Flippa.com put out this morning a new report called “State of the Website Economy: Focus On WebSite Domains“, and its pretty interesting.
Flippa say’s they have sold $50 Million dollars worth of Websites and has the “largest set of data about buying and selling websites anywhere in the world”.
So here you go:
We find this data absolutely fascinating and thought it high time that we share it with the broader community (rather than just with our immediate friends and family … who roll their eyes at the mention of page views or monetization methods!).
So we’re going to deliver a regular “State of the Website Economy” report, each focusing on a specific area of our comprehensive website sales data as an infographic. We’re focusing on domains – the foundation of websites – for this inaugural edition:
- What is the relationship between website values and their country-specific Top Level Domains (TLDs like .us and .tv)?
- Which domains beat the market average?
- How does domain length influences website value?
Enjoy!
To put this together, we took the data from website and domain listings that ended between November 2010 and July 2011 – representing over $16 million in website sales.
What we learned
- .ca websites tend to sell for more than .us websites (or most other county domains for that matter).
- .me comes from Montenegro (yes, we do know that a number of formally country-specific top level domains are used more globally such as .co, .tv, .me, .ly and .bz!).
- Despite domain registrars pushing .co and the number of recent high profile single-letter .co sales, there is not a great deal of demand for .co websites as buyers still seem to prefer .com.
- While .info and .net websites predictably sell below the market average, we were surprised to see .biz perform fairly strongly.
- Website values drops rapidly once you go past 10 characters in your domain – as evidenced by the recent sale of iWillUseGoogleBeforeAskingDumbQuestions.com
- There was an uproar and threats of GoDaddy boycotts from across the globe when Bob Parsons shot an elephant in Zimbabwe, but the event failed to resonate in the long-term as website creators continue to use GoDaddy. In fact, their share of registrations seems to have increased since the shooting, and their share of website sales hasn’t diminished when looked at relative to the rest of the website market. We doubt the event even factored into GoDaddy’s $2.25 billion sale to private equity firms last month!
Nice data from Flippa.
Good numbers, I still find it hard to align the first and the second exhibit. Can someone elaborate?
some good data, they really have a nice platform for reaching end users and seems a more reliable and transparent way to sell existing sites versus some of the new players on the market, I do believe however that a good percentage of deals they label as sales never really materialize, based on my own personal experience…but I would recomend their platform for reaching a qualified audience.
sort of a hodgepodge of unrelated data points .
That is BS….”BullS” is worth more than facebook and google combine.
I get lots of offers to sell…
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#5 Website values drops rapidly once you go past 10 characters in your domain
@BullS [..]Website values drops rapidly once you go past 10 characters in your domain[..]
As you know BS there’s more to website value than just it’s domain length, traffic to revenue conversion being probably the most important, take a look at this example:
http://thelongestlistofthelongeststuffatthelongestdomainnameatlonglast.com/
title:(the longest list of the longest stuff at the longest domain name at long last)
domain age 6 years
pr 5
Alexa 138,842
site:google – about 4,110 results
link:google – about 215 results
would fetch low mid $x,xxx at flippa in the right bidding climate 🙂
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I can’t forgive myself for missing this gem though,
https://flippa.com/2629708-pr7-23k-alexa-free-blog-theme-website-for-sale
pr7 23k Alexa – ouch what a steal 🙁 more power to the winner I guess -congrats..lol
it just goes to show that in todays world there’s still ample opportunity to invest in quality for bargain prices.
Instead of my mega dose of vitamin D, I must have downed a handful of “Stupid Pills” by mistake this morning. Mike’s blog is always among the first half dozen things I read each day. So I damned near chocked on my Cheerios to read the excerpt from “Flippa” letting us all in on the newest findings from their study of the “Focus on Website Domains” economy.
Of course I still haven’t a clue about the real meaning the the simple words, “website domains.” Plus the colorful and silly Woop-Dee-Doo graphics and findings are either meaningless, face-slapping wrong, and mostly… simply irrelevant.
Am I the only nut-case out here with no understanding of what is (forget the “What the…” graphics”) meant by the economy of “Website Domains?”
Roy Flanders
Wish they had allowed a domainer access to their data. The information they extracted is random and useless. From looking at that infografic you would think .ca domains were far superior to any other, the same with .au websites. In reality they simply have a small sample and the sites/domains they sold were high end.
you can read their ebook at http://www.flippaebook.com
flipai.com, similar to flippa.com, it’s total free
this company have no customer services what so ever… and they rip off so many user worldwide… they charge you to place your ad with them(fine), and when you like to remove your ad from their site, they ask you pay again to remove it(funny), this is simple rip off. they not under the BBB in the USA so they don’t care, if we all compliant in the BBB USA law they will be closed this site long time ago; Here what Flippa customer services reply to me when I ask to remove my listing: timatflippa, Sep-17 01:57 pm (EST): Under no circumstance will the listing be removed unless you involved your federal law enforcement who then start dealing with the Australian Federal Police. You are welcome to up the privacy setting on the listing at a price but the listing isn’t going anywhere. Flippa Customer Support.