It’s hard to dispute that the one character .biz auctions put forth by Sedo and Neustar were a success. Honestly, I was surprised that names like e.biz and 1.biz commanded such high prices at auction. Nice job by Sedo on getting the word out about to the public about the opportunity to a own single character domain.
I have came across two domainers since the auctions ended that have come forward to share a single character .biz they purchased. Francois from domaining.com purchased ‘G.biz’ and NamePros user DomainTalker claimed ‘M.biz’.
Below is the list of single character .biz final auction prices in order by price sold.
E.biz $66,001
1.biz $32,003
D.biz $26,110
M.biz $15,611
W.biz $13,500
U.biz $10,099
A.biz $10,099
X.biz $10,099
B.biz $10,005
G.biz $9,400
Y.biz $8,988
Z.biz $8,988
C.biz $8,988
R.biz $8,855
F.biz $8,250
J.biz $8,250
S.biz $8,211
8.biz $8,200
H.biz $8,177
6.biz $8,100
N.biz $8,001
L.biz $7,999
9.biz $7,901
P.biz $7,878
7.biz $7,877
T.biz $7,602
5.biz $7,601
4.biz $7,601
K.biz $6,900
V.biz $6,100
2.biz $5,801
Overall, I think the single character domains sold pretty high considering other premium .biz words sell for fractions of these prices. In my opinion m.biz is the most attractive domain that went to auction simply because of its mobile appeal. Of course e.biz is an attractive short domain name as well. I am not very fond of the single number .biz. I just can’t see a business utilizing those types of domains, that’s just my thinking though.
The press release that Overstock.com is going to use O.biz awhile back probably was influential in the higher prices attained. No coincidence there, you always have to have a good story when selling a dead horse. What terms did Overstock get? Was it free domains? Free publicity? Anyone know the details.
Did they mention in the press release that in order to accomodate this domain, o.biz, that Overstock had to acquire and redirect 0.biz(zero) and obiz.com to mitigate against consumer confusion and lost traffic. I suspect in reality Overstock will eventually migrate back to the brand obiz.com, which would make a lot more sense. There is panic at registries like .biz that once unlimited gTLD’s are released the price of these domains would have diminished significantly, so really the auction was last chance saloon. But the owners of mbiz.com, ebiz.com and any other -biz.com should be very greatful for the auction, they were the true winners in all this.
$66k is just too much for e.biz. I hope there is some sort of business plan behind that purchase 🙂
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