For Sale 25 IDN xn--7st983ah6s.com Japanese Cities for sale! (OVT >15k/domain)

[touchring]

1. The Asian IDN market is getting hot, and Japanese cities are the best bet with a $4.7 trillion economy (equivalent to UK and Germany combined). The Japanese PPC market is also well developed with keywords matching US prices.

2. Unfortunately, most western domainers are at lost when it comes to Asian idns - what should i do with the "white boxes", so i've gathered 25 Japanese cities .com, all with Japanese overture exceeding 15,000, and urban populations varying from 200,000 to 500,000+.

3. Zero risk investment as type-in traffic is almost guaranteed once everyone starts to use IE 7 since all Japanese cities have their own government website - E.g. Kagoshima's website is at http://www.city.kagoshima.lg.jp. Note the lengthy URL.


EDITED

If you want to make money, act fast. :laugh:


Latin Name | Population | IDN | Punycode | JP Overture

1). Fujisawa 351,000 藤沢市.com xn--7st983ah6s.com 20681
2). Asahikawa 359,000 旭川市.com xn--5rt2c520a.com 20252
3). Kagoshima 537,000 鹿児島市.com xn--d5qv7z8wax00q.com 20241 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)
4). Utsunomiya 427,000 宇都宮市.com xn--29s8cy8fr30g.com 19821
5). Nara 350,000 奈良市.com xn--ntsw3ijt3b.com 19466 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)
6). Toyama 321,000 富山市.com xn--1ctwoz2b.com 19219 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)
7). Takamatsu 330,000 高松市.com xn--7stz4s186b.com 18905
8). Hachinohe 241,000 八戸市.com xn--45qu02anid.com 18805
9). Mito 234,000 水戸市.com xn--7stq7gc3k.com 18734
10). Fuchu 209,000 府中市.com xn--fiqv99afna.com 18500
11). Oita 409,000 大分市.com xn--kbrq7ou8d.com 18307 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)
12). Toyonaka 410,000 豊中市.com xn--fiqv99ar38a.com 17544
13). Aomori 288,000 青森市.com xn--7stz6v6s1b.com 17529 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)
14). Higashi-Osaka 518,000 東大阪市.com xn--pssw6i70j9w2c.com 17504
15). Kurume 228,000 久留米市.com xn--3iqp79aetr1pg.com 17351
16). Hakodate 307,000 函館市.com xn--bbrw60a421c.com 17341
17). Akashi 271,000 明石市.com xn--7stz2pxrp.com 17173
18). Koriyama 315,000 郡山市.com xn--rht69ah13h.com 17149
19). Fuji 222,000 富士市.com xn--zqsv0et6b.com 16807 (SOLD!)
20). Hiratsuka 246,000 平塚市.com xn--umso5kwj.com 16638
21). Shimonoseki 263,000 下関市.com xn--ghq020bt55b.com 16253
22). Kushiro 205,000 釧路市.com xn--7stt08hcrc.com 15604
23). Takarazuka 201,000 宝塚市.com xn--umst9eu9b.com 15604
24). Fukushima 277,000 福島市.com xn--klt4xf57d.com 15488
25). Miyazaki 287,000 宮崎市.com xn--6btw5a6u.com 15122 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)


Note: Population estimates taken from internet and OVT scores are based queries i made 2 weeks ago.

 

[rawkinrich]

If I had the readies my friend, I would snap your arm off. k:

 

[touchring]

Sorry, what do you mean by "readies"?

1. For benefit of the rest, in case the figures do not make sense, i'm posting figures of comparable American/Great Britain cities, their population, and US overture.

2. Also, you guys might want to know that Bogota.com, bought by VerticalAxis for $159,500, only had a US overture of 13964, and an ES overture of 2334 - http://www.dnforum.com/f17/bogota-com-snapnames-121291.html.

3. Woking.com sold for £8925, is a small british city with a US overture of 660 (i dunno if there's a UK overture, if someone can help point out).

4. Südtirol.info ("South Tyrol" in German) sold for 8,750 Euros has a DE overture of 7903, and a US overture of 535.

5. In comparison, every single one of the 25 .com cities i am selling has a JP overture of more than 15000. :laugh:



Name | Population | US Overture

Oklahoma City | 523,303 | 47578
Long Beach | 475,460 | 24486
Cleveland | 461,324 | 42204
Omaha | 404,267 | 32151
Newark | 277,911 | 23649
Jersey City | 239,097 | 8887
Baton Rouge | 225,090 | 23916


Here's some figures for Great Britain cities:

Name | Population | US Overture

Leeds | 443,247 | 29666
Sheffield | 439,866 | 21231
Manchester | 394,269 | 44126
Belfast | 277,391 | 16660
Plymouth | 243,795 | 16362
Woking | 101,127 | 660 (This is a small city, i'm putting it here for comparison since Woking.com had a transacted price of £8925).


Note: Population estimates taken from internet and OVT scores are based on queries i made at posting time.

 

[rawkinrich]

Sorry, what do you mean by "readies"?

If I had access to the cash to hand

Truly a great investment, do the domains get type-in traffic?

 

[touchring]

I managed to get some poor province chinese cities - the wealthy and big ones are taken, and just registered these japanese cities/prefectures (i'm selling 25 and keeping about 28 for traffic investment).

There's some type-in traffic from the small chinese cities after parking them for the past few days - but definitely better than my .us, which are virtually 'trafficless' even after a month.

If you are interested, you have to act fast as most people are sitting on their collection, and it will take much more than the EDITED (in fact many times more) to buy from existing owners.

On the issue of whether Japanese cities or Chinese cities are better, i would think that Japanese cities are worth much more due to the currency difference - for example, if $30 gets a salon haircut in an average Japanese city, the same amount will buy 2/3 year's worth of haircut in an average Chinese city.

All these buying and selling of .com for two/three thousand dollars (16,000RMB to 25,000RMB) on such forums is 1 year's pay for a Chinese engineer earning 2,000RMB a mth, and in medium sized chinese cities, $35K can buy a 2 bedroom apartment in the city center...


Added on 12th Dec:

EDITED

For bulk sale, i'm open to offers

 

[touchring]

Sorry, sale suspended pending changes!

 

[touchring]

19). Fuji 222,000 富士市.com xn--zqsv0et6b.com 16807 (SOLD!)

-> Sold and transferred to Taboo.

3). Kagoshima 537,000 鹿児島市.com xn--d5qv7z8wax00q.com 20241 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)
5). Nara 350,000 奈良市.com xn--ntsw3ijt3b.com 19466 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)
6). Toyama 321,000 富山市.com xn--1ctwoz2b.com 19219 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)
11). Oita 409,000 大分市.com xn--kbrq7ou8d.com 18307 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)
13). Aomori 288,000 青森市.com xn--7stz6v6s1b.com 17529 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)
25). Miyazaki 287,000 宮崎市.com xn--6btw5a6u.com 15122 (REMOVED FROM MARKET)

-> Removed from market - entering my long term investment portfolio. :-D

 

[touchring]

Pending Bulk sale!

 

[bwhhisc]

Confirming Bulk Sale at $45 each per IDFForum pm. PM me to complete payment. Thanks!

 

[touchring]

Thks, the following domains sold to bwhhisc, pending payment now!

1). Fujisawa 351,000 藤沢市.com xn--7st983ah6s.com 20681
2). Asahikawa 359,000 旭川市.com xn--5rt2c520a.com 20252
4). Utsunomiya 427,000 宇都宮市.com xn--29s8cy8fr30g.com 19821
7). Takamatsu 330,000 高松市.com xn--7stz4s186b.com 18905
8). Hachinohe 241,000 八戸市.com xn--45qu02anid.com 18805
9). Mito 234,000 水戸市.com xn--7stq7gc3k.com 18734
10). Fuchu 209,000 府中市.com xn--fiqv99afna.com 18500
12). Toyonaka 410,000 豊中市.com xn--fiqv99ar38a.com 17544
14). Higashi-Osaka 518,000 東大阪市.com xn--pssw6i70j9w2c.com 17504
15). Kurume 228,000 久留米市.com xn--3iqp79aetr1pg.com 17351
16). Hakodate 307,000 函館市.com xn--bbrw60a421c.com 17341
17). Akashi 271,000 明石市.com xn--7stz2pxrp.com 17173
18). Koriyama 315,000 郡山市.com xn--rht69ah13h.com 17149
20). Hiratsuka 246,000 平塚市.com xn--umso5kwj.com 16638
21). Shimonoseki 263,000 下関市.com xn--ghq020bt55b.com 16253
22). Kushiro 205,000 釧路市.com xn--7stt08hcrc.com 15604
23). Takarazuka 201,000 宝塚市.com xn--umst9eu9b.com 15604
24). Fukushima 277,000 福島市.com xn--klt4xf57d.com 15488

 

[Bramiozo]

Congrats with the sales touchring .

 

[Sarcle]

Definately, great buy and sale.

 

[touchring]

Definitely - it's all hard work, and domains based on city names have natural type-in and intrinsic value.




Sale Ended! Thank you everyone for your interest in this sale.

 

[jandy519]

each one??the price??or make offer??

 

[Rubber Duck]

Confirming Bulk Sale at $45 each per IDFForum pm. PM me to complete payment. Thanks!

Congratulations. The next lot will cost you ten times that amount and the bar will start to rise very rapidly. Touchring has given these away and he knows it!

I have holding of similar if not greater value than his, but where do you find a sales item from me? I am holding out till the traffic materialises, unless someone with the understanding and the Readies is prepared to make a meaningful direct approach. Hell, I have enough problems dealing with all the enquires relating to IDN that land in my mail box already. The way things are going, I am going to have to change all my mail addresses and drop out of circulation! Once IE 7.0 arrives, you are going to have start paying earnings multiples, similar to English dot coms. Trying to negiociate with guys that are getting rich just sitting on their butts is going to be tough!

If you want Tier 1 Japanese IDN, you will need to be very ingenious to register something that has been missed. This is already secondary market territory. If you want 2nd Tier domains as new registrations, don't let the grass grow under your feet, it won't be long before the Iwillregisteranylongcombinationofwords.com brigade are filling in the gaps.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[touchring]

each one??the price??or make offer??

It doesn't matter because it's not possible to buy any more cities, at least if the money is less than $300.

As Dave has said, after this sale, the price will go up many times. Reason -> Existing collectors are not going to sell unless the offer is good. And there are no more major cities left to register.

 

[jandy519]

any Taiwan IDN domain?