skateboard.net ended at $29,250.00 (SnapNames) !

[Gregoire]

Hi,

Auction has just ended at SN : skateboard.net sold for $29,250.00

Not bad for a dotnet !

Grégoire.

 

[mike031]

congrats to vaxis. nice pick up! already been paid for

 

[dodo1]

That's definitely a nice .net sale! I hope we'll see some more .net domains
sold for five figures so the reputation of good old .net will recover.

 

[Rubber Duck]

Hi,

Auction has just ended at SN : skateboard.net sold for $29,250.00

Not bad for a dotnet !

Grégoire.

Bodes well for iceskates.net

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[QuantumBeam]

:wink:

 

[mole]

29k???? Holy crow, has someone been bumping vaxis up the sky?

 

[furca]

I hope this continues, I see lots of potential for the .net domains!

 

[stuff]

I would say there are better ways to spend $30k, but what do I know.

 

[mike031]

in todays market, 30k for such a domain could be justified as a "good" or rather fair deal... prices are only rising, what do you expect. :cheeky:

 

[greggish]

Who would have thought skateboard.net would go for more than christ.net ($18,350)? Vaxis got that one too on SN.

 

[mole]

prices are only rising, what do you expect. :cheeky:

When prices rise irrationally, then we are clearly in a bubble situation. Water will find its own level. :cheeky:

 

[Togoodhlth]

wow! I had guessed around $8k...boy was I wrong!

 

[Rubber Duck]

When prices rise irrationally, then we are clearly in a bubble situation. Water will find its own level. :cheeky:

It is difficult to say what is rational and what is not. Dot net and dot com were more or less launched together, same price, same service. Both have a catchy little three letter name, so why is one heading for the stars, whilst the other has been caught in the duldrums for years?

It may well be that the recent surge in dot net prices is a rational response to market conditions given the very high prices and growing lack of availability of useful dot coms. Maybe now is the time that dot net finally comes into its own.

Best Regards
Dave Wrixon

 

[mole]

It may well be that the recent surge in dot net prices is a rational response to market conditions given the very high prices and growing lack of availability of useful dot coms.

I beg to differ, some sales prices are mad and are perfect live examples for the truism "A fool and his money are soon parted". There are lots of sellers out there eagerly awaiting buyers for names parked to PCC they know converts only $1 a month. There are 39,000,000 .COM names registered today. The number of reported sales every month is less than 0.00001% of this base, microscopic specks of dust in the domain cosmos.

And where you start factoring the flood of new extensions within the next 6 months like .XXX, .EU and .MOBI (backed by industry giants), the general public will start to see, hey .COM ain't so scarce and limited as we thought.

The WWW became only reasonably functional (and painfully slow) sometime 1996. It's been less than 10 years, and already, the addressing webscape has sprouted a whole new field of workable options.

 

[Rubber Duck]

I beg to differ, some sales prices are mad and are perfect live examples for the truism "A fool and his money are soon parted". There are lots of sellers out there eagerly awaiting buyers for names parked to PCC they know converts only $1 a month. There are 39,000,000 .COM names registered today. The number of reported sales every month is less than 0.00001% of this base, microscopic specks of dust in the domain cosmos.

And where you start factoring the flood of new extensions within the next 6 months like .XXX, .EU and .MOBI (backed by industry giants), the general public will start to see, hey .COM ain't so scarce and limited as we thought.

The WWW became only reasonably functional (and painfully slow) sometime 1996. It's been less than 10 years, and already, the addressing webscape has sprouted a whole new field of workable options.

Actually, this is a pretty good domain. It does 62 on Overture even with the dot net extension. There can't be too many dot net feature there at all! The dot com does 7429 and without extension the keyword does 187,665.

 

[sasquatch]

already been paid for

What do you mean?

It may well be that the recent surge in dot net prices is a rational response to market conditions given the very high prices and growing lack of availability of useful dot coms. Maybe now is the time that dot net finally comes into its own.

I don't think you can really talk about "rational conditions" and "market adjustments" on the basis of few deep pocket speculators overpaying for .net drops recently. Not until corporate clients start paying big bucks for .net names.

In today's market 29k for .net domain with no traffic and linkpop is above any realistically conceivable end user price. How long will take Vaxis to recoup this on the basis of 5-10 visitors per day? If anything, this only proves that there are many in that part of the world who are compulsive gamblers.

 

[mike031]

What do you mean?

what do you think i mean? hehe :cheeky:

.....it's already been paid for by the auction winner.

 

[sasquatch]

what do you think i mean? hehe :cheeky:

.....it's already been paid for by the auction winner.

I thought you meant Vaxis somehow already recouped that money (via some sort of immediate backroom deal) Ah the science fictionist in me (bah)

 

[mike031]

this big guys have a lot of money and can drop a crazy amount any given day for the right names... this are good sound investments in my opinion. some will hold on to names forever looking for that one big fish to reel in......others will develop em sooner or later.

 

[Mr. Deleted]

2761 skateboard.com ...What about TM on this name, if any?