Ringtones.com.au - Dropping tomorrow.
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theseoconsultant
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I just placed a bid on that before coming here to announce it dropping tomorrow - beat me to the punch James. 
ScottNugent
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I don't understand why people let these drop!
Bacon Farmer
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Ring tones day has come and gone.
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=ring tones&cmpt=q
That phrase will ring a bell with gen y's but no one else ha ha.
http://www.google.com/insights/search/#q=ring tones&cmpt=q
That phrase will ring a bell with gen y's but no one else ha ha.
James
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could be various reasons:
- old tech contact no longer works at company.
- company forgets to renew domain.
- company forgets login access.
The thing I like to do with my domains is keep every thing in one or two places, I find it annoying when you have like 10 different accounts where your domains are you can loose track of things.
In regards to price, I have a feeling around 5k-7k. People seem to load MP3's and tracks off iPhones these days onto phones.
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James
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Yeah I was thinking the same thing, Ringtones have dropped off in terms of popularity.
But in the US market I still do some affiliate work in the space, things do still covert but not the way they use too.
As I said above people have moved towards more MP3's as ringtones on your phone.
Wow that's quite a decline.
Excuse my ignorance but what do people call the sound their phone makes when it rings these days? I thought it was still 'ring tone'?
James
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Yeah people still call it ringtones from my experience.
But the thing is the way people have made ringtones has changed, in the past you would just download a ringtone from a website, now people just load up mp3's and tracks off itunes to make a ringtone this way, phones come out of the box with mp3 cutters so you can just make the right size for your phone.
That been said I know people who use smartphones and still buy ringtones, I mean older demographics would for sure, My dad still gets ringtones on his iPhone 4s, I still think money is to be made but not the same way it was say 5 years ago.
FirstPageResults
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Agreed, too easy to DIY on smart phones and then there's the service providers who load up the phones with their own apps for this stuff
??? I guess I'm officially an 'older demographic' then
I wouldn't have a clue how to do that (not that I'd really want to anyway)
snoopy
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Just because the price is sad doesn't mean I'd pay any more. Probably will be a tough sale for the new owner, like most .com.au's, even fairly strong terms.
Well as an investor, you should. If you think a commodity is priced low (and you have the capital) you should buy it. If you think a commodity you own is priced high, you should sell it.
Well if it's going to be a tough sale, doesn't that mean that the low price was aboutr right and reflected that?
Sorry just a bit confused, on the one hand you seem to suggest it went cheap and on the other hand suggest the buyer who got if for the cheap price is going to struggle to offload for a decent return (which implies he overpaid doesn't it)???
snoopy
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I don't think it is worth buying, I think it is sad, like if I saw a Lada for sale and the price was $30 I'd think that is sad.
I think it is sad that it is worth so little, $750,000 in .com, $984 in .com.au. Even with the timing difference it is striking.
For those who like to point out the rare high sales in .com.au there is piles of very ordinary sales, mostly the .com.au market is not strong, ringtones would probably get about the same in .cc.
Do you think the .au sale indicative of the strength of the au market?
Do you think the .com sale is indicative of the strength of the .com market?
James
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You also need to bare in mind that the .com.au was sold on a snapper domains platform, where the .com was sold on the private market. When domains are sold on the private market you have far longer lead times to sell domains and far more money can be put on the table. therefore I do not thing the comparison is fair also ringtones in my eyes have died off a lot since 2010 vs 2012.
