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Md.org Sells for $555,655 in an All Time Record For Namejet.com

April 12, 2013 by Michael Berkens

The two letter domain MD.org name just sold for $555,5650 in what we think is an all time record for a sale on Namejet.com

Interestingly its one of the only .Org domains to sell in the past two weeks on Godaddy.com or Namejet.com each of which had single letter and single numbered .org domains for sale with what appears to be reserves of $50K each.

We are pretty sure that bidding on Md.Org came down to National A-1 which owns Free.com (the Bidders name was Freedotcom) and the group that recently launched Md.Com led by Ari Goldberger.

Other .Org  domain names which did not hit reserve this week on Namejet.com include 7.org (high bid of $15K); J.org (high bid $31K); 9.Org (high bid of $10K); 8.Org (high bid $23K); B.Org (high bid $31K); 0.Org (High bid of $16,500)

Some other two letter .org’s also failed to hit reserve and sell including Tx.org (high bid $19,100) FL.org (high bid $15,300)

The one letter .org’s on Godaddy had a starting bid of $50K each which none of them generated a starting bid of $50K for .

 

 

 

Filed Under: Domain Industry, Domain Sales, NameJet

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.

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Comments

  1. 3D is my life says

    April 12, 2013 at 5:09 pm

    Smh.

  2. seb says

    April 12, 2013 at 5:15 pm

    $555,650

  3. BrianWick says

    April 12, 2013 at 5:15 pm

    I am sure it is no coincidence that MD.org was put into auction after MD.com was launched. I do not get into non.com auctions – so which bidders won.

  4. Domenclature.com says

    April 12, 2013 at 5:23 pm

    A good sell any TLD, is a good sell for all TLDs.

  5. Brands-and-Jingles says

    April 12, 2013 at 5:39 pm

    let’s google site:md.com

    about 19,500 results

    pretty of the gap between those claimed 500,000 sites they already have…

  6. seb says

    April 12, 2013 at 5:48 pm

    @Brian
    The winning bidder is winters

  7. Acro says

    April 12, 2013 at 6:11 pm

    Keep your fingers crossed the winner is MD.com/Ari, otherwise whoever plonked 1/2 million on the .org of a developed, warhorse .com must have lots of cash to waste.

  8. Simon Johnson says

    April 12, 2013 at 8:08 pm

    A great result for NameJet and very impressive for a .org !

  9. GenericGene says

    April 12, 2013 at 10:47 pm

    Nice Work ~~

  10. Tony Lam says

    April 12, 2013 at 11:01 pm

    Question: How much would it cost to get the .MD extension? Because I’d rather own .MD than MD.org.

  11. Brands-and-Jingles says

    April 12, 2013 at 11:15 pm

    @Tony not much. But good ones like 2nd.md are taken and are actual.ly used.

  12. Alessandro Dacosta says

    April 13, 2013 at 12:11 am

    Great job! you guys helped generate nice buzz. Love it!

  13. Domenclature.com says

    April 13, 2013 at 12:45 am

    Another reason why new gtld hopefuls should be worried. Dot MD is actually available now, and nobody cares, or knows about it. Doctors.MD is there, and not used for much. So tell me, if Doctors are not rushing to replace their .COM with .MD, why would musicians go for .MUSIC, etc?

  14. Michael Berkens says

    April 13, 2013 at 8:44 am

    .md is the Internet country code top-level domain (ccTLD) for Moldova.

    “the .md top-level domain was once heavily marketed toward people in the medical profession at a premium price. As of 2012 it is marketed toward the general public for $150.00 per year and there are approximately 20,000 .md registrations.”

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.md

  15. Michael Berkens says

    April 13, 2013 at 8:46 am

    So if the numbers are correct that $3.5M a year for the registry

  16. Domenclature.com says

    April 13, 2013 at 11:44 am

    Yes, but what for the Registrant? What does the Registrant get? In terms of recognition, reell value, traffic share, solid rewards? What? It’s always the Registry this, registry that….. believe it or not, others have to win too for any sustained success to endure. WIN-WIN situations must be the focus, or expect a bust at some point. People, businesses, entrepreneurs are not going to do it for altruistic reasons, or for vanity sake. Most rational humans try to maximize utility. This idea of “don’t believe your lying eyes” is getting tiresome. What the world needs today is not another stupid TLD, we have enough of those, we need innovation in the ones we’ve got. I’m just saying.

    And Berkens, take a position and stick with it. Are you for the new TLDs or not? This your “I’m a journalist that calls it like I see it” is irritating. The new TLds is for the Registries in your opinion, then come out boldly and say so.

  17. Michael Berkens says

    April 13, 2013 at 12:17 pm

    Not every post can be an opinion piece some stuff is just news

    My opinion on the new gTLD’s hasn’t changed in several years.

    Some of the new gTLD’s will be very profitable for the registries.

    As a domainer if I could get condos.nyc or condos.miami or some prime domains I would as well.


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