Oti.net is a domain name that has been around the block. Registered in 2003 after being dropped one time before. The domain name has been owned by a lot of heavy hitters in the domain industry. OTI.net was owned by Thunayan K. AL-Ghanin’s Future Media Architects, it moved along to the namefind portfolio, Oliver Hoger […]
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Niq.com sells for a third time – congrats to Shane and Travis
Shane Cultra tweeted out he and Travis sold Niq.com for somewhere close to their $250,000 asking price on BrandBucket. As I have written about before BrandBucket does delve into higher quality names not just the invented brandable niche. Michael Bilde has sold some quality 4L.coms there for big prices. These would all be 15% commission […]
Continue ReadingeName May 2020 sales filled with 3L.com 2L.net/.cc
Here is a recap of the top sales at eName for the month of April. For those unfamiliar, Launched in 2005, the #1 domain name marketplace in China and the preferred platform for all Chinese domain investors. 35 of the 54 sales are .com A lot of data in here should be interesting to all […]
Continue ReadingAnother expired 3L.com closes at GoDaddy – 3 in one month
Over the last couple weeks there have been three 3L.com that were allowed to expire. On Saturday Hyw.com closed at $21,850. The domain looked to have had a variety of Chinese owners over the years. A couple weeks back XGO.com closed at $25,600 and GYR.com closed at $17,500. XGO.com was purchased by Michael Bilde and […]
Continue ReadingA handful of expired gems on GoDaddy including a 3L and 4N.com
GoDaddy auctions has a handful of gems that you normally don’t let expire. Last week I wrote about a 3L.com DAE.com which closed at $126,000 and the week before a 4N.com 4600.com expired and closed at $68,000. Currently they have a 3L (CTX.com), 4N (8034.com) a 3N.cc (882.cc) and a 2L .net with QF.net expiring. […]
Continue ReadingAnother expired gem at GoDaddy with no time to renew
Four days ago we had a rare expired 4N.com at GoDaddy, 4600.com closed at $68,000. Tomorrow the expired domain auction for DAE.com closes. The domain is registered at GoDaddy, so it cannot be renewed or transferred out. A 24 year old 3L.com is usually not left to expire at GoDaddy. The domain was owned by […]
Continue ReadingLL and LLL .com domains may be best choices for Chinese companies
Recently I posted on LinkedIn the sale of an LLL (letter-letter-letter) .com domain in China. It triggered discussion among my readers and got me into thinking more about the future of acronym domains in China. The US and China are the largest economies, and a recent Bloomberg article even went so far as to say […]
Continue ReadingSome less than stellar prices on a block of LLL.coms today
You usually don’t see so many 3L.coms close on the same day at GoDaddy. But today we had a group of 8 close at the same time and that might have pushed their pricing down a bit. UXQ.com closed at $11,000 as the low and XKF.com closed at $15,850 at the high. 7 of these […]
Continue ReadingLiquid Domain Market Overview for Q3 Sales up almost double
Giuseppe Graziano published the Liquid Domains Market Overview for Q3 2018. According to the report volumes were up almost double to $9.2 million. From the report In Q3 the total volume of disclosed sales almost doubled from $5.4M to $9.2M. We also registered a 50% increase in the volume of escrow.com sales, which jumped from […]
Continue ReadingThree letter .com data and analysis for the past 3 years
There has been a lot of talk about three letter.com domain names and their value over the last month. Rick Schwartz came out and said domain investor’s were clueless when it came to valuing three letter .coms. Discussion Rick posted on 9/25 As usual domainers sell way too cheap because they are clueless to the […]
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