The Auction For Power.com Goes Live: Minimum Bid $2.5 Million & It Will Cost You $2,500 To Bid - Back in April we posted about the domain name Power.com hitting the auction block and today the auction went live. Power.com was registered back in 1992 and has never before made available for sale. The auction ends on September 22, 2011. The domain is being brokered by Rokme, Inc. which is conducting the auction (there info is below) The minimum bid is $2.5 Million dollars. “”Few domains possess the stature of Power.com. ” “Like signature real estate, domains such as Power.com attract ... read more ...

Official Announcement On Domainfest Live Auction, Now A Online Auction Which Will End Jun 15th - We just received this notice from Oversee regarding the Live auction from DomainFest which was cancelled today due to technical difficulties. The auction will now be held online only and has already started. The online auction will end on a week from today on June 15th at 3:15pm EST. The extended auction will close on June 22nd at 3:15Pm EST. We wish all sellers and buyers best of luck. Here is the official announcement: “”This morning, several of Oversee.net’s web-based services experienced ... read more ...

Our Picks From The Live DomainFest Barcelona Auction - There are 70 domains currently listed for the Live DomainFest auction from Barcelona which will be held on June 8th at 12pm EST. Remote bidding will be available at Snapnames.com, and pre-bidding is currently opened. We have went through the list of domain names in the auction and here are our thoughts. As of time of publication we should note that 4 domain names have bids and have met reserve: gado.com seoagencies.com houses.co.uk semexpert.com We should also note that none of the domains in the ... read more ...

Pure Opinion: Oversee.net Should Disclose The Traffic Numbers Of Those Verisign High Score Domains - Yesterday I wrote about a flash auction Oversee was holding on over 600 domain names “recently registered by SnapNames due to their high VeriSign Data Analyzer Traffic Score and Generic Word strength!” As of time of publication, 24 domain names have bids. The auctions expire over the next three days with Sunday having the most closing auctions. This is a ground breaking auction in some ways since its the 1st auction I can remember anyone selling all the domains based off of a metric. Ok just ... read more ...

HorseRacing.com & AutoRacing.com To Hit The Auction Block At DomainFest? - According to a short story appearing in the thoroughbredtimes.com, it appears the domain names HorseRacing.com and AutoRacing.com may hit the auction block at the Domainfest auction in Barcelona in June. According to the article, the owner of both names is Gregory Paley. “‘Paley, a business lawyer who purchased the domain name in 1995, said he plans to offer horseracing.com at the Moniker’s Premiere Auction DOMAINfest Barcelona on June 8″ “Paley told the Wall Street Journal that the name ... read more ...

Will Today’s SnapNames.com Showcase Auction Today Be The 2nd In A Row Without A Bid? - Last week we wrote about a SnapNames.com Shwocase auction that was about to end without a bid on any domain name. That auction did in fact seem to end without a bid placed on any domain name. Today another such auction is ending, and as of the time of publication once again not a domain in the auction has a bid. This themed auction is called the Premium Keyword Domain Auction and all the domain names seem to be owned by one party, NOKTA INTERNET TECHNOLOGIES. The auction ends today at 3:15pm EST. Here ... read more ...

SnapNames.com May Showcase Auction Closes Tomorrow & So Far Has No Bidders - The SnapNames.com monthly showcase auction for May closes Tomorrow and so far there isn’t a bid. The auction which features “Local Search and Real Estate” has about less than 100 domain names some with at no reserve, yet not one of the domains as of time of publication have bids on them. I went through the list and found a few interesting domains and placed those on top, but the whole list appears below. The star of the auction appears to be onlinemortgages.com but with a bid range of $100K-$250K ... read more ...

OrangeJuice.com Goes To Auction At NameJet.com At No Reserve: Quick Poll How Much Will It Sell For? - The domain name OrangeJuice.com has been placed into auction at NameJet.com at no reserve by its original registrant. The domain was first registered  back in November 1996, by Michael Moses. NameJet is carrying a banner on top of the site advertising the sale. The back order deadline is May 21, at 11PM EST and as of publication there are 312 back orders on the domain and it will be quite interesting to where it will end up. Its rare to see a domain of this quality put up at a no reserve auction ... read more ...

CragsList.org Sells On NameJet.com For $17K - Oh Boy The domain name Cragslist.org (yes its a typo) sold on NameJet.com yesterday for $17,211. 5 bidders were in the auction at $1,000 + The domain has an Alexa rank of 2.8 Million and Compete is showing Traffic of 300 for last month, but as high as 56,000 per month going back to June 2010. Of course Craigslist is trademarked and is one of the best known sites on the web. The typo is espeically troubling since Craigslist uses Craigslist.org as its main site and its ranked as the 36th busiest site ... read more ...

Calling All 3D Domain Owners & Fans: Future Trend Domain Auction Set For SnapNames ShowCase Auction For June - Stephen Douglas, President of SuccessClick.com will beholding the 1st ever  Future Trend Domain Auction™, on June 21 – June 28, 2011. The auction will be a  Moniker Showcase, powered by Snapnames.com We wrote a blog post almost a year ago on 3D domain names.  The post which has now received over 2,650 comments has turned into an excellent source of links to stories about 3D products and 3D domains as well as other new technology such as Holographic and Hologram or Holo for short as well ... read more ...

TechCrunch.com: 6 Million Dollars Startup Power.com Goes Out & The Domain Is Hits The Auction Block - TechCrunch.com.  just published that the domain name  Power.com will be sold at an auction that ends on August 17, 2011. Interested parties can pre-register on the website in order to receive detailed instructions for the auction in May 2011. According to TechCrunch Power.com raised $6 million in funding before as a aggregatior of social networking sites but was promptly sued by Facebook and now it appears the site is done. The domain name is for sale and is being exclusively brokered by a company ... read more ...

Tenants.com Sells For $22K on Namejet.com; RetailStores.com Goes For $20K - The domain name Tenants.com sold today on Namejet.com for $22,100 This was one of the domain names Nielsen research got from a acquisition of another company last year which they apparently did not want to keep nor sell. They also owned the domain RetailStores.com which sold for $20,100 Another one of the domains they owned categorykillers.com sold for $3,900. ChainStores.com another one of those domains went for only $1,700 All were very nice names.       Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

NoShit.(com): OutReach.Org Sells For $90,400 On Namejet (& NoShit.com Sells Too) - A couple of very interesting auctions just ended at Namejet.com. The domain name Outreach.org sold for a whopping  $90,400. Yes you read it right. $90,400. Another domain which just sold and certainly made for the interesting headline is NoShit.com which sold for  $8,113. Both of these domains were pending delete domains as opposed to owner owned domain sales. In both cases the former owners walked away from  domains worth quite a bit of cash. Outreach.com is a popular site getting over 40,000 ... read more ...

TRAFFIC Goes With Reduced Commissions & Pay For Placement In Live Auction To Shake Things Up - In an announcement just sent out by the TRAFFIC organizers they are going to shake up the Live domain auction market. As we all know TRAFFIC was the first conference to hold an live domain auction and through the years with Moniker held the most successful live domain auctions with some in excess of $10 Million dollars. Over the last couple of years we also know that Live domain auctions have failed to create a lot of sale volume and even fewer high dollar sales with most failing to even break the ... read more ...

Sedo Launches Flash No Reserve Auction - Sedo.com yesterday afternoon just put up a flash No Reserve auction of some nice domain names, many of which have already attracted bids. It’s called a flash auction since it was unscheduled and previous unannounced The highest bid belongs as of time of publication is ISU.com which currently is at $5K. Several Geo .net’s are going for cheap so far: KansasCity.net is sitting at $800 nuremberg.net is at $160 Destin.net is at $113 Many of the domains haven’t received a bid, including: DayTraders.net HeavyWeightBoxer.com thephilippines.net You ... read more ...

The 20 Year Old Domain Name Pad.com Hits The Auction Block At Bido.com - The domain name Pad.com is going on the auction block in just a few days at Bido.com The domain Pad.com has an original creation date of December 5th 1990 making it over 20 years old. The domain is operated as Pad Business Solutions. According to the owner,  the domain receives 300 visitors a day. The domain has an Alexa ranking of 3M, and a Compete shows 1,700 visitors a month. I’m told there is a Buy it Now (BIN) price of $135,00o before the auction starts. The auction starts on March 26, 3:30 ... read more ...

Afternic.com Sells $675k In Domains Led By 3j.com At $25k - Afternic.com just released its sales for the week ending Sunday March 6th. All reportable domain sales $1k and over totalled  $675,920. The top seller of the week was 3j.com at $24,500 followed by supertomato.com at  $15,725. My favorite on the list is hitthespot.com for $4,500 and my head scratcher is irworldwide.com for $4k Here is the full list: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Quick Poll: What Was The Best Buy From The Domain Roundtable Aftermarket.com Auction? - Now that the DomainRountable show has come to an end its time for you to pick what you though was the best sale from the Aftermarket.com auction. You can vote on the poll on the right and place any comments below. Since you have 20 choices I will let you have 2 picks on the poll, but you have to make them at the same time. Here are your choices: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Our Picks From The Live Aftermarket.com Auction - Aftermarket.com will be holding a live domain name auction as part of the Domain RoundTable confernece from the Atlantis resort in the Bahamas on Thursday March 3rd at 2pm EST. Remote bidding will be available on Aftermarket.com but you have to have an account with them, so if you even think you might have interest in one of the domains you better go and sign up now. One nice thing about this auction is unlike DomainFest, which was heavily weighted to six and seven figure domains, this auction by ... read more ...