Expired Domain Report: iiiii.com and more

Joseph Peterson looks at the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet.

Market value for repeating-character domains (on average) undergoes a stepwise descent as length increases. CCs outsell CCCs, which outperform CCCCs, which outclass CCCCCs. So, for instance, last week NameJet sold 4 LLL.com domains above $5k. However, as they weren’t part of the expired auction cycle, they’re not reported in this article. Instead what tops the chart at $5k is a repeating 5-letter domain: iiiii.com. Typographically speaking, it is the “shortest” (most compressed) such a domain can get.

When I look at Jibber.com ($2.6k), a miniature Mr. T pops up on my shoulder like a Disneyfied guardian angel admonishing me that less is more – i.e. “Quit your jibber jabber”, Joseph! The word actually derives from horses that would “jib” – meaning balk at an obstacle and “move restively sidewise or backward”. Such a nervous, recalcitrant animal was a jibber. By extension, somebody who jabbers on and on without moving forward … Oh, thanks, Mr. T; I get it now.

Domain Name	End $	Domain Name	End $
IIIII.com	5000	Jibber.com	2600
AviationSupply.com	2300	Affilliate Marketing.com	2000
INTP.com	1710	SeeNewYork.com	1700
Accentia.com	1603	XOOB.com	1520
Goodbyes.com	1510	JustLaunched.com	1433
32688.com	1300	SendAPrayer.com	1211
BDNC.com	1210	GUAP.com	1210
MarketKing.com	1108	SecureWay.com	1100
SoftJob.com	909	WireSoft.com	900
WeedMaster.com	900	NameCreator.com	890
MediaCasting.com	830	PhotoPerfect.com	799
PTBank.com	720	36799.com	673
MexDer.com	610	DeepCold.com	610
Advocacy.net	605	3UX.com	600
BWeed.com	600	2SQ.com	591
PornStarVideos.com	504	Caola.com	488
OAZY.com	463	SLV.net	430
CookieLabs.com	430	XMGY.com	401
Candid.org	387	NewYork ComedyClubs.com	360
EBUP.com	351	FWRC.com	350
AHNY.com	341	International Stock.com	329
WebDomain Brokers.com	310	IKUP.com	300
NewYorkPhotos.com	300	SVIO.com	295
56820.com	242	IPUC.com	232
DSBQ.com	130	SBWines.com	129
Catchers.net	109	Kuba.tv	80
GiftTags.net	79	333318.com	79
DentalWhitening Kits.com	77	PubDates.com	71
BuyBonds.org	69	Nothing to See	Here

Considering how important affiliate programs are to business online, AffiliateMarketing.com got off easy at $2k. I might even say the same for SeeNewYork.com ($1.7k), since it’s a tourist destination seen by about 54 million people annually. More than a few of them will be looking for NewYorkComedyClubs.com ($360).

Seeing JustLaunched.com ($1.4k) side by side with Goodbyes.com ($1.5k) warms the cockles of my black heart. After all the hubbub surrounding SendYourEnemiesGlitter.com, there may actually be more long-term demand – purely in a commercial sense – for SendAPrayer.com ($1.2k). After all, thanks to the greeting card business, Hallmark amassed $3.9 billion in 2013 revenue.

Auctions like the one for WeedMaster.com ($900) intrigue me because of bidders’ mixed motives. Even though there is a trademarked herbicide called “Weedmaster”, the name fits equally well with gardening equipment; and many domainers undoubtedly had in mind not weeds but weed – that is to say, cannabis. Against multiple, legitimate, competing but non-overlapping interests, that trademark is no protection. Nufarm, makers of the pesticide, ought to have bought the .COM.

NameCreator.com ($890) reminds me of NameBuilder.com, which sold last week. And while WebDomainBrokers.com ($310) may look a bit clunky to seasoned domain investors, I still hear people outside the industry talk about “web domains”.

MexDer.com ($610) hints at MexDer.com.mx, the Mexican market for financial derivatives. Meanwhile, BDNC.com ($1.2k) matches both a Swedish IT support site (on .SE) and a German professional organization (on .DE): Berufsverband Deutscher Neurochirurgen – the Professional Association of German Neurosurgeons. If anybody can afford this domain name, a horde of brain surgeons can.

Put me down as a guinea pig for the next experiment at CookieLabs.com ($430)!