Domainers go Shopping at NameJet

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In the last few days the auctions at NameJet.com have been very active with many 1k+ domain sales:

jogger.com                                    $25,201

careerplan.com                            $22,700

healthcaresolutions.com            $10,700

dmvrecords.com                         $ 8,664

japs.com                                        $ 8,200

starnine.com                                $ 7,260

incomeopportunity.com             $ 6,900

sandbagger.com                          $ 6,100

luggagedirect.com                       $ 5,410

shakeit.com                                 $ 5,026

trucksupply.com                         $ 5,001

xmluk.org                                     $ 4,255

sportmedicine.com                     $ 3,533

replicajersey.com                        $ 3,222

marinebattery.com                    $ 3,003

getvideo.com                               $ 2,700

broadbase.com                            $ 2,400

feathers.org                                 $ 1,955

temporaryapartments.com       $ 1,910

boatdelivery.com                        $ 1,610

Donjohnson.com                          $ 1,555

officetool.com                               $ 1,001

Anyone know what star nine is or why some one would pay 7k+ for it??

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  1. Atta says

    “Anyone know what star nine is or why some one would pay 7k+ for it??”

    Regged in 1989 + linkpop/traffic

  3. jeff Schneider says

    This is just a guess at what starnine refers to but it seems when I broadcast meetings on a conference call bridge, the way to mute sounds to clear up the broadcast, you would hit *9 ?

  5. Peter Askew says

    …a few others:

    visitdelaware.net $3,500

    ecocar.com $7,100

    emoryuniversity.com $3,211 (I hope this person likes lawsuits)

    ridoe.net $8,101

    tourismofindia.com $8,888

  6. abhinav says

    Starnine.com is a 19 year old domain valid pr 6 and lots of backlinks and traffic that is why it sold at that much

  7. admin says

    Good call on starnine which is a company that for some reason had a trademark but let it go

    So looks like a good pickup

    Jogger.com is bang on, like that one a lot

    donjohnson.com seem to be a problem

    xmluk.org I wouldn’t pay $4,500 for no matter how may back links it has.

  10. steven says

    I keep reading about these people saying great price on this name or that name and everyone looking to buy names is seeing these come across the block yet they are still going cheap….is it fair to say that the recent slowdown in the economy has finally reached the domain market? If not….then why are great names going for good prices?

    TIA

  11. admin says

    Steven

    I think the dropping PPC revenues are restricting many domainers buying power.

    Don’t forget that US domainers are also looking at tax time

  12. philly says

    ecocar.com is a TM domain

    i guess the domainer knows this and is why it is not parked but redirecting to a completely unrelated web site.

    If it was not a TM i would have paid a LOT more than the 7k it went for but cannot assume the risk, even though i believe there are legitimate uses of this name in unrelated markets (the TM is explicitely for a competition, not an actual “car”)

  13. Greg Nelson says

    @steven – I believe the good prices are due to the fact that the true “serious domainers” and domain investors who have money is a much smaller market that people believe (yes it is growing and nice sized, but small still) plus most of these guys are self funded. If you are self funded and buy just 1 name a month at $25,000 by the end of the year, you have spent $300,000 which if you use actual after-tax money to buy with (depending on how you account and available depreciation, etc) takes $500,000 in pre-tax free cash flow. Even though there are guys banking big money on the Internet, this is still a sizable chunk of change.

    Also, the devaluation of the dollar affects ALL investors, even abroad, if they are making money just off the web for there are no geographical barriers. Even my companies here in the US can market products that pay in pounds, so competition there increases driving margins down and netting similar.

  14. Phil says

    I have a name that sold on SnapNames that will make you scream what the hell or just render you speechless for days. Kontor.com sold for $150,000. It reached the above mentioned price the very next day it was auctioned. That means it stayed the same price for 2 more days. What does Kontor mean? It took me half hour to figure out. It means Office in Swedish. Someone thought was bidding in Swedish Kronas and not dollars. In which case the price would be $25,000 and still too much, I don’t care what it means in Swedish. Sweden‘s got only 9 million people. For $150K you could pick up office.com couple of years ago.