news Agario.com sells for $16,615 (Or Did It?) If So, Is This Game About To Evolve?

[Templr]

Just one year after the release of agar.io the domain name marketplace SnapNames reports the sale of Agario.com for $16,615. But Did It Really Sell?

Agar is the official name, (taken from the algae which supports the structure in cell walls) which was developed on the .io extension (Agario seems to be the adopted name)

The nature of this huge multi-player action game is very simple, which makes it so fun; on agar.io
You control a cell (starting small) on a grid which represents a petri dish, and the goal is to gain as much mass as possible and hit the leaderboard...

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[HUKU]

Well it could be an emerging trend but in the past word + age has caught on, word + ly has caught on and word + io has been selling for a variety of reasons which are unrelated to the .io extension. Here are some of the reported sales:

Curio.com sold for $60k in 2012 (Godaddy)
Novio.com sold for $45k in 2013 (DNS)
Admio.com sold for $20k in 2014 (Sedo)
Agario.com sold for $16.6k in 2016 (Snapnames)

It's a nice sounding addition that can turn a regular brandable set of letters into something better sounding. Perhaps they just stumbled upon it due to the prior extension.

 

[HCFree1]

Well it could be an emerging trend but in the past word + age has caught on, word + ly has caught on and word + io has been selling for a variety of reasons which are unrelated to the .io extension. Here are some of the reported sales:

Curio.com sold for $60k in 2012 (Godaddy)
Novio.com sold for $45k in 2013 (DNS)
Admio.com sold for $20k in 2014 (Sedo)
Agario.com sold for $16.6k in 2016 (Snapnames)

It's a nice sounding addition that can turn a regular brandable set of letters into something better sounding. Perhaps they just stumbled upon it due to the prior extension.

I'm not saying that word + io is not an emerging trend, but I'm not sure the first two are examples of such a trend as they are actual words. Curio is defined as a rare, unusual, or intriguing object. Synonyms :
trinket · knickknack · bibelot · ornament · bauble ·
objet d'art · collector's item · rarity · curiosity · oddity · kickshaw · tchotchke
In other words, the items placed in a curio cabinet.

Novio means boyfriend, bridegroom or fiance' in Spanish. If you separate it as no and vio, it means did not see in Spanish as well.

I'm not sure about admio, but there are already a few company websites with admio in the name.