Some interesting data here from yesterday's auction, especially for the .net.au fans (I'm not one of them),

Tunes.com.au sold for $1,755
Tunes.net.au sold for $26

The .net.au price is 1.4% of the .com.au price.

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The question still remains, if you don't think these names are worth $0 what do you think they can actually be sold for?

I think a more "premium" generic term like Don's tours.net.au would fair much better against the .com.au equivalent.

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E-Energy.net $3,800

End.net €3,000 = $3,780

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I would be more interested in the final price for the .net.au IF the .com.au had not been available at the same time.

$26 is Pathetic, I have got MORE than that for no-name no-interest no-keyword Domains expiring in a week.

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The .net market is reasonable, personally I have got some good prices for .net names in that past (though I'm not a big fan of them and have sold almost all of mine off over the last few years).

But when it comes to .net.au that is completely different, the values are terrible and the public perception is poor, we've seen the top of the tree (in terms of quality) with jobs.net.au getting 5k today, where does it leave everything else? Well we can see, "good" keywords better than 99.5% of stuff out there like tunes.net.au are worth reg fee.

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The question still remains, if you don't think these names are worth $0 what do you think they can actually be sold for?

G'Day Snoopy,

My opinion is that the AU market place is still immature and will remain that way for some time to come .. i would reckon that more than 90% of AU domain dealers and interested persons such as myself are right here on Dntrade .. it's a very small pool of buyers and sellers with very few end users motivated enough to dip their toe in the deep end ..

I dont see any reason not to take the .net.au if one owns the .com.au and visa versa if you can't get the .com.au get the .net.au for reg fee in some cases although there are fewer and fewer .net.au available when the .com.au is taken ...

In my view there is going to be very usable .com.au's for reg for a long time, or you can spend a small amount like $500-$1000 and get a good name. I think also .net.au has credibility issues, more so than .net.

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The question still remains, if you don't think these names are worth $0 what do you think they can actually be sold for?

Ive never even seen a big business in Australia have a .net.au ?? any examples..

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delurking...

What about:

abc.net.au
bass.net.au
iinet.net.au
aapt.net.au

Agreed there are not a large number of big business using .net.au but there are some. Lots of not so big businesses are using .net.au and I have noticed an increasing amount of small businesses in the last few years using .net.au.

I read someone say here before that .net.au don't offer fantastic medium / long term investments but have good development potential. To which I agree.

I still don't understand the general aversion to .net.au domains, like people suggesting there is a credibility issue. In my experience there are far greater factors determining Google serp positions, for example domain age and backlinks, than whether the domain is .net.au or .com.au. Some of my .net.au domains perform just as well if not better than my .com.au domains in certain areas for the same terms.

So with the potential of quite a few exact search term .net.au domains still available and their potential SEO benefits alongside their sometimes much more expensive .com.au equivalent I see .net.au as currently quite under-valued.

If I were selling blue widgets I would much rather have bluewidgets.net.au than someabstractname.com.au if bluewidgets.com.au was already taken.

I would also argue that a huge percentage, of traffic, especially new unique users, that do not come from links come from search engines rather than typed in domain names. And I can find no proof that search engines have a preference for .com.au over .net.au. So it seems to me like .net.au domains can be a real bargain for the development potential, and SEO, benefits you get.

We don't often get the right answers ever on this forum.