NameJet Expired Domain Report

Joseph Peterson’s weekly review of expired domain name sales at NameJet.

Supply and demand do yield predictable results in the domain market, as with other markets. DataTrack.com was NameJet’s top expired sale last week at $8.9k. And was that price achieved because the brand name has a nice ring to it? Yes, in part. Was it because tracking data is crucial for our information age? Yes, that too. Was it because naming pressure will lead someone some day to inevitably choose this name? Yes, I’d say so.

But apart from the domain’s intrinsic or speculative value, it’s simply a case of 1 lady being fought over by multiple suitors. At least 5 “Data Track” websites might all want to be the DataTrack – DataTrackPLC.com, PSLDataTrack.com, DataTrackPI.com, DataTrack.co.uk, DTrack.com (known as the Data Track Group), not to mention several DataTrack branded products featured within other websites. What all of them might desire only 1 of them can possess.

WestCom.com ($3.1k) may serve to rebrand the 32-year-old California property management company found at WestComMGMT.com. Then again, she may go elsewhere. Chinese domain sales, which have competed to dominate our charts week after week, have been less prominent this week and last. Even JUJE.com ($2.3k), which looks like it could be Chinese pinyin, was purchased by a Korean buyer. Yet by the 8th highest sale, 813333.com ($1.6k), there is no doubt whatsoever that China is still at it.

Domain Name	End $	Domain Name	End $
DataTrack.com	8877	WestCom.com	3099
Chemicon.com	2321	JUJE.com	2266
Rebid.com	2105	GrandStone.com	1767
BuildingTools.com	1601	813333.com	1575
Think360.com	1519	Hadler.com	1410
PRM.net	1333	EdenBridge.com	1200
YachtingNet.com	1109	HealthRisk.com	1103
CostumesGalore.com	1101	MicroGraph.com	1060
Oakvale.com	945	CentralPark.net	830
PrintBiz.com	830	PetSurgery.com	820
Rural Development.com	805	OurArea.com	799
ThemeIt.com	797	MNDI.com	720
YOLM.com	691	19558.com	691
PlanetWork.com	660	SuperTrooper.com	640
711333.com	620	272555.com	619
DYT.cc	610	Vocat.com	565
ABCorp.com	552	MassageLotion.com	525
GoWire.com	511	ZapID.com	486
CryingWhile Eating.com	460	MKKF.com	452
HMAmbassador.com	451	BBQNYC.com	451
Wattz.com	445	Olavo.com	437
Nunchakus.com	425	PBQD.com	405
Conservation Africa.org	400	CMPZ.com	390
Antarctic.net	389	Cabbage.net	380
Phuket- Adventures.com	365	iPlugin.com	351
Flintwood.com	347	PSAH.com	341
BZQS.com	340	SilverPines.com	311
PixelMagazine.com	310	ScienceOnline London.org	296
SenChou.com	270	XGWK.com	269
BabySamples.com	242	210555.com	241
Tuanha.com	221	PayrollNow.com	219
WhiskeyCafe.com	212	Envelopment.com	209
Emerge Marketing.com	208	SpiritualWater.com	199
898.info	191	45287.com	189
TeraNode.com	163	03249.com	161
74219.com	161	03246.com	160
Zlango.com	160	84506.com	159
TheLightSide.com	159	ALongStory.com	150
208222.com	150	08694.com	149
GameApparel.com	141	SchoolNinja.com	141
Diopter.com	130	TeamApex.com	130
CableAssemblies.com	121	MZEB.com	119
HotelsNYC.org	115	EVLC.com	110
IFZL.com	110	1Jump.com	105
2GGJJ.com	101	TokyoTips.com	100
JobCommunity.com	99	SaffronNYC.com	80
PanHouse.com	80	JoanFRC.com	79
333605.com	79	9GGJJ.com	79
LPOZ.com	75	SearchEngine Optimizing.com	71
1GGJJ.com	70	CDPD.org	70
CSIGOV.com	69	IntoMI.com	69

Capitalization frequently involves interpretive choice. Should Zapid.com ($486) rhyme with “rapid”, or does it identify with “ID” as ZapID.com? And with Rebid.com ($2.1k) are we looking at auction runoffs or a rebellious “Reb” ID? In the case of ChemIcon.com ($2.3k), I tend to think no iconography is involved. Instead Chemicon would be a chemistry conference, pronounced to sound like the famous comic book convention, Comicon. Surely that’s it. And yet … the Nippon Chemi-Con corporation at chemi-con.co.jp is not to be dismissed.

Think360.com ($1.5k) is the opposite of narrow-minded, short-sighted myopia. A Diopter.com ($130) is a unit of measurement in optics. But that’s ALongStory.com ($150). Hadler.com ($1.4k) is a surname, while EdenBridge.com seems to be an Austrian prog-rock band with 8 albums and a website built on .ORG. Weirder still, Oakvale.com ($945) may be a fictional town in an XBox game rather than an actual place.

When last I checked, CentralPark.net ($830) still exists in a real New York City. Speaking of which, soon New Yorkers may be able to sip mango lassis at SaffronNYC.com ($80) or gnaw ribs at BBQNYC.com ($451) … perhaps CryingWhileEating.com ($460). Readers unsure yet whether offspring really are your cup of tea might try BabySamples.com ($242), nibbling the odd finger or toe much like edamame.

The best geographical domain in this chart must surely be Antarctic.net ($389), which cost as little as a Cabbage.net ($380). TokyoTips.com ($100) being another strong geo. PetSurgery.com ($820) I’d consider enormously undervalued, since it’s a topic that defines many veterinary careers. Privileged pets let their vets fly with them on private jets.

If, rather than painting the Sistine Chapel, your Michelangelo twirls Nunchakus.com ($425), then you were probably a SchoolNinja.com ($141), a fellow turtle. To our generation, SuperTrooper.com ($640) means shenanigans – hiding animal noises in earlier DNW articles, for example. Try to say this aloud without sounding ridiculous: 1GGJJ.com ($70), 2GGJJ.com ($101), … 9GGJJ.com ($79). What hidden significance are we missing? Must be something.