Sales! Sales! and More Sales!
More domains for More $ were sold in the month of October than any other month previously.
Simply put: All the prior domain sales records were broken!
An interesting development is that in some cases .au domain were the preferred extension over the .com.au, which is unexpected. Feedback from other domain investors, is the same with an unexpected demand for .au names.
Nathan the Above/Drop broker made many deals including: 30 .au domains and 10 .com.au sales. All sold and completed in month of October. Not a bad effort considering that he also brokered many .com domain sales on top. Some of the nicer .au names sold include:
booth.au
bullseye.au
neon.au
oak.com.au/oak.au
petpal.com.au/petpal.au
winston.au
Direct .au numbers
.au domain registrations hit an amazing 688,709 at the end of October.
Here is the break up by tld:
End of October 2022
| .com.au | 3,115,113 |
| .au | 688,709 |
| .net.au | 220,415 |
| .org.au | 74,477 |
| .id.au | 13,073 |
| .asn.au | 3,125 |
Based on end of September number there were 137,025 .au domains registered in the month of October.
Based on the whole space that equates to 16.74% of all domains registered and against .com.au 22.11% and impressive result that will continue to grow as adoption takes place.
Price of .au domains set to reduce again
The wholesale price of au domains is set to drop by a further $0.05 start of December as the name space hit another milestone of 4 million domains under management. This reduction is from the registry operator Identity Digital (Afilias). Unfortunately due to the amount of implementing and work that .au generated for the registrars I doubt that anyone will be passing this reduction on.
