Tag Archives: auctions

Tue 26th May 2009
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StripClubs.com: Back On The Auction Block After The Rick Latona Auction For $101K Fails To Close - The domain stripclubs.com which sold at the Rick Latona auction at the Phoenix Forum Adult show On March 5, for $101K, is back on the auction block. The domain is being offered for sale on ebay.com with a starting bid and reserve of only $75K. According to the owner of the domain, the sale with Rick Latona did not close as the “winning bidder was unable to get the financing he thought was a sure thing.” Last week we posted about domains at Namejet.com failing to sell and being re-auctioned.  ... read more ...
Mon 25th May 2009
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iTrust.com Sells On NameJet.com For $13K - The domain itrust.com sold today for $13,100 on NameJet.com to the bidder known as “eglobal”. itrust.com is certainly an end user type of domain and for me a bit overpriced. Here are some other notable sales over the last few days at NameJet: audios.com                       $6,600 nextera.com                      $3,300 thanking.com                   $2,988 hydrogenvehicle.com     $2,400 esgroup.com                    $2,300 yescash.com ... read more ...
Fri 22nd May 2009
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FixedMortgage.com Nets $10K At NameJet.com - The domain FixedMortgage.com sold today on Namejet.com for $10,211. Other notable domain sales at NameJet.com over the past few days include: espanola.com                   $7,106 audios.com                       $6,600 crazyass.com                    $6,400 nextera.com                     $3,300 totalpower.com               $3,050 baze.com                          $2,088 mypayroll.com                ... read more ...
Tue 19th May 2009
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Why Would Anyone Pay $69 To Own Real–Estate.net? - Going through the Namejet’s  backorder list for today I found this gem;   Real–Estate.net. A domain with not just one, but two hyphens in and a .net to top it off. I checked Alexa and compete to see if the domain had any traffic but it seems to have none. Some other domains not to be missed are: kinhdoanh.net, iacciamman.com, and gkapllani.com just to name a few. Everyday I see over 150-175 domains backordered on NameJet.com at $69 each and out of those, only 10 or so mean anything, another ... read more ...
Mon 18th May 2009
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NameJet.com Responds - Yesterday we posted about Toxic.com, and several other domains, that had come back into auction at NameJet.com, due to non-paying bidders and the problem that this situation creates. Today Steve Brown, General Manager of NameJet.com, responded to that post as follows: “””We’ve been taking a harder stance against non-paying customers excluding those with non-payment issues from participating in new auctions and from winning auctions where they were already participants.  We are in the ... read more ...
Sun 17th May 2009
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Toxic.com Makes a Return Visit To NameJet.com & Its Not The Only One - Toxic.com which was auctioned off by NameJet.com on May 4th with a high bid of $56,566, is back at auction at NameJet.com after the bidder failed to pay for the domain. The domain now is in a public auction, so even if you couldn’t participate in the first auction because you did not backorder it, now you can. The current high bid is $34,677. Namejet.com continues to see a bunch of unpaid domains coming back into auction, not just the large transaction domains but domains that sold for $79 even ... read more ...
Thu 14th May 2009
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NameJet.com To Auction Off Registry Owned, Reserved .Me Domains - Namejet.com announced on its site today that it would be hosting an auction on 15, premium, registry owned .me domains stating on June 5th. Unlike all NameJet,com auctions to date, some or all of these domain will have a reserve price (although you can still “backorder” them for $69) and the “Reserve amounts will be published at auction start” As a side note, with some “owned domains” having been recently auctioned off on NameJet.com like toxic.com and trumpet.com, and with the added ... read more ...
Thu 7th May 2009
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Moniker Silent Auction Nets $460K - The Moniker.com silent auction from the TRAFFIC show just closed on SnapNames.com and auction netting $460K in sales with 201 domains sold. Here is a complete list of the domain that sold at the silent auction, combined with the Live Moniker.com auction the Moniker team did a very respectable $2.6M in sales for the TRAFFIC show. diego.com $58,830.00 dvdshrink.com $43,180.00 casco.com $23,530.00 oxygentanks.com $21,000.00 greatfalls.com ... read more ...
Mon 4th May 2009
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List Of All The Moniker Silent Auction TRAFFIC Domains With Bids - **Updated** Here are the bids on every domain for the Silent Moniker.com TRAFFIC auction, as of 9am EST on Thursday . The Auction closes TODAY at 3:15pm EST, 12:15pm PST There is over $156k in bids placed already and we have some comments on some of these domains, following the list. Here is a list of all the domains with bids and the current high bid, to join the auction just click on the link: dvdshrink.com ($41,180)oxygentanks.com ($10,000)drillpress.com ($9,420)technologytoday.com ($8,830)graders.com ... read more ...
 
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Geo Extended Auction: Our Picks & Pans - The Geo Aftermarket.com extended auction starts closing at noon tomorrow PST, Tuesday May 5. We have gone through the 57 domains available for bidding in the extended auction (to see all domains click here) and here are our thoughts: The most attractive domain is reserve.com, because it was offered at no reserve, but presently has a high bid of $12K.  Estibot appraised at $84K.  The domain seems to me to be worth in the 20K range, but it could go higher as there is more than 1 bidder on it already. SantaClarita.com ... read more ...
Sat 2nd May 2009
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Trumpet.com Sells for $70K On NameJet.com - We blogged about Trumpet.com, last week, while it was still available for backorder at NameJet.com.  We pointed out that this domain sold at TRAFFIC New York last September for $35k The auction closed the other day amounst all the TRAFFIC auctions, with the domain selling for a whopping $70,486 to “namebidder”. If payment is made that is a good sign for the industry to see a domain double in price in less than 7 months, in a horrible economy. Here are some other notable sales from NameJet.com ... read more ...
Thu 30th April 2009
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Moniker Live TRAFFIC Auction Nets $2.1 Million - The Live Moniker TRAFFIC auction just concluded with a total of $2.1 Million dollars in sales. The domain Ad.com, lead the pack selling for $1.4 Million,  after having a reserve range of just $250K-$500K. It appears the domain was purchased by Directi. The next highest priced domain sale was bottledwater.com, for $45K, Athletic.com came in at $40K, and then Vixen.com at $32K. In all 90 domains sold, or  just under 50%,  a great sell through rate, in a bad economy. As I have said all along there ... read more ...
Tue 28th April 2009
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Rick Latona Live TRAFFIC Auction Nets $375K - The Rick Latona Live Auction from the TRAFFIC show just finished and grossed about $375K in sales. No big surprises on domains that sold. Shows.com which we predicted $125K for, sold for $102K making it the highest priced sale. SmartPhones.com sold for $95K. The combo of Mortuary.com and Mortuaries.com which we predicted would sell did for the reserve of $25K. FLR.com which was first thought to have sold at $16K, sounded like it did not in fact sell, as it was bought back at the end without a buyer. Several ... read more ...
 
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Next Big NameJet.com Domain: Toxic.com - The next big dollar domain to hit NameJet.com is Toxic.com (also Toxic.net). The backorder deadline is April 30th and there are already 175 bidders in the auction. With all the talk of toxic assets and the economy, the domain is certain timely. The domain is at $4,000 pre-auction. Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Mon 27th April 2009
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Our Picks, Pans and Predictions For The Rick Latona TRAFFIC Auction & Why SmartPhones.com Is NOT “The Deal Of The Century” - Tomorrow Tuesday April 28, Rick Latona will be holding his live domain auction, from the TRAFFIC show in California at 3:30 PST, 6:30 EST. Remote bidding will be allowed for those not in attendance. So it’s time for our picks, pans, and predictions for the auction. So with all our stats and figures we find that these are the best buys from the auction: Shows.com at no reserve.  A great one word domain with an Estibot Appraisal of $190K. Our prediction is that this domain will sell for between ... read more ...
Sat 25th April 2009
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Latham.com Sells For $30K At NameJet.com - Latham.com sold for $30,300 at Namejet.com Latham is a popular last name which pulls over 7 million results on Google If you do a Google search for “Latham” the first result is for Latham Watkins, which seems to be a very large international law firm, second is a link to Congressman Tom Latham of Iowa and then to the Latham Hotel, a small hotel in NY. Seems like a lot of money for a domain with limited development potential. Other notable sales at NameJet.com from the last few days include: Google+Michael ... read more ...
 
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A Ton Of 3 Letter .Org’s Dropping Today - Its not often that you see a three letter domain drop naturally, and today by my count there are at least 35 of them. These are actual drop domains, so they can be caught by any drop service or even with you own script (if you have one). If you want to go after any of these,  you need to backorder them, with your favorite, or all your favorite drop services, like Snapnames.com, NameJet.com, and/or Pool.com by their respective deadlines today: bqx.org kax.org mxy.org qur.org qvf.org qwy.org qxf.org qxn.org qxw.org qyj.org qzm.org qzu.org uqv.org uxh.org uxl.org uzs.org xez.org xsr.org xhh.org xne.org xoa.org xsj.org xty.org xyu.org xsz.org yuq.org yxi.org zdv.org zhv.org zxb.org zsj.org zvx.org zwz.org zxp.org zzh.org Google+Michael ... read more ...
Fri 24th April 2009
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Trumpet.com: Back Up On Auction Block At NameJet.com - Trumpet.com appears to be back up on the auction block at NameJet.com The domain which sold for $35,000 at TRAFFIC New York, last September, started with a reserve price of zero. Already 134 people have backordered the domain, although it does not appear to be a “expired” or dropped domain” as it currently has an expiration date of July 2015. So it appears to be a private sale through NameJet.com, and it will be interesting to see if the domain brings in more or less than its previous sale ... read more ...
Tue 21st April 2009
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Pool.com Starts Accepting Pre-orders For Domain Extensions That Don’t Exist - Talk about jumping this gun. Pool.com just sent out an e-mail inviting people to place preorders on proposed  gTLD’s. Problem is none of these extension exist or even have been applied for. As ICANN is still setting up the rules for applications for the new gTLD’s,  Pool.com is accepting pre-orders on such g’TLD’s as: .health .sport .xxx .sex .news .blog .movie .music Geo domains such as: .nyc .berlin .paris Pool.com’s announcement was sent jointly with a company,  quintaris.com, which ... read more ...
Sun 19th April 2009
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Why Do Domainers Pay More For “Dropped Domains” Than Owned Domains - This is a question that has puzzled me for years. The psychology involved with dropped domains vs. Owned domains. When a domain is in a drop auction at NameJet.com or Snapnames.com it seems everyone is willing to pay more, a lot more, than they would for the same name if it was for sale by the owner. I have never understood why, but I see evidence of it all the time. Take the name raspberry.com, which is currently in auction at at SnapNames.com, which closes on later today and already has a high ... read more ...
Sat 18th April 2009
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BSA.com Sells For $18K on NameJet.com - Bsa.com a very good three letter domain sold for $17,850 at Namejet.com despite having 13 active trademarks in just the US database. Other notable domain sales at NameJet.com this week include: healthdrink.com                 $13,301 autofax.com                         $12,900 screensaves.com                 $6,929 vnz.com                                 $5,500 haleiwa.com                         ... read more ...
Tue 17th March 2009
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127 Stories Got It Wrong Yesterday - According to Google’s count, there were 127 stories published online yesterday about the report from WIPO that “cybersquatting” cases increased 8% last year. As one of the readers to this blog commented yesterday in response to my post, each of these 127 stories made it sound that Cybersquatting was totally out of control based on this 8% increase.  Most of the stories like the one by Reuters, lead with the headline “Cybersquatting Cases Hit Record” or “Cybersquatting Complaints Soar ... read more ...
Sat 14th March 2009
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Westhills.com & MouthGuards.com Sells for 5 Figures On NameJet.com - 2 domains sold in the five figures at NameJet.com in the last couple of days. Westhills.com Sold for $10,600 yesterday and Mouthguards.com sold for $10,100 today. Here are some other notiable sales over the last few days: Minihorses.com $6,877 Spaintours.com $6,402 Jza.com $3,100 eleganttouch.com $2,600 eidea.com $2,100 Newyorkgolfcourses.com $2,100 miniaturegolfcourse.com $1,211 Lightbeers.com $1,200 Tennistube.com $1,200 Spidernetworks.com $1,100 Google+Michael Berkens ... read more ...
Thu 5th March 2009
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Deadline For TRAFFIC Domain Auction Submission Deadline Set: Mar 27th - Moniker.com announced today that submission for the live domain auction to be held at TRAFFIC Santa Clara will close on March 27th. Also Moniker.com limited submissions to 250 domains per submitter. Important: No typos, trademarks, hyphenated or crude adult names will be accepted for the TRAFFIC Santa Clara Auction. Moniker also urged submitters to keep the reserve prices down if you hope to make it to the live auction: “””Reserve pricing is the ultimate factor in leading to a successful auction.  ... read more ...
Mon 2nd March 2009
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35 More Premium .Me Going Up For Auction - The .ME Registry today announced 35 of the domains reserved by the registry will be auctioned off at Sedo.com. Online bidding for these names begins March 26, 2009 and remains open until April 02, 2009. The full list of .ME domain names available for bidding are: Add.ME Bet.ME Book.ME Clean.ME Compare.ME Discount.ME Dodaj.ME Download.ME Drink.ME Employ.ME Film.ME Join.ME Locate.ME Manage.ME Market.ME Message.ME Order.ME Pay.ME Pick.ME Power.ME Print.ME Promote.ME Remember.ME Reward.ME Ring.ME Rock.ME Sell.ME Support.ME Tell.ME Test.ME Kupi.ME Uporedi.ME Zapamti.ME Zaposli.ME Izaberi.ME Google+Michael ... read more ...