Weekly Expired Domain Note
Domain sales charts — expired or otherwise — make for some strange bedfellows. Any given week presents an orgy of bizarre juxtapositions. What else but the domain market can bring together Bill Cosby and French Marxists? Malaysian tourism for Fresh Yorkers alongside Azerbaijani gossip in the ccTLD of Western Samoa? (I’m referencing TheCosbys.com, Marxisme.net, TourismMalaysiaNY.com, and Bizimbaku.ws.) Few university libraries contain such diversity.
Lussumo.com, which went for nearly $5k at GoDaddy this past week, looks like a foreign-language term; but I have no idea what language that would be. Actually, there is (or was) open-source software called Filebrowser released by Lussumo. A notice at the top of the page states, “Development and support for the Filebrowser has been discontinued”; so perhaps Lussumo is no more.
Would FutbolArg.com ($4k) appeal to soccer-loving pirates? Possibly. But the “arg” must be short for Argentina. FutbolArg.TV is by now developed.
| Domain Name | End $ | Domain Name | End $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lussumo.com | 4800 | FutbolArg.com | 4051 |
| SMSOnline.com | 3550 | WFDA.org | 3550 |
| RecruitUSA.com | 2325 | HADO.net | 2025 |
| NevadaDevelopment.org | 1525 | JZJZ.com | 1450 |
| AIDSKids.org | 1426 | IJCentral.org | 1325 |
| SuperFight.com | 1225 | LLCN.com | 1008 |
| OldSchoolReviews.com | 898 | Bizimbaku.ws | 810 |
| OKCCivicCenter.org | 710 | ClearCloudDNS.com | 660 |
| CureCervicalCancer.com | 660 | Live-Televizia.com | 653 |
| Seseax.com | 551 | DJFactory.com | 511 |
| SantaMariaValleyWineCountry.com | 510 | AwareForum.org | 506 |
| Tchadien.com | 455 | PrudentialPalmsRealty.com | 440 |
| CathedralMinistries.org | 430 | FastestWebSearch.com | 430 |
| BlankJobApplicationForm.com | 405 | PennySuccess.com | 405 |
| CTJewishLedger.com | 405 | NevisNaturally.com | 400 |
| ModernFilmFest.net | 400 | SaveOaklandSchools.org | 390 |
| Fehler10.com | 376 | OlduvaiGeorge.com | 370 |
| WriteOnEdge.com | 355 | MBarOnline.com | 355 |
| ItalyDreamVacation.com | 346 | Wopat.com | 345 |
| HowToCorp.com | 338 | MedicaidResource.com | 331 |
| ThizLinux.com | 329 | ZHOR.com | 315 |
| UsherAudioUSA.com | 311 | WideOpenBSD.org | 310 |
| TourismMalaysiaNY.com | 300 | CityScape.net | 296 |
| Marxisme.net | 291 | ApeTube.mobi | 285 |
| TheNewReview.net | 250 | Flirtatious.org | 250 |
| CheapNotebook.com | 205 | NFAR.com | 190 |
| YouBitcoin.com | 160 | TheCosbys.com | 84 |
National identities aren’t bought and sold every day. Accordingly, Tchadien.com is worthy of mention. Most readers will know this African country as Chad. Still, Chadians observe — not English — but French and Arabic as official languages. So the French spelling “Tchadien” is much more notable than our “Chadian” version.
As far as I can tell, TheCosbys.com never was a developed into a website regarding “The Cosby Show”. It led to unrelated material as early as 2001 and was backordered through Pool.com in 2004 ahead of expiring again at GoDaddy the prior week. Maybe some day …
NameJet’s top-performing expired auctions during the past week happen to be fairly straightforward. Openers.com, StudyWeb.com, eMeetings.com, and MedicalSystems.com require less justification than Lussumos.com did. So I’ll skip to ArchDioSA.org ($1k). At first I read it as “ArchDiosa”, which would be a cross between the Spanish for “Archdiocese” and “Goddess”. (Not quite orthodox theology, that!) Instead, we’re looking at the Catholic Archdiocese using the abbreviation for San Antonio, Texas.
| Domain Name | End $ | Domain Name | End $ |
|---|---|---|---|
| StudyWeb.com | 7012 | Openers.com | 3956 |
| eMeetings.com | 3009 | MedicalSystems.com | 2955 |
| VirtualIdentity.com | 2922 | Entrench.com | 2011 |
| RestoreTheFourth.net | 1611 | KMSC.com | 1499 |
| ArchDioSA.org | 1100 | FarmWorkers.org | 1011 |
| BirthingCenter.com | 965 | DonaldYoung.com | 898 |
| Jazzitude.com | 851 | Sorano.com | 840 |
| RefundCheck.com | 810 | Stews.com | 795 |
| ACQAO.org | 709 | MusicFan.com | 685 |
| KuanPing.com | 670 | CancerAnswers.org | 509 |
| ClarionSouth.org | 500 | TimeServices.com | 488 |
| JPV.org | 450 | Topino.com | 393 |
| ClaudiaAcuna.com | 341 | BouquetsToArt.org | 320 |
| LatinoWWW.com | 310 | TravelMaxx.org | 310 |
| ASEU.com | 309 | GayScape.com | 266 |
| Budweis.com | 219 | SpanishTranslator.org | 201 |
Speaking of Jazzitude.com (which I wasn’t), ClaudiaAcuna.com ought to find its way to Chilean jazz singer Claudia Acuña. Hopefully the buyer is a MusicFan.com, and the domain won’t be held hostage.
Next week, one domain auction that stands out to me is DropCatchDomains.com. It’s simultaneously a generic phrase — indeed, a major topic of these articles — and a close cousin to the DropCatch.com brand. In case you’re unaware, DropCatch.com is the expired domain service recently launched by the folks at NameBright.com / HugeDomains.com. Since DropCatch.com competes with NameJet, SnapNames, and other firms to drop-catch domains, there may be some bidding activity for this one. Notably, it has expired on neutral turf — GoDaddy.
| Domain Name | Venue | Domain Name | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Butchers.net | NJ Pre | CanadaMobile.com | NJ Pre |
| CapitalX.com | GD | DropCatchDomains.com | GD |
| Exotica.com | GD | Hongo.com | NJ Pre |
| LuxuryStores.com | GD | Sideral.com | NJ Pre |
| Tiajuana.com [sic] | NJ Pre | VeganFarms.com | NJ Pre |
| VeganKitchen.com | NJ Pre | ZFN.com | PD |
“Sideral” is Spanish / French for the stars. We have a similar adjective in English — “sidereal”. But, whereas our English “sidereal” is obscure and technical, the French / Spanish “sideral” is richly visual, astral, cosmic. You can compare connotations by clicking here and here.
Tiajuana.com is a typo. California’s south-of-the-border Mexican destination is actually spelled “Tijuana”; and the Castello bros. own that .COM. Nevertheless, as long as we gringo tourists go to “Tea Uh Wanna” rather than “Tea Hwana” … some traffic will leak to the typo or to Google.
Speaking of southerly vacations, I’m off on one of my own. Consequently, this article only covers a 5-day period: July 17 through July 21.
