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The new weekly domain sales Report is out at DNJournal.com. Short numeric domains continue to make big money and some of the action in that red hot category (fueled primarily by Chinese buyers) extends beyond .com. The biggest example of that so far this year came this week when 6.xyz changed hands for six figures to lead our latest weekly all extension Top 20 Sales Chart. It was also one of 2015’s four biggest non .com sales. Two more non .com gTLDs and a pair of ccTLDs joined 15 .coms on the elite list. The latter group included a pair of 3-letter .coms among the the top four sales. While short domains still dominate the action, another top sale stretched out to 19 letters! You can get all of the details here: http://www.dnjournal.com/archive/domainsales/2015/20151202.htm
 
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great news for "444" holders
 
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Great .xyz domain sale! :)
I hope the generic single word .xyz domains will also sell for 6 figures.
 
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Unexpected but great!

All I can say.
 
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Before y'all get too excited about DnJournal's reported sales results, don't forget to notice results by Snapnames and Flippa are included in those listings. Here, read these articles and then you'll know more about DNJournal's sources for reported sales results:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/09/snapnames-gets-hit-with-class-action-suit-over-shill-bidding/

http://tldinvestors.com/2012/11/quick-chat-with-david-slutzkin-ceo-flippa.html (Pay special attention to question and answer #6, where CEO David Slutzkin says Flippa employees are allowed to bid against customers without the Buyers knowing about it. The Sellers have to be informed, but not the Buyers. You think a Seller isn't going to love that scheme?)

Don't walk around uneducated in this business. And don't blindly trust any entity or individual without doing
a thorough vetting yourself. The "players" in this business have been turning a blind eye, or worse, to a lot of shenanigans affecting YOU and me.
 
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If 95% of the "proclaimed" domain sales (i checked the one's with a value over 80.000 USD) of this year are just landing pages (or very poorly constructed web templates) you know something is terribly wrong.
To my opinion its just the new TLD registrars who try to lure newbies into registering domain names in all those new extensions.
The scenario i am seeing already is that they start giving first year's registrations for free, and meanwhile faking huge sales of those TLD's, to lure the cattle into renewing the following year... there is where the money comes in for them big time.

Of course i can be wrong and all those "hotshots" who bought those overpriced domain names, are consulting A.D. and we just have to sit tight until they get developed.
 
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I've asked a few people outside the tech industry about .xyz and the ones that have heard about it really like it. I think over time it will continue to gain traction. Sales like this will help. Of all the new extensions it is one of the easiest for people to remember. I'm going to launch one of our new products on a .xyz and see how the conversion numbers play out. One and two word .xyz seems to have a good look and presents a younger vibe. Not all will agree, @ least google agrees with their abc.xyz and the new owner of 6.xyz has given us another reason to be confident in this extension. Cheers.
 
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the .xyz on the keyboard cannot be typed in a shorter time than .com. google indeed made the .xyz domains bubbled up and attractive to the domainers. you may know it.
 
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I've asked a few people outside the tech industry about .xyz and the ones that have heard about it really like it. I think over time it will continue to gain traction. Sales like this will help. Of all the new extensions it is one of the easiest for people to remember. I'm going to launch one of our new products on a .xyz and see how the conversion numbers play out. One and two word .xyz seems to have a good look and presents a younger vibe. Not all will agree, @ least google agrees with their abc.xyz and the new owner of 6.xyz has given us another reason to be confident in this extension. Cheers.
Why would someone fork over 125K for a single name, if they can own a full TLD for 185.000 ?
(+recurring charges of +/- 6.5K per quarter + very small comm. to be paid to ICann over each regged domain, fill in the blanks if iam wrong.... as its second hand info.... lol)
 
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Before y'all get too excited about DnJournal's reported sales results, don't forget to notice results by Snapnames and Flippa are included in those listings. Here, read these articles and then you'll know more about DNJournal's sources for reported sales results:

http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/09/snapnames-gets-hit-with-class-action-suit-over-shill-bidding/

http://tldinvestors.com/2012/11/quick-chat-with-david-slutzkin-ceo-flippa.html (Pay special attention to question and answer #6, where CEO David Slutzkin says Flippa employees are allowed to bid against customers without the Buyers knowing about it. The Sellers have to be informed, but not the Buyers. You think a Seller isn't going to love that scheme?)

Don't walk around uneducated in this business. And don't blindly trust any entity or individual without doing
a thorough vetting yourself. The "players" in this business have been turning a blind eye, or worse, to a lot of shenanigans affecting YOU and me.

How is that possible?

So if I bid 2000 on a name and am leading with $1500, an employee can go ahead and bid 1900 forcing my 2000 bid in?!!
 
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I've asked a few people outside the tech industry about .xyz and the ones that have heard about it really like it. I think over time it will continue to gain traction. Sales like this will help. Of all the new extensions it is one of the easiest for people to remember. I'm going to launch one of our new products on a .xyz and see how the conversion numbers play out. One and two word .xyz seems to have a good look and presents a younger vibe. Not all will agree, @ least google agrees with their abc.xyz and the new owner of 6.xyz has given us another reason to be confident in this extension. Cheers.
I think "SnapName" activities and "XYZ extension and are two different situation.
"SnapName" company and its behavior towards customers and bidding manipulation are the problem itself. XYZ extension has nothing to do with "SnapName" insider activities. ..
I do agree that XYZ extension is for more younger generation.. But it can also be used for an established company who is welling to add or make changes. As for "SnapName" activities, many people are victims and complaining about the way they provide business to customers. This kind of company should be ban and block. Problem solved...
 
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The sale of 6.xyz was as far i can see a "registry" to "user" sale.
As they "publish" the sale on a sort of "recognized domain sales e-zine called domainjournal.com" it looks like a true valid sale.
In the old days snapnames auctions where also "promoted" on this way, while we all learned lateron that Nelson Brady aka Halvarez had inflated the auctions, by shill bidding.

This sale, to my opinion, is grossly inflated. Hence maybe the reference to snapnames ?
 
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