363.com Sells On Sedo For $41K; 980.com At $40K - The domain name 363.com just sold on Sedo.com for $41K. There were 2 bidders in the auction and reserve was set at $40K. If you missed that one another 3 numbered .com is at auction, has hit reserve and will sell today. The domain 980.com is currently at $40K with 9 hours to go. Congrats to the buyers and sellers Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

PersonalWealth.com Sells For A Rich Price On Namejet.com, $26,300 - The domain name PersonalWealth.com sold yesterday on NameJet.com for a Whopping $26,300. The domain does have an Alexa ranking of 5M but for me it seems like a steep price to pay for the domain. A closely related domain, RetireWealthy.com sold yesterday as well on NameJet.com for $8,621. I actually like that domain better for the money. Both domains were purchase by the same bidder. Congrats to the buyer. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Quick Poll: Which Was The Best Buy From The Live TRAFFIC Auctions? - Now that the 2 Live domain name auctions from the  TRAFFIC show have concluded its time for you to vote on what you thought were the best buy from the two auctions. The poll is now live on the right and of course your comments are always welcome below. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Our Picks From The TRAFFIC Premium Auction Today At 3:45pm PST - RickLatona.com will be holding the live premier auction from the TRAFFIC show in Vancouver today  at 3:45pm PST, 6:45 EST. Online bidding will be available on Proxibid. We have gone through the entire list of around 200 domains. We start with the domain names that should definitely sell which includes all of the three letter .com which have a reserve of $1,500-$5K. There were a bunch of these at TRAFFIC Milan and I think all of them sold. AXG.com AXJ.com AXQ.com CQX.com GEQ.com IYW.com NJQ.com PJQ.com VQW.com XXE.com XYZ.com Of ... read more ...

Next Big Domain Sale: ANTIGUAandBARBUDA.COM @ $20K With 5 Hours To Go - The next big domain sale looks like its going to come from Godaddy.com, where the domain name ANTIGUAANDBARBUDA.COM is at an expired auction. The auction closes at 4:59pm EST today. The current high bid is $20,009 and there are 34 bidders. The official sites for the twin island nation is Antigua-Barbuda.org and Antigua-Barbuda.com Here is some more information on the twin island nation. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

NameJet.com Response To The Receiver Of The Typo Auctioned Domains: Too Bad, So Sad; They’re Gone - Andrew from DomainNameWire.com wrote earlier today about the NameJet.com auction of some typo domains that expired and sold. The story goes on to say that the Receiver appointed by the court to watch over the assets of John Zuccarini including the domains that were not renewed and auctioned off,  was off to court to somehow stop or undo the sale of those domains which had already been sold and paid for. Since we started this whole mess off with our blog post of a few weeks ago, we asked NameJet.com ... read more ...

GBT.com Sells For $12K On NameJet.com, Filters.Net For $5,100 - A few NameJet.com auctions over the last couple of days has proceed some nice sales. The three letter domain GBT.com went for $12K. Filters.Net went for a pretty reasonable $5,100. A very popular last name, Fernandes.com went for $5,660. Some other sales FindABuilder.com $1,410 Descanso.com, a Geo domain went for $4,500. BWIA.com sold for $4,100 DoBusiness.com $1,501 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Seller Defaults In Sedo.com Auction of 7 Domains For A Total of Almost $200K - Last month we wrote about 7 legal domains that sold at auction at Sedo.com for almost $200K. Sedo.com has now declared the Seller of the domain names in default as he has refused to transfer the domains. The domains at issue are: bankruptcylawyers.com trademarklawyer.com immigrationattorney.com criminalattorneys.com duilawyers.com taxattorneys.com bankruptcylawyers.net According to a source, the Owner of the domains has not responded to Sedo demands that the domains be transferred to the winners ... read more ...

Our Picks From The iGaming SnapNames Auction Which Ends Today - The igaming show was held last week in Prague and SnapNames.com is holding an online auction for some gambling and gaming domains (with some misc domains thrown in) The auction which has been running since last week closes today at 3:15PM EST according to the normal closing procedures on SnapNames.com We have gome through the list and have picked out what we believe are the most interesting domains from the auction. A couple of notes. The domain blackjacktouraments.com which is at zero reserve is ... read more ...

Investments.Net To Sell Today For North Of $25K - A nice .net domain Investments.net, (we do not own it) has hit reserve and is going to sell north of $25K today at Sedo.com. The current high bid on this domain is $25,250 and the next bid going to have to be $26,350. Its a great .net and we will let you know how it turns out. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

BiBi.com Hits $12,500 In First Hours of 3 Day SnapNames.com Auction - The domain BiBi.com dropped today and SnapNames.com successful registered it, starting the 3 day auction at $59. Just hours into the three day auction and the domain already has a high bid of $12,500. There are over 250 people in this auction. BiBi is certainly a nice LLLL domain. BiBi.Org is a pretty popular site with a compete estimate of 9K visitors a month. There is a BiBi Magazine, Bibi is what many call the prime minster of Israeli, and its apparently the name of a pretty famous parrot. In ... read more ...

Godaddy.com Raises Minimum Prices On Domain Auctions 20% - Very quietly, it looks like Godaddy.com increased the starting bid on its expired domain auctions from $10 to $12, an increase of 20%. Although I didn’t get a notice about the change, (even though I buy domains on their platform all the time), I confirmed with my Godaddy rep who told me he didn’t ever get a notice about the price increase. “This is the first I heard of it as well”, he told me. After checking with the powers that be, he confirmed that the minimum starting price on expired ... read more ...

After 7 Hours of Bidding, GovermentGrants.com Sells For $53K On NameJet (Yes It’s a Typo) - After 7 hours of extended bidding on NameJet.com,  the auction for the domain name GovermentGrants.com finally ended with a sales price of $53,022. Yes its a typo. The correctly spelled domain, governmentgrants.com has some nice traffic, with compete.com showing over 30K monthly visitors and  Alexa gives it a rank of 555K. The ownership of GovernmentGrants.com is under Moniker privacy. The typo that sold today has an Alexa rank of 5.5M. According to WordTracker.com there is about 10% of the search ... read more ...

BuyDomains.com Moving Some Inventory On NameJet.com - Well add BuyDomains.com to the growing list of companies that are selling off some of their less desirable domains on NameJet.com NameJet.com which started an an auction house for expiring domains, opened itself up to private sales as well, that get mixed into the expired domain auctions last year. It now appears that Buydomains.com has listed some of its inventory on NameJet.com Once such domain is SouthTomsRiver.com which has to be backordered by May 30th and has a minimum bid of $69. NameJet.com ... read more ...

Our Picks & Pans From The DFG Extended Auction Ending Tomorrow - Last week Moniker.com held a live auction at  DomainFest Ft. Lauderdale and tomorrow, May 20th at 3:15pm EST the extended auction from the show will close on SnapNames.com. As usual all of the Live auction domains that didn’t sell are back, like jeans.com ($2M starting bid) and  Hobbies.com (min bid at $353K) as well as hundreds of other new domains. We went through the list and picked out what we felt are the best buys and most interesting “new” domains in this auction as well as some of ... read more ...

A First For Me: we Push A Sedo Offer To Auction - When it comes to pushing a Sedo offer to an auction, I was a virgin until now. For the first time, I pushed an offer I received from Sedo.com to auction with the $offer serving as the starting bid. I have gotten quite a few offers from Sedo in the past six months, resulting in a few sales and a lot of no sales. When I got an offer through the  Sedo.com platform for the domain, LatinGirlfriends.com I decided, instead of trying to negotiate a higher price, I would take the $5K offer and start an auction. It’s ... read more ...

.Me Auctions Return To NameJet - NameJet.com has announced another group of registry and privately owned .Me domains that will be heading to auction. The domains start at either $69 or $99 and the backorders must be placed, a week from today, on May 24th to participate in the auction. The auction features a lot more first and last family names as well as some call to action type words. Here is a complete list: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Our Picks From The SnapNames Monthly Showcase Auction Ending On Tuesday - SnapNames.com monthly showcase auction for May will close Tomorrow Tuesday May 18 at 3:15pm EST in accordance with its normal closing procedures. The auction features “Money Finance” domains. There are about 650 domain in the auction. Here are our picks which we think are the best buys and/or most interesting domains in the auction: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Pizza.net Hits a Auction Block At TRAFFIC Vancouver - MediaOptions.com announced today that they have been selected as the exclusive broker for the domain name, Pizza.net and that the domain will be auctioned off by RickLatona.com at TRAFFIC Vancouver Expected auction reserve range looks to be $200K-$350K. Here are some interesting tidbits about the domain, from MediaOptions: ·         In the 1995 award winning movie “The Net” starring Sandra Bullock, Pizza.net makes a guest appearance when Sandra Bullock orders a pizza from home directly ... read more ...

Official DomainFest.com Results; Almost $2.4M In Sales - Moniker.com has just released the official results from today’s DomainFest.com auction. Although some have reported that TreasuryBonds.com and Hobbies.com sold under reserve, that does not appear to be the case. dating.com                      $1,750,000 boardgames.com           $  450,000 therapists.com               $  50,000 antidepressant.com      $  30,000 golfresorts.com             $   22,500 efp.com                           ... read more ...

Its All About .Me, As SnapNames Auction Pulls In $150K - The .Me auction of registry owned domains concluded yesterday on Snapnames.com and they have just published the final results. The auction I think can only be described as quite successful In all 35 domains sold for a total of just short of $148,913. Trade.Me and Click.Me lead the way. Here is the complete list: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Our Thoughts & Picks For The Live DomainFest Auction - Tomorrow May 13th,  Moniker.com will be holding a Live domain auction at the one day Domainfest in Ftl. Lauderdale. Remote bidding will be available on SnapNames.com The auction starts at 4pm EST. The auction is for only 122 domain or roughly half as many domains of past  Moniker.com TRAFFIC and Domainfest live auctions. Out of the 122 domains up for auction 24 of them or 20% are have a reserve of at least $100K. Here they are: NewlyWeds.com                    $100,001 – $250,000 SpywareBlockers.com          ... read more ...

.ME Auction Closes On SnapNames Today: Over $46K In Bids - The .Me registry auction closes today on SnapNames.com at 3:15pm EST, and with 5 hours to go there is already over $46,000 in bids. All but 3 domain names, have bids on them although not all of the  domains with bids have met reserve. Click.Me is currently the highest priced domain at $3,200 followed closely by See.Me at $3,100 As of 10:15am EST, here is a complete list of the domains in the auction with the current high bids. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Quick Poll: Which Category Killer Domain Will Sell At DomainFest? - On Thursday  Moniker/SnapNames  will be holding a Live auction from the DomainFest show in Ft. Lauderdale. There is no doubt that they have lined up some catagory killer domains, so we thought we would take a quick poll for a few days letting you pick out the domain you think is most likely to sell out of this group. You can vote on the poll on the right and leave any comments below. The price stated in the poll is the low range of the reserve range. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

One Of The Best Set Of Law Domains To Hit The Markets Sold This Weekend On Sedo.com For $200K - One of the best group of law/legal related domains I’ve seen in recent years sold this weekend at Sedo.com without any fanfare or any special marketing. bankruptcylawyers.com trademarklawyer.com immigrationattorney.com criminalattorneys.com duilawyers.com taxattorneys.com bankruptcylawyers.net All the domains are owned by webdolphins.com. BankruptcyLawyers.com let the pack at $77K. DuiAttorneys.com came in at $55K TaxAttorneys.com sold for $20K Criminalattorneys.com sold for $16,500 ImmigrationAttorney.com ... read more ...