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| After last week's blockbuster market performance (which included a trio of six-figure sales), a step back was almost inevitable this week. Still, with seven five-figure transactions reported, the new sales crop would stack up well by any standard measure. Afternic.com ascended to the summit of our new Top Ten chart after one of their clients ran up a $25,500 tab for UniqueHotels.com. |
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Namewinner.com (one of the drop catchers that will be negatively affected by the SnapNames move) scored two five-figure sales this week, ringing up $12,520 for #3 JobsCanada.com and $10,520 for #6 FreeGameDownload.com. The latter domain was sandwiched between a pair of sales at BuyDomains.com; #5 Goosebumps.com ($11,000) and #7 IndianSongs.com ($10,000). Both of those domains were purchased by Innovation HQ Inc. (a report that came to us via the DomainState.com forum) and both are very nice traffic magnets. Goosebumps.com scores 1,294 with the extension in Overture while IndianSongs.com posts a solid 635. The other four positions on the Big Board were split between SnapNames and Sedo.com. Snapnames cinched their big week with #4 HolidaysDirect.com at $12,100 and #10 FreeTraining.com at $8,100. Sedo hit the daily double with a pair of German country code domains, preventing a .com chart sweep. You can check those out for yourself as we take a look at the new Top Ten then resume our commentary on the many other sales of interest in the week that ended Sept. 19:
Sedo's two chart entries, Golfen.de ($9,256) and Verliebte.de ($8,639) were just the start of an impressive list of country code sales there this week. A single buyer bought half a dozen .co.uk domains; Panties.co.uk at �4,170 ($7,497) and five more at �4,166 ($7,489) each! Those were StripTease.co.uk, Stockings.co.uk, Suspenders.co.uk, Voyeurism.co.uk and Fetish.co.uk. Sedo added another �4,500 ($5,547) for Handtasche.de (German for "hand bags"). Of course they sell their share of .com and .net domains too. Holz.com ("wood" in German) went for $5,000 while IMOnline.net netted $1,025. Enom's Club Drop had a solid week as well, racking up a dozen sales above 2K. eTeacher.com led the way at $6,107, followed by ThreeDayBlinds.com ($4,910), Indicators.com ($3,407) and Cellular1.com ($3,207). RingTonesFree.com and StripPoker.net each added $3,107 to the till. Coriolis.com was next at $2,509, followed by a pair at $2,207; GolfDrivingRange.com and Olimpics.com (very high traffic misspell scoring 5656 with the extension in Overture). Club Drop also collected $2,107 each for PaintPro.com and Ballerkickz.com and another $2,007 for GamesForSale.com. In a side note, there's a happy ending to the TMP.net saga. Club Drop tried to auction that domain several times only to have the winning bidders repeatedly fail to pay. In the latest attempt, a bidder who had put in a $1,300 proxy bid wound up being awarded the domain for $337 when Enom threw out several higher bids that again proved to be fraudulent. In addition to this week's #1 domain, Afternic had a deep list of additional winners to report. Afternic exec Michael Collins suggested his being away on vacation accounted for the sales surge. I'm not sure if vacationing in Europe really boosts business, but I'd certainly be willing to give it a try! Their list included CityEvents.com at $5,500 and UnionWorkers.com at $3,888 plus Innergetic.com and Algebra-Online.com at $3,000 each. To show you what kind of week it was, they even got $3,000 for Ambition.cc, the highest .cc sale ever reported to us. That's not all - how about Traveling.ws for $900!? Back in more familiar .com territory, SupportEducation.com fetched $2,888, CalorieCounters.com gobbled up $2,520 and MP3Tones.com hit a sweet $2,500 high note. Elsewhere, ScottishJobs.net changed hands for �2,500 ($4,491) in a private transaction. At Moniker.com/DomainSystems.com Nanocolor.com went for $3,300 and at Namewinner VitaminsDirect.com produced a healthy $3,080. Also, Namewinner rang up a healthy $3,080 for VitaminsDirect.com. Pool.com was notably absent from the reports that came in this week. The same thing happened two weeks ago but they bounced back with a decent showing last week. Things remain unsettled there with a new 2-tier auction system that hasn't been warmly received by customers and the new threat posed by the SnapNames/Network Solutions alliance (that eliminates Pool's access to high quality NetSol drops). Pipeline: Moniker.com/DomainSystems.com expects to finalize a $19,500 deal for CMK.com in the next week or so, as well as a $9,800 sale of WebDelivery.com. They are also still working on the final details of three major transactions reported in this section last week (for GolfCourses.com, Axiom.com and Erickson.org). At Enom's Club Drop an auction for TheZoneDiet.com has ended at $19,000. Meanwhile, over at Namewinner another auction for SlumberParty.com closed at $10,010. Auctions aren't always won by legitimate bidders of course, so those two will have to be paid for and transferred before the official SOLD sign can go up. ***** UniqueHotels.com came close, but none of this week's sales were high enough to crack our Year-To-Date Top 60 chart (this chart expands throughout the course of the year as new high dollar sales are reported). Here is the complete rundown of big winners so far in 2004:
It looks like the mainstream section of our weekly report won't be the only place SnapNames will be making their presence known. The revamped drop catching service is starting to make waves with the new extensions too. This week, they swept the top 4 spots on our Super 7 Chart, doing it with a quartet of nice one-word .info domains. Sedo, who has pretty much owned the new TLD chart in the past, took all of the remaining positions on this week's list, doing it with a .biz and two more .infos. Sedo, of course, has a fundamentally different business model than Snapnames. Snap catches expiring domains for subscribers and auctions them off to the highest bidder (unless only one person claimed a domain, in which case it is sold for a flat $60). Sedo allows people who already own domains to place their names up for sale on their world famous venue (there is no listing fee - sellers pay a commission only when a domain is sold). SnapNames brought home the groceries with Groceries.info bagging $1,154 to top the new extension leader board. Dirty.info was next, cleaning house in the #2 position at $975. Mint.info brought a fresh taste to the third slot at $691 and Speakers.info ran the anchor leg for SnapNames, finishing 4th at $526. Sedo's chart trio was led by Vortex.biz, a domain that was just $2 back at $524. Here is a look at all of the top reported new extension sales for the week ending Sept. 19:
As you can see Sedo closed out the chart with SportsCards.info ($500) and Eller.info ($444). There would have been at least a couple of other four-figure sales on this week's chart if different drop catchers had caught two domains. At Namewinner, bids for SAY.info and POT.info both went well over $1,000. However, 4Domains.com (BlueHill) wound up catching SAY.info so it only cost the lucky buyer a flat fee of $60 (or less if they prepaid for registration credits). Galcomm.com landed POT.info and the amount their customer paid hasn't been reported. Galcomm also got WEG.info which had been bid up to nearly $700 at Namewinner last we heard. Those 3-letter .infos remain in strong demand. We know of another random acronym being sold for �1,000 ($1,233) that may be finished in time to report to you next week. Our Year-To-Date New TLD chart remains unchanged this week as none of the latest sales was high enough to cover the $4,000 entry fee. Here all of top reported new extension sales through Sept. 19:
As always, we welcome all verifiable sales reports from companies, private sellers or individuals with knowledge of an important sale made through any channel. To contribute information and help make this column better, just drop a note to [email protected]. We truly appreciate the industry leading companies represented on our charts who share their sales information with us to help everyone in the business get a handle on current domain values. Individuals like Richard Meyer of the American Marketing Corporation also provide invaluable help by sending us data for these sales reports each week. Every Tuesday we publish the highest reported domain name sales for the previous week. On Monday our contributors send us their sales data for the previous 7 days. We then compile that information and write this report for Tuesday publication to give you the freshest sales report in the industry. We will close with this standard caution. These are not average selling prices - these are top selling domains. One of the biggest impediments to making sales is pricing domains at unrealistic levels. For most of us, pricing domains at the levels achieved on the Top Ten chart will leave us waiting a long time to make a sale! We hope you will use the information presented here as a measuring stick that will help you price your domains at levels that will put more money in your pocket more often! Editor's Note: If you wish to review previous Domain Sales columns, they are available in our Archive. |
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