NamesCon 2019

NamesCon domain auction results: $2,2m total sales, OL.com sells for $900k

RightOfTheDot conducted the live auction today January 28, 2019 at the NamesCon conference at the New Tropicana Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, NV.

132 lots went into the live auction which was conducted in the room at NamesCon.

Online participation for the live auction was possible using a Namejet account.

OL.com sold for $900k, domainnames.com sold for $370k and leads.com sold for $435k.

The total sales were $2,237,000 according to my calculations.

Here are the complete results of the live NamesCon domain name auction:

Lot  DomainName USD
10 lasvegas.events 400
20 sharp.net 1100
30 solarbackpack.com 400
40 tms.net 1800
50 tourism.global 700
60 vap.net 2100
70 welcomegift.com 900
80 start-up.com 3500
90 xm.co 4500
100 smartdrugs.com 9500
110 bg.net 20000
120 vok.net 600
130 chelsy.com 1200
140 fk.org 9000
150 surgical.center 1200
160 stop.com 110000
170 salvager.com 1200
180 weddingparty.com Bundle PASS
190 traceroute.com PASS
200 ringtones.com PASS
210 rfc.net PASS
220 piano.com PASS
230 qt.club 600
240 domainnames.com 370000
250 prostitute.org 500
260 memo.com PASS
270 xga.com 20000
280 vaporizers.com PASS
290 safevape.com 3600
300 1942.com PASS
310 bab.org 600
320 baja.com PASS
330 bathroomsink.com 900
340 bride.com PASS
350 bellybuttonrings.com 800
360 chop.com PASS
370 city.directory 1000
380 cleavage.com PASS
390 leads.com 435000
400 ibar.com 5500
410 edit.com PASS
420 cannabiscompany.com 12000
430 multiplexer.com 3500
440 ibf.com PASS
450 rkn.net 900
460 1794.com PASS
470 70s.com 6000
480 athlete.com PASS
490 cheapflights.global 400
500 uno.com PASS
510 cpu.com PASS
520 insurance.us 7000
530 broker.com PASS
540 debtprograms.com 900
550 drone.com PASS
560 een.org 500
570 give.com PASS
580 enfl.com 1100
590 lucky.com PASS
600 medschools.com 1200
610 prize.com PASS
620 numerals.com 4000
630 np.net 13000
640 qv.net 7000
650 ol.com 900000
660 vab.net 500
670 shit.com PASS
680 startupfunding.com 4000
690 byga.com 1000
700 1895.com PASS
710 billiardgames.com 900
720 armed.com PASS
730 carpetflooring.com 1200
740 cuz.com PASS
750 dieticians.com 4400
760 dietsupplements.com 5500
770 dingy.com 4000
780 coat.net 1500
790 hero.com PASS
800 internetmarketingservices
.com
800
810 leukemia.com PASS
820 localapp.com 2600
830 electricmotorcycles.com PASS
840 corporatebrand.com 3200
850 abdul.com 13000
860 nutritionalproducts.com 1000
870 pen.com PASS
880 readinglessons.com 800
890 shaverreviews.com PASS
900 mez.com 29000
910 lotus.net 3100
920 homedevelopment.com PASS
930 makingnoise.com 1100
940 hogs.com PASS
950 slowly.com PASS
960 vm.club 400
970 downers.com PASS
980 equation.org 400
990 4054.com PASS
1000 bzl.net 500
1010 7864.com PASS
1020 glucose.org 4000
1030 abomination.com 2300
1040 antiqueappraisals.com 1500
1050 byuc.com 1600
1060 coordination.com 8000
1070 craft.info 300
1080 djs.com 130000
1090 emd.org PASS
1100 escort.io 500
1110 tablets.com PASS
1120 flexible.org 1300
1130 fm.co PASS
1140 illc.com 4000
1150 lcsm.com 500
1160 llu.com PASS
1170 mpm.net 1200
1180 pathological.com 4200
1190 peb.com PASS
1200 pfkc.com 700
1210 poov.com 1900
1220 purged.com 1800
1230 ncb.net 1200
1240 repossession.com 11000
1250 xaf.net 400
1260 rfq.com PASS
1270 thebes.com 3000
1280 shoerack.com 6000
1290 solvent.com 7600
1300 sportswear.co 400
1310 toil.com PASS
1320 vti.net 600

Piano.com did not sell for $100k despite what the buggy online system said. The auctioneer said it got a PASS and it went to the online auction. This happened with other domains last year too.

(I am not 100% if stop.com sold for $110k. I would be grateful if someone that was in the room or was listening online could confirm.)

Domains that got a PASS are going into the extended Namejet online auction.

(weddingparty.com Bundle: Includes weddingparty.com, weddingparty.net, weddingparty.org, weddingparty.biz, weddingparty.info, & weddingparty.tv)

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About Konstantinos Zournas

I studied Computer Engineering and Computer Science in London, UK and I am now living in Athens, Greece. I went online in 1995, started coding in 1996 and began buying domain names and creating websites in 2000. I started the OnlineDomain.com blog in 2012.

13 comments

  1. I think you are right about Piano.com
    I am seriously doubting that sold @100k
    It was listed in the Reserve Range of Between $400,001 and 500k,
    I can see domain owner lowering reserve a little bit but definitely not that much of a drastic reduction.

  2. What about all the great Brent Oxley domains that got such criminally low Estibot “valuations”?

  3. Stop.com sold at $110K, Piano did not but we have a few buyers. great auction and we will sell a lot in the extended auction. almost a 70% sell through rate which is great!!! Congrats to the buyer and sellers and the industry as a whole!!!

    • Could you please let me know how high the following unsold domains reached during the auction? Also, when will extended auction begin?

      -FM.co
      -LLU.com
      -RFQ.com

      • Konstantinos Zournas

        I don’t know the prices for the domains that didn’t sell. I think the extended auction starts today.

  4. There are three results in NameBio sales data for BathroomSink.com:

    2017 – $818 (NJ)

    2018 – $1,900 (NamesCon)

    2019 – $900 (NamesCon)

    Reminds me of a recent statement on RicksBlog:

    “Going forward many domains I have don’t have the value they once had. Things change. It’s a Renaissance. Many domains are perishable. They missed the big window of opportunity. Domains on the market right now that had great value and now, sorry, they don’t. Examples would be Smartphones.com or CellPhones.com. They both missed the window of great opportunity. What is the attraction today?…”

    http://www.ricksblog.com/2019/01/the-cancer-of-social-media-forces-the-renaissance-of-domain-names-i-have-proof/#.XFA0T2QzYnU

    One of the most compelling things about the daily NameBio reports is the notes about which dotcoms sold for big profits… and which sold for big losses.

    • You’d have t say whoever pushed it to $1900 last year got caught up. It sold for $800 at auction the year before so unlikely it was ever worth $1900. Silly to try and make money buying and selling at auction venues, might as well go to the casino.

  5. Good day! for the domains that have been bought for less than $ 500 in my opinion if the prespectives for these domains before premium I think that the public auction has decreased with respect to last year 2018.

    Good day! for domains considered premium up to $ 29,000.

    Good day! for premium dominos to get five figures, it is coincidental that ol.com in 2017 in this same public auction would not sell and now pay $ 900,000

    Good day! for the domains of the list that are PASS sure that many like Broker.com stagnating in $ 500,000 follow in a private auction like others more than Namejet.com.

    To have if in the next days in the Namejet.com auction I can have some sale of my domains of a single word, nayuma.com, nakaty.com, vacry.com, pronounceable by the final users, say the connoisseur’s domainer that this is best.

    Happy Day. Jose

  6. Could you please let me know how high the following unsold domains reached during the auction? Also, when will extended auction begin?

    -FM.co
    -LLU.com
    -RFQ.com

    Thank you!

  7. DomainNames.com probably say it all for where the industry is at. 10 years ago this would have got $2million at auction.

  8. Only marginally higher results compared to last years live domain auction.
    I thought this years live auction sales amount would of at least doubled compared to last year. There seemed to be more hype around domains this year than last year.
    2018 live auction: $1.5 million 56% sell-through rate
    2019 live auction: $2.2 million 70% sell-through rate
    Only $700k difference in sales and 14% increase in sell-through rate.

    Like i’ve said before, GoDaddy needs to fully take over the domain auction process or you will keep receiving these types of results.
    Think about all the domain name sales in 2018 and the NamesCon live auction can only make $2.2 million in sales?! Some domain brokers make $2.2 miilion on 1 domain sale!

    There is no reason why the NamesCon Live auction cannot make at least $5 million+ every year if it is marketed and promoted correctly.
    More end-user awareness of NamesCon would help.

    Also, NamesCon should of stayed in Vegas. Moving to Austin, Texas is not going to increase attendance (might decrease it) or sales.
    Los Angeles would of been a better choice IMO.

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