Jose Augusto

I have been data mining all the auctions on idnforums.com, mainly to increase the accuracy of idn.bz automatic estimation values. This weekend I decided to play around with it firing some cool queries on the data collected. The results are very interesting.

From right to left, top row: total sales by year, average value of a sale, number of sales; bottom row: number of buyers and number of sellers. (unique). Be free to do your own interpretation of the data. Here’s mine:

In 2010, there were 605 idn domains sold, summing a total of $53.466 in sales.The average value of a sale was $88. There were 83 buyers and 52 sellers.It’s the best year in sales since the idn secondary domain started, in 2006.2007 was the seconds best year in sales, with 40k and 628 sales, on a slightly bigger market of 104 buyers.2008 was a flop, but since then, the number of buyers on the market have been stedily increasing, from 67->79->83.

Here’s a chart of the total idn sales on the forum each month, since Feb 2006. (April values ate until today)