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combination of
letters and numbers. GGRG terms
these categories "liquid"
domains because they are relatively
easy to sell at prevailing market
rates.
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GGRG
Founder Giuseppe Graziano |
GGRG's
latest report, produced by
Founder Giuseppe Graziano
in conjunction with Escrow.com,
Intelium.com
and ShortNames.com,
covers results from the 3rd
quarter of 2017.
Regarding that period GGRG
wrote, "Q3 presented the lowest
turnover rate (the percentage of the
entire liquid domain name category that is bought or sold in markets
during this quarter) in disclosed sales ever seen at
0.56%. This might be due to a few factors, including the seasonality (summer months are typically slower) and reduced investor activity. The aggregate value of disclosed transactions
(publicly reported sales) went
down 58% from $12.9
million to $5.4
million."
GGRG
found that the disclosed sales volume
differed from the results
reported by Escrow.com
(who does not make
individual domain sale
prices public but does share
total dollar volume). At
Escrow.com $ volume, increased
significantly for 3Ls, 4Ls
and 5Ns, as a consequence of
large end user sales or |
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unreported portfolio transactions in these categories. According to
Escrow.com, the most traded category this quarter were the
3Cs category, with
$8.6 million of the $24.4
million in sales
registered for the entire
liquid domains category. |
GGRG
added. "The 5th percentile values
(a representation of a reasonable category
price
floor in any given time period) continued to
go down across the board, with 3Ls losing
12.94%; 5Ns losing 12.28%; and 4Ls
stable at -1.67%. The notable exception were again the 3Cs, which presented a
+25.91% increase."
The
report also includes data on the percentage of
liquid domain names held in
individual countries/regions, the
percentage of them that are
developed and other statistics, as
well at the firm's forecast
for the category in the months
ahead.
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