The Evaluation of Domains

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How have the sale prices of the Climate Change Domains in our portfolio been assessed?
 

There are FIVE (5) contributing factors deemed necessary that have been focused on with complete consideration when formulating, assessing  and valuating intellectual properties (domain names) at fair market value for the acquisition process between buyer and seller.

1/ How big is the intellectual corporate domain buying market place?

Over 438 million domains names have been registered to date. Over 33,000 continued to be registered every day. But only ONE entity can own USAClimateChange.com and our other secured 251 State and City climate domains in America. You now have the opportunity to own them all and become the legal registrant of all names in our portfolio.  

Our Climate Domains have been factually valuated by sourcing public information released by Wikipedia, Godaddy (the world's largest domain name registry) and other accredited organizations that have proven the value of intellectual property in several industries because of “ actual past sale price verified acquisitions that have been made public on CNN, FOX and every domain registry under the governing body of ICANN.

Here are the top 10 Domain Name Sales of All Time

Business.com - $345 Million 

The value of business.com spiked after Dow Jones and The New York Times tried to buy the domain. Finally, in 2007, the domain was sold to RH Donnelly for a whopping $345 million. 

LasVegas.com - $90 Million

This domain was purchased in 2005 by VEGAS.com, LLC which wanted to pair up the two domains to ensure that both search terms directed online traffic to the travel agency from Las Vegas. The massive $90 million sale ensures that this will always be remembered as one of the most expensive website purchases.

CarInsurance.com - $49.7 Million 

CarInsurance.com on November 8, 2010, with that single purchase, the company solidified its place as a market leader in online insurance at the time when internet shopping was taking off.

Insurance.com - $35.6 Million

Similar to CarInsurance.com, this online platform was regarded as valuable because it was a popular destination for comparing insurance rates on cars, health, life, home and renters insurance.

VacationRentals.com - $35 Million

Tourism has never been as popular as it is in the modern age of the internet, with countless ways to promote, explore and find the best possible deals to satisfy your traveling needs. Perhaps not surprisingly, one of the all-time top five most expensive domain names for sale had to do with vacation rentals.

Unlike some other top names on this list of domains, VacationRentals.com was purchased solely to prevent a different competitor from snatching it up first. It was 2009, and Brian Sharpies, the CEO of HomeAway, managed to sneak in and purchase the domain after he found out that his rival company Expedia was planning to do so. Before the purchase, VacationRentals.com was already an active site and now represents a marketplace for vacation deals around the globe.

PrivateJet.com - $30.1 Million

This is the only domain on the list that is geared almost completely towards the richest of the rich, offering luxury jet charter rentals for global business flights. It seems only fitting then that its purchase in 2012 is considered the highest pure sale of a domain name in history!

The domain PrivateJet.com was purchased for $30.1 million by Nations Luxury Transportation, LLD, an Atlanta-based company that provides travel services. 

Voice.com - $30 Million

Voice.com is the most recent domain name sale on the list following what seemed like almost half a decade without earth-shattering acquisitions. It was sold to Block.one, easily topping the list of the most expensive domain names in 2019. What makes it even more of a special entry is the fact that the creator of EOS cryptocurrency bought the domain through a cash transaction facilitated by GoDaddy.

This likely makes Voice.com the single most expensive publicly announced pure domain name purchase of all time. 

Internet.com - $18 Million

We already mentioned how QuinStreet went on a buying frenzy in 2009 with their purchases of the largest insurance-based domains that are firmly in the top five of all time. But that’s not the whole story. The company also bought one of the best domain names, Internet.com, for $18 million in cash. A number of other top domain names were part of the deal, including InternetNews.com, ServerWatch.com, Webopedia.com, Developer.com and others totaling millions more.

360.com - $17 Million

This is the only “number-based” URL on our domain name value list and one of the rare domains of its kind that managed to bring in the big bucks. The sale was made in 2015, when Zhou Hongyi CEO of Qihoo decided to create a new brand that would unify and encompass all of his products and services. The bold move cost $17 million.

The domain itself was sold by the telecommunications giant Vodafone that once created a phone of the same name. And while the number-based domains are becoming less popular in the West, the acquisition was a great move for a company that’s geared mainly towards the Chinese market. Short names and numbers are much more popular in China where numbers have a cultural significance. As such, the high domain name cost is perfectly justified.

Insure.com - $16 Million

This $16 million sale was worth ten times more than what Insure.com was bought for in the previous purchase in 2001. Insure.com distinguished itself from other big domains like insurance.com by offering more than just a platform to follow new insurance deals. It also provided articles, quotes and news regarding this sector of the industry. Such useful information helped it secure its place as one of the most expensive domains.

Web domains have grown in value and importance along with the Internet, becoming a powerful marketing and branding tool for companies thriving in the information age. These simple, single lines of text have the potential to propel local brands to internationally recognized giants.

2/ The public exposure of a generic name on TV, Radio, Media. What receives more free sponsored airtime … and what will continue to grow through the Media and communities for perhaps decades to come?  

Well, all of the above domains that have sold for mega millions are really not household words that are much talked about on any mediums and with carinsurance.com, although selling for 47.7 million dollars, is something that people usually talk about only a few times a year when renewing their policy or when an officer asks you to produce it when stopping you for a traffic violation. Other than that, we are not inundated in the media with car insurance or any of the other above multi-million dollar acquisitions like we are with climate change. 

However with Climate Change, were we can all agree that we are being flooded and inundated by climate change news on all channels, on all news mediums, on all networks and by most industries, each and every day with no sign of slow down. In fact, Climate Change has been forecasted to be the largest industry boom in over 100 years.
 

So are we asking 47.7 Million for one name like CarInsurance.com has sold for?
 

No. We are selling USAClimateChange.com for a fair market value less than 4 Million. More than 43 million less than carinsurance.com. 

Actually considered quite low by industry professionals in comparison when bringing the massive exposure of climate change along with the  national publicity into the equation, and in addition offering the buyer 251 top level climate domains listed under the column for FREE! 

This will allow the buyer to recover their investment in full and point all other 50 climate industry names to their primary URL for added visitation, reliability, reputation, creditability and acceptability, or the opportunity to resell one, several or all of the 251 names for substantial profits. 

3/  Another thing to take into consideration is whether or not the name is brandable.
 

We are confident that you will agree, that USA Climate Change is being branded every day, assisted through every media source and it does not cost anything for the free promotion and publicizing as all multi-media sources continue to bring it to life nationwide and globally.  An unimaginable savings everyday in marketing exposure cost. All we did was add .com to the equation to make this intuitive one of a kind climate domains - one of the most high profile, valuable domain names in the marketplace today ... and well into the future because only ONE entity can own it and there can never be two USAClimateChange.com names. 

4/ Is it a top level domain (TLD)? A top-level domain is the highest level in the hierarchical Domain Name System of the Internet after the root domain.
 

With the exception of 6 names, all domains in our USA Climate names Portfolio are considered "top Level" domains meaning they are dot com domains regarded as the premium most widely accepted extensions in the online world. In the past two decades, domain names have been the bedrock of the Internet with the .com firmly planted as the dominant force. 

5/ Are the domain names easily identifiable?   

Does the message within the name speak for itself and has it been around for a while? Again, we are going to have to say "YES" in bold, big caps for this one. When people think of USA Climate Change – there is no better domain name in the country than USAClimateChange.com

As for whether or not climate change has been around for a while – we can safely say "climate change" has been a household term for decades.

All names in our portfolio fit the same high value criteria, ie:  

ClimateChangeCalifornia.com

ClimateChangeFlorida.com

ClimateChangeNewYork.com

ClimateChangeMiami.com .... along with 248 more.