Most Popular Domain Sales Categories

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I present to you a slice of insight into the mind of what domain buyers want! As reported here on the AfternicDLS blog, here are the Top 10 most searched categories for domain names. Ranked by page views on Afternic, BuyDomains and NameMedia over the last 90 days.

Acronyms
Business
Words & Phrases
Real Estate
Entertainment & Leisure
Health
Non-English
Advertising, Sales & Marketing
Technology
Internet

Note: The “Acronyms” category includes 2, 3 and 4 character domains.

I am not surprised to see the acronyms in the top spot with the recent news that all LLLL.com domains have been registered. My portfolio contains a good amount of internet and technology related names, so I am happy that those categories made the top 10.

Overall, this list is a good reference guide for pricing domains and making buying or selling decisions.

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7 Responses to “Most Popular Domain Sales Categories”

Sohag Says:
December 14th, 2007 at 10:34 am
I am interested About business & acronyms. I am very much skilled about this.

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Mahadi Says:
December 14th, 2007 at 11:16 am
thanks DotSauce and thanks for sharing.

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Matthew Griffin Says:
December 14th, 2007 at 4:38 pm
I occurs to me that acronyms may be at the top of the list because we’re already registered all the good domain names with real words in them.

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Missy Says:
December 14th, 2007 at 7:29 pm
My portfolio keeps growing, and i am glad that many of my names, belong to several of the top categories listed. Sweeeeet!

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Barcelona Says:
December 16th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
I have alot of domain in the category of “Non-English”. Which countries buy the most domains of “Non-English”?

Thanks for your reply Barcelona. I could not answer your question definitively, but I do know that Germany has a very large domaining community. There are also a lot of valuable Spanish domains. ~ DotSauce

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Victor LUnd Says:
May 26th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
Wow! Excellent research. We just published a whitepaper for the real estate industry about domain names - and how brands should be advised to choose domain names that are key word rich to augment the primary domain, and link then all together. Many real estate agents are also purchasing address specific domain names for their property virtual tours. I would not be surprised if Real Estate scales higher on this list - there are about 5 million active properties for sale at any given time in America and more than 1.2 million residential real estate agents.

I also learned that there will be an auction of 2600 real estate domains in San Francisco this June. They are billing it as the biggest sale ever for real estate.

Link to free whitepaper: http://waves.wavgroup.com/wav-group-releases-localism-whitepaper

Link to auction: http://www.jpking.com/index.asp?r=2327&aid=2810&p=2810

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Steve G. Says:
June 18th, 2009 at 2:12 am
After the finance cricis the Real Estate has become the hardest niches. Its difficult to manage real estate sites, but i see a light in the end of the tunel.

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