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DomainHoldings
(DH) has released their latest
quarterly report covering 3Q-2015.
The company reported over $4.5
million in sales with an average
sales price of $57,500. It is
encouraging to see that high average
sales price hold after it surged
from $49,000 in Q1-2015 to $59,000
in Q2-2015.
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As
you might expect, DH reported Chinese
buyers continuing to be a major force
in the market as they continue to
scoop up short numeric and 2-4 letter acronym
domains. China accounted for 17.7%
of the 3Q sales on their platform (the
U.S. still produced the
majority at 59.5%). However, in
the quarter's biggest single
surprise, DH saw the amount of
their business generated from
Europe surge from less than 1%
in the previous quarter to a whopping
17.7% in 3Q-2015, equaling China's
share.
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Domains
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.Com
still accounts for the vast majority
of DH's business with an 81%
share, but that is down a tick
from the previous quarter when
it was 84.5%. In
another surprise the .net/.org
category had the biggest
percentage gain, jumping from
just 3% in 2Q-2015 to 10%
in the 3rd quarter. Some of
that was likely driven by
increased Chinese interested
in numeric and 3-letter .net
domains.
Other
TLDs combined for 9%
in 3Q-2015, down a bit from
their 12.5% share in
2Q. DH pointed to one success
story in the "other"
TLD camp, saying, "The
.io extension in
particular seems to be gaining
more momentum and is
constituting a larger share of
our business. In one case, we
sold a notable one-word .io
domain name in the high
five-figure range to an
end user." |
DomainHoldings
and their parent company, Flippa.com,
released some other news in a separate
release Monday, including
some background on how Flippa's $30,000
sale of Mineral.com (that we charted
last week) came about. DH also had
some highlights from their trip to the
Web
Summit in Dublin,
Ireland earlier this month (a conference
that attracted 42,000 attendees
from 134 countries). The
release also noted that the combined
DH/Flippa team will celebrate their
2015 marriage
and successful year at an upcoming
holiday gathering in Tulum, Mexico.
Sounds like a great way to bring down
the curtain on the old year and recharge
the batteries for a new year that
looks to be a very promising one
on the global domain front with some
exciting things happening all
over the globe.
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