Chinese Live Auction Nets over 150 Million RMB ($23.1 mil)

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The first ever Chinese Domain Festival and China Digital Asset Investment Summit live auction concluded with 150 million RMB in sales.

The full list is below with all amounts in Chinese RMB, 1 RMB = .1542 USD.

Auction No. | Domain Name | Price in RMB

1 | 1212.com | 1,800,000
2 | zhu.com | 2,200,000
3 | 1117.com | 850,000
4 | qc.cn | 1,500,000
5 | wrj.com | 610,000
6 | beijing.cc | 260,000
7 | cheyou.com.cn, chongwu.com.cn, piaowu.com.cn | 160,000
8 | 828.com | 4,400,000
9 | weitou.com | 500,000
10 | gzy.com qng.com nhj.com | 1,100,000
11 | chuangke.com | 810,000
12 | N.com.cn | 960,000
13 | 0755.cn | 350,000
14 | 977.cn | 350,000
15 | lp.com | 6,680,000
16 | taowan.com | 250,000
17 | libao.com | 310,000
18 | ctx.com | 580,000
19 | guwan.com | 2,000,000
20 | banana.com | 13,200,000
21 | fc.cc | 290,000
22 | 886.com | 5,560,000
23 | huli.com | 1,550,000
24 | girl.com | 2,300,000
25 | 13.cn | 2,050,000
26 | bidu.com | 1,520,000
27 | qinglv.com | 490,000
28 | aipiao.com | 150,000
29 | 123.cn | 4,200,000
30 | dbj.com | 460,000
31 | lianxiang.com | 700,000
32 | house.com | 16,200,000
33 | wzf.com | 710,000
34 | fxb.com | 560,000
35 | qxt.com | 450,000
36 | nj.cn | 1,100,000
37 | tz.cn | 1,450,000
38 | 689.com | 3,500,000
39 | dianxun.com | 230,000
40 | doujiao.com | 290,000
41 | 183.com | 2,850,000
42 | niuzai.com | 190,000
43 | 4I .com (x 100) | 1,700,000
44 | nr.com | 5,700,000
45 | yinyue.com | 1,250,000
46 | zhubao.com | 1,720,000
47 | 262.com | 3,300,000
48 | qcl.com | 410,000
49 | luohu.com | 190,000
50 | yao.com | 21,500,000
51 | gg.com | 17,000,000
52 | hg.com | 16,000,000

Source: news.domain.cn

Courtesy of China Mobi

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond is a writer, domain trader and consultant based in Pennsylvania. Raymond is the founder of 3Character.com and TLDInvestors.com.

Comments

  5. Steve says

    $2 million+ for Banana.com!! I wonder what the Costello bro’s sold it for earlier??? Wasn’t it theirs?
    Great prices, we need a better site for both Western and Eastern domainers. The auction site was in Chinese and it’s hard for us to participate in another language. I think prices will go up, up if both Western and Eastern investors can bid on the same platform.
    Also great to see .cc getting some GREAT results. Remember Beauty.cc sold for 1 million??!!??!! Hoax, maybe not. 😉

    • Michael Castello says

      Yes, we also sold Tangerine.com to the bank of Canada a couple years ago. We still own Grape.com. The Chinese are using domain names as a currency with premium single word and numbered .coms as their gold standard. The rest of the world will take notice in 2016.

      • Steve says

        Thanks for taking the time to confirm! Awesome portfolio of names you have.
        Have you been investing in the new gtld’s? If so which ones, long short??
        Cheers!!

      • carledgar says

        Do you mean A bank in Canada, Michael. I would be surprised if Canada’s central bank (our Fed so to speak) had bought Tangerine – I thought it was a rebranding of a Dutch bank

  6. Thomas says

    I think a lot of dual language chinese buyers are directly buying from western domainers and flipping them in chinese only auctions. House.com was once sold for $800k I think. Banana.com possibly a lot less.

  7. fizz says

    Brilliant auction results and IMO a turning point for Chinese investment in English generics with winning bids of $2.5m for house.com and $2m for banana.com (results not final I believe).
    Using today’s xe.com exchange rates rounded to nearest thousand dollars I see:
    yao.com 3,316,000
    gg.com 2,622,000
    house.com 2,499,000
    hg.com 2,468,000
    banana.com 2,036,000
    lp.com 1,030,000
    nr.com 879,000
    886.com 858,000
    828.com 679,000
    123.cn 648,000
    689.com 540,000
    262.com 509,000
    183.com 440,000
    girl.com 355,000

  10. Ulysses says

    Lets be thankful to Kassey (Chinamobi) for keeping us all up to date.

    I have known chinamobi since dot mobi days and was always great with information!

    Well done Chinamobi !

  12. Jon says

    Soft.com just sold on Namejet for $364K to Chinese investor also. There are only several hundred LLL.com words that can be acquired and maybe 1,000 LLLL words, plus a few thousand more longer words. LLL.com word prices can certainly match/exceed LL.com prices just based on inventory if Chinese investors start buying.

  13. Jon says

    Also, I am guessing Chinese investors will put very premium value on names of easily identifiable objects, particularly objects you can easily draw. Banana.com really makes sense from this angle. There are definitely no more than a few hundred words that fit easily identifiable object criteria.

  14. David Sams says

    There has been a lot of interest in generic, one word .cc domains over the past year, specifically from the Chinese. I have sold several. I have several remaining in my portfolio, and I get offers from the Chinese every couple of weeks. They’re not knocking down my doors, but it’s pretty steady interest.

    • Steve says

      Lots of hits for the lll.cc’s. All short and generic .cc’s have been going up lately on the drop auctions. lll.cc will be min $10k by spring imo. I wouldn’t sell any for less atm.

  16. Sharon says

    Does anyone know if .top numeric domains are in demand and which Chinese market can I advertize/auction them in? Thank you in advance.

  18. Matias Padilla says

    Amazin price for a NNNN.com (1212.com and 1117.com), still can’t believe those prices, is amazing chinese are paying that for a domain that a few years ago was worth less than 10% of that price.