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Are there any publicly-available resources, sites, research, etc. that shows the domain aftermarket size?

Looking for some general numbers: how many domains are sold on the aftermarket every day/week/month/year etc..
 
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I think a good place to ask would be namebio.com and domainincite.com.
 
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Dnjournal is a good source check it out, please check my spelling it's may be wrong.
 
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Of domains just listed for sale I have no clue ... but for the expiring side of things, in order to make my daily lists of expiring domains going to auction and closeout I go through GoDaddy's expiration lists daily.

On average they have a little under 50,000 expiring domains at auction each day. Of those I'd say most are garbage and about 3% are taken at auction and/or closeout. It would be hard to get exact numbers (you would need to ask GD) as there is no efficient way of getting the domains that sell at final day of closeout ($5).

I honestly don't have a clue of the exact size of GoDaddy's expiring names vs others, but I seem to recall reading GD represents about half of all expiring domains.
 
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Thanks for the insight... not just looking for GoDaddy's lists, though, trying to get industry-wide info. The number of aftermarket domains bought/sold every day. So that could include afternic, namejet, sedo, etc.
 
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Namebio is another great source that can get you those information you needed.
 
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Are there any publicly-available resources, sites, research, etc. that shows the domain aftermarket size?

Looking for some general numbers: how many domains are sold on the aftermarket every day/week/month/year etc..

recent DomainNameWire podcast featuring Jeff Gabriel. He projected that UniregistryMarket sales will reach $60M this year (up dramatically from about $40M in 2017). This is what he said:

“…We finished a little bit above $40M in sales [in 2017] and then this year we’re tracking to break $60M in sales in 2018.”

https://domainnamewire.com/2018/10/01/domain-sales-in-2018-jeff-gabriel-dnw-podcast-204/

Sales for August (31 days) $4,903,658

Sales for September (30 days) $3,971,693

Sales for October (31 days) $4,363,801

November sales came in at $5,360,768

https://tldinvestors.com/2018/12/november-reported-sales-come-in-at-5-3-million.html
 
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He projected that UniregistryMarket sales will reach $60M this year (up dramatically from about $40M in 2017).

Yet whenever I inquire via Uniregistry my 10-25k offers get refused.
When I contact the domain owner directly I end up picking up the domain.

Too much greed when more than one party is involved.
 
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Yet whenever I inquire via Uniregistry my 10-25k offers get refused.
When I contact the domain owner directly I end up picking up the domain.

Too much greed when more than one party is involved.

Yes, Everyone tries to take their share of margins.
 
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@bhartzer This might be possible from the APIs but it's a bit of a job. But doable, you'd have to write a few functions here and there. Is this for a commercial project or curiosity?
 
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@domainer111 it's more out of curiosity, but would most likely turn into a project. I think others would be interested in knowing how many domains are sold on the aftermarket every day/month/year. There are other places to get actual sales data, like @equity78 has mentioned. Right now it's not for a commercial project, although I'm sure it could become one if the data is accurate and people are interested in it.
 
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@bhartzer it's definitely interesting data. I am quoting the namebio headline data so much these days!

I ask people I am dealing with to guess the total number of public domain sales on NB then regurgitate the number for them, today it's..
Showing 1 to 100 of 100 entries (filtered from 639,973 total entries)

I wonder would jmcc from is it... hosterstats.com be interested in it?
 
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