question How has been your September so far in sales?

[twiki]

Tomorrow is 20th, 10 days remaining from September (one third).

Been watching my sales and I'm not happy. Likely going to be in a small profit but that's not enough. It looks so far identical to August in sales.

I'm also always watching the reported sales thread. When I get lots of sales, there are lots of sales there too. Especially in the 4-fig area there's always a speed match. I can tell NP-ers are not selling that much these days - from what I see there.

How about you? How has been your September so far?

( Edit: my .coms are selling a little, but in other TLDs there has been a grinding halt to zero in the last 30 days. )

 

[Sumeeth]

It's been good September so far, I have 2 sales but both of them are Lease to own (60 months) for 15k€ and 10k€ and both are hand registered nGTLds and hold time less than 4 months.

 

[Dude called Michael]

Pretty interesting....

August was not great for me at all, was not able to get one single sale. September on the other hand has been very good so far. Could turn out to be my best month ever actually. Remarkably enough the 'older', more aged domains sold well in September while the newer part of my portfolio has gone pretty much undercover. Already looking forward to October. Hope you guys can get some sales too, stay positive.

 

[blogspotter]

Care to tell portfolio size and if it's com/other tlds? Thanks!

Till last week I had over 3000. This week I bought a 1000 domain portfolio

I don't focus on any particular TLD. It is skewed towards .co because I buy thousands during promo but I have a lot of .io and .com and some ccTLDs

I like nGTLDs too but they are way too expensive in the wholesale market for my taste.

 

[Name Trader]

Sept has been flat (0) so far. But I sold enough domains in April - July to pay for my renewals for the rest of the year. So I'm relaxed

 

[AEProgram]

But “correlation does not imply causation.”

disagree, but using a company’s guidance

to forecast yours, industry sales, is interesting

Samer

Wall Street spends billions of dollars a year on data you would consider irrelevant. Yes, companies that sell services to people that are starting new websites is certainly a good indicator about the purchases of domains. You could back test this really well, no faith is needed here.

During the pandemic sales of domains really skyrocketed and so did the sales of fiverr, godaddy, wix and others in the business of helping people with their websites. Even AI based logo generators are a good indicator.

You could tell a lot of uneducated online business dreamers showed up as the rise of end user buying of junk TLD's increased.

 

[blogspotter]

I had 6 sales till the 15th of this month and have been quite for 1 week. But I have 2 pending sales now. WIll see how they go.

July was bad but August was 5 figures in profit. September also crossed 5 figures, but not sure how the rest of the month will hold up.

My average sales are 1999, 2499 and 2999

 

[Ostrados]

How has been your September so far?

Identical to August (very slow).

 

[Name Trader]

[QUOTE="AEProgram, post: 8399323, member: 954494"You could tell a lot of uneducated online business dreamers showed up as the rise of end user buying of junk TLD's increased.[/QUOTE]

I liked this part best. I've said before. The only people making money off of the NewGTLD's are the Registries. They are even selling some of these new domains, at premium prices, directly from the registry~registrar chain. I wonder how many of these new online retailers (because of COVID), will realize they cannot rely on their domain for maximizing customers, since most people (in the buying public) still have no idea what a NewGTLD is. Which means a lot of money has to be poured into SEO etc, in order to get their domains into the SERPS.

 

[Sumeeth]

TLD? Just curious if you can share.

They are. Earth and. Network

Thanks,

 

[markfromslo]

@blogspotter "Any examples of names you sold this year and average price? I am also trying to figure out something so i can make my portfolio recession proof"

Average sales price for 2021 is about $1,400. (Average purchase price about $58)

My names are all over the board. Here are 20 I grabbed from the middle of the year so far. Don't want to list them all:

FastingRevolution.com
WellLearned.com
NaturalHealthSpa.com
Virtualness.com
KetoBaking.com
CoffeeJunkie.com
AlphaFab.com
InfraredGym.com
ecofinancing.com
how.cc
LongevityTime.com
Speech101.com
SLOnews.com
carbonless.org
PsychedelicsHub.com
SolarClick.com
Paint3D.com
VRclass.com
SolarSupplier.com
zorey.com

 

[twiki]

Namebio Prices

Namebio Sales:

Confirmed.

Edit:

Multiply the two graphs = $ in sellers pockets. Both graphs are low, and the effect is clearly higher when multiplied. Lower than August actually.

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

For me it is like endless summer still... Only domainers disturb me...

 

[Jamor]

well I just bought my first ever domain this month, wish me luck to sell it, appreciate your thread keep up

JAMOR

 

[Fancy.domains]

I've had two sales in September so far, but I'm happy with that as I have increased 50-60% of my prices. My portfolio is also much smaller compared with 2018, which was a really good year for me, but I am actively increasing the number of names again.

 

[blogspotter]

Another sale today I crossed 18K in sales this month. I also still have a couple sales in pending status. I think I have been lucky this month and won't read much into it, because from my friends with whom I chat regularly about sales, half of them have good sales, and the other half are doing very badly. This is regardless of portfolio size. Meaning all have decent sized portfolio

 

[markfromslo]

September 2021 is going to go down as a terrible bust. I've had four sales, where I normally do about 10-15 a month. This will be the worst month in years. I had thought August was slow, but it was twice what September is turning out to be, with two days left. Discouraging.

I'm trying to pinpoint what it is, and all I can come up with is the acceptance of other TLD's than Com as valid business domains. Other than for the absolute biggest of brands, I think there are many other TLD's that work just fine for companies, particularly tech companies who could go with ones such as ai, io, and xyz.

On top of that, individuals are creating substacks and the like, rather than creating their own blogs. Thus most will choose not to map a domain to it. Or some just have a Youtube channel too. The world is changing.

I price my names very reasonably, and am astonished at the prices most domainers think they can still get in this market.

 

[AEProgram]

Companies like wix and fiverr issues weak guidance, if domain sales are up, they see better sales.

 

[kite26]

$0

 

[Jurgen Wolf]

They are not new, 7 years elapsed already. Just another wave of gTLDs.
I already sold 16 of them for high $xxx per domain on average, almost all within 1st year. Inbound only.
Regged for promo/standard fee.

 

[pokainc]

August and Sept have been very slow for me also. August had a couple of sales early on which made it fine, but since around august 10th, until today (sept 19) , it's been very dreadfully uncharacteristically dead... i do get some 250$ - 300$ - 500$ - 1k offers (mostly max 500$ people) but that I couldn't accept.

 

[twiki]

Noticed the same and I'm not talking about keyword related uptick in sales. Also I have a small portfolio and this makes reasonable assuming names are strongly correlated even in the short term.

You guys think that this slowdown in September it's just due to normal seasonality or is there something else going on? Is this slowdown stronger than previous years?

It is seasonality indeed at this time.

It just seems worse this year.

 

[twiki]

With all due respect, nobody knows by reports on here how everyone is selling. Very few participate or report here. Some will only report certain sales. Some report nothing at all. Some think reporting every little sale is important. Others do not.

The same can be said for your own sales. You having a bad month is not an indicator everyone is and vice versa.

Well, in the last 3 years as I've always watched, there was always a correlation between my sales volume and the number of sales reported per day in the sales thread.

So I have to disagree. It's not a simple coincidence.

Edit: And it also usually matches Namebio trends as well. Please note that I have a larger portfolio (25k) with very different domains and TLDs and niches so I'm all over the board, and this makes the sales more smoothly distributed and less fluctuations. It might not be the case if I had a specialized portfolio.

Edit2: Not everyone will, of course. But for me the sales thread is basically a valid trend monitoring tool. Not only that but also the breakdown on common TLDs usually matches my own breakdowns per TLD.

 

[Name Trader]

well I just bought my first ever domain this month, wish me luck to sell it, appreciate your thread keep up

JAMOR

Wish you luck. What's the domain name?

 

[tomcarl]

I made the same observation the other day...
Those times when there's a rush of reported sales post on NP...
I'll be having an Influx of inquiries/sales as well. Seems connected.