Updated: Mar 16, 2023
When checking domain prices published by DNJournal and others, a pattern often repeats itself.
Way on top, we have one or more sales of .com domains above $100,000, followed by many secondary transactions below $100,000.
The March 2018 listings caught my attention in the domain price bracket for two-word domains.
The highest price paid, as reported, is a two-word domain, CrosswordPuzzles.com, which is sold for USD 269,980.
What's impressive is that many other two-word domains have changed hands in the past for above USD 10,000.
SmartWatches.com - $55,000
Careeropportunities.com - $30,000
Europewatch.com - $25,000
Turkeyrealestate.com - $20,647 (a three-word domain)
Cleaningproducts.com - $15,000
Giftformom.com -$15,000 (a three-word domain)
Many additional two-word domains were sold for USD 10,000 or above among them, such names as hurricanedamage.com, comfybed.com, and woohoogames.com.
While some domains went back into the for-sale section of domain-brokers, others have thrived and are still active website addresses even many years later.
I couldn't find any hyphenated names this time, but a few with numbers being part of the URL.
om2.com - $27,002
10yoni5nnnn.com - $24,000
c7.com - $14,750
kk5.com - $14,750
mp3cutter.com - $12,500
6hg.com - $10,000
Surprisingly at the bottom of the Non .com gTLDs Top 20 Sales Chart, there is a .tel, namely a.tel, sold for $5,500.
Price variation for similar domains is exemplified in two names sold, GroceryBox.com - $37,700 and MeatBox.com $14,985.
Reported and confirmed domain sales are a momentary indication of market condition and value and make it easier to judge whether a requested price might be too high or an offer too low.
The above might make it easier to put a price ticket on a domain and serve as a realization of where the domain market is standing today.
Updated: Sep 11, 2022
A domain name is a piece of internet real estate. The actual description of a physical location in the domain name could decide whether it makes it to the top of search engines. So the domain's character has the same importance.
Example: President Thomas J. Watson of Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company knew what he was doing when in 1924 he renamed his company business location - International - and what they were doing - Business Machine, IBM. The name was registered as a domain in 1986 as International Business Machines Corporation.
Another, New York Gas Light did not leave anyone guessing what they were doing and where. Founded in 1824, it to renamed in 1936 to the Consolidated Edison Company of New York.
One of the oldest American Companies founded in 1765, now owned by the Kraft Heinz Company, Baker's chocolate still sells chocolate.
Search the internet, and find many more examples of companies that named their business according to their trade, profession, and location.
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Keyword-rich domains and authentic website content are a formula for success.