ccTLD's where the smart money is... - Page 4

Chumby · #31 26-07-10, 09:07 PM

Yea... I had many LLL.com's I purchased and sold in a short period of time for mega gains ... aae.com, pla.com, gwe.com etc. I was also given iHQ.com for nothing...and then sold on again quickly for $$$$. Jennifer.com was offered to me for $5K only. Imagine what that is worth now....

Followed safesys and snoopy for a long time...

I had the second highest bid on marketing.com.au but let it slide for $5k ... man was thinking of doing what OMG are doing now... just didnt follow through. Ouch. Surely those days are gone...

Aus domains are surely long term investments... when the aftermarket matures more they may be worth something ... but I am really thinking that people who pay mega prices on the auctions need to wait a long time or develop or else there investment is shacky.... the only people that are desparate to purchase seem to be those whose domains dropped and they are trying to get them back

My thoughts anyway...

Cheers
Chumby

djuqa · #32 27-07-10, 07:38 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by spacey

...australian domains

= developers dream

= domainers nightmare

exactly

So lets start developing them
Websites are often easier to Promote names
auDA rules state "use or lose em"
easier to SEO a website than a park page
auDA says "ownership" solely for resale is "Not on"

snoopy · #33 01-08-10, 09:18 PM

Some stats from dnjournal today for the last quarter, I was actually quite surprised that cctlds was only 17% of the total.

I find these numbers hard to explain really because I think the industry generally is still in a very weak state.

Quote:

.Com sales, boosted by those four seven-figure blockbusters, totaled $21.7 million - 74% of total sales. ccTLD sales totaled $5.1 million (17% of total sales), down slightly from the $5.49 million in ccTLD sales reported in 1Q-2010. However, the median sales price for country code domains that went for $2,000 or more enjoyed a solid 6.5% increase, rising from $3,491 in 1Q-2010 to $3,718 in 2Q-2010. That is almost as high as the median .com sales price in 2Q-2010 which was $3,800. (Note: We track .com sales starting at $2,000 and all other extensions starting at $1,000. To get an apples to apples comparison of ccTLD median prices to .com medians, we used $2,000 and up sales for each category).

While the ccTLDs have surged over the past couple of years, non .com gTLDs have not been so fortunate. Reported sales in that category totaled just $2.3 million in 2Q-2010, down 26% from the $3.12 million registered in 1Q-2010 (and less than half of the sales total for country code domains in 2Q-2010). The 2Q-2010 median price for non .com gTD sales ($2,000 and up) was $3,088 - over $600 less than the ccTLD median more than $700 less than the .com median.

http://www.dnjournal.com/newsletters/2010/may-july.htm

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