Darpan Munjal of Squadhelp tweeted out some interesting data with regards to domain age and sell through rate.
Darpan cites numbers from 25,000 domain names listed on or before January 2020.
Domains that are aged 15+ years see the best jump.
How does the Domain Age affect STR?
Interesting that STR stays relatively same from hand-reg till 5 years and then shows massive jump for older domains, despite higher selling prices
A more focused investment approach on higher quality, aged domains can deliver better results pic.twitter.com/j49lrM38b6
— Darpan (@darpanmunjal) August 19, 2020
I think that when you get down to it, there’s really nothing to do with age in a literal sense…but the quality. Those aged domains were picked out and never dropped, that’s because they were avaiable back then, obviously. Also, they were among the first to get taken for the obvious reason – they are better.
Also, for every ONE good 15+ yr old .com there are probably 1000 bad ones too. If you need to look at the age to tell you something which you don’t already see in a given domain, perhaps you shouldn’t be domaining imo.
It’s like a fools errend to pay attention IMO.
Interesting article,
Not surprising. Age is one of the biggest factors for domain values.
Hope people don’t misread that chart, the 25,000 names in the sample are already hand picked by SquadHelp and the real sell through rate for a domain portfolio is likely 10% of those numbers.
the age refers to the date on which the domain was first created or the years that an investor has had it without selling it or letting it expire?
The creation date on the whois record.
the age of the whois would have value if it saved the complete history, from the first register (this is the real age). I have registered expired domains and consulting archive.org, I see that many of them are 10 or 15 years old, although the whois says “registered on 2020”.