Numbers, numbers, numbers: 24.org sells cheap
The auction over at Sedo of the domain 24.org ended at $7,100. This is a rather disappointing result for a number that returns almost 5 billion results in Google.
The seller, however, took advantage of the traffic of his other domain, 24.net to increase the pageviews of the 24.org auction – the redirect was taken down once the auction ended. Where I come from, this is called ‘cooking the books’.
Regardless, the low selling price of 24.org is a direct result of Sedo’s decision to move the ‘ending soon’ auctions to a secondary page; a move that has hurt sales as many domain auctions used to receive bids the last minute, simply from the exposure they received on the Sedo.com homepage.
When I sold 360.org a little over a year ago for $25 grand, little did I know that it’d set a record as the biggest NNN.org sale to this day. It’s also a financial indication of our bad economy, since a NN.org like 24.org just sold for almost a quarter of that amount.
24.org is a great domain, a number indicative of man’s obsession with 24 hour cycles; our day begins and ends on a twenty four hour continuum. Anything that happens ‘around the clock’ can be displayed with the number ’24′ – much like the number 360 is a full circle.
Good luck with 24.net next time. At least, it really has the traffic it loaned to 24.org for the 7 days of the auction.
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April 29th, 2010 at 7:07 am
Very true, the domain sell for peanuts and if I were the seller I’d just refuse to sell it lol Sedo sucks.
April 29th, 2010 at 9:26 am
I too noticed the URL forward from 24.net to 24.org. Karma sucks, the domain sold at least twice below market value!