Diapers.Eu and Soap.TW Sell For Over $5k Each In the Wake Of Amazon’s $540M .Com Purchase

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Domainers seem to be chasing diapers and soap domains, in the wake of Amazon purchasing the company that owns the developed sites, diapers.com and soap.com for $540 Million.

In the last few days the domain name Diapers.eu sold for 4,200 euros (approx $6K) and today the domain Soap.tw sold for 5,000 euros (approx $7K).

Soap.tw for $7k?

That’s seems like an a lot of money for an extension that most of you, including myself, doesn’t know what country it represents

(Ok its Taiwan)

Yet this seems to be pretty common in the domain world.

Domainers see a notable sale and start to buy up domains in an off extension.

However I think in this case, other than for the sellers, its a fools gold strategy.

Just because a huge company buys a developed site, a business that is racking up tens of millions of dollars in sales, it doesn’t make your .TW domain worth more than it was worth last week.

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

  5. Ace says

    “Just because a huge company buys a developed site, a business that is racking up tens of millions of dollars in sales, it doesn’t make your .TW domain worth more than it was worth last week.”

    Depends, nothing is etched in stone.

  6. MHB says

    Ace

    Explain to me how a .Tw domain is worth more based off the sale of a developed site making tens of millions of dollars.

    Is the word for soap in Taiwan even soap?

  8. Domo Sapiens says

    Posted by MHB:
    In the last few days the domain name Diapers.eu sold for 4,200 euros (approx $6K) and today the domain Soap.tw sold for 5,000 euros (approx $7K).

    Soap.tw for $7k?

    That’s seems like an a lot of money for an extension that most of you, including myself, doesn’t know what country it represents

    ************
    would you say the same if the domains in question were to be DOT CO … D O T C O ?

  9. domain guy says

    @mhb an off extension drives value from the identification of the primary extension ie.com
    so the example is business.com making millions of dollars sold for 345 million and now has no business model.
    the off suffix extension is .ht the domain is business.ht.the owner scott neuman came on your site and stated he was getting 30k type ins per month.at a why park page.
    so here the primary suffix went under business.com and the secondary suffix business.ht is ready for any business model.paid in full and is not tainted with shutting down and writing off 345 million.the .ht suffix has derived value from the .com keyword.business.

  10. MHB says

    domo

    No i would much quicker plunk down $7K for soap.co than for soap.tw

    What is the record price sale for a .tw

    Do you know?

    Do you know without researching?

    How many stories have been written in the mainstream media about any domain ending in .tw in the US?

  11. Domo Sapiens says

    MHB:
    I think you are missing the point on this one , hard to believe for a man with great keywords, in this case the value of the domains resides on what’s to the left of the DOT and not what’s to the right = the extension.
    These are product and/or services that are understood by a lot of non-english semi-eductaed speakers in addition they (both) have proven to be viable ecommerce solutions , Amazon surely studied this purchase.
    The way you feel about the .TW I pretty much feel about the .co I call it the “cat with 9 lives” it refuses to go away he he mainly due to the great marketing team behind “selling the sizzle but not the steak”.
    BTW Over the weekend GordoDaddy made a test for a few hours by showing .co as the first choice in the search box, I wonder how did it go?
    And how many mortals bought a DOT CO inadvertently thinking it was a .com? refund nightmare?

  12. MHB says

    Domo

    Its the entire domain not just the keyword, otherwise you would see .tw with great keywords sell for hundreds of thousands regularly

    As far as people being “tricked into” buying a .co let’s hope not

    Also don’t forget that I was the one that called out registrars, especially Godaddy.com, months ago for not fully disclosing that .co was a country code (ccTLD):

    http://www.thedomains.com/2010/07/25/shouldnt-registrars-at-least-mention-that-co-is-the-country-code-for-colombia/

  13. Jim Fleming says

    “As far as people being “tricked into” buying a .co let’s hope not”
    ===

    Reading the tea leaves from various meetings, it looks like a UNIQUE EIN will be required for each .CO domain in the .USA.

    It seems hard to imagine that a person/company would be “tricked” considering the effort required to migrate their .CO to the .USA.