Searching by venue is a feature that many users requested we bring back after we re-launched in February, and today we did just that. There are a number of reasons a domain investor might want to search by venue.
The first reason is that each venue has its own unique characteristics both in terms of the buyer pool and inventory. For example if you’re trying to price your domain for an end user inquiry, you’ll find the most accurate comps by limiting your results to Sedo, Domain Name Sales, Most Wanted Domains, Media Options, Nokta, Private or similar.
If you’re bidding in an expired domain auction and trying to determine how high you should go, having end user sales mixed in to your search results can be distracting. You may want to limit your search to venues like DropCatch, Pheenix, SnapNames, and NameJet.
Another way filtering by venue can help you make smarter business decisions is when you’re choosing a venue to sell your domain name at. For example if you’re trying to sell a CVCV.com, you can now more easily see how that category of domain does at GoDaddy compared to NameJet. Used in combination with the date range filter to keep the results fresh, you can get a pretty accurate picture of a marketplace.
Maybe you want to buy Rightside stock as a proxy for owning a piece of NameJet. Now you can get a sense of how NameJet’s business is doing by seeing just their sales and how they are trending over time. This kind of up-to-the-minute intel is very valuable and not available elsewhere.
Just be aware that our data is light for some venues, so using several other filters at the same time can cause no results to match. When you’re filtering for a venue like Sedo, NameJet, or GoDaddy this generally won’t be an issue, but for smaller venues or brokerage firms you should try to keep the other search filters as broad as possible and narrow it down incrementally.
Michael Sumner is the CEO of NameBio.com. Previously he was the lead developer at State Ventures which owns and operates geo domains such as OceanCity.com and Maryland.com. Michael was also the co-founder of DN Media, a company that was involved in seven figures worth of domain name transactions.
Thank you Michael!This is very helpful.
and one more thing I want is remove the limit of results which is 100 now.Show complete results in multiple pages.
example:If i search for CC.COM sales I can only see 600 results (100 at once) sorting ascending or descending domain,price,date.Instead,please show complete results in multiple pages,that saves a lot of time for users.