Recent Posts
- Afilias gets Guinness record for .au migration
- KSK vote was NOT unanimous
- ICANN turns 20 today (or maybe not)
- Van der Laan to leave ICANN board
- Set buttocks to clench! ICANN approves risky KSK rollover
- Mediators hired as Whois reformers butt heads
- US scraps fucking stupid “seven dirty words” ban
- Beginning of the end for DomainTools? Court orders it to scrub Whois records
- PIR chief: registries should stop stressing about volume
- .CLUB sees spam double after China promotion
- Com Laude acquires Scottish rival
- CentralNic acquired yet another company
- Empty Whois a threat to the US elections?
- Donuts gets bought by former ICANN CEO’s firm
- .tel’s second-biggest registrar gets canned
- Whois privacy did NOT increase spam volumes
- Afilias finally admits it’s American
- Could a new US law make GDPR irrelevant?
- No more free ride for ICANN Fellows?
- Afilias sues India to block $12 million Neustar back-end deal
- More consolidation? Endurance said to be up for sale
- ICANN faces critical choice as security experts warn against key rollover
- .CLUB revenue not all that
- Microsoft seizes “Russian election hacking” domains
- New gTLDs rebound in Q2
- .CLUB revenue reportedly $7.2 million
- How a single Whois complaint got this registrar shitcanned
- 38th dot-brand bows out after acquisition
- ICANN CTO: no reason to delay KSK rollover
- DomainTools tracks its one billionth domain
- ICANN closes GoDaddy Whois probe
- Allstate dumps a dot-brand
- I was wrong, Famous Four bosses WERE kicked out
- No Verfügungsanspruch for ICANN in GDPR lawsuit
- Famous Four is DEAD! New registry promises spam crackdown
- auDA car crash continues as director quits over foreign members
- New ICANN director named
- My brain explodes trying to understand MMX’s new blockchain deal for .luxe
- Fight over Whois access starts early
- Blacknight calls for Ireland to slash domain prices
- Chaotic scenes as ‘Grumpies’ lose auDA board fight
- These 33 people will decide the future of Whois
- Wix.com obtains ICANN accreditation — bad news for Web.com?
- Two companies “capture” auDA
- Facebook clashes with registrars after massive private data request
- Baidu gets Chinese approval for .baidu
- ICANN rejected Israel as meeting venue due to threat from Gaza and Iran
- ICANN’s GDPR lawsuit bounced up to appeals court
- Neustar swaps out CEO, PIR looking for new CEO
- Is the new Whois policy group already doomed to fail?
Sedo launches domain pricing index
Sedo has launched Internet Domain Name Index, a research project that shows long-term domain pricing trends and compares the data to larger economic trends.
Using January 2006 prices as a baseline, the IDNX index will be updated monthly showing how much, relatively, domains are selling for on the secondary market.
Currently, domains are valued at 183% of January 2006 prices, for example.
The index uses something called a “hedonic repeat sales methodology” to come up with its numbers. No, I don’t know what that means either.
However the numbers are arrived at, the conclusions are quite interesting, showing that domain prices rise and fall in lockstep with the financial markets.
In this graph, the green line is the IDNX number and the blue one represents the value of the Nasdaq 100.
“The strong correlation shows that domain name buyers and sellers make economically motivated price decisions,” researcher Thies Lindenthal concludes. “Domain markets are not a cloud-cuckoo-land where dreamers trade esoteric goods at imaginary prices.”
Sedo expects domainers to use the index to adjust their portfolios’ changing values over time.
Recent Comments
Kevin: Of course, but since many people outside the ccTLD world assume otherwise, it's important to make the point ... read more
My dissenting vote statement on the KSK rollover vote can be found at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1kKXQ1OcdUt... read more
So the "Green Paper" proposing the establishment of ICANN was published in Feb 1998, and the organization was stood up 7... read more
This is perhaps true, but only for domains registered under gTLDs. Many ccTLDs have contracts with their registrants ... read more
Indeed. You referred to archives. That info is from the live current database. But as I said, 'who cares'? A fe... read more
You are right. But who cares? ICANN was formed on 30th Sept., 1998. It took me less than two minutes to verify tha... read more
Hi, it might be interesting to see an update of this table. Thanks Charles... read more
Agreed. Some registries might need data, like the ones from Validated TLDs, but most registries have no real use for reg... read more
Does a registry really need registrant data? .COM seems to do rather well without for over 2 decades.... read more
It seems so simple to me. The registrars dont keep the data, because they dont need it. But the registry. And the regist... read more