What’s A Dot Asia Domain Worth?
May 25, 2008 · Print This Article
The sunrise dot asia domains are finished and so are some of the initial landrush auctions. This gives us some idea what domainers are valuing dot asia domains at - and perhaps what you should bid if you’re involved in an upcoming .asia auction. From the Pool DotAsia website, there is a ticker tape listing all the completed auctions. The results are as follows:
|
Domain |
Sale Price |
|
Ace.asia |
$20,501 |
|
BoutiqueHotels.asia |
$3,655 |
|
BusinessForSale.asia |
$2,800 |
|
Camel.asia |
$5,100 |
|
Car-Rental.asia |
$2,700 |
|
Cars.asia |
$3,350 |
|
Cheers.asia |
$4,100 |
|
Crawford.asia |
$3,200 |
|
Csl.asia |
$10,000 |
|
Dada.asia |
$3,250 |
|
Diver.asia |
$12,500 |
|
Domini.asia |
$2,600 |
|
Dove.asia |
$5,100 |
|
Edge.asia |
$5,400 |
|
EngelVoelkers.asia |
$3,600 |
|
Exa.asia |
$5,900 |
|
Expats.asia |
$2,400 |
|
Gackt.asia |
$2,100 |
|
HappySex.asia |
$3,601 |
|
IngramMicro.asia |
$2,900 |
|
Jump.asia |
$3,840 |
|
Kink.asia |
$7,600 |
|
LadyBoys.asia |
$5,100 |
|
Lifesavers.asia |
$5,100 |
|
LoveChat.asia |
$4,101 |
|
LuxuryHomes.asia |
$6,600 |
|
LuxuryTravel.asia |
$2,901 |
|
M-Pay.asia |
$3,600 |
|
MailOrderBride.asia |
$3,206 |
|
MarketResearch.asia |
$5,701 |
|
MediaWorld.asia |
$10,000 |
|
MPay.asia |
$4,200 |
|
Muhammad.asia |
$2,250 |
|
MyVisa.asia |
$5,600 |
|
Norton.asia |
$2,600 |
|
Parliament.asia |
$5,200 |
|
Persians.asia |
$2,600 |
|
PokerSchool.asia |
$2,250 |
|
Polar.asia |
$2,450 |
|
Reach.asia |
$5,100 |
|
Sales.asia |
$8,101 |
|
Sex.asia |
$16,000 |
|
Shadi.asia |
$3,600 |
|
Sisley.asia |
$3,350 |
|
Snowboarder.asia |
$5,300 |
|
Spotlight.asia |
$5,700 |
|
StockFootage.asia |
$4,100 |
|
TiltRotor.asia |
$2,650 |
|
TravelInsurance.asia |
$2,050 |
|
Trumpf.asia |
$2,272 |
|
Tyco.asia |
$7,600 |
|
Warcraft.asia |
$5,100 |
|
Water.asia |
$6,100 |
|
Wellness.asia |
$5,900 |
|
X-mas.asia |
$2,100 |
While the numbers seem low compared to other extensions, I think that they are reasonable in that: (1) domain prices seem softer this year; (2) there is great uncertainty about how well dot asia will do; and (3) domainers need to make a profit when they resell these.
Disclaimer: An investment in dot asia is very speculative indeed.
Great post.
.asia is a greatly UNDERVALUED since it is a New exten.
As per your post the domain names sold for a great bargain to the benefit of the buyers.
Cars.asia - $3,350 - that is CHEAP considering how many cars are being driven in the Asean region.
I’m not sure about .asia
Whats the most popular language in Asia, defo not english so why choose english domain names.
Who knows though, .eu to me never really took off!
Cheers
Mally
I own several DotAsia names. Is there an auction house that can resell DotAsian names directly to the Pan Asian users similar to Sedo, Moniker etc?
@Del - not that I’ve heard of. If I find out about one, I’ll post here.
It would be awesome if Pool.com kept the same auction format for .Asia names after the current names are all auctioned off. At this point it is very hard to resell any .Asia names.
@Canuck - Glad to see a Canuck here :-). Agreed re Pool and auctions. It’s early days yet for reselling .asia names - people interested in them are still involved in Pool auctions which still go on for a few more weeks.
I picked up stocktrade.asia…I am considering development concerning stock exchange markets all over asia…any comments welcome…
@polosbruno - Sounds like an interesting website. I put in a few .asia orders too for domains I’d like to develop. As for reselling, it’s a bit too early to see how that wil go.
Those are pretty good prices considering they are landrush auctions and not aftermarket. You can easily multiply it by 10 for aftermarket prices.
discover.asia $112,111
sex.asia $83,334
sexshop.asia $53,607
models.asia $41,009
gifts.asia $36,000
book.asia $34,005
business.asia $29,000
promotion.asia $26,000
vodka.asia $25,000
diamond.asia $24,001
I have over 100 dot asia ( .asia) domains thus far and have gone to auction on 20 or so and top ones I have I have modeled off of the top 100 .jp websites like asiadog and duowon and made them dot asia and expect a good return either way, As well the one worders but plural like technologies.asia , repairs.asia, and industries.asia … what can I compare them to in another extension or my return on those and then some of my two worders like advertisingandmarketing.asia remains to be seen, but any idea from you or anyone on here Id love to hear feedback.
Id also like to join others to work together in doing mass email or seo type marketing to draw awareness as well as traffic to those sites…afterall its the traffic that ranks any real value of a domain/ website.
Any info or ideas, please email me
ps i have 60 .me names and still are at auction but as far as I know .asia the auctioning should be now over
I agree with “guest”.
Most of the Premium .ASIA domains were outright steals!
If you compare their prices with their .COM counterparts at http://www.estibot.com (and I don’t care what anyone says, Esitbot has done a great job fine-tuning their automated evaluation system, most of their estimates are very close and frequently actually below actual market sales at major domain sales houses), the auction prices for .ASIA domains were mostly not more than 1-2% of their .COM counterparts.
I myself was able to secure several Premium .ASIA domains at incredibly attractive prices during these auctions on Pool.com.
For example: I got Girlfriend.ASIA (great dating or social networking name) for less than $600. The Girlfriend.COM variation comes it at around $2 Mill. on Estibot.com.
Even a domain like Diamond.ASIA (which ended up selling for around $28,000 at the auction) is worth multiples of what was paid at the auction (Estibot.com puts Diamond.COM at over $6 Mill.), simply due to immediate marketability and unavailability of the .COM equivalent.
As for the comment about English language domains in Asia, there are many words used and understood in many languages worldwide (like Girlfriend, Diamond, Promotion, Apartment, Business, Sex, etc.).
Also, the business and trading language all over Asia is English, so any business-related English domain name (like Banking, Escrow, Real Estate, Financing, Accounting, etc.) will find plenty of future takers in the Asian business community (and let’s face it there is a lot of money there)
The .ASIA domains are “fresh off the press” and without an aftermarket track record yet, so all valuation systems will come in very low for a while. But eventually it will be like with all the other domain variations: Premium domains will sell at high prices because of their rarity, high demand and immediate business potential, and most others will just float around hoping for their rare moment in domain history…
The .EU domains were released about 3 years ago, and they are only now starting to gain some increasing attention. But the problem there was that many countries already had very well established country-specific extensions (for example .DE for Germany is the second largest domain group after .COM), so the adoption of .EU is slow.
Due to the seemingly unstoppable growth and appeal of the Asian markets I believe the .ASIA domains will take off faster, and in 2-3 years everybody will shake their heads in disbelief that Diamond.ASIA went for $28,000 in 2008…
I believe this extention will take off and become highly sought after in the very near future. I have about 300 names and only bought as many as I could afford to renew for three years at least. Although, I do hope that I can sell one or two off to pay for the renewal fees on the others in the next 12 - 18 months.
What would be really wonderful for this extention is if it was translated. In other words the name chosen if typed in any ansian language with dot asia would point to the same website. This would explode the value of this extention. Not sure if it is possible to do, but I hope it is something that could be considered. It would also be good if they reduce the price on the renewals to reduce the expiries.
All in all though I am happy I jumped in and I am very happy with the names that I got. They all have good end use.