Prices are coming down for domain names

[mole]

Have you noticed how cheap it is to catch dropping .COM names for $60 or less nowadays, or how cheap people are selling domains on forums like this?

Contrary to popular (read speculative/euphoric) belief, .COM names are actually plummeting in value. With .XXX being introduced soon, the dive will be even more.

The so-called sales you see is only SYMPTOMATIC that those who got their names early in the game are now trying to liquidate what they have for whatever they can get, as compared to the no big money no name position they took in past years.

 

[JoshHendo]

I agree that prices of domain names are coming down. not just for ones been sold, but also for new registrations

 

[Irulesk8]

yeah i believe they have been going down

 

[Ray]

i see what ur saying. I bought 2 good domains on this forum for like 300 np all together, wich is worth like $6.

 

[slaughterbeck]

I’m a newbie to all of this so perhaps your experience is why you believe the industry to be stagnate but to my untrained eye many of the sales I see seem to indicate a very active and vibrant market.

 

[Zeeble]

I’m a newbie to all of this so perhaps your experience is why you believe the industry to be stagnate but to my untrained eye many of the sales I see seem to indicate a very active and vibrant market.

The domain market itself is very vibrant, but the dot com market is going downhill as the number of other extensions is finally having an affect.

 

[LeDomain]

Dot com and Domain market is just gearing up

I believe the Dot com market is just gearing up...The values of domain names are just getting to be appreciated by businesses of all sizes. Unlike the domainers who got involved early in the game, the majority are just getting to understand the importance of this medium for the future.

Advertising spend is shifting to the internet and will continue for several years to come at the expense of print media and possibly TV and Radio..

I personally have seen increasing interest for domain names in my portfolio since last fall....

 

[Zeeble]

Big companies even in Europe, don't even won't a dot com, they would rather use a .Info or a ccTLD. This is all diluting the value of the dot com.

The dot com market is already too expensive. I see the dot com market a bit like the wall street crash of 1929, but obviously not as bad.

 

[ApeXX]

Yeah like Zeeble said, .com is usually not preferred by International companies. They would rather use their countries ccTLD instead. It is gradually reducing the price of .coms.

 

[slaughterbeck]

Top ten sales for the week ending June 19th courtesy of DNjournal.com

1.
tie Paraguay.com $150,000
1.
tie CheapGas.com $150,000
3. Empleo.com $70,000
4. DrumSets.com $50,000
5. Universidad.com $45,000
6.
tie Ventas.com $40,000
6.
tie Telefonos.com $40,000
8.
tie Mensajes.com $30,000
8.
tie PetWorld.com $30,000
10. Cartas.com $25,000

Is this consistent with a stagnant dot com marketplace?

 

[ThreeD]

The domain market itself is very vibrant, but the dot com market is going downhill as the number of other extensions is finally having an affect.

very well said Couldn't have said it better myself..

 

[Jammer]

Not too long ago you could register good dropped org's for regfee,but not anymore....virtually everything is now being snapped....so in that sense...the prices are increasing.

 

[rob123]

Yeah - I've noticed that new domain name registrations have been dropping - probably due to GoDaddy, right? I noticed that NameSecure dropped their retail price from $15.00 to $7.95.

 

[Zeeble]

The problem with .com prices is this:
They reached a very high price, new extensions were realised, so people used them. This increased their value, and diluted the REAL value of .com.

 

[mole]

Top ten sales for the week ending June 19th courtesy of DNjournal.com,...

Is this consistent with a stagnant dot com marketplace?

Yup, in the past these names would have gone for triple the amount or NO SALE.

Cool.com was sold for $30k in the past year, the original price was $10m or something.

I think the reality bug is hitting .COM really hard. Chris Chena, for example, was eyeing the paraguay.com name for years, he finally got his national pride for $150k.

Back pre 2000, I remember the logic for .COM value was that there was a misplaced belief that only the extensions .COM, .NET. ORG will ever be available for the general public and therefore they were as limited as the rarest kryptonite.

The term 'artificial scarcity' was coined to describe this limited' notion. Today, with ICANN minting new extensions like a dog in heat, that very notion is being shaken to the core. .XXX is expected to finally and irreversably herald the death knell of the .COM supremacy, and the rise of recognition for new extensions.

It's amazing how all this is happening in less than seven years since .COM started getting hypervaluated for the first time.

I'm not saying that .COM value will be less than the other extensions, but its general saleability value (sans for a few crazy exceptions) is plummeting exponentially every year as water finds its own level.

 

[slaughterbeck]

Yup, in the past these names would have gone for triple the amount or NO SALE.

Based on this rationale, in the past Empleo.com would have sold for $210,000 with Paraguay.com selling for $450,000.

You would know better than me but from where I stand I’m not so sure those numbers are accurate.

 

[mole]

Based on this rationale, in the past Empleo.com would have sold for $210,000 with Paraguay.com selling for $450,000.

Not sold, but most probably valued by the owner(s) somewhere as you described.

 

[slaughterbeck]

Not sold, but most probably valued by the owner(s) somewhere as you described.

I thought you were indicating that final sales prices were dropping but you were indicating expectations are in decline?

 

[-db-]

I don't want to startle anyone... but a group of black SUV's just pulled up outside NP - they all look the same, black tinted windows, and the license plates say "com-1". Probably nothing but a harmless coincidence, but I figured I should mention it just in case.

:o

 

[slaughterbeck]

I don't want to startle anyone... but a group of black SUV's just pulled up outside NP - they all look the same, black tinted windows, and the license plates say "com-1". Probably nothing but a harmless coincidence, but I figured I should mention it just in case.

:o

We better find a good place to hide.