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I've been wondering about the competition in auctions for expiring domains over at GoDaddy.com, because somebody is paying hundreds for seemingly every domain that gets a few bidders.

I’ve also noticed a clear pattern, with the last bidder (or one of the last bidders) entering the auction winning most of the time, which made me think that there is one large corporate buyer piggybacking of whatever domains other people find and bid on. Turns out that is the case: HugeDomains.com is buying most domains over at GoDaddy.com expired auctions. I looked up the WHOIS of the past 150 auctions I have lost at GoDaddy.com, and 84 of those are now owned by HugeDomains.com and listed for sale on HugeDomains.com.

While 50%+ may not be representative of overall domains bought at GoDaddy, they do seem to buy far more domains than anyone else. The 66 names not bought by HugeDomains.com were bought by a number of different individuals and companies (BuyDomains.com bought 6 of those 66, for example), so 50%+ were taken by HugeDomains, while "the rest" of the auction wins were by a number of different individual domainers and companies.

This might not be news to some, but I've never seen anyone mention that HugeDomains is this active over at GD expired auctions, so I thought it might be interesting for some people to know who is outbidding everyone in the lower range over at GoDaddy. I've read people mentioning that HugeDomains buy names in close-out status over at GoDaddy, but never that they buy most of the domains in auctions too.

HugeDomains absolutely dominates all auctions below $5XX, and they only picked up a single name above $5XX (cakemart.com) in my sample of 150 names, so $5XX seems to be a self-imposed limit for them. If I only checked domains sold below $5XX, the percentage bought by them would be even higher. I've been the second highest bidder in lots of auctions that HugeDomains.com won, and in my experience they will keep bidding until you give up or until the price passes $5XX. By outbidding most bidders in the lower end, and acquiring more than half of the domains other people also have interest, it leaves a far smaller pool of names for the rest of the domainers to compete for, so I guess that's part of the reason why the reseller prices for names keep increasing so much for names in this range.

The only way to buy cheap domains at GoDaddy auctions now seems to be to let domains expire with 0 bids, so that they go to close-out status, and then try to snipe them as soon as that happens. However, some domainers seem to think it's smart to bid $12 on any decent name when there is 1-15 minutes left, hoping that nobody else is going to place a bid, so fewer and fewer decent names are let to expire with 0 bids. However, that strategy never seems to work (I've tried it myself lots of names, and it did not work even one time), because there are always other people watching and waiting for the name to go to close-out, and they jump in and bid if you make a $12 bid, and most of those names are eventually won by HugeDomains.com. What experiences do other people have at GD recently? Anyone else have any good strategies for buying expiring domains @ GoDaddy.com these days?

Some examples of expired domains bought at GoDaddy.com auctions by HugeDomains:
Domain: skillsharing.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $540
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $2995

Domain: ledmaster.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $537
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2195

Domain: cyberstrategies.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $262
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $2895

Domain: crablab.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $320
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $1895

Domain: dailyportal.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $560
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $2895

Domain: fivesecondrule.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $42
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $2695

Domain: deltacloud.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $365
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $1795

Domain: itace.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $499
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2595

Domain: sunnykitchen.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $200
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2595

Domain: baristaschool.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $449
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2895

Domain: cakemart.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $695
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $3495

Domain: visuala.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $315
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2795

Domain: massanalytics.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $130
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2095

Domain: edusport.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $535
BIN price (at HugeDomains): $2995

Domain: acneguru.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $52
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $2495

Domain: stylefolio.com
Purchase price (at GoDaddy): $195
Asking price (at HugeDomains): $1995



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To me it seems that some / most of the names that go way high is due to the newsletter \ auction listing recommendations from the vip contact at GD.

Once these lists get emailed I notice names suddenly go really high, even when no interest before.

Maybe some people rely on these lists rather than using their own judgement and time for finding names.

That is a good point, I have noticed the same myself when my godaddy rep emails me prices skyrocket.
 
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Yep I saw it on domainshane and it was in the $xxx range when he posted and sure enough it went up a lot from there. Silly price for an average domain. Whilst we're at it here's some more sales yesterday:

huskyhealth.com 12,900 USD 2016-12-28 NameJet
bestdrones.com 6,600 USD 2016-12-28 GoDaddy
search.io 5,500 USD 2016-12-28 Flippa
dailytoast.com 5,000 USD 2016-12-28 BuyDomains
naturalsource.com 3,633 USD 2016-12-28 DropCatch
recart.com 3,500 USD 2016-12-28 BuyDomains
altel.com 3,003 USD 2016-12-28 NameJet
gene-watch.org 2,700 USD 2016-12-28 NameJet
nautiluslabs.com 2,500 USD 2016-12-28 BuyDomains
wisewithmoney.com 2,488 USD 2016-12-28 BuyDomains
dailydeals.org 2,100 USD 2016-12-28 Flippa
saexplorers.org 2,010 USD 2016-12-28 NameJet
galaxylighting.com 1,925 USD 2016-12-28 GoDaddy
jeeptech.com 1,525 USD 2016-12-28 GoDaddy
professionalpm.com 1,500 USD 2016-12-28 BuyDomains
adchampion.com 1,500 USD 2016-12-28 BuyDomains
innovativere.com 1,375 USD 2016-12-28 BuyDomains
cuiquan.com 1,354 USD 2016-12-28 DropCatch
analyze.org 1,259 USD 2016-12-28 DropCatch
farmdelivery.com 1,250 USD 2016-12-28 BuyDomains
marketwagon.com 1,250 USD 2016-12-28 BuyDomains
goodok.com 1,220 USD 2016-12-28 DropCatch
aboutlighting.com 1,144 USD 2016-12-28 BuyDomains
linuxglobal.com 1,036 USD 2016-12-28 BuyDomains
funnest.com 969 USD 2016-12-28 Flippa
sacma.com 940 USD 2016-12-28 NameJet
timeforwine.com 855 USD 2016-12-28 GoDaddy
apparelcorps.com 850 USD 2016-12-28 Flippa
boncap.com 849 USD 2016-12-28 NameJet
wowrealty.com 753 USD 2016-12-28 GoDaddy
cloudreviews.net 750 USD 2016-12-28 Flippa
storymine.com 695 USD 2016-12-28 GoDaddy

I don't think this is just about the OP and Huge domains although it is true and a good point. Aftermarket names and average ones at that are going for stupid prices and even the better names are way too high.

Bestdrones.com for example, a nice name that I tracked for a while, but for $6.6k lol, way too high. Look at the list above, either junk names selling for big money or decent/good names also going huge. 4 figurers for trash is commonplace now.

Some of the names if you didn't look to see buydomains sold them you wouldn't know which names are end user sales IMO. Bottom line, auction prices are broadly going for what end user prices are going for which is ludicrous.
Yes, HD is just one of many entities pursuing this strategy. Domains are selling for equally crazy prices in the auctions they are not participating in at NameJet/SnapNames and Dropcatch. Lot's of other domainers and companies paying just as much and much more than HD (in other words, HD can't be given too much credit for driving up prices). The most significant impact of HD's activities is how they quantitatively purchase names, by jumping in and bid up all of the average names that would have closed for much lower prices otherwise, making names closing somewhat under the radar/at a reasonable price more of a rarity.

And on the drop, dropcatch.com means you have to pay up $59 if you want a name, because if you don't order it at $59 there, they'll most likely grab it for their "partner" HugeDomains. And getting it outright for $59 is getting somewhat of a luxury even. Because these days there are other bidders for nearly any name, so the majority of stuff available through pending delete end up in public auctions. The HugeDomains/DropCatch/NameBright triad is pretty much killing the possibility of getting anything cheap on the drop.

However, in NameJet and DropCatch auctions, prices are not really any different from GoDaddy auction prices, despite HDs absence in those auctions. But aside from a small number of deep-pocketed beginners, it's all experienced domainers paying up end user prices. Considering that they already have years of experience and (usually) thousands of names under management, it's not a given that they won't continue to snap up names for close to end-user pricing, so this trend appears set to continue.
 
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Yes, HD is just one of many entities pursuing this strategy. Domains are selling for equally crazy prices in the auctions they are not participating in at NameJet/SnapNames and Dropcatch. Lot's of other domainers and companies paying just as much and much more than HD (in other words, HD can't be given too much credit for driving up prices). The most significant impact of HD's activities is how they quantitatively purchase names, by jumping in and bid up all of the average names that would have closed for much lower prices otherwise, making names closing somewhat under the radar/at a reasonable price more of a rarity.

And on the drop, dropcatch.com means you have to pay up $59 if you want a name, because if you don't order it at $59 there, they'll most likely grab it for their "partner" HugeDomains. And getting it outright for $59 is getting somewhat of a luxury even. Because these days there are other bidders for nearly any name, so the majority of stuff available through pending delete end up in public auctions. The HugeDomains/DropCatch/NameBright triad is pretty much killing the possibility of getting anything cheap on the drop.

However, in NameJet and DropCatch auctions, prices are not really any different from GoDaddy auction prices, despite HDs absence in those auctions. But aside from a small number of deep-pocketed beginners, it's all experienced domainers paying up end user prices. Considering that they already have years of experience and (usually) thousands of names under management, it's not a given that they won't continue to snap up names for close to end-user pricing, so this trend appears set to continue.


I encourage people to keep paying up, I know the struggle, I am getting $100, $150 offers for 10-20 year old 2 keyword .com solid domains, all day long. Respond back with low - mid 4 figure counters, they run away for the most part.

It is a struggle, and time consuming, a dollar today, is worth more than a dollar 3 years down the road. You really have to work to get that money back. I almost think people will have no choice but to jump to gtld's at these prices. We see what buydomains is churning at, then we see what domainers are paying. It is unbalanced. If you have a mix of newbiers with dnjournal reports thinking just because candy.com sold for $3M, they can get $3K for yummycandy.com or something, it just doesn't happen.

This is a huge issue with domaining, from time to time, fairytale sales get advertised, all the sudden the whole keyword gets valuated on that one off sale, for the most part it will only ever be a one off sale.

It takes a lot of discipline to take a step back from the aftermarket, but now might be a good time. I monitor when I get outbid on good names, and see if those names sold thru, majority are still sitting in the accounts that outbid me, and probably will for a while.
 
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I encourage people to keep paying up, I know the struggle, I am getting $100, $150 offers for 10-20 year old 2 keyword .com solid domains, all day long. Respond back with low - mid 4 figure counters, they run away for the most part.

It is a struggle, and time consuming, a dollar today, is worth more than a dollar 3 years down the road. You really have to work to get that money back. I almost think people will have no choice but to jump to gtld's at these prices. We see what buydomains is churning at, then we see what domainers are paying. It is unbalanced. If you have a mix of newbiers with dnjournal reports thinking just because candy.com sold for $3M, they can get $3K for yummycandy.com or something, it just doesn't happen.

This is a huge issue with domaining, from time to time, fairytale sales get advertised, all the sudden the whole keyword gets valuated on that one off sale, for the most part it will only ever be a one off sale.

It takes a lot of discipline to take a step back from the aftermarket, but now might be a good time. I monitor when I get outbid on good names, and see if those names sold thru, majority are still sitting in the accounts that outbid me, and probably will for a while.

Completely agree. I'm taking a step back for a while as well, will monitor names if I think they are worth it otherwise perfectly happy to see how this plays out.

Most times I see the same, the domains are unsold for an age afterwards but not so long ago I saw landsolutions com at godaddy and badly wanted it. It went to around $7k I think which was huge and didn't get it. I see now that it shows within a couple of weeks SEDO transfer service in whois so looks like it sold fast to someone else. Ah well c'est la vie.
 
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I encourage people to keep paying up, I know the struggle, I am getting $100, $150 offers for 10-20 year old 2 keyword .com solid domains, all day long. Respond back with low - mid 4 figure counters, they run away for the most part.

It is a struggle, and time consuming, a dollar today, is worth more than a dollar 3 years down the road. You really have to work to get that money back. I almost think people will have no choice but to jump to gtld's at these prices. We see what buydomains is churning at, then we see what domainers are paying. It is unbalanced. If you have a mix of newbiers with dnjournal reports thinking just because candy.com sold for $3M, they can get $3K for yummycandy.com or something, it just doesn't happen.

This is a huge issue with domaining, from time to time, fairytale sales get advertised, all the sudden the whole keyword gets valuated on that one off sale, for the most part it will only ever be a one off sale.

It takes a lot of discipline to take a step back from the aftermarket, but now might be a good time. I monitor when I get outbid on good names, and see if those names sold thru, majority are still sitting in the accounts that outbid me, and probably will for a while.
Yes, and that’s why these price increases don’t make sense. However, since the people paying up supposedly know the struggle already (they’ve been doing this for years already), and they still keep paying up, then I don’t see why they would suddenly stop. If you have been domaining for years and you own thousands of names, and you already have a model that works for you, then you won’t suddenly discover that what you are doing doesn’t work, and stop spending so much on names. So buying names for these kinds of prices apparently is working for some domainers, because there are enough domainers and companies doing it to drive prices towards end-user pricing across all marketplaces.

One company that appears to be more aware of the “struggle” of selling names is BuyDomains. Here are some numbers compiled from NameBio.com two months ago (numbers have slightly increased since then):

BuyDomains.com sales according to namebio:

4,925 sales in total.

4,349 sales under $3000.
576 sales over $3000.
233 sales over $4000.

3,784 sales in the $1000-$2500 range.
1,113 sales in the $2500-3500 range.

When your business is based on selling names in the sub $2500 range, your business model is no longer feasible in this market, in terms of acquisitions. And the percentage of names I see bought by BuyDomains.com is continuously decreasing. They are hardly able to buy anything anymore. They either have to change their business model (significant price increases), or they will end up entirely priced out of the market with the way prices are going through the roof. And anyone who follows the sales reports on namebio can see that some of the names that sold at BuyDomains in the past five years, and are now let to expire by the buyers, sometimes end up selling for prices close to what they previously sold for at BuyDomains, but to domainers this time around, rather than end-users.
 
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It's kinda weird, with all the prices going up, you'd expect end user prices to go up too.

But the opposite seems to be the case really.
 
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It's kinda weird, with all the prices going up, you'd expect end user prices to go up too.

But the opposite seems to be the case really.
End users actually have more choice than ever, with GTLD's, some choose to go that route, others choose to pay up.

Anytime you bid on a decent domain, chances are it's going to be a race, and your going to have to bid to win it. Not to long ago, you would get away without having a fight on every single domain, but these days every domain is a tug of war to get it closed.
 
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End users actually have more choice than ever, with GTLD's, some choose to go that route, others choose to pay up.

Anytime you bid on a decent domain, chances are it's going to be a race, and your going to have to bid to win it. Not to long ago, you would get away without a fight on every domain, but these days every domain is a tug of war to get it closed.

JMO...those end users who choose a ngtld wouldn't ever buy from you. They choose it because it's low cost. If it wasn't there, they would probably hand reg a hyphenated .com, but not pay up for your decent .com.
 
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I'm still picking up domains on the drop and at GoDaddy for approx twice regfee. As a whole, not as good as good as those being mentioned here, but certainly saleable at $2k, from looking at these prices :) Of course some of them are as crap as what we see here. Others are at least as good as we see here. Some are even better than the crap we see here. IMHO :)

There is a niche for everything. My niche is going to be selling reasonable quality domains to those people who will be refusing to pay the prices these domains need to be sold at :)

I don't think I will be getting out of the market. I would say I'm maintaining or even increasing my inventory :)
 
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In the past, skipping an auction or two or three to go have lunch or not working on the weekends was no big deal because there were still plenty of names to be had but not anymore. It really is becoming a 7 day a week grind to get good names. I know that I need to be more diligent these days and put in more effort to make up for the added competition. We also tend to forget that there is tons of inventory from private individuals that could be had for much less money then chasing these crazy auctions.
 
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This is so not true, I see so many great domains at godaddy go off the board without a buyer at $5 ,only to see people backordering them at namejet for 69 bucks , godaddy and other registras have tens of thousands of domains expiring daily through some sort of closeout daily ,I will say this you get the best closeouts at 11 bucks but i have picked up a few gems at $5 some of those gems were never renewed ,and the cycle continues ,I must stress BE BE BE BE BE very selective only limit yourself to one domain a day ,at the end of the day your keen eye should earn you a quick 400 buck return potential if you make a few calls not bad for a total of 15-20 buck investment { sift that dirt }
 
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I've done a little watch of some quite good domains from GoDaddy expired auctions. After waiting for a week for the whois to updates. This is the result:
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We all know HugeDomains, but I don't know TLDPros. Who are they?
Is there any connection between TLDPros with Namejet?
I see on their website that all of their domain being auctioned at Namejet.
So, their business is buy low ($12+Renewal) at GoDaddy expired auction and then sold them on Auction at Namejet for minimal $69? Could anyone enlighten me?
Thanks...
 
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Tldpros is a group of domainers based out of India I believe, they bought a 5N portfolio in Dec 2015 from godaddy for like $1M, marchex's

I see they been attempting to sell at namejet also. Issue with namejet if they have a ton of reserves that are just going unsold by the masses.

Huge domains has infrastructure, they have a huge portfolio, their own register, their own dropcatch, their own registry connections, you can't beat them.

Tldpros is more recent, I think they have a all or nothing strategy right now. Thing about Huge Domains is they have their own dropcatch, and what gets backordered sells for top dollar for their gain.

You really can't compare the two.

That is insane that these two parties got 60 percent of your tracked inventory.
 
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Tldpros is a group of domainers based out of India I believe, they bought a 5N portfolio in Dec 2015 from godaddy for like $1M, marchex's

I see they been attempting to sell at namejet also. Issue with namejet if they have a ton of reserves that are just going unsold by the masses.

Huge domains has infrastructure, they have a huge portfolio, their own register, their own dropcatch, their own registry connections, you can't beat them.

Tldpros is more recent, I think they have a all or nothing strategy right now. Thing about Huge Domains is they have their own dropcatch, and what gets backordered sells for top dollar for their gain.

You really can't compare the two.

That is insane that these two parties got 60 percent of your tracked inventory.
So, HugeDomains based in US, TLDPros from India, is there more from China? :bored:
Yeah, it's pretty insane, right. Now I feel like just a little liliput getting crushed by a bunch of giants. This industry is getting insane everyday....
 
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There are many Chinese based domainers on Godaddy also, BioBanking.com was bought last week for $4,2xx by a Chinese based domainer with domainbuyer777 as his email. It is global for sure. Used to be more North America, and European, but China, and India are both developing countries with explosive growth.
 
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Godaddy must be loving this extra bump in their auctions, :xf.grin:
 
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Perhaps it is time for investors to start making more serious Domains Wanted Threads (i.e. willing to pay a fair price to acquire a good domain rather than expecting a one-word .COM for $50).
 
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There are many Chinese based domainers on Godaddy also, BioBanking.com was bought last week for $4,2xx by a Chinese based domainer with domainbuyer777 as his email. It is global for sure. Used to be more North America, and European, but China, and India are both developing countries with explosive growth.
Exactly.
There are now 3 huge markets in need of replenishing inventory. This is probably the best time to sell average .com inventory to the bulk buyers unless one is willing to accept tighter margins on new buys and lower ave. sales pricing set by bulk buyers motivated by volume.
I do believe Huge Domains will get bought out when the anticipated volume isn't there and holding costs eat into their margins 2-3 years from now.
Happy Hunting
 
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Yes, and that’s why these price increases don’t make sense. However, since the people paying up supposedly know the struggle already (they’ve been doing this for years already), and they still keep paying up, then I don’t see why they would suddenly stop. If you have been domaining for years and you own thousands of names, and you already have a model that works for you, then you won’t suddenly discover that what you are doing doesn’t work, and stop spending so much on names. So buying names for these kinds of prices apparently is working for some domainers, because there are enough domainers and companies doing it to drive prices towards end-user pricing across all marketplaces.

One company that appears to be more aware of the “struggle” of selling names is BuyDomains. Here are some numbers compiled from NameBio.com two months ago (numbers have slightly increased since then):

BuyDomains.com sales according to namebio:

4,925 sales in total.

4,349 sales under $3000.
576 sales over $3000.
233 sales over $4000.

3,784 sales in the $1000-$2500 range.
1,113 sales in the $2500-3500 range.

When your business is based on selling names in the sub $2500 range, your business model is no longer feasible in this market, in terms of acquisitions. And the percentage of names I see bought by BuyDomains.com is continuously decreasing. They are hardly able to buy anything anymore. They either have to change their business model (significant price increases), or they will end up entirely priced out of the market with the way prices are going through the roof. And anyone who follows the sales reports on namebio can see that some of the names that sold at BuyDomains in the past five years, and are now let to expire by the buyers, sometimes end up selling for prices close to what they previously sold for at BuyDomains, but to domainers this time around, rather than end-users.

Interesting point here. I wondered what you meant about the $2,500 price point. Are you saying selling under this is not feasible for the acquisitions in the example, or in general, even $30-50 domains?
 
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Interesting point here. I wondered what you meant about the $2,500 price point. Are you saying selling under this is not feasible for the acquisitions in the example, or in general, even $30-50 domains?
BuyDomains mainly sell names below $3000, with the majority below $2500.

Perhaps their average sales price is $2000? (based on their sales showing up in NameBio in the daily reports these days, it’s probably a bit below that).

Then if BuyDomains go to NameJet and GD now, and buy 100 decent names at an average of $350 each, that will set them back $35000. They will have to sell 17-18 of these names for $2000 each just to break even. Assuming a sell-through of 3%, it’s going to take them 6 years to break even, or close to 12 years with a 1.5% sell-through. At current price levels, and with the way prices seem set to continue increasing, this doesn’t look like a viable model going into the future. The fact that they are not able to win almost anything at GD these days (in my sample of 150 names, they were only able to buy 6 of them), and I can't even recall last time I saw "saggydimes" winning an auction at NJ and SN, might indicate that they realize that current reseller acquisition prices do not work with their current sales model.

What's your take?
 
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BuyDomains mainly sell names below $3000, with the majority below $2500.

Perhaps their average sales price is $2000? (based on their sales showing up in NameBio in the daily reports these days, it’s probably a bit below that).

Then if BuyDomains go to NameJet and GD now, and buy 100 decent names at an average of $350 each, that will set them back $35000. They will have to sell 17-18 of these names for $2000 each just to break even. Assuming a sell-through of 3%, it’s going to take them 6 years to break even, or close to 12 years with a 1.5% sell-through. At current price levels, and with the way prices seem set to continue increasing, this doesn’t look like a viable model going into the future. The fact that they are not able to win almost anything at GD these days (in my sample of 150 names, they were only able to buy 6 of them), and I can't even recall last time I saw "saggydimes" winning an auction at NJ and SN, might indicate that they realize that current reseller acquisition prices do not work with their current sales model.

What's your take?

Thanks for the explanation. It was just something I was thinking about last night, and I guess what I was really after were the %sale rate that would yield a profit given the buying pattern.

From my perspective, I agree that buying names for $350 upwards seems to break the business model of not just HD, BD etc, but domainers in general (unless we are talking about 4L possibly).

I always thought the model was to get good names at under $100 if possible and sell on. I am obviously not talking about names that are in their own league, like SmartFinance or FastLoans etc. I hope that made sense...
 
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It looks like there is no way to getting away from the Reberry brothers (owners of NameBright.com, HugeDomains.com and DropCatch.com) in the domain reseller market.

I’ve been wondering who the bidder “tahitirum” at SnapNames is. Just discovered that “tahitirum” is Jeff Reberry, one of the Reberry brothers that own NameBright.com, HugeDomains.com and DropCatch.com.
 
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So, HugeDomains based in US, TLDPros from India, is there more from China? :bored:
Yeah, it's pretty insane, right. Now I feel like just a little liliput getting crushed by a bunch of giants. This industry is getting insane everyday....
There are many Chinese based domainers on Godaddy also, BioBanking.com was bought last week for $4,2xx by a Chinese based domainer with domainbuyer777 as his email. It is global for sure. Used to be more North America, and European, but China, and India are both developing countries with explosive growth.
There are a lot of of South Korean domainers buying up a ton of English keyword names too (probably more than Chinese and Indians, at this stage).
 
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saggydimes just beat me in an SN auction a couple of days ago. I thought, "now there's a name from the past".
 
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saggydimes just beat me in an SN auction a couple of days ago. I thought, "now there's a name from the past".
Perhaps it's more like shakydimes for now...
 
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