This week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR) covers over ten dozen domain names sold over the past week, plus a look at the week ahead.
What’s the value of a good book? ย Or a piece of art? ย If you thought you couldn’t put a number on such subjective, intangible componentsย of human culture, guess again! ย At least in .COM, a good book is worth $565 and a piece of art $616.
Domains are often compared to real estate because they’re a finite resource people pay to build on. ย However, domain pricesย fluctuate more unpredictably than land or houses. ย So another valid analogy would be art work. ย A given painting is unique and would fetch widely different prices on different days. ย With PieceOfArt.com, for example, the difference between $330 and $616 was due to a particular bidder (me) with the same taste as the winner. ย Placing a precise appraisal value on domains isย misguided.
NameJet sales last week wereย off to a brisk start with Alacrity.com at over $5k:
Domain Name | End $ | Domain Name | End $ |
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SilverLine.com | 6000 | Alacrity.com | 5300 |
InsuranceReview.com | 4500 | Zings.com | 4333 |
OnlineRecharge.com | 3433 | Legui.com | 2900 |
582.cc | 2700 | Orthotic.com | 2600 |
Hattat.com | 2302 | Momen.com | 1822 |
TheJeans.com | 1800 | PampelMoose.com | 1460 |
Intension.com | 1302 | BikeCarriers.com | 1232 |
TMCO.com | 1219 | BellaNotte.com | 1205 |
SBR.net | 1108 | AudioCandy.com | 901 |
SellMy.com | 898 | Yummy.tv | 865 |
UEC.org | 806 | GlobalMatrix.com | 710 |
ENTData.com | 709 | ESEF.com | 675 |
ZOWL.com | 645 | TorontoAerospaceMuseum.com | 610 |
WhiteMonkey.com | 599 | AGoodBook.com | 565 |
Phillip.net | 548 | ActUpp.org | 510 |
UMX.org | 507 | ZEX.org | 505 |
UHT.org | 501 | EMUA.com | 500 |
USPatentAttorneys.com | 495 | 83006.com | 411 |
RDLA.com | 409 | Unpolitical.com | 364 |
iCasino.net | 345 | 6639.cc | 336 |
YHD.org | 265 | EcoConference.com | 130 |
ReefQuest.com | 121 | Leisured.com | 87 |
We’ll see which of the many Silverlines out there bought Silverline.com for $6k. ย Silverline Windows? ย Silverline Music? ย Silverline CRM? ย Silverline Security? ย Orย an east coast metro transit service?
USPatentAttorneys.com was a good buy at less than $500. ย Inside the U.S. that prefix may feel unnecessary, but outside the United States it’s an important designator.
The world’s coral reefs have generated domain sales 2 weeks in a row:ย ReefQuest.com at $121 this week and ReefsEdge.comย at $105 the week before.
Bella Notte is Italian and literally means “beautiful night”. ย Some of you may rememberย anย iconic scene from Disney’s “The Lady and the Tramp” involving spaghetti and a song based around this phrase.
GoDaddy Auctions, meanwhile, had its fair share of expired domain sales — topped by an LLL .COM:
Domain Name | End $ | Domain Name | End $ |
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ZSG.com | 8800 | MOLV.com | 6700 |
ClearWireless.com | 4750 | 9MagentoThemes.com | 2025 |
UAEM.com | 2025 | HotQuim.com | 1524 |
RenewLondon.com | 1428 | Argington.com | 1350 |
Mode-Du-Jour.com | 1218 | CivicSpaceLabs.org | 1177 |
SkylineCollege.net | 1171 | Domainster.com | 1135 |
OpenSpot.com | 1101 | AL8.com | 1035 |
TheBirthSurvey.org | 1025 | MS1.com | 1020 |
OpenLink.org | 1010 | LanierBB.com | 1000 |
GyantUnplugged.com | 910 | ReadySetDC.com | 876 |
Tonerall.com | 870 | Upeisu.com | 810 |
ZTFLH.com | 810 | JobBucket.com | 799 |
SheTube.com | 780 | AngelBeds.com | 716 |
JZ3.com | 711 | Zazona.com | 710 |
ClickCapital.com | 707 | PlusCasino.com | 701 |
1195.net | 680 | Ecoparaiso.com | 670 |
Tagenie.com | 670 | TheColomboTimes.com | 645 |
DoYouSee.this | 123 | PieceOfArt.com | 616 |
28859.com | 611 | CrazyWays.com | 610 |
OzarkMedievalFortress.com | 590 | MovieThirai.com | 589 |
WindowsAdvice.com | 587 | AllTheScripts.com | 585 |
ZonieReport.com | 577 | 1273.net | 571 |
NLLL.com | 535 | MZ2.com | 511 |
ICANNga.com | 510 | PCRegEdit.com | 510 |
GanjaLounge.com | 498 | MO-Fiver.net | 485 |
SoutheastUtah.com | 470 | OfLikeMinds.com | 449 |
86233.com | 426 | SDW2013.com | 420 |
Drozzi.com | 419 | MyMaternityPhotography.com | 417 |
SUUP.com | 407 | ArtlineFurniture.com | 405 |
ScottHaynePhotography.com | 391 | HerbalFitness.com | 356 |
KomodoSauces.com | 355 | InsightChannel.com | 321 |
JuneauForKids.com | 300 | BigBow.com | 293 |
LandDirectory.com | 285 | PhilaLawyer.net | 280 |
UT4.com | 242 | PetModeling.com | 235 |
Scrapbookerie.com | 206 | Wrecks.net | 184 |
TheGoops.com | 165 | CouponUp.com | 147 |
YesChesapeake.com | 140 | LennyKravitzMusic.com | 108 |
UKKC.com | 107 | IndiaTransit.com | 80 |
06015.com | 70 | TheInvisibleThread.com | 65 |
The best buy in this list, in my opinion, was PetModeling.com for just $235. ย TV commercials or photos involving pet cats and dogsย areย everywhere. ย Pay checks aren’t written out to Fido.
Wrecks.net was a bargain too for $185. ย What car wreck ever gets off with less than $185 in repairs? ย That domain was in my list of recommendations last week — as were ClickCapital.com ($707), SoutheastUtah.com ($470), and Domainster.com ($1135).
Next week, you might want to glance at one of the expired domain auctions in the list below:
Domain Name | Venue | Domain Name | Venue |
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1MI.com | GoDaddy | 50399.com | GoDaddy |
61121.com | GoDaddy | Blancos.com | GoDaddy |
Caker.com | NJ Pre | Concesionario.com | NJ Pre |
DailySoup.com | NJ Pre | DoubleDeck.com | NJ Pre |
EEWriters.com | GoDaddy | Fearsome.com | NJ Pre |
Fiberglass.net | NJ Pre | HomeTuneup.com | GoDaddy |
IrishTours.com | NJ Pre | LaStella.com | NJ Pre |
Liaise.com | GoDaddy | Masud.com | NJ Pre |
MedicalSEOWriters.com | GoDaddy | MinneapolisAttorney.com | NJ Pre |
MobileDevelopers.com | NJ Pre | NeoMed.com | NJ Pre |
NJN.net | NJ Pre | OffshoreCallCenter.com | NJ Pre |
PineOil.com | NJ Pre | Pixer.com | NJ Pre |
PropogandaPanda.com | GoDaddy | QROX.com | GoDaddy |
Run.tv | NJ Pre | Shirt.org | NJ Pre |
Studentin.com | NJ Pre | StyleAvenue.com | GoDaddy |
Tadpole.com | GoDaddy | TheGunMaker.com | GoDaddy |
TheVendetta.com | NJ Pre |
EEWriters.com would mean “electrical engineering”, by the way. ย In Spanish, a concesionario is a “licensee” — but, more specifically, a licensed car dealer. ย “Studentin” is German for “female student”.
PropagandaPanda.comย may not make you rich, but I can’t think of a cuddlier animal to yell lies into a megaphone. ย Can you?
ChuckWagen says
Tadpole is cuddlier by far. Ok, maybe not. By the way, tadpole.com dates back to 1992.
Joseph Peterson says
@ChuckWagen,
Wow! I hadn’t noticed that early creation date.
Surely it ought to be a frog by now?
Mark Hershiser says
LOL…
Andrew Allemann says
+1
Matt says
“Placing a precise appraisal value on domains is misguided”
Appraisals are intended to assess the Fair Market Value of an asset. An asset can sell for more or less than its FMV, and the degree of that variance is an indicator of the efficiency of that marketplace (and appraisals are a key tool for improving efficiency in markets of non-fungible goods). So instead you might say something like “expecting a domain to always sell for close to its appraised value is misguided”, or “prices vary widely in markets of non-fungible goods characterized by high illiquidity and imperfect information”.
Thank you for the great write-up!
Joseph Peterson says
@Matt,
We basically agree. I was careful to say, “Placing a ***precise*** appraisal value on domains is misguided.” Precision as opposed to accuracy:
http://bit.ly/SLUVMn
Domain sales prices also depend on venue and time frame. Quoting a number says nothing about these other circumstances. A year or more ago, I was working quite seriously toward a domain appraisal system that aimed at accuracy rather than precision. And I was modeling an appraisal as a 4-dimensional probability distribution rather than as just a simple number. Specific testable predictions can be derived from that model. And that’s the way to do it, in my opinion.
Joseph Peterson says
Whoops! That’s what happens when I get carried away talking about interesting things. I just got sniped out of TheQR.com. Win some, lose some …
fizz says
Agree Joseph that wrecks.net was a bargain at $184 – it’s a cool sounding and easy to remember domain.
confer says
Thanks for the article Joseph!
One of the more interesting sales from the GoDaddy list:
DoYouSee.this $123
Hmmm… me thinks that.this is a mistake… ๐
Joseph Peterson says
No, not a mistake. An experiment.
I’m surprised you spotted it. But I’m glad someone did.
ChuckWagen says
I think you may have won a brand new car!! Isn’t that right, Joeprah? ๐
confer says
A brand new car would be amazing!! But heck, seeing as though I am such a huge fan, I’d settle for new.car or even used.car … as long as tickets to the next taping of the Joeprah Winfrey show were included!
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Joseph Peterson says
Once .RICH catches up with .NET, I’ll legally change my name to Joeprah and buy you a Lamborghini in your favorite color, confer. Deal?
"With net, Rich catches Up!" says
Once “.RICH catches up with .NET” eh?…
Are you sure you want to make that deal? I assume you have not seen the latest headlines …
~~ “With net, Rich catches Up!” ~~
https://app.box.com/s/3livy8z2fp9hqqd6fcw9
(or, click link beside avatar above)
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