Uniregistry sent out a letter yesterday to select clients asking if they would be interested in being part of a program that let them have their expired domains go to auction where Uniregistry and the person that let them expire would split revenue. An idea that Josh aka Ike had and talked about for years. They key obviously is the split but we all know the psychology of the expired domain. Fresh names in thought whether they are or not. And if you were going to let it expire anyway you really have nothing to lose
There is a zero percent chance Godaddy is going to offer that. They make way too much money and will tell you to throw it in the auctions before it expires if you want to sell it. But as we all know, it gets treated differently and becomes almost impossible to find in the giant list of expiring names. If it got blended in with the other names it would probably perform better.
Speaking of Godaddy making money. How about CTX selling for over $130,000. Godaddy got to make the equivalent of a small home for doing nothing. A price that would pay a coder for AN ENTIRE YEAR to fix their bugs. One person, working 40 hours a week, for 45-50 weeks, working on making the site better. All paid for with one expired domain. I can’t think of a more profitable business model I’ve ever come across than the expired domain model.
Quote of the Day: “Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.” — Dorothy Parker
Domain of the Day: NewLove.com The strongest force in the Universe. Can empty a room of everything else. It’s also what leads to more breakups than anything else. That overwhelming feeling
Namejet, Sedo, Snap, and other Names Up for Auction
The Sedo iGaming Auction ends today. I think they would have liked it to go a little better but as I said before. The reserves were a bit aggressive. Click HERE for total list
DoubleDice.com Under $100 for a pretty good gambling brand
SA.tv Guarantee this one sells. Name is worth much more than reserve IMO
Stairs.com I think this is a good example of a case where the plural is better than the singular
Fun.de Not how they say fun but the traffic says somebody in Germany uses the term
IHIH.com the ABAB pattern is a favorite in China
VisionSurgery.com Because Lasix is a heavily trademarked term
YellowCedar.com Not a ton of value but two known words and a nice country sounding brand
TheInsideAdvantage.com Sounds like a monthly newsletter
KitchenRecipes.com Kitchen is a bit redundant but still makes a nice recipe site name and we always can use more of those
Cirux.com If its not a tech company now it will be eventually
Polp.com if the reserve is closer to the low end it could sell
DirectMetrics.com Screams analysis and data management
GardenPixie.com Good brand for cute gardening things. Trust me, I know
Algerio.com 23 year old name
Godaddy Domains With Bids
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BeatsAndSamples.com I was just talking about this with my brother the other day. There is a big business in selling beats. LilNasX even bought his beat on Youtube.
Tidian.com Not exactly sure why this has the second most bids on the board. It’s a surname. That I know
CoolParents.com No such thing
LightBrown.com How I like my coffee and my…………
GameAssets.com Loot tradin’
StressReliever.com A bit generic but stress is the number one medical condition IMO. That and obesity. But nobody is going to eat less so might as well attack the stress part
CreditMasters.com Let them fix and build your credit
TSmith.com Bids are coming because Smith is such a common name people have to put an initial in front
448833.com A triple repeating pattern. Oh my
CoinStrike.com My favorite bitcoin name this month
BMBH.com and BFCM.com are the two best LLLL.com on the board today
Vour.com OK this one isn’t too shabby
AirDash.com Drone delivery
PublicWater.com Trying to think of a monetary use for this but all I come up with is a site discussion the protection of our public waters
WaterReport.com and USAWater.com My guess is these were part of the same portfolio that expired with public water
Xinks.com I haven’t sold any but I still like the 5L pronounceable that start with X.
Godaddy Names With One of No Bids
The Rest of the Godaddy Names With Bids
2017.info
20cq.com
3d-microscribe.com
702Sports.com
94lsj.com
AcesRealty.com
AdvancedMaterialsAssoc.com
AllNewBuzz.com
AndesSkiTours.com
Arabeya.org
Arbent.net
BikePure.org
BitcoinTec.com
Bobobt.com
Chaaban.info
CherryPicksReviews.com
CleanAndHealThyme.org
CloudStorageProviders.com
CollaborativeEconomy.com
ctrforchristcon.org
Dab4u.com
dc67.com
DirtyHandsMovie.com
easa-australianstudies.net
EasyProgramming.com
FiberArtsMagazine.com
fm103.com
FMJazz.com
ForGas.com
foxandhounds-ainthorpe.com
FreeMapViewer.com
Getenjo.com
HeartOfAPhilanthropist.com
hg0155.com
hotelelviandante.com
LBid.net
IDYQ.com
IGWX.com
InnovativeEconomy.com
IPRAChicago.org
itc-classics.com
JobOffer.org
JohnnyDawes.com
JQTE.com
Kacika.com
kl111.com
LedColor.com
Lee-Jackson.org
LYeQ.com
Malamu.com
MatchingPairs.com
mcclure-manzarek.com
Mibin.com
Mipian.com
MoveRent.com
MythEonGame.com
Naofoiacidente.org
NationalSeo.com
NewHomeConsultants.com
Nilian.com
OmahaApartments.com
ONDX.com
OnVerse.com
OQFQ.com
ormiga.com
ParentClick.com
PassingStrangEonBroadway.com
PCKU.com
PointParkGlobe.com
PowerOfArt.com
RamaShop.com
RedsPorch.com
Rimmalaura.com
SalisburyLaw.com
SolarOffer.com
SpringhillAirConditioner.com
StockCast.com
TealBendGolfclub.com
Techologie.com
TheKolbReport.com
TitanCoin.com
TonyPR.com
Top50States.com
Toutgalsen.com
Trivalence.com
Twistex.org
UJHX.com
UrbanRusticNYC.com
Vague.org
VJVLcom
VPNGenic.com
VZJE.com
WattChain.com
WNNews.com
XGNW.com
XLQE.com
YZVT.com
ZhongKaoti.com
ZUGQ.com
ZUQK.com
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GoDaddy actually did a beta test of that around four years ago, I can’t remember what the exact split was but I remember it being very generous. It obviously didn’t work because they aren’t doing it any more, but I’m not privy to why it failed.
I’m guessing that they were hoping people would let decent names expire on purpose just to sell them, and consider GoDaddy’s split a commission. But that probably didn’t happen because you can’t set a reserve, and people are too scared to trust the market (plus rollback schemes). Besides, if you really want to sell a name, you don’t want to wait six months up to several years for it to expire. It’s easier to just list it on auction yourself. Sure, expired auctions do better, but time value of money and all that.
So if they are getting the same inventory out of it that they would have anyway (crap people were going to drop regardless of the revenue share), no point in giving the lion’s share (or any) to the registrant.
It won’t work for Uniregistry either.
Uniregistry domainers are to smart to let good domains expire. The only ones that would are ones buyers bought, and forgot about, wonder why they want to move them to godaddy right away.
Uni if your listening you have bigger issues you are losing customers as their is a real disconnect with clients right. Is after wooing them over, you lost a lot of good brokers, customer service is subpar, many perks have been taken away, clients complain about additional cc processing fees, and you have taken away many management options within the platform. Also once clients leads go dormant you take ownership of their leads for life, can’t get them back.
Namesilo, and Epik have really been ramping up and taking a lot of your customers if your listening, reach out to your clients, as you have become very distant.
Well said Sebastian
Thanks Michael,
I had heard about it at Godaddy but wasn’t part so never knew if it was true or not. It makes no sense for them to do it. They don’t need
to attract new customers and it would only take away from revenue with no added gain. Uniregistry is grasping for whatever they can get. I wouldn’t call it a spiral at this point but their brake pads are definitely getting worn. That’s on Frank though. He made Domain Gang his marketing department
Nda was in place that is why nobody talked about it
“He made Domain Gang his marketing department”
Funny!
At Fabulous.com, we have had an “Expiry Domains Program” for many years. It’s an opt in program for all customers, where we split the revenue of any domains sold via NameJet.
If anyone is interested, they can contact me directly.
Mike
[email protected]
Thanks Mike. Any info on how it’s working and do the names say “expiry” or come across as private on NameJet ?
They appear in the NameJet inventory as “PreRelease” domains. Looking at the daily sale reports, it has been very successful for some domain investors enrolled in the program. It’s a great way to squeeze some extra dollars on those domains that you don’t intend on renewing.
Since being back in the Fabulous.com fold, I’ve seen some 4-figure sales go through the program too. Of course, it all comes down to inventory/types of domains. Performance varies from portfolio to portfolio.
BTW, sa.tv looks good with a $99-500 reserve but the renewals look like they’re $300-600/year (remember there’s some weird system with .tv where some 2L .tvs are premium renewal and others aren’t.
Very good point Matt. I completely forgot about premium renewal on .tv