Picture taken by Kassey Lee Domains were introduced over 30 years ago, yet many corporate executives still do not know how to write their digital address (domain) to make it stand out in ads and bring consumers directly to their online store. I felt strongly about this issue when I was visiting Japan lately. Here are some examples of digital addresses in the ads I saw while riding the subway in … [Read more...]
BrandBucket October average sale up month over month
BrandBucket sent out their November newsletter and the average sales amount for October came in at $2,959. Up month over month. Two word names continued to be the largest portion of keyword sales. Misspellings continue to sell, resulting in 17.7% of all keyword related sales. The operations category remained at the top stop for yet another month! Removing sales over $10k, our average … [Read more...]
Porn site typos bring in some nice money this week on Sedo
Someone went on a buying spree for some porn typos. Xvideos.com is one of the most popular sites on the Internet. The site has an Alexa ranking of 49. This week's Sedo weekly sales report showed the sales of: xvifeos.com 11/8/2018 15,000 USD xvidwos.com 11/9/2018 9,800 USD xvideoe.com 11/7/2018 3,999 USD xvid3os.com 11/9/2018 2,888 USD XNXX.com is another popular adult site and XNCX.com sold for … [Read more...]
Liquid 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 $12M to $16.7M. According to escrow.com, the most traded category were the 3L … [Read more...]
SoundAi demonstrates good domain strategy at low cost
The other day I read the news about a Chinese startup called SoundAi. As usual, I did a little bit of study and found the company interesting. It shows that you can go global on day one with a good domain strategy – and at low cost. Beijing-based SoundAi supplies acoustic components powered by artificial intelligence to makers of smart speakers and other voice-controlled devices, which are expected to … [Read more...]
TinaFey.com expiring on GoDaddy but Tina probably not interested
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N6jVD6RymA TinaFey.com is expiring at GoDaddy auctions with a current bid of $135. One of the most powerful people in Hollywood, and one of the most popular people from where I grew up. Actually I grew up about 10 minutes from Tina Fey. She is 3 years younger and went to the public high school (Upper Darby) right down the road from the Catholic boys high school I went to … [Read more...]
The curious case of YenDai
Pinyin domains are sought after in corporate China. It's the number one choice for the 2018 Top 100 Chinese Internet Companies, and the majority of them are 2-pin domains. Well known examples are BaiDu.com, XiaoMi.com, and MeiTuan.com. Today I'll talk about the curious case of YenDai. This name came across my desk recently when I was asked to comment on it. At a glance, YenDai looks very attractive. It's … [Read more...]
Usually a slow month for sales August beat September and October
Taking a look at sales on Namebio, I took a look at the last three months, August, September and October. I went through each day and tallied monthly totals. Usually we think of August as very slow month for sales, which it usually is. But August actually outperformed September and October this year. Sales for August (31 days) $4,903,658 Sales for September (30 days) $3,971,693 Sales for October … [Read more...]
The Chinese myth in numeric domains
There is a myth held by many domain investors that Chinese love numeric domains. Such thinking was further enhanced during the 2015/2016 boom when lots of numeric domains – even long ones such as 6 or 7 digits --- were actively traded. That really surprised me. Do Chinese companies really have a special interest in numeric domains? Yes, there are Chinese companies using numeric domains to run their … [Read more...]
Domains are addresses – and good addresses will be expensive
Image courtesy of Pixabay.com You may know Hangzhou because of Alibaba, but I know this beautiful city because of the saying "上有天堂,下有苏杭" (Heaven above; Suzhou and Hangzhou below). Recently, Hangzhou was in the news again -- not for its beauty but for an address. The address Wulin Tianshui Unit XC0105A, Xiacheng District, Hangzhou was sold for a whopping 10.7 billion yuan or US$1.7 billion, the most … [Read more...]
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