Tag Archives: valuation

Thu 24th December 2015
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The ROTD Domain Auction At Namescon Tops $5.5 Million In Bids - The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction being held live/online on January 11, 2016 has now topped $5.5 Million in Pre-bidding on Namejet.com In all there are 325 domain names with at least one bid and about 250 of those have more than one bid. About 125 domain names will be in the live auction with the rest staying opened for bidding on Namejet.com until January 21st. There are 12 domain names with a high bid in the 6 figures or higher. 43 domain names have a bid in the five figures or higher. Moreover ... read more ...
Mon 14th December 2015
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DNPric.es Database Of Domain Sales Tops 1M: Total Sales Tops $1.6 Billion - DNPric.es database of domain name sales passed over 1,000,000 historic records. According to the developer of the site, not only it makes DNPric.es, the first one to gather so much public entries in one place, it is also times bigger than any other known data provider. According to the statistics section on the site: “The database has 1,089,771 sales records of 1,015,189 domain names totaling sales of $1,605,714,604” That is over $1.6 Billion dollars in domain name sales. In addition DNPric.es ... read more ...
Fri 13th November 2015
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DomainPros Buys 260 Five Digit Domains For $1M; $3,850 Per - DomainPros.com announced today that it just acquired 260 five number domain names (NNNNN.com) for $1,000,000 That works out to just over $3,800 per domain name. “Most of those 260 domains originally belonged to Marchex’s portfolio of 5 digit domains” which Godaddy bought from Marchex. Back in April we announced that Godaddy paid $26.2 Million dollars for Marchex’s portfolio of over 200,000 domain names, however its not clear if Godaddy still owned the domain names that DomainPros.com acquired. 62.com ... read more ...
Thu 5th November 2015
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Owner of Houses.co.uk Who Paid £40,000 Blames Sedo For Auction Price of £2,999 - Remember the story a few weeks ago about the domain name Houses.co.uk  which was purchased a few years ago for  £40,000 was on sale for £2,999 on Sedo? The owner of the domain name blames Sedo and its automated valuation tool. Peter Thornton told SellingUp.com, that the domain name Houses.Co.Uk is for sale but it was never actually available for £2,999. “Instead, he has blamed domain name sales website Sedo.com for putting an automated valuation on his domain which he feels was several ... read more ...
Fri 22nd May 2015
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The Psychology of Pricing - For many domain investors negotiation and pricing is some of the trickiest and hardest things to learn. While there is no exact science, experience and a ton of previous transactions help the most, there are strategies you can employ to help with your negotiation and pricing. Mike stumbled across a very extensive article from Nick Kolenda that deals with the psychological aspects of pricing. The article is very long and detailed, so I would suggest you bookmark it as it is a lot for one reading. ... read more ...
Sat 1st February 2014
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Tnooz “Travel domains going for (not exactly) a song” - Linda Fox wrote a piece today on Tnooz.com about Tour.com being put up for sale for $3million. In the past three years, according to information from domain specialist Sedo, a number of premium travel domain sales have taken place: Jerusalem.com – $510,000 Visitstockholm.com – $70,000 wellnessfinder.com – Euro 300,000 sommerhus.dk (Danish summer house rentals) – Euro 87,500 gruppenreisen.de (group travel in German) – Euro 59,500 hoteles.es  (hotels in Spanish) – Euro 275,000 xinjian.com ... read more ...
Thu 10th October 2013
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Schwartz Sells eBet.com For $1,350,000: 5 Online Appraisal Services Value it From $40K to $55 - I thought it would be interesting to see what the automated appraisal services had to say about the value of the domain king, Rick Schwartz $1,350,000 Million dollar sale of eBet.com If your a frequent reader of thedomains.com you know I’m not a huge fan of the online appraisal services but pretty surprised when I checked this domain today and found only 2 of 5 gave it a value in the five figures, not great for a 7 figure domain. I think a fair conclusion would be based on these services Rick did ... read more ...
Wed 14th August 2013
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CircleId Post Rips The Domain Name IDNX Pricing Index - Alex Tajirian, CEO of DomainMart in a post on CircleID.com just ripped into the IDNX domain name index backed by Thies Lindenthal and Sedo. “The index is intended to be a benchmark for domain owners and investors. “ “But it’s out of line with other studies and the common sense of how a market operates. A much better barometer to follow is average prices for groups of domain names with similar characteristics.” “Using a single index would have dire consequences. ” “Other problems with ... read more ...
Wed 26th June 2013
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FAIL: DomainIndex.com Releases 8 Million Appraisals For New gTLD’s Domain Names - DomainIndex.com has released 8 Million Appraisals for new gTLD domain names those including trademarks and those with just generic terms and the results are pretty interesting. Mt first observation is that of the new gTLD domain names with the highest valuation, only 1 non-trademarked term has a value in the six figures, Car.Insurance (which may not even be available to be registered depending on which applicant wins the .insurance new gTLD) at $125,000 All other new gTLD domain names are apprised ... read more ...
Fri 1st March 2013
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GoDaddy.com Aftermarket Sells 34,132 Domain Names In February - Godaddy.com sold 34,132 domain names through its Aftermarket/Auction system in February down slightly from January when it sold 35,803. February sales were led by Xe.co which sold for $37,500 Here are the top 10 sales for February as listed on Godaddy.com site:   freebies.org is a domain name that we sold. Of the 34,132 domain names sold: 683 Offer/Counter-Offer 18,379 Auction 15,070 Buy Now Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 23rd January 2013
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DomainMongrel.com Launches New Domain Appraisal Tool: Here’s Some Comparisons - If your a frequent reader of TheDomains.com you know we are not great fans on domain name appraisal tools so we might be surprised to see us announce yet another one,  DomainMongrel.com I will go through some results we got today but first this is how the developers described the appraisal tool in their press release today: “This new tool—Domain Name Estimator—offers domainers a rough indication of a domain’s worth by making use of advanced statistical analysis based on a number of factors. These ... read more ...
Tue 22nd January 2013
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IDNX/Sedo: Number Crunching Shows, Domains Sell Faster With “Charm Prices” - This is a Guest Post by Thies Lindenthal, Sedo.com’s product manager for domain pricing, and a visiting scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for Real Estate. Mr. Lindenthal holds a PhD in Real Estate Finance from Maastricht University, and frequently publishes on both housing markets and on Internet domain names as a form of ‘virtual land’. Dr. Lindenthal developed IDNX, the first scientific grade price index for Internet domain names. Here is the Dr. Lindenthal ... read more ...
Tue 13th November 2012
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Domainindex.com Downgrades .Co.uk From AA To B: Introduction of .uk TLD “Would Massively Destroy a Value of Existing .co.uk Domains - Domainindex.com, downgraded  its rating for .co.uk from AA to B. The step has been taken after the release on October 1, 2012 of a three-month consultation by Nominet, the not-for-profit manager of the .uk infrastructure, into a scheme that would introduce .uk as a top-level domain (TLD). After getting feedback from Nominet meetings held in London on Nov.7and 9 Domainindex.com decided to change the .uk rating Currently, over ten million UK domains are structured as anybusiness.co.uk; under the proposal, ... read more ...
Fri 2nd November 2012
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Marchex’s Sales Prove It: Estibot Appraisals Are Worthless - As a domain owner there is nothing more frustrating than having someone argue that the asking price of your domain is too high because its over “Estibot Appraisal” (unless your price is lower) then they hit you with the “its only worth what someone willing to pay for it” line. Estibot.com for those who don’t know is a tool that attempts to appraise domain name on a bunch of statistical information. For years I have argued that since the tool is not intuitive and only relies on statistical ... read more ...
Tue 24th August 2010
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BargainDomains.com Is 1st Marketplace That Is Allows Sellers To Include DNWStats.com In Their Domain Sale Listings - BargainDomains.com just added a feature that allows Sellers to add a link to a DNWStats.com report to the BargainDomains.com sale pages. For example checkout this domain for sale on BargainDomains.com, HandymanServices.com. As you can see sellers can show the monthly traffic and revenue certified by DNWStats.com when submitting their domains for sale. Already up in BargainDomains.com and should also be implemented  this week in in all the vertical marketplaces of Domaining.com including Catchy.com, ... read more ...
Thu 26th June 2008
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ICANN Opens Flood Gates To New Extensions - ICANN has unimously voted to allow an unlimited amount of new TLD’s, using any combination of letters and numbers, including non-Latin characters. In CNN article annoucing the decision it states in part: “””The decision could spell the end for traditional Web addresses ending .com and .org and country names like .jp or .fr with Web sites able to use easier-to-remember suffixes such as .hotel or .sex.”””” Of course the current US adminstration already nixed the .xxx extension. However ... read more ...
Wed 18th June 2008
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FireFox 3.0 Released: Is it Bad News for a Domain Industry? - I just downloaded the new verision of FireFox 3.0 web browser which features the new “Awesome Bar” which Mozilla says is a new way of using the address bar on top of the browser to navigate the internet taking into account your bookmarks and viewing history.  Mozilla says that the “Awesome Bar” basically turns the address bar into a search engine. “No longer do you have to know the domain of the page you’re looking for the AwesomeBar will match what you’re typing (even multiple words) ... read more ...
Sat 31st May 2008
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If domains are so valuable, because are many good ones still dropping? - I started following domain drops in 1997. Back then there was no domain name industry, no trade shows, no blogs, no industry auctions. Very few people knew what a domain was, how to use them, and how valuable they were. Now 11 years later, with countless articles, press releases, blogs and reports of domain sales, why are so many good domains still dropping? Here are just some of the names that have dropped and were auctioned off in the past 30 days: GreenMonday.com $76,000 Helpline.com $70K Surveyors.com ... read more ...
Sun 11th May 2008
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Using Estibot.com, what are a best and misfortune buys of a Live TRAFFIC auction - I have seen a lot of people in the domain community discussing, Estibot.com lately. Estibot.com is an automated domain appraisal tool. Type a domain into it and it will give you back an appraisal for a domain. I thought is would be interesting to see what appraisal Esibot.com gave to the Live TRAFFIC names. Here the top ten domains in the live TRAFFIC auction with a reserve price of $5,000 or less, with the highest estibot appraisal estimate: DOMAIN NAME RESERVE RANGE ESIBOT VALUE graphicssoftware.com ... read more ...
Thu 24th April 2008
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Buried Jersey Nets $175k - A few months ago we wrote how domains, like commodities and collectibles continue to increase in value in poor economic times. Why because they are rare. If there is only one of something, there will be a market for it. Today there is further evidence of this. The infamous David Ortiz Red Sox jersey that was buried and then dug up at the site of the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx was auctioned off on ebay.com for charity. The auction just ended with the final bid of $175,100. The actual value of ... read more ...
Thu 3rd April 2008
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DNJournal.com: 1st Quarter best ever for domain sales - Ron Jackson, who tracks all reported domain sales and publishes the results weekly in the DNJournal, published his anaylsis of domain sales in the 1st quarter and has some great news for the industry: “””””The first quarter of 2008 wound up being the best domain sales quarter reported since we started tracking the market back in the fall of 2003. A total of $38,029,543 in domain sales were reported in 1Q-2008, a spectacular 78% jump over the $21,253,105 reported in the first quarter of ... read more ...
Mon 10th December 2007
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Domains Are Cheaper than Booze - On Saturday we reported from the Art Basel show in Miami and compared the prices of art work to domains. Now comes the report from the Christie’s auction held this past Saturday in New York that a bottle of 1926 Macallan Scotch sold for $54,000, or $2,100 an ounce. It set a record for a bottle of scotch. It also beat expectations. The total generated at the distilled spirits auction was just over $300,000. Also exceeding expectations. As we keep saying there is a tremendous market for anything ... read more ...
Sat 8th December 2007
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Domains Are Cheap!!!!!!!!!!! - I spent seven hours at the huge Art Basel Show in Miami yesterday. I saw the obligatory canvases painted completely white (25k+), Black (65K+) and a very pretty green color priced, at a no doubt what is a steal, at $335,000. Also on display were the white canvas with simply words like “die collector scum”, and “meat is death”. I also got to see the back doors of what appeared to be a 60′s volkswagen bus placed on the wall, a bunch of clothes on the floor and more hanging from the ... read more ...
Wed 5th December 2007
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Domain Truffles - Every day we receive many offers from retail customers looking to purchase domains. The vast majority of these folk still don’t grasp the concept that a domain is worth anymore than the registration fee. Most people compare domains to real estate. I view domains more like commodities and collectibles. A commodity is something that has limited amounts and demand for them. A collectible is something that is something prized, either one of a kind or very limited in number.  Like commodities and ... read more ...