Privacy Domains

One of the biggest markets for search and discover destinations at the end user level is the privacy or security domain. Security names for online Web activities and personal device integrity can explain or promote software products and elaborate on the concepts for laymen. Privacy for anonymous surfing and resistance to clickjacking and scripts is something everyone with a keyboard wants to know more about.

Privacy is a big money industry today, with several tiers of software companies competing for the big corporate and end user level dollars. The keywords are hacking terms like phish, bit, virus, macro, rootkit, and other words that signify the online threat of malware and file piracy. Affiliates for  revenue domains in the security or privacy niche can make domainers big money with upcoming new releases.

Domain Market Update

The recent six figure domain sales have given rise to the hopes of many a aftermarket domainer in these troubled economic times. Whereas some domainers may see a shrinking buyer’s market, other experts disagree. Noted domain bloggers have been consistently commenting on the healthy resale market and auction robustness catching the domainer headlines of late.

The legitimate monetary revenues derived from domaining have not shrunk so much as sharply diversified into more competitive markets. Domain development and domain resale via auction sales seem as healthy as they were in pre-recession late 2008. Furthermore, shifts in the domain marketplace, such as the closing of Bido and the auction privileges extended by certain registrars to some auction sites, symbolize not the expiration but the maturation of the domain market.

Domain sales across all TLD’s can still be savored, but the bonanza market of the initial land grab is past over with. Career domainers with specialized long game interests and savvy marketing skills can promote their chosen domain sale with an optimum chance of ultimate domain profit from resale. Choosing development options, hosting accounts, parking page and template versiosn as well as direct domain marketing to possible buyers brings the steady domain money home.

Will I keep on making mistakes at Sedo? Today, I just started another low reserve auction AGAIN!!

I made a mistake a few weeks ago when I decided to try my luck by starting a very low reserve auction at Sedo. The domain name was WebcamPlace.com and the auction was started at $100. There was no more bid and I ended up selling the domain with a small loss.

Today, I have started a premium domain, low reserve auction at Sedo AGAIN!!! The domain name is PetInsuranceComparison.com and there are around 30,000 EXACT searches per month for the keywords and CPC (cost per click) is around $14 per click. I value the domain in xx,xxx range but I am trying my luck again. You may visit the Sedo domain auction here. I am not sure this time now because last time there were no more bids even at $100.

Let’s see. May visit the petinsurancecomparison.com auction here.

Business.tv auction finished now at $100,999!!!Finally bidder 7 and 9 finished bidding against each other.

There were many bids for the premium domain, Business.tv  and it just ended at $100,999. The auction was heated up by Bidder 7 and Bidder 9 at the Sedo domain auction for the purchase of the domain Business.tv .

You will read about some interesting facts regarding the bidding war for the domain later in this blog. The bidder 7 seemed very much determined to own the domain and he or she had knocked down other bidders on the way.

Business.tv is surely a very good domain and the bidder 7 started the bid at $11,000 knocking down bidder 6 whose highest bid was $10,500.

Then Bidder 7 got over bidder 8 with a bid of $26,555. After that, the bidder 7 had to compete with bidder 9 who initially bid up to $31,500. Then there was some bidding against each other between bidder 7 and bidder 10 who finally didn’t want to go over $44,500.

The bidder 9 came into the auction again and there was bidding ONLY from bidder 7 and bidder 9 for the domain afterwards. The bidding went all the way from $45,500 through to the final sale price of $100,999.

A nasty domain sale; Nasty.com sold for $200,000

It was a bit surprising to see the domain sale of Nasty.com for $200,000 and it surely was a fantastic domain sale for the domain seller. The domain sale was reported by Sedo domain marketplace. I am sure the domain is of a good quality but I am not very sure many would want to pay that range unless he or she is an end user.

There are many million search results for the keyword “Nasty ” in all search engines. There are around 165,000 EXACT searches per month for the keyword “Nasty” in Google. But there were only over 90,000 EXACT searches last month in Google.

It surely was a good payday for the domain seller.

Insure.asia domain auction , amazingly at around $25,000 with 3 days to go.

I have just noticed the domain auction of insure.asia at 18,500 Euros (nearly $25,000 or according to today’s exchange rate, around $24,792). The auction is ending in about 3 days time and it is at the Sedo domain auction. Currently there is only one bid and I think it is most likely from an end user.

I have a few .asia domains which I won at the sunrise auctions about 2 years back and I thought I had wasted my money.

I have .asia domains such as

Wallpapers.asia
Streaming.asia
Renovation.asia
Stationary.asia
Dart.asia
Bookmakers.asia,
Interpreter.asia
InternetCasinos.asia
ivideo.asia
Cellularphone.asia
Salad.asia
etc.asia
eCruise.asia etc…

I hope I could get some end user domain sales for some of my .asia domains.

Most expensive .biz domains and domain name sales

I was looking at .biz domain sales in the past and there were some good domain sales.

I am surprised to see there are xx,xxx range domain sales for .biz extension.

Recently in November, 2009, there were a few one letter .biz domain sales in the range of xx,xxx.

I gather the following .biz domains were sold at fairly high prices in xx,xxx range.

e.biz sold for over $66,000

d.biz sold for over $26,000

m.biz sold for nearly $16,000

Mortgages.biz was sold for $15,000

Meningitis.biz sold for $15,000 (one of the surprising domain sales )

Car.biz sold for over $14,000

sport.biz sold for nearly $14,000

w.biz sold for $13,500

ImmobilienMakler.biz sold for over $13,000

Hermes.biz sold for $12,600

Cards.biz sold for nearly $12,000

foods.biz sold for over $11,000

loan.biz sold for over $11,000

Find.biz sold for nearly $11,000

u.biz sold for over $10,000

a.biz sold for over $10,000

x.biz sold for over $10,000

b.biz sold for over $10,000

moving.biz sold for nearly $10,000

.eu domain sold for xx,xxx range. Russia.eu sold for Euro 24,000 Euro

It was interesting to see Russia.eu sold for Euro 24,000 at Sedo domain marketplace recently and it was an interesting .eu domain sale.

It was equivalent to over $30,000 and it was very good sale and we believe it was sold to an end user.

May be it was related to the sale of Russia.com for US  $1.5 million dollars in December 2009.

Sports Name Fiesta in 2010

Look for sports TLD domination this year, says an insider. Sports domains in 2010 will become more valuable as with all quality, generic domains.  With more and more people/companies  understanding the need for a converging quality domain, the solidifying effort to increase their brand and online presence becomes more efficient. Sports fulfills the need for fresh dynamic content and a solid audience searching daily for new results.

If there are sports domains that include year numerals in the domain name, those domains have a shorter ’shelf life’ of value.  But promotion can make the years matter.  Witness the success of all the Nostradamus 2010 domain search result traffic. Hybrids of key niches, like gaming and sports, take place with a site like www.Gamingwizz.com.

This insider goes on to say “Obviously, the shorter, commerce related, and easiest to remember/type are the top names to go after.  The best thing with sports is the amount of fans around the world with so many different sports and teams.  All in all, there is pretty good potential in 2010 for sports niche domains.”

New Dot .hub market soon to open

 

Disputes about marshland property taxes, oyster bed revenues, and coconut harvesting environmental concerns gave rise to this constitutional anarchy. While the United Nations is still considering their petition offer, the European domain markets have been awash in requests for dot-HUB. The country code for .HUB will be brokered by Marcaria.com of France. Expatriates of the New Hebrides region have been approved for .hub domain purchase with responsibility for proof left with the domain name registrars.

 

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