Month: January 2010

Another Game Related Domain Sale! SilkroadOnline.com Sells for $11,000

Post author By J.B.
Post date January 8, 2010

The phrase Silkroad Online refers to a popular Korean fantasy (massively multiplayer online role-playing game) or MMORPG. According to WikiPedia, “MMORPGs are very popular throughout the world. Worldwide revenues for MMORPGs exceeded half a billion dollars in 2005, and Western revenues exceeded US$1 billion in 2006. In 2008, Western consumer spending on subscription MMOGs grew to $1.4 billion.

World of Warcraft, a popular MMORPG, had over 11.5 million subscribers as of December, 2008.”

The domain name SilkRoadOnline.com was sold through GreatDomains.com for 7,610 Euro (or about $11,000 USD).

While the Registrant still shows Sedo, we’re assuming the name was picked up by the game’s creators. The domain itself gets over 2,000 type ins per month, while the Korean Servers official website over at joymax.com gets about 16,000 visitors per month.

Other Related Tidbits

MMORPGS.com is parked at Sedo. Type in visitors to the domain is over 1,000 visitors per month.

MMORPG.com is a fully developed online multiplayer games web site that gets nearly 200,000 visitors per month. In Dec. 2008, it received well over 1 Million visitors.

MMORPG.org is parked at Sedo. Type in visitors to the domain is over 2,000 visitors per month.

Demand Media appears to own MMORPG.tv. The name sits parked.

Worldwide, Exact Global Searches for the phrase “MMORPG” is nearly 1 million. The phrase “Silkroad Online” had over 200,000 exact global searches.

Believe it or not, Massivelymultiplayeronlineroleplayinggame.com is registered. We could be wrong, but based on the landing page, Kevin Ham looks to be the owner.

We just hand-registered MassiveMultiPlayergame.com (it was deleted and available again, and aged over 5 years). MassiveMultiPlayergames.com is owned by Frank Schilling.

Very few MMORPG related domains appear on SnapNames or NameJet. However, MMORPGmods.com is listed on NameJet with 0 bidders at the time of this posting.

Other notable GreatDomains sales that accompanied SilkRoadOnline.com include SuperMortgages.com which sold for $7,500, and nghenhac.com that sold for $15,100.

News Video Games

Some of the BEST GAMES Domains Available Today on the Aftermarket; ‘iGames.com, TeenGames.com…

Post author By J.B.
Post date January 8, 2010

"Adicting Games" — No doubt the sale of CookingGames.com and the revealing details about previous buys like StickGames.com will cause a landrush of registrations, but if you do some research you might be surprised what's still avaialble.

If you like those GAMES names, those hunting online should check out the aftermarket sites for deals on Sedo, NameJet, SnapNames, even Bido. There are still tons of names dropping everyday and there are deals to be had even with owners putting up their domains for rockbottom prices.

We still haven’t found any we like in our price range or category (the only related Game names we purchased recently was MilitaryGamer.com and VideoGameJunkies.com, both under $100 over at NameJet).

While participating in speculation might not be for you, sales like this get everyone hunting around for ways to cash in. In the spirit of GAMES domains, here’s a shortlist of some of the domains for sale on the aftermarket.

NameJet

It’s easy to see what’s over at NameJet any given day. Some of the names below have 0 bids at the time of this posting. We’re currently watching an auction that ends in 11 hours with 23 bids from over 20 bidders for the domain BestGameSites.com. The current high bid is only $100, but will likely go higher shortly before ending. The names listed below are still in the prebidding phase.

ConsultingGames.com
DatingGames.net
KickOffGames.com
LoadedGames.com
PornoGraphicGames.com
RentGames.net
TerraceGames.com
StupendousGames.com
UpstartGames.com

Sedo.com

There are plenty of names parked and listed for sale over at Sedo. In some cases, while the name is listed for sale at Sedo, it’s no longer parked there. But you can look at the Bid History to see the level of interest.

iGames.com
OnlineGames.co.uk
PokerGames.net
AdictingGames.com (the popular typo of AddictingGames.com, gets over 50,000 unique visitors per month)
EroticGames.com
GamesZone.com
BoxGames.com
TeenGames.com
TorrentGames.com
Hottestgames.net (listed for sale for $300, the name gets ove 1,000 unique visitors per month parked at Sedo)

SnapNames

There’s always possibilities at SnapNames. If you do a quick search on “games” tons of listings will appear. Some of the top GAMES names listed with prices include:

GamesGames.com
SimGames.com
MostAddictingGames.com
HeadGames.net
FrenchGames.com
FunGames.net
SnowGames.com

While the prices of the names above for SnapNames are priced well out of our range, there are deals you can find by searching.

Bido has had several GAMES domains listed for sale, in a variety of TLDs. One of their best sellers was VideoGames.info.

Tags games

News

Who is Buying up all the Russia domain names?

Post author By J.B.
Post date January 5, 2010
1 Comment on Who is Buying up all the Russia domain names?

Russia.com sold in December for $1,500,000 through Sedo, taking DNJournal’s #6 Spot on the Top 100 domain sales of 2009. While the buyer remains a mystery, one of our readers suspects the buyer is Russia Standard, who previously purchased Vodka.com for $3 Million in 2006. Russia.eu also sold this week for $34,320 through Sedo.

If the new owner is the same, they haven’t wasted any time snapping up further extensions of the category-killer geo domain name.

While Russia.net is a website, the only “russia” URL that shows up on the first page of Google for the search term Russia; is russia-travel.com, a site that only gets about 3,000 unique visitors per month according to Compete. The other top placements on Google Search Results belong to Wikipedia, the CIA, and The New York Times.

Russia.org is currently monetized using Google’s Adsense for Domains.

News

Millionaire Eric Borgos racks up more domain sales; how they stacked up against appraisal tools

Post author By J.B.
Post date January 4, 2010

Even if you watch the domain sales over at Sedo and other sales reported on NameBio, it’s always interesting to see what sales Big Time Domainers like millionaire Eric Borgos, a domainer who’s done it all, ends up selling his names for. Eric might have sold internet properties in the millions, but he doesn’t hide the fact that several of his names sell in the $X,XXX and even lower.

I stacked up Eric’s most recent sales to Valuate.com (powered by Estibot 2.0) and Estibot 1.0 (head-to-head) and Valuate (in our opinion) did a better job of squaring up the sales based on the actual sales price.

While this might sound a bit confusing, Valuate is POWERED by Estibot’s 2.0 Beta Engine – so the results are different when Valuate’s appraisals are compared to Estibot’s 1.0 Engine that is currently public. So I thought looking at the varying appraisals would be worthwhile.

I’ve decided to provide a little more clarification to this story thanks to one of our readers; since the versions of the Appraisal engines are different when you use the current version of Valuate.com up against the current version of Estibot.com.

While Estibot 1.0 can certainly make you feel better about your names, you might not always find a buyer willing to pay their appraisal values. If you’re patient, it’ll pay off if you can land that buyer. And who’s to say, with the right end user, you might even get more…

Everyone has their own way of dealing with things. Some use Estibot’s 1.0 appraisal tool. Some use Valuate.com (which for clarification, is powered by Estibot’s 2.0 Engine that is currently available at http://beta.estibot.com/). Some even use fee-based appraisal sites (which we don’t recommend). Others use their own market research. And of course, there’s always your gut instinct.

But if you’re looking to make a sale that might attract more interest and close quicker, chances are the Valuate.com apraisal will fall more in line with market price — which ultimately is based on Estibot’s new BETA Appraisal engine. Looks like Estibot has made improvements to their appraisal engine in v2.0, so the prices look more realistic for those looking to liquidate.

Here’s How Eric’s Latest Sales Stacked Up Against Valuate and Estibot 1.0

CelebGossip.com – $5000
Valuate.com Price: $9,500
Estibot Price: $42,000

FixErrors.com – $2000
Valuate.com Price: $2,600
Estibot Price: $6,500

MoneyListings.com – $1100
Valuate.com Price: $1,100
Estibot Price: $890

BeautyExpert.com – $3750
Valuate.com Price: $4,700
Estibot Price: $4,000

ResourceHome.com – $1000
Valuate.com Price: $85
Estibot Price: $2,400

TowersCasino.com – $350
Valuate.com Price: $0
Estibot Price: $260

NYCStudent.com – $250
Valuate.com Price: $220
Estibot Price: USD reg fee

FindRates.com $5500
Valuate.com Price: $570
Estibot Price: $2,700

TeenDays.com – $250
Valuate.com Price: $2,000
Estibot Price: $670

AutoWizards.com – $750
Valuate.com Price: $160
Estibot Price: $40

SportsFishermen.com – $1000
Valuate.com Price: $460
Estibot Price: $250

OxymoronList.com – $2500
Valuate.com Price: $380
Estibot Price: $110

4Mags.com – $750
Valuate.com Price: $530
Estibot Price: $90

ParentSavings.com – $1000
Valuate.com Price: $170
Estibot Price: $1,100

BroadwayStage.com – $2000
Valuate.com Price: $1,900
Estibot Price: $3,700

WickedLingerie.com – $1000
Valuate.com Price: $1,100
Estibot Price: $7,000

CarInsuranceLeads.com – $1000
Valuate.com Price: $1,300
Estibot Price: $1,900

SecureDating.com – $2500
Valuate.com Price: $2,600
Estibot Price: $1,800

Other Related Tidbits

According to Eric, all the reported domains he sold he owned personally and most occurred after people looked up registrant information, then contacted him.

At the time of this posting, SecureDating.net and BroadwayStage.org are available for hand-registration. BroadwayStage.net is a Premium name for sale at GoDaddy listed for $1,888.

Tags eric borgos, impulse corp, millionaire, name shopping, nameshopping.com

News

Owner of JerseyShore.com Fails to Cash in on the Popular MTV Show, Despite Nearly 100K Exact Searches

Post author By J.B.
Post date January 2, 2010

MTV Jersey Shore Girls — According to WikiPedia, "The Jersey Shore is home to many renowned boardwalks including Asbury Park, Atlantic City, Belmar, Cape May, Ocean City, Keansburg, Long Branch, Point Pleasant Beach, Seaside Heights, and Wildwood."

MTV’s Jersey Shore reality TV series that follows eight people who spend their summer on the New Jersey shore, has been picking up popularity since airing in 2009.

Though the show has stirred up controversy over Italian stereotypes and several advertisers have pulled their ads including Dell and Dominos, the show still gets ratings – and more importantly SEARCH TRAFFIC.

The owner of JerseyShore.com (the dominant search phrase for the show), hasn’t taken advantage over the show’s popularity. At the time of this article, a blank web page appears — even though the term “Jersey Shore” is a commonly used term and it’s been registered since the nineties. The last update occurred over the summer in Jul. 2009.

As early as the nineties, the URL had a full fledged website online, and the owner could certainly rank if a web site was online today, but only 1 page is indexed by Google.

Other Related Tidbits

Type in traffic to JerseyShore.com reached nearly 2,000 visitors in Aug. 2009 according to Compete.com.

The phrase Jersey Shore had over 90,000 exact searches locally in November. “the jersey shore” only had about 3,000.

The domain name MTVJerseyShore.com was last updated on 12-Dec-09 and the owner currently has the name parked at GoDaddy, with a For Sale link. The URL doesn’t register any traffic.

TheJerseyShore.com is also available for sale and has been registered for at least 7 years.

JerseyShore.net expired on 31 Dec 2009, after being registered back in 1997. It’s currently pending renewal or deletion. The URL doesn’t resolve.

BuyDomains.com owns JerseyShore.org and has the name listed for sale for $2,088 over at GoDaddy Premium Names.

If you glance at JerseyShore.com on Archive.org going all the way back to 1999, the owners had a geo website online that include a beach cam, weather updates and more.