Online pre-bidding for the live domain name auction that will be held as part of the DomainFest conference just opened today.
The auction will be held on February 2 starting at 4:30 pm Pacific Time.
“Featured” domain names include:
Work.com
QR.com
Security.com
Host.com
Emails.com
Promo.com
QE.com
Unplugged.com
Planners.com
Juice.com
Eve.com
Eco.org
Platinum.com
Empire.com
Marriages.com
CivilUnion.com
Here are the domain names you can currently bid on and the reserve ranges for each.
Obviously more will be added to the list:
| 1800business.com | $10,001 – $25,000 |
| civilunion.com | $1,001 – $2,500 |
| eco.org | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| emails.com | $500,001 – $750,000 |
| eve.com | $500,001 – $750,000 |
| host.com | $1MM – $5MM |
| internetradio.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| juice.com | $750,001 – $1MM |
| marriages.com | $25,001 – $50,000 |
| planners.com | $50,001 – $100,000 |
| plasmatv.com | $25,001 – $50,000 |
| platinum.com | $750,001 – $1MM |
| promo.com | $1MM – $5MM |
| qe.com | $25,001 – $50,000 |
| qr.com | $250,001 – $500,000 |
| security.com | $1MM – $5MM |
| unplugged.com | $100,001 – $250,000 |
| work.com | $1MM – $5MM |
Host.com, Security.com, Work.com, some pretty amazing generics there.
Brad
Out of the list, only one domain will definitely sell, QE.com. Though I think CivilUnion.com has a good chance also.
They will need to market the auction hard to end users to get them there, otherwise we’ll see another auction with a lot of premium domains going unsold.
finally a group of great domains on sale, especially Work.com Security.com Emails.com Promo.com Juice.com Eco.org Platinum.com Marriages.com
Empire.com could be bought by Google to use it as main page domain within a couple of years … 😐
finally a group of great domains on sale, especially Work . com Security . com Emails . com Promo . com Juice . com Eco . org Platinum . com Marriages . com
Empire . com could be bought by Google to use it as main page domain within a couple of years … 😐
QR.com – pretty fancy!
Is $250,000-$500,000 alot to invest for a name that should become the next Groupon? “Go to QR.com – Download Qroupons for your local grocer.” Or, “your vacation destination hotel.” Or, “steep discounts on 3DTVs.” All at QR.com
If your phone needs a QR reader, you may find it at QRReader.org! Choose from seven phone operating systems!
FYI, eco.org had nearly a quarter million visits in 2011
Wow Eve.com, so many meanings
Not every day a name like Security.com comes along.
I half hope Anonymous buys it with stolen wikileaks money and uses it as a central location for mayhem. Then again, it’s likely Wackenhut takes the money it has “stolen” from taxpayers via nice no-bid government contracts and puts up some boring corporate drivel.
They need a new brand – wackenhut sounds like it belongs on an .XXX, honestly.
Good names though. QR is over priced- no real brand can be built on QR that has real meaning. eco.org is a stellar name. Would like that to go to a great cause at a decent price. Given e.co was $81,000 it might be a little steep.
Only civilunion.com will definitely sell: Dan Savage could put pictures of “Santorum” on it as a joke. I’d laugh.
unknowndomainer, what makes eco dot org especially compelling, aside from the brand of course, is that it has thousands of incoming links from organizations and universities all over the world. and out of 700+ million search results for keyword ‘eco’ it usually ranks at or near the top of page one. so it gets pretty significant traffic and has a page rank of 7. and the dot org actually is more meaningful in this instance.
@4oz
In my mind eco.org is potentially one of the Top 5 names for that TLD. Now, I’ve not put much thought into it so perhaps I should say it feels like a Top 5 name for .org.
Just hate to see some useless profiteering company sitting on it when it could be such a great resource.
Why would universities link to the current site? It’s a cheesy blog and some third party job site. The internet will never cease to amaze me.
unknowndomainer
the reason there are thousands of links is because of its past life. its been online for 15 years, and the majority of that time it was an internship program for environmental jobs, and placed thousands of interns, now its a simple jobs board platform for environmental jobs. The original company that was online for so many years went into bankruptcy and they lost the site as part of the dissolution. I suspect now it will go to a significant environment organization. The eco venture groups should be looking at it.
and for the eco.org lovers there are going to be multiple bids for .eco so with a .eco TLD coming in 2013/2014 does that make eco.org more or less valuable?
If I have 100K-250K to spend on an eco name, I’d go for eco.com instead of the .org.
Way overpriced for domainers. I doubt any end users will bid.
@michael
I think the uncertainty of the .eco TLD and who is going to win the rights to it.. should be a benefit to eco dot org in the meantime. read the update at the bottom of this article for the update.
looks like a battle looming..russia vs gore
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/sep/28/al-gore-group-eco-domain
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Well if nothing else these potential .Eco applicants might all want to bid on the .org
@ unknowndomainer, Did you read my comment? How can you assess QR.com overpriced? QR stands for “Quick Response.” Isn’t QR.com a huge opportunity?
@Louise
I know what QR is. The opportunities for making money on that technology directly is fairly limited. QR generators are free. The value might be in clever monetization, advertising schemes and this is evidenced by your very own post in which you immediately jumped from QR.com to coming up with fancy brandable terms like QRoupon. If QR had that value it wouldn’t need that.
As silly as your example is – wouldn’t QRoupon – or whatever clever branding you could use be more/or as valuable as QR.com? QR.com is the same as barcode.com, url.com etc. It’s a short keyword but too close to its actual meaning, imho. Logo.com is similar but there’s a service, a business and a model that can be created and that was considered overpriced by many.
QR? It’s a two letter .com. It does have a meaning for the acronym but at the end of the day who really cares?
@4oz
Thanks for the history. I generally search only using the last year as a frame of reference so historical links don’t interest me too much. I question historical value if it goes from the junky blog it is now to a real site…traffic and links belong in the domainer ghetto. I advocate data pruning and advances in semantic technologies will eventually reduce the value of the past (when it’s irrelevant to the current)
I do hope a serious eco venture group or benefactor gets it.
@MHB
eco.org would be a good buy for someone going for .eco but many of us are still hoping that the flood of new TLDs gets halted. The .eco registry would, in all likelihood, need to be very restrictive use to have value and be part of an eco based environment. If it’s a profiteering venture then they will dilute the .eco value: it’s almost like to succeed financially they have to destroy the integrity of the brand – therefore the eco.org will always be worth more, imho.
Many TLDs will be boom and bust.
@unknowndomainer, thanx for nice and thoughtful reply.
I like plain QR. May I say why? The artistic part of my brain reads those two letters width combined as equal to the height, in essence making a square, which is a good memory aid of a typical qr code®. The term, “qr code” should appear with a trademark symbol, as the expression, “qr code,” is a trademark of Denso. That is why I prefer my domain, qrreader.org to qrcodereader.org, though the latter has higher exact search. If Denso wants to pull the plug, lots of domains would be in jeopardy!
So, I like that it’s plain, “QR,” and I like that the two letters form a square which is a visual reminder of an actual qr code, square. It’s unique to QR. Not many domains = cute logo. I like the dot tv extension, because it makes the domain appear more like a logo . . .
So I appreciate you are saying, it’s too generic, like in that ongoing debate about one-word, vague-meaning domains vs longer descriptive domains. Rick Latona has a blog post that he has found longtail keyword domain websites earn better than short domains.
Putting aside the prices quoted, one name I would go all out for is QR.
For an end user, the price quoted is peanuts. Goes to say domain investors can’t pay the right valuation and look for cheap prices.