domain ScotchWhisky.io in auction at Flippa

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Stats:

Average monthly searches (all locations): 10K – 100K (source Google Keyword Planner)

Average monthly searches (United States): 10K – 100K (source Google Keyword Planner)

Average Monthly Searches: 41,044 (source epik.com)

Avg Search Results (keyword): 5,680,000 (source epik.com)

Word Tracker (keyword): 82 (source epik.com)

Cost Per Click (all locations): $2.91 USD (source Google Keyword Planner)

Cost Per Click (United States): $5.28 USD (source Google Keyword Planner)

Average Ad Competition: High (source Google Keyword Planner)

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scotchwhisky.it 2,000 USD 2016-12-13 Sedo

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scotchwhisky.nl 3,000 USD 2015-08-21 Sedo

scotchwhisky.nz 1,000 USD 2015-07-22 Sedo

scotchwhisky.ae 1,000 USD 2015-07-22 Sedo

scotchwhisky.kr 2,000 USD 2015-05-11 Sedo

scotchwhisky.co.za 1,670 USD 2014-04-16 Sedo

scotchwhisky.jp 1,510 USD 2013-07-24 Sedo

scotchwhisky.cn 1,560 USD 2013-05-15 Sedo

scotchwhisky.fr 3,725 USD 2009-10-14 Sedo

 

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Rise of .io domains:

The reason .io domains are so valuable is because companies that use .io domains are known as being great at what they do. This blog post explains it well:

“These new .io sites are almost artisanal in nature – small, well crafted and functional. It’s like a TLD for techies with taste.”

They are also short, sound good, and .io domains perform well in Google’s search results. The reason for this is because they’ve been added to the geotargetable domains list.

Microsoft bought Doc.io for $24,600, Elasticsearch just bought es.io for $30,000, cloud.io sold for $45,000 on Flippa, music.io sold on Flippa a couple weeks ago for $20,000, traffic.io sold on Flippa last week for $14,000, and fd.io, db.io, sports.io, mega.io, groups.io, etc.. recently sold for $10k+.

Domain Name Holdings also reported that they sold a .io domain in Q2 of 2015 for 6-figures.

A lot of the tech startups that use .io domains are now very successful businesses, further reinforcing the idea that companies that use .io domains are “in the know” and part of the sophisticated tech crowd.

Check out just some of these examples:

Iguaz.io lands $15M Series A
Tuition.io and Test.io each raised $5M a couple of weeks ago
Google acquired spider.io
Easel.io was acquired by github last year
Keen IO just raised $11.3 million
Nitrous.io just closed a $6.65 million Series A round
Ginger.io raised $6.5 million
Tuition.io raised $6 million and manages over $1 billion in student loans
Intercom raised $6 million
Greenhouse raise $2.7 million
kontakt.io raised $2 million
Luma.io acquired by Instagram
Rackspace acquires Exceptional.io
And many more
But it’s not only startups that use .io domains. Google, Microsoft and Yahoo are also buying .io domains.

Microsoft snapped up Doc.io for $24,600. Google owns Coupons.io, Yahoo owns Player.io, and Disney owns go.io, amongst others.

Even the US government is happy to use .io domains. And two US Presidential candidates are using .io domains – Hillary Clinton uses hrc.io and Mark Rubio uses rub.io!

Blog posts have been written on the new-found popularity of .io domains. Such as this post: The Rise of .io Domain Names for APIs.

Wikipedia also notes: “.io domains are popular with new startup companies.”

 

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Popularity and success of .io

The .io has been trending with tech startups, most of which, are now extremely successful companies and it's not only startups that use .io domains; Google™, Microsoft™ and Yahoo™ are also buying .io domains, further reinforcing the idea that businesses that use .io domains perform well. The .io Google search performance is the result of being added to the geotargetable domains list.

The .io Companies Raise Millions: Evidence Listed

Google acquired spider.io
Easel.io was acquired by GitHub the #1 performing .io
Keen IO raised $11.3 million
Nitrous.io closed a $6.65 million Series A round
Ginger.io raised $6.5 million
Tuition.io raised $6 million and manages over $1 billion in student loans
Intercom raised $6 million
Greenhouse raise $2.7 million
kontakt.io raised $2 million
Luma.io acquired by Instagram
Rackspace acquired Exceptional.io
Google acquired Coupons.io

Microsoft acquired Doc.io for $24,600

Yahoo acquired Player.io

Disney acquired go.io

The US government is utilizing performance enhanced .io domains.

Two former US Presidential candidates continuing to use .io domains

Hillary Clinton hrc.io
Mark Rubio rub.io.
Other Related Sales WTD:

Join.io 4K sedo
icon.io 3K sedo
Select .io Sales 2016:

cloud.io - $45K
Purchased by Microsoft doc.io - $24K
db.io - $18K
tech.io - $15K
music.io - $15K
fast.io - $15K
tile.io - $15K
traffic.io - $14k
crawl.io - $12K
sports.io - $11K
predict.io $10K
idea.io $9K
die.io $5K
Taste.io - $5K
Surge.io - $4.5K
Nutrition.io - $4.5K
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Google says it treats all gTLDs the same.

As for ccTLDs, Google looks at them for the most part as being most relevant to the specific country. There are some exceptions with the ccTLDs where Google allows you to indicate what country your domain is aimed at. Here's a list of the ccTLDs that Google treats as generic:

.ad – Andorra
.as – American Samoa
.bz – Belize
.cc – Cocos (Keeling) Islands
.cd – Democratic Republic of Congo
.co – Colombia
.dj – Djibouti
.fm – Micronesia
.io – British Indian Ocean Territory
.la – Laos
.me – Montenegro
.ms – Micronesia
.nu – Niue
.sc – Seychelles
.sr – Suriname
.su – Soviet Union
.tv – Tuvalu
.tk – Tokelau
.ws – Samoa

These ccTLD extensions seem like they would be more valuable because Google treats them as generic.

 

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