e.biz Final price

I wanted to get 3. C/J/K -but was only willing to go to 5500-6000

One was for the novelty factor, but also to spent another 5k on an e-directory type software and have a business directory.

C= China/Canada
J=Japan
K=Korea

500 ads @ $50 = 25,000 year.

I am sure e biz has a plan, but that is big coin. Nonetheless, it was fun to watch.
Hopefully it will help the biz extension, but I am not holding my breath.

shane mac said:

I think you will all be in for a surprise. I would hazard a guess at 50k+

My "guestimate" will be 68k

Much higher than anyone else but I suspect alot of last min interest with all of those 1 letter .Biz

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I think you have the winning guess.

I guess so. Rock on .Biz is all I can say.

I took M.biz...

...because I'll develop it as either all things to do with 'Money' biz (business).

....Or, all things to do with 'Mobile' biz (business).....My NewMediaFrontiers.com strategy showcases (some of) my major mobile presence.


I felt it was one name that could be branded fairly easily for either of these very lucrative major markets....Its very memorable, super easy to recall & type.


...and, even better, the .com, .net, and .org, don't exist.

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DomainTalker said:

I took M.biz...

...because I'll develop it as either all things to do with 'Money' biz (business).

....Or, all things to do with 'Mobile' biz (business).....My NewMediaFrontiers.com strategy showcases (some of) my major mobile presence.


I felt it was one name that could be branded fairly easily for either of these very lucrative major markets....Its very memorable, super easy to recall & type.


...and, even better, the .com, .net, and .org, don't exist.

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Congratulations. Nice name.
Good luck with the development.

DomainTalker said:

I took M.biz...

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Congratulations DomainTalker. Great domain and very rare to have a single letter in any extension. :tu:

Occurs to me if you don't develop, how many company names worldwide begin with the letter "M". So resale might be a viable opportunity one day.

Side note: Was searching on Google how many news references there are to the word "biz". It's become a univeral catch phrase for business. It's everywhere ...

biz - Google News

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d.biz up to $20,100 and auction not over. Other sales ...

1.biz $32,003
e.biz $66,001

I admit I wasn't expecting any of them to get past $20k. I had and sold Blog.biz years ago for high $x,xxx and am surprised 1-letter .biz's could sell for more than top words like that. Then again, besides the handful of single-letter gTLDs that were taken before they stopped being available (i.e. x.com), these represent the only single-letter gTLDs available for registration. I guess that says SOMETHING, but still...just weird. People are throwing ridiculous money around lately but at the wrong domains.

I could see these prices for maybe a LL.net or something (big maybe) but this was a huge example of overpricing. Hope the buyer develops this thing.

bmugford said:

I am shocked that all these L.biz and N.biz are going for so much. You can get 3-4 letter popular words for virtually nothing in .BIZ

I know there is a rarity issue, but these are still .BIZ extensions and putting out close to $10K for some random ones makes no sense to me when you could get a much better short relevant keyword for 1/20th of the price.

Brad

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I think you are all being very near sited with these comments. The potential of these domains is outstanding both for business's and for marketing. You ar forgetting .Biz is a well established Gtld and is well known. I would not be surprised, when these get taken to market and seen on TV as am sure they will, the .Biz extension will recieve an almighty boost.

My problem is not .BIZ itself, my problem is that you can get a much more relevant keyword for a fraction of this price in .BIZ

Is a L.biz that much different than a LLL.biz or LLLL.biz? You are talking 5 keystrokes vs 7-8 keystrokes. I am not sure the length of these alone can justify this price.

Brad

shane mac said:

I think you are all being very near sited with these comments. The potential of these domains is outstanding both for business's and for marketing. You ar forgetting .Biz is a well established Gtld and is well known. I would not be surprised, when these get taken to market and seen on TV as am sure they will, the .Biz extension will recieve an almighty boost.

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For a marketing strategy these names are pure gold. Not the keyword itself.

1.) .biz is not a "well established" extension. I've been to a few hundred thousand developed .com sites in my life compared to 2 or so .biz. Many don't even know it exists.

2.) For $60,000 you could get a pretty damn good keyword .com (not a category-killer but still).

Paying more than $50k for a L.biz is unjustifiable.

shane mac said:

I think you are all being very near sited with these comments. The potential of these domains is outstanding both for business's and for marketing. You ar forgetting .Biz is a well established Gtld and is well known. I would not be surprised, when these get taken to market and seen on TV as am sure they will, the .Biz extension will recieve an almighty boost.

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Archangel said:

I'm thinking closer to $11,570, seven thumbnails and a copy of Amazing Fantasy #15. The reprint. Read by a fanboy and accidentally left in the rain. For 9 days.

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You were wrong with this statement, I suspect you will be wrong again. The next few months will be interesting, both for these domains and .Biz

Archangel said:

1.) .biz is not a "well established" extension.

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Archangel - Must respectfully disagree with you. .BIZ is the 10th leading domain extension in the world. Over 2 million registrations. Also your comment about not many developed sites is most definitely wrong. There are many thousands of well-developed sites.

10th or not, I don't see .biz developed a lot. Now I'm sure you'll reply with about 30 links to .biz sites but that means nothing whatsoever. For ever developed .biz you show, one could counter with over 1,000 developed .coms. That'd not "well established" in my book.

Carlton said:

Archangel - Must respectfully disagree with you. .BIZ is the 10th leading domain extension in the world. Over 2 million registrations. Also your comment about not many developed sites is most definitely wrong. There are many thousands of well-developed sites.

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.biz is more established than any of the new cctld's or proposed ones. It has a history therefore is "established"

Carlton said:

Archangel - Must respectfully disagree with you. .BIZ is the 10th leading domain extension in the world. Over 2 million registrations. Also your comment about not many developed sites is most definitely wrong. There are many thousands of well-developed sites.

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2 million registrations means nothing when a vast majority of them are bought up by domainers -- the same goes for any extension.

.BIZ was created to take "pressure" off businesses wanting to use good keywords in .COM, but that's not what happened.

The extension seems to be most widely used for small B2B companies; I haven't seen it used for much else.

I do not believe e.biz is a good investment. :imho:

That depends on your definition of established. .name and .cc have a history, too. Are they established?

.biz is far better, as you said, but they're still unknown to the vast majority of Internet users.

shane mac said:

.biz is more established than any of the new cctld's or proposed ones. It has a history therefore is "established"

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JamesDavid said:

I may have to disagree... I like the idea of letting the 1 characters set the price tone... People/Investors are more likely to have there attentions caught by e.biz selling for 66,000.00 + than they area bunch of $XXX-$XXXX sales from 2 character domains... Plus with ME.BIZ, My.Biz, and names like that coming you may even have a chance of more money if more people get involved...

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actually i agree with you

i honestly think most will have overpaid.
i do like the m. one though
trademark it and then go after m.mobi for free domaintalker.
if you build up a good site at m.biz for pc you could go after m.mobi for just $500 via rfp
tm will help too

shane mac said:

.Biz is a well established Gtld and is well known. I would not be surprised, when these get taken to market and seen on TV as am sure they will, the .Biz extension will recieve an almighty boost.

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I second Bmugford, it's a fluke.
.biz has been in the shadows since 2001, all of sudden it's going to rise ? I don't think so.

Carlton said:

Archangel - Must respectfully disagree with you. .BIZ is the 10th leading domain extension in the world. Over 2 million registrations.

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.eu has almost 3 million registrations. Is .eu well established ?

Carlton said:

Also your comment about not many developed sites is most definitely wrong. There are many thousands of well-developed sites.

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Not many high-profile, legitimate sites. TBH I never visit .biz sites. Do you ?
But I visit .com + ccTLD every day.
While 1-letter domains can be nice for branding, I think the TLD is sleazy and unbrandable :blink:

sdsinc said:

I think the TLD is sleazy and unbrandable :blink:

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You must not visit financial websites, or be aware that "biz" is common for business.

Here you are: biz - Google News

WOW! $15,611!

Wish you all the best with your M.biz development DT! :tu:

DomainTalker said:

I took M.biz...

...because I'll develop it as either all things to do with 'Money' biz (business).

....Or, all things to do with 'Mobile' biz (business).....My NewMediaFrontiers.com strategy showcases (some of) my major mobile presence.


I felt it was one name that could be branded fairly easily for either of these very lucrative major markets....Its very memorable, super easy to recall & type.


...and, even better, the .com, .net, and .org, don't exist.

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Thanks for the kind words, Carlton, mobigod, J73 & Izy...


Here's my thinking re buying M.biz for 15k:


I agree, of course, single-letter .biz has NO prospects for parking revenue...Nor, likely to have much prospect in terms of domainer reseller profit value (tho, who knows, eventually?) etc etc...ie the easier avenues for a ROI...

So, to leverage them, they HAVE to be branded. Not everyone's cup of tea......But, imo, some (eg e.biz) - but, not all - of these single letter domains offer huge opportunity.


For me, M.biz, was one that has good possibilities...:


* Its a gTLD


* 5 MILLION exact Google Keyword Search Tool results for "M", per month....So, people search for the term, in huge numbers


* Over 3 BILLION Google returns for "M"....So, possible end user sale.


* The term could represent any number of vast lucrative markets:

- Mobile
- Money
- Music
- Movies
- Marketing
- Management/Managers
- Marriage
- Motorsport

etc etc

Google doesn't care what the extension is, if you develop a domain......If one is considering a brandable, then M.biz is as good an opportunity as any, imo.


I guess, in the end, I reckoned it was worth paying 15k for this opportunity - rather than what, say, $15k might buy me in .com, or any other gTLD.



Here's an example of an outfit, for example, that brands itself as 'M.Net' (for 'Mobile) - and, is on the front page of Google, in Australia - tho, its url is 'mnetcorporation':

Home | m.Net Corporation.com


I know not everyone agrees this is a good investment....But, I'll see if I can make something of the opportunity it affords...

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I say $12k

Way over the top pricing, unless they are going to well developed and branded which will be very expensive I just don't see the justification of these prices.

MUCH better names to be had for less money.

If it rubs off on .biz pricing I will be happy as I own a few premium including 北京.biz (Beijing.biz) in Chinese.

But buy of the day/week/month- I just saw that Property.com.cn ( I prfer .cn but---) sold for less than $900