HugeDomains.com has passed NameMedia’s BuyDomains.com to be the largest Privately Owned Domain holder in the world with over 1,000,000 domains owned.
The number of domains owned by HugeDomains.com as of today “is about” 1,016,374 according to DomainTools.com
The company which was previously thought to own the most domain names, Name Media which owns BuyDomains.com owns about 956,085 domains also according to DomainTools.com.
At a cost of $8 a year for a .Com domain name HugeDomains.com is looking at a annual carrying cost of over $8,000,000 a year just to carry that amount of these domains.
In 2010 HugeDomains.com owned just over 200,000 domains.
You can read more about the company that is headquartered in Denver Colorado here.
WOW!
I can barely keep my head above waters with my 450 names.
Congrats!
Michel
http://www.flukke.com
Why would it cost him $8 a name if he has his own accredited registrar ?
the question is: where does the money comes 🙂
@jose nope that’s not really the question.
Lance
The wholesale costs registrars pay to Verisign is $7.85 per domain, then there is the $.18 fee that you have to pay to ICANN.
That is the cost to any registrar, excluding special promotions that Verisign has run from time to time.
I remembered when they had 18,000 names in 09.
I think their key was to sell low.They do make money otherwise they wouldn’t be in business.
It would be very extraordinary nice if they would provide us with a weekly report like Sedo and Afternic.
Congrats to HUGE Domains they earn their name.
Mike
“That is the cost to any registrar, excluding special promotions that Verisign has run from time to time.”
Think Ill leave it at that. 🙂
Huge Domains has over 1 million domains listed for sale on their site but what is amazing is that only 13,000 of those names are priced above $2,595. We have heard many times from many people that the $2,500 price point is ideal and is obviously proven in this business model. They would have to sell around 8 domains a day at this price point just to cover registration fees which seems like a lot to sell on a daily basis but probably not when considering the sheer volume of names. I think Huge Domains gives each name a one year shot at selling and if it doesn’t sell they drop the name and save the registration cost and only keep names that they think really have a chance at selling. Clearly by dropping names they save huge amounts in registration costs and their profits increase tremendously.
they take the “Walmart” approach …
Good names selling a low to very low prices…
it’s a numbers game for them, they are also very good at choosing at the drops.
Keep in mind that they’ve done this by using their own dropcatching programs and completely left snapnames, namejet, backorderzone, pool, etc out of the picture.
I also remember when they had 18k names in 2009. Use to see them pick up a lot of names, along with Domain Market.
Andrew Reberry is the dropcatching king! Congrats to him on this huge milestone.
not a big fan of some of their inventory….
http://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=nudechild&e=com
http://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=ButtRaped&e=com
http://www.hugedomains.com/domain_profile.cfm?d=childrenporno&e=com
we did our best to keep similar controversial/adult names out of circulation for years by paying renewals on them and redirecting to this page we put together… http://exileddomains.com/
it’s just a shame hugedomains wasn’t just a little more diligent in the acquisition process in order to avoid potentially compromising their integrity by direct marketing sensitive porn related names like those..
aside from that, i salute them for their success!
steven
Steven
I don’t think those links are going to work but I see the domains your pointing out and well two of them are shameful.
UPDATE
I just received this email from HugeDomains.com regarding the domains that Steve pointed out:
“”We have worked very hard and very diligently over the years to maintain an extremely clean portfolio.””
We have invested substantial time and effort into our extensive filters and blacklists.”
Regarding Steve’s comment to your blog pointing, we don’t want anything to do with those domain names. ”
“All three of these domains have been immediately deleted. We absolutely don’t want anything to do with this type of stuff.”
That’s certainly a “Huge” amount of domains to buy/renew/manage…….
…… NameMedia/BuyDomains had received many tens of millions of investment $$$ from “outside” institutional private equity investors…
Is HugeDomains/Turn Commerce self-funded with founders money and internal cash flow ?? …. or did they also receive additional funding/investment/venture capital from “outside” funding sources & investors ???
The Reberry brothers are hard workers who started from scratch few years ago, so it’s great to see all the road done within a so short period.
Andrew just sent me a note saying some new and exciting projects coming out before the end of the year.
So apparently it’s just a start.
It’s great all this energy!
Impressive drop catching abilities. I have run up against them and find it impossible to compete without Namejet and Snapnames. Kidos.
On the other hand they have picked up dozens of my non English domains for which I have near zero traffic and no offers over 2+ years so I question their model. We’ll find out soon enough.
Impressive drop catching abilities. I have run up against them and find it impossible to compete without Namejet and Snapnames. Kudos.
On the other hand they have picked up dozens of my non English domains for which I have near zero traffic and no offers over 2+ years so I question their model. We’ll find out soon enough.
Since he uses an automated process to pick which domains to catch, its inevitable he’s going to have a lot of junk and sketchy domains. I find it hard to believe he was able to do this without some kind of loan or invesment. It simply grew too fast to be organic.
I believe they use underhanded tactics to get domains that people are legitimately searching for via godaddy, 1and1 and other registrars. There is absolutely no doubt they have deals with these companies and point their automated tools to catch the domains at exactly the right time right under legitimate peoples faces.
I hope this companies goes down like a ton of bricks.
Lets hope their systems don’t get hacked one day! 😐