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No Domain Names Over?$50k? REALLY??
November 14th, 2008 by 
Susan Prosser
Environment Produces High-Quality, Low Price Inventory for
Aftermarket.com T.R.A.F.F.I.C. Down Under Auction -
In our last episode (TRAFFIC NY), our auction protagonists (to some) decided to set a cap on the highest priced domains in the auction at $100k. This was both strategic and a realization of the purchasing trends of the time.
In this new episode (TRAFFIC Down Under), we find that our villains (to some) made no such decree this time and yet somehow the resulting inventory contains no names with starting reserves over $50,000? Why?
For several reasons, first off, the downturn. As expected, economic depressions bring sellers closer to buyers and their needs - buyers whose assets are also diminished and closely-held.
Thus, the simple truth is we found far better DEALS in the lower ranges than we found in the upper echelon. This is the effect of a marketplace in flux and, as always, this produces the best buying opportunities.
And we know this because the list includes many names that would have listed eighteen or twenty-four months ago for three to four times as much and likely sold in that dissimilar environment too. Now many have “No Reserve.”
NO Reserve Domains
Normally I cringe at the words “No Reserve” as I get a mental image of useless domains without keywords, branding, SEO, resale or even registration fee value.
But as Dylan reminds - “times they are a-changin” and the zero-reserve landscape is truly altered by top buys like SafariAdventure.com, BirthstoneJewelry.com, LandDownUnder.com, ChildLocation.com, AntiItch.com, GourmetStores.com, BusinessFirms.com, CheckoutLane.com, Stealin.com, PrivateResort.com and countless more starting at everyone’s favorite price.
In the end, we chose fifty domains we feel turn the ?no reserve? mentality on its ear -including some amazing .com.au domains.
NO Reserve.com.au
One of the single best surprises of the auction is the astounding collection of premium .com.au domains listed for sale - at incredible prices.
Many of them, including gems like Camp.com.au, Broadcasting.com.au, Up.com.au, Hunting.com.au, Toons.com.au and more, are listed at NO Reserve! WTF? This is the single best ccTLD opportunity we’ve seen to date - by far, mates.
The Three Amigos
Not only does the list contain no names with reserves over $50k, it also, incredibly, includes three bona-fide category killers (single best name in a given industry) - never seen in these ranges. Camera.co.uk, Saws.com and Medicinas.com (medicines) are premium generics best covering three huge and expansive industries. Rarely do we see one domain from such expansive areas in these ranges, much less three that eat big fish for lunch at Outback steakhouse.
Generic names of this caliber mean “instant market share” in their given space. What is that worth in a multi-billion dollar marketplace?
Auction is OPEN FOR BIDDING!
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Their innovative system and interface brings auctions to the edge where you can watch and listen and bid and enjoy. As we’ve said before, Aftermarket.com has built the single best auction platform in the biz and it only promises to expand and improve.
Make sure to register, check out the killer interface and bid, baby, bid starting TODAY , Nov. 14th, on through to the live, broadcast conclusion in the land down under on November 20th! Extended silent will continue until November 26, 2008, to finalize any late making deals!
DomainConsultant.com Auction Inventory Review
The “No Reserve” domains have no comments/notes because we feel the price is the single best selling point ? any value above and beyond is pure moist chocolate cake.
For the other domains, we have included selected fragments of internal notes that offer ideas, review, comment and more from various DomainConsultant.com analysts.
We understand that not everyone will be satisfied or happy with the offerings - it is a natural of dealing with tens of thousands of submissions and being limited to 100 - can?t possibly get every domainer to agree with a dozen, much less a hundred.
Still, we, along with Aftermarket.com, have worked very hard to identify high quality buys and produce a top-level auction in which everyone can, and should, participate.
Don’t miss out on the action! Make certain you know when the auction takes place in your time zone, a sample is listed below. Check your local time at Time Zone Converter.
| Time Zone | Date | Time |
| Australia Eastern Standard (AEST) | November 20, 2008 | 8:30 AM |
| USA Pacific Standard (PST) | November 19, 2008 | 2:30 PM |
| USA Eastern Standard (EST) | November 19, 2008 | 5:30 PM |
DomainConsultant.com - Aftermarket.com Auction Catalog Listing
| Domain | Price |
| AntiItch.com | $0.00 |
| Bake.com.au | $0.00 |
| BirthstoneJewelry.com | $0.00 |
| BookTemplates.com | $0.00 |
| Branding.com.au | $0.00 |
| BrightonBeachHomes.com | $0.00 |
| Broadcasting.com.au | $0.00 |
| BusinessFinancials.com | $0.00 |
| BusinessFirms.com | $0.00 |
| Camp.com.au | $0.00 |
| CDs.com.au | $0.00 |
| CheckoutLane.com | $0.00 |
| CheckRegistry.com | $0.00 |
| ChildLocation.com | $0.00 |
| CreativeSoftware.com | $0.00 |
| DentalPolicy.com | $0.00 |
| Essays.com.au | $0.00 |
| GourmetStores.com | $0.00 |
| HandicapShop.com | $0.00 |
| Heldover.com | $0.00 |
| Domain | Price |
| HotMag.com | $0.00 |
| Hunting.com.au | $0.00 |
| Ijar.com | $0.00 |
| Income.info | $0.00 |
| InsuranceOffers.com | $0.00 |
| Jackets.com.au | $0.00 |
| JetSkiing.com.au | $0.00 |
| Jeweller.com.au | $0.00 |
| Knit.com.au | $0.00 |
| LandDownUnder.com | $0.00 |
| LightGauge.com | $0.00 |
| LuxuryTownhouse.com | $0.00 |
| MensClothing.com.au | $0.00 |
| NoCalorie.com | $0.00 |
| Parasailing.com.au | $0.00 |
| PassYourTime.com | $0.00 |
| PersonalChauffeur.com | $0.00 |
| Plans.com.au | $0.00 |
| Pollution.com.au | $0.00 |
| PrivateResort.com | $0.00 |
| Domain | Price |
| Rules.com.au | $0.00 |
| SafariAdventure.com | $0.00 |
| Southwest.asia | $0.00 |
| SportsMix.com | $0.00 |
| Stealin.com | $0.00 |
| SurfingLessons.com.au | $0.00 |
| TaxDownloads.com | $0.00 |
| Up.com.au | $0.00 |
| Veg.as | $0.00 |
| Authentication.com.au | $500.00 |
| Barbecuing.com.au | $500.00 |
| DirtBiking.com.au | $500.00 |
| Toons.com.au | $500.00 |
| Undergraduate.com.au | $500.00 |
| Shout.com.au | $1,000.00 |
| Athletic.com.au | $2,000.00 |
| Enter.com.au | $2,000.00 |
| Laughter.com.au | $2,000.00 |
| JobListings.com.au | $3,000.00 |
| Domain | Price | Comments |
| BajaAdventures.com | $100.00 | Plenty of adventures to be had in Baja. This hugely popular travel destination is full of tour groups and guides. |
| CalgaryPersonals.com | $350.00 | Super high-quality geo in a massively competitive market area. |
| Card-Processing.com | $350.00 | Keyword-rich SEO dream with very high bids. |
| LastYear.com | $350.00 | People love looking back at reviews, Top 10’s, news and photo highlights. Solid, brandable, recognizable two-worder with value in the highly lucrative ‘review’ site segment. |
| ChulaVistaProperty.com | $500.00 | Priced right. Large California city with growing population and development. Term gets +4,000 searches a month on Google alone and has an advertising base looking for this specific traffic. |
| HispanicKids.com | $500.00 | Fastest growing market group in America, one can think of dozens or so uses of this name and thousands of possible buyers/developers. |
| StartingCapital.com | $800.00 | Solid ‘investment’ domain that is also brandable and highly recognizable (common phrase) - great value and huge potential here for business investment ventures. |
| BikeRims.com | $1,500.00 | Popular product category, keyword-rich and flexible. Fun and short - also a high interest product category. |
| HouseRefi.com | $1,500.00 | Refi is big, as you would expect, and will continue to be so for the foreseeable future. ‘Refi’ names are exceedingly expensive and rare. |
| HungerControl.com | $1,500.00 | Top term in a multi-billion dollar, largely recession-proof industry. People actually gain more weight in recessions. Highly generic, competitive and brandable. |
| ImageViewer.com | $1,500.00 | Online photo sharing and related imaging applications continue to grow. This generic fits square into that market segment. |
| Telecard.com | $1,500.00 | Almost a one-worder for great biz, product and/or concept specific. If it doesn’t already exist, it will. |
| NewTLD.com | $1,800.00 | Introduction of any ‘new’ TLD or .new TLD, makes this a solid listing. ICANN’s plans to introduce hundreds of new TLDs make this name perfect for a business focused on the new TLD space. |
| IndianaHome.com | $1,933.00 | Rare enough to see a state ‘home’ name, even more rare and valuable at this price - barely a SLICE of the commission on a single home sale. |
| ebon.com | $1,995.00 | Super high quality four letter domain that could also serve as a ‘eLLL’ brandable and beyond. Could be a product or acronym or game or e-anything. Applies to ebonics and ‘ebony’ areas as well, relevant and a bargain indeed with new US leadership. |
| ClearanceHouse.com | $2,000.00 | Recognizable, brandable and eminently developable. Sales specific name, perfect for the robust and dependable liquidation market. |
| ExamServices.com | $2,000.00 | Exam prep services are highly searched. SAT, PSAT, GRE, Postal Exam and hundreds of exams have online tutors and prep services. |
| Eternally.com | $3,500.00 | Single word for the gigantic ‘religious’ industry. Again, another positive brand, positive imagery at a brilliant price - will last forever too. |
| Exhilarating.com | $3,500.00 | The word ‘exhilirating’ is such a positive brand, connotating excitement and innovation. |
| FixedHomeLoans.com | $3,500.00 | Mortgage names are rare, HUGELY profitable and rarely available at these price points. |
| Migrant.com or MIgrant.com | $3,500.00 | Highly topical, signifying labor and immigrants and all the potential services they will be needing including relocation, even travel and documentation. But note that it’s also a geo, a ‘grant’ domain, as ‘MIgrant.com’ or ‘Michigan grant’. Brandable, developable. |
| Nightscape.com | $3,500.00 | One of the coolest brandables I’ve seen in a long time - capable of being and doing so many things, particularily valid for outdoor lighting and landscaping. But still, could be anything like a movie or game or even a Disney ride. These types of names always retain their value and sell for numbers beyond the idea of ‘multiples.’ |
| Refrigerate.com | $3,500.00 | How much is a new refrigerator, refrigerated truck, walk-in refrigerator ? A premium generic at this price is unheard of, especially considering the high-end price range. Great industry because it is not likely to fade, only grow and enhance and for which there is already a large advertising contingent. No brainer at this price. |
| Somehow.com | $3,500.00 | Terrific single word domain that could apply to dozens of industries but could work for research, fitness, therapy and more. Positive word that sells ’solutions’. |
| Sello.com | $4,000.00 | Spanish domains, which continue to grow in resale value and traffic, rarely get this solid at this price. This is Spanish for ‘Stamp’ so it serves as product specific generic and/or brandable generic. |
| AccentTables.com | $5,000.00 | Product specific home decor items like this are a rarity. Netshops or CSNstores owns most of them and have developed businesses on them. Perfect for an ecommerce development |
| DigitalVideos.com | $5,000.00 | Begs for development and monetization or even speculation as ‘digital videos’ covers many areas beyond just YouTube into production, software, promotion and more. |
| DownloadIt.com | $5,000.00 | Quality ‘download’ names don’t surface anymore (ever!), much less ones this good at this discounted price. Highly consistent, competitive and profitable term. |
| SkiEurope.com | $5,000.00 | This selection was a no-brainer - obviously a huge and competitive industry and this is one of the best names in it. No plural competition, travel specific with very high-end amounts per sale. Generic, ‘all inclusive’ travel term - meaning it opens potential to many services (air, hotel, ski pass, rail) and many more end-users/sponsors/advertisers. |
| BlackCherry.com | $6,000.00 | The F-in hottest flavor in vodka and beyond! Also a solid niche adult term or terrific brandable. |
| BroadcastingSchool.com | $6,000.00 | Highly specific education domain covering a sought-after and competitive field - lots of programs and advertisers cover this one. |
| Carpenters.net | $6,722.00 | Rare single-word premium generic for large and needed service-area. Tons of SEO value. |
| Courtdate.com | $7,000.00 | One of the finest and most recognizable legal phrases - even its implication signifies immediate need for legal services. Huge potential buyer pool. |
| 2o.com | $8,500.00 | Don’t remember the last time we saw a brandable two-letter domain. How many are there even? 2o.com is killer at this price. Build an entire company around it - few will ever forget your company name or address. Tons of vanity value here! |
| Camera.co.uk | $15,000.00 | Category-killer alert! One of the very best domains in the highly coveted and valuable co.uk extension. Product specific in a big beautiful industry with a wealth of advertisers and future prospects. |
| ThisDay.com | $24,000.00 | On ‘This Day in Domain History’, a savvy domainer purchased this huge entertainment domain and developed it into a steady moneymaker. |
| iUS.com | $25,000.00 | Another white squirrel-like rarity, a solid LLL combo that is not “”czf”" or “”t8q”" but brandable and memorable and competitively priced. Kind of name that gets lots of offers, never loses its value, stands out from the rest. Even more so with the recent growth in values of top-level “”i”" names. |
| Medicinas.com (medicines) | $25,000.00 | Spanish for ‘medicines’, This is another category-killer at a brilliant offering and at a time when the industry is in transition and its monetization (and audience) will grow again. |
| VoipService.com | $30,000.00 | Up and coming but already here - this is one of the single best domains in the swelling and thus competitive VOIP marketplace. Premium generic with a long healthy future ahead. |
| Coed.com | $50,000.00 | Great four-letter, one word domain that can apply to mainstream or adult or even products/services/education and personals or housing. College based services are easily marketed and highly profitable. |
| Saws.com | $50,000.00 | Another phenomenal category-killer. Before you scoff at ’saws’ think about all the saws from hand saws up to diamond, nail, electric, table, commercial, industrial and beyond - literally thousands of types and companies and future value. The SEO value here alone is worth it. But really, it’s a highly unique, product specific category killer - something else we never see at this quality, at this price range. Rare opportunity. |
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November 14th, 2008 at 6:04 pm
You got very nice domains here, sadly none of mine, It would be a good Idea if you choose some of the domains that wont participate on the auction but still goodnames and put it all together in a brochure and hand it over to all the buyers assisting to the TDU Conference.
Who know someone might be interested at the end you win too.
Saludos!
November 14th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
Put in AussieCreditReport.Com with no reserve.Lets see what it does.Thanks
November 14th, 2008 at 7:50 pm
millismom… did you really think that was going to work? hahaha
November 14th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
Did anyone get a email confirming their domains? I never did, and they were submitted a long time ago.
Thanks!
November 14th, 2008 at 9:56 pm
I see some incredible deals on here. Much better list than last time.
November 15th, 2008 at 1:53 am
ummm… i submitted domains, and I don’t know how to get back to that nice page for submissions that showed the domains I submittted. How do I go back to that site? I looked on domaintools.com and didn’t find a “Submitted Domains” link or anything that would show a page that lists domains submitted.
any help? I’m only asking because I know my domains are just as good or better than half the domains listed here.
UPDATED: The Auction Manager may still be accessed from your account at the following URL:
https://www.domaintools.com/domain-manager/
November 15th, 2008 at 2:34 am
Are you guys done reviewing since the final list has been published? Since we never left the UNDER REVIEW status after last auction submissions, we thought we should give it a try this time around; just testing a few. But we’re still in UNDER REVIEW status. So - we just wonder if we ever will get another status after submissions (like: YOU DIDN’T MAKE IT, PAL!). We have 300+ domains in our portfolio, but won’t bother submitting 50+ domains next time if we never get any feedback regarding our submissions.
November 15th, 2008 at 2:40 am
GREAT! Trying to get eligible to bid, but the page that I should enter the VISA details doesn’t load properly …. sad … all fields are there but no submit button!
UPDATED: There was a brief outage of this interface. Our team was fast to correct the issue and you should now be able to proceed with ‘Eligibility’. We appreciate you letting us know.
November 15th, 2008 at 7:53 am
Qprum: 100% agree. It’s better to see “rejected” and you know the fun is over than log onto that page and see “under review”. If the guys review all the domains as they claim, than copy-pasting “rejected” instead “under review” should not be a problem.
julcsanc: 100% support for the idea.
November 15th, 2008 at 9:01 am
I agree Qprum, I have sent you my domain Iphone.info for the 2 auctions and it was never reviewed… :’-(
November 15th, 2008 at 10:33 am
Isn’t it pretty safe to assume since your domain isnt on the list that having “rejected” next to your name is a bit redundant ? What do you people want a personal letter and a phone call explaining why your name wasn’t picked? iphone.info is a trademark name the chances it will be in any auction are slim . Add to it that it’s a .info and the reasons it never made it are pretty clear.
November 15th, 2008 at 11:22 am
Mines have been under review since NY too. Its now back to reality: Sedos!
Good luck to all and happy holidays!!
November 15th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
Not much to get jazzed about. The .com.au names are nice quality, but some of the .com’s, come on–> Heldover.com, Stealin.com, LastYear.com, ThisDay.com (at 24k!). What are they thinking?
November 15th, 2008 at 8:39 pm
My favorite part of these auctions is reading the comment section on this blog after the list is posted.
“I submitted 500 .mobi and .cc names and they all still show ‘under review’ two weeks later. I am wondering if you guys bothered to review them at all. There are some gems in there. Next time I will just list them on Namepros or Sedo and you won’t get my business.”
Keep ‘em coming! Classic.
November 16th, 2008 at 11:13 am
I agree. It would be really helpful to have our domains updated with a current status.
November 16th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
Can you please tell me whether if the traffic or revenue stats are available for those domains with mentioned prices are available or who do i contact for more info?
November 17th, 2008 at 10:09 pm
Iname most auctions don’t provide that information, likely because it puts them at a risk of buyer coming back later complaining/suing because revenues aren’t the same for every domainer and traffic may disappear etc. I’d suggest contacting the domain owners to see what info they can provide you. You’ll have a leg up on your competing bidders.
November 18th, 2008 at 1:42 pm
lol I agree topnotchdomains you guys are crazy think any crappy .info or .cc name should be chosen. HOWEVER, they should update the domain status from under review to something else when the auction starts so we dont have to search thru the list to see if our names are there.
November 18th, 2008 at 5:56 pm
mine got updated…
Under Status it now says: “GARBAGE”
Hmmm… yeah, you’re right… I feel soooo much better now!