No Christmas Break For Domain Buyers: 7 Five-Figure Domains on New DNJournal Top Ten

Duke · Dec 28, 2004

The last weekly domain sales report of 2004 is out at DNJournal.com. We expected to see a Christmas week slowdown and while the sheer number of transactions was down, the dollar value of those that were completed remained strong indeed. Enom's Club Drop had the #1 domain, topping $35,000, while Sedo rocked again taking 5 of the Top 10 slots. A $2,000 .info topped the New TLD list and it wasn't a name that looked like it could go that high. Read all about it through the lin below:

DNJournal Weekly Domain Sales Report

mole · Dec 29, 2004

I sent #2 FAF.info to an Austrian company for $750 and a nice set of twins, Lasertag.biz and LaserTag.us, to a U.S. company, collecting $1,200 for the pair.

Looking up, duke. Nice prices, and to think you were selling your domains here for $49-99 just 6 months ago

arty:

mark · Dec 29, 2004

Thanks for the continued good news on the domain market !

Duke · Dec 29, 2004

mole said:
Looking up, duke. Nice prices, and to think you were selling your domains here for $49-99 just 6 months ago arty:

The new TLD's have become very profitable for me (which is why I no longer run wholesale lists

). The continuing escalation in .com prices has locked most small businesses out of that market when it comes to good generic terms. Every month more and more of them are turning to the new extensions as an affordable alternative. These people are putting sites online so you will continue to see strong growth in the number of info. biz and us pages in Google.

I think a lot of people have made a mistake by looking there first for signs the new TLDs are catching on. The first indicator was buyers entering the market and purchasing domains to develop from people like me. That has been going on all year with every month better than the month before. From my first day in the business I expected this to happen (because I had already seen it happen in every other branch of media I have been in - crowded channels lead to the introduction of new channels and those have always been filled up). As it happens the marketplace is actually developing even faster than I expected.