1st domain to top 9 figures

My guess: Dragonsdance.com .

chinese prefer numbers

why not - long88.com

[long is dragon]

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''wouldn't you know it department'', entry #1 .....

there happens to be a name
long-88.com

(I think they're asking just south of 100MM)

and it's available on march 5
(2 month lock release)

mwg3kpc said:

chinese prefer numbers

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It was a joke referring to another thread. Never mind...

i know. i felt sorry for that thread.

discobull said:

My guess: Dragonsdance.com .

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I second the opinion.
Dragons must Dance.

my own guess :

1) 2 numbers

2) chinese market

discobull said:

My guess: Dragonsdance.com .

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That would be the first Billion dollar domain.

The example given above, CarInsurance.com was NOT a domain only acquisition. That was a purchase of a business called Carinsurance.com, which was already seeing 200,000 unique visitors a month.

So how do you differentiate between a web business acquisition and a domain acquisition?

I'm not sure that Carinsurance.com qualifies as the biggest domain sale. It was already a developed site which was acquiring traffic, and it is impossible to determine how much value the buyer put on the organic search traffic and how much they put on the domain itself.

good point.

the domain is the brand
but the entire bz structure is much much more.

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on that note it is also interesting to speculate how much the law ''weighs'' the ownership of domain names as a de facto trademark ownership .. ...

vs the traditional and very slow trademark registration via govt which often takes months and is ultra-expensive. and also needs to be repeated for every gov , maybe all 150 of them.

the law tends to evolve so it will be interesting to find out WHEN they officially place domain name ownership as the primary measure of trade-name ownership.

my guess is the law will soon recognize domain names as primary trademarking. and also do away with the trademark office altogether. it would make sense.

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otherwise we could see something like the trademark offices for all major countries all going online (and offering much faster reg services, maybe even one day trademarking service) and also linking up with Icann.

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we won't be seeing any 9 figure domain only sale ever..
why? because domains as we know will be replaced by a different navigation system/concept already by the time they could theoretically hit 9 figure values based on the worldwide internet traffic (china, india, brazil etc..) by then..

still only my opinion though

For domain only without any business already behind I doubt we'll see that maybe in 100 years when collectors will be paying that kind of money for those rare domain artefacts as I reminder of our days , but we can say that some businesses that heavily relied on their domain name / brand, already hit those numbers, but only through whole company / business acquisitions which also included domain as a deal.

For a domain to sell at 100 million, someone has to turn down many first 10- 80 million offers. Hard to do at the moment.

I think we will have to confirm the 'Can only do business on a dot com' over probably the time frame of a generation. Then top dot coms will get a second spike in value.

And there is the how much 100 million in google advertising gets you vs buying the domain.

There always inflation and companies like apple with money to burn to hurry things up.

Would have to say one of the following will ( all .com of course)

ADWU
SpokaneCasino
DanburyCasino
GreenBayFinance

discobull said:

My guess: Dragonsdance.com .

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This is gold. LMAO

The following :

- one in my portfolio
- dragon dance
- 7855555griuyters ( brandable )
- sendyourenemiesfunnelwebspiders ( which I don't own but I am tempted to register... )

discobull said:

My guess: Dragonsdance.com .

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Nitindomains said:

I second the opinion.
Dragons must Dance.

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I third it !!!

The reason being is that everyone will soon find out that dragons CAN dance! They have a modern training method thanks to modern technology:

ulterios said:

I third it !!!

The reason being is that everyone will soon find out that dragons CAN dance! The have a modern training method thanks to modern technology:

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NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWWWWWWWWWW ULTY!!!!
THAT'S AMAZING!!!!

I would have to say it would be only in the case if the world went to a global currency and there was an exchange set up. In that case I could foresee it happening especial if that service charged a minimal exchange fee. But what the heck do I know.

All the big names easily sell more than that. Facebook.com, Google.com, Amazon.com, NamePro.com

hi everyone ....

well the moon has gone around a couple times so ..

I got the notion of a few things, and heck I might even share a couple of them if it's ok with y'all ....

1) 9 figures (that is, over 100 million) isn't so unrealistic considering that we are dealing with a ''still relatively new asset class'' .... (sorry for the big words ..)

2) this asset class has possibly not yet got the general public's comprehension. I've been chewing on this a bit so bear with me here. picture the stock market in 1915. it's still considered a shadowy world for high rollers only. then suddenly in the early 20's the public realizes it's ok to play this game, so they go all in. result roaring 20's, raging stock market, shoeshine boys giving stock tips to grubbyshoed clients. and for 10 years it's a bubble then pow.

3) could it be the general public doesn't yet know about DN's as a tradable and -- here's the key -- fun --- asset class? could be.

4) do you see any news papers or magazine articles about the fun of trading in DN's? I don't. I don't even see that perception in mainstream online news. so there's the gist of it.

5) when the public catches on as to the ease of trading in this asset class, you might get another roaring 20's. but for DN's. it's just a working theory right now.

I'm going to develop that theory as I go but it ties into the title of this thread also.

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so you've seen a couple of DN's (and this applies to pure DN as the asset, not the related biz that might go with it) go over 50MM.. insurance and vacationrentals. basic mercantile generics. (names like google or yahoo don't count because they're intrinsically tied into very large existing biz's. ) we're dealing with pure unattached DN's here.

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ok, if Hangzhou based 4.cn chose to put 88.com on the market, would it be surprising for it to fetch over 100MM. ? another factor to consider is that it wouldn't be the public paying this kind of figure, but some very deep pocketed corporation who views the DN as a good asset for long term.

"could it be the general public doesn't yet know about DN's as a tradable and -- here's the key -- fun --- asset class? could be."

How is the "general public" knowing about trading domains going to result in the first $100,000,000 sale?

Members of the "general public" don't have $100m to spend.

Those who do have $100m will know about domain names..... and most of those will be investing in stocks, fine art and property instead.

the corporate sector knows more about DN's than the public because they have some financially and tech savvy folks there.

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also stocks as an asset class has been very compromised by the manipulations and program trading that has taken all of the naturalness (truer supply-demand factors) out of that market. it's a synthetic market now in the view of many. and the public will lean towards a more natural market. my opinion.

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anyways if a large corporation really wants an asset, they will get it. and prices are on their level not the public's level.

most of those will be investing in stocks, fine art and property instead. it's all up to the co what they deem a useful asset for them.

Oh right because there is no "manipulation" in the domain market is there, sigh.

Asides from chronic shill bidding, a couple of companies having an almost complete monopoly over dropcatching..... and one registrar holding 25% of the world's .com registrations (the 2nd largest has 2%).

Nope, definitely "natural". I think you may be talking about domain names in the 90's.....

So I'm alluding to perception by the public of DN's as a tradable asset class and you don't see the media doing stories on it. that's the point (among others) I'm making.

there are factors that defy logical comprehension. those factors are known to DN philosophy majors. dang will that be interesting when 88.com goes on the market. ok, it actually belongs to e-name, based at the ancient pirate port of Xiamen. ancient only ... ancient pirates only.