T.R.A.F.F.I.C bad or good for forum resellers?

BostonDomainer · Jun 27, 2007

Ok, I propose a series of question to the tribe. A

1)Are the Traffic Auctions really beneficial to resellers/(forum users) or more so to end users/corporate investors?

Reason I ask is that it seems to lock up all decent domain names via contract. I've had a wanted post on here with a high $x,xxx budget (after finally getting enough sales to reach that point:disappointed

yet could not find one decently priced name. I was searching for an LLL.com or a generic with some traffic. Every name I received leaned more towards an end user pricing given quality and letter combo for LLL.coms. But that's not what bothered me though... usually whenever there's a price range like that, there's usually plenty of responses, this time, I would go a whole without 1 single response which came off as odd to me.

2) This question goes out to the few members on here who are serial premium name posters (posting for sale, auctions, or appraisals).... what percentage of your portfolio or quality names of yours are lock towards TRAFFIC ( if u do not mind sharing that info)?

This is just to try to gauge why the major slow down which seems very different and substantive from previous summers. I'd like to know if there's any correlation here.

Thanks to all!

hugegrowth · Jun 27, 2007

I think a few factors are at work here:

More hunters with big wallets looking for quality names.

Less quality names available, they've been sucked into major portfolios and aren't going anywhere soon.

Smaller players with quality names holding onto them - why not when prices have been doubling or better the last year or two?

I think the past buyers market is turning to a sellers market for quality names. I've noticed more domains-wanted posts for generics and LLL's with xx,xxx to xxx,xxx budgets than ever before. The supply of quality is drying up, unless you are willing to pay crazy prices. In 2005 there were more generic and traffic names available here if you had some money, now it's like you can have xx,xxx and so what? Just my own observations, but just have 25k to spend on names now doesn't mean you'll get anything great.

BidNo · Jun 28, 2007

Not a serial premium name poster but have a good catbird seat via the domain sales database plus a good eye for big-picture trends. Hugegrowth nailed it exactly. There's 100's of millions in new investment funds flowing into the domain market. Why? Compare the rate of return versus stocks or currency markets.