Expired Domain Name Report: Over 200 names

Which do domainers need – a PriceTracker.com or a ProblemGamblingGuide.com? Both! But we’re incorrigible gamblers; so naturally we spent more to learn how to spend ($7.4k) than how not to spend ($1.6k). Indeed, PriceTracker.com was last week’s top expired domain at NameJet. Obviously, the domain can aim at a mass e-commerce audience. So if you’ve been hankering for an electric back scratcher that hums Brahms’s lullaby, track it till the blowout sale!

NameJet	End $	NameJet	End $
PriceTracker.com	7400	87155.com	6122
MSLaw.com	6112	ValleyBank.com	4400
PCCI.com	3550	BeautyNet.com	2910
58839.com	2302	288887.com	2242
Liquid.org	2200	MMLS.com	2077
AutoPricing.com	2000	WorldSafe.com	1920
SquareYard.com	1911	WKOO.com	1701
PharmaGuide.com	1700	BusinessEngine.com	1550

Within the domain market right now, if there’s a single asset class traders are most obsessed with tracking, it’s undoubtedly numeric domains. Back in mid-September, I reported a couple of staggering 6-digit .COM sales. Were they flukes? Looking at the #2 sale of a 5-digit .COM ($6.1k), you might think so. NameJet’s next numeric domain – another 5-digit string – is all the way down at $2.3k, and the venue’s best 6-digit auction falls shortly behind at $2.2k. Thereafter, you’d have to descend to $898 to find another.

But the wider market tells a different story. Thanks to SnapNames, you can see a pair of 6-digit numerics that sold for $5.8k each, with a third at $3.2k … and all of them chased by an 8-digit behemoth roaring $2.5k! If you’re inwardly calculating the value of your numerical domain hoard, then you just had a Bloggasm.com ($1.2k), didn’t you! (Full disclosure: I own zero.)

With all the recent talk of liquidity, it’s interesting to see Liquid.org go for $2.2k. Quite a few top-selling domains deal with the topic of price, come to think of it. AutoPricing.com ($2.0k) might mean either “automatic” or “automobile”. Fabric and other materials are priced by the SquareYard.com ($1.9k). And if MMLS.com ($2.1k) stands for multi-listing service, then it might help brokers coordinate sales. It’s also worth noting how, in spite of .BANK, buyers continued to line up for ValleyBank.com ($4.4k). That, I expect, isn’t about to change.

SnapNames	End $	SnapNames	End $
552266.com	5810	661133.com	5770
682666.com	3270	00002222.com	2500
ProblemGambling Guide.com	1550	Bloggasm.com	1210
GFPay.com	803	HotelsSydney.com	666
Idaho- HumanRights.org	625	DaData.com	610

Up next, there’s a whole slew of vowel-less LLLL.com’s between $1.1k and $1.5k. The aforementioned MMLS.com came in higher at $2.1k. Meanwhile, 4-letter domains with vowels performed far worse: $180 to $653. The highest of these, SOFB.com, might say something about parentage and pets, but usually that’s spelled without the “F”.

You outdoor enthusiasts can have WildTimes.com ($801) with H2O in 2/3 of its phases: solid for skiers as EternalSnow.com ($785) and liquid for Scubas.com ($855). Just keep a wary distance from those Yellowstone geysers! P.S. Scroll down for SnapNames’s sale of another scuba domain: QueenScuba.com ($154).

NameJet	End $	NameJet	End $
HTZX.com	1531	YWXX.com	1512
BuildingHomes.com	1500	3QM.com	1420
LoveMagazine.com	1415	PHPSavant.com	1312
StyleSpot.com	1311	MBFD.com	1240
LMRK.com	1212	KHGK.com	1200
HistoryHouse.com	1200	QNHC.com	1110
WBKQ.com	1101	MetroArt.com	1010
FiveStarStorage.com	967	NewsService.com	911
885578.com	898	StevensGroup.com	897
PalestineCenter.org	860	Scubas.com	855
WildTimes.com	801	EternalSnow.com	785
TradeStrategy.com	785	PathTech.com	770
TheVirtualOffice.com	765	UseNet2.org	750

BuildingHomes.com ($1.5k) would make a great slogan for a builder. Billboards, TV, radio – it’s simple and reliable. Likewise, TradeStrategy.com ($785) is an intuitive online address for short-term investors. It’s echoed by SchoolOfTrades.com ($575) below.

What are ElectricPrunes.net ($610)? They’re “a gassy thing”, according to the host of American Bandstand. Interestingly, at the end of their performance there’s a 1967 discussion of what makes a good name. Name nerds will hear how little there has changed, even while music has never stood still.

NameJet	End $	NameJet	End $
422777.com	700	556695.com	690
VintageWorld.com	681	France-For- Visitors.com	672
Ladson.com	661	SOFB.com	653
Rayes.com	620	ElectricPrunes.net	610
VersaGroup.com	601	SchoolOf Trades.com	575
WhatToEatBook.com	553	RealIncest.com	552
GuitarOneMag.com	551	K2T.com	543
MilitaryDegree.com	535	PhilaAntiques.com	530
SanWai.com	510	Wordex.com	490
RiskPartners.com	470	DeathN Dementia.com	463
Stocked.co	460	45930.com	454
Shruthi.com	450	HiTravel.com	447
UUMD.com	420	YourDinner.com	410
EditorialSepha.com	410	BoarderTown.com	405

Certainly the domain market is a microcosm. Whatever people value enough to pay for has its corollary in domain sales – whether it’s YourDinner.com ($410) or RealIncest.com ($552). Sometimes “n” can be a short ‘n sweet rendition of “and”, but I find its cuteness a bit incongruous sandwiched between DeathNDementia.com ($463).

As far back as 1999, GuitarOneMag.com ($551) used to offer tutorials for guitarists. Sounds a bit quaint to hear Joe Bonamassa (circa 2006) welcoming us to a CD-ROM. A what? Oh, yeah … those:

That guy could shred even as a 12-year-old kid. Frankly, it’s a bit surreal.

NameJet	End $	NameJet	End $
AZEmbassy.com	401	SafetyAwards.com	395
OutdoorMind.net	381	DigitalStartup.com	370
Scientium.com	366	Inboedel verzekering.net	362
VegasChapels.com	353	ProTran.com	349
UPGP.com	345	JenniferSiebel.com	343
SkyForum.com	340	Crapule.com	339
Barket.com	335	Green-NetWorld.com	330
Heartful-Angel.com	327	AnnaDeavere SmithWorks.org	310
WioowSzkole.org	310	Bezpieczny Internet.org	310
WorkingHealth.com	307	JazzContinuum.com	301
Premins.com	298	ExtremeSystems.com	292
Umbilical CordBlood.com	270	NameSelector.com	260
EU-Portal.net	260	Pooks.com	260
TokyoKawaii ETC.com	260	JamesRidgeway.net	251
MindUnlimited.com	250	UHTD.com	250
Preslar.com	250	HashGroup.com	241

Las Vegas is famous for quick and/or weird weddings; so VegasChapels.com seems like a good buy at $353. Storage for UmbilicalCordBlood.com ($270) is a niche popularized within domaining circles by Adam Dicker. The Anna Deavere Smith of AnnaDeavereSmithWorks.org ($310) must be the actress behind AnnaDeavereSmithProjects.net, “best known to television audiences as Nancy McNally on The West Wing “.

Inboedelverzekering.net ($362) – Dutch for personal property insurance – attests to the fact that .NET remains popular in Europe. Protran.com ($349) is a brand name shared by a charter bus service and various companies involved with transportation, logistics, wifi transmission, and (I’m willing to bet) translation. Wonder how NameSelector.com ($260) will function …

NameJet	End $	NameJet	End $
InURL.com	239	FoodBeverage Canada.com	235
Far-East.com	229	AngelSports.com	221
CleanUrban Energy.com	220	QIPA.tv	219
PaperRobots 1999.com	211	SecondTimes.net	211
ButtCandle.com	211	EUSIDIC.org	211
All-Salt.com	210	AutoInvite.com	210
Hatake.com	210	HOEJ.com	201
WeeklyGeek Show.com	200	991QQ.com	200
OEAZ.com	180	ConsultServices.com	180
XQMA.com	171	AutomatedMedia.com	169
CamoShirts.com	161	991175.com	160
IsraelTalk.com	159	CatAway.com	149
LoungeSeating.com	149	Lingerist.com	149
TrialOf HenryKissinger.org	146	DogTraining Online.com	131
GamesCapital.com	131	TheFoodCoach.com	130
PrimaLogic.com	130	JCEnterprises.com	130
Pulmonary Consultants.com	130	Accusers.com	115
McleanArt.org	111	BeveledMirrors.com	110
LaConnerArts.com	110	FindManagers.com	110
698812.com	109	Aromatize.com	101
ZHG.tv	100

If you’re out of ideas to Aromatize.com ($101) your life, permit me to suggest a ButtCandle.com ($211). You may need to position BeveledMirrors.com ($110) around the house to fully appreciate the visual effect as you scurry about on all fours. That should keep the CatAway.com ($149).

Here are 4 more 7-digit numerics, courtesy of SnapNames. Now this sort of thing may cut it in China, but if you live in the West and see nothing wrong with a 7-letter acronym like LDCEAHD.org ($158), then – to paraphrase Jeff Foxworthy – you might be a bureaucrat.

SnapNames	End $	SnapNames	End $
Ebela.com	501	8888282.com	454
8888373.com	404	TheAlliance Online.com	394
8888717.com	354	ShellFacts.com	275
Defensive Training.com	250	TheWebMasters.com	220
EquaNet.com	220	LoverGirl.com	214
UpMind.com	204	BigTeaParty.com	190
JonesMag.com	160	689.club	160
LDCEAHD.org	158	QueenScuba.com	154
Public Diplomacy.com	144	563838.com	144
Omotenashi- Movie.com	140	008.club	130
TorontoCruise.com	120	CakeDesigners.com	114
BBQMasters.com	114	Rwanda- Standards.org	110
8888917.com	109	ShipPal.com	104

LoverGirl.com ($214) turns the tables on our common phrase, “lover boy”. At $220, TheWebmasters.com went surprisingly cheap. Webmasters tend to know at least a little bit about the domain market (i.e. that we exist); so I would have expected somebody with a project in mind and a bigger budget to bid. Notice the NNN .CLUBs? SnapNames is where expired .CLUB domains wind up.

My new favorite French word, Crapule.com ($339), means “scoundrel”. I’m injecting this word like radioactive dye into the industry’s blood stream. Since domainers in the forums love nothing so much as to insult one another, we’ll soon see if there are any DNW readers among them.