Price will go up another $10 this month.
As the arms race for catching dropping domain names escalates, expired domain catcher Pheenix is raising its prices.
The company announced that the price of “gold” .com backorders will increase to $38.99 on January 15. That’s up from $28.99 right now and $21.99 about six months ago. “Super saver” backorders, which are usurped by any gold backorders, will now cost $20.99.
The new prices are still significantly less than Pheenix’s competitors. NameJet and SnapNames, which have combined efforts to chase deleting domains, charge $79. DropCatch, which recently added another 300 registrars to its coffers, charges $59 for standard backorders.
It makes no difference if you still don’t catch anything, the platform puts everything in an auction, where chinese bidders jump on any english word like it is money or something, it sucks, don’t even bother with it anymore
People are paying $6xx for such names in these dropauctions like arizonaredcross.org
May be Chinese will learn the hard way like we had dotcom bubble in last decade. It’s painful to see that most of the short meaningful domain names arr just having a ‘sale’ page for so many years, where as genuine web applications are having difficulty finding a memorable name these days.
Domain name has a value only when someone is ready to buy, and the price is decided by the buyer, not the seller.