question My first sale arrived! Susprisingly was not a .com

redfoxdomains said:

Congratulations. Way to go. Did you actively market it or did they find you?

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Bob Hawkes said:

Just for fun I calculated the sell-through rates for .com and for .space. I took sales from NameBio over past two years, and then divided by 2, and names for sale via the Dofo extension detail (about 10,700 .space are for sale vs. 15.3 million .com).

Anyway the apparent sell-through rate for .com is 0.54% while that for .space is 0.070%. These include all sales above $100 so probably quite a few acquisitions by domainers, especially contributing to the .com totals. To get some sense off this I deducted GoDaddy, Dynadot and NameJet auction sales and the .com sell through rate becomes 0.38%, whereas .space goes to 0.065%. So overall, the apparent sell-through rate of .com is about 5x that of .space, but small number statistics. By the way, the way select/deselect works on NameBio I have had to exclude a few others, but I think the numbers are approximately right.

These are apparent rates based on NameBio reports, so you can apply some factor (like 5 to 10x) to get a real sell-through rate from an apparent one.

One advantage of being in smaller niches is that there is less competition in names. It is interesting to ponder if there were more .space listed for sale, would more sell. I don't know. A bit smaller than yours, but I had a $$$ .space sale last year. Interestingly, it also was a foreign language word (French in my case). Proportionally for me too, based on tiny statistics, I had more luck in 2019 in .space than in .com. But yes, I do realize that 85% of the entire aftermarket sales volume is in .com.

In any case, sell-through rates on an industry-wide basis are simply that, and for each of us it is the sale itself that matters. And congratulations again on that sale, @M0rd0r! Now with this success are you anticipating any other acquisitions in .space?

Bob

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Rory Ivey said:

What platform was this name sold on?

And was it a buy now or negotiated price?

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