How About A Domain With 335,000 Monthly Visitors For $18K? Checkout The Auction On Godaddy For MyHotterSeachBox.com - A very interesting domain name is currently at auction at Godaddy.com. The domain, according to Godaddy receives 335,000 visitors a month. That’s Right 335,000 visitors. That is the highest represented amount of traffic on any domain I have personally seen on Godaddy. The current high bid is $18,000. Godaddy.com values the domain at $61,000. The auction ends on December 10th. Alexa.org ranks the site as the 104,413 most popular site, however Alexa says only  5% of the traffic is coming from the ... read more ...

HomeElevators.com Sells For $8K On NameJet.com - The domain HomeElevators.com sold today on namejet for $8,000.  I have been in plenty of homes that have their own 2, 3 or 4 story elevator and they are certainly a big ticket item. Other notable sales in the last couple of days on NameJet.com TheButcher.com $5,091 (re-auction) Matriarch.com  $4,400 EquityHomeLoan.com $3,630 ModelDirectory.com $3,400  (re-auction) Microcosm.com $3,100 ClubHits.com $2,599 Dermatologue.com  $2,500 ShipToShore.com  $2,280 GoldWire $2,200 Estelles.com  $2,100 StoragePods.com  ... read more ...

ModelDirectory.com Sells For $16K+ On NameJet.com, In A Busy Weekend - It was a pretty busy 4 days over at NameJet.com during the holiday in the US. The domain name ModelDirectory.com lead the pack selling for $16,665. The domain seems to have had minimal traffic at best and seems like a huge price, but I’m sure one of you out there in the domain world can tell me why it was worth the price. In some other notable sales: Smallbusinesslaw.com sold for $12,211, another domain IMHO think went for more than it should have. disposables.com went for $5,533 iDisplay.com sold ... read more ...

The Domain/Site Auction Platform You Probably Never Heard Of: Flippa.com - Well at least I never heard about Flippa.com until yesterday, when someone wrote me about a domain name they had for sale on this platform. It looks like the service has been around since June 21, 2009. Flippa.com (TM) was “created by a team from SitePoint, led by Mark Harbottle, co-founder and chairman of SitePoint.” “Investors in Flippa include Mark and his co-founder in SitePoint, Matt Mickiewicz, as well as veteran internet entrepreneur Leni Mayo, and MelbourneIT Director ... read more ...

Mantels.com Sells For $20K On NameJet.com - The domain name Mantels.com sold for $20,300 today on NameJet.com A nice category killer domain at a reasonable price. Also selling today was another really nice domain, Ojos.com for $8,702 Ojos is Spanish for eyes. This mystery of the day for me was the domain Horan.com which sold for $6,500. I know there are a lot of people with this last name and many companies use it as well, but $6,500 for me seems like a reach. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

ETSU.com Sells For $7,700 on NameJet.com - The domain ETSU.com sold for $7,700 on NameJet.com today. According to compete.com the domain did receive between 500-2,000 visitors a month over the last year. etsu.edu is the official site of East Tennessee State University. Some other notable sales included: SpeakerPhone.com $9,766 gamingindustry.com $3,100 marketingpromotions.com $2,300 GreatMortgage.com $1,778 PersonalRobot.com $1,771 GoEverywhere.com  $1,700 SeekJobs.com $1,600 (re-auction) Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Our Picks For The LuxuryNames.com Auction - LuxuryNames.com is holding its first auction at Snapnames.com which closes tomorrow,  Tuesday November 24, at 3:15pm EST, in accordance with the normal closing rules of Snap. We have gone through the list and picked out what we believe are the best buys in the auction. Now that Snapnames.com changed its affiliate program to reduce payouts by 75%, we are no longer providing links or going to pester you into clicking on them. So you will have to go back to the old copy and paste days, to join or watch ... read more ...

UPDATED With Current Bids, SnapNames Monthly Showcase Closes during 3:15pm EST Today - The Snapnames.com Monthly showcase auction for November closes at 3:15pm  EST today. Here are all the domain with bids as of the time of publication 1:45pm EST. Those with an (r) by the amount have reached reserve and will sell, the others have bids but the reserve price has not been reached. To see our picks from the auction, check out our post here. To join the auction or to add to your watch list, just click on the link so we can take some of Oversee’s cash. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Our Picks For The SnapNames.com Monthly Showcase Auction - The SnapNames.com monthly showcase auction closes tomorrow, Tuesday November 17th at 3:15pm EST, according to Snapnames normal closing procedures. As we typically do, we have selected some of what we regard to be the better or more interesting domains. The first group of domains currently have bids on them and if they have hit reserve they will have an (r) by the price, otherwise just have bids, but as of time of publication, have not hit reserve. To join or watch any of the auctions please click ... read more ...

12,000 Auctions, 8,900 Bidders and 350,000 Bids: We Conclude Halvarez Was The Only Shill Bidder At Snapnames - When Snapnames put each user’s entire auction history into there respective Snapnames.com account last Saturday night, we went to work. We scraped all the data from every auction. We got every bid, every bidder, and organized them into a searchable database. We then computed how many auctions each bidder was involved in, how many of those auctions the bidder had placed a bid other than the initial bid (of generally $60), and computed what percentage of the auctions they won compared to the auctions ... read more ...

12,000 Auctions: The Halvarez Effect On Our Account (So Far) - Now that Snapnames put all  auction history into the system going back to its first auction in August 2004 (prior to that Snapnames gave the domain to the person who backordered it first) I can make a preliminary report. We were involved in 11,997 auctions from August 2004 until today. We know snapnames.com by its own admission had around 1 million auctions, so while my history only represents 1.2% of all their auctions, outside of Buydomains, Frank and the Ham’s, mine is probably one of the biggest ... read more ...

Moniker.com Extended TRAFFIC Auction Nets $278K - Here are the results for the Moniker.com extended TRAFFIC auction which was held on SnapNames.com yesterday which generated $278,338 in sales. In all, 139 domains sold and I’m sure none of you would have picked the highest selling domain as OneOfAKind.com which went from its reserve of $5K all the way up to $26K. A pretty good results especially considering all of the news surrounding SnapNames.com yesterday and the less than great results of the live auction last week: oneofakind.com                      ... read more ...

Our Picks For The RickLatona.com TRAFFIC Extended Auction Today - The extended auction of the RickLatona.com TRAFFIC auction will be held today online at  1:30pm EDT. There are about 600 domain in the extended auction including those that did not sell in the live auction To view the full catalog or to bid click here Here are our top picks for the auction today: Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...

Namejet Plays The “This Can’t Happen To Us” Card & That’s Troubling - Late today, we received a notice from NameJet.com, basically saying that what happened at Snapnames.com could not happen at NameJet.com “””At NameJet we have the necessary security protocols in place to prevent this kind of incident.””” “”We have security procedures and policies in place that monitor all activities to ensure that “shill” bidding does not occur. “” All of the domain community hopes so. However, its a little disconcerting to me that NameJet.com is taking the ... read more ...

TechCrunch.com Crunches Snapnames.com Calling The Domain Business “Dirty” - Michael Arrington, wrote the story for TechCrunch on the Snapnames.com bidding scandal and the opening paragraph should give you an idea of how the rest of the story reads: “”Anyone who doesn’t know how dirty the domain name business is, just doesn’t know the domain name business.”” Mr. Arrington says he a consultant to Pool.com years ago when he says it was pulling in over $1 Million dollars a month in revenue from expired domain auctions and concludes about Snapnames: “It’s inexcusable ... read more ...

Can Oversee Get Some Of The Money They Paid For Snapnames.com Back? - It was in May 2007 that Oversee bought Snapnames.com for tens of millons of dollars. Shortly thereafter, Network Solutions its largest registrar partner used the escape clause in their contract with Snapnames.com to pull out of their agreement. Now it appears that the  former employee of Snapnames engaged in shill bidding was also a shareholder of the company that sold Snapnames.com to Oversee. If, as we quoted President of Oversee Jeff Kupietzky as saying, 75% of all this shilling bidding took ... read more ...

Oversee Uncovers Huge Inside Bidding Scheme At SnapNames.com & Will Offer Refunds - In a huge breaking story for the industry that will continue to unfold over the next hours and days, Oversee.net the parent company of SnapNames.com, recently discovered that a now former employee has been shill bidding on Snapnames.com auctions in violation of the company’s policy for many years. This employee who was not identified by name, but is described as a long time employee of Snapnames.com, having worked for them prior to Oversee’s purchase. This individual appears to be well know, ... read more ...

Our Moniker.com TRAFFIC Extended Auction Picks - The Moniker.com TRAFFIC extended auction closes in just about 3 hours and here are some of our picks as domains we think are interesting and may have been overlooked in the 2K+ domains currently in the auction. Most of these do not have an opening bid. The auction closes at 3:15 today EST To join an auction just click on the link so we can take some of Oversee’s cash Opening bids are listed pensionplan.com $41,180treasurynotes.com $25,000realestatelaw.com $23,530okk.com $23,5301y.com $15,300woodworks.com ... read more ...

Moniker.com Extended TRAFFIC Auction Now With 38 Domains With Bids - 38 domains currently have bids at the Moniker.com extended TRAFFIC auction which closes tomorrow,  Wednesday November 4th at 3:15 EST on Snapnames.com Yesterday, there was a bid on a domain at over $100K, but that bid could not be verified and it was deleted. The amounts listed are the current high bids and all the reserves on all of these domains have been met. This list is current as of Noon EST on 11.3 To join or add an auction to your snapnames.com watch list, just click on the link, so we can ... read more ...

Yellowstone.org Sells For $13K on NameJet.com - The domain name Yellowstone.org sold for $12,978 at NameJet.com Of course Yellowstone National Park is one of the most visited National Parks in the US. Yellowstone.com is a parking page with almost 5K monthly visitors and Yellowstone.net is an active site with almost 50K visitors a month (visitor stats by Compete.com) Another big sale on NameJet.com was buyside.com for $9,088. Buy side is a term used in the investment community, for more info on it click here. Also of note was, well,  note.net, ... read more ...

Moniker Responds To TRAFFIC Live Auction Results & Auctioneer Problems - Monte Cahn posted the following as comment to our post last night on the results of the Moniker.com Live TRAFFIC auction. I thought his response should have the same prominence as the original post, so here is Monte comments regarding yesterdays auction, which may answer many of your questions and comments: Folks “”””I know it looked disappointing and YES we did have some bad luck on the live part of the auction. The good news is that the extended auction goes on for until November 4th and ... read more ...

The City Of New York Fails To Renew Their Domain & CUNY.com Sells For $30K On NameJet.com - In a big 4 letter .com sale,  the domain CUNY.com sold for $30,050 on NameJet.com today. CUNY stands for among other things,  the City University of New York, which holds 3 trademarks on the term The City seems to have owned this domain and let it drop, as it was pointed to Cuny.edu according to the wayback machine most recently and CUNY.Edu is the official site for the University system and the .Edu site gets over 1,000,000 visitors a month according to Compete.com CUNY.com gets some traffic according ... read more ...

UPDATED Moniker.com TRAFFIC Live Auction Nets $415K - The Moniker.com Live TRAFFIC auction just ended in New York with just under $417K in domains sold. (One domain seem to sell after the auction ended, originals.com which sold for $37,500.) Multivitamins.com lead the way at $45K. The scheduled auctioneer ran into a problem and didn’t make it to the auction, leaving Moniker scrambling for a last minute replacement which I think really hu the results. The floor callers were basically non-existent and the auctioneer was quite annoying making it very ... read more ...