FINAL NEW G RESULTS @ NamesCon Live Auction

[Internet.Domains]

Lasvegas.cam $2,200
e.hosting $3,400
domain.company $1,200
gold.club $4,000
travel.agency $3,000
diamond.club $2,300
casino.club - Reserve Not Met
boob.tube $1,700
420.shop $3,000
Silver.club $1,500
Business.broker $3,000
auctions.global $600
luxury.club $5,000
shoes.xyz $1,000

 

[168]

I actually think boob.tube is one of the better names on the list. Not a quality list at all. These results really have not changed my view on NGTLD names. $1500 - $3000 for mediocre to decent NGTLD names are right about what I would expect for right now, especially since those names were almost certainly bought for re-sale.

Agree. People tend to overlook this is a re-sellers auction.
Happy Hunting!

 

[Wannabean]

wow, someone took a bath on travel.agency... sad thing is it was just pure impatience that caused that loss.

Sorry but I kinda disagree. Who starts a travel agency and calls it......... travel agency?

So travel.agency (i can only suppose) is going to be a site comparing and brokering travel agencies (who themselves are brokers). Never made any sense to me.

No offence to anyone involved with the name, just my thoughts.....


Peace.

Edit* because I can see people replying to this with generic .com sales as a reason for generic new g's doing well. My response to that is type in traffic.

 

[Wannabean]

A simple rule for at least the next three years. And you need to stay away from resellers if you want to sell for good money!

Then where are you going to sell them? I know of one member here who is making good money from new g's, and they are mining super hard at low renewals and selling for $1-3k.

 

[Silentptnr]

Sorry but I kinda disagree. Who starts a travel agency and calls it......... travel agency?

So travel.agency (i can only suppose) is going to be a site comparing and brokering travel agencies (who themselves are brokers). Never made any sense to me.

No offence to anyone involved with the name, just my thoughts.....


Peace.

Edit* because I can see people replying to this with generic .com sales as a reason for generic new g's doing well. My response to that is type in traffic.

Well they probably wouldn't brand as "travel agency" but use the domain as a portal to gain more customers.

Oops. Didn't read your edit! We agree!

 

[Wannabean]

Well they probably wouldn't brand as "travel agency" but use the domain as a portal to gain more customers.

Please read the edit in my post, think I covered that.

 

[Silentptnr]

Please read the edit in my post, think I covered that.

Gotcha! I edited too.

 

[TerriJ]

Dismal results.

If I ever get my names into Namescon... I will definitely set a reserve.

 

[Felipelayoun]

I have the domain:
Makemoney.social
Is park and make 2 hits a month
Imagine if were makemoney.com
This .social .xyz .club all in my opinion .crap

 

[Casey L]

That's what happens when you auction overhyped nTLDs and high quality .com/.net side by side

 

[WhoaDomain.com]

Nothing went wrong.

It's just the industry showing its true colors.

The new g's are dead in the water in reference to resellers.

And the auction was essentially a large group of resellers.

I mean did you see some of the names auctioned in it?

Alot of the premium. coms were shaded by the tons of nonsense garbage that was auctioned.

I'm all for progression, but the new g's is not where it is....

Back to the drawing board.

Hmmmm just thought of this while reading this entire thread over again while on the train.

Could it be namescon purposefully choose what most people on namepros called garbage ? And made sure most domains submitted could only do no reserve so as to give gtld's a "chance" to have promising sold prices?

Many complained about having no reserves on their domains while others could?

And then people commented on the crummy domains that were in the auctions while theirs were denied?

Am I thee only one who suspects this was all done to give gtld's a "shot" to shine at this auction. Which sadly in thee end it didn't?

In the face of big timers like Mike Mann poo pooing on gtlds publicly especially on linkedin lol

Could this be why?

If I were the creators of gtld extensions and there is big money in the yearly renewals for these things .

Buddy sysrem? Or kick back?

Obviously if gtlds did successfully sell for big money at namescon.

Then that's good for gtld extension creators yes?

 

[dordomai]

In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king

In the land of nGTLD holders, the .net holder is king ?

 

[dordomai]

lol... Mike Mann has a new logo @DomainMarket.com

I think alternatives = ngtlds

 

[Grego85]

since you could buy the ngtld equivalent of one of his half a million dollar domain names for a less than 10k, he should have "pretty please" in front of the accept no alternatives

 

[Silentptnr]

lol... Mike Mann has a new logo @DomainMarket.com

I think alternatives = ngtlds

That's funny. Does he really think there should be only one search engine, only one domain forum, only one auction site? So silly. You can't stop progress and evolution. You just can't. I don't know what the future holds for alternatives, but if domainers are any indication of the larger population, acceptance and usage is on the way.

That's like GoDaddy, Sedo, Google, Facebook, even NP saying "accept no alternatives".

I'll bet that little slogan will be removed by Monday.

I posted on another thread yesterday that a startup called Case One just raised 5,000,000 this week in funding. They are at Case.one

 

[Silentptnr]

I'm sure there was a time that Network Solutions felt like he does. Look now.

 

[Wannabean]

I'm sure there was a time that Network Solutions felt like he does. Look now.

To be fair, Network Solutions probably still feel that way

 

[Silentptnr]

To be fair, Network Solutions probably still feel that way

lol....and their prices are still too high.

 

[HotKey]

That's funny. Does he really think there should be only one search engine, only one domain forum, only one auction site? So silly. You can't stop progress and evolution. You just can't. I don't know what the future holds for alternatives, but if domainers are any indication of the larger population, acceptance and usage is on the way.

That's like GoDaddy, Sedo, Google, Facebook, even NP saying "accept no alternatives".

I'll bet that little slogan will be removed by Monday.

I posted on another thread yesterday that a startup called Case One just raised 5,000,000 this week in funding. They are at Case.one

I don't know..I think its a good slogan. It sounds good. But also, it fits his vested interest. Right now, it's no longer just marketing. It's protection. Look at Verisign stock, shares worth over $80, climbing since 2003.

Anyhow, the new G's have a long climb themselves ahead. I don't think they're going to be pushing com's off the path though. They're carving they're own..

 

[Silentptnr]

I don't know..I think its a good slogan. It sounds good. But also, it fits his vested interest. Right now, it's no longer just marketing. It's protection. Look at Verisign stock, shares worth over $80, climbing since 2003.

Anyhow, the new G's have a long climb themselves ahead. I don't think they're going to be pushing com's off the path though. They're carving they're own..

Agreed. But even forgetting what it says, I think just the name by itself was better looking.

 

[168]

That's what happens when you auction overhyped nTLDs and high quality .com/.net side by side

This happens too.
Wineclub.com did not meet reserve which means bids were less than Wine.Club that sold last year at NamesCon for 140k.
Happy Hunting

 

[Lakshan]

LasVegas is too cheap for that price

 

[Silentptnr]

This happens too.
Wineclub.com did not meet reserve which means bids were less than Wine.Club that sold last year at NamesCon for 140k.
Happy Hunting

Timing is so important. I said in another post that activity seems to be slowing down some since the infusion of chinese investor cash into the domain market, and all the excitement. I have read that the average holding time for good domains is like 5 years.

Domainers absorbed an enormous number of domains over the past year and a half and I think investors should be prepare their portfolios for the long term.

 

[offthehandle]

Sorry but I kinda disagree. Who starts a travel agency and calls it......... travel agency?.

Exactly. No Startups. That was my first thought. Established yes- some huge name like Thomas Cook, perhaps (they even brand the vertical stabilizer on their owned/leased aircraft)- whoever owns that should contact them. But a start-up? nope. A small to Med corp? nope. They want a brand name or local name- the generic name like that would be for someone with huge market share.

 

[offthehandle]

That's funny. Does he really think there should be only one search engine, only one domain forum, only one auction site? So silly. You can't stop progress and evolution. You just can't. I don't know what the future holds for alternatives, but if domainers are any indication of the larger population, acceptance and usage is on the way.

This probably should be on another thread- but I do have a real concern, that this is the way the market works. A good book to read for anyone here interested in some basic marketing concepts it is called "The 22 Immutable laws of marketing" by Al Ries and jack Trout. I hate to believe that the western world is stuck with these choices with Amazon taking over everything (And losing great chains like Borders was a great book store retail, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc), Google being "the" search engine,etc with their next to lousy results (I could really write a book of examples of how incorrect their search results are) I recall using Dogpile, AltaVista, Goto, webcrawler, and Yahoo a lot more back in the early days than now. Google does a better job in SOME Cases, but I do miss the "directory" format like Yahoo had at the beginning, like DMOZ.
Any suggestions? I sure wish there would be some venture capital infused to some entrepreneurs to get a good foothold and enter the market with a real directory that is as fast as google.

 

[offthehandle]

Timing is so important.

Domainers absorbed an enormous number of domains over the past year and a half and I think investors should be prepare their portfolios for the long term.

As you might know I am new to this business segment and pretty quickly I have decided to work on developing some of mine into real sites. Appears no real money in parked pages, so if you develop them into something at least you have value added when you sell, and hopefully ranked in 5 years then sell.