$147,000 .DE Sale Heads New DNJournal Top Ten & .Info Enjoys It's Biggest Week Ever!

[Duke]

Wow! What a week for the domain business. The new weekly sales report is out at DNJournal.com and it was truly a week to remember. Sedo had the highest .de sale in company history and heads our new chart with that $147,000+ domain. There are five different extensions on the new Top Ten including .info at number 3 with a $20,000+ plus sale. It was a breakout week for .info with the best string of sales we have seen to date. For the first time there were more four-figure new extension sales than positions on our New TLD chart! Read all about it here:

New Weekly Domain Sales Report at DNJournal.com

 

[Martin23]

Wow,

What a week,

Lets hope this carrys on.

 

[NameTower]

Nice!

I am very impressed with this weeks sales.

Much better than last week.

 

[David G]

Perhaps the most inspiring sales report ever, good job Duke.

Was particularly impressed with the misspell name sales reported on in this issue, and a few weeks ago (including some 'downlaod' names), and the strength of .info's. In other posts I have written negatively about info (and biz too). I was speaking almost entirely from a traffic and extension public recognition viewpoint.

In addition to lower priced info sales often between resellers, it appears higher cost info's are valuable mostly for branding purposes (i.e. some of the recent high price info sales in dnj), but not for traffic and type-ins.

 

[Duke]

Of course new extensions aren't going to have any built in traffic. Being new means most people don't know about you yet. The value to buyers lies in getting great words and terms that are completely unaffordable in .com. They then build their sites on those domains and build up their own traffic (just as I did with dnjournal.com - it had no built in traffic or typeins). It's the only alternative for the millions of buyers who could never afford a high traffic .com. That is why sales are taking off. I sell a large number of new extension domains to small businesses every month. That is a MUCH bigger market (70% of the economy) than the corporate market everyone else seems to be focused on.

 

[NameTower]

I think Duke brings up a good point on targetting the small business owners.

They too need domain names

Plus with the success that Duke has had, he must be doing something right ;-)

I think whats so attractive about .com is traffic, and the fact that it is so recognized.

For example:

Today on TV I saw a show that was describing something on the internet, and they had shown a link to the URL as a co.uk address, and then reporter actually said that the address was a .com, and then was then corrected.

From a vocal point of view, .info looks the nicest too, and it does have some recognition.

From seeing the new extensions do pretty well, it only makes sense that new investors will step in and start taking up lots of names. Elequa was the first big investor, and I expect more to follow. I have made a few .info purchases myself..

Just my thoughts on the matter.

 

[mole]

Horrors! .BIZ took only one slot :-(

 

[Duke]

Horrors! .BIZ took only one slot :-(

Yep, and it was horror.biz - a complete mismatch for the extension! The fact that such an odd coupling would pull four figures has to be a good sign for .biz. In light of this sale, I guess I will take Vampires.biz off my wholesale list! :dead:

 

[mole]

Sucks!

 

[maxf]

I still think I could get at least into the top five with www.MaxsItalyTrip.com :-D.

 

[GT Web]

awesome list as usual...I told you .info will become huge...lol :-D

A reason to smile...

 

[DaddyHalbucks]

mole wrote:

Horrors! .BIZ took only one slot
++++++++++++++

LOL !

 

[izopod]

Excellent sales report...

I do have a prediction to make. .Biz will be the first "new" extension to break the 6 figure mark. I say that with the utmost confidence. Couple of reasons:

1) Some top .biz names are getting phenomenal "commercial" type-in traffic.

2) I'm seeing .biz in a lot of US based magazines. Oddly enough, other than MTI.info, and maybe the transportation .info URL in California I haven't seen any advertisements for .info. Key point: Advertising the URLs will enhance the "value" of any particular TLD over time. See any .net's really advertised??? Now How about dot org? (get my point) .Com is only as good as the face time it gets with consumers. It makes sense that you'd see .biz advertised as this is the life blood to any respectable company...and that is advertising

A couple of other observations: If you have an "investment" you tend to hold onto it. It makes sense that more .info are being sold than .biz. Not only because you can without reprisal, but you'd have to be a fool to put up www.casino.biz on the open market (if you had it).

Instead of focusing on what is known, to do well in this business you need to focus on what everyone is missing.... :wink:

 

[Duke]

I have been surprised (actually shocked) to find that I am selling a lot of .biz domains to small business users (have a nice one in escrow right now). Never thought I would see the day. Izopod and I used to have some knockdown dragout arguments about the merits of .biz. I didn't think they would ever be viable but fortunately I had enough sense to let my customers have the final say on that. Hard as it is to do, I have to admit he was right - a nice market is developing for the extension.

 

[gogeorge]

It would be interesting to hear about advertising campaigns in German using the .de

Is .com going out style over there?

I do like the alternative extentions, yet even I sometimes say the domain name with .com instead of the correct .us, .info version.

However, a heavy advertising campaign using .us or .info or .biz will change all that.

 

[izopod]

Izopod and I used to have some knockdown dragout arguments about the merits of .biz.

My head still hurts. Lol!! I had a formidable opponent who was just as right on certain points...

btw:

Here are some businesses advertising in magazines:

www.visiontech.biz (interesting thing is that it re-directs to www.visiontechnologiesinc.net)---example of shortened .biz name being advertised to draw in clients----note: I do see they are using their "shortened biz" name for a contact email address [email protected].... Good move to brand the name this way. I suppose they are keeping the .net up for "old clients" who know them by the .net address.

www.mediastorm.biz (looks like they are using it because they missed out on www.mediastorm.com)

I think these are the main reasons why businesses are using .biz. Of course this is not unique only to .biz, as I do see advertisements from companies who are US based using "companyname.us".

 

[David G]

Of course new extensions aren't going to have any built in traffic. Being new means most people don't know about you yet. The value to buyers lies in getting great words and terms that are completely unaffordable in .com. They then build their sites on those domains and build up their own traffic (just as I did with dnjournal.com - it had no built in traffic or typeins). It's the only alternative for the millions of buyers who could never afford a high traffic .com. That is why sales are taking off. I sell a large number of new extension domains to small businesses every month. That is a MUCH bigger market (70% of the economy) than the corporate market everyone else seems to be focused on.

It's great that Duke sells so many to small businessmen who plan to use them and develop a website. The main issue that I see regarding non-recognition of the extensions (mostly info & biz - us perhaps to a lesser degree) is the fact so many of the good names are being hoarded by speculators resulting in very few ever getting developed, barring the unlikely and occasional end user sales. That situation is unlikely to change anytime soon.

Since there are so few new ext websites the public recognition and usage (i.e. typeins) of the new ext will be very slow, and perhaps never really come to pass even yrs into the future. Thanks to Duke and several active site developers at least we have some developed new ext sites but they are still somewhat rare.

I have at least done my part and now have lots of new ext sites which resolve to a real website (mostly .us). Surprisingly most of my dot-us sites get respectable traffic. For some odd reason the few developed info and biz sites I have get get basically no traffic at all, not sure why.

 

[izopod]

Horrors! .BIZ took only one slot :-(

As the young man runs out into the courtyard: "The Sky is falling, the sky is falling"

Mole, I hate to say it but you've become the "young man".

From another domain forum:

Mole: "According to whos.sc, .BIZ seems to be forever floating in the quagmire of the under 1 million regs.

Does this mean .BIZ is as dead as flotsam and jetsom?"

Some advice for you: Do not chase trends.... You'll be ever "poorer" for it. In otherwords, stake out an area for yourself, and do not look back. The ones who always seem to lose money are those who only have "half" their hearts into a venture.

 

[DaddyHalbucks]

izopod wrote:

btw:

Here are some businesses advertising in magazines:

www.visiontech.biz (interesting thing is that it re-directs to www.visiontechnologiesinc.net)---example of shortened .biz name being advertised to draw in clients----note: I do see they are using their "shortened biz" name for a contact email address [email protected].... Good move to brand the name this way. I suppose they are keeping the .net up for "old clients" who know them by the .net address.

www.mediastorm.biz (looks like they are using it because they missed out on www.mediastorm.com)

I think these are the main reasons why businesses are using .biz. Of course this is not unique only to .biz, as I do see advertisements from companies who are US based using "companyname.us".
+++++++++++++++++++++++++

Many businesses do many things.

Some are successful, some are flops.

In my opinion, marketing under .BIZ usually indicates the latter..

 

[actnow]

IThe main issue that I see regarding non-recognition of the extensions .....is the fact so many of the good names are being hoarded by speculators resulting in very few ever getting developed, barring the unlikely and occasional end user sales.

I will agree that some great .com's are being hoarded. But, there are
35 million .com. And, I would speculate that maybe 1 million are being
hoarded by "our domain club".

I also think that many people/companies just use the .com domain for emails.

Plus, some major companies own/hoard thousand of domains to elliminate competition.
Like, Proctor & Gamble, Rubbermaid, etc.

Furthermore, many companies around the world just recently realized that they should
have a nice sounding .com to continue to compete in the business arena.

So, they have to choose between the quality of the primary domain name in
conjunction with the available TLD.

Do they want to be

BillsTireSalesCo.com
BillsTires.net
Tires.info or
Tires.biz.

And, I can assure you that Bill's Tire Sales Co. can not afford to buy Tires.com