bad.de sells for $138,443 at Sedo. Thats the Highest reported ccTLD sale for the year 2018, till now.
music.ai takes the second position this year for a sale of $101,500 through Undeveloped.com and feed.co sold at Sedo again for $85,000.
Just end of last month bang.io sold for $22,500 at Park.io, an exclusive marketplace for ccTLD domain names.
Are these the best times for ccTLDs sales ? What is a ccTLD ?
Lets explore this further.
And they did it again …. I attended the DomainX 2018 held at Shangri-La Hotel, New Delhi on August 5th, 2018.
It was an amazing show organized by Manmeet Pal Singh, Gaurav Kohli and the rest of their team.
Would like to quote John Ruskin here, Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.
I attended DomainX last year in 2017 too.
The DomainX 2018 had an Intriguing list of Speakers lined up for the event, including – Michael Bereslavsky of DomainMagnate.com, Samiran Gupta (Head of ICANN in India), Rodney D. Ryder (IP Adviser, Government of India) and so on. I also met with representatives from various Global companies who attended the DomainX 2018 like DynaDot, GoDaddy, Connect Reseller, etc.
We all have heard and most of us have attended popular domain name industry conferences like TRAFFIC, NamesCon and DomainFest but DomainX is a first timer for a country like India and it sounds very interesting. India’s very own domain name conference!
The domain name Crypto.com, whose owner Matt Blaze had been refusing the sales offers for many years, has now sold it to a cryptocurrency company called Monaco.
Monaco was founded in Switzerland in 2016, and in addition to its cards and tokens, it’s launched a mobile wallet app and an automated cryptocurrency investment system. Prior to the acquisition, Monaco used Mona.CO for its website. This domain name now forwards to its MCO white paper, which can be found at MCO.Crypto.com.
The domain name Crypto.com has been sold for reportedly a figure around $12 million.
I heard about the news one day before I came to know about this figure and while discussing it with another domainer friend, I told him a figure around $55 million considering the Hype around Crypto names these days. But when I heard $12 million, I really thought its under-sold.
Earlier, Amazon had bought three domain names related to cryptocurrency: amazonethereum.com, amazoncryptocurrency.com and, amazoncryptocurrencies.com. Amazon already owns the “amazonbitcoin.com” domain name, according to Coindesk.
So much craze around Crypto Domain names and So many sales happening since last year, for example:
CryptoWorld.com Sold for $195,000 via Domain Market
CryptoBank.com Sold for $125,000 via Undeveloped
CryptoRate.com Sold for $99,888 via FoundationDomains
CryptoGame.com Sold for $85,000 via RapidNames
CryptoNews.com Sold for $50,536 via Sedo
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GDPR is a European regulation that aims to strengthen protections for the use and storage of individuals’ personal data.
GDPR requires that companies manage personal data in a certain way – and this can have a significant implications for people who deal in domain names.
The biggest impact of GDPR on domain names affects those that use the registration details publicly listed on WHOIS for their Business strategies, Domain name outbound marketing, direct selling/offering of domain names to the domain owners and sending offers directly to the domain owners in case the domain name is not listed at the marketplace.
The European Union (EU)’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) protecting EU citizens privacy takes effect on May 25, 2018. So far, so good. Who doesn’t like privacy? But, many groups, including Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which manages the Domain Name System (DNS), are completely unprepared for the new laws.
So, why does that matter to you? It matters because ICANN also runs the WHOIS public database of domain name owners. Everyone with any web domain must register not only their domain, but their names, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers. Continue Reading
About a decade ago a term dominated the internet: Webmaster. To be a webmaster was to be the master of your domain. Most webmasters were not domainers and most domainers were not webmasters. Most webmasters owned a domain or two and most domainers owned many. Each character was almost unaware of each other. This continued for many years until we reach our current destination of today and the topic of development regurgitation.
So who exactly are you – a Domainer or a Webmaster ?
Whenever I feel like moving forward on new concepts, I always look back, try to find the similarities, and make sure I have all I need to take on this new challenge. It is so easy to give up. All you have to do is stop trying and you are back to just as things were before you started. In order to succeed you have to believe in yourself when no one else does. You have to believe that the time, effort, investment will work out even though it at times look like it won’t. The alternative to having no faith in yourself, to not walking the extra mile, to not trying, to not pushing, to not believing, is always the same – No Reward. I know very well that if I try, if I dedicate to anything the same amount of time and energy as I have with other areas in my life I will make it to the greatest levels. Over the years I did hear the “talent” argument, that is, that some people were “born with it”. I must disagree. While talent is somewhat important and of course can help I have never met anyone who excelled at anything without hard work. Continue Reading
The DomainX 2017, held at New Delhi on August 05, 2017 featured plenty of standard fare, from keynotes by industry leaders and deep dives into hot topics, to interactive panels with professionals from both inside and outside the domain industry.
For me it was a very engaging experience because of these 3 facts:
1. This was the first time ever that I attended an Exclusive Domaining event that happened in India.
2. Since 1999, I had been doing this all alone – Searching Domains, Registering Domains, Putting them on Sale, Checking Sales of others, reading Blogs and Tips from fellow domainers (mostly based out of India). This was first time I had a first hand interaction with Domainers from India and I bet their experience and knowledge is No Less than any other Domainers based out of India.
3. Well, this one came as a complete surprise to me when they announced my name on the stage – I won an award for the “DomainX .in evangelist of the year 2016-2017“. Its an awesome feeling, to get recognized for your hard work. As for me, I am working and will keep working for the betterment of community.
We all know that Buying domains is easy but selling the right domain at the right price to the perfect buyer is an art. This year’s DomainX was focused upon Selling of Domains, adhering with the copyright/trademark issues, developing domains into great web properties and many more interesting and productive topics. Continue Reading
We all know .net TLD stands for Network.
We also know that when we learn about Domain Names and TLDs in particular, the second TLD that comes right after the .com is, .net followed by the .org.
.com stands for Commercial or Company to some, so when you try to brand your business is that really the full form of these Extensions that matter to you or other factors like price, availability, etc.
There are certainly some instances where .net as an extension makes more sense but where the .com extension is still a better branding decision.
Choosing .com as an extension offers the advantage of being the default assumption for web surfers. If someone tells their friend about this awesome service called “Facebook,” they are more likely to try facebook.com rather than facebook.net.
Having said that, there are still many brands using .net as their choice of company identity rather than a .com (Yes, even if the .com is available!).
According to market research by VeriSign, .net is still considered the most “trustworthy” of all domain endings. Continue Reading
Domainers only care about what happens to expired domains when they want to buy them.
But we don’t think about What the Registrar will do with our domain name if we don’t renew it.
Perhaps expired domains should be the spoils for a registrar’s hard work getting customers to register domains in the first place.
If they let it simply expire, the expired domains would go to whoever has the best drop catching technology.
But most expired domains are auctioned off through exclusive relationships, sending money back to the domain registrar.
Is one of these more fair than the other? In the first model the registrars get nothing, in the second they get a cut. Someone has to have an advantage getting expired domains. Who should it be?
We also have some registrars that keep domains for themselves. But that creates a conflict of interest with customers. Continue Reading
Sometimes we hear news about a Domain Name being sold in an online auction, for what we consider is less than its minimum deserving price. Is it really a Fixed/Fake Auction or there could be any other genuine reason for it too…?
I would like to make case-study of a domain sale here, which happened in 2009.
The Domain was – Toys.com
Toys.com earlier sold for $1,250,000 in 2009, as part of a bankruptcy court proceeding, and again sold for $5,100,000 after a re-auction was ordered by the bankruptcy court.
So, what does that say about the value of domains or domain auctions?
How does a domain at auction sell one week for $1.25 million and the next week for over $5 Million ?
Simple.
The first auction only a few people knew about or participated in, causing the end price to be below market value.
The re-auction had other participants who did not have knowledge of the first auction, like National A-1 and Toys R Us.
Domain values and auction selling prices depend on how well publicized the auction is, who is involved in the auction, and how desirable the domain is.
I would like to quote Owen Frager here, who once said – The irony is that the domain business is all about advertising yet no one wants to invest in advertising their domains.
We all know one thing – If you have the right domain and the right bidders you will have a sale.
But if you have bidders but not the right kind of bidders you will have a sale, but the sale will be at a fraction of the price it could be if you had the right kind of bidders.
I had also read somewhere that Frank Schilling was in until $2.9million.
It is all about reaching out to the right buyers. In this case, it was just two who bidded up and went at it for over an hour from $3m – $5m.
Many were confident that Toys R Us would pick up this domain in the re-auction because they already have toys.co.uk and just bought the other week eToys.com which they were already including in press releases.
But End user perception, need and valuation are having very little to do with metrics.
For example, Pizza.com would have gone higher if Pizza Hut, Dominos, Papa Johns knew about the sale.
Educating and informing end users go hand in hand. It is our responsibility as domainers to do our part if we want to see this industry move forward.
There has been enough constructive advice written for years to work with, and we can now add the power of social networking to reach our goals.
We need to think creatively and find ways to come out of semi-closed circles.
Awareness and Exposure, not only by the Seller But by all of us who know about the auctions happening is essential. If we all work together we can boost up domain prices and exposure.