Week 21 (January 2019)
Welcome to Recent Developments. In this series I post about domain names that sold recently and have since become developed into an actual website. In other words, this is a focus on end user sales and what they are doing with their recent domain purchase!
End user info in the domain name industry can be extremely valuable. You can learn a lot from this type of data, because it shows you what an end user price was for a particular domain name. Hopefully you can apply that knowledge to your own domain investing both on the buy as well as the sale side. If you know what people are willing to pay for a domain it can help you price your domains right to sell.
On top of all that, it's fun to see what's new on the web!
Domains Recently Developed
This week we're looking at 3 domains that were sold last month in December of 2018. We're going to build up from a 4 figure to 5 figure and end with a huge 6 figure sale that's been developed! Enjoy!
Adeptive.com
The first domain is Adeptive.com. It's a (sort of) one word .com that sold for $3,028 USD on December 9th, 2018 at GoDaddy. Currently the domain is redirecting to adeptivesw.com. The end user is a software company and according to their site this is who they are,
"Independently-owned and operated, Adeptive Software was founded in 2003 and develops the industry-leading ResWaretitle and escrow production platform. "
The domain is okay but it's a made up word so not one that I would have personally invested in. I do think that it's a great pickup for the company as it's their name and it's a huge upgrade over adeptivesw.com so congrats to the new owners on that one.
BitTop.com
Next we have BitTop.com. It's a short two word .com that sold for $15,000 USD on December 6th, 2018 at Sedo. The end user appears to be crypto related. It looks to be a Korean exchange promoting a new token called, Frog Coin???
I like this domain. It's two words but super short at only 6 characters long. It ends in .com which is great and it's easy to remember despite the double 't' in the domain. Excellent domain.
Calculator.com
Finally, we have our 6 figure sale, Calculator.com. This domain sold for $250,899 USD on December 6th, 2018 at Sedo. At the moment the site on this expensive domain seems to be a multiple use web app calculator. The About page says,
"calculator.com was launched January of 1996 to provide free online calculators for any purpose. Some solve problems, some satisfy curiosity and some are just for fun."
Seems mighty expensive to just have a site for 'fun'.
Obviously it's a great domain name as it's a single word .com but it kind of seems like the domain isn't quite being used for it's full potential. I find it hard to believe that this new owner is actually an owner of an old website from 1996 that just spent a quarter of a million dollars for this domain just for 'fun'. Who knows?
Anyway, that concludes this edition of Recent Developments.
I believe targeting domains that have more of a frequent used keyword will work than short phrases or words, its just a fact when buying/selling domains I get more sales that way.
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Hi @crypto-simple, I agree keywords are great for domains if you can get them. However not all keywords are created equally... 😉 They need to make sense as a company name or brand and preferably not be plurals, past tense or pretense words.
For example, PhonesRepairing.com vs PhoneRepair.com
Although they're both using keywords, there's a huge difference between those two domains!
Thanks for the comments! 🙂
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I am not a fan of made-up words either. I understand though if you make up your business name. What I really hate though is words misspelled on purpose. This is usually done with a "k" instead of a "c" and it is annoying as shit! Kash King, Krispy Kreme, Kreative Kountertops!
http://www.kreativekountertops.com/
(middle finger emoji)
This is NOT cute, it's dumb.
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I completely agree, and I would add that if you're going to make up a company name you should be checking for the exact match in a .com before you settle on a name.
I don't like the intentionally misspelled names either. When I see a domain like that, the first thing I think is that they couldn't get the proper spelling of their name, they didn't want to pay for it, or they're not the only player in town with that name. So, then I wonder who's got the correct spelling? Are they better or more qualified? Perception is huge for a brand.
This is why good domains are powerful and often expensive!
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