SchoolVacations.com – Travel Related Domain Name

Up for sale is SchoolVacations.com with a low Buy It Now price of just $3,000. This domain name would be perfect for a student travel, spring break, or family tour company website looking to capitalize on school vacation travel opportunities. Every school has at least a few vacations, and families tend to do their travel during school vacations.
A Google search of “school vacations” shows over 130,000 listings, and there are also advertisers. There are even more listings and advertisers when you do a search without the quotations, which is how many people search. The BIN price is cheap, and the first person to post “sold” will get this great domain name at a fantastic price.

Australian Beach Domain Names On Sale

A couple months ago, I sold a single Australian beach domain name for just under $10,000. Today, I am looking to sell WhaleBeach.com, CoogeeBeach.com and BalmoralBeach.com for $8,500 total for all three! Why am I selling these great names so cheaply? I want to be in a strong cash position, and since I won’t get to developing these names with all of my current commitments, I might as well sell them and sell them cheap. I haven’t visited either of these vacation hotspots, but here is some information about each location:
Coogee Beach:

According to the Crowne Plaza Coogee Beach:

Coogee Beach is what life by the ocean is all about. Its culture is urban and cosmopolitan, yet relaxed. Street cafes put the scent of coffee on the sea breeze. Crowne Plaza Coogee Beach is directly opposite Coogee Beach with panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean.Known affectionately as ‘Sydney’s Seaside Village’, Coogee Beach is a tranquil environment. Surrounded by one of the East Coast’s most breathtaking beaches and headlands, it embraces a relaxed, casual setting and is only a short drive to the city. Its location makes it convenient to catch a round of golf at the nearby green, do a little shopping, take in a film at The Entertainment Quarter or place a bet on the ‘sport of kings’ with the world-famous Randwick racecourse.
Opposite Coogee Beach, 6 kilometers to the airport and 8 kilometers to the Sydney central business district.

From Science and Technology Conference:
Coogee Beach
Another photo:
Coogee Beach 2
Balmoral Beach:
From Wikipedia:

“Balmoral Beach is arguably one of the most picturesque beaches in Sydney. It is a harbour beach facing East by North-East and is sheltered from direct ocean waves by Middle Head. Balmoral has four separate beaches along a crescent of white sand, with a large horseshoe-shaped swimming area within a shark net. The usually placid waves make it appealing to a wide age range for swimming. The area has a laid-back vibe, with pleasant parkland, cafes, fish and chips, and two top restaurants (also serving brunch). Activities include a walk North along the rocks to Chinaman’s beach (not advisable if the tide is coming in) or South up the hill to Georges Heights.Deservedly one the most-loved “secrets” in Sydney.
Balmoral has views to North Head, Manly, and Clontarf and is situated at the mouth of Middle Harbour.
The famous Balmoral Rotunda is the home of Shakespeare By The Sea a summer outdoor event held at Balmoral Beach. Other notable events include the annual Mudgee Wine Festival.

The Rotunda and Rocky Point Island are also popular for wedding ceremonies and photographs.
Between 1924 and 1951 Balmoral Beach was the location of the Star Amphitheatre.”

From Sydney100.com:
Balmoral Beach
From the The Wedding Decorator
Balmoral Beach 2
Whale Beach:

Whale Beach is a northern beachside suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Palm Beach is located 40 kilometres north of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Pittwater Council, in the Northern Beaches region.
Whale Beach is home of ‘The Wedge’, a famous left hand surfing break.

From Wide Screen Water:
Whale Beach

Exhibitionists.com – Priced to Sell

I thought I could sell Exhibitionists.com for $45,000. Well, I was wrong. I’ve reduced the price and still no buyers. I am now going to liquidate this bad boy and sell Exhibitionists.com for the drop dead low price of just $17,800. First to post “sold” gets a helluva deal on this industry-defining domain name.

Big Week in Domain Aftermarket

According to the weekly sales report distributed by DNJournal, last week saw some fairly strong deals. There were a few six figure deals, including the sale of Coffee.org, and the drop auction market was hot once again with some strong names fetching decent amounts. The real winner of the week was over at NameMedia.

Not only did NameMedia Senior VP Pete Lamson report to DNJournal that the company had a record first quarter, but May was also recorded as the best sales month in the company’s history. NameMedia’s Afternic DLS also closed 15 LLL.com domain names for $40,000/each last week.   Personally, I don’t own any LLL.com domain names by choice, but I think the purchase shows that the market for these types of domain names are as strong as ever, even with the risk seeming to grow.
Interestingly enough, I had been in contact with Bigfoot about acquiring Let.com from them about 15 months ago, and they were only asking $50,000 for it at that time. It appears they have since sold the name, which is perplexing given the fact that they just jumped in feet first with the purchase of 15 LLL.com names at retail price. I do think it is a good sign for owners of LLL.com names though who are looking to sell their names.
Numeric domain names appear to be hot commodities as well. Because of their relative short supply coupled with the number of uses for these names throughout the world, they always seem to fetch strong prices. I like the fact that numbers transcend languages and are important in many cultures. It is important to research what numbers mean in other countries though! I owned a few numeric names a while ago, and one of them happened to have something to do with death. I sold it ASAP.
It does look like the aftermarket is fairly strong compared to the general economy. I have been and continue to be a buyer both for resale and for development. Hopefully these trends will continue through the summer.

Celebrity Baby Domain Names

A couple of weeks ago, I offered a few Celebrity Baby domain names for sale.
SOLD

Coffee.org Sold for $100,000

According to an article I just read on Reve News, it looks like Coffee.org was recently acquired for $100,000 by Bill McClure, former Chairman of Traffic Strategies. McClure intends to build a coffee distribution website, and Coffee.org is certainly a great domain name to do that.
I’ve said in the past, there is a certain trust factor with the .org extension. While this may slightly work against McClure with a commercial enterprise, it would be easy to overcome if he also makes it a valuable informational resource all about coffee.
According to a quote from McClure in the Reve News post,

“Coffee is the second largest traded commodity, next to oil and has grown from $8 billion in sales in 2001 to over $ 13 billion today.” says McClure. “Studies show that throughout the world, people consume more than 330 million cups of coffee each and every day. This makes black coffee the most popular drink after water and even beats tea as people’s favorite drink.”

Thanks to Brad for sending the link to me!