|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
Domains with Swizterland's .ch country code extension have appeared on our charts before but never in such a lofty position. Kreuzfahrten.ch ("Cruises" in German) sold for �15,000 ($18,364) at Sedo.com to soar all the way to #1 on DNJournal.com's new weekly Top Ten list. |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
The term may sound familiar to you since Kreuzfahrten.de (German country code version) sold earlier this year for a whopping �70,000 ($88,853). That one still ranks among the top ten sales on the year (#9 on our Year-To-Date chart). It took a little luck for the Swiss domain to reach the summit on our big board. Sedo actually had a considerably larger $30,000 sale (a one-word .com) but the parties involved asked that the name not be released. Another confidential sale worth $14,000 occurred at Moniker.com/DomainSystems.com. Unnamed domains are not eligible for our chart but Moniker was still able to claim the runner-up slot thanks to the $13,500 sale of RebateMail.com. Overall sales were softer than usual this past week, most likely due to the Memorial Day weekend in the United States. That is the unofficial start of summer here and with the kids out of school many families celebrate the occasion by putting business aside and heading out of town on vacation. The absence of blockbuster sales doesn't mean there was a shortage of interesting sales though. Two others cracked five figures, #3 Dater.com which sold for $10,500 at Pool.com and 4th ranked Buy.org which went for $10,000 at Sedo. Another Sedo domain, Halls.com was just $5 short of the 10K mark, going for $9,995. Vitamins.info was right there too, fortifying Afternic.com's sales sheet with a healthy $9,500 sale. That was good for #6 on the big board as well as the #1 slot on our New TLD chart. .Info in general enjoyed another great week and for the third week in a row, every domain on our new extension chart went for four figures or more. We'll have more on that later, but right now let's take a look at the top reported sales for the week ending May 30:
Pool and Sedo each racked up four Top Ten entries this week (there are actually 11 domains on the board due to 10th place tie). Throwing FreshMeat.com up for bid attracted a school of sharks at Pool that did $8,600 worth of damage. That ranked 7th just ahead of the private sale of StopSign.com for $7,500. Pool also took the 9th spot and shared the 10th position with Sedo. Both those companies had a long list of additional sales worth noting. MedHotel.com ran up a $4,700 tab at Pool where PenFriend.com attracted a $3,900 check and Wiesbaden.com went for $3,825. Other Pool winners included ClassAct.com at $3,600, BreastDoctor.com at $3,300 and a pair at $3,100: SheMail.com and BestDiet.com. BestDiet sold on Pool's new MarketPlace, a special section of the site that allows customers to post their own domains for sale. MailSearch.com went for $2,050 on the Marketplace while o0.net attracted $2,000. Pool had several others in the 2K range on the traditional dropcatching side of the site. PDAAccessories.com sold for $2,500, Consolidations.com went for $2,250 and NormaJean.com commanded $2,037. At Sedo Bito.com added �4,000 ($4,895) to the ledger while LadiesShop.com and LanguageTravel.com contributed $3,888 each. Similar news came from other ports of call. At Afternic, HomeCraft.com created a $4,300 paycheck, ExecutiveCharter.com added $2,888 and WindowsSecrets.com spilled the beans to the tune of $2,500. Moniker/DomainSystems had a talented trio of their own with DanceSchool.com tapping out $3,500, AxisInteractive.com adding $3,200 and GetAgents.com going for $2,500. We haven't heard much about .cn sales since the China country code was introduced so it's worth noting the $500 sale of Payback.cn. We also got word that UnitedKingdom.com changed hands the first half of May in a private transaction. No details were announced but a domain like that could have easily gone for six figures. The new owner is Digimedia. We understand the seller was Canada's John Black, a domain pioneer who acquired some remarkable .com properties before others even had an inkling of how important they would eventually become. In the Pipeline: Namewinner.com caught the best .net we've seen in ages, Mobile.net, for a customer who bid $18,120. The name hasn't changed hands yet so the payment is still in transit, but it's hard to believe a buyer would let this one slip away. At Enom's Club Drop, an auction for Messanger.com ended at $5,500 on Memorial Day. The high traffic misspell scores 552 in Overture with the extension. None of this week's sales were high enough to crack the $25,000 entry barrier to our Year-To-Date chart so it remains unchanged from last week. Here are the big winners so far in 2004:
For the third consecutive week, every domain on our New TLD chart hit the four figure mark. As usual it was .info leading the way. In fact .nfo, the first of the three new extensions to be introduced (in Sept. 2001), scored another clean sweep, taking all seven positions on the board. Vitamins.info led the way after going for $9,500 at Afternic. We've known this one was coming for more than two weeks but the escrow process was just finished, finally making it official. Sedo swept all of the remaining positions on the chart with sale ranging from $1,000 to $3,673. Though .info has shown special strength in Germany, six of the seven domains on this week's list are English words. Homo.info claimed the runner-up slot at $3,673 while the lone German word, Ventile.info ("Valves" in German) was next at $3,026. Astronomy.info and RedLightDistrict.info
tied for 4th at $1,500 each (that's an odd pairing - we think
Binoculars.info would have been a much more appropriate match for the
Red Light domain
Last week we had mentioned the results from the auctions for RedLightDistrict.info and Counterfeit.info. The sales became official this week when the payments were secured and the domains transferred. At Afternic a couple of new extension auctions just ended with Rat.biz going for $500 and SFP.us for $495. At first glance I thought Rat.biz wasn't a very good fit for the extension, but after getting some email about still another round of registrar snafus I'm now thinking that in some cases it's a perfect fit! Elsewhere we saw Passion.us go for $299 on Ebay and Sedo sold JVC.us for $280. Our Year-To-Date New TLD chart gets one new member this week. Vitamins.info swallowed the #6 position after that big $9,500 sale. We are still able to title the chart as the Top 20 even though there are now 21 domains (due to a tied for the 20th position). Here is a look at 2004's top sellers through May 30.
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.
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
). Here
is a look at the complete Super 7 for the week ending May
30: 
|
|
Copyright 2004
Domain Name Journal
A Division of
Internet Edge, Inc.