 |
LolasFortWorth.com | 610 | 27 | www7.com | 610 | 58 |
ChiefEngines.com | 609 | 39 | 4ty.com | 575 | 41 |
JeanRitchie.com | 560 | 46 | SketchyApp.com | 510 | 22 |
TheDailyBrew.com | 495 | 52 | EraseTheTruth.com | 455 | 41 |
EventFire.com | 455 | 39 | ATTTA.org | 367 | 27 |
MiamiCondos.tv | 355 | 13 | SimplyRedBistro.com | 344 | 22 |
B3O.com | 338 | 20 | R7U.com | 338 | 28 |
6fO.com | 337 | 38 | Neonisi.com | 335 | 69 |
ComputerJohn.com | 315 | 15 | SongHR.com | 306 | 47 |
KravMagaBC.com | 295 | 11 | WordNewsOnline.com | 262 | 18 |
JQI.org | 145 | 13 | PlayRecords.com | 123 | 21 |
ReefsEdge.com | 105 | 14 | PricesGuru.com | 28 | 4 |
GuruLine.com | 25 | 4 | Hitel-Guru.com | 20 | 3 |
HeathCareGuru.com | 5 | 0 | GurusTalk.com | 5 | 0 |
JulioCesar.com isn’t just a Roman emperor. Wikipedia has articles about 77 different people names “Julio Cesar”. Most likely this one refers to a Brazilian goalkeeper. Render unto Caesar that which is redundant, says FinancialWealth.com … in case you didn’t know that wealth tends to be financial. Gold overcomes hyphens, evidently, based on the $800 sale of Gold-Today.com.
.NET is often more valuable for IT-themed topics. Witness KeyLogger.net. That’s the technology that allows identity thieves to record this sentence I’m typing. But it also has legitimate purposes.
ChiefEngines.com ought to belong to the folks at ChiefPerformance.com, who are all about boat engines. As for NakedAndAfraid.com, it’s clearly aiming at a gimmicky reality TV show for wilderness survival in the nude. Even setting aside the trademark violation, this is not a smart buy (in my view) since the show will be past its prime very quickly. Domainers often expect to get rich by targeting short-lived TV shows and movies.
Last and maybe least, here is a list of upcoming expired domain auctions — some of which may appeal to some of you:
Domain Name | Type | Domain Name | Type |
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2855.cc | GoDaddy | 4089.com | NJ Pre-Release |
5528.cc | GoDaddy | 86233.com | GoDaddy |
AL8.com | GoDaddy | BackToWork.org | GoDaddy |
Bid.net | NJ Pre-Release | ClickCapital.com | GoDaddy |
DailySoup.com | NJ Pre-Release | Domainster.com | GoDaddy |
EatVegan.com | NJ Pre-Release | GoChange.com | GoDaddy |
Hussain.org | NJ Pre-Release | JZ3.com | GoDaddy |
Lassy.com | NJ Pre-Release | Musaka.com | NJ Pre-Release |
OffshoreCallCenter.com | NJ Pre-Release | Precisio.com | NJ Pre-Release |
RDR.org | NJ Pre-Release | SilverLine.com | NJ Pre-Release |
SoutheastUtah.com | GoDaddy | SUUP.com | GoDaddy |
UEC.org | NJ Pre-Release | Verkleidung.com | NJ Pre-Release |
VPE.org | NJ Pre-Release | WebcamsGratis.com | NJ Pre-Release |
Wrecks.net | GoDaddy | zBus.com | GoDaddy |
“Verkleidung” is German for “costume”. If you don’t know what Musaka is, go eat some! Unless you EatVegan.com.
Domenclature.com says
Tastefully done, Peterson! Vegan, or not.
Today is indeed Yesterday’s Tomorrow. I hope you spend your tremendous talent looking at how Domainers can sell domains in an open market, and not cheering on domain catchers bent on cutting us off the food chain.
Great job.
Mr D Angel says
What is the latest on 101domain.com “extorting” there customers as Rick Schwartz called it on Domain Sherpa?
http://www.domainsherpa.com/discussion-20140501/comment-page-1/#comment-1055066
Joseph Peterson says
@Mr D Angel,
To be honest, since I wasn’t affected by 101Domain’s error, I haven’t been following the topic. So I personally couldn’t summarize where it stands.
Joseph Peterson says
As a followup to domains I recommended glancing at, here are some of the realized prices:
8900 Bid.net
6000 Silverline.com
1135 Domainster.com
1035 AL8.com
1035 BackToWork.org
806 UEC.org
711 JZ3.com
707 ClickCapital.com
470 SoutheastUtah.com
426 86233.com
407 SUUP.com
375 2855.cc
280 5528.cc
184 Wrecks.net
Some of those were reported in last week’s article:
https://domainnamewire.com/2014/05/23/expired-domains-report/
Others will be charted later this week.
Note that there’s a greater delay in reporting NameJet auctions than GoDaddy auctions, due to the difference between a pre-release backorder deadline during the upcoming week and an actual auction. So most of the domain pre-releases from NameJet have not yet concluded.
That leaves 2 GoDaddy items whose auctions appear not to have been interrupted by renewal or transfer:
GoChange.com
zBus.com