Here’s what sold at NameJet this past week

Joseph Peterson reviews the previous week’s expired domain name sales on NameJet.

China is perched at the top of our chart – same as last week. The high expired domain sale from NameJet was YuChu.com ($11.9k), which – if experience is any guide – probably has multiple meanings apart from being a proper name. In spite of its resemblance to the English word “symmetry”, SYMM.com ($1.8k) is bound for a Chinese audience also, as are WABB.com ($1.9k), SeHai.com ($713), and possibly 2 or 3 others among the shorter domains whose buyers haven’t yet been revealed.

Mainly, however, the high-end auctions were dominated by English. (A notable exception is Trazo.com ($1.9k), Spanish for a drawn line.) The next time you see a tiny placard on a desk or outside an office door, use that prop as a conversation starter to introduce bystanders to the notion of the domain market. Point to any name plate and casually mention that the .COM sold for $9.7k. And before eating that next sandwich, consider that the $4.2k sale of Bread.net shows that .NET isn’t yet dead.

Domain Name	End $	Domain Name	End $
YuChu.com	11904	NamePlates.com	9669
Bread.net	4200	SwapStuff.com	3388
VideoMax.com	3200	HeliFlight.com	2947
NeverFail.com	2900	GolfWholesale.com	2621
D8D.com	2610	KirklandHomes.com	2524
GaySexVideos.com	2400	InnoVape.com	2000
WABB.com	1911	Trazo.com	1870
SYMM.com	1806	VisiTech.com	1523
OrthoMedical.com	1510	GMS.net	1500
NaturalDog.com	1400	OXYO.com	1103
Octopi.com	1100	Netrex.com	1000
Armont.com	968	UHC.net	910
AmericaSpeaks.org	810	SeHai.com	713
Lamani.com	649	ILSU.com	610
IndianaStandards Resources.org	610	RealTime.org	569
Slagg.com	560	OptionCentral.com	555
Bouse.com	525	CoinTimes.com	510
TownHouse Rentals.com	508	Ilinet.org	500
NetBall.net	487	NineBar.com	462
WeddingApproved.com	460	BDCavite.net	450
Cargoo.com	410	PizzaInfo.com	398
WWYW.com	395	CREHST.org	355
Dietician.org	339	HostChart.com	312
C2O.org	310	ThisIsTheStart.com	294
ACIA.org	263	BestRE.com	261
30785.com	256	FGTH.com	254
WebsiteLoans.com	197	KBNB.com	189
GamerApp.com	171	ASIS2012.org	165
SoFull.com	161	MWIB.com	160
ChicagoHistory Journal.com	155	AuctionNinja.com	109
Hiccoughs.com	84	SalsaDev.com	81
Coopoly.com	80	LiveMemorials.com	79
MensRunning Shirts.com	79	GlobalInnovation Network.org	79
ICIN.biz	71	DISCI.net	69

Many domainers like topics on the verge of going mainstream. Vaping is one such niche, and pun-loving investors obviously liked the name InnoVape.com ($2k). Someone had already laid claim to InnoVapeShop.com, but the site hasn’t launched. CoinTimes.com ($510) may be related to bitcoin, another favorite domainer topic.

Both GamerApp.com ($171) and especially WebsiteLoans.com ($197) were undervalued. Purely as a name, Coopoly.com ($80) is the best item in the list – a succinct blend of “monopoly” and its opposite, “cooperation”, with extra emphasis on “poly” = many instead of “mono” =one.

No matter how wholesomely you feed your NaturalDog.com ($1.4k), there’s a good chance Octopi.com ($1.1k) are smarter. What we normally pronounce “hiccups” would originally have been Hiccoughs.com ($84); and the latter spelling, though counterintuitive, is still accepted. Do dogs hiccough?

SwapStuff.com ($3.4k) is suitably informal for branding a site about bartering, since barters do away with the formality of money. Tourists will often pay for helicopter tours in NYC or at places like the Grand Canyon; so HeliFlight.com can recover its $2.9k in short order.

Any museum closure is a sad event. That seems to be the back story of CREHST.org, the Columbia River Exhibition of History, Science, and Technology in southeast Washington. Elsewhere in the same state, houses will be sold through KirklandHomes.com ($2.5k).

Go visit a museum near you before it too closes!