NameJet: .CM Pre-Orders Yield 11,000 Registrations: 4,500 Domains Going To Auction

Posted on August 26, 2009

According to NameJet.com, the central clearing house for all .CM Pre-orders, they received over 36,000 Pre-orders for .CM domains.

Out of the 36,000 Pre-orders, 15,500 were for  unique domain names.

11,000 domains only had one pre-order and will be processed today and tomorrow and will go be awarded for the registration fee of $350, for a two year registration.

These domains show a status of “Single Pre-Order” on the .CM Pre-Order page in the customer’s NameJet account.

NameJet.com says that customer’s should receive some information from their registrar in the coming days regarding next steps for these domains.

That means, the remaining 4,500 domains had more than one Pre-order, and will be going to auction at NameJet.com, regardless of which registrar the customer used to pre-order the domain.

The .CM domain auctions will ALL begin this Friday, August 28th, with closing dates evenly distributed between Monday August 31st and Monday September 14th.

NameJet.com decided to start them all at the same time so that customers could see the scheduled closing dates for all of their .cm auctions any time by logging into their account.

A total of 36,000 Pre-orders were submitted including duplicates so removing the 11,000 single domain applications that leaves around 25,000 applications filed for 4,500 domains.

The auctions should be interesting.

If you got any .CM domains on a single pre-order and want to disclose, brag or otherwise info, feel free.

As for myself,  every domain I Pre-ordered is either going to auction or was rejected by the registry.

17 thoughts on “NameJet: .CM Pre-Orders Yield 11,000 Registrations: 4,500 Domains Going To Auction”

  1. I picked up CSS.com (like casading style sheets).

    I am skeptical about the .CM’s but at the same time, a short domain with good letters or keyword is alwasy worth something.

    I will use it for a feed site for my development business, part of http://www.MediaOptions.com

    If anyone is interested in this name, feel free to contact me through my site.

    Can’t wait to hear other’s feedback about these .CM domains. Most of all, I want to see if they actually get any traffic as they are supposed to?

  3. This will be a facinating auction.

    Here’s a fun game. Rather than speculating on prices, any thoughts on type-in visitors these will generate PER DAY?

    loans.cm
    apartments.cm
    realestate.cm
    traffic.cm
    games.cm

    Here’s my guess:

    loans.cm – 5
    apartments.cm – 10
    realestate.cm – 2
    traffic.cm – 10
    games.cm – 5

    Tops!

  4. Dc

    Unless you have one of the old .Cm, operating and running, any estimate of traffic is just a guess.

    And when I say guess, I mean a true throw a dart at the board kind of guess.

    Having said that, my guess is your estimates are low.

  5. I hope those estimates are low, and again, all of us are just grabbing for straws here, but I also believe there won’t be much more traffic than that.

    But we shall see…

    DCMike : Did you get those domains?

  6. “Andrew

    You mean you picked up css.cm right?”

    ———————————

    I think that’s what he meant. In this case the .com was a typo of the .cm

  7. I agree it’s a total guess, but from my experience domainers think natural type-in is waaaaay higher then it actually is. Frank S. wrote in his blog that mortgages.org had only 1 unique per day.

    Andrew, I didn’t get any of them, they’re just going to auction. Along with goggle.cm (my personal fav), tv.cm, creditcards.cm, br.cm, uk.cm etc

  13. Alan, sounds like an expensive test.

    And would blackfriday.com even generate any traffic? let alone the .cm…

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