Joseph Peterson details recent expired domain name sales at NameJet.
After a couple of weeks during which Chinese purchases topped the expired domain auction list at NameJet, English is back. In the driver’s seat sits an exact-match domain that defines a ubiquitous commercial category: SignPrinting.com ($4.9k). ChicagoDivorce.com ($2.8k) called shotgun – an EMD as well yet geographically specific. Although this duo was fairly expensive, both are ultimately worth more. You can’t walk 1 city block in Chicago without passing a printed sign or a divorcé(e).
Some day, SecretLover.com ($2.6k) might be to blame for a few of those divorces! And you’ll need that lawyer to hold onto your BahamasProperty.com ($2k). Somebody out there can use these very domains to spell out his life story, beginning with excessive use of HairSprays.com ($2.1k) in the 1980s.
Actually, this week’s chart is a tour de force when it comes to various kinds of “category killer” domains. From generic retail products small enough to ship or stack on a shelf … to real estate for a whole county. From omnipresent industries … to local professions. From tools like WetSaws.com ($1.7k) to tourist destinations like Lake-Tahoe.com ($1.6k). Different as they are, they all describe what they are exactly and (but for that hyphen) definitively.
Domain Name | End $ | Domain Name | End $ |
---|---|---|---|
SignPrinting.com | 4900 | ChicagoDivorce.com | 2755 |
SecretLover.com | 2600 | TCAS.com | 2410 |
DanceGear.com | 2401 | Understatement.com | 2200 |
HairSprays.com | 2075 | BahamasProperty.com | 1988 |
WetSaws.com | 1700 | PUMY.com | 1605 |
Lake-Tahoe.com | 1588 | Performance Fitness.com |
1405 |
GolfJournal.com | 1305 | EuroBasket2013.org | 1303 |
SUR.net | 1225 | Davor.com | 1133 |
Serbest.com | 1125 | Agras.com | 1110 |
DHAC.com | 1015 | Parkvale.com | 801 |
TaxBooks.com | 710 | SellSex.com | 680 |
Instigation.com | 676 | EB7.com | 666 |
DKK.net | 631 | Ventin.com | 630 |
JBM.net | 630 | GTEI.com | 600 |
UOFB.com | 520 | 90595.com | 475 |
Sitting.net | 411 | CompleteWoman.com | 410 |
OBYS.com | 410 | Puffiness.com | 401 |
61939.com | 390 | Petable.com | 386 |
Aclad.org | 380 | EliteAthletes.com | 370 |
HTOM.com | 370 | Influx.net | 365 |
IUCI.com | 365 | ClientProtection.com | 341 |
82860.com | 310 | HomeAlarm Security.com |
310 |
EOBF.com | 308 | SUNQ.com | 307 |
FGMT.com | 302 | DrJunk.com | 234 |
TIGT.com | 231 | EuroBadminton.org | 210 |
PCA-CA.org | 189 | Munee.org | 151 |
SwimmingPool Contractor.com |
139 | KeywordBooster.com | 110 |
ProThermal.com | 109 | MobileCoders.com | 109 |
HighSeasGhost.net | 83 | OnlineBest Surveys.com |
69 |
SUR.net ($1.2k) means “south” in Spanish; it’s a preposition in French; a city in Oman; Big Sur is a Californian city; there is a Sur restaurant and a Sur lounge; and, of course, we have no end of acronym possibilities. MUNEE.com ($151) may apply to a code library at Mun.ee.
As popular as golf is worldwide, the interest in GolfJournal.com ($1.3k) is not surprising. Other athletic domains include PerformanceFitness.com ($1.4k), EliteAthletes.com ($370), and EuroBadminton.org ($210).
Serbest.com ($1.1k) isn’t the best “Ser”. In fact, this Turkish word meaning “free” or “liberal” is tied to the “Liberal / Free Republican Party” – the Serbest Cumhuriyet Fırkası.
Agras.com ($1.1k) is a surname that has lent itself to a few websites and corporations. Although Parkvale.com ($801) suggests a town name, it’s more likely an upgrade for some business – Parkvale Capital over at Park-vale.com, for instance.
Sitting.net ($411) slipped by almost unnoticed. Perhaps people sitting in front of their computers all day were bored by more sitting; and they may have failed to realize how much money flows into baby sitting, house sitting, and pet sitting. Speaking of pets, I quite liked Petable.com ($386).
If fellow cynics want a neat summation of cultural priorities, here you go: CompleteWoman.com ($410) < SellSex.com ($680).
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