In all $148,274 of domain names sold, led by Matures.com for $30K and Gay.Co for $25,000
Gay.co is an interesting sale since Gay.XXX just sold last week for $500,000.
That means the .XXX version sold for 20X as much as the .co in the same week.
Like I said interesting.
Congrats to all buyers and sellers and the full results are below:
Matures.com $30,000
Gay.co $25,000
BlackCock.com $12,500
Watched.com $10,000
HotGuys.com $8,500
Pubes.com $7,500
HugeCock.com $7,500
NakedMen.com $5,000
NakedGuys.com $5,000
BigBush.com $5,000
WifeVideos.com $3,500
BBWPussy.com $3,000
HotBooty.com $3,000
3Dpornvideos.com $2,500
AssBanging.com $2,500
BlackTeenPorn.com $2,500
GrannyMovies.com $2,500
BigDickSex.com $2,750
CelebrityPussy.com $2,120
PrivateWebCams.com $2,010
FeetMovies.com $2,000
VideoSexChat.com $1,260
NakedCartoon.com $1,000
HDPornReview.com $750
HardcoreAmateur.com $169
FatAssTube.com $150
MalePornTube.com $150
BarebackFucking.com $100
NakedCinema.com $39
SexWorker.net $32
FeetFucked.com $28
BrutalCocks.com $27
JustBush.com $24
AssTryout.com $22
AssTryouts.com $22
TrueTrannys.com $21
CuteMoms.com $19
HookupGirls.com $19
POVsluts.com $15
CreamPieMilf.com $9
FratFests.com $9
BoobTeam.com $7
GiantRods.com $7
MilfExams.com $3
BreastCrew.com $1
CreamPieAttack.com $1
FacialPrincess.com $1
FratSexParty.com $1
FriskyDate.com $1
FriskyDates.com $1
HotChunkers.com $1
InterracialMeetups.com $1
RockHardBoys.com $1
SexyChunkers.com $1
TrannyVote.com $1
CrazyNakedGirls.com $1
Gay.CO selling for $25k just confirms what we already know: there isn’t any .CO bubble with illogically inflated prices, which is absolutely a positive sign. On the other hand, there could be a bubble with .XXX…
Joe
How can there be a bubble in .XXX it hasn’t even had its launch yet?
this kind of domains can’t reach high selling prices
there are tons of similar domains
.Co
is for companies, entrepreneurs, individuals, blogs
it is not a sexually tinted/charged extension.
so gay.co sold only for its
LLL
value than anything else.
The question remains:
How much are short or number-only domains worth?
030.co
030.me
01230.info
01230.eu
99ct.net
@MHB
Not now of course. I’m saying a bubble in .XXX in the coming months wouldn’t be very unlikely, given the particular nature of the extension.
Gay.xxx is more targeted for branding purposes. I think in all new extensions there will be a few winners. We see this phenomenon with .me (date.me, stuff like that). New extensions won’t be like .com though where any decent string is a go.
Let’s make another comparison (all things being equal right of the dot):
Dreidels.Hannukah vs Dreidels.Christmas
(may have spelled that wrong)
Or
Kosher.Passover vs Kosher.Christmas
The question remains …
How do the same .CO spammers and promoters find there way into the blog comment sections so quickly after an article mentioning .co is published ?
Anyway, some pretty solid .com sales in the list.
“How can there be a bubble in .XXX it hasn’t even had its launch yet?”
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Good point. The ICANN XXX is an sTLD. That will draw some players in.
That is what ICANN was set up to do.
“launch” for some people will be Post-ICANN Market Trials
As an example, .BIZ may “launch” at some point.
It is not clear there is much interest in .BIZ or other TLDs in terms of the real “launch”.
A **real launch** includes Digital Wallets and Digital Currency for the TLD
Interesting. A niche TLD commands a very high price for a second level name closely associated with the context.
I wonder what that could mean for online.poker, hotels.nyc, hybrid.car, vacation.deals, divorced.dating, investment.fund, stock.quote, superbowl.tickets, fine.art, math.game . . etc.
Why didn’t this work for .travel, .museum, .jobs? The model, marketing, execution.
I agree with Joe. .XXX is looking quite Bubblish. Of course we can’t say for sure for months to come, but when you have very inflated sales like Gay.xxx, it looks a bit problematic.
Gay.co for $25000 is a nice sale. It wouldn’t be a stretch to say the .co clan won’t cry over the fact they haven’t cornered the adult market.
Tom
You know the answer to this
It didn’t work for .travel because registration was restricted to licensed Travel Agents, not to hotels, airlines or anyone else in the travel industry but just travel agents
How many museums are there in the world 5,000?
Well that would be the max number of registrations
.jobs another extension that was overly restrictive
The more restrictive the TLD the less successful it will be
Comparing them is like Apple’s to Kiwi’s
“The more restrictive the TLD the less successful it will be”
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Anything ICANN touches will be classified as highly “restrictive”
With Peer-2-Peer DNS no one can destroy your years of investment in domains
@Tom,
“…I wonder what that could mean for online.poker, hotels.nyc, hybrid.car, vacation.deals, divorced.dating, investment.fund, stock.quote, superbowl.tickets, fine.art, math.game . . etc….”
It means there are millions of different versions of extensions…
Most likely confusing with variable versions as shown examples below:
online.poker
online.pokers
poker.online
pokers.online
onlinepoker.com
pokeronline.com
onlinegames.poker
onlinegamble.poker
onlinepoker.casino
It can be very difficult to have a distinctive/recognised brandings…confusing…
etc….
Not sure about there being a .xxx bubble coming. Note that none of the .xxx domains in the auction sold !
@MHB
Yes, I answered my question with ‘model’, I wasn’t genuinely asking. Thanks for clarifying, though.
XXX is making a strong case for niche TLDs is my point, really.
ROTD will do very nicely.
Price stat record:
gay.co $25000
onlinecasino.co $100000
taobao.co $115000
gay.xxx $500000
Looks like .xxx is a winner…because online porn business are booming….
Everybody in the world watch porn…I just watched porn last night…spend 4 hours …lol
David
I didn’t follow it that closely
I see one domain sold for $30K and one sold for $25K
I think all the .XXX reserves we above that
Obviously not a big auction for high priced domains
“Obviously not a big auction for high priced domains”
probably one of the more important points made here….and maybe why the higher reserve domains didn’t sell and gay.co didn’t sell for more…maybe the big spenders stayed home…or forgot their wallets 🙂
“maybe the big spenders stayed home…or forgot their wallets”
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Maybe people are becoming more educated via expert assistance ?
Maybe they are starting to see what it will really cost to **own** a domain ?
…and to get it widely resolved…
XXX Founders have painted big targets on their chests – “High Roller” – Charge me to resolve my domains
CES in Vegas should be interesting this year…as people pay to be on the Set.Top.Box DNS TVs
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No, Rayy, not *everyone* watches porn.
IMHO, .xxx is just another .mobi in the making. In fact, .xxx offers less promise than .mobi, which at least offered the possibility of cornering the mobile communication industry. Unfortunately, the timing was bad as the iphone pretty much squashed .mobi’s ambitions.
You can bank on the fact that .xxx will be blocked by schools, businesses, and homes.
If you can’t get in (excuse the pun), .xxx webmasters won’t be able to spread their “content” to people who don’t want it.
The only people getting rich off .xxx are the registry and its deep-pocket cronies.
These large sales always seem to happen during sunrise and landrush periods and then peter out (sorry, another pun) after the pump and dump period (the puns just keep on coming).
Don’t forget history. Does Flowers.mobi ring a bell?
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@Ms Domainer:
You can bank on the fact that .xxx will be blocked by schools, businesses, and homes.
Excellent point, I just hope that the people who invest in this stld will do so wisely, as I
doubt if you will get a lot of unique traffic with something like realestate.xxx or usedcars.xxx.
@Ms Domainer
“…These large sales always seem to happen during sunrise and landrush periods and then peter out …”
You probably right… gay.xxx sold $500000, is used as a stimulus game play to inflate the price for publicity and marketing and jack up the price reputation…
Pump up the price…
“You can bank on the fact that .xxx will be blocked…”
“I doubt if you will get a lot of unique traffic”
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The TRAFFIC will be from the user to the DNS in their Set.Top.Box
at that point the .XXX names can be resolved (for a fee)
There could be several .XXX Registries and those can be displayed for the user
Ads controlled by the ISP can be displayed as the user selects .XXX providers
The user could also be offered the chance to block domains for a fee (or a deduction from their CyberCurrency Account)
A lot of user interaction can occur (from the Set.Top.Box) before the back-end DNS Registry is sent any queries (i.e. Traffic)
Just interesting to see .CO back in the spotlight again.
Decent sale numbers.
“You can bank on the fact that .xxx will be blocked by schools, businesses, and homes.
If you can’t get in (excuse the pun), .xxx webmasters won’t be able to spread their “content” to people who don’t want it.”
Operative term being “people who DON’T want it”. Those people won’t pay for that sort of content anyway, so it does not matter to the .xxx community. People are not buying porn from school computers and libraries at least not in any meaningful volume… so those blocks won’t matter.
Now… if an entire State (like Utah) blocks it, then maybe it would make a dent in the revenue model… ’cause that is a big seller there.
I’m not a big fan of the whole .xxx debacle but I’m at least realistic about it. GAY.XXX is likely to laugh at how little they paid for that domain.
Quick Clobert Rhine, grab it!
It all seems pretty logical to me. How much do you think G.xxx will fetch? you think Google will pay several million dollars for it like they did with G.co…? (and use it)
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wait for it
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No, Lol.
Mike,
Can you share your top pics for the upcoming TRAFFIC auction?
Thanks
-Mike
Mike
1st things 1st.
Poll is opening up tomorrow morning
hello domainers, we just sold CelebrityTube.com for $12,500 to bring the total up to $160,774