Tag Archives: Domain Auction

Tue 2nd March 2010
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LuxuryNames.com Starts New Auction - LuxuryNames.com begins its second domain name auction. LuxuryNames.com has kicked off a new auction titled 4 Days – 40 Names. The auction runs through Thursday. The auction actually has 41 names in .com, .net, and .org. Like the last auction run by LuxuryNames.com, many of the domain names have high search volumes and/or frequency. I like the smaller number of domain names in this auction, as it assures none will be overlooked. The most expensive domain name ... read more ...
Sat 23rd January 2010
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Scenes From TRAFFIC, Day Two - Scenes and highlights from day two of the Targeted Traffic conference in Las Vegas. Yesterday was certainly an interesting one at the TRAFFIC Conference. The best moment of the conference was seeing how packed the auction room was for the start of the live auction. I haven’t seen that many buyers at a live auction in a long time. Unfortunately, we all know now that it took a turn for the worse as Latonas.com auction system was overburdened by traffic, bringing ... read more ...
Wed 16th December 2009
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Experience a New Auction Platform and Help Charity - Charity domain name auction underway. The WhyPark charity auction is now live, and I can think of a couple good reasons to participate. First is that all auction proceeds go to charity. For me, December is a month of giving. Although I donate to charities throughout the year, my wife and I are sure to make our big donations before the end of the year. In this auction, the person who places the single highest bid in the entire auction gets to choose the charity ... read more ...
Tue 24th November 2009
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LuxuryNames Domain Name Auction Ends Today - First LuxuryNames auction ends today. The first ever LuxuryNames auction has attracted a number of bids in advance of its closing this afternoon. Lots will begin closing at 12:15 PST on SnapNames. As of 7 am PST today, 19 domain names have received bids. The highest so far is $2,600 for CheapHouseInsurance.com. Many of the domains have prices starting at only $99. I have three domains in the auction, one of which has received several bids already: WeeklyPlanner.com. ... read more ...
Wed 11th November 2009
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Monthly SnapNames Auction Begins, Sedo 2 Character Auction Ends Tomorrow - One auction kicks off as another comes to a close. SnapNames’ monthly domain name auction has kicked off and will conclude next Tuesday, November 17. The monthly auctions used to last only a few days, so it looks like SnapNames is trying a different tact. The auction includes roughly 240 domain names, 77 of which have no reserve. Among the domains with no reserve are DealComparison.com, LegalFees.com, and StewMeat.com. Two no reserve auctions have received bids: ... read more ...
Mon 9th November 2009
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LuxuryNames to Hold Online Domain Name Auction - Popular newsletter to run online auction. LuxuryNames.com will hold an online domain auction November 18-24 on the SnapNames platform. LuxuryNames.com is known for its once-or-twice monthly newsletters with domain names for sale. The recently-launched newsletter has resulted in over $250,000 in sales over the past three months. The auction will include about 200 domain names, and 80% of the reserves will be $1,500 or less. The catalog will include .com, .net, and ... read more ...
Tue 27th October 2009
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My Thoughts on Today’s Rick Latona Auction - Taking a look at today’s live domain name auction. The Rick Latona Auctions auction at TRAFFIC starts this afternoon at 4:30 ET. Bidding is available online at proxibid.com/ricklatona. Here are my thoughts on a handful of domains in the auction: Acronyms.com $150,000 – this is the type of domain the folks behind Dictionary.com might buy. I’m not sure if they’d pay this much for it, and I don’t know that anyone else would be interested. Ballwin.com $11,800 ... read more ...
Mon 14th September 2009
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Automated Domain Auction Fulfillment is Worth a Price - Domains at Moniker can be transferred quickly with direct and automatic fulfillment. I often hear grumblings about how Moniker requires you to have domains registered with them in order to submit them to auction. (It’s not a requirement for the big auctions, but there is an added charge if you don’t and the domain sells.) Many people think this is just a way for Moniker to get you to transfer domains to them, but that’s ancillary to the real reason: it allows ... read more ...
Fri 8th May 2009
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Moniker Auction Bargains: You Couldn’t Have Them - Just because someone got a bargain yesterday doesn’t mean you could have gotten the same deal. By all accounts, there were some “good deals” in yesterday’s Moniker domain name auction. You may look at some of these final prices and think the buyer got a good deal: Entrepreneurs.info $650 OrderManagementSystem.com $600 CompanyDatabase.com $665 GiftCertificates.info $777 TechnologyCareers.com $1050 But here’s the rub: if you wanted to buy these domains at ... read more ...
Thu 26th March 2009
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It’s Bracket Time: Domain Madness Auction Opens - Auction underway at Aftermarket.com. Domain Consultant’s Domain Madness auction is off and running at aftermarket.com. The auction features a wide range of domain names starting at $0 and going up to $1.65M. The auction concludes March 31. Domain Madness took a creative marketing approach to generate buzz for the auction. Going with the basketball March Madness theme, you could predict which domain names you expect to sell. The person who correctly predicts ... read more ...
Thu 19th February 2009
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Toys.com To Be Auctioned Feb 27 - Minimum bids, asset purchase agreement, and 10% deposit required by February 25. In the continuing saga of Toys.com, a new auction will be held February 27. The domain name was originally won at a bankruptcy auction earlier this month for $1.25M by Faculty Lounge Partners. However, another party indicated it may be willing to pay more for the domain name. Faculty Lounge, of which domain name lawyer Ari Goldberger is a partner, will be the stalking horse bidder ... read more ...
Thu 5th February 2009
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Toys.com, Birthdays.com, Hobbies.com Sold during Auction - Millions of dollars in domains sold at auction. The biggest domain name auction of the year took place yesterday, but you probably haven’t heard about it. And Oversee.net, parent company of Moniker, was a bidder, not a seller. Yesterday at 10 am substantial assets from The Parent Company were scheduled to be auctioned off at the law offices of Pachulski Stang Ziehl Jones LLP. The Parent Company owns a number of online retailers including eToys. Among the domain ... read more ...
Wed 4th February 2009
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Domain Auction Watch: DOMAINfest and Sedo - DOMAINfest silent auction ends Thursday; Sedo auctions heating up. The silent auction portion of the 2009 DOMAINfest Global auction ends Thursday at 3:15 PM EST. The auction includes thousands of low cost domain names, including 3,000 domain names with starting bids of $1,000 or less (and many at $300). Bidding is done through the SnapNames platform. To find the DOMAINfest auction domains, go to the SnapNames home page and click on “advanced search”. Then ... read more ...
Fri 30th January 2009
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Why a Live Domain Auction Bombed (and Why I’m Not Surprised) - Domain name auction pulls in under $700,000, but mid range domains continue to sell. Yesterday’s DOMAINfest Global live domain name auction wasn’t pretty. With under $700,000 in domains sold, it may have set a low point for a general Moniker live domain auction. The mood in the room was somber as domain after domain was passed. But the news wasn’t what was going on in the room, but what was going on outside the room. I ran into a couple people that usually ... read more ...
Tue 27th January 2009
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Top.com Tops $100,000 during Auction - Domain has met reserve and will sell for six figures. The domain name Top.com has met its reserve at Sedo and is currently at EUR 101,000 ($133,000 USD). 38 bids have been placed. The auction ends January 29 at 7 am EST. The auction should give a confidence boost to the domain industry heading into this week’s DOMAINfest live domain auctions. Although Top.com is the top auction (sorry, I couldn’t help myself) at Sedo right now, there are several other noteworthy ... read more ...
Thu 22nd January 2009
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Sedo Great Domains Domain Auction Ends Today - With just hours remaining, several good domain names have met their reserves. Sedo’s January Great Domains auction concludes at noon EST today. With just hours to go, several high quality domains have met their reserve prices and should go much higher in the final hours. I’m surprised to see that Fired.com had such a low reserve. The domain has met the reserve and is at $10,100. The owner had been asking much more, but there’s still time for the domain to ... read more ...
 
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FindaDate.com Finds a Buyer during $31,000 - Web site tops Great Domains auction. The web site FindaDate.com has sold for $31,000 in Sedo’s Great Domains domain name auction that ended earlier today. Here are other tentative sales results that I was able to collect: Starship.com – $22,500 – this seems like a lot of money for this domain. But it does have a Compete.com rank inside 500,000 as a parked domain. It currently shows ads for Star Wars items, but earlier this decade it was used by an education ... read more ...
Tue 2nd December 2008
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Sedo’s Numeric Domain Auction Picking Up Steam - With less than 48 hours to go, several names bid to $100,000. Sedo’s first ever numeric domain name auction ends on Thursday. Several domains have been bid to $100,000 or more, but none of them have hit their reserve. So far the biggest sale looks to be 94.com, which has met its reserve at $49,999. According to the domain sales listing, 94.com receives over 6,000 unique visitors per month. The top domain is 88.com at $325,000 with 4 bidders. However, the stated ... read more ...
Fri 21st November 2008
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2o.com was Fair Deal, Jury Still Out on .com.au Domains - A look back at comments about this week’s Aftermarket.com auction results. A couple people commented about the Aftermarket.com auction held this week in Australia, and they commented about how many of the sales were absolute steals. Two comments in particular I have seen on various forums and blogs are that the purchase of 2o.com at $8,500 was a steal, and that the .com.au domains sold at very low prices. The first comment is somewhat true, the second one can’t ... read more ...
Wed 19th November 2008
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It’s Domain Name Auction Day - Two live domain name auctions kick off this evening. Two live domain name auctions that are part of the Traffic Down Under conference will take place this evening starting at 5:30 PM Eastern U.S. time. The first auction is organized by Aftermarket.com and starts at 5:30. I previewed that auction last week. Online bidding started early and already a number of domains have received multiple bids. Later this evening at 9:00 PM EST the RickLatona.com auction will take ... read more ...
Fri 14th November 2008
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Aftermarket.com Traffic Down Under Auction Underway - Live auction kicks off online today, live next week. The Aftermarket.com live auction at the Traffic Down Under conference in Australia has begun. Domains are finalized and bidding is now available on the Aftermarket.com site. Lots will begin closing when the on-site auction in Australia begins on November 20th and 8:30 a.m. local time. That’s 5:30 PM EST on November 19. Aftermarket.com is offering a text message reminder service to notify you when the auction ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2008
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Sedo has a “Banner” Week for Domain Name Sales - Domain name aftermarket completes transfer of 3 six figure domain names. Sedo had a “banner” week for domain name sales, including completing the transfer of Banners.com for $360,000. But that wasn’t the highest sale; LowFare.com changed hands for $365,000. The sales prowess didn’t stop there. The company also completed the sale of pisos.net for a staggering 150,000 EUR, which easily makes the top ten list of published .net domain name sales of all time. ... read more ...
Fri 31st October 2008
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Submit Domains to Aftermarket.com Auction by Saturday - Priority deadline is Saturday for Australia auction. Domainers wishing to sell their domains in the upcoming Aftermarket.com auction at TRAFFIC Down Under should submit their domains by this Saturday. Domains can be submitted through the online system at Aftermarket.com. The submission process is similar to the one used for the New York TRAFFIC auction. “From a customer’s perspective, the submission process itself is relatively the same,” said Thought Convergence’s ... read more ...
Fri 3rd October 2008
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Moniker Silent Auction Nets Another $900k - Moniker’s silent auction concluded yesterday with $900,000 in sales. You can raise the tally on Moniker’s TRAFFIC auction to about $4 million, thanks to another $900,000 in sales in the silent auction. Nearly 200 domains sold in the silent auction. loto.com $91,331 (Spanish for “Lotto”) wholesale.net $88,240 sparesorts.com $70,590 claudia.com $35,000 newyorkrestaurants.com $30,240 furnitureworld.com $29,420 bluecollar.com $28,750 650.com $27,000 auctions.net ... read more ...
Wed 1st October 2008
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Moniker Should Use Marketplace Pro Instead of SnapNames - Silent auctions make more sense on Moniker’s legacy platform. In late 2006 Moniker launched “Marketplace Pro”, the domain registrar’s answer to domain aftermarket sites. It used Marketplace Pro for its silent auctions as well. The platform wasn’t perfect, but made it easy to find domains and place bids. For the past few silent auctions Moniker has switched to SnapNames, which is owned by Moniker’s new parent company Oversee.net. SnapNames has the added ... read more ...