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If my maths are up to the task I think the 'official SEDO auction' of today brought in some
$785,145 for 111 names.
Or sliced and diced another way, that means that the average price of each domain was a whopping
$7073.38
A few weeks ago we would have been salivating like crazed dogs on the news of any name going for over $7,000...
... but now? Well, now we see that the massive changes brought in by verisign to the .Tv extension have so changed the environment that we are in a completely brand new world. AND DON'T IT TASTE GOOD?
Many of us had already seen that the real-world had seriously begun to adopt Tv names, but the domainer to domainer market was just non-existent.
But now things are different. Very different.
I actually see today as remarkable, not for the sales, but for who was buying.
I'm sure there were one or two endusers, but the lack of publicity on this auction suggests that it was a seriously domainer-ish affair - but not 'the Usual Suspects'.
What we've seen is the bigger boys come and play in our once little playground. The bigger boys who until recently took little heed of what .Tv was, where it was going, or what it's potential could be.
NOW they've noticed!!!
And boy, when these big boys have the bit between their teeth don't we know it. Today, it was new blood buying the vast majority of names - and at prices we've hardly ever seen. Seasoned .tv domainers being literally 'blown out' of the auction because they just didn't understand the tsunami that is: "the old school domainers".
I think many of us old boys in .Tv land are now a minority. We helped open the routes to the gold mine, and may even have picked up a good few nuggets along the way, but we are not the 49ers - they arrived today, in their numbers - and they are here to stay.
Welcome to .Tv guys. We've scared shitless you're here!
$785,145 for 111 names.
Or sliced and diced another way, that means that the average price of each domain was a whopping
$7073.38
A few weeks ago we would have been salivating like crazed dogs on the news of any name going for over $7,000...
... but now? Well, now we see that the massive changes brought in by verisign to the .Tv extension have so changed the environment that we are in a completely brand new world. AND DON'T IT TASTE GOOD?
Many of us had already seen that the real-world had seriously begun to adopt Tv names, but the domainer to domainer market was just non-existent.
But now things are different. Very different.
I actually see today as remarkable, not for the sales, but for who was buying.
I'm sure there were one or two endusers, but the lack of publicity on this auction suggests that it was a seriously domainer-ish affair - but not 'the Usual Suspects'.
What we've seen is the bigger boys come and play in our once little playground. The bigger boys who until recently took little heed of what .Tv was, where it was going, or what it's potential could be.
NOW they've noticed!!!
And boy, when these big boys have the bit between their teeth don't we know it. Today, it was new blood buying the vast majority of names - and at prices we've hardly ever seen. Seasoned .tv domainers being literally 'blown out' of the auction because they just didn't understand the tsunami that is: "the old school domainers".
I think many of us old boys in .Tv land are now a minority. We helped open the routes to the gold mine, and may even have picked up a good few nuggets along the way, but we are not the 49ers - they arrived today, in their numbers - and they are here to stay.
Welcome to .Tv guys. We've scared shitless you're here!
