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Breaking: 8.xyz Hits the DOMAINfest .asia Auction at No Reserve

August 13, 2015 by Michael Berkens

 

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The domain name 8.XYZ will be in the auction as part of the DOMAINfest.asia conference that will be held in Macau China from September 4th- 7th.

RightoftheDot.com in conjunction with 4.CN will be holding an online domain name auction of around 150+ domains from September 2nd-September 9th.

The auction will be in English and Chinese and bids will be show in US dollars and Chinese Yuan.

All transactions will be cleared through DN.Cn which is the leading escrow service in China.

The number 8 of course is the luckiest number in Chinese culture and the new gTLD .XYZ has been in the global news this week ever since Google announced it’s new holding company Alphabet’s web address will be abc.xyz.

Domain names containing the number 8 have sold for big money.

Most recently 8.co sold at Heritage Auction in February of this year for $115K.

88888.com was sold by Frank Schilling’s Name Administration for $245,000 also earlier this year.

W8.com sold for $140,000 of February of this year.

The domain name 8.XYZ is being offered at no reserve and is arguably the best .xyz domain of all (except now abc.xyz)

The domain is owned by the .XYZ registry and is being offered for sale for the 1st time.

Based on the 8.co sale for $115,000,  coupled with the fact that a substantial percentage of the registered .xyz domain names are registered to registrants in China,  we expect this domain to easily hit the five figures, if not the six figures.

We expect to have the complete inventory for the RightoftheDot.com/4.cn auction to loaded by next week on 4.cn and I can tell you we have a very impressive list of NNN.com domains, LLL.com domains LLLL.com domains as well as single word.com as well as some special new gTLD’s.

Bidding instructions will follow.

By the way the submission period is now closed for this auction.

As a disclaimer, I am a director of RightoftheDot.com

Filed Under: Domain Auctions, Domain Conferences, Domainfest, New gTLD's, XYZ

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. EAR says

    August 13, 2015 at 10:14 pm

    What’s so ‘breaking’ about a $200 domain going to auction??

  2. SoFreeDomains says

    August 14, 2015 at 12:50 pm

    It’s time for me to learn Chinese so that I can beat the Chinese in the domain game. On a more serious note, .xyz is gaining momentum day by day and I see 8.xyz making the 6 or 7 figure.

    • Tim says

      August 25, 2015 at 9:05 pm

      6-7 figure? well I did predict cloud.xyz would sell 4 figure but $6,600 was a bit of a surprise, would have thought $1,000-$2,000. Maybe I will be shocked over 8.xyz. I could see Chinese market paying 5 figure easy for 8.xyz… maybe even 6 but 7 seems extreme.. then again, I may be shocked.

  3. DNSal.es says

    September 5, 2015 at 3:25 pm

    Most L.MBA are still available for $249 up to $999. So unless it is a catchy name, and yes 8 means a lot to Chinese, it is not so spectacular. Will be nice to see a new records in the zone.

  4. joy antony says

    September 24, 2015 at 6:35 am

    whois updated.
    Domain Name: 8.XYZ
    Domain ID: D2207207-CNIC
    WHOIS Server: whois.west263.com
    Referral URL: http://www.west.cn
    Updated Date: 2015-09-24T07:32:41.0Z
    Creation Date: 2014-03-20T22:58:21.0Z
    Registry Expiry Date: 2018-03-20T23:59:59.0Z
    Sponsoring Registrar: CHENGDU WEST DIMENSION DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Sponsoring Registrar IANA ID: 1556
    Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
    Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited https://icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
    Domain Status: transferPeriod https://icann.org/epp#transferPeriod
    Registrant ID: xyz1949388943609
    Registrant Name: zhang peng fei
    Registrant Organization: zhang peng fei
    Registrant Street: lao shan qu liao yang dong lu 46hao
    Registrant City: qing dao
    Registrant State/Province: sd
    Registrant Postal Code: 260000
    Registrant Country: CN
    Registrant Phone: +86.18661707675
    Registrant Phone Ext:
    Registrant Fax: +86.18661707675
    Registrant Fax Ext:


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