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This upcoming friday the EU domain rush will get rolling… EURid opens at 11:00 on Friday the 9th, and they expect it will take some hours to process all the pre-registrations that registrars has been accepting during the last months.
So did you forget to pre-register your desired EU domains? If you did, then you still have a chance, but if it is “popular” domains you want to register, then the race is probably already over for you. With all the pre-registrations that will be processed some of them is probably for the same domain name you’re thinking about right now - which ever it is 
At http://status.eurid.eu/ you are able to follow the stats for the .eu domain registrations, so if you’re into that, go check it out friday when the rush begins. It should update every 15 minutes, so it is going to be exiting to see how many domains will be registered. And even more exciting to see if one gets those applied for…
Tags: EU domains, pre-register domain, domain registration, EURid
April 3rd, 2006
DNJournal provides us with a comprehensive list of domains that sold in 2005. The list includes price, date and where the domains sold. Domains that are listed has sold for prices of $10,000+
It is pretty interesting to look at the domain list to get a better idea of potential domain value, which should also be taken into consideration when buying (and selling) websites.
Via Google Blogoscoped
Tags: domain names, domain prices, buying domains, domain value
February 23rd, 2006
There is a boy band (breeding 5..?) community for sale at Dnforum. The forum is located at www.breeding5.com and seems pretty active. It has about 15,000 monthly uniques and 150,000 monthly pageviews according to seller. There is currently 260,626 posts and 5,245 members.
Almost every forum category has had activity today, and there a lots of threads in which this activity occurs.
It is on auction with a starting bid at $995, but the seller looks for $2,000+. With a $75 monthly adsense revenue this seems a bit high, but I would judge that the adsense is badly implemented, and that there definitely is opportunities for big improvements. Like implemeting more adsense elements - one in between of posts.
Also the indexing in Google and Yahoo is not much, so with a little bit of SEO and link building I guess that you could increase the traffic. That is, if there are searches in this “niche”.
Only thing I would worry about, is potential issues regarding the domain name. I don’t know if this is a real problem, but I recall there beeing some previous cases about using artist names in domains. Heck, I don’t even know what the exact name of the boy band is…
Tags: selling community, selling forum, adsense improvement, domain issues
February 20th, 2006
The technology blog GeekCoffee (geekcoffee.net & geekcoffee.com) is for sale a NamePros. There isn’t much information in the sales thread, but according to seller the blog should be pulling in around $8000 a year through advertising.
The seller is asking for $8,500, which was lowered from $10,000, so I guess that the interest hasn’t been overwhelming.
Be aware that it seems like there is currently both Google’s Adsense and Yahoo!’s YPN on the blog. This is as far as I know not allowed. So you might not be able to pull the same revenue from it.
Tags: blogging, blogs, technology, for sale
February 15th, 2006
I just read at a post on SiliconBeat that XBiz reports that the domain sex.com has been sold for nothing less than $14 million dollars. Gary Kremen who recently won the fight over the domain, has been unavailable for comments according to XBiz. They also state that the company InternetRealEstate.com takes part in the sale.
It is interesting to see how much a domain name can be worth. I recall business.com beeing solg for $7.5 million and I just checked some other high domain sales.
Beer.com - $7 million (2004)
Diamond.com - $6 million (2000)
Loans.com - $3 million (2000)
See the highest domain sales here!
Tags: domains, sex.com, domain sales, domain value
January 19th, 2006
There is a domain name community for sale at Ebay. It is the forum dncommunity.com that is up for auction.
The current bid is $1,125 and the reserve has been met. The auction ends in 9 days, and there has been serveral bidders, so you should expect the price to become higher - especially in the hours just before the auction ends.
The site has some traffic - according to screenshots there was ~65,000 pageviews and ~6,500 uniques in december 2005. The stats for this month shows the same pattern. The traffic has been increasing since may 2005.
There are some activity in the forums, but it is mostly in the “Domains for Sale” forum. The other forums seems a bit quiet.
Stats:
Threads: 2,873
Posts: 10,428
Members: 797
Pages indexed:
- Google: ~6,670
- Yahoo: ~15,311
PageRank: 4
Tags: forum sale, domain forum, domain names
January 16th, 2006
A new website just went for sale at Sitepoint. It is DropWatch.com which is a service that provides real time stats for expiring domains information for estimating traffic on expired domains.
The website had a revenue of $4193.21 in december 2005, but it is this far the highest revenue obtained. According to the revenue details provided by the seller, there has been a steady increase since january 2005 (the stats don’t go further back). The revenue is generated through member subscriptions, and is based on a monthly fee, so there is a good reason to believe that the revenue will increase further.
The auction starts at $140,000 which is too much, and the BIN is $233,500 which I think is absolutely unreasonable. Imagine what you could build with that much money… But who knows, he might be open for lower offers. Anyway there is definitely a good market for expiring domains, so if this website gets marketed well, there will probably be a very good pay off.
Tags: website sale, web business, buy website, expired domains
January 15th, 2006
