This stretch’s Expired Domain Note
[Editor’s note: this is Reglike’s first weekly expired domain name note, written by Joseph Peterson. Your feedback is welcome in the comments.]
The prior week, as always, expired domain auction sites were bustling with bids — some of them real.
Here are a couple of interesting pending-delete results from NameJet:
$510 Paris-Ile-De-France.com
$90 NameSlaw.com (or NamesLaw.com?)
Île-de-France is the wealthiest of 27 French districts, dominated by the city of Paris. And, yes, Europe — particularly German-speaking Europe — often pays for hyphens.
Add to that some NameJet pre-releases:
$3,699 CWA.org
$2,571 StartupFactory.com
$364 HireSkills.com
$351 DNGO.com
$79 Haste.net
Among the 64 pre-release NameJet domains I happened to be following, 21 ended above $1,000 … with 4 between $13,000 and $65,100. Still, pre-release auctions at NameJet tend to be ambiguous, since they include many heavily promoted domains that remain actively owned by domain investors. That’s not necessarily a problem, except that differentiating between the two makes writing regarding the expired domain market trickier.
Over at GoDaddy, it’s also true that numerous domainer-run auctions are camouflaged among the genuine expirations. Yet owners let domains go all the time:
$3,000 CustomizeGoogle.com
$1,930 WomanzWorld.com
$1,225 98656.com
$860 SPUB.com
$750 KuapaKokooGH.com
$472 LifeSharers.com
$455 HolidayGiving.org
$450 HealthyNewMe.org
$405 DayTraderNews.net
$404 NX4.com
$393 38531.com
$355 81563.com
$325 21259.com
$323 23082.com
$311 HeroReports.org
$263 21739.com
$215 MKGS.com
Each of those .ORGs was once a developed website. Three of the half dozen 5-digit numerical domains belong(ed) to one person. Oh, in case you’re wondering what a “kuapakokoogh” is, Kuapa = Coop; Kokoo = Cocoa; GH = Ghana. Meanwhile, if the trademark violation above truly expired and actually sold for $3k following the fact, then is it any wonder fresh domainers continue to start off with cybersquatting?
Why these domains? As you can tell from NameSlaw.com, I’m going for mixed ingredients — high sales, good buys, and curiosities.
Disclaimer: I’m going to make mistakes. Catch them, please! During the expiration period, Whois history is a mess. In fact, I quickly exhausted my DomainTools quota separating non-expired from expired domain auctions. Also, at this stage, it’s seldom clear which sales will be completed. Catch the shill bidders and non-paying buyers too!
For good measure, here are a dozen pending delete domains that survived my first cut. They’ll be ending in the next few hours:
AustinCondoRental.com
CityHomeValues.com
FatherAdam.com
HouseEquityRelease.com
InternetLeads.net
MasterOfThe.com
MesaCar.com
MillionFast.com
Paula.net
Presenciar.com
TheMedley.com
WeekBuy.com
