wman

IR.net

Considering all offers for IR.net / ir.net

• IR has more than 120 different meanings according to http://acronyms.thefreedictionary.com/ir including Infrared, Iran, Investor Relations, Im Ruhestand (German: Retired), Information Revolution, Inland Revenue (UK IRS), Interracial, and lots more.
  
• IR is the ISO country code and top-level domain of Iran. IR.net attracts more than 80,000 visitors per month who are mistyping the net.ir extension of that country.
  
• IR = "go" (infinitive) in Spanish.
  
• Some very large companies are using this acronym.
  
• You could start your own 3rd level "Iranian country code" e.g. domain.ir.net

Traffic: 2,600+ visitors per day. 99.63% pure type-ins (see below).

Revenue: About $30 per day on Sedo Pro

Screenshot: http://img229.imageshack.us/img229/2...net0602qx2.gif

Traffic source
According to Webalizer stats 99.63% of the traffic comes from type-ins.

Most of IR.net's visitors are simply mistyping _____.net.ir domains (the Iranian .net TLD), which might or might not exist, as _______.ir.net.

For example: An Internet user wants to go to a popular Iranian website, such as www.pnu.ir (a university). However, for some reason he believes the site is located at Iran's .net extension. Instead of entering pnu.net.ir which would be the "correct" syntax (if the site were at the .net extension), he enters pnu.ir.net which is how he lands at ir.net.

At the bottom of http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...details/ir.net you can find "Where people go on Ir.net". Click on the blue "More ir.net domains" link and you'll see a list of the most popular subdomains. In one way or another, all those subdomains are variations of actual domains.

IR.com is affected by the same phenomenon: http://www.alexa.com/data/details/tr...details/ir.com

Thanks to its nature the traffic is very consistent at an average of 2,600 visitors per day. I expect that to double over the next decade (Internet penetration rate in Iran is currently at 27.50% of the population, up from 0.4% in late 2000.)

I bought it through Sedo from the former owner.

Since early March 2008.

Apart from Sedo Pro, I tested the domain at Parked.com, Fabulous.com, Namedrive, and the regular Sedo program.

Yes. From at least 2007-10-21 (and possibly from 2005-03-05) right up to early March 2008 IR.net did not resolve at all. You can verify this here (screenshot here in case you don't have a DomainTools account). This coincides with the archive.org history where the last available record is dated 2005-04-25. I just checked and the IP address in question (146.101.4.7 still doesn't respond... maybe it never did.

In other words, IR.net was not resolving before I bought it and all that beautiful traffic was going nowhere!

Interestingly, I originally bought the domain because ir means "to go" in Spanish, not because of the Iran-related meaning.

Sure. If anyone else is interested, PM me or post here and I'll send you the past stats with my description.

Considering all offers. I've had quite a few offers for the domain but no deal has materialized yet so I will probably accept the best offer if it is high enough.

Payment by Escrow.com, Sedo Escrow or Moniker Escrow. Buyer covers fees. Financing possible with at least 30% down.

Traffic test available at $35/day prepaid.

Registrar: Fabulous
Expiration date: 19 Sep 2014

wman

Current best offer: $72,000

BIN $92,000

Last call for offers!