Dot Asia sales auction reaching $6,000,000 expected to reach $10 million +

[tech4]

Excellent news from Dot Asia dot Org. Within 2 months of auction,
Dot Asia has successfully reached about $6,000,000 dollars in auction sales for about 29,315 names. 29,315 names to supposedly allocated since their auction date started on or earlier than July 10, 2008 (auction lasts 7 days). Data was pulled from full auction schedule.

There is a total batch of about 45,000 names going to auction. So far about 30,000 names has been sold as to date with a remarkable sales of about $6,000,000 USD in 2 months.

According to the data, there is 15/45, ~1/3 or 33% of names up for grab during the last phase of auction. I am estimating that the total sales for the dot Asia auciton will end probably by mid August with approximately $10 million USD or more.

This is astonishing. The market for dot Asia or 45,000 names is $10,000,000 historically, while there's the 1.5 million+ names out there with registration fees of at least $12/year or addting 12*1.5 million at least $15 million for 1 year registration. The toal market according to my estimate for dot Asia is $25,000,000 or $25 million USD not accounting for advertising and other fees. Accounting for everything I am estimating again base on registration fees and market sales data the market for dot Asia with a premium of 50% it should be about $38,000,000 as to date 7/18/1008.

Market value/historical for dot Asia approximly $38,000,000 or $38 millions USD.

 

[DomainTalker]

This is an excellent performance by .asia, imo, tech4.....And, at a time when times are tough for selling domains of any extension......All things considered, the prices gained at Landrush auction have held up well, all things considered, imo...

Is that 1.5 million .asia registrations to date, correct?...Not challenging the number, just asking if the number is verified?...If so, that's remarkable in just 2 months...

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[1901gt]

Its only auction sales. How many of these .asia domains will be turned into websites in the future?

 

[Steven]

This is a great news for the .asia registry, but what about for the .asia resellers/flippers/speculators?

 

[tech4]

About the 1.5 million. According to dot Asia there's 465k during landrush, these include the the 45k of auction. There is 28k+ for celebrity reserved which were registered according to dot Asia. These numbers total about 493k not including the TM, there's also unknown data which I do not have. Including the TM and Landrush, I am guessing its over half a million.

According to dot Asia there's a press release saying on average since go live March 26, its 10,000 registration per day. However, to be on the safe side, instead of 10,000 per day I took a lower number of 8,000/day. I consider 30days a month and estimated its 4 months since go live therefore its 120 days so : 120*8,000/day ~1 million names.

this 1 million names since go live (lower estimate, real estimate should be 1.5 million names) plus the half a million names before the go live stage, not including the Trade Marks its should at least be 1.5 million registrations according to my insight.

However, on the positive side, if the average of 10,000 registration per day or higher, then we could actually have over 2 mllions dot Asia registration already.
Because I am estimating on a moderate side, I believe 1.5 million is a good number. Or 2+ million, we'll have to wait for the stats.

 

[DomainTalker]

Thanks for that, tech...Its all positive....

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[l-l-l.com]

good to hear tht

 

[tech4]

More good news: Dot Asia is second to dot com and may even beat dot com.
Please read:::::


According to Dot Asia, during sunrise, we have more than 30,000 TMs registered not including the business people who are and is currently bidding on the pool auction.

And accordingly dot Asia has once again trumped the dot info, dot biz, dot net, and the newcomer dot .me.

Here's the stats: of Business TM registration on each extension. Dot Asia is only second to dot com by about 10,000 in my estimates or even at par.

Originally Posted by akcampbell
Com 49,583 ------Dot Asia 30,000s+unannounced live auction second to dot com.
Pro 21,505
Net 17,831
Me 9,136
Travel 6,624
TV 6,532
Info 1,585
Biz 1,170
Org 988
Mobi 121


Isn't this great? while we have some people comparing dot Asia to dot Mobi who only has a pathetic 121 TM at whatever time it is, dot Asia has 30,000+ and strong.

And if we manage to compare dot Asia to dot Com, I think its a safe bet. Now for the dot Mobi VS. Dot Asia:

121 Vs 30,000

I see a tremendous difference in where business communities put their money at.

 

[scorpion]

Great news.

Some of the stats, if accurate, go a long way towards giving concrete evidence of what businesses think of dotasia, contrary to the typical domainers' evaluation of dotasia.

Though if you look at the simple average of auction sales, each name sold for about $205 (6m divided by 29,315). Wonder what the median sale was like, which may be more representative of the value of dotasia currently.

 

[tech4]

The thing about average is, it takes away the value of some of the core names like geo dot Asia names. For example, according to dot Asia press release, geo dot Asia names were as much as twice the value of the dot com geo domain sales on average during the month of June-March private auction.

What does that mean? On Average dot Asia's geo domain names beat that of dot come 2:1 ratio. But it doesn't really say about other names like lll.asia compared to lll.com.

lll.asia were sold as low as 10 because of lower bids, this spread out overall. But I dont' hink the average of $205/names would be what the market value for each unique individual names.

 

[scorpion]

Yes, the thing about averages is that they are influenced by the figures at the extremes (the very low and the very high).

If the median could be located (for example, if the median was $2500), you'd be able to say that half the people bought dotasia names below the median price and half bought above the median price. This gives a rough indication for pricing your domain, though of course I have not taken into account the quality of the keyword, the industry, etc.

Do keep the stats coming, if available. I think it's been very encouraging so far. And thanks, tech4, for all that wonderful research.

 

[Alex]

I can't see how this is good news, except for the .asia registry.

I don't know what will happen next year, when hundreds of new tld's come in, and domain speculators will jump on them.

For a regular user .asia will not be different than .london, .ltd or whatever new tld will come, because there is no content behind it.

lll.asia were sold as low as 10 because of lower bids, this spread out overall. But I dont' hink the average of $205/names would be what the market value for each unique individual names. [quote/]

And what would drive prices that up? Speculation only. Look at other LLL prices. For example LLL.mobi, and LEARN from them! Is there need for LLL.asia that much? Who would buy them? Domainers. Who would want domainers to sell them for a profit? To other domainers who came later in the game ..... aghh ... I would love to speak with you 1 year later

 

[owntype]

I can't see how this is good news, except for the .asia registry.

I second this opinion. :imho:

 

[mwzd]

If its 1.5 million names, why not provide root access to the dns files?

All this speculation will be redundant.

.mobi >>>> .asia - and we know what is happening to .mobi.

 

[BlingMonkey]

According to their most recent report to ICANN (March 2008) there are only about 126K domains registered. See (pg 12): http://www.icann.org/tlds/monthly-reports/asia/dotasia-200803.pdf

 

[Steven]

I can't see how this is good news, except for the .asia registry.

Agreed.

It's not like people are selling the .asia names for that much to other people.
They're buying good .asia names from the .asia registry for an extremely high price.

It's not safe to buy high to sell higher (flip/resell) for an unproven and very speculative extension.

 

[PVFARKAS]

and we know what is happening to .mobi.

what?

 

[mwzd]

what?

Dictionary cvcv.mobi go for $1

http://www.namepros.com/domains-for-sale-auctions/490344-unbelievable-mobi-auction-15-x-1-a.html

Want more? And just a heads up - that auction is closed.

 

[jmcc]

while there's the 1.5 million+ names out there

Perhaps they are unregistered. There were only 197132 domains active in .asia when I checked the other day. I do not think your calculations or figures are accurate.

As of this morning, .asia has 199322 active domains.

As of this morning, .mobi has 930052 active domains.

Regards...jmcc

 

[tech4]

I estimated about 1.5 million registration base on the press release that Dot Asia has out on its front page. I don't think Dot Asia registrar would make fake press releases about:

1. On Average since go live 10,000 registrations per day (average)
This is where you need to do the calculation (using 8,000/day instead of 10,000) Go live was march 26, 2008. I calculated up to dat about 1 million here.

2. There are 30,000 TM for sunrise that are registered
3. There are 465,00 registration for landrush
4. There are 28,000 celebritiy reserved which are registered



JMCC I think there's something wrong with your active sites for dot mobi. Last time I checked its a lower number of registration is somewhere 911,000 but according to your active sites its 930,000 websites?

Do you mean each page is an active site (meaning a domain that has 10 pages=10 sites)?