I talked the other day about ending our relationship with Flippa due to lack of communication from the company. Since that a few things happened. One, they did reach out. A fellow domain investor sent them an email saying something to the effect “you should contact Shane, he says he can’t get someone to communicate with him” Amber Burke sent me a nice email. Everyone has great things to say about Amber and I’m sure she is a talented person. But the email basically said, sorry for not telling anyone that Kevin Fink left and if there is anything you need let me know”. But I’m afraid its just a little too late. A thread started on Namepros about DSAD not using Flippa anymore and Michael Sumner added some data he’s collected to show my thoughts of decline are true. Here is the data he presented on Namepros.
From Michael Sumner
“The Flippa Domains trend definitely isn’t positive, see the chart below. The green line is the total dollar volume they were doing per month, and the corresponding trendline shows a steep decline from more than $360k to around $180k. The red line is the number of sales they were closing per month at $100 and above, with a trendline showing a steep decline going from around 380 to right around 200.
But then you get to the blue line which is the number of sales per month below $100. You’ll notice the trendline for that is almost perfectly flat. From this data it is clear that they’re losing almost all of their dollar volume from higher-end sales. Basically they’re becoming a place to burn trash more so than they’ve ever been.
Please note the graph excludes outlier sales of $50k+, of which there were 10 in 2015, 3 in 2016, and none so far in 2017. This would have made the green trendline have an even steeper negative slope. Also note that Kevin left Flippa in January, and since then we have not received any data on auctions that did not complete. This means there are more sales in our database for 2017 than there should be, which would have caused the blue and red trendlines to be even steeper negative”
Again, I WANT the domain industry to have as many places to liquidate and buy domains as possible. It is good for the market to have such entities. Unfortunately a marketplace like this requires both inventory and buyers and can’t exist without a good dose of both sides. It can crumble quickly if you lose trust in either side. By trust I mean that buyers need quality domains to buy and sellers need to get good prices. If either of those sides suffer its over. In order to run an auction house you have to figure out what it takes to keep both sides strong. My opinion only, but I think the owners have too many other businesses going on to focus on what it takes to keep the domain auction house side going strong.
Here are today’s names Click for current price
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Domain Of The Day: Liables.com What are you legally responsible for? Find out. 16 bids
Domains That I Like With Multiple Bids
VirtualGirl.com Five figure name IMO.
BuyADrone.com Surprised this isn’t higher than the $150 at press time. Drone names still seem to be doing well
BSU.net Remember there are more end users than just the US for acronyms. Although the Nigerian traffic of this one doesn’t exactly help me much
3is.com Bottom price for NLL is $800. 19 years old
vDirect.com 18,500 backlinks and some traffic. 18 year old
ICOM.com Hasn’t met reserve at $21K
OmniFlight.com Go ahead and fill out the UDRP response from Omni Airlines when you buy this
ExoticVideo.com Animals or porn
PAX.net thousands of entities using PAX as a name
ThePiano.com Most know the movie but also a great brand.
GS55.com the 55 will bring in the Chinese bidders. Might be in the 500 range when its all done
PureAndHealthy.com Good marketing name for a brand pretending to be exactly this
MaxSports.com Upgrade name for a lot of companies that already use the term. One company using it bad. 10 plus=good. 133 bids
LoadedMedia.com Yet another random media name getting bids
PartyDog.com Spuds McKenzie
581588.com Will hit 4 figures IMO
885532.com and 889982.com Since these are on the front they will get half that
EZHZ.com and YCYV.com Are the two LLLL.com on the expired GD list
Domains With One or No Bids
PlateItUp.com Getting a pretty good cooking name for $12
MaternityTech.com The entire first page of Google Results are jobs for Maternity Techs
WeatherBabes.com Certainly plenty of content for this one. Ginger Z would be on there for some
SpecialAthletes.com High achievers or special needs athletes. No bidders
BedroomAdvice.com Get a good night’s sleep. Is that what you were looking for ?
NonCon.com Is a term that is used to refer to non consensual sex. Just in case you didn’t know and thought it was a cute, short, rhymey name
TheHitz.com Perfect for a radio station
Clacky.com Short and nobody wants it to this point
Xapia.com I like short names that start with X. Everyone knows its the Z sound at the front and they are usually cheap
UncleHorny.com Worst email ever
JunkInTheAttic.com Cleaning service or auction house marketing name
Other Godaddy Domains With Bids
113356.com
133556.com
159179.com
339228.com
aidsinfobbs.org
AirDryer.com
Amaxe.com
BeginLinux.com
BentonvilleBellaVistaChamber.com
BestRouletteCasino.net
BetStats.com
BlancheBar.com
Cars-Insurance-Deal.info
CastLives.com
CocoaDevCentral.com
CompleteSEOServices.com
CozyCornerRestaurant.net
dietasparaperdepeso.info
DiscRevolt.com
Docusort.com
DriveXtra.com
DUIAttorneysList.com
EasyGoLuckyPH.com
EconomyHost.com
Ecotastic.com
EducationOrganization.com
EEHomepage.com
ElectoralCollege.info
EnterpriseService.com
EpilepsyHero.org
Epistemo.net
EvolvingFamilies.com
FarmersRock.com
FJDiary.com
FlashLubeMiami.com
FloresTogo.com
ForsterCourtHotel.com
FoundationRepairSmyrna.com
GDAcers.com
GetShitter.com
grabiphone6s.com
GrainVacsForSale.net
Handyman-nc.com
HavenHouston.com
HealThonTheRun.net
HeerKensHomes.com
HendersonLocksmith.com
HepPrograms.org
Hispanic-Chamber.org
HorizonsSausalito.com
Howtoiloseweight.com
ILoveFishing24.com
JourneySalonOfPiqua.com
KeetonInsurance.com
LAGalleria.com
Lifimag.com
LipStories.com
LoveFernie.com
lssmarketing.com
LYRH.net
MagicTemple.com
ManageApartments.com
ManaWellness.com
MarloweBurger.com
MidwayBeachHouse.com
mominthemirrorbook.com
NanoTalk.com
Noodlie.com
okorogist.com
OllieGear.com
Paasporn.net
PicassosSportsCafe.com
piftraining.info
PlanAdreamTrip.com
PlantItRight.com
PremierOutlets.com
PublicReview.com
RedesColombia.org
RemoveMalwareInfection.com
RialtoArtScenter.com
Search-Villas.com
SellTwoAll.com
semanarioserbio.com
ShamanSwell.org
ShishaCentral.com
SinoShipNews.com
SkiDrowGenerator.com
StarBeer.com
Suissa.com
Suluboya.com
SuperheroFantasyLeague.com
SWDB.net
TexasCrawfishCompany.com
th3pro-sd.com
ThePoshPacker.com
TNL.biz
ToastedSubs.com
TTNS.net
txcrawfishcompany.com
UHX.tv
UnearthedOutdoors.net
UpWit.com
vitalityk.com
vniis.org
volkstanz.net
vrpi.co
WantDifferentDoDifferent.net
WheresTheFoodTrucks.com
wikitoefl.net
WomenSheAltHandEnvironment.org
Namejet Auction
NMCT.com Both Western and Chinese loved letters. Will be top of the price tier
PeopleFoods.com A little sarcastic in the name but that’s what we eat. Not dog food or cat food. People food. 2 bidders
TwoDogs.com Nice brand for any product, easy logo. At $800 so others think so too
Home1.com Adding numbers to me have always been a cheap way to get a memorable brand. 5 bidders agree
Appreciticeship.com At $4000 but the reserve is 25-50K so people bid these up knowing that they won’t have to buy at those prices. A bit of a game
DDDDDDD.com Yup that’s 7 Ds. 2 bidders like it
ParkingX.com Kind of the same idea as Home 1 but I think X is by far the best letter to add at the end
67.biz Get one of 99. NN.biz still have a good liquid market in the four figures
OFTM.com One of the LLLL with a vowel that is a great end user name that the Chinese won’t like…..yet
RedVolt.com Only two bidders and I’m one. Like the brand
Dapar.com 5L with no bids. Half a million google results
7BU.com Getting a $200 bid but haven’t seen any of these sell for under $800
Have a name at auction and need more exposure? Send me an email. I Charge $10 per name per day. We may be able to help. If you have an auction you want to promote, email us for details.*All names chosen by me, Shane . (ie you click through and purchase a name you like) or an occasional paid listing. Everything I say is based on my own research or is opinion. Do your own due diligence. That means look it up yourself if you don’t think the stats or my opinion is correct. I hand choose my names but I am paid to make this list by the auction houses, individuals that are auctioning names, and Godaddy affiliate links. Keep that in mind and only buy names that YOU think are good
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