It’s always interesting to look at the recent domain name sales transaction reports. DNJournal published a list of the highest domain sales prices during the first week of April 2008.
Here are the highest priced domain sales for 2008 to date, as reported by DNJournal.
Written by admin on April 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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There was an interesting article by Thomas Claburn at InformationWeek yesterday about the increased market demand for cyber real estate, while traditional real estate markets are experiencing a market depression.
In the first quarter of 2008, $38,029,543 in domain sales were reported, a 78% increase over the $21,253,105 in domain sales reported for the first quarter of 2007, said Ron Jackson, editor and publisher of DN Journal, in an e-mail.
Values of generic domains are being driven up because domain names are now considered to be key brand assets and the market continues to provide more ways to monetize the traffic arriving at these centralized web addresses. Although nobody really knows for sure, the theory is that generic domain names are given higher relevance ranking for semantically related keyword searches by search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN.
The opportunity for domain investors can be best understood by a recent Yankee Group study that points to the gap between current media consumption (20% via Internet) and advertising spending (7% via Internet). As more and more advertising dollars flow to online markets, the value of generic domain names will most probably continue to rise.
Written by admin on April 19th, 2008 with no comments.
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It is being widely reported by AP, Techcrunch, PC World, Computerworld, and others that Network Solutions is locking up domain names that potential buyers are researching on the Network Solutions site. NS registers the domain in their own name and reserves it for the person researching the name.
Leveraging a policy that allows registrars to register domains for 5 days before paying any fees, Network Solutions has already locked down 72,000 domain names. This is a practice that block others from registering the domain name and forces the potential buyer to purchase it from Network Solutions.
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Owning domain names that cover niche subject areas on the web is something most people can grasp the value of. However, it’s normally a two-step process to make money with niche name domains.
First, you have to figure out names that make sense to people. For example, if “green duck eggs” all of a sudden became the world’s most popular food, you would think owning greenduckeggs.com would be a good thing. If it’s popular enough, you might make money just by selling the name to someone with enough interested in owning it.
In the majority of cases, that’s not going to happen. Normally, the second step required to monetize your niche domain is that you need to publish content and ads.. There are lots of domain parking services that will create instant websites enabling the domain owners to monetize them. However, most of these sites will never reach their full potential because there is no “value-based” content for web visitors. They mostly contain subject links and ads.
There are more and more companies now that promise to create a value-based website that will cause visitors to return repeatedly. The lastet of these is a company called Domain Embarking. They claim to create “Real & Relevant” web sites based on a keyword you submit that is highly associated with your domain.
Written by admin on September 24th, 2007 with no comments.
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There was a Bloomberg article published on the Seattle Post-Intelligencer regarding recent lawsuits Microsoft was bringing against trademark infringing domainers.
Microsoft Corp. has filed three lawsuits in the U.S. against people and companies it accuses of profiting from the use of Web site addresses containing its trademarked terms.
The suits target cybersquatting or typosquatting, practices that divert Internet users seeking Microsoft Web sites by using similar or slightly misspelled domain names, according to the complaints filed this week in federal courts in New York, Seattle and Fort Wayne, Ind.
The article mentions that Dell, Time Warner, Wal-Mart, and Yahoo are planning similar suits.
Written by admin on September 16th, 2007 with no comments.
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There was an interesting article on bloggingstocks.com regarding the recent AP article and surge in domain investing and similarities to the late 90’s and 2000.
The primary takeaway advice is not to get involved in high-priced domain investments by steering “far away from the purchase of already expensive domain names” with the hope of selling them at a higher price later. We agree.
It’s one thing to invest in the registration of a new domain with $6.95/yr at risk. It’s an entirely different game, swimming with the sharks and betting on existing domains that may set you back thousands of dollars.
Written by admin on July 24th, 2007 with no comments.
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USA Today published an article this week titled “Internet domain names the 21st century real estate.” The article centers on the story of two guys (Larry Fischer and Ari Goldberger) who have made a business of buying and selling domain names.
Here are a few key excerpts from the article:
“Bob Parsons, CEO and founder of domain registration company GoDaddy.com, says this type of business is fairly straightforward. “They make their money in two ways,” Parsons said. “One way is through the traffic they get and the other is the appreciation of the name.” Parson didn’t think there was anything wrong with the practice as long as those involved weren’t using names trademarked by others. “Domain names are becoming 21st century real estate,” Parsons said. “Just owning a domain name as an investment, I don’t see a problem with that.”
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Earthtimes.org posted a press release by Moniker that gave the high-level details of some recent domain sales at its inaugural Live and online Silent auction. Here are some sales listed:
I always find it fascinating to see the final prices paid.
Written by admin on July 21st, 2007 with no comments.
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The Wall Street Journal is reporting that domain name — business.com — is going on the auction block and may get between $300 million and $400 million. It will be interesting to see if all of the pre-interest drives the price up or down. Which way do you think it will go?
Written by admin on June 22nd, 2007 with no comments.
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Wikipedia defines “cybersquatting” as the following:
Cybersquatting, according to the United States federal law known as the Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act, is registering, trafficking in, or using a domain name with bad-faith intent to profit from the goodwill of a trademark (more…)
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