What % of domain sales are hype

namealot · Sep 18, 2009

How many other question the validity of many of the domain sales they see...
My view is that many of the domains sales that appear to go through on many auction sites etc are not real sales just good advertising for the auction sites, good for the domain name, Good for the domain registrar’s, and for companies and a very few individuals trying to up the values of there portfolios (and there ability to borrow against them)
Sales would increase for a short time when markets are suffering?. I have seen so many supposed sales that the sites stay the same or nothing happens to them at all. Knowing how many love to hype and spin things up just wondered what other think is a true percentage ?

I think around 20% of the over £xxxxx my colleague believes more like 35 to 40 % what do others on here think Higher lower

rob · Sep 18, 2009

Conversely lots go on that never get reported so I guess any 'funny money' sales would balances out.

I know of one name where the buyer paid £20k via a sales site, but never collected the name. Registrant changed to the sales venue and buyer was paid. Loads of wierd and wonderful things go on

Which ones do you think are supposed sales?

keys · Sep 18, 2009

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namealot · Sep 19, 2009

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I'll see you and raise you 2 Keys

Rob I agree many private sales take place (98 % of the ones we purchase are those) as the amounts of them are mostly unknown it would be much harder to raise funds awareness etc as they were that private.

Although there could be a variety of reasons… and I'm not suggesting in anyway these are fraudulent etc ( I can see my solicitor thinking of a new car…?) Just the last month for example 99BB.com? or DiamondRings.com TimeManagement.com plus many others why buy and do nothing... not saying these bad names or now is not a good time to buy etc, Just when you go through sales you see lots more than in the past with nothing done...

RampageJackson · Sep 25, 2009

namealot said:
How many other question the validity of many of the domain sales they see...
My view is that many of the domains sales that appear to go through on many auction sites etc are not real sales just good advertising for the auction sites, good for the domain name, Good for the domain registrar’s, and for companies and a very few individuals trying to up the values of there portfolios (and there ability to borrow against them)
Sales would increase for a short time when markets are suffering?. I have seen so many supposed sales that the sites stay the same or nothing happens to them at all. Knowing how many love to hype and spin things up just wondered what other think is a true percentage ?

I think around 20% of the over £xxxxx my colleague believes more like 35 to 40 % what do others on here think Higher lower

I don't think its that high. To borrow against them there would need to be money trails etc, it wouldn't be just as simple as posting on a forum "xyz.com sold for $10k"

Just because a site doesn't change, doesn't mean there was something going on with the sale. If a domainer sells to a developer then you expect changes, but if it was a domainer to domainer sale its reasonable for nothing to happen with it.

Purely a guess but I"m going to say under 5% of reported 5 figure sales are faked.

rob said:
I know of one name where the buyer paid £20k via a sales site, but never collected the name. Registrant changed to the sales venue and buyer was paid. Loads of wierd and wonderful things go on

I guess he went under a bus between paying for it and having it transferred! I can't think of any reason outwith death that would stop someone collecting a £20k domain.

Americar · Dec 19, 2009

"What % of domain sales are hype"

The question raises more questions than answers ..
Hype some are hype some are bull S*

Some-one-some-where with a keen interest in domains should write a blog on what happens to most of the sold domain names .. where do they end up ... it wouldn't be to difficult using Dnjournal as a source for sold domains ...

Dnjournal does confirm that a reported sold name has changed ownership/transfer before reporting a sale ...

It's pretty easy to spot the traffic names / high-end names they will generally remain with a ppc aggregator .. not all but most .. the development or collector trophy names and or end user names same same relatively easy to spot ...

It's the names that dont look to be worth anything that reportedly sell for good dollars Week after Week that are the names worth following to see what use they were put to we know (can guess) that they make no money via ppc so what happens them ..

Names that have little to no traffic and or no real develoment potential are worth nothing ...

I think that a domainer blog that was put mainly to that use (reporting what happened to those domains) would gain a good domainer following ...