I just downloaded the new verision of FireFox 3.0 web browser which features the new "Awesome Bar" which Mozilla says is a new way of using the address bar on top of the browser to navigate the internet taking into account your bookmarks and viewing history. Mozilla says that the "Awesome Bar" basically turns the address bar into a search engine. “No longer do you have to know the domain of … [Read more...]
If domains are so valuable, why are many good ones still dropping?
I started following domain drops in 1997. Back then there was no domain name industry, no trade shows, no blogs, no industry auctions. Very few people knew what a domain was, how to use them, and how valuable they were. Now 11 years later, with countless articles, press releases, blogs and reports of domain sales, why are so many good domains still dropping? Here are just some of the names … [Read more...]
Using Estibot.com, what are the best and worst buys of the Live TRAFFIC auction
I have seen a lot of people in the domain community discussing, Estibot.com lately. Estibot.com is an automated domain appraisal tool. Type a domain into it and it will give you back an appraisal for a domain. I thought is would be interesting to see what appraisal Esibot.com gave to the Live TRAFFIC names. Here the top ten domains in the live TRAFFIC auction with a reserve price of … [Read more...]
Buried Jersey Nets $175k
A few months ago we wrote how domains, like commodities and collectibles continue to increase in value in poor economic times. Why because they are rare. If there is only one of something, there will be a market for it. Today there is further evidence of this. The infamous David Ortiz Red Sox jersey that was buried and then dug up at the site of the new Yankee Stadium in the Bronx was … [Read more...]
DNJournal.com: 1st Quarter best ever for domain sales
Ron Jackson, who tracks all reported domain sales and publishes the results weekly in the DNJournal, published his anaylsis of domain sales in the 1st quarter and has some great news for the industry: """""The first quarter of 2008 wound up being the best domain sales quarter reported since we started tracking the market back in the fall of 2003. A total of $38,029,543 in domain sales were … [Read more...]
Domains Are Cheaper than Booze
On Saturday we reported from the Art Basel show in Miami and compared the prices of art work to domains. Now comes the report from the Christie's auction held this past Saturday in New York that a bottle of 1926 Macallan Scotch sold for $54,000, or $2,100 an ounce. It set a record for a bottle of scotch. It also beat expectations. The total generated at the distilled spirits auction was … [Read more...]
Domains Are Cheap!!!!!!!!!!!
I spent seven hours at the huge Art Basel Show in Miami yesterday. I saw the obligatory canvases painted completely white (25k+), Black (65K+) and a very pretty green color priced, at a no doubt what is a steal, at $335,000. Also on display were the white canvas with simply words like "die collector scum", and "meat is death". I also got to see the back doors of what appeared to be a 60's … [Read more...]