Expired Domain Name Note, Fresh Year’s Day Edition
Since GoDaddy began concealing sale records as its Christmas gift to the domain industry, this stretch’s article discusses only expired domain auction results seen at NameJet. Although our overall picture of the expired domain market is smaller, big prices are still on display. When $10k is spent on a 5-digit numeric like 11211.com, we can be sure that the domain is bound for China. Repeating characters and patterns are especially prized by Chinese buyers.
WinnersClub.com ($5.7k) is gambling-related. Multiple casinos advertise “Winners Club” rewards programs; so I’d expect that the bidders and/or the intended buyers come from this set, as opposed to a Belgian gym or the seemingly abandoned winnersclubofcalhoun.org. MailExpress.com ($2.7k) is such a popular name that roughly 100 trademarks (past and present) have claimed it. The U.S. postal service dubbed its fastest delivery method “Priority Mail Express”. Also, there’s a file sharing service (specifically for sizable email attachments) offered by GlobalScape called “Mail Express”.
We have a trio of 4-letter acronyms that sold in the retail range of $2.5k – $3.1k. I’m sure there’s an end user back story for each of AHFC.com, IRSC.com, and SNTA.com. REMG.com isn’t far behind at $1.4k. Various cartoon characters have been on a MathQuest.com ($1.7k), counting Disney’s Aladdin and a non-Bugs-Bunny rabbit named “Bugs”.
There are two completely different meanings for the phrase “Lifestyle Management”. One is represented by the developed .NET website, which provides “preventative health care programs, rehabilitation, long-term wellness education, and corporate fitness management”. Health and fitness, basically. The other sense of “Lifestyle Management” pertains to the ultra-rich, some of whom would be bewildered as lost toddlers at Disneyland without their personal assistants and luxurious concierge services.
| Domain Name | End $ | Domain Name | End $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| 11211.com | 10003 | WinnersClub.com | 5700 |
| AHFC.com | 3101 | MailExpress.com | 2700 |
| IRSC.com | 2600 | 2B2.com | 2569 |
| SNTA.com | 2500 | PrivateAir Charter.com |
1906 |
| Lifestyle Management.com |
1712 | MathQuest.com | 1710 |
| TheNorthShore.com | 1500 | REMG.com | 1409 |
| TrainingAPuppy.com | 709 | FastHorses.com | 591 |
| UrgentMedical Care.com |
562 | 81755.com | 540 |
| BinaryGirl.com | 504 | ChatCom.com | 491 |
| Waltzing.com | 454 | GastricBypass Surgeon.com |
454 |
| ALOF.com | 452 | ICUMT.org | 350 |
| 15392.com | 301 | PGDP.com | 295 |
| CaneStore.com | 289 | TRFO.com | 288 |
| C9K.com | 262 | Megabytes.net | 200 |
| SellingSites.com | 179 | Alwaan.com | 160 |
| HWSS.com | 121 | Imaginers.com | 91 |
| BrandNamely.com | 80 | Birmingham Pledge.org |
80 |
Given the price of charter flights and private jets, $1.9k for PrivateAirCharter.com was not expensive. TheNorthShore.com ($1.5k) has surfing connotations, even though Hawaii isn’t the only place with north-facing beaches. Kite board manufacturers and aquatic centers aside, there are regions and cities going by this name all over the world, from Pittsburgh to Fresh Zealand to Nova Scotia.
When I saw icumt.org ($350), I confess that 2 separate “dirty” readings crossed my mind ahead of the “International Congress on Ultra Modern Telecommunications and Control Systems” did. Right now, their 7th congress is to be held in the Czech Republic, put on by a university in Brno. They use .INFO; but that isn’t really their domain’s biggest problem, now is it. I can just imagine some professor waiving goodbye to a spouse: “Bye, Honey, I’m off to ICUMT!” Or answering a cab driver’s question regarding where he’s getting off. Electrical engineers really shouldn’t name things … unless that engineer is me?
Johann Strauss II might be perplexed if he saw Waltzing.com tied with GastricBypassSurgeon.com at $454. These days more money is spent cutting bellies open than on Viennese dance lessons. Alwaan.com (الوان) is both a surname and the Arabic word for “colors” – not bad at $160. As a brand name for creative kids or web designers , I quite like Imaginers.com ($91).
It’s amazing how little interest a room full of domainers will take in SellingSites.com ($179). Yes, I know that dogs are cute. But you’d think that people who sell digital assets based on their development potential (at a time when world commerce thrives online) would see as much value in websites as in TrainingAPuppy.com ($709)!
