Tag Archives: expired

Thu 14th May 2015
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Expired domain name results: Wangan.com $13k, Floridian.com $11k and more - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. The usual suspects are at it again – China and the USA. During the past week, NameJet saw a $13.9k auction finish for Wangan.com, which formerly belonged to a Chinese manufacturer of electrical fire places that managed $9 million in assets, a 646,000 square-foot factory, and 380 employees. Said the company: “We are powerful in manufacturing and researching”. Aye, but less so in paying $10 renewal fees. Although ... 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 30th April 2015
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Short domain names lead lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. China and the USA take turns as king of the mountain. Last week, an English domain was perched on top of our pile of expired NameJet auctions. This week China occupies both the #1 and #3 positions with PQA.com ($17.1k) and 058.net ($5k) respectively, while #2 currently remains indeterminate. METE.com ($12.3k) can be regarded as an English word, a verb meaning to measure and dispense some allotment. Yet it’s so archaic ... read more ...
Fri 24th April 2015
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Expired Domain Report: Breaking down Chinese buyers - Joseph Peterson reviews recent expired domain name sales on NameJet, including which short domains were picked up by Chinese buyers. Anyone who reads these weekly reports on the expired domain market (or, rather, NameJet’s share of it) will have noticed that the chart can be divided into Chinese purchases and non-Chinese purchases. The split is fairly clean. GEAI.com ($8.2k)? China. HNBC.com ($6.4k)? China. DAIG.com ($2.8k)? China. DUVI.com ($2.5k)? Probably not China. And why is that an exception? ... read more ...
Thu 16th April 2015
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WaterCoolers.com sells for $25.2k, and other lapsed domain name sales - A look back at the past week in expired domain name sales. The gossip at the water cooler this week might be WaterCoolers.com itself, which was NameJet’s top expired domain auction, selling for $25.2k. Not too far behind (at $15.1k) is the German word for “style”: STIL.com. Or is it? Perhaps it’s an acronym for people in Illinois. Or a creative misspelling of the English word “still”. Then again, if the buyer is Chinese (as buyers so often are these days), it could be an arbitrary sequence ... read more ...
Mon 13th April 2015
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See that new tip turn domain names are deleting - Check out which domains people are letting go. Want to take a second stab at domains registered under new top level domains a year ago? Curious what types of domain names people are giving up on after a year? Domain Punch has a new section that shows which domain names were deleted from the zone file yesterday. You can sort by top level domain and length, as well as see deletion numbers for each top level domain name. Keep in mind the domains on the list have just been deleted from the zone. This ... 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 ...
Tue 7th April 2015
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Analyzing NameJet and Short Domain Name Sales - Joseph Peterson reviews recent NameJet sales, and takes a deep dive into sales of 3 and 4-character domain names. After a record-setting Winter, NameJet began Spring with a reduced sales volume for March. Even so, given 94 sales closing at or above $2000, March matches the best month out of an 11-month stretch during 2014. NameJet also scored its 4th highest sale of all time with VVV.com being bid up to $136,400. The real story here is the massive preponderance of 3 and 4-character domains. Out ... read more ...
Wed 18th March 2015
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LuckyGames.com, BearClaw.com and other Expired Domain Name Sales - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. Without the added attraction of money, games of chance are a bit boring compared to games of skill or strategy. So it’s fair to assume LuckyGames.com (with its $9.5k high bid) stands for slot-machine-style gambling rather than chess, basketball, or mine sweeper. Luck rather devalues success, although lottery winners seldom tear up those oversized novelty checks. NameJet’s #2 expired auction from the past week, BearClaw.com ... read more ...
Fri 13th March 2015
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NameJet Expired Domain Report - Frank Schilling made a comment yesterday regarding NameJet that I believe is significant – and not because it’s anything new … rather the opposite. Many people, myself included, have observed rising final auction prices and speculated about the intermixture of wholesale and retail purchases at NameJet going back at least a year. So why does it matter (and it does) that Frank Schilling calls the present an “interesting moment where the line between wholesale and retail is getting closer ... read more ...
Tue 3rd March 2015
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Last week's NameJet Expired Domain Sales - Joseph Peterson details recent expired domain name sales at NameJet. After a couple of weeks during which Chinese purchases topped the expired domain auction list at NameJet, English is back. In the driver’s seat sits an exact-match domain that defines a ubiquitous commercial category: SignPrinting.com ($4.9k). ChicagoDivorce.com ($2.8k) called shotgun – an EMD as well yet geographically specific. Although this duo was fairly expensive, both are ultimately worth more. You can’t walk ... read more ...
Wed 25th February 2015
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Here's what sole during NameJet this past week - Joseph Peterson reviews the previous week’s expired domain name sales on NameJet. China is perched at the top of our chart – same as last week. The high expired domain sale from NameJet was YuChu.com ($11.9k), which – if experience is any guide – probably has multiple meanings apart from being a proper name. In spite of its resemblance to the English word “symmetry”, SYMM.com ($1.8k) is bound for a Chinese audience also, as are WABB.com ($1.9k), SeHai.com ($713), and possibly 2 or ... read more ...
Tue 17th February 2015
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Xixia.com during $19k and other NameJet Expired Domain Name Sales - Reviewing the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. China reclaims the top spot among this past week’s expired domain auctions at NameJet. For 12 out of the past 30 weeks, the top sale (out of the auctions I’ve covered) has been attributable to the Chinese domain market. Last week, CarAds.com reigned supreme. This time it’s Xixia.com ($19.5k), a county in Henan province or (alternatively) a district of Yinchuan city. The phrase NewLogic.com suggests disruptive innovation. ... read more ...
Fri 13th February 2015
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A summation of NameJet's record month - NameJet set a record during January with the most sales over $2k it has ever reported – 148 domain auctions in all. Its previous record was 131 sales back in December 2013. To put that in perspective, NameJet’s top month during all of 2014 scored only 105 sales; and its 2014 monthly mean was 78. Just 8 more sales, and the market place would have doubled last year’s average. At the same time, NameJet’s highest sale during January ($29.1k) was below average – ranking 24th out of 44 months ... read more ...
Tue 10th February 2015
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NameJet Expired Domain Report: CarAds.com, MyDealer.com and more - Joseph Peterson reviews recent expired domain name sales at NameJet. My first thought when seeing NameJet’s $5.4k auction for CarAds.com was of a road luxuriously winding along sea cliffs and the convertible traversing it filmed from a helicopter conveniently muted for the voice over. But used-car classifieds or dealership ad distribution are more likely business models for this domain. Speaking of dealers, MyDealer.com ($2.8k) was the second-highest expired auction at NameJet to chart. Who ... read more ...
Fri 6th February 2015
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Expired Domain Report: iiiii.com and more - Joseph Peterson looks at the past week of expired domain name sales at NameJet. Market value for repeating-character domains (on average) undergoes a stepwise descent as length increases. CCs outsell CCCs, which outperform CCCCs, which outclass CCCCCs. So, for instance, last week NameJet sold 4 LLL.com domains above $5k. However, as they weren’t part of the expired auction cycle, they’re not reported in this article. Instead what tops the chart at $5k is a repeating 5-letter domain: iiiii.com. ... read more ...
Fri 30th January 2015
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NameJet Expired Domain Name Review - Joseph Peterson looks back at the past week in expired domain name sales at NameJet. NameJet’s top expired domain sale during the past week was Lucie.com at only $5.6k. Last week, that same domain would have been #7 – far behind the $29.1k leader. That isn’t to say that Lucie.com was NameJet’s biggest auction; actually I counted 16 that closed last week between $8.1k and $21k, but they weren’t expired domains. For those who are just joining us, I’d better explain that these weekly articles ... read more ...
Fri 23rd January 2015
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SelfieSticks.com sells for $29,100 and some-more lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson runs down the latest expired domain name sales at NameJet. If you’re as un-with-it as uncool me, then you’ll look at the $29.1k high bid for SelfieSticks.com and say, “Huh?” Apparently, selfie sticks are rods that attach to a camera phone so that you can hold it far enough away to take a picture of yourself and the grinning people next to you. Asking a stranger to snap a photo please wasn’t that onerous, was it? Trends move fast. Already the market for these devices generated a ... read more ...
Thu 15th January 2015
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Rothwell.com, OmahaHomes.com and other Expired Domain Name Sales - Joseph Peterson’s weekly wrap-up of expired domain name sales. Names get around. For instance, take Rothwell.com, which expired and sold at NameJet during the past week for $8,100. King John – the villain of Robin Hood legends and real-life signatory of the Magna Carta – granted a tiny town of Rothwell in Northamptonshire the perpetual right to hold a Monday market, which they still celebrate with a “guard of halberdiers” and drinks of “rum and milk”. Over ... read more ...
Thu 8th January 2015
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DQZ.com and other Expired Domain Name Sales - DQZ.com among the leaders at NameJet over the past week. When it comes to 3-letter .COM domains, value is something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Enough domain investors agree to pay within a certain range based on scarcity, observed sales, and the opportunity to resell to one another that a given LLL.com is often purchased without reference to any conceivable use or meaning. That could easily be the case with NameJet’s $12.4k sale of DQZ.com last week; ... read more ...
Thu 1st January 2015
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Expired Domain Name Report, New Year’s Day Edition - Since GoDaddy began concealing sale records as its Christmas gift to the domain industry, this week’s article discusses only expired domain auction results seen at NameJet. Although our overall picture of the expired domain market is smaller, big prices are still on display. When $10k is spent on a 5-digit numeric like 11211.com, we can be sure that the domain is bound for China. Repeating characters and patterns are especially prized by Chinese buyers. WinnersClub.com ... read more ...
Wed 24th December 2014
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V-V-V-Voom! and Not Much Else (Expired Domain Report) - Hi, Paul There are always competing factors to balance. In this case, I think GoDaddy is putting too much weight on a few people who complain and neglecting both the silent majority and the larger, long-term indirect benefits to the industry as a whole — which aren’t based on the misplaced anxieties of a few customers. That’s a matter of opinion, but I hope it will be debated. Did GoDaddy undertake any industry surveys before deciding to change its policy unilaterally? From my vantage point, ... read more ...
Fri 19th December 2014
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Last week’s Expired Domain Name Sales - After seeing English and Chinese jostling for king of the mountain week after week, it’s a real pleasure to see Spanish climb to that top spot, as if reminding us that it – not English – stands as the world’s 2nd most populous language (behind Mandarin). GoDaddy auctioned off the word Gustazo.com for $4.7k. If you’re wondering what it means, well, I’ve already given you a clue in that first sentence. “Gustazo” equals a special pleasure. In particular, ... 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 11th December 2014
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Over 200 Expired Domain Sales Results, including Kickbox.com - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week’s expired domain name sales. The combat sport that brought Jean-Claude Van Damme to the silver screen (and eventually put “the Muscles from Brussels” to work in maracas-shaking GoDaddy commercials) had a notable expired domain sale last week: Kickbox.com ended at NameJet just a dollar shy of $12k. I’d say Kickbox.com is agile enough to be used inside or outside the literal ring, and we may see it developed with no ... read more ...