The domain name gdb.org sold today on Namejet.com for a staggering $12,906.
Close behind in 5 figure sales were katherine.com at $18,150 and Perfecta.com at $10, 200.
Aiba.com also sold for 8,100.
Bigprizes.com went for $4,700.
All WOW.
I’m not to proud to admit it.
GDB.org for $13K? I don’t get it.
Aiba.com for $8K? I don’t get it.
Perfecta.com for $10K I get and katherine.com at $18K says a lot about the .me first domain auctions that just closed on Friday where much more popular first names like Steven and Justin went for a fraction of the price
I have no idea too …might be something in the air that makes people buy those bullshitdomains dot com
Oh yea…it is allergy time-affects simple reasoning thoughts
katherine.com is much more valuable than any .me. I wouldn’t have paid $18K but at least katherine.com will hold value. .me will come and go just like other low value extensions that don’t have obvious application. .tv might be an exception if they stop mistreating their customers.
In Chinese,Aiba is a good word,means to love,so $8,100 is not expensive.
aiba.com.cn
2004-12-12 2013-12-12
aiba.cn
2003-05-20 2011-05-20
They’re end users.
omg I rushed over here when I saw the headline. I was like wtf is going on?
Mike,
GDB.org was bought for it’s SEO value, used to be a Genome Project of some sort..
Well, if the buyer was GNU then they can move GDB (debugger) to gdb.org. Why should they? Still a wtf. 🙂
its a great LLL.org sale 🙂
AIBA is the International Boxing Association. (www.aiba.org)
May be they have bought the .com?
When I initially got into the domain biz, I could not figure out why certain domains sold for higher prices than I could justify.
Then, I recognized my arrogance that I should know everything that might add value to a domain.
Couldn’t the same question be raised about the domains WE sell to endusers? How many domainers would pay $ 1K for NoStringsAttached.com?
Just look at DNJ report last week.
As a domainer can we justify buying CamRoulette.com for $ 151K,
Games1.com $ 51K, Gild.com $ 18K, ExotiqProperty.com $ 14K.
“katherine.com at $18,150 ”
Obviously this domain has value to a number of people. Even one of the major domainers bid $ 18,050.
I speculate the question Michael might be subtly raising –
“Why are domains selling on Namejet for more than what domainers are willing to spend?”
I am just wondering why a LLL.org is higher then the .coms? maybe this is a sign of things to come?
Its a PR7, based on that matric alone can be up to $3K.
Beauty (value) is in the eye of the beholder (domain name holder).
True value of LLL domains are about $20 each, LLLL next to nothing. That would be about the lottery odds of how many you would have to hold to get that 1 nice end user sale to cover holding all the others. The one’s that make money parked, just a small multiple of that. They are shit names to build a business or website on. No targeted traffic. No keyword advantage. No nothing. Garbage. You can do more with hand registered names, which is why they have more value.
Really no way to define their value. Just a weird copycat phenomenon of imbeciles domainers bidding on them for no apparent reason besides the fact that they see a lot of other imbeciles bidding on them everywhere.
Jody, that is BS. They may not have SEO value, but the value of short addresses is in social media like Twitter to link shorter addresses cause they only allow 140 char of text. And for texting, cause texting also limits number of letters that can be typed.
That’s not something I had considered. Now that I have, that may add a billionth of a penny to their value.
Im not a large holder of LLL and LLLL domains, but the ones that I own, I would not give away just cause some imbecile like you thinks they have no value. I also don’t play the drop catch game much either. (except that I caught Deceivers.com a few weeks ago)
Michael you should know that what is a great amount of money to some is paltry to others. I played ping pong with Michael Jordan one summer and he asked me how much I wanted to play for. I said $20, he said back “OK then that means I have to put $1oo thousand dollars on the game to have the same meaning” It’s something I’ve never forgotten. $8K is absolutely nothing to a company that is trying to build a brand. If you have millions of dollars and your name is Katherine and you want to have a personal email address. $18K is the same as a nice dress and a purse that you only wear once. It’s all relative. As someone else told me and I’m not saying you don’t but I was told “You don’t have enough money to understand”
Michael
“”you should know that what is a great amount of money to some is paltry to others”
Of course I understand this.
If an end user wanted this domain then its a good purchase for them, but typically domainers are the one’s buying in these auctions.
Also I took several bidders to get this domain all the way up to $18K and not all of them were end users
FWIW, Katherine has been a more popular first name than Steven for the past 15 years, according to U.S. Social Security records. (This doesn’t negate your basic point about .com vs. .me domains.)
wtf.com – just had to look. wow Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone!
Napkin math question. A superbowl ad sells for $3.5MM for 30 seconds and delivers 30MM(?) people to hear/see you message. What is the general traffic value of a site that delivers the same amount of folks (83K a day) over the course of a year? That is an S-LOAD of traffic
How about eev.net for $13,000? Can someone explain the value of that to me, in pre-bid at Snap: https://www.snapnames.com/store/event.action?ig=525
Here’s a jaw dropper (at least I thought so) – http://www.jnyz.com just went for $210. Seriously. Not missing a zero (or two). $210. It was at flippa.com. Needless to say wish I’d have been there to bid on that…
What makes jnyz.com worth more than the registration fee?
I see no reason why jnyz is worth that much honestly. Just cause it is an LLLL does not make it worth over a 1000 dollars. In fact not a lot of llll’s sell for more then $xxx. And not all of them bring in that much. It is the good ones that bring in more, and has to have some meaning for the bidders, either as investors, or developers. And having a J to start, and a Z to end this one, it is not good. Those are 2 of the “bad letters” that don’t work well in acronyms, so as MHB said, what makes it worth more then reg fee?
I have 3 LLLL’s. Only one of the 3 I would say is decent letters. I am not dropping them, but I would not say they are great domain names either. Example, OMKG.com. OMG.com is of course the domain name for a website owned by Yahoo!, but what use could I have for this domain name with the K in there?
Now if you find a domain name that is short and spells something, that is something you can build a website around. Keep in mind though, acronyms are harder to use for websites that you want to get listed in the search engines.