A happy birthday to my friend Morgan Linton. One of the first people in this industry that was kind to me. We were both brand new in the industry when we met and now we’re not. He’s started a company with Mark Cuban. I haven’t started a company with Mark Cuban. Mark and I can’t get along. He told me he didn’t want to be involved in a company where the other owner trains for Ironman. He said that time should be put into the company. I don’t think I can work with someone that thinks he is smarter than everyone. I’m sure Morgan thinks completely different and has nice things to say. The difference is he knows him and I just know the person I see on TV. But Mark and I both think highly of Morgan. THAT we can agree on. Here are today’s names. Click to see current prices
AdultOnly.com 20 years old. Big name with the S but even without getting good bids
HWCP.com 19 years old and getting so so bids. Good end user name. P for products
Farax.com 18 years old and getting a few bids. You know I like 5L.coms that would make a short simple brand
RYMR.com Another nice acronym and 18 years old
HealthDirector.coml Not sure what you would do with it but has some age but no bids. I think you’ll be fine at $12
888797.com I hate to be one of those guys but I hope this does well because I own a similar but better name. And it really is better. Most people say it is but it isn’t but mine really is……………..I promise
Snoozing.com I figured people would like this. Especially in this industry where half the people sleep in
SleepAddiction.com Since we’re talking sleep. One bidder at $12.
BigBale.com Actually an upgrade name for a few companies. It is a kind of square bale of hay. There’s regular hay bales and then there are big bales
GreatReviews.com Its pretty obvious you can buy them. Might was well start a site. 5 bidders agree
TGJH.com H for holdings. 12 years old.
LowerMyRisk.com No bidders. I can easily see this in a commercial for something that claims to
Hoojo.com Not too bad of a 5L. Worth $100ish IMO
Zenra.com Getting a pretty high bid. Seller puts a note saying its a name with the word “Zen” and is a smooth and relaxing name. I think its getting the bids because of the Japanese sex site on the .net. Just a guess
JYCB.com Getting a the best price of all the LLLL.coms on the board today
G8X.com All CCC.com are worth at least $300 at this point
NTTM.com HNLM.com Theo must be SOOOO excited to see all these great Western CHiPs selling. Means someone is selling their portfolio. Which can only mean that the only names worth owning are names like assdevelopment.com and feta.guru
ArtisanMarket.org Artisan anything seems to sell right now. This is proving me right
187111.com Pattern 6N.coms continue to do very very well
AirBub.com Pretty sure the value is in the typo of AirBnB but I won’t tell anyone
SolarPowerFlorida.info This is doing MUCH better than I expected. Actually I didn’t think it would do anything
117678.com No fours or zeros. That’s still a good thing
ZZZKZ.com I overpaid on a lot of 5Ls. We’ll see how it goes but I am probably going to pay some holding costs waiting for the world to see how awesome my names are. The regular old 5Ls? There will be no holding costs
BGSF.com At $30 at press time. Pretty sure its worth more than that
FastTravels.com One bid at $12. 278 visits per month. And because TakesForeverTravel.com just isn’t that great
GERX.com One bidder at $54. Worth more than that as well IMO
GiGa.cc One bidder at $12
87TT.com I honestly thought the TT would bring more than $20
RMRR.com I don’t like it but the bidders do
Sly.net Stallone
674.co I think you will do well with any NNN in the top 20 TLDs. You get 50 NNN and LLL dot co with this portfolio
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SongShop.com 20 years old. Sounds like a nice place to buy a song
TheBikesmith.com No bidders. Upgrade name for a few places
LM7.com Over under $2500
SRPH.com Another fine Western CHiP. Under $800 at press time
OnlinePersonal.com Only 5 bidders but one of them really wants it
DIW.com Do it WithSomeoneElsesHelp
EasyLifeInsurance.com I feel like its going to be easy to sign up for because of the implications
KYRK.com Yes, there are some Kirks that spell it this way
VacationBeijing.com Chinese tourism grows every year and Beijing is one of the top destinations.
TRPE.com One last nice western acronym
PokerComp.com Still lots of money in poker. Not quite printing it like they used to though
TRM.com I think it will cross $50K. Great great letters
CompareRealty.com Home comparison sites are all the rage. Tough competition
PropertyOverseas.com Everyone dreams of owning a home in Europe. A few do but everyone looks
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As you know, equity traders are familiar with pullbacks. They happen regularly within an uptrend, as a matter of fact an uptrend can’t happen without them. So the question is always whether a selloff breaks the lower bound of the uptrend line. If so then you’re looking at the internet 2K bubble popping or, more recently, the break of the $IBB/$XBI multiyear trendline.
So the difiiculty in applying this to the domain “market” is two-fold. First, although it does appear that commodity-type pricing could be applied (i.e. the DSAD daily pricing stats), liquidity skew is highly relevant. This is especially apparent when there are large 4L dumps by Chinese holders. Compounded by the fact that there are few exchanges available for the transactions to commence on.
Second, and more importantly, there are no true market making mechanisms in the domain world. Trendlines occur because there are counterparties available to dampen the buying and selling extremes (shorting against overbought conditions and buying against oversold conditions). Combined with well defined technical analysis by traders (moving averages, bollinger bands, etc.), trend patterns can proceed in an orderly fashion.
So is Theo correct that the sky is falling? Was the upward trend of the last year or so finally broken by a couple Chinese sellers, or is Shane correct that we’re looking at profit taking within the ascending band?
My contention is that without the two mechanisms mentioned above, neither is correct. There is no way to know without applying any formal analysis to the domain market. Standard metrics as employed by technical analysts reflect market psychology, it’s been that way since money was “invented”. Therefore the domain market works purely on gut feel with isolated pockets of exhuberance and despair. To look at it otherwise is mental masturbation imho.
P.S. – A little birdy told me Shane has a cute butt.
Gerty,
I see you’ve found a new IP 🙂 thank you for the intelligent comment. Had…….had
My IP may change but you’ll always be my one and only infatuation.