A look at the final auction prices, closeouts and more from the domain auction list posted on November 18, 2019.
If there is an asterisk (*) next to a price, it means that the name was at auction from a private seller (rather than an expiring name) and may have had a reserve. I’m only showing where the price was when the domain auction ended, but the name may not have sold if a reserve was in place.
Other Names at Auction
Ski.io At auction but they really don’t want to sell
At $500 with 5 days left
GoDaddy Names at Auction
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Namejet Names at Auction
The 5N.com sales are getting boring to watch as clear prices have been set based on numbers and patterns. I’ll skip any 5N sales until something changes.
Uniregistry Brokerage has been sharing its top 20 domain name sales each week that can be reported (many sales include a non-disclosure agreement and cannot be shared) with domain industry news sites, so today I take a look at these sales and break down some data to share with you.
Of the 200 reported sales over the past 2 months, 170 of those were $5,000 or greater. I will focus on these 170 domain names.
16 of the 170 domain sales were other extensions than .com. The highest amount of those 16 was held by .co, which made up 4 of the 170 total sales reported, and .net followed with 3 reported sales.
Of the top 30 reported sales, 29 were .com. Simple.life was the one other non-dot-com in the top 30, which sold for $20,000 and ranked #23 of the top 30.
The average sales price of the top 30 domains was $37,545.
Taking a little bit of a different data set: “Exact Match Domains Registered” is the total amount of domains registered among all TLDs that match exactly to the domain that sold, minus the TLD. I compared the top 30 domain sales and looked at this number.
Of the top 29 reported domain name sales (excluding simple.life) by Uniregistry Brokerage over the past 2 months that could be reported, the average number of other TLDs registered exactly matching the domain name that sold was 32.55. Throwing out the highest and lowest numbers brought the average down to 30. That’s some very interesting data! So, on average of the top reported domain sales over the past 2 months by Uni, each domain that sold had about 30 exact match domains registered in other TLDs.
Veggie.com held the highest EMDs registered in other TLDs at 118 total. BlueSuit.com was the lowest at 7 total domains registered in other TLDs. To note, this data was gathered after the domain sale took place and was publicly reported. There is at least some chance that the buyers (or investors) registered domains after the sale. I would expect the data to be accurate in general either way.
Also to note, along with the EMDs registered, another important number can be the "broad match" total registered domains. This includes terms that contain something along with the EMD but this number needs to broken down manually for accuracy of relevance. For example, NavyBlueSuit.com is a broad match term, as is NavyBlueSuits.com. Both are relevant to the EMD in this case but BlueSuitcase.com which isn't as relevant is also included in the data and can skew it. The same can be said about BlueSuites.com and BlueSuitesHotel.com, for example, which are not relevant to "BlueSuit" but would be included in the broad match data.
Why is the EMD and Broad Match data important? I think it shows the demand in the term and as I have stated many times prior, demand is what increases the value of a domain name.
Going back to the batch of 170 total domains, I broke these down by “type”.
24 of the sales were 1 word English dictionary terms. 9 of those 24 were in extensions other than .com. The 3 highest reported sales by dollar volume were all English dictionary terms and the .com extension. Joyride, Skew, and Hallow.
70 of the 170 domains were 2 word English dictionary combinations.
6 of the 170 were 3 word English dictionary combinations.
16 of the 170 were 4 characters or less.
56 of the 170 were classified as “other”.
Other classifications can be an English dictionary term like Lava and then include a character or non-English dictionary word with the term. So, LavaX.com for an example which sold for $10,000 would be classified as “other”. To note, X seemed to stick out a little bit in this data set with several domain sales that started with or ended with X + with a dictionary term. LavaX.com ($10K), EagleX.com ($7.6K), CoolX.com ($7K) and Xclean.com ($5K) were the 4 that I noticed, each selling for at least $5K-$10K.
Domain name creation dates ranged from 1995 to 2019, with 32 of the 170 domains registered during the 1995-1999 time frame.
Note: The data gathered and shared is via the use of my personal tools. The accuracy of the data has not been verified by a third party, and should be considered only as a guide.
Every day we scan more than one hundred thousand domains across all the major marketplaces and pending delete lists to find domains you can buy that have sold in the past. Sale history, like the age of a domain name, is a great proxy for quality to help the cream rise to the top. Today’s list has 151 domains for sale with history. […]
GoDaddy had the top sale of the day for two days in a row, this time it was Dae.com which sold for $126,000. NameBio recorded 269 sales $100+ for a total of $269,401 with an average sale price of $1,001. Compared to the previous day there was an increase of 9% in the number of sales and the total dollar amount increased by 171%. We also recorded an additional 954 sales below $100 for a total of $20,571. […]
I didn’t catch any fish in New York last week, but I did freeze my ass off standing in a river while it was snowing. I’m being a bit dramatic, it wasn’t that bad since I had heat packs stuck all over me.
We were less than a mile from lake Ontario the, and there was lake effect snow and cloud cover most of the time we were there. I kept thinking, “why would anyone choose to live here?” I don’t mind some snow, but snowing all the time, 20 degrees in November, the potential for feet and feet of lake effect snow, and constant cloud cover, makes me want to visit only.
I dropped my iPhone X in the river, but was able to find it. Supposedly they’re water resistant, however if you’ve had the screen replaced they’re apparently not immune to water.
It seems to be working now, but for a day or two it was doing weird things.
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CentralNic Group plc has announced they have
acquired the web services provider, Team Internet AG Germany, a leading domain
name monetisation services provider, for $48 million ($45m in cash and $3m
deferred), with the acquisition expected to immediately benefit the company
financially.
The acquisition means CentralNic will become
one of the world’s leading providers of domain name monetisation services with
a proprietary platform that enables domain name investors to generate recurring
advertising income from their assets.
“The acquisition of Team Internet is a natural
extension of CentralNic’s domain sales business and a major step in adding
domain related web services to CentralNic’s service offering,” said Ben
Crawford, CEO of CentralNic. “It is another web-based recurring revenue
business that will be significantly earnings enhancing for the financial year
ending 31 December 2020.”
CentralNic has been on an acquisition splurge in recent
years having acquired the German/Canadian registrar Hexonet and Ideego, a New
Zealand registrar and the Australasian registrar TPP Wholesale, all in 2019. Other
acquisitions have included the domain name portfolio of failed discount
registrar AlpNames also this year while they acquired GlobeHosting Inc., a
leading registrar and hosting provider in multiple markets including Romania
and Brazil and the German Key-Systems, KeyDrive, both in 2018 as well as the
Australasian instra group in 2015.
Team Internet is based in Munich, Germany,
and has been around for 10 years. According to CentralNic’s announcement of the
acquisition, Team Internet experienced an increase in revenues in the year
ended 31 December 2017 due to the collapse of a competitor. Following a period
of rationalisation and focus on retaining high quality customers, Team
Internet’s revenues have reduced to levels that are stable and highly recurring
in nature. From this revised base, Team Internet has returned to month on month
revenue growth in Q3 2019.
Team Internet has approximately 35,000 individual customers
signed to rolling contracts to monetise a total of more than 20 million domain
names using Team Internet’s proprietary technology for matching domain names
with the highest paying advertisers. These contracts earn revenues for Team
Internet on a monthly recurring basis with high levels of retention.
The acquisition will add an additional 40
staff in Germany, shifting CentralNic’s critical mass with almost 200
engineering and other staff members based there. Team Internet is an extremely
efficient automation-focused company which derives around $1.6m in revenues per
staff with CentralNic’s focus being on opportunities to grow the business
through CentralNic’s existing global sales and marketing networks and by
bundling and cross-selling as opposed to cost savings. The Directors believe
that domain monetisation is a service that could potentially be bundled with an
estimated 30% of all domain name registrations. This represents a significant
opportunity to the Group as CentralNic currently has 18.6 million domains under
management as of 30 June 2019.
Arcep has warned French internet players that with the
supply of IPv4 addresses set to run out by the end of 2019 and “it has
therefore become urgent, for the sake of competition and innovation, that all
internet players switch over to IPv6” with “slowness of progress … especially
significant amongst web hosting companies.”
Arcep, France’s Electronic Communications, Postal and Print
media distribution Regulatory Authority (L’Autorité de régulation des
communications électroniques, des postes et de la distribution de la presse),
notes that RIPE-NCC has announced “the number of IPv4 addresses awaiting
allocation exceeds the number of remaining IPv4 addresses. This shortage is
already driving a significant increase in the price of these addresses in the
secondary market, which creates a real barrier to entry for new entrants to the
internet. It has therefore become urgent, for the sake of competition and
innovation, that all internet players switch over to IPv6.”
To outline the seriousness of the problem, Arcep posted an
expanded version of their barometer of the transition to IPv6 online, underscoring
how far players are lagging behind. The barometer takes a look at all of the
players along the internet chain, and the progress they are making in their
transition to IPv6. It details the current status of deployments and includes
the main operators’ forecasts for both fixed and mobile networks.
There are several new additions to this year’s scorecard
from Arcep: information gathering has been expanded to include operators with
between 5,000 and 3 million residential customers, while exclusive figures from
partners such as Afnic, the .fr registry, helps supplement the barometer.
Once again this year, Arcep is alerting the public to the
fact that the majority of players are not planning for a deployment that will
enable them to deal with the dearth of IPv4 addresses, and urges the entire internet
ecosystem to accelerate the pace of their transition – which is the only
future-proof solution.
On fixed networks, Arcep has observed progress amongst the
main telecom operators in France, but is calling on them to step up their
efforts. Their deployment forecasts will not suffice to handle the shortage of
IPv4 addresses. On mobile networks meanwhile, despite their efforts, Arcep is
sending operators a warning about the sluggishness of their IPv6 deployments,
and urges them to take the necessary steps to respond to the dearth of IPv4
resources.
The slowness of progress is especially significant amongst web hosting companies. Only 15.5% of the three and a half million websites with .fr, .re, .pm, .yt, .tf and .wf domain names are currently IPv6-enabled. And the percentage amongst mail servers is particularly alarming: with only 5.8% of them being IPv6-ready.
Status of the transition to IPv6 on the different links of the technical chain
To help combat the problem, the IPv6 task force held its
first meeting on 15 November and it was open to all internet stakeholders
(telcos, hosting companies, businesses, public sector players, etc.). Its goal
is to help accelerate the transition to IPv6 by enabling participants to tackle
specific problems and share best practices. It will meet twice a year.
During this first meeting, participants had an opportunity
to interact during two workshops: one on the impact of the IPv4 shortage, and
the other on IPv6 security issues. These workshops were preceded by talks from
RIPE-NCC and ANSSI representatives.
The barometer is available in French only here [pdf].
To participate in the transition to IPv6, Arcep is encouraging interested parties to sign up for the task force [French only] here.
Arcep has also published the current status of IPv6 deployments and main operators’ forecasts for fixed and mobile networks in France, and their summary of findings is below:
On the fixed network
• 100% of SFR customers are already IPv6-compatible on xDSL, 60% on FttH and 0% on cable. There has been notable progress on making FttH customers IPv6-ready, even if their numbers remain small (fewer than 7%, all technologies combined). Upcoming activations also remain inadequate: between 25% and 35% by mid-2020 and between 45% and 55% by mid-2022. Because the vast majority of users will not take the initiative to enable IPv6 manually, Arcep is urging SFR to perform this configuration by default, as most other operators are doing.
• Bouygues Telecom has also made deployment efforts on its fixed networks (around 20% of customers were IPv6-ready as of mid-2019 compared to 2.5% in mid-2018) although IPv6 compatibility is still very low. Forecasts also remain far from sufficient (between 50% and 60% by mid-2022) to handle the shortage. Bouygues Telecom is being urged to increase the number of IPv6-ready customers, and to step up deployment efforts on its fixed network.
• The percentage of Free and Orange customers who are IPv6-ready is relatively high (around 80% and 68%, respectively) in addition to having increased. Projections for mid-2022 are encouraging (100% for Free and between 85% and 95% for Orange) but the shortage of IPv4 addresses requires an even greater acceleration in their transition.
• Arcep welcomes Free’s installation of new firmware on the vast majority of its boxes in May 2019, and the removal of the ability to deactivate IPv6, which significantly increases the use of IPv6 in France.
• All four operators are invited to make their products for businesses IPv6-compatible, and to begin the transition on fixed 4G as soon as possible.
On the mobile network
• Bouygues Telecom continues its mobile network deployments, with 79% of Android customers now IPv6-ready.
• Orange forecasts for Android customers are worth noting (between 15% and 25% by mid-2020 and between 45% and 55% by mid-2022) even if the operator is being urged to increase the number of IPv6-compatible devices.
• Bouygues Telecom and Orange made a remarkable push on iPhones in September 2019: 68% and 30% IPv6-ready, at the end of October 2019.
• Despite SFR’s forecasts for 2022, Arcep believes the pace of deployment and the targets are insufficient.
• It is particularly regrettable that that Free Mobile was unable to supply its forecasts.
• Operators are being called on to begin IPv6 deployment on all of their products, notably “data only” plans and those aimed at businesses.
Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW), the world’s largest celebration of entrepreneurship, is currently underway and .CO has launched an annual worldwide campaign to support GEW and the creators, innovators and entrepreneurs who hustle hard every day to bring their big ideas and dreams to life.
From 18 to 24 November, GEW will touch the lives of more
than 10 million people through 35,000 unique events, activities and
competitions taking place in over 170 countries. In support of GEW, Neustar is
launching a new worldwide campaign called “We Run on .CO,” which shares the
stories of some of the innovative, exciting start-ups, creatives and
entrepreneurs who are building the future on .CO.
To showcase the incredible impact that the .CO top level domain has had on the global start-up community, Neustar commissioned a film crew to crisscross the world filming short micro-documentary interviews with .CO community members in some of the cities with the most thriving entrepreneurial ecosystems, including: San Francisco, London, Medellin, New Delhi, Melbourne and New York City. The interviews feature the stories of the founders behind some of the most interesting new start-ups, early stage ventures, and emerging powerhouse brands.
In all, the digital campaign will feature seven
micro-documentaries, showcasing these high-impact entrepreneurs:
Oropendola.co, Medellin, Colombia
TheHustle.co, San Francisco, California
CGVentures.co, London, United Kingdom
Naina.co, New Delhi, India
CreativeCubes.co, Melbourne, Australia
And.co, New York, New York
Adaslist.co, London, United Kingdom
“We are so excited to launch the We Run on .CO campaign,
highlighting the inspiring community of creators, businesses and brands who are
building their ideas on the .CO global platform,” said Lori Anne Wardi, VP of
Branding for Neustar Registry Solutions. “More than a web utility, Colombia’s
.CO TLD has become a dynamic, global digital brand – a platform where the
brilliant ideas of a thriving community of innovators and entrepreneurs are
coming to life each and every day.”
.CO has aimed itself as the domain for innovators and risk
takers, hustling hard and turning ideas into reality. In fact, according to a
global report released by Cisco Umbrella last month, .CO is the fifth most used
TLD globally based on web traffic rankings. While global giants such as Google
(g.co and campus.co), Twitter (t.co) and Apple (apple.co) were early adopters
of the .CO domain, “it’s the new generation of start-ups that are staking a
claim in this unique space where craftsmanship and artistry rule, diversity is
key and people are the most important currency,” said Kristin Johnson, Global
Director of TLD Marketing at Neustar. Johnson goes on to say, “we are proud to
feature some of the exciting businesses and brands that are building the future
of the internet on .CO — disrupting the status quo and making their mark on
the world.”
The video and campaign assets will be promoted via a holistic, integrated global marketing campaign, including placement in major online publications in Colombia and worldwide including, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, MSN and Smart Company, among others. You can view the teaser video for the We Run on .CO global campaign at proudtobe.co or below.
Stay tuned, as the individual micro-documentary videos will be released over the course of the next several months and will be available for viewing on our global website at go.co.
LOS ANGELES – 19 November 2019 – Today, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) announced that country code top-level domain (ccTLD) operators will now be able to actively participate in the Domain Abuse Activity Reporting (DAAR) system.
ICANN's DAAR system is used to study and report on domain name registration and security threat behavior across top-level domain (TLD) registries. The data is obtained from a curated list of Domain Name System (DNS) reputation providers.
Now, ccTLD operators can pull their own aggregated DAAR data via the Monitoring System Application Programing Interface (MoSAPI). The MoSAPI interface allows registry operators to retrieve information collected by the ICANN Service Level Agreement Monitoring (SLAM) system. While ccTLD operators will not be subject to the SLAs the SLAM system monitors, using MoSAPI will allow a consistent interface for all registries participating in DAAR. The aggregated data counts security threats broken down by threat type (e.g., phishing, botnet command and control, malware distribution, and spam) per TLD. These data sets will be similar to those of the generic top-level domains (gTLDs) that are currently provided via MoSAPI. Having access to such data will enable ccTLD operators to monitor the DAAR security threat levels per threat type per month in the same way as gTLD operators.
The ICANN organization invites all ccTLD operators to participate in the DAAR project to promote a greater understanding of DNS abuse across the global DNS. To participate, ccTLD operators should send a request to globalsupport@icann.org to begin the process.
More Information
For additional discussions regarding DAAR project data sharing and any other measurement of DNS security threats and abuse related topics please join the DNS-Abuse-Measurements mailing list.
ICANN's mission is to help ensure a stable, secure, and unified global Internet. To reach another person on the Internet, you need to type an address – a name or a number – into your computer or other device. That address must be unique so computers know where to find each other. ICANN helps coordinate and support these unique identifiers across the world. ICANN was formed in 1998 as a not-for-profit public-benefit corporation with a community of participants from all over the world.
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