Tag Archives: expired

Fri 25th September 2015
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The new and softened Expired Domains Report! - Now with SnapNames, too. Domains expire all over the place, day in day out. Some expirations are shadowed by backorders, which can lead to auctions. Depending on the TLD, the registrar, and – yes – even chance, those auctions may take place at NameJet or at another venue … like SnapNames, which will be contributing sales data to these reports henceforward. Scroll down, and say hello! Some readers may remember that, until last December, most of the results I reported in these articles came from ... read more ...
Thu 17th September 2015
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Expired Domain Report: What are 6 number domains worth? - A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales. China is no stranger to these weekly charts, usually sitting as guest of honor or even at the head of the table. Pinyin, LLLs, short numerics …of course. Yet certain Chinese subcategories – notably 6-digit numeric domains – have traditionally been relegated to children’s folding chairs at the far end. Until now! Last week, NNNNNN.com domains kicked Mommy and Daddy out of their chairs and claimed both the #1 and #2 spots. Those ... read more ...
Thu 10th September 2015
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Westland.com during $16.2k and other lapsed domain name sales - A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales. Our planet’s dirt must be popular. At NameJet last week, 3 of the top 4 auctions contained words like “earth”, “world”, and “land”. Let’s not read too much into that coincidence, though. Westland.com ($16.2k) is both a city in Michigan and a distillery in Seattle. EarthTech.com ($15.3k) could be an upgrade for solar gear; Florida sinkhole repair; Albuquerque landscaping; or Austin physicists researching gravity, cosmology, ... read more ...
Wed 9th September 2015
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NameJet's Aug in Review – 3 impression delayed down? - Joseph Peterson reviews the past month of domain sales at NameJet. August was a slow month at NameJet – where sales above $2000 are concerned anyway. With that upper price range contributing a total of $399.5k, the auction house fell far short of July’s million plus. But that was to be expected, since July set the venue’s all-time record for total sales; and more than half a million came from a single record-breaking auction. Looking all the way back, August turns out to be right in ... read more ...
Thu 3rd September 2015
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AISE.com during $19.5k and other lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain name sales. China is back with AISE.com ($19.5k) foremost among expired domain sales at NameJet. These days any LLLL.com attracts bids, whatever the letters; yet this domain ought to be classified as meaningful Pinyin rather than as an acronym or an arbitrary 4-letter string. In Chinese, ài / 愛 means “to love”; and sè / 色 means “color”, “appearance”, or “sex”. Therefore it may be that China likes sex more than AISE, ... read more ...
Mon 31st August 2015
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Pheenix to offer $13.99 domain name backorders - Already inexpensive drop catching service to offer cut rate pricing as it boosts number of registrars. Expired domain name backordering service Pheenix is offering a new tier of expired domain backorders at just $13.99 per domain. The new “Super Saver” backorders be usurped by any standard Gold backorders. The Gold backorders cost a little bit more: currently they are $18.95 for .com/.net/.org, but they will rise to $21.99 on September 15. Pheenix also announced that it has increased the number ... read more ...
Fri 28th August 2015
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This week's Expired Domain Name Report - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in expired domain name sales. Turns out this is my 100th article for DomainNameWire.com. Saying “Domain.TLD sold for $$$ because ???, implying Blah” – that’s the easy part. What’s tricky, as a writer, is finding ways to vary that sentence 50 times in a row without going nuts. Harder still: inventing transitions to move through the sentences. After all, looking at a list of prices in descending order, there really are no segues. “Flow” ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2015
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.Club's proceed to lapsed domain names - An example of how one new top level domain registry is releasing its expired domain names. Last week, .Club domain names that were registered at the beginning of general availability over a year ago started dropping. The company reported a 75% day one renewal rate. It hasn’t published rates post day one, but that’s certainly a good start. .Club CEO Colin Campbell told Domain Name Wire that he told investors to expect a 60% renewal rate. He doesn’t think it will stick at 75% in the long run ... read more ...
Thu 20th August 2015
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Roundup: Analyzing 100+ lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson analyzes the past week of expired domain name sales. Among expired domain auctions, NameJet’s top seller last week was GreenBusiness.com ($8.6k), a name formed from 2 keywords that are each nTLDs in their own right: .GREEN and .BUSINESS. The name can be read as “environmentally friendly”; but “green” also suggests U.S. dollars (as in the GreenBacks.com sale last month). That’s a welcome association if people can be persuaded that going green makes them some green. 89890.com ... read more ...
Fri 14th August 2015
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Expired Domain Name Sales Review - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name sales. A French fur trader freezing his fingers to collect beaver pelts up in 19th-century Canada and I might see eye to eye. His days are spent in isolation touring rivers and ponds, recovering his catch, and re-setting the traps. Mine are spent staring into a frigid screen, recovering auction results, and re-setting backorders for next week’s data. Sometimes the traps misfire, as they did this week, and my beaver haul is half as ... read more ...
Thu 13th August 2015
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Recapping July's NameJet domain name sales - Joseph Peterson reviews last month’s sales on NameJet. NameJet had seen 9 domains surpass $100k, going as high as $175.5k – but nothing remotely like July’s $550,050 sale of SX.com. Yes, VVV.com was its 4th highest sale back in April (now 5th); and RingTones.com placed 7th in June (now 8th). Yet SX.com more than triples the auction house’s all-time record. Of course, 2-letter .COMs are known to retail in the 7 figures with increasing regularity. So it might be thought that NameJet’s ... read more ...
Sun 9th August 2015
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Expired Domain Report: In-Depth on LLLL.com - Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expired domain sales. During the past several months, LLLL.com domains (4 letters, for those just joining us) have multiplied in value among wholesale traders who expect to flip to China or resell to one another. For years, values had stagnated in the $15 – $50 range; but suddenly prices at auction and in the forums began to rise, climbing 10 – 20 times higher as word spread. Mailing-list domain brokers who wouldn’t have been caught dead featuring LLLL.com’s ... read more ...
Fri 31st July 2015
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Over 100 Expired Domain Sales in this week's report - Joseph Peterson’s weekly roundup of expire domain name sales. Last time, I looked at whether a sharp downturn in the Chinese stock market has inhibited Chinese domain sales. So far, all evidence I’ve evaluated suggests that it’s business as usual for the wholesale Chinese domain market: high peak prices and churning liquidity. Expired auctions at NameJet from the past week bolster that impression. Aggressive bidding placed Chinese-style domains in the #1, #3, #8, and #12 slots. Those ... read more ...
Thu 23rd July 2015
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This Week's Expired Domain Name Report - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain names sales, including a look at what’s happening in China after the stock bubble burst. After the Chinese stock market began its downward spiral on June 15, domain investors and brokers began speculating about how the Chinese domain market would respond. For my part, I examined June sales above $2k at NameJet, looking for any short-term recoil among domain buyers. Now that July has given us 3 weeks of additional data, we can assess the ... read more ...
Fri 17th July 2015
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Results from 100+ lapsed domain name auctions - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week in expired domain name sales. Dilíu is Romanian for “madman”, which is what you’d have to be to believe DiLiu.com sold for $4.9k for any reason other than China. In Chinese, dì liù means “sixth”; dī liú is a “trickle”; and dī liū would be to “carry”. While the domain remains under whois privacy, we can only be 99.9% sure of this rationale; but China is never absent from these charts, and expired Pinyin domains have recently sold ... read more ...
Fri 10th July 2015
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Illness.com during $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. ... read more ...
Thu 9th July 2015
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June's NameJet Sales in Review: What about China? - Joseph Peterson reviews the past month of expired domain name sales. Within the domain market, China has been a big hit; but recently China – meaning the Chinese stock market – took a big hit. Between June 15 and July 3, the Shanghai Composite Index plummeted from 5178 to 3630, losing 30% of its value in 2 weeks. Some investors who purchased domains linked to China are wondering what this means for the value of their assets. Buyers and sellers can speculate to their heart’s content. ... read more ...
Fri 3rd July 2015
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EDR: Puka.com + 200 other lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name sales in this Expired Domain Report. Some time passed without China topping our list of expired domain auctions; first Insurance1.com and then DataTrack.com took 1st place – both English and U.S.-focused. This week China once again snags the tape at NameJet’s finish line, coming in 1st with PUKA.com ($9.0k). While it isn’t the $62k monster of 3 weeks prior, this sale nevertheless nearly doubles the price of its runner up. You’ll ... read more ...
Tue 23rd June 2015
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DropCatch offers name-your-own-price bulk backorders - Service lets customers place backorders for as little as $15. Expired domain name service DropCatch.com has launched a beta test of a discount club for customers who backorder a lot of domain names. DropCatch’s standard minimum price is $59 for a backorder. Under the new program, bulk customers can bid anywhere from $15-$58. If more than one bulk customer places an order and DropCatch catches it, the highest initial bid wins out. There are no auctions. There’s a bit of a catch: bulk bids below ... read more ...
Fri 19th June 2015
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Expired Domain Name Report - Joseph Peterson provides and in-depth review of the past week in the expired domain name market. And now for something completely different … Instead of a Chinese domain like the $62k giant that towered over the previous week’s expired auctions – evidence of what’s newest and most energetic in today’s domain market – this week NameJet presents us with something old fashioned. Insurance1.com was the top result, weighing in at a lighter $5.2k. Many years ago, registrants were prone ... read more ...
Wed 10th June 2015
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(Some of) May's tip NameJet sales - Joseph Peterson takes a look back at the past month on NameJet. Each month, NameJet disseminates its list of domain auctions that closed above $2,000, and various domain blogs publish that list basically as is. Personally, I’ve tried to dig a bit deeper, grouping sold domains by type and providing month-to-month statistics on overall market-place performance. Unfortunately, that approach is too time consuming; so I’m reverting to a simpler list format. That said, I like to chew data before swallowing. ... read more ...
Fri 5th June 2015
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Embrace.com during $18.9k and other lapsed domain name sales - A weekly roundup of expired domain name sales at NameJet. As a branding consultant, I love this week’s top seller: Embrace.com ($18.9k). It means so much more than a hug. When we “embrace change”, we’re not giving the future a cuddle. If we “embrace challenges”, we’re not being squeezed by Grandma; we’re Davids slaying Goliaths. The word “embrace” is positive, courageous, and social. … And I hate Elliot Silver for buying it instead of me! Oh, well. China and the rest of ... read more ...
Fri 29th May 2015
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This week's Expired Domain Report - A weekly wrap of expired domain name sales. Roughly half a dozen auctions at NameJet outperformed LoveDay.com ($3.6k) during the past week – by as much as a factor of 10 in the case of DogCare.com ($37k). These included the usual crop of LLL.com’s; an LL.tv; and another 5-figure NNNN.com, which was the category that topped our chart last time. In these weekly articles, however, I do my best to exclude seller-managed auctions for domains that don’t go through the automatic expiration ... 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 ...
Wed 20th May 2015
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Recapping NameJet's prohibited domain name sales month - NameJet had another strong month in April. Here’s a look at its results. As measured by the number of domain name sales closing at or above $2,000, so far 2015 is shaping up to be NameJet’s best year. Out of 47 months on record, just 8 have racked up 100 or more $2k+ sales. During 2014, no month saw 100 sales; yet 3 of the past 4 months are among those 8. March totaled 94, which is just shy. February set the all-time record. April’s high sale $32,220 is not as striking as we’ve often ... read more ...