For $29,100 and more expired domain name sales — SelfieSticks.com sells
Joseph Peterson runs down the latest expired domain name sales at NameJet.
If you’re as un-with-it as uncool me, then you’ll look at the $29.1k high bid for SelfieSticks.com and say, “Huh?” Apparently, selfie sticks are rods that attach to a camera phone so that you can hold it far enough away to take a picture of yourself and the grinning people next to you. Asking a stranger to snap a photo please wasn’t that onerous, was it? Trends move fast. By now the market for these devices generated a domain bidding war, while WordPress continues to identify “selfie” as a typo!
That wasn’t the only high-priced auction at NameJet during the past week; 3 other domains expired and surpassed $10k. TurkCell.net – yes, .NET – went for $10.1k, and it seems to be purely a case of brand protection / cybersquatting with reference to the 96th biggest website in Turkey (as stated by Alexa).
As if that’s not depressing enough, another $10.1k sale was MaxHardcore.com, which the feds seized back in 2005 as part of a child pornography case that led to jail time for the domain’s former owner (as stated by TheDomains.com). Apparently inbound traffic remains high a decade later, and some web masters aren’t fussy regarding making money from those old clients. If there’s a less cynical explanation for those bids, I’m all ears.
A third $10k sale, OPIA.com, could be for a NYC restaurant – provided it’s worth $10k for a local restaurant to drop the word “restaurant” from its .COM address … which I doubt. There’s an Optical Imaging Association at the .ORG too. But with acronyms, buyers often come out of left field.
| Domain Name | End $ | Domain Name | End $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| SelfieSticks.com | 29100 | TurkCell.net | 10100 |
| MaxHardcore.com | 10100 | OPIA.com | 10000 |
| Micom.com | 7200 | Matinee.com | 6500 |
| GameShare.com | 5201 | SSNN.com | 4309 |
| Bureaux.com | 4200 | Mandarin Chinese.com |
4005 |
| ACSA.com | 3000 | GameBit.com | 2950 |
| DaCash.com | 2950 | ZFitness.com | 2655 |
| WineStopper.com | 2425 | StudentChat.com | 2322 |
| HappyWeekend.com | 2322 | ENSE.com | 2210 |
| Voluntario.com | 2166 | Solaron.com | 2157 |
| Darwin.net | 2101 | SB1.com | 2100 |
| Shyne.com | 2010 | Renault.net | 2000 |
| Lampes.com | 1655 | AirCraft Detailing.com |
1409 |
| Marketing Survey.com |
1322 | Marketing Course.com |
1201 |
| UDRY.com | 1100 | Artism.com | 1010 |
| GlobalLive.com | 1001 | Vitamin Products.com |
959 |
| ESDI.com | 850 | PDHC.com | 845 |
| FDI.net | 810 | GeekWatch.com | 806 |
| CABP.com | 800 | WineCoupons.com | 790 |
| FeatureInc.com | 736 | Benefon.com | 711 |
| CupSize.com | 709 | UNDPLao.org | 654 |
| TorNet.com | 625 | LYBB.com | 514 |
| 3669.net | 510 | CHMD.com | 505 |
| NewMedia TrendWatch.com |
460 | BOLP.com | 453 |
| UMCH.com | 451 | TiempoCyber Climate.org |
430 |
| TribunaLatina.com | 425 | HorseBetting Tips.com |
421 |
| EatAtJoes.com | 421 | Rangler.com | 415 |
| NIWAF.org | 360 | VOIG.com | 355 |
| NIPC.net | 338 | 65597.com | 320 |
| PeaceDividend Trust.org |
310 | Photography- Guide.com |
298 |
| MaineRealEstate Broker.com |
291 | SCIM-IM.org | 290 |
| DiskJockeys.com | 268 | MintRubbing.org | 260 |
| LowRateHome Mortgage.com |
259 | WebMaster Cafe.com |
250 |
| Hadobs.org | 230 | 17205.com | 210 |
| TomeRaider.com | 199 | BGone.com | 195 |
| Schulhefte.com | 193 | SignatureVillas.com | 190 |
| SerenityVirtual.com | 190 | Radio-Pais.com | 190 |
| 360Z.com | 189 | ISGP.org | 171 |
| KBBG.com | 170 | WhatNoToWear.com | 141 |
| GNWR.com | 129 | CAPI.net | 126 |
| Sexodus.com | 119 | BayAreaAlliance.org | 111 |
| AussieGrill.com | 109 | ElegantWine.com | 106 |
| YurtWorks.com | 89 | HowToGetRid OfWarts.com |
80 |
| TreeRemoval.net | 80 | Simpable.com | 79 |
| TopRetirement Plan.com |
79 | OvumDonors.com | 69 |
This NameJet list is longer than usual to compensate for GoDaddy’s absence. I haven’t decided yet whether to resume reporting GoDaddy sales, although I have been collecting data. The expired domain market is so active that even results from just one venue among many are too many to discuss in full.
MandarinChinese.com ($4k) is a notable item. Following all, that is the world’s #1 language with nearly 3 times as many native speakers as English; and it’s the dominant language of the world’s biggest economy. Nothing to sneeze at! Bureaux.com ($4.2k) would be French for “offices”, “desks”, or perhaps “agencies”. Lampes.com ($1.7k) are French lamps. Voluntario.com ($2.2k) is Spanish and Portuguese for both the adjective “voluntary” and the noun “volunteer”.
Micom.com ($7.2k) is a typical case of multiple longer domains intersecting in a single brand name. I catalogued half a dozen such cases the prior week more explicitly. And it’s safe to assume that a number of auctions charted above are due to similar circumstances (i.e. shared brand names). A number of websites ought to upgrade to ACSA.com ($3k) – for instance, the woefully cumbersome acsa-arch.org.
TorNet.com ($625) may literally be regarding nets. A global firm doing business from the matching .IS makes trawls. The fact that a singular WineStopper.com sold for $2.4k shows how much value there is in exact-match e-commerce terms. Undervalued domains might include OvumDonors.com ($69) and DiscJockeys.com ($268).
Finally, I’m heartened to learn that somebody will now be keeping tabs on all the nefarious nerds out there with GeekWatch.com ($806)!
