Tag Archives: auctions

Thu 15th November 2012
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SnapNames.com End of Year Auction Ends Today & Has $55,000 In Bids - Snapnames.com End of Year Auction ends today at 3:15pm EST As of time of publication six hours before the end of the auction, 30 od the 185 domain names in auction have bids totaling over $55,000 with 16 of those domain having hit reserve. The domain with the highest bid is VZG.com is at $3,452. Here are all the domains in the auction with the current high bid, number of bidders, reserve range and whether the domain has hit reserve Good luck to all bidders and sellers Domain Name Bidders Current ... read more ...
Wed 14th November 2012
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With Less Than 3 Hours To Go Sedo’s .Pro Auction 60 Domains Have Bids - Sedo.com .Pro auction closes today at Noon EST. There are 179 domain names in the auction. As of time of publication with less than 3 hours to go 60 of the 179 domains have bids with 15 of them having hit the reserve price. Leading the way is Video.Pro which is currently the only domain to hit the four figures with a bid of $1,550 Here is a list of all the 179 domain, including high bid as of publication, number of bidders, and the reserve range. Good luck to all     Domain Reserve High Bid Reserve ... read more ...
Thu 1st November 2012
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Right Of The Dot™ Teams adult with Escrow.com™ To Provide Neutral Auction & Mediation Resolution for gTLD String Contention - “”Hot on the heels of ICANN’s welcome announcement of the drawing process, Right Of The Dot is launching a private auction and mediation service to accelerate the process of settling claims between applicants for the same new gTLD string, in turn reducing the time it takes for new gTLDs to go live. Right Of The Dot has been granted a special Auction License, which specifically allows them to conduct TLD Auction Services for new gTLDs. To further support new gTLD applicants in their auction ... read more ...
Tue 23rd October 2012
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UPDATED: Sedo.com Transactions For The Week Total $1.35 Million Led By MexicoCityHotels.com For $45K - Sedo just published its weekly report, and in all 867 transactions took place on Sedo’s marketplace and via SedoMLS, totaling $1.35 million. Over 39% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Highlights of public sales include: Top .com: mexicocityhotels.com at $45,000 USD Top ccTLD: monkey.co.uk at 14,000 GBP Top “other” TLD: ria.biz at 8,000 EUR Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 17th October 2012
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SnapNames: One Showcase Auction Ends Today & The Premium Year-End Auction Starts: Wait.com; Showtime.com Zinc.com+ More - The SnapNames.com October Hot Deals Auction closes later today at 3:15pm EST. As of publication the domain name LBS.org is leading the pack with a current high bid of $1,550 Here is a complete list of all the domains in the auction with the high price as of time of publication:   The SnapNames.com Premium Year-End Auction also starts today. The auction that ends on November 15th at 3:15PM EST certainly has some premium domains. Here are the domains with reserve ranges:   Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Tue 2nd October 2012
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ContactCenters.com Sells For $15K On NameJet.com & Audiophile.com Sells For $14K + More - A few notable sales from the drop auction houses. ContactCenters.com sold for $15,000 on Namejet.com Audiophile.com Sold for $14,000 on SnapNames.com Speaking of Snapnames.com another nice domain, replace.com sold for $9K as well Raceway.com which also sold for $9K. Going back to September 1, the domain name Joblisting.com sold on SnapNames.com for $15,249, I don’t think I have seen it reported before. Back to NameJet.com the domain name sandybeaches.com sold for $3,001, steamrooms.com sold for ... read more ...
Thu 27th September 2012
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Sedo Launches “Last Chance Auctions” Starting At “Under $99″ - Sedo.com announced today a new auction offering, Sedo’s Last Chance Auctions Sedo’s Last Chance Auctions, “offer domain owners a perfect venue to sell domain names that would otherwise be sitting idle in their portfolios. Domains listed in Sedo’s Last Chance Auctions start under $99, and all names have low reserve prices”. Liesbeth Mack-de Boer, Sedo’s Chief Sales Officer. “Our Last Chance Auctions provide valuable Sedo customers with the means to auction domains to our user base of ... read more ...
Mon 24th September 2012
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Drop Domains Lead The Sales On NameJet.com: DML.com Sells For $13k TPW.com $10,655, MB.net $7,100 - A busy weekend over at NameJet.com, saw a few “better” LLL.com domain names sell this weekend and a 2 letter .net as a good call to action type of domain. What did all four domain names have in common? They were all drop domain names. The domain name DML.com sold for $13,100. The auction which had 102 bidders saw 7 willing to pay $5K or more for the domain name. The domain DML.com was a dropping domains from Network Solutions whose previous owner was Digital Magic Labs, Inc. out of Japan Another ... read more ...
Thu 20th September 2012
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UPDATE: SnapNames.com Auction For Hobby.com Cancelled - Less than 2 hours after we wrote about the domain name auction for Hobby.com on SnapNames.com we got notice the auction was cancelled. The auction which had a high bid of $26,000 when we wrote our post. Here is the notice we received as a bidder in the auction: “”I am sending this email today to you because you were a bidder in an auction on Snapnames.com for the domain hobby.com.  ” “Unfortunately, this auction has been canceled.  ” “This domain entered our system thru one of our partners ... read more ...
 
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Quick Poll: Hobby.com At Auction At SnapNames.com, Bidding Hits $26K With 3 Days To Go, How Much Will It Sell For? - The category killer domain name Hobby.com is currently in a closed auction at SnapNames.com There are 172 bidders in the closed auction and the current high bid is $26,000 as of time of publication. The domain seems to have been put up for auction without reserve so someone with some big chops took the risk. The domain isn’t even part of a highlighted auction but it seems well on its way to a nice sale price. The question is what will the domain sell for?   You can vote on the poll on the right ... read more ...
Tue 18th September 2012
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Breaking: The Lawsuit On The $1.4 M Ad.com TRAFFIC Auction Purchase Is Over: AOL.com Is The New Owner - The long running dispute over the domain name Ad.com is over and AOL.com has possession of the domain. It was back in April 2009 when the domain name ad.com was bought at the Moniker.com TRAFFIC domain auction for $1.4 Million dollars by Directi. However in August 2009, the then owner of the domain name, Marcos Guillen filed a lawsuit against Directi and Skenzo for refusing to close on the purchase of the domain name. AOL.com sent Directi a claim that it held a trademark on the term advertising.com ... read more ...
Mon 17th September 2012
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Catching Up With NameJet.com: DramaQueen.com Sells For $9,500 + 8 LLL.com Domain Sales - We haven’t caught up with some Namejet.com sales in a few weeks. Here are some of the auctions we were watching, including DramaQueen.com, AdForce.com and 8 LLL.com’s     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
 
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The Afternic SnapNames Auction CLoses On Thursday - Over 150 Afternic.com domain names are at auction SnapNames.com which ends on Thursday September 20th at 3:15PM EST As of publication only a few names have bids but there are some pretty good domain names in the auction and most domain names in the auction have a reserve range of $1K-$2,500.  There are also a number of no reserve domain names.   Domain Name Current Bid ReserveRange acnehelp.com 1000 $1,001 – $2,500 localpubs.com 1000 $1,001 – $2,500 bostonblog.com 555 $501 – $1,000 grasscare.com 500 $201 ... read more ...
Sat 11th August 2012
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ComputerRepairs.com Sells For $25K On NameJet.com - The domain name ComputerRepairs.com sold yesterday on NameJet.com for $25,655. There were 235 bidders in the auction. There were 3 bidders willing to pay $10k or more for the domain. The winning bidder goes by the bidder Id of  “22twos”. In some other sales this week on Namejet.com,  43.net sold for $8,800; Certification.net sold for $7,5o1 which seems to be a nice price; cush.com sold for $5K and Sendo.com for $3,811 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 10th August 2012
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With Just Under Two Weeks To Go, Over Half of a Domains In a SnapNames/Dotster Auction Have Bids - We have all seen showcase auctions where there were just a handful of domains that wound up with bids, but it looks like SnapNames.com is on to something with their Dotster Showcase Auction. The auction which doesn’t end until Thursday August 23rd at 3:15pm EST already has more than half the domain names with a bid. While there are no big numbers yet, its a welcome sight to see an auction with bidders. Out of the 81 domain names in the auction as of publication 41 have bids. Pretty good with almost ... read more ...
Mon 6th August 2012
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Of.org Sells For $7,600 On NameJet.com; FacebookMobile.com Sells for $4K - Of.org sold for a pretty low price for a two letter .org which spells a word The closing auction price was only $7,603 on NameJet.com. There were almost 200 people in the auction but only 14 bid $1K or more for the domain. On the other hand a Trademark infringing type of domain, FacebookMobile.com sold for $4k In general the prices are NameJet.com seem to be in the $x,xxx area for the better domains with most selling in the $xxx range Here are a few sale we tracked since the beginning of the month:         Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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TRAFFIC Opens Up Submissions For The Live Domains Auction Including Pay For Submission Domains - According an email sent out by the organizers of the TRAFFIC conference they are formally opening up submission for the live domain name auction that will be held at the conference. Like last year there are several ways to get you domain submitted into the auction. Either have one of the most saleable domain based on reserve pricing or use the “Guaranteed Placement Program” IN announcing the opening of submissions, Mr,. Schwartz made it clear the type of domains he was looking for the auction: “I ... read more ...
Tue 31st July 2012
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Rick Schwartz: Yes There Will Be A Live Domain Auction At TRAFFIC & We Already Have Over 5K Submissions - I reached out to Rick Schwartz today about whether there will be a live domain name auction at the TRAFFIC conference this year. There have been a bunch of emails and announcements from the organizers of the TRAFFIC conference about the conference, the nomination for the awards to be handed out (see here, here and here,) people speaking at the conference, but not a word on a live domain auction. So I have confirmed with Mr. Schwartz that there will in fact be a live domain auction at TRAFFIC in October. Although ... read more ...
Thu 19th July 2012
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With 4 Hours To Go Moniker Premium & ccTLD Auction Has Over $160K But Only $400 Domain Has Hit Reserve - The SnapNames/Moniker International Premium ccTLD Auction ends today at 3:15 EST over at SnapNames.com. With four hours to go more than $160,000 in bids have been placed on 13 domain names yet only one, smokers.co.uk which was a no reserve name has hit reserve with a high bid of $400. So over $160,000 in bids and only 1 $400 domain is over reserve. Which of course begs the question of why does SnapNames allow bidding under the reserve range at all? Take movieguide.com which has a stated reserve ... read more ...
Wed 18th July 2012
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Social.org Auction Hits $150K On NameJet.com - Social.org is back up for auction at NameJet.com and has hit a high bid of $149,099. The auction ends on Friday around 3pm EST. There are 435 bidders in the auction. The NameJet.com reserve has been meet, at $130K so the domain will sell. You may recall that Social.org sold on NameJet.com in March for $228,600 but the winning bidder didn’t pay Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 13th July 2012
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Let’s Face It; Sedo.com Generic .Me Auction, It Was A Bust - The Sedo.com Generic .Me domain name auction that concluded yesterday was, well there is no other way to say it, a bust. Out of the 190 domain names for sale only 8 domain names sold and the vast majority never even got a bid. The auction was run in conjunction with Brands-and-Jingles whose principal Mark Kychma told had to say: “The result are very disappointing – Brands-and-Jingles is regularly selling .ME names in the range $5k-$50k.” “This auction failed to recognize the value of some ... read more ...
Tue 26th June 2012
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Sedo.com Sells $1.4MM In Domains Led By ArtDeco.com for $75,000 - Sedo.com just announced its weekly sales data ending June 25th, 2012. In all over $1.4MM of domains were sold. The top seller was ArtDeco.com at $75K. Other domains topping the list of public sales were Diabete.com for €16,900 RedKite.com for $15,000. In all 891 domains were sold. 41% of total sales were the result of Buy Now listings. Below is the entire list of publicly reportable sales in their respective currencies: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Fri 22nd June 2012
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iMeeting.com Sells For $15K On NameJet.com; MDLI.com For $9,600 + 16 Three Letter .Com’s - The domain name iMeeting.com sold on NameJet.com today for $15,166 There were 194 bidders in the auction and 5 that were willing to pay $5K or more. The domain name MDLI.com wasn’t far behind selling for $9,605. There were a bunch of three letter .com’s that also sold in the last couple of days:   It was certainly the largest amount of three letter .com’s that I have seen sell in auctions over a few day period in quite a while. Congrats to all buyers and sellers     Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Wed 20th June 2012
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Sedo Joins With Brands-and-Jingles For Domain Auction Of 190 .Me Domains Including: Tagged.me; Follows.me, Shared.Me - According to a press release out tonight, “Sedo.com is running in partnership with Brands-and-Jingles is holding an auction of  190 premium .ME domain  “at the level of the nominal prices ranging between $149 and $999.” Unlike some of the recent registry owned .Me domains that only had keywords, this auction contains some call to action type of domain names. “Most of the names were secured during the land rush and were already prolonged up to six years upfront leaving the new buyers with ... read more ...
Tue 19th June 2012
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Afternic Summer Auction Ends On Thurday & Hipster.com Leads The Way - The Afternic.com Summer Auction ends this Thursday at 3:15pm EST on SnapNames and at time of publication there are only a few domains past the reserve with bids. Hipsters.com leads the way on the auction at $8,250 with 4 bids. CityTrade.com has the most action with 5 bids and is currently at $550, also above the reserve. Other names under the  reserve but with bids are Hikers.com at $11K, Throat.com at $5,500, CookingHealthy.com at $1,400, MicroSurgeon.com at $2,550, QuotesOfTheDay.com at $1,001, ... read more ...