Expired Domain Report: Total Number Domination!

Numeric domains take the lead in this week’s Expired Domain Report.

A few days ago, while reviewing the month of September, I measured China’s contribution to high-end sales at NameJet. (Hint: It wasn’t small.) And in my previous weekly article, I discussed the ongoing appetite for 6-digit .COMs and other numerical domains that “traders are obsessed with” these days.

Well, folks, the market is gluttonous. This past week, between NameJet and SnapNames, numerics took up three out of the four top spots. There’s something for everybody among these expired domain auctions– an NNNN.com, an NNNNN.com, and an NNNNNN.com. Such variety!

What follows is disheartening. ESPNStar.com ($3.6k) you won’t be blamed for thinking looks ever so slightly like the mark of a sports broadcasting network. And then there’s as obvious a case of typo squatting as any IP attorney could wish for: CreidtKarma.com ($5.3k). No, Tumlbr.com ($1.4k) ain’t much of a riddle neither. Even Outloo.com ($776), while it might theoretically be about out houses, looks a bit un-ok … as if, I dunno, someone omitted a final letter maybe.

‘Tis the season for typos of famous online brands, apparently. Upcoming auctions at NameJet include YooTube.com, UYouTube.com, YauTube.com, YonTube.com, and wwwUTube.com – one and all, I trust, registered in good faith. Seriously, though, domain investors are tired of being lumped together with cyber squatters; yet here we are sharing 1 grisly tooth brush in these sales charts. Thanks, guys!

Domain	End $	At	Domain	End $	At
4976.com	12422	NJ	LeShop.com	9020	NJ
98895.com	6100	NJ	633888.com	6050	SN
CreidtKarma.com [sic]	5350	SN	ESPNStar.com	3625	NJ
Cook-Islands.com	3511	NJ	KIAI.com	2550	NJ
HooHoo.com	2469	SN	KuangXi.com	2100	NJ
VHF.org	2050	NJ	80707.com	2019	NJ
InvestGazeta.net	1851	SN	VistaCare.com	1788	NJ
PetSure.com	1756	NJ	LifeMasters.com	1700	NJ
NPGroup.com	1700	SN	QMLT.com	1620	NJ
OpenCable.com	1605	NJ	Chatterjee.com	1605	NJ

It’s not all numerics and squatting. You know that ferocious yell of 8-year-old martial artists as they break your ribs and throw you to the floor? It’s called a KIAI.com ($2.6k). LeShop.com, NameJet’s runner up at $9.0k, may go to “the leading Swiss online grocery store” or to a women’s clothing brand.

Chatterjee.com ($1.6k) is an Indian surname. InvestGazeta.net ($1.9k) was a Russian website dating back 15 years. The Cook Islands east of New Zealand give us a hyphenated domain sale that, at $3.5k, is unusually high for the wholesale market. And KuangXi.com ($2.1k) may refer to some beautiful waterfalls in Laos (also spelled “Kuang Si”).

Domain	End $	At	Domain	End $	At
WealthAdvice.com	1520	NJ	HG3608.com	1432	NJ
Tumlbr.com [sic]	1415	NJ	UltraWeb.com	1415	NJ
NYSI.com	1411	NJ	HG3508.com	1409	NJ
SJREP.com	1400	NJ	DBST.com	1319	NJ
50093.com	1319	NJ	WBZY.com	1269	SN
FloridAttorney.com [sic]	1221	NJ	GYHJ.com	1219	NJ
PJPL.com	1210	NJ	MDRGF.org	1200	NJ
FWND.com	1177	NJ	ProjectVision.com	1112	NJ
EasyResumes.com	1100	NJ	WorldBurns Club.com	1100	NJ
276789.com	1058	NJ	5998888.com	1022	NJ
TurboSystems.com	1009	NJ	EnergySearch.com	1009	NJ
EvoFitness.com	1000	NJ	Smell.org	970	NJ

Want some free WealthAdvice.com ($1.5k)? Don’t flush your money down the drain on the likes of losangelestorage.com ($911) or floridattorney.com ($1.2k)! Spend a second counting those letters before you spend a grand. Domains like these sell over and over again, tossed around like hot potatoes. I already reported the 2014 sale of LosAngeleStorage.com. Now the 2015 sale. Don’t make me cover it again in 2016, please! And yet … FloridAttorney.com … What’s more florid than incomprehensible legalese?

Since we’re counting characters, you’ll notice the 7-digit numerical domain above passed $1.0k. With 4 consecutive “8”s, it did about as well as a seemingly arbitrary 6-digit numeric and even a 5-digit numeric beginning with “500”, which is a very round figure and (I should think) a useful mnemonic.

Rather than celebrate scalded skin, the WorldBurnsClub.com spent 15 years devoted to Scotland’s great poet. Here’s the poem that later gave Steinbeck his title, “Of Mice and Men”:

Smell.org ($970) is notable. With ProjectVision.com ($1.1k) that’s 2 senses covered.

Domain	End $	At	Domain	End $	At
CysticAcne.com	941	NJ	AHEB.com	935	NJ
QLBH.com	918	NJ	LosAngele Storage.com [sic]	911	NJ
Rajaram.com	910	NJ	GYLO.com	898	NJ
SecurityScreen.com	871	NJ	SavePaper.com	805	NJ
GoldenBike.com	801	NJ	CalendarIX.com	801	SN
ImageZoom.com	798	NJ	FLOA.com	783	NJ
MZO.com	780	NJ	JavPorn.com	778	SN
Outloo.com [sic]	776	SN	Varallo.com	760	NJ
Infodyn.com	730	NJ	L1.org	720	NJ
Obesity Medicine.com	709	NJ	Mainstream- Mag.com	700	NJ
PinkSalmon.com	697	NJ	PrintWire.com	695	NJ
D8S.com	670	NJ	DreamWings.com	659	NJ
999377.com	651	NJ	5F6.com	640	NJ
FXDirect.com	637	NJ	GECP.com	627	NJ
Inclusive Health.org	607	NJ	TestUs.com	602	NJ

CysticAcne.com ($941) doesn’t sound enjoyable, but the domain will make an intuitive reference site – perhaps featuring ImageZoom.com ($798) for high-definition zit viewing. TestUs.com was a real bargain at $602. It could mean medical tests, academic exams, or trying out some new product or service.

SavePaper.com ($805) sounds like a call to action that might be used to promote many a digital service. You’ve probably heard by now that some PinkSalmon.com ($697) is actually grey but treated with food coloring. Mainstream-Mag.com ($700) is the first of 4 magazine domains in these charts that are all bad enough for me to infer that their back-links must be superb. Varallo.com ($760) is a surname, perhaps deriving from this scenic town in Italy’s Piedmont.

Domain	End $	At	Domain	End $	At
Gambling Offers.com	580	NJ	Demoto.com	572	NJ
SunStudios.com	565	NJ	KVEY.com	565	NJ
E2Y.com	565	NJ	300.club	551	SN
SagameDev.com	550	NJ	GiantFish.com	545	NJ
33558888.com	539	NJ	FNEM.com	527	NJ
Wadden.com	526	NJ	DosCielos.com	510	NJ
ServiceMate.com	509	NJ	AutoScale.com	503	NJ
SmileExpress.com	503	NJ	EcoPC.com	500	NJ
8888393.com	495	SN	iLeather.com	490	NJ
ActaCell.com	470	NJ	21943.com	469	SN
AssistiveTech.com	469	NJ	Columbia Falls.com	466	NJ
DataMining Tools.com	460	NJ	899969.com	450	NJ
P5T.com	441	NJ	ChatLocal.com	432	NJ
On-Demand.com	425	NJ	GroupC.net	425	SN
ChelseaBrewing Co.com	410	NJ	CBDAlliance.org	406	SN

In the singular, SunStudios.com ($565) would be the birth place of Rock ‘n Roll – Memphis, Tennessee, where records were cut by the likes of Johnny Cash, B.B. King, Roy Orbison, Howlin’ Wolf, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis, and this nobody:

Also worth visiting in Memphis – between blues and catfish – is the BrooksMuseum.com ($125), an art museum.

AssistiveTech.com ($469) is a little gem – a category-defining phrase many buyers overlooked. ChatLocal.com ($432) has applications that are obvious enough. DosCielos.com ($510) is an elegant Barcelona rooftop restaurant. The name literally means “2 skies”. While they require a jacket of you, they don’t seem to require their own domain.

Here come more numerics. Between $450 and $539, you’ve got 1 each of 5, 6, 7, and 8-digit domains. In such a narrow price range, you can draw some useful conclusions about how much repetition in the sequence is necessary to compensate for how much length. Not to be missed is one lone numerical .CLUB, which sold for $551.

Domain	End $	At	Domain	End $	At
131UU.com	404	SN	DocPad.com	390	NJ
HotelHusa Princesa.com	390	NJ	CrackerBox.com	389	NJ
WCC2010.org	385	NJ	BIRW.org	375	SN
BibleUFO.com	354	SN	Debers.com	354	SN
StrengthForLife.com	350	SN	NFYI.com	336	NJ
BBLGroup.com	330	NJ	Radiology Clinic.com	322	NJ
DecoTrade.com	321	NJ	UltraSuite.com	320	NJ
N0X.com	316	NJ	W0Y.com	314	NJ
PlanSys.com	310	NJ	UCTP.com	310	NJ
LockPay.com	305	SN	IPOCAfrica.org	304	SN
FivePoints Restaurant.com	302	SN	TGVC.com	302	NJ
ChuckTheodore.com	301	NJ	NSwap.info	301	SN

CrackerBox.com ($389) reminds me that I’ve got the munchies. It’s a bit like the southern-food restaurant chain, Cracker Barrel, although thankfully much nearer to hand. BibleUFO.com ($354) is puzzling, but I’m sure some domainer will enlighten me.

Domain	End $	At	Domain	End $	At
CollegeID.com	300	NJ	UsedCamera.com	294	NJ
CanadaTrips.com	289	NJ	YJAY.com	287	NJ
Smudo.org	285	NJ	PUDM.com	277	NJ
BacTech.com	275	SN	Columbia Trauma.org	275	SN
VaporCigs.com	275	NJ	IFJF.com	270	NJ
MosbyMuseum.org	260	NJ	StartBuilding.com	255	NJ
ChristianCredit.com	254	SN	Accident Settlement.com	252	NJ
LadyHeart.com	251	NJ	AssAssault.com	250	NJ
MianPa.com	249	NJ	PremiumPets.com	239	NJ
LifeOnFilm.com	232	NJ	Phone Accessory.com	231	NJ
VibeWire.net	230	NJ	Sagaso.com	229	NJ
SandCruiser.com	229	NJ	SaintSeiya 2014.com	224	SN
BauMix.com	221	SN	CallServer.com	220	NJ
QTVN.com	220	NJ	CosmoArt.com	212	SN
OremosJuntos.com	210	SN	MUCJ.com	210	SN
Optima-Prec.com	210	NJ	Household Cleaning.com	209	NJ
AdvanceDRT.com	205	NJ	Antirvirus.com [sic]	205	NJ
DetoxMassage.com	205	NJ	88766666.com	200	NJ
JewishWomen.org	200	NJ	AndreBacard.com	200	NJ

StartBuilding.com ($255) – now that’s a slogan for domain portfolio owners to take to heart! VaporCigs.com ($275) have been a hot niche in recent years. CanadaTrips.com ($289) isn’t half bad for attracting American tourists. JewishWomen.org ($200) seems like a natural way to define an organization’s membership. In Spanish, OremosJuntos.com ($210) means “let’s pray together”.

Domain	End $	At	Domain	End $	At
Yoga-magazine.net	197	SN	Cluster2010.org	190	SN
995513.com	190	NJ	News92FM.com	190	NJ
Howied.com	189	SN	SpaceBoys.com	184	SN
Fabulara.com	181	NJ	PowerToHeal.com	180	NJ
InTheLobby.net	179	NJ	666666 888888.com	174	SN
Advanced Counseling.com	172	SN	HotelMetz.com	170	NJ
TRFMag.org	160	SN	Gobius.com	160	SN
BackpackFarm.com	160	SN	Furniture Components.com	160	NJ
SBMWeb.org	160	NJ	CosmeticDoc.com	160	NJ
Vestium.com	159	NJ	PartyJumper.com	159	NJ
HotPornBB.com	156	SN	Ethnograph.com	154	SN
CubesAnd Crayons.com	151	NJ	JS0755.com	151	NJ
QEOB.com	151	NJ	MaltaVillas.com	150	NJ

Past the 6-digit item at $190 … past the 8-digit string at $200 … and on to a 12-digit domain at $174! Where and when does it all stop? I once had a landlord named Howie who threw great parties; so I suppose I’ve been Howied.com ($189). The sale of MaltaVillas.com ($150) should come as no surprise, given how aggressively these “villa” domains have been collected in the past 2-3 years.

Domain	End $	At	Domain	End $	At
HeatherWilson.com	150	SN	Snapex.com	150	SN
WhiteCottage Ranch.com	149	NJ	BedLet.com	144	SN
258882.com	140	SN	Debt Calculators.com	140	SN
258881.com	140	SN	Cambridge Japan.org	140	SN
AutismInfo.com	140	NJ	Rocabert.com	134	SN
Fatal Transactions.org	134	SN	AllMarijuana.com	129	NJ
Interactive ArtSchool.com	125	SN	Fukuoka- Shotengai.com	125	SN
BrooksMuseum.com	125	SN	SmallBizBee.com	124	SN
SPLC2013.net	124	SN	Gerbeth.com	122	NJ
ChetBaker Tribute.com	121	NJ	DogGenetic Health.org	120	SN
ITOP-Portal.net	114	SN	OnlineCasino Betting.com	112	SN
FanParts.com	111	NJ	LambDalit.org	110	NJ
Gydget.com	110	NJ	Siatka.net	110	SN
CrabTree Tavern.com	110	SN	CawInfo.org	110	NJ
PHPWS Forums.com	109	NJ	CreateAFree Website.com	104	SN
KapsCo.com	104	SN	AUAA.org	100	NJ
UPS-AMC.org	100	NJ	FoodJuicers.com	100	NJ
BeautyBites.com	100	NJ

At this point, I’ll just hand you over to a ChetBakerTribute.com ($121) and call it a day: