Tag Archives: expired domains

Thu 4th February 2016
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CHIPs, Numbers, and other lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson analyzes the past week of expired domain name sales. Once again, China tops these charts – but not in the customary way. Rather than numerical domains, 4-letter “CHIPs”, or even Chinese Pinyin, we’re looking at an English domain about China: ChinaTech.com. The auction outcome itself ($4.7k) isn’t at all unusual, since domains that can serve as upgrades for multiple existing websites often fetch high prices. And that’s the case, based on brands like these: China-Tech.com ChinaTech.com.tw ChinaTechNews.com AllChinaTech.com ChinaTech.com.vn ChinaTechSourcing.co.uk etc. Yes, ... read more ...
Mon 19th October 2015
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5 Expired Domain Tips with Jonathan Tenenbaum – DNW Podcast #55 - Learn how to buy the best expiring domain names. Want to master the expired domain name game? NameJet GM Jonathan Tenenbaum discusses how NameJet acquires expired domain names, and provides 5 tips to crush it with NameJet. Also: ICANN gets tipsy in Dublin, Afilias acquires 101Domain and University of Cambridge gets schooled about trademarks. Subscribe via iTunes to listen to the Domain Name Wire podcast on your iPhone or iPad, or click play below or download to begin listening. (Listen to previous ... read more ...
Mon 12th October 2015
Written by The Domains in EN and tagged
Quick Poll: What Will Be The High Bid On Health.Org - Earlier today we posted about a Godaddy.com expired domain name auction underway for health.org. The auction still has over 9 days to go as of publication. Assuming the domain auction does not get called off because the owner renews the domain name we opened a poll question to ask “What Will High Bid Be For The Domain .Health.org?” The poll is located on the right about half way down the page. For bragging rights you can also put you’re actual prediction in the comments beow With bidding at ... read more ...
 
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Health.Org Tops $141,000 In Bidding In Expired Domain GoDaddy.com Auction - .Health.org is in an expired domain name auction at GoDaddy.com and bidding has topped $141,000 with over 9 days to go. According to the stats shown on the GoDaddy auction page, the 22 year old domain is estimated to get almost 7,000 visitors a month. Arguably the domain name Health.org is one of the top 5 best possible and most valuable .org domain names. As of publication there are only 17 active bidders on the domain, but the only way to become an active bidder is to top the current high bid ... read more ...
Fri 22nd May 2015
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Expired domain name report: 1280.com for $26k and more - Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain name sales. The sadist in me contemplates a cruel reality TV show in which some unsuspecting person answers a knock on the door to find a camera crew pointed right at him. “John Q. Public, you’ve just won $26,010!” Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, he sees a beaming fashion model holding out to him a cartoonish bag of money. Then, just as our surprised victim reaches for that bulging prize, Alex Trebek blurts out: “Wait a sec! You let the ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2015
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Expired Domain Name Roundup including Moviez.com for $11k - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in domain name sales at NameJet. At some point, yours truly will stop pointing out the fault line between Chinese and Western domain sales in these charts, inasmuch as I’m beginning to sound like a broken record! Still, for the benefit of those readers who are just now joining us, I’ll reiterate: Week after week, domain auctions at NameJet are dominated by purchases addressing either the U.S. or the Chinese market; and it’s always a tossup which group ... read more ...
Thu 9th April 2015
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NameJet lapsed domain name review - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in NameJet expired domain name sales. 5-digit numeric domains don’t typically sell for $9,120, but one expired NNNNN.com did just that at NameJet last week. 51513.com = 3 x 7 x 11 x 223, in case you care about prime factorization, which the odds are you don’t. Apart from Chinese cryptographers, neither does China, where numbers matter less than numeral strings. These Indo-Arabic numerals of ours belong equally as much to Chinese children, who can rattle ... read more ...
Thu 18th December 2014
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A demeanour behind during November’s NameJet Sales - November for Namejet – as measured by domain auctions that closed above $2,000 – was a slow month. Just one month prior, 12 out of the 66 charted sales surpassed $10k, with the highest attaining $91.8k; but last month only 1 out of 61 sales climbed into the 5 digits. To be fair, the high end of the domain market is always the most erratic. Trends are mainly to be found in the low and mid-value ranges and over a longer period of time. Interestingly, activity ... read more ...
Thu 8th May 2014
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EDR: Weird lapsed domain sales (partially) explained - This week’s Expired Domain Report (EDR) explains why some domains sell for what they do, plus a preview of domains you might want to backorder. Why do people bid on expired domain auctions? The number of bidders and the prices are often surprisingly high; so it’s a fair question. FingerYoga.com is a case in point. Who bought this 12-year-old domain isn’t yet clear. But there were 83 bids as high as $2,227. Were those bidders looking to create a new website? ... read more ...
Mon 14th April 2014
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Expired domain guru wanted to write for DNW - Are you an expired domain junkie? Do you follow and actively participate in expired domain auctions at NameJet, SnapNames, and (perhaps) even GoDaddy auctions? Do you also enjoy writing? Domain Name Wire is seeking someone to write a weekly expired domain article that covers both recent sales as well as hot domains coming up in the next 7 days. The article will be more than a list of domains to backorder. The best candidate will be someone who actively participates ... read more ...
Tue 9th April 2013
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Oops…U.S. Government lets Medicaid.com expire, now in private hands - Domain expired in January and wasn’t renewed despite plenty of warning. The official site for Medicaid, the U.S. health program for lower income families and individuals, is Medicaid.gov. But you can bet many people looking for information about the program type in Medicaid.com instead of .gov. Up until January 29th, the U.S. government helpfully forwarded Medicaid.com to Medicaid.gov… Then it let the domain expire. Last month Tennessee company Medx Publishing ... read more ...
Thu 23rd August 2012
Written by DomainNameWire in EN and tagged
SnapNames releases iPhone App - Bidding on the go now much easier. SnapNames just released an iPhone app to make it easier to bid on SnapNames auctions on the go. The app makes it easier for customers to update bids and see current bidding history from a mobile phone. It does not allow you to place new backorders or bids on domains if you haven’t already done so on the SnapNames web site. However, the app has a quick link to the SnapNames.mobi mobile site. There you can search for new domain names ... read more ...
Wed 20th April 2011
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22 Pre-Release Domains to Backorder Now - Some domain names to add to your backorder list. It’s been a while since I’ve published a list of dropping domain names I think are worth backordering. So here’s a list of 22 domain names currently in pre-release at NameJet that I think you should consider. Please note that I haven’t reviewed any of these for trademarks, so you should do your own due diligence. Worshipped.com Marketingprofessionals.com readingclubs.com studentprograms.com AtlantaAgents.com ... read more ...
Mon 21st February 2011
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New Rules Proposed for Expired Domain Names - Recommendations would make existing best practices of major domain name registrars a requirement. The Post-Expiration Domain Name Recovery (PEDNR) Policy Development Process Working Group has made 14 recommendations for the handling of expired domain names. The recommendations are part of the group’s proposed final report and may be used as part of the Policy Development Process. Among the recommendations: requiring domain name registrars to change the DNS on an ... read more ...
Thu 20th January 2011
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VeriSign Devises Way to Sell More Expiring Domain Names - System would discount price of domain names until a buyer is found. VeriSign has devised a system to sell more dropping domain names by discounting their price over time. Details of the idea are in a patent application the company filed in 2009 that was just published today. U.S. patent application number 12/504396 (pdf) for “METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR SALE OF DOMAIN NAMES” describes a way that a domain name registry can discount the price of domain names within ... read more ...
Tue 26th January 2010
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South African Airways Blames Service Providers for Domain Expiration - SAA plays the blame game. South African Airways (SAA) is blaming service providers for letting its domain name expire, causing a web site outtage. When the domain name expired, Network Solutions followed its standard practice of changing the DNS and sending visitors to a landing page. In a note from SAA acting CEO Chris Smyth on the company’s web site, Smyth writes: …This outage was not as a result of any oversight by SAA or its personnel, nor was this due to ... read more ...
Thu 5th November 2009
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Nominet Releases Goldmine of Domain Renewal Statistics - Report provides insight into expired domain names. Nominet, the registry for the .uk country code, has released its 2009 Domain Name Industry Report (pdf). It includes in-depth stats about domain renewal rates and the reasons people let domains expire. This data should be useful to the ICANN Working Group examining the issue of expiring domains. As way of background, there are a couple differences between .uk and most other domains. First, registrations are for ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2009
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Domain Expiration Comments to ICANN Working Group - My comments on expired domains. As I wrote last week, ICANN is seeking feedback on the domain expiration process. Here’s the feedback I just submitted. The deadline for submitting feedback is September 10… I believe most registrars do an effective job informing customers of upcoming expirations. For example, Go Daddy sends multiple expiration notices by email and even postal mail. Most registrars continue to send these expiration notices after a domain expires. ... read more ...
Fri 10th April 2009
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GoDaddy Changing Domain Name Backorder Rules - Multiple backorders will be accepted on domain names. GoDaddy has informed Domain Name Wire that it is changing the way it handles backorders for domains not registered at one of The Go Daddy Group’s domain name registrars. As early as next week GoDaddy will begin accepting more than one backorder on domain names. (Currently only one is accepted). If GoDaddy successfully captures the domain name and more than one backorder was placed, there will be an auction ... read more ...
Mon 16th March 2009
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Survey: Which Expired Domain Name Service is Best? - Aha! That “novel” wasn’t submitted for some reason! Luckily I saved it before I clicked “submit”. But some editing was lost, so please be forgiving. Here it is, again: +++++ H*ll yes, I will choose Snapnames first over any of the others. Reasons? For Dub-A, I will come out of my normally shy and quiet demeanor, and be uncharacteristically blunt: 1) Snapnames has consistently run a well-managed expiring domain service for at least four years (although they’ve been around ... read more ...
Fri 6th March 2009
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What Should Domain Registrars Do with Expired Domain Names? - Perhaps letting domain registrars do as they please is OK. For the 2009 Domain Name Wire Survey I added a new option for the most important factors when selecting a domain registrar: what they do with expired domains. With all the commotion over what domain registrars do when domains expire (e.g. GoDaddy and Tucows), I wondered if this affected peoples’ decisions about which registrar to use. Apparently not; it was ranked the least important factor when choosing ... read more ...
Mon 26th January 2009
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DOMAINfest Hotel’s Domain is Expired - Don’t try to lookup hotel information at RenaissanceHollywood.com — it’s expired. [Update: the hotel has renewed the domain name and it is now resolving.] A few minutes ago I was looking up information about the hotel for this week’s DOMAINfest Conference in Hollywood. I googled “renaissance hollywood” and the first result was for www.renaissancehollywood.com. I clicked through the result and was surprised to see this: Yes, that’s a Network Solutions ... read more ...
Wed 7th January 2009
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FreshDrop Analyzes a Numbers on Expired Domains - Service helps you find good expiring domains. Expired domain catchers sift through reams of data to find the best expiring domains. Over the past couple months I’ve been test driving what may be the best data source for finding high quality expiring domains for the price: FreshDrop. FreshDrop provides a searchable, easy-to-use interface for finding domains that meet your criteria. Looking for domains on TDNAM in Spanish, French, German, Dutch, Pinyin, Turkish, ... read more ...
Tue 16th December 2008
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GoDaddy Changes Expired Domain Pricing - In response to Standard Tactics coverage, GoDaddy has changed starting bids on TDNAM auctions. Last week I mentioned that GoDaddy was making a change to its TDNAM auctions based on some of my commentary on Standard Tactics. In my commentary I had suggested that, by setting minimum bid prices higher than the standard $10 bid price, GoDaddy was effectively bidding against its customers on TDNAM. In response, GoDaddy has changed how it prices expired domains. All domains ... read more ...
Wed 3rd December 2008
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Standard Tactics, LLC: How GoDaddy Profits from Expired Domains - GoDaddy goes to great lengths to hide its expired domain warehousing operations. UPDATE 12/17/08: GoDaddy is shutting down Standard Tactics. Scottsdale, Arizona based The Go Daddy Group, which runs the world’s largest domain name registrar GoDaddy.com, is warehousing its customers’ expired domain names and profiting from them. The company has taken a number of steps to hide this practice from public view. This article covers the results of a Domain Name Wire ... read more ...