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Lot’s of domains again today, mostly .info, it looks like somebody is dropping all their old .info’s, I know who is dropping some of them. It seems kind of crazy to keep these names for 13 years and drop them now right when .info seems to be gaining some steam, and .info seems as good as any other new TLD coming, but I understand, and obviously they had 13 years to sell them for what they were hoping for and they didn’t, that says something.
I also caught up on my GoDaddy .com coupon transfers today, I transferred 11 domains for $1.99, 1 domain for $2.95, and 3 domains for $4.95, all plus the .18 cent ICANN fee, all .com, all in the US, and all required payment with a credit card, no paypal payments, but they all worked and I posted them on my coupon page.
And on a sad note I just heard Nelson Mandela passed away…
Here are the domain picks dropping on December 6th 2013:
AllIWant.com – All I want is this domain at the moment
BecauseWeMatter.com – Here is a domain for all those poor striking McWorkers
CasaBlue.com – It sounds good, but it looks like it’s a big club in London
CelebrateMyLife.com – Good name for that Facebook afterlife site I want to make
ForkLiftTruckSales.com – A bit long but they are called this sometimes
GrowSeeds.com – I like it, I love growing things, don’t like the GMO thing much
HappyTipi.com – Lot’s of Tipi’s where I am, hotels and B&B’s use them as rooms even
HighTopSneaker.com – I loved my red ball jets, plural is better but still a good name
ImSoMad.com – LOL, I like this one, I would make a politics blog
LHIP.com – I like the word hip
MKOF.com – For more dropping 4L’s see NameCatch.com
MoreThanYou.com – Kind of a catchy little phrase?
MustList.com – I am not sure if this is so great but I felt I Must List it
NMForum.com – I like it because NM is New Mexico and that is where I live
Octocopter.com – These are what Amazon will be using for same day doorstep delivery
OilR.com – Here is an interesting 4L
PastLove.com – Post about all those great gals that left you
PoolClear.com – If it’s not a pool cleaning product already it should be
SelfMortgage.com – It has that huge word mortgage, otherwise I am not sure what this is
TopForklifts.com – I like the top prefix
Viral-Video.com – It’s a huge term these days
XXXGals.com – Decent name if you make adult sites
YNMD.com – New Mexico? Medical Doctor?
CarRentalOrlando.net
Douchebags.net
DownloadPorno.net
HotBath.net
NameBid.net
SlidingGlassDoors.net
SlidingPatioDoors.net
CityFarm.org
CountryHotels.org
DesignerHomes.org
eManagers.org
ePlayer.org
FranchiseFinancing.org
HousingLoans.org
OnlineJobFinder.org
PerfectCare.org
PrivateBroker.org
RoadRaces.org
TimeCapsules.org
URLForwarding.org
WaterFaucet.org
WeddingBouquets.org
WhyGreen.org
WineMart.org
WorkHunter.org
CoffeeCake.me
Filing.me
FirstTime.me
GayDate.me
HandTool.me
iResearch.me
Marlin.me
Mathias.me
SelfSufficiency.me
Acceptance.tv
Affirmation.tv
MediaCast.tv
Takeaway.tv
Attachments.info
BlueRibbon.info
Botany.info
BungyJump.info
Cameos.info
Candlelight.info
Canoes.info
Ceramica.info
Cohesive.info
Concubine.info
CorporateGifts.info
Cryogenic.info
CuttingTools.info
Cuz.info
DataCloud.info
Dividends.info
DragRacing.info
DubaiNews.info
Ejaculation.info
Enemas.info
Environmentalist.info
Evil.info
FarmMachinery.info
FilmMaking.info
Fluid.info
Folly.info
FruitSalad.info
GermanCars.info
Habanera.info
Hoses.info
Infants.info
Kosmetic.info
Lashes.info
Leaders.info
Lifestyles.info
Limbo.info
Manual.info
Mexicana.info
MonsterTruck.info
MountainBoarding.info
Nuns.info
Pagan.info
Paintbrush.info
Phonebooks.info
Playbooks.info
Publication.info
Putting.info
RareMetals.info
Rummage.info
Saviour.info
Smuggler.info
Snowman.info
Snowmobiling.info
BuffaloWings.us
Dramas.us
Electrons.us
Jav.us
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Are these real drops, that won’t be pulled back later, seems like it’s the same company dropping them all, and they are much to smart for that?
All names listed are dropping tomorrow and can not of course be pulled back from pending delete status
All names listed are dropping tomorrow and can not of course be pulled back from pending delete status
Mark sometimes you just have to let go.
You have one of my domains in your list: FilmMaking.info
But I also see a few I would like to have.
Like I said I understand, I have dropped better lol…
“… drop them now right when .info seems to be gaining some steam …”
.Info are gaining some steam? where? lol … sorry, but I don’t see that at all.
As far as I see, if we exclude a few German-speaking buyers (see for ex. Gold.info, sold last June for 10k, and “gold” is a huge keyword) and some deals among domainers, mainly during specific organized auctions, .info market is almost non-existent.
Well, you already know what I think about .info … and, what’s more, soon some more junk extensions are coming … 😉
I guess you’re right Andrea, I didn’t mean they were selling for anything significant, I just meant I was seeing some sell and I didn’t used to see many sales, and with all these new TLD’s on the horizon maybe .info will hang on the coattails. But I suppose the bigger reality is Gold.info at $10k and Yummy dropping all these words because they didn’t sell them, I have one .info and it’s probably not as good as many of these I see drop and I am not regging them so that is where I am at with them…
“I have one .info and it’s probably not as good as many of these I see drop and I am not regging them so that is where I am at with them…”
Good to hear Mark, I mean good choice, I don’t have any .info and at the moment I’ve no intention to buy any. 😉
I guess Yummy realized that those names weren’t so … yummy … lol 😀
.info are being sold.
I have sold a few this year all from $2000 and up to $5000.
Non of these have made it to any domain name sales report.
They don’t have .com prices but .tv, .me, .co are sold also for similar prices.
I am so confused lol…
Konstantinos,
I never said that there are no .info sales, but that, as you can read above “As far as I see, if we exclude a few German-speaking buyers (see for ex. Gold.info, sold last June for 10k, and “gold” is a huge keyword) and some deals among domainers, mainly during specific organized auctions, .info market is almost non-existent.”
I think your sales, which I can’t verify, since they are not public, are among the two categories I mentioned earlier.
Furthermore, and you can check this by yourself, many sold .info domains are now parked, which means that .info market is mainly domainers-driven and not end-users driven, and therefore very illiquid.
Personally I think that a market with very limited end users participation is not healthy, and easy to manipulate, and this is true also for other markets, not only for domains.
No offense, nothing personal against you, but maybe you are a bit biased cause in your portfolio there are many .info … 😉
P.S.
As regards the other 3 extensions you mentioned, IMHO, .co is just a heavily marketing-driven cctld, with very few end users (Colombian companies mainly use .com, or com.co), while .tv and .me are very specific extensions, sort of niche markets for specific end users.
As for .info value, well, let’s say that, on average, maybe it’s 1% of corresponding .com.
Imo is easier to sell a single word .info than a 2-3 word .com, because single word is easy to find while the combo .com needs exposure.
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We do not know the business plan of Yummy, maybe they sold enough with profit and decided to drop the rest and start something new.
I also sold some .info this year at an average of $500 but took back my full capital at .info x 4 and have about 50 relatively good single words rest.
I tend to agree with Mark that .info will be probably gain with new tlds as it is 4 letters and many new are > 5, it is descriptive, generic and will have a new identity. It is psychological in a way, the 4 letters tld was long for 13 years but with all new 5-6-7-8 letters it appears short
Hi Manos,
– “Imo is easier to sell a single word .info than a 2-3 word .com, because single word is easy to find while the combo .com needs exposure.”
I don’t think so, just check sales stats and you’ll see it’s true the opposite, by a wide margin.
Check DNS, Sedo, GoDaddy, etc, sales stats.
Exposure does not mean anything here, the fact is that a .com better fits the need of end users.
Also .co has a lot of (marketing) exposure, but it still remains what I said before.
.Info can be good for info sites or similar uses, but they are not considered interesting by end users selling products/services (a local exception is represented by German-speaking markets).
– “We do not know the business plan of Yummy, maybe they sold enough with profit and decided to drop the rest and start something new.”
Exactly, we don’t know their business plan, and how much they paid for them, etc, so maybe what you are saying it’s not true, and they just struggled to sell them, so they decided to drop all those names.
Furthermore, remember that for some people it’s hard to admit having being wrong about something …;)
– “I also sold some .info this year at an average of $500 but took back my full capital at .info x 4 and have about 50 relatively good single words rest.”
Good for you, though I can’t verify this.
– “I tend to agree with Mark that .info will be probably gain with new tlds as it is 4 letters and many new are > 5, it is descriptive, generic and will have a new identity. It is psychological in a way, the 4 letters tld was long for 13 years but with all new 5-6-7-8 letters it appears short”
Well, let me tell you that IMHO .info is not descriptive, cause it does not describe anything, it’s just supposed to give “info” about something, a keyword that can be descriptive, and generic.
The function of a gtld is not that of being descriptive, unless it’s targeted for a specific users base.
Keywords can be descriptive.
Generic is not a plus, it’s how normally gtlds should be.
New identity? lol … good luck with it.
With new gtlds coming, .info identity is not gonna change, there will just be more confusion.
As regards length, well, .net and .org are way better and shorter.
And other 3 letters gtlds are coming, like .web.
It seems that people who owns many .info are trying to justify their purchases ex post …
Andrea here are the countries of my last 6 .info sales all between $2000 and $5000 and all to end users.
Russia
Australia
UK
USA
Hong Kong
France/Qatar
So no german countries and no domainers.
I don’t appreciate adding “which I can’t verify” to anything I or Manos say about .info sales.
If you want proof I can send you escrow.com screenshots.
Konstantinos,
Let me repeat what I said before, which I think it’s pretty clear “As far as I see, if we exclude a few German-speaking buyers (see for ex. Gold.info, sold last June for 10k, and “gold” is a huge keyword) and some deals among domainers, mainly during specific organized auctions, .info market is almost non-existent.”
That doesn’t rule out that, out of all .info sales, some are to other countries.
My expression “which I can’t verify” is valid for all non-public sales, not only for yours.
There is nothing personal here, so please don’t be so touchy or “spring-loaded”, as people say in the States.
As far as I know, your 6 sales breakdown by country is not statistically representative of the whole market, and this is quite easy to verify for public sales, which are a big chunk of deals here.
Out of approx 6 mln outstanding .info domains and out of overall .info sales, 6 domains are not statistically meaningful.
Your sales are just your sales, not the whole market, so IMHO you cannot extrapolate market trends from your personal experience, unless you have a huge portfolio (when I say “huge” I’m talking about at least 6 figures numbers).
Just check also how many sold .info are now parked.
Generally speaking, I don’t consider sales those which are not public and therefore verifiable, cause undisclosed figures can be easily manipulated/inflated.
The same way DNJournal does not include in its stats sales that are not verifiable.
Bottom line: for the reasons I’ve already mentioned here, and some more, .info is not an extension I’m interested to invest in.
Just my view though.
Andrea what domains are you selling?
Yes it is not an extension you are interested to invest into yet you draw very wrong conclusions that my actual facts contradict. You say the market is non-existent, I say that I sell. But again you don’t consider my facts as facts. Well there is not much to say here.
I don’t have 6 .info sales. I have 100+.
Those 6 are the latest I could find in my tax records.
None of my sales this year have made it to any report. And my total sales (com org biz info us) are somewhere in the 6 figures in Euro.
Also have you checked the Sedo report? Most of their domains are not reported! They sell 700 and report 250 lately. Escrow.com said that they close more deals in a week that others report in a year. And I believe them.
Also a sale is still a sale. I don’t see anyone complaining because a domain was sold at namejet, snapnames or godaddy just because it is mostly domainers bid no these venues.
Finally there is an Afilias report that is pretty old but still it can’t be very different than today.
.info registrations by country:
USD 48%
Germany 11%
UK 6%
France 5%
Canada 4%
That a certain country has a pretty large percentage doesn’t make the whole extension german.
Konstantinos,
You are taking it personal, but I’m not talking specifically about you, I’m referring to the whole .info market.
I’m considering your facts, but your facts are just a (minority) portion of the whole market, not the market itself.
As I said, I consider official, verifiable data, not rumors and similar stuff.
“Also a sale is still a sale.” I never said the opposite, you are totally out of context on this point.
A sale is a sale, wherever it has been closed. But it has to be verifiable.
If sales are on tax records they are verifiable, if they are public or otherwise documented they are verifiable, I think it’s easy to understand.
Figures you are mentioning relate to registrations by country, not to sales by country.
And we are talking about sales, not registrations.
And this is all for me on this topic.
Thank you, have a good time.
Andrea you never told me what you are selling.
My facts are a minority of course but it is a minority of the actual market. My facts are not some strange exception.
Here are some more facts. Some other of my .info sales:
USA
ITALY
Germany
USA
USA
UK
UK
Serbia
USA
USA
JAPAN
Hungary
Dominica
Germany
Austria
usa
usa
germany
And of course sales are related to registration numbers. India and China don’t have many registrations and of course not a lot of sales.