Tag Archives: expired

Fri 5th December 2014
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2 weeks of lapsed domain name sales - This article covers a 2-week period on either side of Thanksgiving: 19 November – 2 December. For that reason, you’ll see the sales list crammed full to bursting like a ClownCar.com ($662). I was going to jettison everything below $300 to save space, but I figure readers can quite easily scroll past extra information. GoDaddy’s top expired auction last week comes as a bit of a surprise. Whatever its accrued merits for SEO, the 4-word, 23-letter BarnDoorSlidingHardware.com ... read more ...
Thu 4th December 2014
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GoDaddy Hangout to explain Expired Domains - What happens when a domain name expires? GoDaddy is hosting a Hangout this afternoon that will be useful for anyone who wants to learn more about expired domain names. I think this will be a good online event for anyone who doesn’t understand the lifecycle of a domain name and what they should do if they want to acquire an expiring domain. It will also be helpful for domain name investors who want to learn more about GoDaddy’s expired domain purchasing options. ... read more ...
Thu 20th November 2014
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HuaGao.com during $20k and other lapsed domain name sales - Joseph Peterson summarizes weekly expired domain name sales Once again, China tops our list of last week’s expired domain auctions. This time it’s GoDaddy with HuaGao.com ($20.3k), meaning … you tell me! Various working professionals share that name. (There’s a certified public accountant using HuaGaoCPA.com, for instance.) Yet I suspect that coupling “Hua” (transform or blossom) + “Gao” (tall or above average) conveys some other meaning in Chinese. ... read more ...
Fri 14th November 2014
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Reviewing final month’s NameJet sales - Joseph Peterson takes a look at some of last month’s notable domain name sales at NameJet. If I were to tell you that, by selling 66 domains at or above the $2,000 mark during October, NameJet recorded one of its lowest monthly domain counts ever, that would be quite misleading. True, only 5 out of the past 41 months have fared worse in terms of the quantity of domains clearing $2k. But during all the previous months in which NameJet sold 66 or fewer domains ... read more ...
Thu 13th November 2014
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Last week’s 200+ lapsed domain name sales adult to $27.1k - In this report, Joseph Peterson discusses over 200 expired domain name sales from last week. A picture is worth a thousand words, and these – depicting KPF’s architectural plan for the Meixi district of Changsha, a capital city in China – go a long way to explaining the $27.1k high bid in NameJet’s auction of Meixi.com last week. Half Dubai, half Venice. I’d love to see the place if they ever build it. Buyers of acronym domains like SIGI.com ($8.8k) are ... read more ...
Thu 6th November 2014
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EDR: GoDaddy’s 4 letter, $42,500 domain name auction - This week’s Expired Domain Report from Joseph Peterson. The gap between last week’s most expensive expired domain auction and the rest of the “stragglers” was roughly a factor of 10 – a full digit difference. Now, in a retail context, $42.5k is a respectable but hardly record-shattering sum to pay for a domain. As we all know, enough domain names sell for 6 and 7 figures each year that $42.5k is quickly overshadowed by the market overall. Even at ... read more ...
Thu 30th October 2014
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Expired Domain Report: a clever .net sale and more - Joseph Peterson takes a look at the past week in the expired domain name market. There has been some discussion this past year among domain investors about the market outlook for .NET domains. Traditionally, .NET has played second fiddle to .COM for the most part, and some predict that wave after wave of new TLD releases can only erode .NET’s position. Just last week, a DNW reader expressed the view that “.NET is slowly dying”. Not everyone shares that opinion, ... read more ...
Fri 24th October 2014
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Over 200 lapsed domain name sales [results] - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week of expired domain name auctions. It will surprise some people that the country responsible for last week’s #2 Namejet expired auction is Turkey. Kemer.com ($11.4k) describes a seaside resort region. No, Italy, Greece, and Spain are not the only countries on the Mediterranean. ICANN has offices in Turkey, and so do domain investors. Meanwhile, there’s nothing surprising about the $16k sale of 9135.com. China has deep pockets ... read more ...
Thu 16th October 2014
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Expired Domain Report: A Chinese Takeover! - Joseph Peterson reviews the past week’s expired domain sales. Pretty soon, not speaking Chinese will disqualify me from reporting on the domain market altogether!  So many of the big-ticket domain sales look eastward — numerical domains, LL through LLLL, and Chinese Pinyin.  China dominated NameJet charts in September, and China tops the list of last week’s GoDaddy expired auctions as well with ChaoZhi.com ($26k). One possible meaning of “Chāo Zhī”, ... read more ...
Tue 14th October 2014
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31 important domain sales from NameJet - Joseph Peterson reviews notable domain name sales at NameJet last month. During September, NameJet closed 80 domain sales at or above $2,000  – down slightly from August’s spike of 95 but consistent with May (76), June (69), and July (82). Continuing my experiment from last month’s article, I’ll be using a “compare contrast” format to pair off domains according to price. Just maybe, that will shed some light on market value, branding or investment strategy. But ... read more ...
Thu 9th October 2014
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Expired Domain Name Report: iWealth.com $12k and more - In a world of iPods and iPads, why iWealth.com is worth money requires little explanation. Bidding for that expired domain came in just shy of $12k last week at NameJet — with retirement planning and personal investing being its most obvious applications. I’m less persuaded that TranscendUSA.com was good value at $6.5k. Not to knock transcendence, but a “USA” suffix can feel tacked on. Usually it’s the mark of brands looking to cut corners on domain ... read more ...
Fri 3rd October 2014
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Expired Domain Report: MedTravel.com $18k, BrownCollege.com $16k and more - Joseph Peterson provides a round up of expired domain sales from the past week. GoDaddy’s $17.8k sale of MedTravel.com hearkens back to the $7.1k sale of MedicalTravel.com at NameJet, which I reported in June. It’s tempting to conclude that trimming 2 syllables more than doubled the market value, but the prices could as easily have been reversed. MedTravel.com does feel more like a brand name, as opposed to a generic category. What we can infer is that medical ... read more ...
Fri 26th September 2014
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Expired Domain Report: DormRoom.com $12.5k and hundreds more - In Persian mythology, the Huma (هما) is a Phoenix-like bird — part male, part female — that lives “its entire life flying invisibly high above the earth, and never alighting on the ground”. Its shadow falling on one’s head would foretell kingship. This meaning probably did not inspire the $11.5k sale of HUMA.com at NameJet last week. That domain could be some sort of acronym or even stand for Hillary Clinton’s personal aide. There’s also a “chia ... read more ...
Wed 24th September 2014
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SEO’s contend lapsed domains are being targeted by Google - Some people think Google is using expired domain info to track down so-called “Private Blog Networks”. About ten years ago I made a mint from expired domains. These weren’t good expired domains. They were just domains that had been used before, had lots of incoming links and nice Google juice. I’d slap up a site full of pretty crappy content and wait for the search engines to come slurp it up. The ad clicks tallied up to over $1,000 a day for a short while. ... read more ...
Fri 19th September 2014
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Expired Domain Report: 4 minute domain sells for $31.5k - Chinese container shipping — which is to say global freight —  must account for last week’s $22.6k sale of QianWan.com. The Qingdao Qianwan Container Terminal Co., Ltd. manages one of the world’s busiest ports. Namejet’s top expired auction, on the other hand, isn’t so easy to I.D.: IDAI.com for $31.5k. Is it Irish? Then it’s “The Interior Design Academy of Ireland”, offering diplomas by correspondence. Is it Japanese? Then it’s a railway ... read more ...
Fri 12th September 2014
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NameJet’s past month: Ingles.com, LEA.com and more - Joseph Peterson reviews some of the notable expired domain name sales on NameJet last month. Too many domains to choose from this past month! This time I’m considering 18 instead of my usual 10. August saw 95 domain sales at NameJet close at or above $2,000. That’s up from 82 during July and 69 during June.  Although I have reported on some of the expired domains before in my weekly articles, with this monthly recap I include NameJet’s many sales of privately ... read more ...
Thu 11th September 2014
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Expired domains: LiYou.com for $22k, Drastic.com for $12k and more - Would a radio program devoted to “Ethiopian entertainment, sports, and news” and broadcasting out of Washington D.C. pay $22,323 to drop the word “radio” from its domain name? No. But China may have enough individuals named Li You for one of them to be NameJet’s $22.3k high bidder for LiYou.com. To me that price seems inordinately high for a personal name, but there may be some meaning I’m unaware of. Chinese is Greek to me. TalkingBooks.com ($10.4k) ... read more ...
Tue 9th September 2014
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UDRP filed opposite $19k lapsed domain Bespoke.com. Is it a former owner? - Valuable domain name expired earlier this year and now faces UDRP. The domain name Bespoke.com expired in May. It went through the entire expiration cycle, making it one of the best domain names to fully expire this year. A bidder at DropCatch.com paid $18,805 to purchase the domain name. Now that buyer is being forced to defend the generic domain in a UDRP, and it might be against the company that let the domain name expire. Bespoke Services Group S.A. filed a UDRP ... read more ...
Thu 4th September 2014
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Expired domain report: Mangos, Drones and more - Over 200 expired domain auction prices in this week’s Expired Domain Report. In a parallel universe, I would be typing this article from a Mango computer rather than a breed of Apple. Still, mangos have proliferated on this planet beyond Darwin’s definition of success. “Mango” trademarks abound for products / services as diverse as beauty salons, audio recordings, fertilizers, lead generation, secured access cards, language instruction, and baby strollers. ... read more ...
Fri 29th August 2014
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Expired Domain Report: Carol.com, Pranksters.com and more - Deck the halls! Carol.com, which GoDaddy sold for $20.8k this past week, may be one of the best brand names for the Christmas season. Either that or some woman named Carol ought to be immensely flattered! Another dictionary-word .COM, Pranksters.com reached $7.1k. It’s not hard to imagine a “Pranksters” show based on the premise of pulling pranks proving pretty popular.  Plenty have. That clip I just linked to is also something of a comment on the price paid ... read more ...
Thu 21st August 2014
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This week’s lapsed domain report: Got .info? - That would be Coleridge — his ill fated sailor thirstily contemplating the vast seawater. But I doubt “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” was the Rime.com that just sold at GoDaddy Auctions for $12.8k. Aside from that archaic spelling of “rhyme”, we have “rime” as the hoarfrost that forms from a fog in winter. Nope. Not it either. My bet is on the Play Station game, Rime — whose trailer is oddly reminiscent of Coleridge’s poem with its sea scape, ... read more ...
Thu 14th August 2014
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This week’s lapsed domain name sales roundup - Along the way to yesterday’s $20k sale of EnRoute.com, GoDaddy expired auctions zigzagged through some desirable addresses and took a few weird detours. Two domains that attracted me personally were the self-explanatory GenerateLeads.com ($8k) and Masker.com ($2.7k), which suits various privacy services and also describes a guest at a masquerade. Other bidding results appear to be more about the link profiles of past websites than due to the quality of the domain ... read more ...
Fri 8th August 2014
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This week’s lapsed domain name sales - NameJet kicks off our list of last week’s expired domain auctions with a category-defining domain that blends Employment, Travel, and Leisure — the $15k sale of HospitalityJobs.com. Thereafter, we’ve got 2 “soft” domains in a row, roughly totaling $10k between them. And it turns out 4 of the domains I pointed to in last week’s article finished in the $2.1k to $2.6k range: InternetGaming.com, MobileDating.com, AdultOnline.com, and DistanceLearning.org. iBud.com ... read more ...
Fri 1st August 2014
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Expired Domain Roundup: Tequila, Exotica and more - Sometimes $30 is more shocking than $20,250. GoDaddy Auctions’ sale of Exotica.com for over $20k comes as no surprise. There were already 97 bids up to $6,700 after day 1 (with 8 days remaining); and, by the penultimate day, those numbers had risen to $15.5k and 153 bids. From there, it only took 15 bids more to nudge up to $20,250.  “Exotica” has been used with adult connotations but also denoted a style of music popular in the 1950s. I don’t see a revival ... read more ...
Thu 24th July 2014
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Weekly Expired Domain Report - Domain sales charts — expired or otherwise — make for some strange bedfellows. Any given week presents an orgy of bizarre juxtapositions. What else but the domain market can bring together Bill Cosby and French Marxists? Malaysian tourism for New Yorkers alongside Azerbaijani gossip in the ccTLD of Western Samoa? (I’m referencing TheCosbys.com, Marxisme.net, TourismMalaysiaNY.com, and Bizimbaku.ws.) Few university libraries contain such diversity. Lussumo.com, ... read more ...