Percentage of all domains owned by domain name traders

[Martin40]

Does anybody know what percentage of all domains is owned by domain name traders?

 

[AdoptableDomains]

I don't know, but if I were to venture a guess, I'd say well over 50%. It all depends on how you classify the millions of names held for PPC income that are not really "for sale" or "for trade". there are several holders of tens of thousands of names each that are not developed, but also not for sale.

 

[barefoottech]

Yes ,there is several major Players who have literally Thousands ,sitting earning PPC income
Plus all the smaller players with anywhere from 1 to 1000 domains
50% could be too low a figure

 

[N-Sane]

40% proboly :notme:

 

[worldstar]

Maybe half owned by domain name traders!

 

[mole]

At least 90% of all names.

 

[slaughterbeck]

At least 90% of all names.

I believe that’s just about right.

 

[Badger]

heres a read for you guys, not quite the answer but interesting nonetheless

http://www.jottings.com/DarkBlueSeaArticle.pdf

 

[Martin40]

names held for PPC income

Uhhh...could anyone elaborate on this? I'm assuming you're referring to homepages with ads?

 

[tolkein]

A very, very huge percentage. I spent a whole day typing-in what I thought were choice domains, and almost all of them ended up on a landing page!

 

[harpo]

those who taste the ectacy of owning only want more,,,,, few are the chosen for the top of the pyramid and it only sits the selected few , through they control it all.
monolpoly , dictatorship and the cook who like to see the flavors simmer all alone.
maybeeeeeeeee say 80%

 

[WealthStream]

Uhhh...could anyone elaborate on this? I'm assuming you're referring to homepages with ads?

It means that the redirect the name to a page of related sponsored links, and are paid for every click they send to an advertiser's website.

I've heard that about 85% of domain names are undeveloped. My guess is that well over half of those are owned by domain name speculators/traders of some description.

 

[Martin40]

It means that the redirect the name to a page of related sponsored links, and are paid for every click they send to an advertiser's website.

Thanks a lot for the tip.

But where do they get the traffic? The redirection will get a site banned on Google.

As for the precentage thing: Where it comes to premium domains it's my impression too that a very large chunk is owned by traders, but how many domains are premium? Most people still prefer .com's like 123superthepooperwebhostingxxx.com.

 

[barefoottech]

Thanks a lot for the tip.

But where do they get the traffic? The redirection will get a site banned on Google.

As for the precentage thing: Where it comes to premium domains it's my impression too that a very large chunk is owned by traders, but how many domains are premium? Most people still prefer .com's like 123superthepooperwebhostingxxx.com.

Yes the .com is KING Mantra is still strong ,but I am doing my part to address the in-balance and purchased a lot more .info's lately.


Thing that has me confused is people on this board often openly state the primary reason they have their names is for Paid Parking and then you often get the same People complaining of all the PPC/CPC Filled Pages.

 

[AmD950]

Over 90%, I forgot which business magazine talked about this in 1 or 2 months ago

 

[TopSatelliteRadio.co]

Forget domain traders- what about SE spammers?!
I blow through 100 domains a week lately- and I'm a very small operation compared to others!

 

[ThreeD]

At least 90% of all names.

are you serious? I think that estimate is a little high fetched. Some people have domains parked for later development, some use them for backup or redirection to their main sites. I would say somewhere between 50-60% belongs to the domain traders and investors. I find it hard to believe that 9 out of 10 domains are owned by people in the domain market. Then again, you could be right

 

[Domainate.com]

An interesting pair of questions that would solve this problem are:


What's the ratio of domain owners that aren't traders to those that are?
What is the average amount of domains that each own?

Granted, answering those 2 would be a lot harder to guess at than the main question, but interesting to think about. I would guess about 60% of all domains owned are by traders. You figure out of 1000 domain owners, maybe 6 are people that buy domains with the intent to resell them, and perhaps the average number of domains owned by a trader would be about 100-200 names (skewed by the huge players owning many thousands) whereas the average amount that a regular owner would have resides between 1 and 2. I dunno, makes sense to me.

 

[Toker]

are you serious? I think that estimate is a little high fetched. Some people have domains parked for later development, some use them for backup or redirection to their main sites. I would say somewhere between 50-60% belongs to the domain traders and investors. I find it hard to believe that 9 out of 10 domains are owned by people in the domain market. Then again, you could be right

That's true, I've been buying and parking them for years and have
over 200 that I've never sold.
99% .coms and .nets for the same domain.

I use at most 15 of them for sites and a few more redirected to a site
but most just parked for later..
Some because they're easy to remember like FreeYesterday and FreeTomorrow.
Some for laughs like TheOutHouse.net, MafiaHit.net, Zipup.net.

Alot of Adult like MoreCumShots.com/net, LickingThePink.com/net GoodHandJob.com ect

and when WideBand got bigger I picked up a bunch of
Video & Movie domains like BestVideoSite.com/net,
BestMoviePrices.com/net.

This part of net Bizz I never knew about B4 but now I might start
getting my feet wet..

 

[tipsfromthetop]

You figure out of 1000 domain owners, maybe 6 are people that buy domains with the intent to resell them, and perhaps the average number of domains owned by a trader would be about 100-200 names (skewed by the huge players owning many thousands) whereas the average amount that a regular owner would have resides between 1 and 2. I dunno, makes sense to me.

Sounds about right to me.. I think the average trader has between 100-200 domains but the addiction finally takes them over and then you add a 0 on the end of them numbers haha