Domain Sales Activity is Light in the 1st Full Week of the Aftermarket's 2009 Season

[Ron Jackson]

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. After two consecutive weeks that were shortened by major holidays, the domain aftermarket just logged its first full business week of 2009. Ironically, while sales held up surprisingly well over the holiday season, a lot of buyers seem to have gone on vacation this week while everyone else was returning to work.

No six-figure sales were reported and only a dozen sales broke the five-figure mark. A .com led the list at over $43,000 but our new all-extension Top 20 chart was almost evenly split between the world’s most popular extension and alternate choices including five country code domains, a trio of .nets and a .info that rose all the way to #2 with a $35,000 sale at Sedo (a venue that swept 10 of the 20 chart entries). We have all of the reported sales industry wide and you can review them here: http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

 

[Leasedomain24-7]

interesting to see a .info sell for 35k.

 

[Ms Domainer]

The new weekly domain sales report is out at DNJournal.com. After two consecutive weeks that were shortened by major holidays, the domain aftermarket just logged its first full business week of 2009. Ironically, while sales held up surprisingly well over the holiday season, a lot of buyers seem to have gone on vacation this week while everyone else was returning to work.

No six-figure sales were reported and only a dozen sales broke the five-figure mark. A .com led the list at over $43,000 but our new all-extension Top 20 chart was almost evenly split between the world’s most popular extension and alternate choices including five country code domains, a trio of .nets and a .info that rose all the way to #2 with a $35,000 sale at Sedo (a venue that swept 10 of the 20 chart entries). We have all of the reported sales industry wide and you can review them here: http://www.dnjournal.com/domainsales.htm

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Ron,

I just want to thank you for sharing this information every week.

You're a class act.

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[hivelocitydd]

Hi..
thank you for sharing this..
please see this link also...
http://www.domainnews.com/en/general/investing-in-a-recession.html

Thank You

 

[napa]

It looks like the domain market is doing just fine, despite what the "gurus" say.

 

[HeyNow]

It looks like the domain market is doing just fine, despite what the "gurus" say.

Of course it looks fine. DNjournal.com is owned by a domain speculator who probably owns hundreds of domains, like march.us, elisa.us, omb.biz, pmb.biz, and on and on and on and on ...

In a pure business sense, there's nothing wrong with hoarding and speculating with many, many domains, and stunting the growth of those TLDs by parking the domains at SEDO or Parked.com, waiting for late-coming speculators and/or end users to pay phat $ for the name that the hoarder-speculator has invested only a few bucks into. Heck, you might even pick up a few bucks each month by helping to make SEDO and Parked.com rich.

The point is, don't ever expect a speculator-owner of hundreds of domains to publish data that would seriously de-value the worth of his/her portfolio. Don't expect it, because it's not going to happen.

DNjournal.com appears to be a tool, owned by a hoarder-speculator, to hype and help an industry which primarily thrives on making a quick buck off of the assets of others with domain parking and ppc schemes, and also to keep the value of the hoarder-speculator's portfolio as high as possible. For those purposes, it is a good tool.

 

[Ms Domainer]

Of course it looks fine. DNjournal.com is owned by a domain speculator who probably owns hundreds of domains, like march.us, elisa.us, omb.biz, pmb.biz, and on and on and on and on ...

In a pure business sense, there's nothing wrong with hoarding and speculating with many, many domains, and stunting the growth of those TLDs by parking the domains at SEDO or Parked.com, waiting for late-coming speculators and/or end users to pay phat $ for the name that the hoarder-speculator has invested only a few bucks into. Heck, you might even pick up a few bucks each month by helping to make SEDO and Parked.com rich.

The point is, don't ever expect a speculator-owner of hundreds of domains to publish data that would seriously de-value the worth of his/her portfolio. Don't expect it, because it's not going to happen.

DNjournal.com appears to be a tool, owned by a hoarder-speculator, to hype and help an industry which primarily thrives on making a quick buck off of the assets of others with domain parking and ppc schemes, and also to keep the value of the hoarder-speculator's portfolio as high as possible. For those purposes, it is a good tool.

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From what I understand, Ron Jackson does NOT publish unverifiable sales; anyone reporting must have a sales receipt and the approval of both buyer and seller.

And what's wrong with domain speculation and even domain parking?

And believe me, Ron is giving more back than he's taking; those weekly lists are a lot of work and must involve a lot of fact-checking and organization. I do not begrudge any profit he may make with his awesome lists. I have learned a lot by checking the domains that sell against Google and keyword lists. Most of the time, there is a good reason why a domain sells for thousands.

There's a lot wrong with this biz, but IMO Ron Jackson represents everything that's right.

More power to him; I hope he's filthy rich.



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