Why Luxury Domains are Hot Now

The domain name market has seen some global upticks and none more rapid than the interest in luxury names of late. Why are luxury domains hot? Because the consumer markets that luxury brands are reaching out for are growing more broad. Because companies holding luxury labels have to vend goods to wring value from the brand. And with the new Internet shopper, the online domain is the gateway to tapping the luxury market consumer clicks.

Luxury brands are spending more money on advertising for more modest consumers and getting lean and mean for the bottom line.That means their ad spending online is up as well, a boon for webmasters and domainers. PPC and Adsense minded webmasters have long been searching for new markets in traffic and search engine referrals. For the good life, premium travel, fantasy living, celebrity lifestyle, and glamorous brands, the luxury market is here.

Witness the PPR brand Puma leading the sports pack of franchise brands with Usain Bolt, and Burberry refashioning its clothing line to the signature plaid. Shopping sites with keywords like top, grand, posh, gourmet, luxury and other luxury domain name root words are very brandable and very promotable at the present time. The Gilt Groupe (Gilt.com) got dual rounds of financing, not chump change in a global recession.

Luxury properties are being auctioned off to the lowest bidder as mortgage banks and finance companies flee long term structured debt on properties in densely for-sale neighborhoods. Attracting the luxury buyer, both from middle class and top tier demographics is more appealing and lucrative than ever before. Sites like Net-aporter cater to the designer savvy online shopper. These are the new affiliate sponsors.

Hedge funders like the Fortress group will be vending their luxury properties soon, and where will their brokers look for frugal shoppers with luxury tastes? At the sites savvy domainers have the skill to buy names for and make. As one expert domain in the retail sector says, “With the fall of the shopping mall and the rise of the online bargain hunter, any geo market right now should have its own luxury goods consignment shop.”

Christie’s Great Estates is a good example. The real estate market has always been a fast-moving domain name arena, but the current hybrid market for real estate in the luxury demographic at fire sale prices means floodgate traffic based on the quality of listings and the strategy webmasters employ getting new eyeballs arriving and sticky. Luxury hotel revivals like the Los Angeles mainstay Chateau Marmont and Miami’s Raleigh need sites to deliver customers from.

That mean domainers can craft communities of customers ready for bright ads. But credit card and hospitality niches are looking most hardily for visitors. Says the webmaster at www.luxury.org.uk, “Sites like Gilt.com, for frugal but posh shoppers looking for designer seconds, with an invitation-only user base, show premium consumer appeal”.

Luxury travel now is also so steeply discounted that advertisers are paying top affiliate rewards to populate their sites with banners and links. This is good news for webmasters with premium or luxury travel or hotel domains. For a development site project that is hot right now, luxury and its domain has never looked better.

Italy.Net Sells For $52,000

Those who might say the geo market and the dot net market are all washed up can celebrate the sale of Italy.net , co brokered by a career domainer with Andrew Rosener (of Mediaoptions com). Italy.net had been listed at $75,000 at MO in early July …and had also been a lot entry in Latona’s live Milan TRAFFIC auction in April. The dot-net for geo names and proper country and city names remains vibrant, even into the dot-net and beyond. The short .net vends for $52 at a price point good for both buyer and seller.

Pool Skim for Monday August 23, 2010

The likely suspects are coming to the surface in the competitive bidding layer of the Pool.com drop list auctions tomorrow. Socialgadgets.com continues its thrill ride of bids, and goodmaids.com also enjoys expected prominence. The name bookdoctor.org also has swept the bidding floor with enthusiastic money calls. The curious short name f4ng.com also stars in this polyglot assortment of duds and gems. Even castingpoint.com is still in the mix.

In the deletions zone at Pool.com, the domain name cloudfirewall.net should light a blaze under web programmers. Eggrecall.com will have bids that are far from rotten. The ezine crowd will love epostdocs.com as a portal for uploads and downloads. Even businessenglish.asia stands a chance. And the bidding  for dieselfueled.com should be between rival factions: the green environmentalists and the convoying big rig main liners.

Have acquired InsuranceComparison.com

I acquired the domain, InsuranceComparison.com recently and it took me nearly one month to close this deal. I have sold a few insurance domains and I like that niche.

I am planning to develop this domain, InsuranceComparison.com into a business website but it would need extensive project to do such a website, I believe. Do you recommend/know any business website developer who could create an insurance comparison website?

I am thinking of using subdomains such as

Car.InsuranceComparison.com, Health.InsuranceComparison.com, Pet.InsuranceComparison.com
Home.InsuranceComparison.com
Travel.InsuranceComparison.com
Life.InsuranceComparison.com

etc…

What do you think of such subdomain creation? Would you suggest creating directories instead of subdomains?

Skimming the Pool for July 18th 2010

The Pool surface for July 18th  is alive with opportunities. The ongoing competitors are vying for surface action. The big players continue to absorb attention in the form of resuscitating bids. Smartcopy.com sounds like a surefire hit on some kind of keystroke or scanning coaching site. (Many mobile phones  can now be used for barcode scanners with the right tweaking.)

Here are some development ideas for the names as stated for auction. XPbook.net is the right name for ebooks concerning XP system operations. The domain name carstoday.net makes for a nice potential vending site with reviews as well. Moneydetection.com is either a private investigation site for divorcing spouses or a financial counterfeiting information site. The domain Tourismfinance.com is a cryptic but relevant financial opportunity site.

Dropping names coming through the deletion hopper at Pool.com are as follows. The name greenjobsnyc.com is a sure directory portal with heavy likely traffic. The name h1n1flufacts.com is also of interest. The name Udial.com could be a serious caller identification resource for needed numbers in any geo market. The easy access name 800mattress.com has to be a serious tap to the “go to the mattresses” crowd.

Pool Skim for Names Tuesday July 13th

It’s Tuesday the thirteenth of  July at Pool.com and more mouth watering domain deals are dropping and deleting. Directory titan searchyourarea.com continues at auction, as does boysbasketball.net. Typo names ludacis.com and ripurl mature (for ludacris ans ripcurl). Companyinvestors.com shines with appeal.

The name heycutie.com is a great dating site name, and money and financial site names are coming up with the big bids in the varsity Pool lane. Bestmoneysite.com starts volley of money names. Moneyanswers.net and moneyforpayments.com bring the dollar sign into the domain game. Eleventhhourwiki.com is a surprising but intriguing name with unique development promise.

Deleting from the Pool pack are names like advertisewizard.com, a sure fire affiliate attractor. Crimefilm.com digs a noir niche ditch. The realty winner name findnewhouse.com should see competitive bidding. Bettingpoint.com makes a nice gambling site name. The shorty name on offer at Pool.com auction of 5rn.com could be a nursing directory. Forumdomains.com is an exciting name for both listing names notching traffic for same.

Skimming the Pool for 06/29/2010

Sizzling hot prospects in the Pool skim for Tuesday June 29th. The number everyone wants to call is at debthotline.com. The shorty domain 51zl.com also roars on the bidding express at Pool.com. Auction hottie for today’s Pool.com hotlist auction is the name cakes4u.com, which would make a delivery portal, cake vending site, or general recipe catalog. Silkdolls.com could achieve a fantastic site with the same business. These premium names have excellent development potential or resale possibilities. Wikiselect.com has intriguing online link directory possibilities, furnishing a “best of” Wikipedia site. Livemsnbc.com is a surprising url available now. Onefile.net makes a killer online backup or archive site name.

Dietdirect.net continues to be a premium portal moniker, while worldvisa.net could be a fantastic travel offer or vidoe camera site. Aupairhouse.com could be a siary site or a how-to video manual, or even a job portal. Loanshelp.com is a surefire money site hit. Potteryartgallery.com is  along name but should give hobby domainers lot of ideas about what kinds of new names they might whizzle through their registrar checker. Theshiponline.com is a fabulous travel or news digest name just crying out for cruise of boat plan directories and files. Microsoftmediaplayer.com is a fascinating copyright name. Auctionadvice.com is a natural winner. Powerdriver.com contineus to roll on for the big four wheel crowd. Worldbestpoker.net draws bids for the card playing set.

Triple X Adult TLD to Realize?

The triple X adult domain top level domain may be coming to the Web, industry watchers report. The domainers watching this industry quake wonder if the adult online industry, mostly composed of fee-paid video and image services related to pornography, can be a reasonable addition to Internet commerce as such. The lines are being drawn on both sides of the TLD divide.

Those watching the ICANN approval for XXX tld domains are agog after the early days of non-proliferation of web suffixes denoting non-general acceptable matter. While adult sites are a reality and a great commerce builder garnering record traffic and income in every demo, the fact remains they are not welcomed by every hosting company or router online.

Sexually explicit site masters and name owners would be expected to flock to the dot-triple-x tld. Yet the domains in existence now for adult and porn names would putatively lose value and legacy traffic. Not all webmasters are ready to give this up and conjoin their fray to a limited dot tld. Security   software makers and parental control mechanisms for computer devices would be affected.

The opposite side of the coin, the dot-kids suffix, was never approved by ICANN because it was deemed to difficult to patrol and protect. Can ICANN recover some of its lost luster as the Internet regulator? Or will ICANN critics finally have something solid to bring to bear in challenging the agency’s management and ongoing oversight of domain name and web issues? Time will tell.

Receiptcom-lease.com sold for 4,500 USD?

When I saw the domain sale of Receiptcom-lease.com for $4,500, I could not understand why this price? I am still puzzled with the domain sale of Receiptcom-lease.com for mid x,xxx range. Was the domain live or just a mistake by the Sedo Staff? Yes, the domain sale was reported at Sedo domain marketplace.

When I check the domain, Receiptcom-lease.com, it is available to register. I wonder whether someone leases the domain, Receipt.com for $4,500.

Skimming the Pool for June 18th, 2010

Some good domains in the list today, including recipescenter.com and recipeideas.net. Recordapps.com has an intriguing macro directory site potential. Bestoils4u.com has skincare promise. Bestplumber.com is also a good index site name.  Bestpowders.com is a good makeup or wizard site. Burpsquad.net has amazing video and “tube” potential.

Classicsdealer.com and clatterer.com have name value. But the Pool.com hitlist players delete some interesting samples as well. Hairsalon.org is a winner. Educationopoly is a longish education name. Emailachef.com has culinary flair. Ebizchat.com is the top lister. Ebizpr.com is a great name for a public relations site for an e-business.

Filmcoyboys.com and filmpirate.com make excellent movie site names. Funchic.com makes a nice fashion site. Fundingloans.net is another financial winner.  Happyfone.net and happyvisitor.com make good device/mobile and travel names respectively. Help4addicts.net makes a good information site.

Clickbeats.com and cafesensual make exciting domain name auction opportunities. More happening at the drop list at Pool.com…

Next Page »