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Only 2.6% of the 3650 Direct .au Domains were re-bought yesterday, with One Single Buyer buying 46% of those.

Yesterday we published an article that stated the largest amount of Australian domain names were dropping in a single day, around 3650 “Direct .au” names dropped. There were also around 1050 “.com.au” domains dropping on that same day which means around 4700 Australian domain names dropped in a single day.

For reasons unknown, auDA continue to allow one single private company to run the daily domain name drop auctions. You can find out more about this by reading these articles. auDA have not allowed any new Registrars to compete in the Australian Domain Name space since 2016, although many professional and experienced people and companies have spent time and money trying.

The data from yesterday’s drop auctions is very interesting.

Out of the 3650 “Direct .au” domains that dropped, 94 were re-purchased. This means about 2.6% were re-registered. Which means 97% of the 3650 Direct .au domains were deemed as a waste of money by the original owners.

But what’s REALLY interesting is…

One single person purchased 43 of the 94.

That person’s name is Ryan Story from Formula Digital.

This means Ryan Story purchased around 46% of all the dropping “Direct .au” domains for himself.

100% of all the domains Ryan Story purchased have their nameservers pointed to Above.com(.)

This is the list of domains Ryan Story purchased yesterday; (all point to parking platform Above.com)

12apostles.au – $25 Ryan Story
affiliatewebsites.au – $25 Ryan Story
allphones.au – $100 Ryan Story
anordinarystory.au – $25 Ryan Story
artichoke.au – $25 Ryan Story
babel.au – $25 Ryan Story
bandaid.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
bonza.au – $250 Ryan Story
caravansdirect.au – $25 Ryan Story
covercraft.au – $25 Ryan Story
culturalstandards.au – $25 Ryan Story
dailygrowth.au – $25 Ryan Story
deliveryguy.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
deploy.au – $500 Ryan Story
domainguys.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
enviroguard.au – $25 Ryan Story
exponentialgrowth.au – $25 Ryan Story
fergusson.au – $25 Ryan Story
flatbedprinting.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
kaizen.au – $100 Ryan Story
lightspeed.au – $100 Ryan Story
localorigins.au – $25 Ryan Story
murdermystery.au – $25 Ryan Story
onlinedelivery.au – $25 Ryan Story
orston.au – $25 Ryan Story
ozexports.au – $25 Ryan Story
ozexports.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
paranormal.au – $25 Ryan Story
pious.au – $25 Ryan Story
pizzapal.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
plenum.au – $25 Ryan Story
potplant.com.au – $250 Ryan Story
precisionbuilt.au – $25 Ryan Story
pricematch.au – $25 Ryan Story
primitivehabits.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
priscilla.au – $25 Ryan Story
privacyhub.au – $25 Ryan Story
pureaustralia.au – $25 Ryan Story
realestategroup.au – $25 Ryan Story
recipekit.au – $25 Ryan Story
roastme.au – $25 Ryan Story
roastme.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
rounded.au – $25 Ryan Story
royalexpress.au – $25 Ryan Story
schnauzer.au – $25 Ryan Story
scorpius.au – $25 Ryan Story
secretroom.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
serverspares.au – $25 Ryan Story
skycast.au – $25 Ryan Story
sloth.au – $25 Ryan Story
solarpro.au – $25 Ryan Story
southhub.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
sportmates.au – $25 Ryan Story
sportmates.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
thequiz.com.au – $25 Ryan Story
whistleblower.au – $1,000 Ryan Story

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FoolsGold

Ryan save your money.

You will never sell these or make back the initial, admin or ongoing costs from small no chance monetisation revenue with Above.com

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Often jaded by auDA

Ryan has purchased more than 400 domains in the last 5 months from the drops.
I think that it is more about traffic monetisation?

Rudy Labordus

In my humble opinion, whistleblower.au might be the only one that has some potential. It’s probably a great case study on what I predicted yesterday – the profit made on the 2% of domains that have a market (1 domain above) will barely cover the holding cost of the other 98% (42 of the above 43). But hey, that’s just the opinion of one person. 🙂

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Not Drop

It seems very odd that the Chairman of the Shell racing team in Australia is the most frequent purchaser of (thousands) of dropped domains in Australia, doesn’t it? Could they be doing this on someone else’s behalf?
Should probably be looked at more closely.

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HarryandMeg

Spoke to Ryan who said he doesn’t know anything about these recent registrations..

The plot thickens

UBU ?

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