Musicvideos.com sold for $250,000

It is very interesting to see the domain sale of Musicvideos.com  for $250,000 . The domain sale was sold at Sedo domain marketplace. The domain, MusicVideos.com is a two worded domain and one might think the price is too much.

But I did some keyword analysis and the data suggested that the price the domain sold was a fair price. When I looked at the Google keyword tool, there were over 1.2 million EXACT searches per month for the keyword “Music Videos“. CPC (cost per click) is around $0.7 per click and there are  massive over 50 million google search results for the keyword.

Netherland or Dutch domain, transpower.nl sold for around $21,000

Netherland or Dutch domain, transpower.nl was recently sold for 15,500 Euros (about $21,000). Most likely it was bought by an end user and there are around 300,000 google search results for the keyword “transpower“.

There are a few companies with “transpower” keyword in the company name in different coutries such as New Zealand, United Kingdom, Canada, Taiwan, India etc…

When I looked at the Google keyword tool, there are around 4,400 EXACT searches per month for the keyword “transpower”. It was a nice domain sale for the domain seller.

Escortservice.de , a German domain with English words sold for xx,xxx

There was a recent domain sale and it was escortservice.de sold for xx,xxx range. The domain is a German domain with English words and it is also without any hyphens. In German, people prefer hyphenated domains if more than one word and the domain sold has only English words and therefore I think this domain sale is a good one for the seller.

When I looked at the stats, there are only 880 EXACT searches per month for the keyword in Germany. It was a nice German domain sale.

I have reduced the price tag of my dictionary domain by over 90 percent discount at BargainDomains.com

I have already listed a few domains at BargainDomains.com and it is a great site for domainers to list their domains. Now I decided to list one of my one word dictionary domain name. The domain name is www.Cessation.com (also a website) and it is appraised at $322,000 by Valuate.com . I have attached the screen snapshot of the valuation or domain appraisal below. I have set the price for my domain www.Cessation.com (also website) at $30,000 with more than 90 % discount.

Some stats regarding the keyword “Cessation”.

Google results = over 10 million search results.

Google PHRASE search around 450,000 times per month for the keyw0rd.

Google EXACT search over 40,000 times per month for the keyword “Cessation”.

I have put the screen snapshot of the domain appraisal for the domain, Cessation.com below.

Keukens.com Sold for $13,000. What does “Keukens” mean?

The domain, Keukens.com was sold for five figure range at $13,000. The domain was sold at Sedo domain marketplace and I was thinking why the domain was sold at this price. I thought it might have got some meaning in other language and I looked at some stats.

The keyword “Keukens” appeared around nearly 2 million times in Google results and the top website which appeared for the keyword was Keukens.nl . I then think it has some meaning in Dutch (Netherland) language. When I searched for the meaning of the keyword “Keukens” in Dutch language, I found out that it had the meaning of “kitchens” in English.

Now I know why it goes for low five figure range.

Metal.com Nabs $165K at Sedo

Among the tasty picks at Sedo this week was a big dollar auction bid securing the commodity name Metal.com. Metal.com rang in at $165,00 a nice return by any estimator. Another big dollar sale was Stockprices.com at the same auction source. Zaire’s Furniture.co.za changed hands for $33,000, a respectable price for a non-tld country code name. Flashy fashion name Mo.De (German) cost its lucky bidder over $21K. Domain shoppers were hungry this week, even dot-net FuneralHome.net nabbed $30K.

.CO domains are coming, imagine Business.co , Money.co , Domains.co

There was a news regarding the .CO domain launch schedule. CO domain extension represents Columbian and the domain launch would start in April, 2010.

Imagine domains like Business.co, Domains.co, Money.co, Website.co, Hosting.co, Celebrities.co, News.co . They look nice and very much similar to .com domains.

“Local Sunrise” would start from April 1, 2010 until April 20, 2010.

Then “Global Sunrise” would begin at April 26, 2010 and it would end on June 10, 2010.

“Landrush” would be from June 21, 2010 until July 13, 2010.

“General Availability” would start on July 20, 2010 from when people would be able to register at normal rate on first come, first served basis.

1. Local Sunrise (April 1 – April 20):

This phase is for Columbian trademark holders with exact match domain names registered prior to July 30, 2008. This allows companies with Columbian trademarks to apply for their desired domain or domains and secure their trademarks. Matching domains will go to auction.

2. Global Sunrise (April 26 – June 10):

This phase is for trademark holders with exact match domain names registered prior to July 30, 2008. This allows companies to apply for their desired domain or domains and secure their trademarks. Matching domains will go to auction.

3. Landrush (June 21 – July 13):

Landrush takes place from the end of June through mid-July, and will be open to anyone interested in registering domain names of high commercial value. Any interest in matching domains will go to auction.

4. General Availability (July 20):

Once the Global Sunrise and Landrush processes are complete, .CO domains will become available to anyone in the world through participating registrars. Except where otherwise reserved by the .CO Registry or earmarked for premium auctions, .CO domains will be available to the public based on the chronological order of registrations on a first come, first served basis.

Above is from OpenSRS .com page.

Italy domain sold nearly $44,000; risultati.it domain sold in mid xx,xxx

I haven’t seen many Italian domains sold in five or six figure range. Recently risultati.it was sold in mid xx,xxx range at  32,000 Euros (nearly $44,000). It was an intesting Italian domain sale and it made me to do some research regarding the keyword “ risultati“.

I looked at Google and found out that the keyword “risultati” appeared nealry 60 million times in Google. The Italian word “risultati” means “results” in English and I thought it might be good for “scores” website.

When I visited risultati.it, it was fully developed website and it looked very much similar to Livescore.com website. It made me think whether it was the website sale rather than a domain sale. It is hard to know now.

Sun / Oracle to Enter Domain/Hosting Industry

Word on the wires is that the new compendium of Oracle after swallowing Sun is giving birth to a great new brainchild. This new bonanza is a crashing spear into the world of domaining; A new domain name registrar and hosting company that will blow the socks off current market leaders (rhymes with Schmoe-daddy).  Sparcstations off the forward bow!

No name has been chosen by Sun/Oracle yet, but super secret teams in Cupertino and Mountain View are already clashing over turf. The technical entity will not be in violation of any super secret hosting or redundancy agreements because the new spinoff corporate entity will be a separate company. Sweet! The domainer’s mouth waters at the possible debut deals offered….

Domainers in the know and technical cognoscienti scoff that nobody can toppled the Danica-fronted Big Daddy.  But hosting service watchers have heeded the firestorm of complaints that “Schmoe-daddy” customers have. Buying the registrar is the nice part, some domainer running an ICANN-powered fruit stand will make a tidy bundle.

(from Domainowl.com)

Most expensive .eu domain names in the past

Recently there were a few x,xxx range .eu domain sales and that made me look at previous sale history of .eu domain names.

I have listed most expensive .eu domain sales in the past (reported sales).

Domains	Prices Sold
Hotels.eu	$  329,509.00
Shopping.eu	$  196,803.00
Games.eu	$    95,850.00
Apotheke.eu	$    81,070.00
OnlineCasino.eu	$    46,748.00
Blackjack.eu	$    45,000.00
Telefonbuch.eu	$    37,800.00
Russia.eu	$    34,320.00
GPS.eu	$    33,480.00
Slots.eu	$    31,200.00
Internet.eu	$    26,250.00
Money.eu	$    20,005.00
Blog.eu	$    19,170.00
TTS.eu	$    17,625.00
Vouchers.eu	$    14,751.00
Cool.eu	$    14,300.00
Einfamilienhaus.eu	$    14,219.00
yq.eu	$    13,917.00
schmuck.eu	$    13,603.00
Series.eu	$    13,539.00
Tax.eu	$    12,530.00
Digital.eu	$    11,200.00
Oncology.eu	$    10,575.00
EuroPalace.eu	$    10,500.00
uc.eu	$      9,658.00
InternetCasinos.eu	$      9,607.00

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