Illness.com at $12.7k and other Expired Domain Name sales

Joseph Peterson recaps the past week in expired domain name sales at NameJet.

Not sure why the previous owner of Illness.com permitted his domain to expire – illness perhaps? At any rate, after slipping into a coma, this 19-year-old was heroically resuscitated by the efforts of 151 NameJet bidders. Now, after an injection of $12,742, the kid’s got a new lease on life; but he’s leaving home.

Among expired domain auctions, the second highest result last week at NameJet was HuiChen.com. While that is the full name of many Chinese professionals, $8.9k would be above average for such personal names. Even for a celebrity, it would be expensive; so I wonder if “Hui Chen” holds some other generic meaning in Chinese. JiangCun.com ($2.3k) might be a village; but when it comes to interpreting Pinyin as a non-speaker, I remain diffident.

GloBet.com ($3.6k) was an active sports betting website and had been one since 1998. Meanwhile, VoicePro.com ($3.6k) offered Voice-over-IP telephony. It too had been an active website as early as 1998, using a style of web design 17 years ago that’s still the prevailing fashion among parked PPC pages today!

Domain Name	End $	Domain Name	End $
Illness.com	12,742	HuiChen.com	8868
VoicePro.com	3622	GloBet.com	3601
BestPractices.org	3600	PCTC.com	3200
UrbanPlan.com	2600	TVMA.com	2405
JiangCun.com	2342	StylePoints.com	2164
WhoRunsGov.com	2100	CADX.com	1905
ColdSprings.com	1834	T6T.com	1801
CFAC.com	1800	TheLocker Room.com	1700
Cockle.com	1666	SwiftCo.com	1544
Foragers.com	1403	FastPro.com	1350
TONY.org	1309	StrongMen.com	1167
KU-CRL.org	1101	RatePro.com	1100
ProfitBox.com	1100	BowBow.com	1100
DevSoft.com	1009	HKHH.com	920

Worth pointing out are 3 .ORG domains above that range from $1.1k to $3.6k. Expired domain auctions mainly fetch wholesale prices; so it isn’t every week that we see 2-word .ORGs like BestPractices.org beating out single-word .COMs such as Foragers.com ($1.4k) by a factor of 2 1/2. In contrast, .NET didn’t fare nearly as well as last week when it had a few mid $xxx sales or the week before when it rose even higher. Actually, come to think of it, .ORG had a 2-word $1.6k sale at NameJet last week as well.

Apparently, it was a good week for Pros; not only VoicePro.com ($3.6k) but FastPro.com($1.4k) and RatePro.com ($1.1k) sold. We also had a pair of excellent athletics phrases flexing their muscles: StrongMen.com ($1.2k) and TheLockerRoom.com ($1.7k). No, Cockle.com ($1.7k) isn’t porn-related; it’s the sea shell of a well known nursery rhyme:

Mary, Mary, quite contrary,
How does your garden grow?
With silver bells, and cockle shells,
And pretty maids all in a row.

TVMA.com matches the “Mature” rating for TV here in the states, indicating that “the program may be inappropriate for viewers younger than age 17”. For examples of repeating patterns beloved by Chinese investors, consider T6T.com ($1.6k) and HKHH.com ($920).

Some LLLLs still function as acronyms outside China. ESNY.com ($820) is a case in point. How charmingly naïve of the real estate firm “Eklund Stockholm New York” (ESNY.se) to imagine it could do business in New York using its Swedish .SE suffix! In a country that resents Spanish appearing on signs in Spanish-speaking neighborhoods? How many Americans are even aware that ccTLDs exist?

Anupama.com ($685) is a Hindi girl’s name, apparently meaning “incomparable”. Kankanba.com ($631) shows up as a place in China and a surname in Ghana. Another surname, Politzer.com ($500), belongs to a domainer. You may have met him through DN.biz. Most of us will never own our own last name; so congratulations, Joe!

Domain Name	End $	Domain Name	End $
UserView.com	897	HotelUSA.com	830
ESNY.com	820	Memorial Gardens.com	795
Xinix.com	795	CoolMagazine.com	760
MKJJ.com	709	Anupama.com	685
JRSP.com	670	Kankanba.com	631
TZCC.com	630	FSOA.com	630
TheWreckers.com	570	16499.com	560
AmericanGifts.com	528	Online Resource.com	519
89455.com	510	78Violet.com	510
Sententia.com	508	L8S.com	505
Politzer.com	500	Rekaz.com	500

Without a doubt, the most famous Habanera.com ($407) – which is a kind of dance music originating in Havana, Cuba – is this saucy number from Bizet’s opera, “Carmen”:

Interesting to see both CRBLaw.com ($443) and EBSLaw.com ($210) sell during the same week. With no generic meaning that I’m aware of, these could abbreviate the names of partners in a firm. SharkRank.com ($309) looks like a pun or typo based on the well known TV show, “Shark Tank” – a series about entrepreneurship with some relevance to domainers, incidentally.

Domain Name	End $	Domain Name	End $
Kelly Construction.com	464	SXY.org	460
GerardMalanga.com	460	CRBLaw.com	443
FarosGroup.com	442	YDTG.com	420
MBGM.com	410	HG1917.com	410
Habanera.com	407	CastleCapital.com	400
NQQX.com	371	GTDP.com	365
BoxSport.com	360	KKAir.com	360
TigerShrimp.com	359	NDNW.com	353
XGTR.com	350	Evelyns-Place.com	343
15947.com	330	37448.com	320
PowerMovers.com	320	HKBanking.com	317
Lilliputian SystemsInc.com	311	SyrupNYC.com	311
AnimalFactory.com	310	ITBay.com	309
SharkRank.com	309	MFMGroup.com	299

After seeing UserView.com score $897 above, here you’ll notice we have UserTrends.com at $210. Dierck.com ($249) is yet another surname. Five domains of the form “HG” + NNNN.com closed between $140 and $410. No, they aren’t aberrations. As a matter of fact, those have been selling for even higher prices at least as far back as October, 2014. And I’ve been documenting the “HG” + NNN versions in these charts for over a year. During April, 3 of these “HG” + NNNN monstrosities closed between $2k and $5k.

Domain Name	End $	Domain Name	End $
SunValley Homes.com	285	Charlie Beckett.org	285
Untwisted Vortex.com	285	N3V.com	281
HG3110.com	279	79071.com	271
41890.com	270	Coaching Business.com	270
PeiXunQuan.com	262	PrinceHall.com	262
GardenCountry.com	260	UKPN.com	259
Moisturise.com	250	IOBlue.com	250
53472.com	249	Dierck.com	249
ChaletGroup.com	232	0RN.com	231
Gooto.com	225	InnovaLife.com	220
CoolNameHere.com	220	93049.com	220
Bloging Bloging.com [sic]	211	94738.com	210
UserTrends.com	210	HG0980.com	210
EBSLaw.com	210	Docomotion.com	209
60894.com	209	82146.com	209
Taurian.com	208	LarGroup.com	199
PastConnect.com	189	MicroPrice.com	185
93147.com	179	BlitzTech.com	175
815333.com	171	Patla.org	171
HNCTCM.com	170	WeContact.com	169
CatMartino.com	169	KDXI.com	165
PremierAuto Group.com	160	GrowYour Biz.com	160
55264.com	160	93487.com	159
94052.com	159	41579.com	159

Exact-match domains – the so-called “category killers” – certainly do attract attention. Some drug smuggler with more vanity than stealth may one day be the proud owner of DrugSmuggler.com ($130). Sweetings.com ($121) brings to mind Shakespeare’s song “O Mistress Mine” from the play “Twelfth Night” – a lyric set to music by Quilter, Finzi, et al.:

Domain Name	End $	Domain Name	End $
Xentel.com	151	CMI-Online.com	140
HG9458.com	140	HG0924.com	140
LeapFactory.com	139	Team990.com	135
RawEssentials.com	132	ElectricLotus.com	130
DrugSmuggler.com	130	PrePlanned.com	130
04845.com	129	CivilWar ClipArt.com	127
CheapNetBook.com	121	Sweetings.com	121
SuperBlog Directory.com	120	AliCubi.com	119
INSNA.com	109	NDeep.com	109
GreatKidsCT.org	100	NSVW.com	100
Exploree.com	100	Sirloin.net	99
Honton.com	99	JHotel.net	90
MalcolmAdams.com	89	IslamicSchool.net	89

PrePlanned.com was an astonishingly good deal at $130. The word has a straightforward application to preneed insurance, which is mainly about pre-planned funeral arrangements. Another dictionary word sold for just $69: Dispossessed.com. LooseOdds.com ($69) could refer to casino slot machines, which are said to be “loose” if the average payout is slightly less abysmal than usual.

Domain Name	End $	Domain Name	End $
CaritasNorwood.org	82	FaixaPreta.com	80
Weisheiten.net	80	Cytem.com	80
FYUR.com	80	Danse Bretonne.com	79
TheNational Bank.com	79	MHOY.com	79
SearchAdverts.com	79	Carbolex.com	79
LollipopShop.com	79	EnerSolar Brasil.com	79
SportsRealty.com	79	Tivra.com	79
Reventa.net	75	SalmonFishing.org	70
ITHelpCenter.com	70	SublimeSpaces.com	70
UNQT.com	69	Tafton.com	69
eZined.com	69	Orlando EyeSurgeon.com	69
LowCountry Bride.com	69	KindNYC.com	69
PlaidNet.com	69	Dispossessed.com	69
FindSignal.com	69	TextQuiz.com	69
SmartTrains.com	69	LTWebber.com	69
Home Electrolysis.com	69	LooseOdds.com	69
OwlConcept.com	69	Levoo.com	69
AIPoint.com	69	GrantLinks.com	69
TheDomain Tool.com	69	KansasCoffee.com	69

Reventa.net ($75) means “resale” in Spanish. That’s what many of us do with domains, isn’t it? Quite apropos for a Spanish domainer! Weisheiten.net ($80) is German wisdom. DanseBretonne.com ($79) would be the traditional dance style of the Breton people living in Brittany, a region of France. And FaixaPreta.com ($80) is Portuguese for “black belt”. Coincidentally, I interviewed the owner of JiuJitsu.com last month.