Tag Archives: auctions

Wed 10th February 2016
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Feel The Bern? The Domain FeelTheBern.com Is For Sale; We Chat With The Owner - Yesterday Bernie Sanders won the first Democratic primary of the 2016 election beating Hillary Clinton by over 20%. What has become the rally phrase for Mr. Sanders supporters is “Feel the Bern”. I reached out to the owner of the domain name FeelTheBern.com last night who confirmed the domain name was for sale, which was just registered in February of 2015. So it’s either Sanders or Hillary Clinton who uses the domain name HillaryClinton.com for her website, or one ... read more ...
Mon 8th February 2016
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.Club Sells Over $140K in Premium Domains In January: Over $3.5 Since Launch - .Club reported on its blog that it sold $142,470.52 in Premium Name Sales in January bringing the total cumulative premium name sales for .CLUB to $3,540,637.79. During the month of January 2016 there were 408 premium names sold. 5 names (Athletic.club, Night.club, Pot.club, Space.club and Strip.club) were sold in the NamesCon auction. The bulk of the remaining premium name sales were tiered premium names sold through the registrar channel. China registrars continue to be a strong contributor, however, ... read more ...
Tue 2nd February 2016
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Namejet.com Reports Almost $2.5 Million In Domain Sales In January - Namejet.com reported almost $2.5 Million dollars in domain name sales in January 2016. Only domain names that sold for $2,000 or more are included as are only domain sales that were paid for by the end of the month. In all Namejet.com reported over 300 domain sales including many from the RightoftheDot.com auction that was held on Namejet.com as part of the Namescon Conference. By comparison Namejet.com reported sales for January 2015 were less than $800,000 based on 1/2 as many domain sales Here ... read more ...
Mon 1st February 2016
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Former Industry Blog WannaDevelop.com closes currently on Go Daddy Auctions - WannaDevelop.com was a blog that was run by Mike Cohen, while talking about things like mini and mega site development, the blog also posted about the domain industry. MorganLinton.com posted an article back in 2010 that created quite a stir and that was followed up by Owen Frager and DomainShane.com. WannaDevelop.com is currently expired and around $100 on Go Daddy Auctions. It will be interesting to see the closing price and if it gets renewed. ... read more ...
Mon 25th January 2016
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HA.com to Hold Online/Live Domain Auction In SF: Submissions are Open - According to a press release we just received Heritage Auctions announced today they are holding an auction in San Francisco for domain names. HA.com is looking for: Short, punchy one word .com names, suitable for branding a company or a new venture. “Curb.com, Luxe.com, Hemisphere.com and Gazelle.com are great examples. .com is ideal. Short is preferred. Generic words, with no suffixes are best. Curbs.com is not ideal. Fencing.com is not ideal. Fence.com would be perfect. Short acronyms of 2-4 ... read more ...
Wed 20th January 2016
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Extended Namescon Auction Ends Tomorrow 125+ Domains Will Sell - The RightoftheDot.com extended auction from the Namescon conference ends on Namejet.com tomorrow afternoon starting around 3pm EST and closes in staggered fashion until around 5pm EST subject to Namejet’s normal closing rules. As of publication there are over 125 domain names that have hit reserve (or had no reserve) and have 1 or more bids that will sell tomorrow. Any domain name that did not sell in the Live Domain name auction which generated around $1.5 million in sales plus 200 hundred + domain ... read more ...
Wed 13th January 2016
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Garden.org & All Assets Of National Gardening Association, Inc Up For Auction - Hilco Streambank announced today they were accepting bids for all intellectual property assets (the “Assets”) of National Gardening Association, Inc (NGA) The Assets include trademarks, domain names, customer database, established advertising opportunities and content libraries. BACKGROUND National Gardening Association, Inc. is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) Organization founded in Vermont in 1973 to sustain and renew the fundamental links between people, plants and the environment. Through gardening, ... read more ...
Mon 11th January 2016
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.Club Sells Over 5,500 Premium Domains In Dec For Almost $615K - .Club just released it premium sales report for December 2015. On December 16th .Club released 13,000 new premium names to the registrar channel, with many priced at $100 or lower In all, 5,525 premium names were sold in December. Total premium name sales for December, from all sources, came to $614,071.90. Total premium name sales for Q4 2015 came to $2,350,116.47. As of December 31, 2015, total cumulative sales of registry reserved premium .CLUB names came to $3,398,167.27. The highest single sale ... read more ...
 
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NamePros to Broadcast Domain Auction from Namescon Live - NamePros will be broadcasting the live RightoftheDot domain auction from Namescon in real-time on Monday starting at 2PM PST. Shortly before the auction, NamePros will  publish a blog post that will include an embedded video of the live stream. If anyone arrives late to the live stream, they’ll be able to rewind it and watch from the beginning or watch it live. Once it’s over, the video will become a standard YouTube video for indefinite playback. All seamlessly offered within a single embedded ... read more ...
 
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Here Are The Domains For The Live Auction From Namescon - RightOfTheDot will conduct the live auction on Monday, January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the NamesCon Conference, at the New Tropicana Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, NV. 130 domain names will be auctioned. The domain names not chosen for the Live auction will continue to be up for auction on Namejet.com until January 21st. Over 50% of the domain names in the Live auction already received bids over reserve and will sell tomorrow. Any domain names not sold in the Live auction will be added back ... read more ...
Thu 7th January 2016
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Here is How To Bid in The Live Namescon/ RightoftheDot.com Auction - I understand this might be a little confusing but I’m trying to lay out how you can bid on the  domain names in the RightoftheDot.com auction at Namescon, while the live domain name auction underway on Monday January 11th starting at 2PM PST So there are over 400 domain names in the auction, but only 125 or so will make the cut for the live auction on January 11, 2016 stating at 2:00 PM PST at NamesCon at the New Tropicana Hotel Casino in Las Vegas, NV. There is almost $7 Million dollars in pre-bids ... read more ...
 
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.Ski Registry Removes All Reserves From The ROTD/Namescon Auction - The .Ski registry, which has some great one letter domain names like i.ski an e.ski and some natural hacks like water.ski and jet.ski has removed all reserve prices from the domain names being auctioned in the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at Namescon. All the domain names are now available for bidding in auction at No Reserve. Many of these domain names already have bids at Namejet.com in pre-bidding. Therefore the high bids have now become the winning bid. The live Namescon auction ... read more ...
Wed 6th January 2016
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Norwegian Paper Covers BY.com In Namescon Auction: Now Has $602K Pre-bid - Verdens Gang whose website is VG.no  a Norwegian tabloid newspaper and was the second largest newspaper in Norway just published a story about By.com which is in the RightoftheDot.com auction at Namescon.  By.com, as of publication of this postm has a high bid in pre-bidding on Namejet.com of $602,000 The original story that was written in  Norwegian is here. The Google translated version of the story into English is here. Its a very interesting story about the owner of the domain IT entrepreneur ... read more ...
 
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Sedo Transactions for Two Weeks Total Just $2 Million; 56% are BIN - Sedo reported 648 transactions for the past two weeks totaling $2 Million Dollars 56% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Going forward  Sedo is following Namejet.com and only reporting sales of 2K or more in any currency. The highest sale of the two weeks goes to Need.me which sold for $25,000 Highlights of public sales were: · Top .com: niuguanjia.com at 10,000 USD · Top ccTLD: need.me at 25,000 USD · Top “other” TLD: fdp.org at 9,888 USD Domain name Price Currency .COMs niuguanjia.com ... read more ...
Tue 5th January 2016
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Rightside Adds Short New gTLD's With Normal Renewals To ROTD/Namescon Auction - Rightside® (Nasdaq:NAME), today announced that it will be participating in the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the Namescon conference that will be held next Monday, January 11th at 2PM EST. All domain names carry a normal renewal fee for the relevant extension, None carry a premium renewal fee. In keeping with the recent boom of 1, 2, and 3-character second-level domain sales, Rightside has added the premium domains: q.sale ll.sale nn.sale 123.sale 9.video viral.video z.pub 1.market 28.market xyz.market xyz.news xyz.live All ... read more ...
 
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Namejet.com Has Record Breaking Month Reporting Almost $3 Million In Sales - Namejet.com reported its sales for December 2015, selling 383 sales at $2k and above for a total of $2,964,861, nearly double their previous record breaking month of November, 2015. Namejet only reports on sales of $2,000 or more. 23 of the top 40 domain names were for three letter .com (LLL.com) domains, of the remaining 17 domains in the top 40, 5 were two letter .net domains (LL.net) and 4 more were four number domains .com domains (NNNN.com) With the RightoftheDot.com auction from Namescon being ... read more ...
Mon 4th January 2016
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Reserve Dropped On 8 Domains In The ROTD Auction: All Have Bids, Which Are Now The High Bid - We have more news on the RightoftheDot.com auction being held a week from today at Namescon at 2PM PST. An owner of 8 domain names in the auction, all of which already have bids in pre-bidding at Namejet.com has removed the reserve price. By removing the reserve prices, the domains are being offered at NO Reserve. Since all of the domain name have bids and the reserves have removed, the high bids are now the winning bids. Here are the domain names which are all open for pre-bidding on NameJet.com certifiedplanners.com metrocard.com doctorlove.com greatadventure.com nannycams.com funtimes.com SouthAmerica.com toytrucks.com Of ... read more ...
Mon 28th December 2015
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Tuscany.com; Erotica.com; Penis.com Added At No Reserve To ROTD/Namescon Auction - Some amazing domain names were added to the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at Namescon late last week all at NO Reserve by CheapDomains.com, including one that has an Estibot value of over $5 Million Dollars. That domain name is Penis.com, one of the premier “adult” domains but which is one of those adult words you can say on broadcast television. Penis.com of course can be used as a medical site. Let’s remember that of the top-selling domain names of all time several are adult ... read more ...
Thu 24th December 2015
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The ROTD Domain Auction At Namescon Tops $5.5 Million In Bids - The RightoftheDot.com domain name auction being held live/online on January 11, 2016 has now topped $5.5 Million in Pre-bidding on Namejet.com In all there are 325 domain names with at least one bid and about 250 of those have more than one bid. About 125 domain names will be in the live auction with the rest staying opened for bidding on Namejet.com until January 21st. There are 12 domain names with a high bid in the 6 figures or higher. 43 domain names have a bid in the five figures or higher. Moreover ... read more ...
Sun 20th December 2015
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Did a Other Shoe Just Drop? Chinese are Buying English Word Domains Too - Raymond published a post today on TheDomains.com,  on the sales report from the first ever live domain auction at the Chinese Domain Festival and China Digital Asset Investment Summit which generated some 150 million RMB in sales. The official exchange rate is 1 RMB is equal to $.15 USD so the live auction generated $22.5 Million in sales. For me the biggest news out of the auction is that the Chinese appear now to be buying English words, not just letters, numbers and Chinese words. Here are a ... read more ...
 
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Chinese Live Auction Nets over 150 Million RMB ($23.1 mil) - The first ever Chinese Domain Festival and China Digital Asset Investment Summit live auction concluded with 150 million RMB in sales. The full list is below with all amounts in Chinese RMB, 1 RMB = .1542 USD. Auction No. | Domain Name | Price in RMB 1 | 1212.com | 1,800,000 2 | zhu.com | 2,200,000 3 | 1117.com | 850,000 4 | qc.cn | 1,500,000 5 | wrj.com | 610,000 6 | beijing.cc | 260,000 7 | cheyou.com.cn, chongwu.com.cn, piaowu.com.cn | 160,000 8 | 828.com | 4,400,000 9 | weitou.com | 500,000 10 ... read more ...
Fri 18th December 2015
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BY.com Added To Namescon Auction; Get's $500K Bid: My Interview W/ The Owner - The two letter domain name BY.com has just been added to the RightoftheDot.com domain name auction as part of the  Namescon conference. The domain name already has gotten a bid of $500,000 on Namejet.com in pre-bidding. No only is BY.com become the 4th two letter .com in the auction, but it joins AT.com as the second two letter domain that is a word. I had a chance to chat with the owner of the domain, André Eidskrem, about the very interesting history behind the domain name and why he is now ... read more ...
Wed 16th December 2015
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1st Time? Frank Schilling Has 11 .Com's At No Reserve In The Namescon Auction - Frank Schilling has 11 .Com domain names from his personal inventory up for auction at no reserve, at the RightoftheDot.com domain auction being held at NamesCon on January 11th. Pre-bidding is open for these domain names at Namejet. Over the years I’m not sure if Frank has ever put up any of his privately owned .Com domain names in auction with no reserve. According to Estibot.com these 11 domain names have a retail value of over $200,000 and they are all at no reserve (minimum bid of $300 each). Here ... read more ...
Sun 13th December 2015
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Premium .SKI Domains Hit NamesCon Auction: Water.Ski; Jet.Ski, Shop.Ski; i.Ski - Some of the most valuable snow skiing and water skiing domain names are being made available for the first time by the .Ski Registry, in the RightOfTheDot / NamesCon live domain Auction being held on January 11, 2016 at 2:00 PM Pacific Time at the NamesCon conference at the New Tropicana Hotel Casino, online bidding will be available. Names such as Rentals.ski, Water.ski, Jet.ski and the powerful one letter domain, i.ski are now opened for prebidding on Namejet.com.  Those domain names were reserved ... read more ...
Thu 10th December 2015
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Two More 2 Letter .Com Added To Namescon Auction; Now Have 12 Three Letter .Com's - Two more 2 letter .com’s are now live for pre-bidding on Namejet.com. Wi.com and FW.com now join AT.com in the Live and online domain name auction that RightOfTheDot.com is holding as from the Namescon conference on January 11, 2016. AT.com already has a bid of over $1.5 Million in pre-bidding at Namejet. In addition to the 3 two letter .com’s, there are 5 three number .com’s (NNN.com) also in the auction: 380.com 397.com 652.com 708.com 983.com We also recently added the three letter super ... read more ...