For example checkout this domain for sale on BargainDomains.com, HandymanServices.com.

As you can see sellers can show the monthly traffic and revenue certified by DNWStats.com when submitting their domains for sale.

Already up in BargainDomains.com and should also be implemented  this week in in all the vertical marketplaces of Domaining.com including Catchy.com, PremiumDomains.com, Flipping.co.

It’s optional, but if the domain for sale has significant traffic and/or revenue it should give a big boost to the sale of the domain.

As the volume of sellers using this feature grows,  the Domaining marketplaces will add these metrics to their listings,  like they are already doing with; term frequency & search popularity.

In a side note, the Domaining Marketplaces by the end of the week should launch a vertical marketplace dedicated to domains with certified traffic and revenue where domains will be sold for multiple of years revenue.
This is an exciting new feature that should help out sales.

Congrats to Francois.…

In CNN article annoucing the decision it states in part:

“”"The decision could spell the end for traditional Web addresses ending .com and .org and country names like .jp or .fr with Web sites able to use easier-to-remember suffixes such as .hotel or .sex.”"”"

Of course the current US adminstration already nixed the .xxx extension.

However this action, combined with a possible democratic administration that would be in place in early 2009, when the first applications are expected to be received, might allow a .sex, .xxx or similar extension to pass.

In addition to adult extensions, it is expected there will be many application for Geo extensions with .paris, .berlin and .nyc already having groups formed to sponsor them.

Right now we are just left with a lot of questions:

Will this as many predict start another “gold rush” to acquire the top domains for each new extension?

How will type in traffic fair if there are hundreds of new choices?

What effect hundreds of new extension all hitting the market in 2009 or 2010 have or the current value of .com’ and other current TLD’s, now and in the future?…

“No longer do you have to know the domain of the page you’re looking for the AwesomeBar will match what you’re typing (even multiple words) against the URLs, page titles and tags in your bookmarks and history, returning results sorted by ‘frecency’ (a combination of frequency and recency).”

So is this good for domainers.

We make our bread and butter on the address bar.

We make our bread and butter based on people typing in one of our domains into the address bar.

Firefox gives you mulitple choices as you start to type in an address, and the domain they might be typing of your’s might not be the first choice they get.

For example I started typing in the address for namejet.com…

Back then there was no domain name industry, no trade shows, no blogs, no industry auctions. Very few people knew what a domain was, how to use them, and how valuable they were.

Now 11 years later, with countless articles, press releases, blogs and reports of domain sales, why are so many good domains still dropping?

Here are just some of the names that have dropped and were auctioned off in the past 30 days:

GreenMonday.com $76,000

Helpline.com $70K

Surveyors.com $69K

Atty.com 49K

Quickly.com 45K

toa.com $35,300

Well.org 29K

ApartHotels.com $27,100

ftn.com $15,100

iart.com $16,694

mkc.com $11,000

Beds.net 9K

ewomen.com $9K

8-0.com $7K

backyardwrestling.com $6,550

woodenflooring.com $6K

sailplanes.com $5K

eteens.com $5K

bookmaker.net $4K

devastate.com $4K

casinooffers.com $3,157

giftcardshop.com $2,351

depiction.com $1,600

cosmeticbreastsurgery.com $1,550

irb.net $1,500

assholes.org $1,310

ftn.com $15K

floatplanes.com $13,500

cancersupport.com $10,600

silos.com $8K

snq.com $7K

kera.com $5,200

hometrainer.com $4,500

testingequipment.com $4,300

coloradoguide.com $4,100

telescopes.org $3,900

compactrefrigerator.com $3,400

panamacitycondo.com $2,800

sittingroom.com $2,400

cheapprojectors.com $2,200

trh.net $1,700

filedivorce.com $8,200

chilling.com $7,900

usnationalparks.com $7,770

beardtrimmer.com $6,500

collegerental.com $6,300

poptop.com $4,900

missourilawyer.com $3,400

alergia.com $23,000

yemen.org $12,400

cyberstore.com $8,255

shoeexpo.com $5,400

apartmentnews.com $4,100

soldieroffortune.com $9,700

nopainnogain.com $9,300

sumtercounty.com $6,500

writingservices.com $5,600

warfield.com $4,100

mountaintravel.com $4K

outsourcingservices.com $3,600

mintchocolate.com $2,860

hivdrugs.com $2,700

negotiated.com $2,700

bail.net $4,150

emedical.com $10,700

azimut.com $12K

The list of course goes on and on.

Three letter domains.

One word domains.

Products domains.

Geo Domains

Profession Domains

All dropped by the previous owner.

And it’s not just the big money names.

At publication, NameJet.com has approximately 2,000 domains backordered at a minimum of $69.

SnapNames.com has over 3,000 domains with at least one bid at $59.

Although there are some duplicate domain backordered at both services and even taking into account snapnames.com auctions of domainer owned domains, it still amounts to say 4,000 backordered dropping domains that are worth at least $59 to somebody.

Then there is godaddy which has 1,000 names backordered by at least 2 people (godaddy only shows domains backordered by 2 or more people and there backorders are only for 4 days out)

So why in this day and age with all the publicity that domains have received why are so many people not spending $7 to renew domains that by the thousands, others are willing to spend $59 or more to get?

Is this the true indication that the message of domain valuation that we preach is not making it to main street?…

Estibot.com is an automated domain appraisal tool.

Type a domain into it and it will give you back an appraisal for a domain.

I thought is would be interesting to see what appraisal Esibot.com gave to the Live TRAFFIC names.

Here the top ten domains in the live TRAFFIC auction with a reserve price of $5,000 or less, with the highest estibot appraisal estimate:

DOMAIN NAME RESERVE RANGE ESIBOT VALUE

graphicssoftware.com $1 – $5,000 $45,000

asphyxiation.com $1 – $5,000 $40,000

virgins.net No Reserve $40,000

thankyougiftbaskets.com $1 – $5,000 $25,000

webclass.com $1 – $5,000 $24,000

postalcodes.com $1 – $5,000 $21,000

garden.info $1 – $5,000 $21,000

scraper.com No Reserve $19,000

burningdvds.com $1 – $5,000 $18,000

rabid.com $1 – $5,000 $18,000

Now using the lowest price in the reserve range as the starting price (so in the $5-$10,000 category for example we used $5K), here are the top 5 Live TRAFFIC auction domain bargains based on the highest percentage increase from reserve price to the appraised price of Estibot.com

DOMAIN NAME RESERVE RANGE ESIBOT VALUE

bassguitar.com $25,001 – $50,000 $280,000

something.com $10,001 – $25,000 $210,000

metricconversion.com $5,001 – $10,000 $180,000

patti.com $5,001 – $10,000 $130,000

tvschedule.com $10,001 – $25,000 $110,000

exerciseballs.com $10,001 – $25,000 $110,000

Finally here are the worst buys, in biggest dollars drops from the reserve price to the Estibot appraisal:

DOMAIN NAME RESERVE RANGE ESIBOT VALUE

certifieddiamonds.com $250,001 – $500,000 $69,000

tune.com $250,001 – $500,000 $45,000

koran.com $500,001 – $750,0 $140,000

weddingparty.com $250,001 – $500,000 $37,000

autobody.com $500,001 – $750,000 $83,000

affiliateprogram.com $1MM – $5MM $250,000

pay.com $1MM – $5MM $160,000

portfolios.com $1MM – $5MM $140,000

yachts.com $1MM – $5MM $130,000

jackpot.com $1MM – $5MM $49,000

Remember Esibot.com only values the domain, not the content on it. So like weddingparty.com, which I think is a developed site, rather than a parked page, would be undervalued by it.

So what do you think????…

A few months ago we wrote how domains, like commodities and collectibles continue to increase in value in poor economic times.

Why because they are rare.

If there is only one of something, there will be a market for it.

Today there is further evidence of this.

The infamous David Ortiz Red Sox jersey that was buried and then dug up at the site of the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx was auctioned off on ebay.com for charity.

The auction just ended with the final bid of $175,100.

The actual value of the Jersey $715.

This on a day when new home sales have fallen to the worst level in 16 years and the same day Sam’s Club and other similar stores, announced limits on sales of rice do to worldwide shortages.

Those domains you have, the ones that are generic and rare. Those domains are valuable and don’t let anyone tell you differently.…

For all of 2007 $120,805,509 in sales were reported – an average of $30,201,377 per quarter. So the latest qeconomy started appearing. 1Q-2008 was also 12% better than the $34,089,484  registered in the fourth quarter of 2007. For all of 2007 $120,805,509 in sales were reported – an average of $30,201,377 per quarter. So the latest quarter was 26% higher than the average quarter last year.”"”"”

With auction of pizza.com ending tomorrow, another 7 figures sale get the 2nd quarter off to a great start.…

Now comes the report from the Christie’s auction held this past Saturday in New York that a bottle of 1926 Macallan Scotch sold for $54,000, or $2,100 an ounce. It set a record for a bottle of scotch. It also beat expectations.

The total generated at the distilled spirits auction was just over $300,000. Also exceeding expectations.

As we keep saying there is a tremendous market for anything rare.

The fact that generic domains are not only rare but have a commercial use, makes them cheap by comparison to other commodities and collectibles.

Our advice, buy a bottle of Johnny Walker Blue and use the other $53,800 on a good domain.…

I spent seven hours at the huge Art Basel Show in Miami yesterday. I saw the obligatory canvases painted completely white (25k+), Black (65K+) and a very pretty green color priced, at a no doubt what is a steal, at $335,000.

Also on display were the white canvas with simply words like “die collector scum”, and “meat is death”. I also got to see the back doors of what appeared to be a 60′s volkswagen bus placed on the wall, a bunch of clothes on the floor and more hanging from the ceiling which looked like what happened when grandma’s clothes line broke. There was a cardboard box open flat hanging on the wall with some tape hanging from it, no price was listed, guess if you can’t afford the box you shouldn’t ask the price.

My personal favorite was (picture attached) of one of the first apple computers with a sneaker on top of it.

I did inquire about the price for all you tech guys (after all it is almost Christmas) but sad to say you had to buy the whole collection of some 50 sneakers with various items attached to them, one sneaker had a wine bottle when the foot should have been.

Of course there were the “die piggy piggy die die” (those who have seen “Mickey Blue Eyes” will understand), type of paintings, all priced in at least in the five figures most in the six.

I had a nice conversation with a dealer which was asking 2.3 Million for a very pretty oil, who told me a client had purchased a similar painting a few years ago for 2 Million and now was worth $3 Million. He also told me he was having a good show and sold a painting for over 3 million yesterday.

So after my time at Art Basel, i left empty handed but with the clear knowledge that in comparison, domains are cheap. Dirt Cheap.

Let me be clear here, domains are not just a “good buy” or a “good value” or “fairly priced in today’s market”, but they are downright cheap.

Let’s take our friend who purchased the painting for 2 million and sold it for 3 million three years later. Fair enough. Investing those funds at 8% would give you $160,000 of return a year, non-compounded, so if you hold a painting for 3 years and sell for 3 million your did alright but you would have had a return of half as much at 8%.…

Every day we receive many offers from retail customers looking to purchase domains. The vast majority of these folk still don’t grasp the concept that a domain is worth anymore than the registration fee.

Most people compare domains to real estate. I view domains more like commodities and collectibles. A commodity is something that has limited amounts and demand for them. A collectible is something that is something prized, either one of a kind or very limited in number.  Like commodities and collectibles, domain’s value, in large part, come from the fact that all of these resources are finite.  Market value is based on supply and demand. Not to say that they are not an infinite combination of letters and numbers that one can use as a domain, or using a non .com extensions, but there are certainly a finite amount of short generic .com’s.  The shorter and more generic the domain, the more valuable it becomes.

With regards to real estate,  although there are certainly very unique properties, the vast majority of real estate is not that special. Take a tract home in a community of thousands of others. You miss out on buying one of them there are 50 more for sale pretty much just like it.  A condo in a building of 500 units.  You miss out on buying one there is another just like it on the floor above or below.  They are not that unique.  Maybe that is why the real estate market has collapsed.

Yet during the same time, commodities have skyrocketed. Oil, gold, copper, silver all way up this year and over the last several years. World demand is high. There will be fluctuations in price, but the long term outlook is that commodities will be only more expensive in the coming years. There is just too many people in the world, countries going through enormous growth, more development, more need.

Domains are similarly poised. The growth of the Internet is certain, domains are needed for sites, blogs, traffic. Not just in the good old USA, but all over the world and the only universal domain is a .com

Stuff.com, there is only one of those in the world.

You can go to a flea market and pick up an oil painting for $50, yet this week in Miami over 35,000 people will gather for “Art Basel” which is expected to generate sales over 500 million dollars in just 4 days.…