Has domaining slowed down?

[ARMG]

Hi lads,

It's been a while I've been active in the "domaining" business and I keep getting the impression business has slowed down quite significantly.

Sales via Sedo seem down and there aren't much sales happening on the forum as well.

So what happened? What have I missed

Cheers,
ARMG

 

[Stian]

Yeah, 2010 was a lot slower than usual. I think it's been picking up again in the last quarter of 2010 and up to now though. Anyone agree?

 

[A D]

Sales enquiries seem stable while parking has crashed and burnt.

-=DCG=-

 

[Jilo]

For the first time, I made more domaining in January than my day job. IMO, the money is still there, you just have to work a bit harder for it.

 

[ARMG]

Sales enquiries seem stable while parking has crashed and burnt.

-=DCG=-

What caused this? Google? or did Parked.com etc collapse?

 

[A D]

What caused this? Google? or did Parked.com etc collapse?

It's a combination of eveything.

Google, Yahoo and parking companies all contributed to the slow death of parking.

It's not completely dead yet, but certainly on life support.

-=DCG=-

 

[David G]

That's for sure, especially involving the new parked.com Bing feed.

Had a recent day at parked.com where my revenue was only 1% (99% less) vs my better days there a few yrs ago based on very similar traffic and quality.

It's a combination of eveything.

Google, Yahoo and parking companies all contributed to the slow death of parking.

It's not completely dead yet, but certainly on life support.

-=DCG=-

 

[ARMG]

Sounds like the industry is screaming for a new monetization method...

 

[hugegrowth]

Read the annual review at DNJournal.com - sale prices seem to be steady or slightly higher year over year.

As usual, it is still always surprising how high and how low some names sell for.

I think last year a lot of people cleaned their portfolios, dropping the crap and keeping the good names.

Domains go as the internet goes, and I don't think internet use has slowed down much at all.

 

[A D]

I think last year a lot of people cleaned their portfolios, dropping the crap and keeping the good names.

This trend will continue in 2011.

-=DCG=-

 

[Biggie]

Hi lads,

It's been a while I've been active in the "domaining" business and I keep getting the impression business has slowed down quite significantly.

Sales via Sedo seem down and there aren't much sales happening on the forum as well.

So what happened? What have I missed

Cheers,
ARMG

you missed the old forum design


other than that, you ain't missed much


here's something funny for ya though, in case you haven't noticed


3letter.com are selling for less, than 3number.com


and 3letter.org are selling for more than 3letter.net in many cases


other than that...

i had 3 sales in january, two on the forums and one via sedo

finally, i passed on about 25 to 30 offers in January and have about 3 domains currently in negotiations

 

[ARMG]

Haha Cheers Big! Great insight!

Never thought LLL would take over the NNN's however if you think about it - our Chinese friends love these NNN's and their rare.

How are the NNNNN.com's doing? Bought way too many of those a couple of years ago

you missed the old forum design


other than that, you ain't missed much


here's something funny for ya though, in case you haven't noticed


3letter.com are selling for less, than 3number.com


and 3letter.org are selling for more than 3letter.net in many cases


other than that...

i had 3 sales in january, two on the forums and one via sedo

finally, i passed on about 25 to 30 offers in January and have about 3 domains currently in negotiations

 

[RatherGood]

Parking companies and the owners of the 1% of universally desirable names will continue to be perennially optimistic.


Everyone else, will have to get very creative in 2011.

 

[Onward]

I think things have been picking up a good bit in the last 6 months...if you throw out what you wanted in 2006-2007 and rethink expectations a little...you will hit the sweet spot between 1.5-4k with the endusers. Of course I am not talking about the top, top names...I am talking about the names the startups, small businesses and entrepreneurs are after. I am finding they are buying right not at the right prices.

 

[BGray]

What caused this? Google? or did Parked.com etc collapse?

It was caused by people exploiting parking with traffic arbitrage. As PPC platforms like Adwords, AdCenter and Yahoo Search Marketing allowed more features allowing advertisers to target traffic sources advertisers quickly realized that "network" traffic which parking is part of was pure garbage and cut it off. This led to less advertisers in the parking channel and much lower click rates. As a person that advertises heavily with PPC platforms I NEVER show my ads on the parking channels.

Again, you can thank parking arbitrage for this collapse.