Slots.Com Auction Is Live & With 2 Bids At $4 Million Dollars - The auction for Slots.com is live on SnapNames.com and already has 2 bids with a high bid of $4 Million Dollars.
The reserve on this domain name is listed on the site as north of $5 Million.
The auction ends in 6 days.
Should be interesting and you still have time to vote on the poll on the right
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Thu 6th May 2010
Tue 4th May 2010
Oversee Files Suit Against Nelson Brady (Halvarez) For $33 Million Dollars - In a statement just released buy Oversee.net, they have filed suit against after Nelson Brady, otherwise known as Hank Alvarez, seeking damages in excess of $33 million dollars.
Here is the official statement from Oversee:
“SnapNames, and its parent company, Oversee.net, have filed suit against Nelson Brady in federal court in Oregon.”
“Brady is a former employee who, under the false name “Hank Alvarez,” improperly bid in certain SnapNames auctions. In some cases, Brady also embezzled ... read more ...
Slots.com Coming to SnapNames.com - The domain name Slots.com is reportedly going to be auctioned off on SnapNames.com in a dedicated auction that will start as early as tomorrow.
The auction was according to press releases going to be auctioned off on April 28th but never took place.
When the auction did not occur it left some in the gambling community to wonder what happened to the auction.
It seems that Oversee.net snagged the domain Slots.com to be auctioned off on its SnapNames.com platform.
Although the exact reserve was not ... read more ...
Our Picks From The SnapNames Geo Auction Ending Tomorrow May 4th - SnapNames.com Geo auction concludes tomorrow May 4th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with Snap’s normal closing rules.
As of publication 10 domains have hit reserve, with the highest being businesstravelers.com at $5,590
We went through the entire list of domains up for auction and found these to be the most interesting:
(As always with Snap, reserve prices are stated in ranges, we have no domains in this auction):
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Sun 2nd May 2010
Number Madeness At NameJet.com as Five, 4 Number Domains Sell For $43K - Well it was 4 number .com madness today on NameJet.com when five, 4 number .com’s sold for a combined price of over $43,000.
The highest price domain, 9944.com sold for over $13K.
Wow
I’ll be the 1st to day it, I don’t get it.
0606.com for over $6K?
Anyone have any idea of what I’m missing here?
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Sat 1st May 2010
Tahoo.com! With Plenty of Traffic & Liability Sells For $12K On NameJet. WhoIsIt.com Goes For $17K - The domain name Tahoo.com sold today on Namejet.com for $11,701.
The domain gets plenty of traffic according to Compete and Alexa.
Compete has the domain getting over 13,000 visitors last month and Alexa ranks the domain as the 580K busiest site on the net.
However Tahoo has at least a little trademark infringing feel from Yahoo, don’t you think?
If you do a search on Google for Tahoo what is the first result you get?
Yahoo.com.
What is the second result you get on Google for the term
mail.Yahoo.com
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Wed 28th April 2010
Latonas.com .Tv Domain Auction, Starts With Bids At $49 - Latonas.com is holding an .TV domain name Auction with starting bids of just $49 each.
The auction started tonight and ends on May 5th.
“Most of these .TV domains have never before been on the market with standard renewal fees as they were formally premium priced domains before VeriSign released their inventory on 3/18/10. Therefore, these prime .TV domains are now standard priced to own and in an exclusive, Latonas is offering them to the public in a no reserve auction with only a $49 opening ... read more ...
Additional Domains Added To This Morning’s RickLatona Live TRAFFIC Auction - RickLatona just sent out a notice adding the following domains to his premier live domain auction from Milan and they are all good domain names:
CY.com 20.001 – 100.000 € (CY is the country code for Cyprus)
Browns.com 20.001 – 100.000 €
xx.org 20.001 – 100.000 €
BankForeclosure.com 20.001 – 100.000 €
Driveways.com 5001 – 20.000 €
EasternEurope.com 5001 – 20.000 €
Oncologist.com 5001 – 20.000 €
For our picks for this auction click here.
To bid on the auction click here
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Our Picks From The RickLatona TRAFFIC Milan Premier Auction - The RickLatona.com Live Premier auction from TRAFFIC Milan kicks off at 10 am EST on April 28th with remote bidding on proxibid.com.
One of the problems that I had picking out domains for this auction are that some of the price ranges are quite wide such as the 20,000- 100,000 range.
For example a domain like thick.com is listed as having a reserve range starting between 20,000 and 100,000 Euros. I like the domain at the lower level but less than crazy about it at 100,000, so keep the wide reserve ... read more ...
Tue 27th April 2010
Our Picks From The RickLatona.com .EU TRAFFIC Auction For Tuesday - The RickLatona.com .EU auction at the TRAFFIC show is scheduled to kick off at 9:45 am EST Tuesday April 27th with remote bidding available on proxibid.com
All domain names have a 500 Euro reserve.
Here are our favorites from this auction:
3G.eu
DanceLessons.eu
Decryption.eu
Diapers.eu
Evictions.eu
HalloweenCostumes.eu
Hikes.eu
Interpreters.eu
Privateplane.eu
Professional.eu
Professionals.eu
Progressive.eu
Teeth.eu
Tennislessons.eu
Tuxedos.eu
Upholstery.eu
WaterFilters.eu
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Mon 26th April 2010
Our Picks From The DomainNameWire.com SnapNames.com Auction Ending Tuesday - The DomainNameWire.com auction on Snapnames.com is ending tomorrow on Tuesday April 27th at 3:15pm EST in accordance with SnapNames normal closing procedures.
The auction currently has 9 domain names that have hit reserve and about $16K in bids.
Here are our picks from the auction (the one’s in bold are our domains):
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Sun 25th April 2010
Domain With 126,000 Monthly Visitors & Valued during $69K, Only Has A $2,500 Bid @ Godaddy.com - Currently at auction at Godaddy is the domain MundoVideos.com which according to godaddy is has an “estimated monthly website traffic” of a whopping 126K+.
Godaddy.com values the domain at $69,162.
The word mundo in Spanish means “World”.
Alexa ranks the site in the 360K range and compete is only tracking a little over 2,000 visitors.
The parked page has links to all sorts of DVD type products, everything from DVD duplication to Netflix.com.
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Sat 24th April 2010
RickLatona Premier Live Domain TRAFFIC Auction List Is Released: Tuscany.com, Cheesecake.com, Remix.com, Erotica.com, Hear.com Included - RickLatona.com just released the list of the domains he will be auctioning off in the Live Domain Auction from the TRAFFIC show in Milan.
The auction will be held on April 28th at 10am EST and remote bidding will be on Proxibid.com.
Reserve Ranges are stated in EURO’s.
As of Friday’s close, the exchange rate of Euro’s to dollars is approximately: 1 Euro= $1.35 US.
So if a domain has a reserve of 10,000 Euro’s your looking at $13,500 approximately.
There are some great domains on this list.
Tuscany.com, ... read more ...
Auctions, Auctions, Auctions: 11 Major Domain Auctions Coming At You Over 30 Days Starting Next Week - I’m not sure there have ever been more major domain auctions in a 4 week period.
No less than 11 Major auctions will be held starting next week, through the end of May.
We will be writing about each of these in detail, but today I just wanted to layout the schedule of major auctions:
The DomainNameWire.com auction at Snapnames.com is currently ongoing and closes this Tuesday on April 27th at 3:15pm EST.
At time of publication there are 9 domains that have already met reserve.
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Fri 23rd April 2010
SnapNames.com To Hold Gambling Domain Auction Next Month - SnapNames.com will be holding a gambling domain auction in conjunction with the iGaming Super Show to be held May 25-28, 2010,
The auction will start on May 24 and end on June 1.
Featured domains include:
Poker.ca
BlackJackTable.com
PokerLessons.com
SevenCardPoker.com
BlackjackTouraments.com
InternetGames.net
For more info on the auction click here.
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Thu 22nd April 2010
Quick Poll: How most Will Slots.com Sell For? - In the wake of the Poker.org sale for a cool million, Slots.com will be hitting the auction block next week.
So its time to cast your vote for how much this domain is going to sell for.
Poll is on the Right and comments are always welcome.
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Got To Love This Business: Typo OnlineTelevison.com Just Sold For $2,206 At Bido.com - You just got to love the domain business.
A typo domain name, OnlineTelevison.com just sold for $2,206 on Bido.com after 44 bids so there were at least 2 bidders battling it out.
The Bido price was only $28.
The domain has no Alexa or Compete ranking and even Word Tracker only counts 2 people searching a month for the misspell.
Congrats to the Seller.
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Wed 21st April 2010
Slots.com Auction Set For Next Week - According to OnlineCasinoNews.com, the auction for Slots.com will be held one week from today on April 28th.
“”It has been confirmed that one of the most eagerly awaited domain name auctions will take place next Wednesday 28th April 2010.
The Slots.com domain is on offer with those groups interested in getting hold of what could be a potentially very lucrative name having until this Friday to register their interest.”
According to the earlier press release on this auction to participate ... read more ...
Tue 20th April 2010
SnapNames.com To Hold A .Me “Catch Phrase” Auction: Auction.Me, Trade.Me, See.Me Change.Me, Use.Me + More - SnapNames.com will be holding an online auction of .ME Catch Phrase Domains starting on May 4th and ending on May 11th.
To date the catch phrases have done much better in the resale market than the personal names.
Earlier this month the sale of Call.me for 20,000 Euro’s ($27k) was announced.
Of course Date.me still holds the record at $70K.
Some of the domain to be included in this auction include:
Auction.Me
Avatar.Me
Baby.Me
Believe.Me
Bug.Me
Change.Me
Check.Me
Clone.Me
Cool.Me
Design.Me
Get.Me
Good.Me
Guide.Me
Hold.Me
Hot.Me
Improve.Me
Inform.Me
Let.Me
LookAt.Me
Map.Me
Mini.Me
Phone.Me
See.Me
Server.Me
Set.Me
Sport.Me
Talk.Me
Trade.Me
Use.Me
Vip.Me
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Sat 17th April 2010
WTF: GDB.org Sells On NameJet for $13K, Aiba.com For $8K? - The domain name gdb.org sold today on Namejet.com for a staggering $12,906.
Close behind in 5 figure sales were katherine.com at $18,150 and Perfecta.com at $10, 200.
Aiba.com also sold for 8,100.
Bigprizes.com went for $4,700.
All WOW.
I’m not to proud to admit it.
GDB.org for $13K? I don’t get it.
Aiba.com for $8K? I don’t get it.
Perfecta.com for $10K I get and katherine.com at $18K says a lot about the .me first domain auctions that just closed on Friday where much more popular first ... read more ...
Fri 16th April 2010
Moniker Finally Starts Accepting Pre-bidding For Its Live Domain Auctions As Bidding Opened For DomainFest Ft. Lauderdale - Well its taken many years but finally Moniker.com looks like they are going to start open their live domain auctions up for pre-bidding, starting with the Ft. Lauderdale DomainFest one day event and auction on May 13th.
This is how it will work according to the press release:
“”Pre-bids can be submitted on any domain listed in the auction until May 13 at noon US Eastern time.”
“”The highest bid for each domain will then become the starting bid in the live auction.
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Thu 15th April 2010
CIF.com Sells On NameJet For $17K, Again - Like Yoga Berra once said its Deja Vu all over again as the domain name CIF.com went up on NameJet.com today for re-auction after the last winning bidder at $17,001, apparently didn’t pay.
The domain sold today again for $17K.
On the .Me front, the domain Madison.Me sold for $1,115, Robert.Me sold for $1,160, and Richard.me sold for $1,600 and Paul.me sold for $2,100 today.
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.Me First Names Start Picking Up Steam As James.Me Sells For $5K & 39 More Domains Are Added - On the 3rd day, of the 5 day Personal Name auction running on NameJet.com, one domain hit just short of $5K and the registry announced that they were adding 39 new domains to the auction.
On today’s front, here are results for the domains we were tracking:
james.me $4,911
john.me $2,711
jack.me $2,200
madison.me $1,115
johnson.me $760
jose.me $670
justin.me $640
jason.me $605
lisa.me $600
kevin.me $530
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Wed 14th April 2010
SnapNames “Geo Auction” Is Live With Lisbon.com, Raleigh.com, Bucharest.com, Crete.com All Up For Sale - SnapNames is holding an Online Auction in conjunction with the GeoDomain Expo®.
The Auction began yesterday on April 13, 2010 and closes on May 4, 2010 at 3:15 p.m. EST.
There are definitely some head turners in this auction including:
Lisbon.com
Raleigh.com
Bucharest.com
Crete.com
We will of course be be posting our picks the week the auction closes.
This is also not to be confused with the
Here is the entire list of domain name in the auction as usually with Moniker/Snap, reserves are stated in ... read more ...
Tue 13th April 2010
Latonas.com 2nd “Daily” Auction Starts Now - Latonas.com just announced that is just started its second “daily”auction today with 50 more owned domain names.
The auction which started today at 4pm EST closes tomorrow April 14th at 4pm EST.
According to its press release:
“””After our initial auction last week we have been working overtime getting rid of bugs and ramping our system up.
We are doing another auction with our personal inventory today all at a $1 reserve to ensure everything is working properly. This auction just started ... read more ...