Today the organizers of TRAFFIC released the list of domain names to be auctioned off during the TRAFFIC Vegas conference which is being held from May 28th-June 1 at the Bellagio Hotel.
The auction will be held on May 30th from 2PM-4PM Local time, in Las Vegas.
“More than 50% of the list has NO RESERVE and will sell to the highest bidder. ”
“You can bid in person, by text, by email or by phone. Further instructions to follow and will be available on the website on the schedule page”.
I ran the entire list of domain names in the auction through Estibot.com and the total Estibot value of all domain names in the auction is $1,850,000, with 4 domain names having a value in the six figures and another 14 having a value in the five figures.
Thriller.com has the highest appraised value at $784,000.
MovieTheater.com has an Estibot.com appraised value of $230,000
Bouquet.com has a Estibot.com value of $180,000
Therapeutic.com has an Estibot.com value of $158,000
Here is the full list
| Domain | Appraised Value |
| 3dchannel.com | $520 |
| 3dmovie.com | $13,000 |
| 3dtraveller.com | $0 |
| 777.me | $190 |
| aaaratings.com | $1,300 |
| affiliateadnetwork.com | $260 |
| afq.com | $27,000 |
| artist.us | $3,900 |
| artists.us | $790 |
| bereaved.com | $30,000 |
| bouquet.com | $185,000 |
| breaching.com | $3,800 |
| breastimplantremoval.com | $8,500 |
| bulletproofvest.com | $14,000 |
| cashbusiness.com | $13,000 |
| cellularwallets.com | $0 |
| champwrestling.com | $0 |
| cheapclicks.com | $35 |
| checkbuy.com | $2,000 |
| coater.com | $15,000 |
| consolidatedebt.org | $640 |
| customnameplates.com | $680 |
| cycleclassifieds.com | $2,800 |
| datascanners.com | $2,500 |
| delinquentaccounts.com | $910 |
| delinquenttaxproperties.com | $300 |
| divorcerate.com | $25,000 |
| europeanautos.com | $630 |
| fantasydomain.com | $75 |
| freecityguide.com | $540 |
| freevehiclerecord.com | $75 |
| freevinhistory.com | $1,000 |
| friending.com | $5,900 |
| gamesnaps.com | $80 |
| gays.us | $3,900 |
| hindering.com | $2,100 |
| illegals.com | $17,000 |
| ilovecali.com | $1,100 |
| ilovenevada.com | $220 |
| iloveutah.com | $820 |
| importrugs.com | $710 |
| jax.net | $14,000 |
| jesuschrist.es | $2,700 |
| klaxons.com | $70,000 |
| lasvegasreservations.net | $350 |
| lasvegassigns.com | $2,200 |
| lawnmowing.com | $38,000 |
| mensupplements.com | $2,400 |
| movietheatre.com | $96,000 |
| movietheater.com | $230,000 |
| mylartape.com | $4,800 |
| nevadarooms.com | $80 |
| newhomeplans.com | $2,800 |
| newhouseplans.com | $910 |
| nudegallery.com | $11,000 |
| nyccam.com | $90 |
| officedating.com | $470 |
| onlineclassrooms.com | $380 |
| pettshirts.com | $670 |
| proboatrace.com | $0 |
| proboatracing.com | $75 |
| puppetmaster.com | $28,000 |
| pureslots.com | $75 |
| reunionplanning.com | $1,200 |
| romerestaurants.com | $2,400 |
| silly.tv | $1,700 |
| slurpy.com | $5,600 |
| strategicworkforce.com | $970 |
| therapeutic.com | $158,000 |
| thriller.com | $784,000 |
| time.travel | Unsupported Extension |
| topbrokers.com | $1,300 |
| vcguys.com | $0 |
| vehiclerecord.com | $670 |
| virtualslotmachines.com | $1,000 |
| visualvoicemails.com | $140 |
| whatthef.com | $2,900 |
| workingovertime.com | $750 |
| Total | $1,850,905 |
Hello MHB,
Are you Serious Here??
Only village idiots would lend any credence to Estibots totally flawed and professionaly ignored Metrics for Domain Valuations.They are the professional Industries laughing stock .
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Jeff
A surprising amount of people in the industry look at estibot.com as one factor in the valuation of domains, certainly my opinion of it is well known as you would know if you had any memory of any posts we write over here.
Anyway feel free to give you your opinion as to value of the domains as head of the “The Contact group (Mastermind Group) with combined 100 years experience”
i think it was a rather weak list but all rick can do is pick from the names offered up.
i don’t think there’ll be a lot of big ticket sales out of these. thanks for doin’ the work of estiboting (is that a word?) them anyway.
Hello MHB,
Oh so you agree that Estibot.com is an Industry Joke?
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
http://www.thedomains.com/2012/11/02/marchexs-sales-prove-it-estibot-appraisals-are-worthless/
Allright that clarifies my observation considerably. Thanks MHB
Gratefully, Jeff schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
What some may call this a weak list, do not realize is that in three years this list will be 5 multiples at least.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
R. E. = ” Anyway feel free to give you your opinion as to value of the domains as head of the “The Contact group (Mastermind Group) with combined 100 years experience ”
This must be a mis print of what I reall said :
R. E. = ” The Contact Group is an assemblage of colleagues I have met in my 40 + = years experince in Marketing Analysis which began with Rockefeller I.B.E.C. group where I was head Marketing Analyst Int’lMarkets. The Contact group (Mastermind Group) combined has over 100 years experience. ”
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Ok so feel free to have the Mastermind Group value this set of domains
So who is the “village idiot” Jeff ?
Anyway we have found that DomainMongrel.com offers an equally useless opinion – and in most cases completely different 🙂
R. E. = ” Ok so feel free to have the Mastermind Group value this set of domains ”
This is MISSION IMPOSSIBLE even for us.
There are so many hidden Strategic advantages to each and every individual (.COM) Profit Center that Metric Baseline Valuations can never grasp. Hence each property is its own individual Masterpiece, with its own unique Valuation.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
The Joke is not on Estibot… the Joke is on the quality of most of the domains on auction at what should be the main event in this industry.
Perhaps the real joke is the realization by (.COM) Profit Center holders, that at this juncture its just plain stupid to sell your properties.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Instead of posting Estibot’s “Appraised Value” , wouldn’t the reserve have been more beneficial to potential buyers/sellers/onlookers ?
Hello Stu,
This would have been a more beneficial plug. Glad you brought this up and not me.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Some nice names in there.
These numbers are a joke. Divide these prices by between 3-5 and you are much more in the ballpark. Except for names like klaxons.com, $70,000, divide that one by 100. Mike, you should do a poll on what the total price for all the domains will be. 50% of the list with no reserve is going to put the total price of the names sold extremely low. Not even close to the Estibot numbers. Divide the estibot number by 5 and maybe your close.
I reread the analysis you did at http://www.thedomains.com/2012/11/02/marchexs-sales-prove-it-estibot-appraisals-are-worthless/
That was an award-deserving article.
I mainly use estibot as a filter more than a valuation tool. It is wonderful for that purpose.
Stu
The reserve prices weren’t released by the TRAFFIC folk today.
Can’t publish what I don’t know
Tony
Thank you
Some interesting valuations from Estibot on this list… I suppose we should just wait and see what they actually sell for and then we’ll know for sure how far off Estibot was off mark..
@Berkens
Good job. I trust that you will also publish the reserves/no reserves when it’s available. Looking forward to seeing that.
I’m surprised to learn that there’s something you don’t know 😉
What does no reserve mean? Even Moniker no reserve sell for low xxx. There will be a minimum price on no reserve, to cover administration fee. The poll should be, which “no reserve” domain will actually sell?
Does Estibot revise its numbers down when “no reserve” domains don’t sell? Estibot shouldn’t just price domains at their highest sell price.
Only A-holes put out Guestimate valuations on (Intangible Assets that are only priced at Sale).
Jokers still think (.COM Profit centers are Tangible Assets ) WRONG
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
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I’m not a domain maven, but I’d give the highest valuations to, in this order: 1) Bouquet.com, 2)movietheater.com, 3) thriller.com, 4) therapeutic.com
What…no dot co ,dot pw
I am really disappointed!
Thhe Biggest problem we see is most people look at Domains as Tangible assets with baseline Values.
Therefore they think that just like other Tangible assets they will be subject to increasing and decreasing values = WRONG
Art masterpieces for instance have never decreased in value for example.
Most people cannot wrap their minds around One of a kind collectibles values. Too many (.COM ) holders swallow buyers Kool aid and sell for less not more. GET SMART
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
Just curious, why do you subscribe to Estibot’s service if you think it is worthless?
Alan
Because as I said some in the industry take Estibot it into account in the valuation of domains and therefore I like to check it for myself rather than take someone’s word for it
Alan,
Let me give you a capsule history of Estibot.com.
For years now Estibot has taken it on themselves to place Search Engine placements attached to many (.COM Properties ) on the same serach page as the (.COMs ) property listing, in search Engine Hierarchys. Amazing that they have not had their asses sued off with this practice? You may ask why?
Because onyour domain names search page, often one click away from your search page location they have placed an arbitrary valuation for your domains value. This practice has dogged Domainers for a long time and in many cases has suppressed Domains percieved values.
Bastardos, to put it lightly
Gratefully, Jeff schneider (Contact Group0 (Metal Tiger)
5 biggest steals on this list will be:
lasvegassigns.com
nevadarooms.com
freecityguide.com
silly.tv
slurpy.com
Estibot lol
valuations on the non-.com’s at the traffic auction :
777.me ($8)
artist.us ($4,000)
artists.us ($2,250)
consolidatedebt.org ($90)
jax.net ($700)
jesuschrist.es ($0)
klaxons.com ($14,300)
lasvegasreservations.net ($10,800)
silly.tv ($2,400)
time.travel ($80,000)
Good names. Good to see 3D domains up for auction:
3dChannel.com
3dMovie.com
3dTraveller.com
Interested to see how much the values end up………
am glad I got allabout3d.com and declined a xxxx offer.
If I’m not interested as a buyer I have trouble arguing for or against a domain valuation.
THAT SAID, I would pay real good money to someone that could make me a Jeff Schneider internet filter.
Dude is trolling up every domain related site I frequent.
Mike, you got any sort of filter in your bag here? 🙂
Hey Bryan,
Hey if what I say is truthfull to some and others it drives to distraction, ignore me.
The trouble is the truth is hard for some to swallow. Peace Brother.
Gratefully, Jeff schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
I have seen this done before where the total Estibot value is within 20% of the total of all sale prices. Granted there were a number of domains where Estibot was waaaaay off , but the too low canceled the too high. That is where Estibot works best, as an average of a number of sales. This should be a better test than Marchex.
I totally agree it should not be a final guide, but as a filter you are hedging the probability that automated appraisals (and thereby objective criteria) will become more popular in the future.
I had a guy try to use an Estibot appraisal to knock 2/3 off my price on an LLLL.com. I wrote back that I had discussed with the site owner how LLLLs needed special treatment. I got the sale.
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What some may call this a weak list, do not realize is that in three years this list will be 5 multiples at least.
Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)
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ok dont talk about it, put your money where your mouth is and buy them, at least one of them
BUT you wont because nearly all of them cant be used for a business and on there own are dont profit centres
btw why do you act like you work for Rick Shady Schwartz? there’s nothing to be proud of, considering his partners Dean Fat Shannon from the Aussie porn mafia and others
I am from Spain, I like JesusChrist.es . Majority in spain are Christians I would be looking for this domain as an investment .
I had a domain appraised for $ 450,000 by estibot which no one bought for even $ 500 and I dropped it.
And another valued at $ 360 which I sold for $$,$$$.
Those TRAFFIC numbers are not accurate. I know for a fact as I won a couple domains on that list, and was outbid on another.
Does anyone really believe a LLL.com sold for $700 or Bouquet.com for $850?
Brad
Such frustration interweb 🙂
Here is the link to the results
http://www.elliotsblog.com/traffic-auction-results-update-8417#comments
The link above to Elliot’s blog has the correct numbers