sales With still a quarter left to go The number of domain names sold in 2019 has already surpassed 2018

[equity78]

We have just entered the fourth quarter for 2019 but the total number of reported domains sold have already surpassed the full year numbers of 2017 and 2018. The total sales volume from last year is only $6 million behind. Looking at the last 6 months of domain sales, 2019 should surpass that without a problem. Here is the data from Namebio: I broke it down by number of .com sales and sales … [Read more...]

 

[Domains@ddict]

Thanks for sharing. Hope more sales in this last quarter

 

[myfavorite]

Great info and thanks for sharing. I look forward to my sales within this last quarter helping to push it further ahead

 

[xcloud123]

great ，thanks

 

[Haykay2005]

Nice info. Thanks for sharing

 

[FolioTeam]

Thanks for sharing

 

[Bob Hawkes]

While the single voice sale is so huge it skews average sales and sales volume figures in .com, it is very encouraging to see, with three months to go, .com numbers are already so strong. Thanks for the update, @equity78 !
Bob

 

[BRANDERX]

Good report

 

[bidigitals]

Great post, thank you! I doubt most people realize that the internet is still so young, still "Wild West" in many ways. As millions and millions more people come online, many wanting an identity for themselves as well as for their businesses, charities, etc., it's not just "rising tide lifts all ships."

It's also proving to raise the prices of brandable words we create for .com... and further benefiting the other tld's. -- Thanks for the #'s. Interesting that .com is STILL in the 80% range of all domains sold.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

This is because NameBio added more venues in 2019 like SnapNames etc.
That's why more reports... So higher reported sales volume VS 2018 (where lack of those venues).

Actually, Q3 was almost 0 for me.
I don't see any aftermarket growth.

 

[QuestFuture]

Thanks for sharing，Great post.

 

[MTB]

This is because NameBio added more venues in 2019 like SnapNames etc.
That's why more reports... So higher reported sales volume VS 2018 (where lack of those venues).

Actually, Q3 was almost 0 for me.
I don't see any aftermarket growth.

@Jurgen Wolf
Thanks for sharing info
Two questions please:

1. When did NameBio add Snapnames?
2. Where else do you look for Aftermarket stats?

Appreciated!

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

This year they reenabled SnapNames feed... as I see...
Just open NameBio... select SnapNames in Venue and 2018 year in Data Range - NO data, whole year is absent.
And 2017 stats from SnapNames - they have just partially.

Regarding other venues - you may also recheck...

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

Where else?
dnpric.es
dnjournal.com

 

[equity78]

There are a total of 117 snapnames sales for 2019 no material bearing on overall sales this year. @Michael started adding Snapnames sales when Web.com started reporting them with the NameJet monthly sales.

 

[bidigitals]

There are a total of 117 snapnames sales for 2019 no material bearing on overall sales this year. @Michael started adding Snapnames sales when Web.com started reporting them with the NameJet monthly sales.

Wow. Doesn't that substantively skew real #'s?

 

[equity78]

Wow. Doesn't that substantively skew real #'s?

117 sales No it doesn't. So far Namebio has reported 86,296 sales this year.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

I didn't check other venues...
SnapNames just as example for you.

You should compare only comparable things...
For example, Sedo 2019 vs Sedo 2018...

 

[bidigitals]

117 sales No it doesn't. So far Namebio has reported 86,296 sales this year.

Thank you. Forgive me; I meant, ala Bob's comment about the Voice sale being so large, my first thought was, "If only a dozen of those 117 went for big $$, wouldn't that shade the real average... especially if most of total sales were small $$?"

Of course, 86,000's quite a nice number . Thanks again.

 

[Michael]

While the single voice sale is so huge it skews average sales and sales volume figures in .com, it is very encouraging to see, with three months to go, .com numbers are already so strong. Thanks for the update, @equity78 !
Bob

It does, more specifically the Voice.com sale pushed the average price up by $348 from $984 to $1332, which is a 35% shift. That's pretty crazy. The median sale price so far in 2019 for sales $100+ is $235 and in 2018 it was $272. The median for dot com so far in 2019 is $229 compared to $264 last year. But that's nothing new, the last time the median price for dot com increased from the year before was 2011. A lot of that is due to us capturing more and more of the wholesale market though.

This is because NameBio added more venues in 2019 like SnapNames etc.
That's why more reports... So higher reported sales volume VS 2018 (where lack of those venues).

Actually, Q3 was almost 0 for me.
I don't see any aftermarket growth.

Even before they started reporting them we were already getting a lot of them by virtue of NameJet and SnapNames joining forces for drop catching, and running simultaneous auctions for the same domain. We were already recording many of them by watching NJ, but they were just reported as NJ instead of Snap. It's only the ones that were exclusive to Snap that we were missing but are now getting, which isn't many.

Despite that addition, and also the addition of Whois.ai, I think it's still fair to compare this year to last year. It wasn't all additions, 4.CN dropped off a cliff and then pretty much just stopped reporting. We have 18 sales for them in 2019 compared to 506 in 2018. Uniregistry has only reported 187 sales so far this year compared to 929 last year. Flippa abandoned the domain market and dropped off a cliff, only 457 sales this year compared to 1638 last year. Anyway things are always shifting so YoY comparison will never be perfect, but I wouldn't say that anything drastically changed in 2019 to make it oranges compared to 2018 apples.

On balance the additions/subtractions of marketplaces and changes in reporting should have 2019 lower at least from the perspective of overall number of sales.