Summer may be winding down, but any time is a good time to sell a domain. Below are some recent domain auction results for your perusal.

These aren’t six-figure sales by a long shot, but it’s important for a domainer to keep tabs on the entire industry. The average domain price is right around £1000, after all. The results listed are characteristic of most domain sales. For every £1 million .com, there are probably 10,000 no-name domains sold.

• buygoldonline.com- $6,100
• dogobedience.com- $2,950
• hdtvlcd.com- $2,360
• 4n.net- $2,050
• videoportal.com- $2,050
• ontractorjobs.com- $2,050
• okyovacations.com- $1,230
• goodfood.net- $400
• globalsearch.net- $325
• beefbrisket.net- $300
• birdseed.net- $300

Buygoldonline.com might seem high at $6,100, but the price is just representative of the strong bullion market. The only reason why 4n.net sold is because it’s two letters. ICANN currently does not permit the registration of .com or .net names under 3 letters in length.

Source | The Domains

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A popular domain auction site recently released a report detailing statistics about more than 9,000 auctions in the last three months. Surprisingly, the average sale price for a .net domain came out to $1,775 USD, a wee bit higher than the average .com value of $1,768. This is a sharp decline from the $2,527 figure calculated in the last reporting period.

If .com is supposedly king, why are .net domains selling for more? The answer is quite simple: all the good generic .com names are taken. According to the report, 75% of domain sales were .coms– mostly less desirable names, however. Now that the cream of the crop has already been sold, premium .net names are becoming more desirable.

Does this mean .coms are now worth less? Such a statement could be no further from the truth. People are simply buying .nets because there are no good .coms available. Since so few are out there, .coms are now worth more than ever before.

Source | DN Journal

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With the economy at rock-bottom, stock prices have fallen dramatically over the last year. One might expect domains to follow a similar trend, however, the average auction price for a name has increased- from £1,282 last year to £1,757!

This year has also seen quite a few high-price domain sales, such as toys.com for £3.11 million ($5.1 million USD) and candy.com for £1.8 million ($3 million USD). The number of domain sales as well as the prices best resemble the 1999 .com boom.

I don’t know if the rise in prices is a sign of investors turning to the Internet in light of the poor stock market, a realization that the web exists and is actually profitable, or both. As I have stated in the past, I think the rampant speculation that is plaguing the domain market will be its downfall. We will see another .com bubble burst similar to what happened in 2001.

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