EDomains.com at TDNAM - Will You Bid?

All I can say is Wow.. Its going to be a challenge to get your money out of that one.

great sale! I also think that it's an end-user type price. Anyways, it's a premium name for the one who would like to start a domain related venture or an EDomains marketing company.

Hi guys what did it sell for i last seen the bid on $10k

Not irrational if bought by a company for future development but for personal investment or for me, I wouldn't pay that but spend this on a Mustang car.

Spade said:

All I can say is Wow.. Its going to be a challenge to get your money out of that one.

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Creating a brand isn't cheap and we all know having the right domain is needed with that brand! I have seen some VERY UGLY domain names sell for a lot more then $16,500.

Let's all keep in mind that this auction simply "ended" for $16.5K and is not considered sold yet. If the winning bidder doesn't pay, this domain could easily drop back down to around $7K when there was more then just the two bidders.

Eeeeeeeeee

Edomains? Einternet? Ehosting? Overkill of the obvious.

November 2008, eClick.com sold at Godaddy for $15,5030.
http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/531630-eclick-com-expired-name-sold-over.html
So pretty close to the same price, even though each name targets a different industry.

That's an amazing price for sure!

E + Domains doesn't make any sense to me. For branding purpose, I would pay a good sum for eDomain.com rather than eDomains.com

Yofie said:

Creating a brand isn't cheap and we all know having the right domain is needed with that brand! I have seen some VERY UGLY domain names sell for a lot more then $16,500.

Let's all keep in mind that this auction simply "ended" for $16.5K and is not considered sold yet. If the winning bidder doesn't pay, this domain could easily drop back down to around $7K when there was more then just the two bidders.

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So are you telling me that by buying this domain name, the new owner is buying a brand? Whats the difference between spending low xxx on a domain name - wont the owner still have to invest in branding?

I think the answer is simple - the bidder is likely a domainer - not an end-user (although, I could be wrong, I doubt I am). This is a stupid price for a Domainer to sit on this domain name.

I don't think the distinction between "domainer" and "developer" is as absolute as a lot of people make it out to be.
Some people are unproductive buy-and-hold domainers whose only interest is the commodity aspect of domains.
Some people are productive developers who buy domains as a peripheral funciton of their broader development scheme. They buy domains when they need them for a project- that's all.
Some people- myself included- are a blend of the two. Sometimes, a domain purchase is a "domain commodity" buy (even though they *all* have a development plan), sometimes, the domain is simply one cog in a larger development machine.

It's entirely possible that this person might be a "domainer" in that they own domains for speculative purposes (and frequent TDNAM), but also are capable of developing- either themselves, or via project management of contracted developers- and intend to do so with this name. I think it's pretty unlikely that eDomains.com languishes undeveloped for more than a year (prefix domains aren't keyword pure, thus generate little in the way of type-ins to earn a meaningful return on a $16K outlay; the existing SERP space for keyword "domains" is waaaaaaaaay too competitive to hope that the gravity of the domain keyword alone might yield a good result with no/light development)

I'd bet it was purchased either by a hybrid domainer/developer (domainoper?) or someone with clear-cut development intentions in mind.

owntype said:

E + Domains doesn't make any sense to me. For branding purpose, I would pay a good sum for eDomain.com rather than eDomains.com

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It makes a lot of sense for portfolio holders & to be registrars. eDomains is way better than eDomain imho, though i understand and appreciate the fact that different people have different preferences.

Spade said:

So are you telling me that by buying this domain name, the new owner is buying a brand? Whats the difference between spending low xxx on a domain name - wont the owner still have to invest in branding?

I think the answer is simple - the bidder is likely a domainer - not an end-user (although, I could be wrong, I doubt I am). This is a stupid price for a Domainer to sit on this domain name.

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They are buying a key link To The Brand, "The Name". Domain names often spark a brand name for a company. Without having the matching domain name, of the "brand name"... wouldn't make sense.

Yes you can spend xxx on a domain and make a brand out of it, but it has to be The Name of the domain you pay xxx for.

NameBio become the "brand" for NameBio.com etc. It is not wise to start a brand for eDomains without eDomains.com .

Yofie said:

They are buying a key link To The Brand, "The Name". Domain names often spark a brand name for a company. Without having the matching domain name, of the "brand name"... wouldn't make sense.

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Absolutely true.
A company that, for one reason or another, wanted to start a domain related business would obviously start searching for an available, high quality name platform to build it on, which would eventually become the brand itself... As things stood, up until yesterday, there probably wasn't a domain related domain name on the open market that was superior to eDomains.com.

Matter of fact, I'm hard pressed to think of many domain related domains that would beat eDomains.com, other than maybe domains.com, DomainNames.com or idomains.com. IMO, eDomains.com is a great, great name.

Dongsman said:

Matter of fact, I'm hard pressed to think of many domain related domains that would beat eDomains.com, other than maybe domains.com, DomainNames.com or idomains.com. IMO, eDomains.com is a great, great name.

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My thought as well. Certainly NameRegister or DomainBuyers or something of this nature are good strong keyword sets, but the absolute short, concise, brandability of edomains is hard to beat. I would have gladly paid out 15k if I had a real plan and resources to go with it. I am sure there are a number of domainers and corporations with great plans for this one. We'll have to wait to see exactly who was involved.

if I was asked which domain I would prefer: myDomains, iDomain, iDomains, eDomain and eDomains, I would choose the latter. I also like this name very much. It makes sense to me not only from the 'domain names' perspective but also because of other non-domainer meanings of the word.

http://www.dotweekly.com/2009/07/08/b52-media-purchases-edomainscom-domain-name/

I would consider B52 Media as a "domainer" considering they own several thousand domain names, with a good deal that I can see Parked.

Thanks for the update jamie!

I am familiar with the buyer. I have been contacted by them about one of my premium domains in the past.

They have quite an impressive portfolio.

Brad

Yofie said:

http://www.dotweekly.com/2009/07/08/b52-media-purchases-edomainscom-domain-name/

I would consider B52 Media as a "domainer" considering they own several thousand domain names, with a good deal that I can see Parked.

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Good price

Not surprisingly really, these industry focused names can often get very intense bidding. Aftermarket.com is probably another example. The name makes alot of sense for the industry, nobody really thinks "electronic domains".